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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2021
Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Adam Nykoruk McCaughan, Denver, CO (US);
Boris Alexander Korzh, Altadena, CA (US);
Varun Boehm Verma, Lafayette, CO (US);
Sae Woo Nam, Boulder, CO (US);
Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
A thermally coupled imager includes a single photon detection pixel electrically isolated but in thermal communication with a thermal readout bus via a thermally conductive galvanic isolator, wherein the single photon detection pixel receives a single photon and produces thermal energy that is communicated to the thermal readout bus. A position and time of arrival of the single photon received by the single photon detection pixel is determined from voltage pulses produced by the thermal readout bus in response to receiving the thermal energy from the single photon detection pixel.