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In this paper I want to review the current status of development of multi-pixel silicon-based avalanche photo-diodes operated in Geiger mode, also known as Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). Particular emphasis is given to the application of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 Erika Garutti

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are highly-sensitive photodetectors emerging as the technology of choice for many applications, including large high-energy physics experiments where they often are exposed to high radiation fluences. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-17 A. R. Altamura , F. Acerbi , C. Nociforo , V. Regazzoni , A. Mazzi , A. Gola

Although efficient extraction of discriminative spatial-spectral features is critical for hyperspectral images classification (HSIC), it is difficult to achieve these features due to factors such as the spatial-spectral heterogeneity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yimin Zhu , Linlin Xu

This study investigates the characteristics of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with different pixel densities, focusing on their response across a wide dynamic range. Using an experimental setup that combines laser source and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-26 Zhiyu Zhao , Baohua Qi , Shu Li , Yong Liu

Silicon Carbide (SiC) demonstrates significant potential for high-energy particle detection in complex radiation environments due to its exceptional radiation resistance, excellent environmental adaptability, and fast response time.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-04 Zaiyi. Li , Xiyuan. Zhang , Congcong. Wang , Haolan. Qu , Jiaxiang. Chen , Peilian. Liu , Suyu. Xiao , Xinbo. Zou , Hai. Lu , Xin. Shi

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are potential solid-state alternatives to traditional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) for single-photon detection. In this paper, we report on evaluating SensL MicroFC-10035-SMT SiPMs for their suitability as…

We present the characterization of a photon-number-resolving detection chain based on Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) coupled to a 14 bit, 1 Gs\s digital acquisition system embedding an FPGA-based signal processing pipeline that performs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alex Pozzoli , Stefano Carsi , Andrea Abba , Alessia Allevi

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are photon-counting detectors with great potential to improve the sensitivity of optical receivers. Recent studies of SiPMs in communication focus on the speed rather than the power consumption of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Yangchun Li , Danial Chitnis

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are solid-state, single-photon sensitive, pixelated sensors whose usage for scintillation detection has rapidly increased over the past decade. It is known that the avalanche process within the device, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-17 R. Gibbons , H. Chen , S. J. Haselschwardt , Q. Xia , P. Sorensen

Number-resolving single photon detectors are essential for the implementation of numerous innovative quantum information schemes. While several number-discriminating techniques have been previously presented, the Silicon Photo-Multiplier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Dovrat , M. Bakstein , D. Istrati , H. S. Eisenberg

The dark count rate is one of the key properties of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Previous studies have reported discrete shifts in the dark count rate on short timescales ~10 ms to ~100 s with small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Ryu Kawarasaki , Akira Okumura , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hiroyasu Tajima

Optical cross-talk is a critical characteristic of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) and represents a significant source of the excess noise factor, exerting a substantial influence on detector performance. During the avalanche process of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-21 Y. Guan , N. Anfimov , G. Cao , Z. Xie , Q. Dai , D. Fedoseev , K. Kuznetsova , A. Rybnikov , A. Selyunin , A. Sotnikov

A Silicon Photomultiplier, SiPM, is a metasystem of Avalanche Photodiodes, APDs, which embedded in a specific purpose electronic, becomes a metadevice with unique and useful advanced functionalities to capture, transmit and analyze…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 R. M. Gutierrez , A. I. Hernandez , L. F. Castaneda , J. F. Castano

Silicon-based photosensors (SiPMs) working in the Geiger-mode represent an elegant solution for the readout of particle detectors working at low-light levels like Cherenkov detectors. Especially the insensitivity to magnetic fields makes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-09-01 Gamal Ahmed , Paul Buehler , Michael Cargnelli , Roland Hohler , Johann Marton , Herbert Orth , Ken Suzuki

The CALICE collaboration is presently constructing a test hadron calorimeter (HCAL) with 7620 scintillator tiles read out by novel photo-detectors - Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). This prototype is the first device which uses SiPMs on a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Danilov

Measured response functions and low photon yield spectra of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) were compared to multi-photoelectron pulse-height distributions generated by a Monte Carlo model. Characteristic parameters for SiPM were derived.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sanchez Majos , P. Achenbach , J. Pochodzalla

Optical parametric down-conversion (PDC) is a central tool in quantum optics experiments. The number of collected down-converted modes greatly affects the quality of the produced photon state. We use Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Dovrat , M. Bakstein , D. Istrati , A. Shaham , H. S. Eisenberg

A novel photon detector, the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM), has been tested in proximity focusing Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters that were exposed to cosmic-ray particles in Ljubljana, and a 2 GeV electron beam at the KEK research…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-04 S. Korpar , I. Adachi , H. Chagani , R. Dolenec , K. Hara , T. Iijima , P. Krizan , S. Nishida , R. Pestotnik , A. Stanovnik

Complex Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) is introduced as a novel approach to phase retrieval enabled control of monochromatic light transmission through highly scattering media. In a simple optical setup, a spatial light modulator is used…

Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), a new type of photosensor, is considered a substitute for traditional photomultiplier tube (PMT) in the next generation of dark matter and neutrino detectors, especially in noble gas detectors like liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 T. A. Wang , C. Guo , X. H. Liang , L. Wang , M. Y. Guan , C. G. Yang , J. C. Liu , F. Y. Lin