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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2003
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Seiichiro Mizuno, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Seiichiro Mizuno, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims at providing a photodetector capable of fast operation with inclusion of A/D converting circuits. With a photodetector, (K×M×N) photodiodes PDare arranged in M rows and (K×N) columns in a photodetection unit, and processes (electric charge accumulation, CDS, filtering, and A/D conversion) regarding each of the (K×N) photodiodes PD(k=1 to K, n=1 to N) of each row are carried out successively at each time T. Meanwhile, each of an electric charge accumulation operation in an integrating circuit, a CDS operation in a CDS circuit, a filterng operation in a filter circuit, and an A/D conversion operation in an A/D converteris carried out at each time (N×T).