CHARACTERIZATION OF A HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER FOR MILLISECOND TO SUB-MICROSECOND ASTROPHYSICAL TRANSIENT
| dc.contributor.author | Li, Siyang | |
| dc.contributor.author | Smoot, George F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-11T04:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-11T04:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6392 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | arxiv | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | Type of access: Open Access | en_US |
| dc.subject | silicon photomultiplier | en_US |
| dc.subject | instrumentation | en_US |
| dc.subject | telescope | en_US |
| dc.subject | detector characterization | en_US |
| dc.subject | high efficiency | en_US |
| dc.subject | astro-physical transients | en_US |
| dc.subject | quantum optics | en_US |
| dc.title | CHARACTERIZATION OF A HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER FOR MILLISECOND TO SUB-MICROSECOND ASTROPHYSICAL TRANSIENT | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| workflow.import.source | science |