About This Webinar
Single photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD) arrays are an emerging imaging technology offering several advantages over traditional imaging with CCDs and CMOS. Most importantly, a pixel in a SPAD array provides not only intensity information but also arrival times of individual photons with a minimal time jitter. Because of this unique capability, there is a great interest in using SPAD arrays in applications requiring precise timing such as time-of-flight lidar or fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM).
This presentation begins with a technical discussion of a single SPAD pixel, followed by a comprehensive overview of possible architectures of 1D and 2D SPAD arrays. This technical background lays the groundwork for a discussion of using SPAD arrays in two life science applications: FLIM and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS).
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About the presenter
As a senior university lecturer of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Slawomir S. Piatek, Ph.D., has been measuring the proper motions of nearby galaxies using images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. As a science consultant for Hamamatsu Corp. in New Jersey, Piatek has developed a photonics training program for engineers. He earned a doctorate in physics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1994.