Monolithic time-to-digital converter chips for time-correlated single-photon counting and fluorescence lifetime measurements
| Autor: | Antonio Pifferi, Andrea Bassi, S. Bellisai, Giorgio Padovini, Alberto Tosi, Davide Tamborini, Federica Villa, Bojan Markovic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
sezele business.industry Dynamic range ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION 02 engineering and technology Optical time-domain reflectometer 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Chip 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences Photon counting 010309 optics Time-to-digital converter Optics CMOS 0103 physical sciences Time-resolved spectroscopy 0210 nano-technology Reflectometry business |
| Zdroj: | Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices X. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Popis: | We present a low-power Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) chip, fabricated in a standard cost-effective 0.35 μm CMOS technology, which provides 160 ns dynamic range, 10 ps timing resolution and Differential Non-Linearity better than 0.01 LSB rms. This chip is the core of a compact TDC module equipped with an USB 2.0 interface for user-friendly control and data-acquisition. The TDC module is suitable for a wide variety of applications such as Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM), time-resolved spectroscopy, Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), quantum optics, etc. In particular, we show the application of our TDC module to fluorescence lifetime measurements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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