Moision, Bruce; Srinivasan, Meera; Hamkins, Jon
(Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005., 2005-07)
When a photo is detected by a Geiger-mode avalanche photo-diode (GMAPD), the detector is rendered inactive, or blocked, for a certain period of time. In this paper we derive the blocking probability for a GMAPD whose input ...