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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 9797-9804Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.419896
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- Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology [P0011925]
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy [10062417]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [P0011925] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The study enhanced the photon count rate in a digitally implemented TCSPC system by using a hybrid photodetector (HPD) to analyze the photoelectronic responses from a single photon-sensitive photodetector. The combination of digital TCSPC with HPD provides an ultimate solution for high photon count rates, as demonstrated in fluorescence lifetime measurement experiments.
We report an enhanced photon count rate in a digitally implemented time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) system by utilizing a hybrid photodetector (HPD). In our digital TCSPC scheme, the photoelectronic responses from a single photon-sensitive photodetector are digitally analyzed through a high-speed analog-to-digital convertor (ADC). By virtue of the HPD which provides nearly a constant signal gain, the single-photon pulses can be effectively distinguished from pulses of simultaneously detected multiple photons by the pulse heights. Consequently, our digital TCSPC system can selectively collect single-photon signals even in the presence of intense multi-photon detections with its temporal accuracy not to be compromised. In our experiment of fluorescence lifetime measurement, the maximum count rate of single photons nearly reached the theoretical limit given by the Poisson statistics. This demonstrated that the digital TCSPC combined with the HPD provides an ultimate solution for the TCSPC implementation for high photon count rates. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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