Readout Chip for Single Photon Counting

• Main Author: SCHMITT BERND
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.11.2009
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; STATIC STORES

A readout chip for single photon counting has a plurality of N individually working channels each assigned to a respective detector diode. Each channel has a counter designed as a binary counter having a length of M bits and a number of programmable bits. Further, the readout chip has a serial shift...