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Search Patents by David M. Rutter

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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A line drawing of the protector for photon detector

Protector for Photon Detector

NIST Inventors
David M. Rutter
This invention describes a device and method to help protect a given avalanche photo diode (APD) from excessive light or photon counts without modification to the APD itself or the associated power for the APD. High photon count rate to a reference frequency and rapidly shutting down the APD if a
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