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Photomultiplier

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Photomultiplier tube

 Photomultiplier toc wiki tags: Photonics equipment
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Can be used to detect single photons.
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Richard Feynman likes them, he describes the tube at Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979) at one point.
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It uses the photoelectric effect multiple times to produce a chain reaction.
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Silicon photomultiplier

 Photomultiplier toc wiki
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Here is a vendor showcasing their device. They claim in that video that a single photon is produced and detected:
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Concrete device described at: Video "How to use an SiPM - Experiment Video by SensLTech (2018)".

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  1. Single photon production and detection experiments
  2. Photon
  3. Elementary particle
  4. Subatomic particle
  5. Standard Model
  6. Particle physics
  7. Physics
  8. Natural science
  9. Science
  10. Index

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  • Single photon production and detection experiments

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