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The second part of the review of solid-state detectors considers the main photoreception characteristics of photodetectors and generalized indicators of their detection quality, as well as the competitiveness of different types of detectors based on these indicators. Since in all relevant applied problems the detected signal is represented by a random number of optical photons or high-energy particles, the review emphasizes the relationship of these characteristics with the probabilistic description of random processes of signal formation and detection noise. The main attention is paid to avalanche photodiodes and silicon photomultipliers, which are the most sensitive and therefore the most popular solid-state detectors of low-photon optical signals and radiation.
photodiode, avalanche photodiode, APD, silicon photomultiplier, SiPM, energy resolution, time resolution, quantum efficiency
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