Single-Photon Imaging

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Fundamentals of Noise in Optoelectronics

   • Peter Seitz

   Pages 1-25

3. Image Sensor Technology

   • R. Daniel McGrath

   Pages 27-47

4. Hybrid Avalanche Photodiode Array Imaging

   • Hiroaki Aihara

   Pages 49-62

5. Electron Bombarded Semiconductor Image Sensors

   • Verle Aebi, Kenneth Costello

   Pages 63-72

6. Single-Photon Imaging Using Electron Multiplication in Vacuum

   • Gert Nützel

   Pages 73-102

7. Electron-Multiplying Charge Coupled Devices – EMCCDs

   • Mark Stanford Robbins

   Pages 103-121

8. Monolithic Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: SPADs

   • Edoardo Charbon, Matthew W. Fishburn

   Pages 123-157

9. Single Photon CMOS Imaging Through Noise Minimization

   • Boyd Fowler

   Pages 159-195

10. Architectures for Low-noise CMOS Electronic Imaging

    • Shoji Kawahito

    Pages 197-217

11. Low-Noise Electronic Imaging with Double-Gate FETs and Charge-Modulation Devices

    • Yoshiyuki Matsunaga

    Pages 219-248

12. Energy-Sensitive Single-Photon X-ray and Particle Imaging

    • Christian Lotto

    Pages 249-274

13. Single-Photon Detectors for Time-of-Flight Range Imaging

    • David Stoppa, Andrea Simoni

    Pages 275-300

14. Single-Photon Imaging for Astronomy and Aerospace Applications

    • Pierre Magnan

    Pages 301-327

15. Exploiting Molecular Biology by Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imaging

    • Francis Müller, Christof Fattinger

    Pages 329-344

16. Back Matter

    Pages 345-351

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The acquisition and interpretation of images is a central capability in almost all scientific and technological domains. In particular, the acquisition of electromagnetic radiation, in the form of visible light, UV, infrared, X-ray, etc. is of enormous practical importance. The ultimate sensitivity in electronic imaging is the detection of individual photons. With this book, the first comprehensive review of all aspects of single-photon electronic imaging has been created. Topics include theoretical basics, semiconductor fabrication, single-photon detection principles, imager design and applications of different spectral domains. Today, the solid-state fabrication capabilities for several types of image sensors has advanced to a point, where uncoooled single-photon electronic imaging will soon become a consumer product. This book is giving a specialist´s view from different domains to the forthcoming “single-photon imaging” revolution. The various aspects of single-photon imaging are treated by internationally renowned, leading scientists and technologists who have all pioneered their respective fields.

• CMOS image sensing
• Charge coupled device (CCD) image sensing
• Design and applications of image sensors
• Low-noise image sensing
• Semiconductor fabrication: image sensor manufacture
• Semiconductor image sensing
• Single-photon image sensing

From the reviews:

“Single-Photon Imaging is part of the prestigious Springer Series in Optical Sciences and is dedicated to single-photon imaging, a hot topic in optics. The book is clearly written and has striking photos and figures. Each of the fourteen chapters is authored by a famed specialist. … This book should be read by everyone interested in optical imaging.” (Daniela Dragoman, Optics & Photonics News, March, 2012)

• CSEM SA, Landquart, Switzerland

  Peter Seitz

• Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

  Albert JP Theuwissen

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