Development of position-sensitive photon-counting imager for Ultra-Fast-Astronomy

被引：0

作者：

Lau, Albert Wai Kit ^{[1
]}

Chan, Yan Yan ^{[1
]}

Shafiee, Mehdi ^{[2
,3
,4
]}

Smoot, George F. ^{[3
,5
,6
,7
,8
,9
]}

Grossan, Bruce ^{[3
,10
]}

机构：

[1] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Kowloon, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[2] Nazarbayev Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan

[3] Nazarbayev Univ, Energet Cosmos Lab, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan

[4] Arthur B McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Phys Res, 64 Bader, Kingston, ON, Canada

[5] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Inst Adv Study, Kowloon, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[6] Univ Paris Diderot, Lab APC PCCP, Univ Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France

[7] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA

[8] Univ Paris, Lab Astroparticule & Cosmol, F-75013 Paris, France

[9] Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, Donostia Int Phys Ctr, E-48080 San Sebastian, Spain

[10] UC Berkeley Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA USA

来源：

X-RAY, OPTICAL, AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY X | 2022年 / 12191卷

关键词：

SiPM; Ultra-Fast Astronomy; Single-photon imaging; Readout system for detectors; Sensor calibration and testing; Position sensitive detector;

D O I：

10.1117/12.2628864

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

Traditional optical astronomy is limited to the measurement of transient signals at time scales greater than similar to 1ms due to the readout speed of detectors and read noise limitations to sensitivity in short exposures. The Ultra-Fast Astronomy Project (UFA)(1,2) explores much faster events in the sub-millisecond domain. We designed a single-photon imaging camera based on position-sensitive silicon photomultiplier (PS-SiPM) with a low-cost FPGA readout system to observe such events. The sensor operates in a photon-counting mode with time resolution on the order of 10ns and a spatial resolution of around 200 mu m. We present our camera's electronic and mechanical design, the algorithm for data handling, and testing and calibration data.

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