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    • Earl Hergert

    VP of Marketing, Hamamatsu

    Earl Hergert is VP of Marketing at Hamamatsu (Bridgewater, NJ).

    FIGURE 1. Schematic of a PMT’s operation (top); photographs of a head-on and side-on PMTs (lower left); and an example of an output waveform (lower right).
    Detectors & Imaging

    Single-photon detectors for modern applications

    Slawomir S. Piatek
    Aug. 31, 2022
    Applications for single-photon detectors continue to grow, fueling extensive research and development.
    FIGURE 1. Scanning time-of-flight lidar uses a laser as a light source.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Novel Detectors: SPADs offer possible photodetection solution for ToF lidar applications

    Earl Hergert
    Jan. 28, 2020
    Will single-photon avalanche photodiodes become the standard in time-of-flight lidar photodetection?
    FIGURE 1. A simplified equivalent electrical circuit of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) shows three pixels or micro cells.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Testing Detectors: Understanding key parameters of silicon photomultipliers

    Slawomir S. Piatek
    Nov. 4, 2014
    Silicon photomultiplier users can expand on basic operating principles by understanding methods that experimentally determine key parameters of this detector such as gain, photon...