Research of Weak Signal Amplifier of Single Photon Counting

Author

Dong, Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Technol. & Educ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

1-3 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

181

Abstract

The method of single photon counting uses the characteristic that photon detector outputs naturally discrete electrical signal under low-light irradiation. It identifies and extracts the very weak signal by pulse-screening technology and digital-counting technology. First the article introduces the principle of the single photon counting system, and researches in-depth to the weak signal amplifier, design and the circuit simulation shows that the weak signal amplifier has a lot of characteristic of the big Bandwidth, the high gain, the low noise, the small volume. This weak signal amplifier designed to meet the conditions of use of the single-photon counter amplifier module, and can play a good role in the measurement techniques in single photon counting, making measurements more accurate.

Keywords

amplifiers; photon counting; signal processing; circuit simulation; digital-counting technology; high gain; low-light irradiation; naturally discrete electrical signal; photon detector; pulse-screening technology; single photon counting system; single-photon counter amplifier module; very weak signal extraction; very weak signal identification; weak signal amplifier; Biomedical optical imaging; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical variables measurement; Photonics; Stimulated emission; measurement techniques; single photon counting; weak signal amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICINIS), 2012 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3083-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINIS.2012.84

Filename

6376514