Compact, Low-Power and Fully Reconfigurable 10 ps Resolution, 160 Range, Time-Resolved Single-Photon Counting System
In: IEEE Sensors Journal, Jg. 16 (2016-05-01), S. 3827-3833
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We present a handheld, low-power, time-resolved single-photon detection system, consisting of a time measurement platform, able to record optical waveforms with 10 ps resolution and a detection board, which can host both CMOS and custom-made single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). It has been validated using up to 200 $\mu \text{m}$ diameter CMOS SPADs, reaching 40% photon detection efficiency at 450 nm and less than 100 HZ dark count rate at room temperature (with a 50 $\mu \text{m}$ device). The system provides 50 ps full-width at half-maximum single-shot timing precision, with 1.2% of least significant bit (LSB) (RMS) differential non-linearity (DNL) and 160 $\mu \text{s}$ full-scale range. Both data communication and power supply are provided by a USB 2.0 link. The module comes in a very compact ( $1 \,\, \times \,\, 2$ in2) handheld housing and consumes less than 1.3 W (even at the maximum rate of 5 Mconversion/s). Because of the field programmable gate array (FPGA) data processing, this complete time-correlated single-photon counting system enables customized and cost-effective new applications, which require high portability and configurability, with no compromises on performance.
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Compact, Low-Power and Fully Reconfigurable 10 ps Resolution, 160 Range, Time-Resolved Single-Photon Counting System
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Zappa, Franco ; Buttafava, Mauro ; Ruggeri, Alessandro ; Tamborini, Davide |
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Zeitschrift: | IEEE Sensors Journal, Jg. 16 (2016-05-01), S. 3827-3833 |
Veröffentlichung: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016 |
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ISSN: | 2379-9153 (print) ; 1530-437X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1109/jsen.2016.2535403 |
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