**Meet the editor**

Dr Sanka Gateva graduated from Sofia University with a Master's degree in atomic physics, prepared her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and specialized in development of diode lasers for spectroscopy of trapped ions at NPL, England. Her main areas of interest and her main publications are in the fields of development of different types of

lasers (gas, dimer lasers and diode lasers), mode selection and frequency stabilisation in lasers, high resolution spectroscopy, coherent population trapping, and optical magnetometry. She is an Associate Professor, Head of the Laser Systems Laboratory and she was recently assigned as Director of the Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Photodetectors 1** 

Chapter 4 **Silicon Photomultipliers:** 

Yu Zhu Gao

Chapter 5 **High Sensitivity Uncooled InAsSb** 

Chapter 6 **Terahertz Emitters, Detectors and Sensors:** 

Takeji Ueda and Susumu Komiyama

Shufang Wang and Guangsheng Fu

Chapter 7 **Far-Infrared Single-Photon Detectors** 

Chapter 8 **Broadband Photodetectors Based on** 

Chapter 1 **ZnO Metal-Semiconductor-Metal UV Photodetectors on PPC Plastic with Various Metal Contacts 3**  N.N. Jandow, H. Abu Hassan, F.K. Yam and K. Ibrahim

Chapter 2 **UV-Vis Photodetector with Silicon Nanoparticles 33** 

Chapter 3 **Silicon Photodetectors Based on Internal Photoemission** 

**Characterization and Applications 77**  Marco Ramilli, Alessia Allevi, Luca Nardo, Maria Bondani and Massimo Caccia

**Photoconductors with Long Wavelength 101** 

**Current Status and Future Prospects 115** 

Maurizio Casalino, Luigi Sirleto, Mario Iodice and Giuseppe Coppola

J.A. Luna-López, M. Aceves-Mijares, J. Carrillo-López,

A. Morales-Sánchez, F. Flores-Gracia and D.E. Vázquez Valerdi

**Effect: The Challenge of Detecting Near-Infrared Light 51** 

M. Ghanashyam Krishna, Sachin D. Kshirsagar and Surya P. Tewari

**Fabricated in Double-Quantum-Well Structures 145** 

*c***-Axis Tilted Layered Cobalt Oxide Thin Films 165** 

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Contents VII

Chapter 19 **Shape of the Coherent Population** 

Sanka Gateva and Georgi Todorov

Jaroslav Cvach and CALICE Collaboration

**Trapping Resonances Registered in Fluorescence 417** 

Chapter 20 **Photodetectors in Calorimeters for the Linear Collider 441** 

Chapter 19 **Shape of the Coherent Population Trapping Resonances Registered in Fluorescence 417**  Sanka Gateva and Georgi Todorov

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Chapter 9 **Geiger-Mode Avalanche** 

Vasily Kushpil

Mikhail E. Belkin

Chapter 12 **Mathematical Modeling of** 

**Photodiodes in Standard CMOS Technologies 175**  Anna Vilà, Anna Arbat, Eva Vilella and Angel Dieguez

**Photo Detectors in the Context of the Feedback Theory 207** 

**Multi-Element Infrared Focal Plane Arrays Based on the System 'Photodiode – Direct-Injection Readout Circuit' 251**

**Speckle Motion to Monitor Ultrasonic Vibrations 307** 

**Part 2 Theoretical Modelling and Simulations 205** 

**Microwave-Band P-I-N Photodetectors 231** 

Chapter 13 **Ultrafast Imaging in Standard (Bi)CMOS Technology 281** 

Wilfried Uhring and Martin Zlatanski

Jonathan Bessette and Elsa Garmire

**Nonstationary Aerosol Media** 

Lingze Duan and Ravi P. Gollapalli

**Light Polarization Information into** 

Chapter 17 **Measurement of the Polarization State** 

Chapter 18 **Spin Photodetector: Conversion of** 

Kazuya Ando and Eiji Saitoh

**in a Wide Range of Particle Sizes 341** Olga Kudryashova, Anatoly Pavlenko,

Sergey Bondarchuk,Eugeny Maksimenko, Igor Akhmadeev and Eugeny Muravlev

Boris Vorozhtsov, Sergey Titov, Vladimir Arkhipov,

**Based on Femtosecond Frequency Combs 365** 

**of a Weak Signal Field by Homodyne Detection 389**

**Electric Voltage Using Inverse Spin Hall Effect 405** 

Chapter 10 **Avalanche Process in Semiconductor** 

Chapter 11 **Multiscale Computer Aided Design of** 

I.I. Lee and V.G. Polovinkin

**Part 3 Photodetection Systems 279**

Chapter 14 **Photoconductors for Measuring** 

Chapter 15 **Remote Optical Diagnostics of** 

Chapter 16 **Atmospheric Clock Transfer** 

Sun-Hyun Youn

Chapter 20 **Photodetectors in Calorimeters for the Linear Collider 441**  Jaroslav Cvach and CALICE Collaboration

Preface

Photodetectors are devices which sense light or electromagnetic energy and convert it into a response, usually electrical. As part of photonics systems, they are developing very fast with photonics applications, e.g. photosensors, telecommunications, information processing, metrology, spectroscopy, medicine, military technology, laser

There are different types of photodetectors: optical and chemical detectors, photoresistors, photodiodes, thermocouples, phototubes, solar cells, etc. The choice of a particular detector depends on the requirements of a specific application – e.g. the wavelength of the light, the sensitivity, the speed of response. The variety of photodetectors is so wide, that it is impossible for a single book to cover the state-of–art, the latest developments and the new trends in the field including the theoretical aspects, design and simulation, experimental results, and applications of all photodetectors.

In this book some recent advances in photodetectors and photodetection systems for

*Section 1* includes nine chapters where recent developments on different photodetectors and their characteristics are described. In *Section 2* a theoretical model and some simulations are presented*.* In *Section 3* eight examples of photodetection systems for different applications are given: imaging, particle size analysis, transfers of time, and measurement of vibrations, magnetic field, polarization of light, and particle energy.

The book is addressed to students, engineers, and researchers working in the field of

**Dr. Sanka Gateva**

Bulgaria

Associate Professor, Institute of Electronics,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,

specific applications are examined. The book is divided into three sections.

material processing, biophotonics, agriculture, robotics.

photonics and advanced technologies.
