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Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are major components for the measurements of time intervals. Recent developments in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) have enabled the opportunity to implement high-performance TDCs, which were only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuanyuan Hua , Danial Chitnis

Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Achuta Kadambi , Vage Taamazyan , Suren Jayasuriya , Ramesh Raskar

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-03 P. -E. Vert , J. Lecoq , G. Montarou , N. Pauna , B. Joly , M. Boutemeur , H. Mathez , R. Gaglione , P. Le Dû

This paper describes the use of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique as a particle identification method for the HERMES experiment. The time-of-flight is measured by two 1x4 m^2 scintillation hodoscopes that initially were designed for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian , N. Akopov , M. Amarian , H. Avakian , A. Avetissian , E. Avetisyan , B. W. Filippone , R. Kaiser , H. Zohrabian

The Time-of-Flight system is a proposed addition to the STAR detector currently installed at RHIC. The proposal is based on a new technology called the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC), and consists of approximately 23,000 channels…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Schambach

We introduce pulsed correlation time-of-flight (PC-ToF) sensing, a new operation mode for correlation time-of-flight range sensors that combines a sub-nanosecond laser pulse source with a rectangular demodulation at the sensor side. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Sebastian Werner , Henrik Schäfer , Matthias Hullin

The aim of this study is to design and evaluate a simple free running Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) based on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device to accomplish the energy and position readout of the silicon photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-19 Cong Ma , Xue Dong , Li Yu , Wubin Wang , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqing Huang , Guocheng Wu , Lei Lu , Hansheng Chen

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) technique coupled with semiconductor detectors is a powerful instrument to provide real-time characterization of ions accelerated because of laser-matter interactions. Nevertheless, the presence of strong…

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are used in various fields, including high-energy physics. One advantage of implementing TDCs in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the flexibility on the modification of the logics, which is useful…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-29 Yuta Sano , Yasuyuki Horii , Masahiro Ikeno , Osamu Sasaki , Makoto Tomoto , Tomohisa Uchida

Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance ({\mu}SR) technology has an irreplaceable role in studying the microstructure and properties of materials, especially micro-magnetic properties. An experimental muon source is being built in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-06 Fanshui Deng , Hao Liang , Bangjiao Ye , Jingyu Tang

Fast timing detectors are an essential element in the experimental setup for time-of-flight (ToF) mass measurements of unstable nuclei. We have upgraded the scintillator detectors used in experiments at the National Superconducting…

Acoustic pyrometry is a non-contact measurement technology for monitoring furnace combustion reaction, diagnosing energy loss due to incomplete combustion and ensuring safe production. The accuracy of time of flight (TOF) estimation of an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-25 Qi Liu , Bin Zhou , Jianyong Zhang , Ruixue Cheng

Direct time-of-flight (dToF) sensors are promising for next-generation on-device 3D sensing. However, limited by manufacturing capabilities in a compact module, the dToF data has a low spatial resolution (e.g., $\sim 20\times30$ for iPhone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhanghao Sun , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Gyeongmin Choe , Jialiang Wang , Shuochen Su , Rakesh Ranjan

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are a crucial tool in a wide array of fields, in particular for quantum communication, where time taggers performance can severely affect the quality of the entire application. Nowadays, FPGA-based TDCs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Matías Rubén Bolaños , Daniele Vogrig , Paolo Villoresi , Giuseppe Vallone , Andrea Stanco

This paper presents the design and testing of a time-stretching-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented with discrete components. The TDC utilizes capacitor charging and discharging to achieve a time resolution of under 100 ps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-23 Yanbo Chu , Zhicai Zhang

The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) \cite{cite1.MPD_CDR} is designed to study of hot and dense baryonic matter in collisions of heavy ions over the atomic mass range 1--197 at the centre of mass energy up to $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 11 GeV (for…

In this paper we prove that the choice of a suitable treatment of the scintillator surfaces, along with suitable photodetectors electronics and specific algorithms for raw data analysis, allow to achieve an optimal tradeoff between energy,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Luigi Cosentino , Paolo Finocchiaro , Alfio Pappalardo , Franco Garibaldi

We introduce Doppler time-of-flight (D-ToF) rendering, an extension of ToF rendering for dynamic scenes, with applications in simulating D-ToF cameras. D-ToF cameras use high-frequency modulation of illumination and exposure, and measure…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Juhyeon Kim , Wojciech Jarosz , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Adithya Pediredla

The barrel time-of-flight (TOF) detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR in Darmstadt is planned as a scintillator tile hodoscope (SciTil) using 8000 small scintillator tiles. It will provide fast event timing for a software trigger in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 S. E. Brunner , L. Gruber , J. Marton , H. Orth , K. Suzuki