CHARACTERIZATION OF A HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER FOR MILLISECOND TO SUB-MICROSECOND ASTROPHYSICAL TRANSIENT
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Date
2020
Authors
Li, Siyang
Smoot, George F.
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arxiv
Abstract
We characterized the S14160-3050HS Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC), a high efficiency, single channel
silicon photomultiplier manufactured by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. All measurements were performed at a
room temperature of (23.0 ± 0.3) °C. We obtained an I-V curve and used relative derivatives to find a breakdown
voltage of 38.88 V. At a 3 V over voltage, we find a dark count rate of 1.08 MHz, crosstalk probability of 21
%, photon detection efficiency of 55 % at 450 nm, and saturation at 1.0x1011 photons per second. The S14160-
3050HS MPPC is a candidate detector for the Ultra-Fast Astronomy (UFA) telescope which will characterize
the optical (320 nm - 650 nm) sky in the millisecond to sub-microsecond timescales using two photon counting
arrays operated in coincidence on the 0.7 meter Nazarbayev University Transient Telescope at the Assy-Turgen
Astrophysical Observatory (NUTTelA-TAO) located near Almaty, Kazakhstan. We discuss advantages and
disadvantages of using the S14160-3050HS MPPC for the UFA telescope and future ground-based telescopes in
sub-second time domain astrophysics.
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Type of access: Open Access, silicon photomultiplier, instrumentation, telescope, detector characterization, high efficiency, astro-physical transients, quantum optics
Citation
Li, S., & Smoot, G. F. (2020). Characterization of a high efficiency silicon photomultiplier for millisecond to sub-microsecond astrophysical transient searches. X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561936