Time-to-Digital Converter card for multichannel time-resolved Single-Photon Counting applications

被引：1

作者：

Tamborini, Davide ^{[1
]}

Portaluppi, Davide ^{[1
]}

Tisa, Simone ^{[2
]}

Tosi, Alberto ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Politecn Milan, Dipartimento Elettron Informaz & Bioingn, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[2] Micro Photon Devices, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy

来源：

PHOTONIC INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING II | 2015年 / 9369卷

关键词：

time-to-digital conversion (TDC); single-photon counting; photon timing; time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC); SPECTROSCOPY;

D O I：

10.1117/12.2079740

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We present a high performance Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) card that provides 10 ps timing resolution and 20 ps (rms) timing precision with a programmable full-scale-range from 160 ns to 10 mu s. Differential Non-Linearity (DNL) is better than 1.3% LSB (rms) and Integral Non-Linearity (INL) is 5 ps rms. Thanks to the low power consumption (400 mW) and the compact size (78 mm x 28 mm x 10 mm), this card is the building block for developing compact multichannel time-resolved instrumentation for Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting (TCSPC). The TDC-card outputs the time measurement results together with the rates of START and STOP signals and the number of valid TDC conversions. These additional information are needed by many TCSPC-based applications, such as: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM), Time-of-Flight (TOF) ranging measurements, time-resolved Positron Emission Tomography (PET), single-molecule spectroscopy, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), quantum optics, etc.

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