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The proposed circuit is designed in a 28 nm Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) CMOS technology. By exploiting the body biasing technique, the avalanche is detected very quickly and, consequently, is quenched very fast. The fast quenching decreases the avalanche charges, therefore resulting in the afterpulsing reduction. Both post-layout and experimental results are presented and are highly in accordance with each other. 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