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A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-10 Er-Lei Chen , Chang-Qing Feng , Chun-Feng Ye , Shu-Bin Liu , Dong-Dong Jin , Jian Lian , Hui-Jun Hu

Time-tagging units and coincidence detectors are used in many scientific research fields. The required timing resolution and number of input channels are varying, but some emerging experiments in the field of quantum optics require up to 32…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-03 Attila Hidvegi

We introduce the waveform capture device (WCD), a flexible measurement system capable of recording complex digital signals on trillionth-of-a-second (ps) time scales. The WCD is implemented via modular code on an off-the-shelf…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Noeloikeau Charlot , Daniel J. Gauthier , Andrew Pomerance

We report on the development of a novel FPGA-based Time-to-Digital Converter and its implementation in a detection chain that records the coordinates of single particles along three dimensions. The detector is composed of Micro-Channel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 F. Nogrette , D. Heurteau , R. Chang , Q. Bouton , C. I. Westbrook , R. Sellem , D. Clément

We implement a photon-counting Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) at 1.55um which exhibits a high 2-point resolution and a high accuracy. It is based on a low temporal-jitter photon-counting module at 1.55um. This detector is composed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthieu Legre , Rob Thew , Hugo Zbinden , Nicolas Gisin

RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) devices provide the potential for implementing a complete radio astronomy receiver on a single board, but performance of the integrated analogue-to-digital converters is critical. We have evaluated the performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Chao Liu , Michael E. Jones , Angela C. Taylor

A Time to Digital Converter was designed (CMOS 0.35 $\mum) in order to be used in Liquid Xenon PET prototype. The circuit proved to be able to work at -120 degrees C, while showing a resolution of 250 ps. The circuit enables a low readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bourrion , L. Gallin-Martel

We present the second prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for High-Luminosity LHC operations. Compared to the first prototype, triple modular redundancy has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Yuxiang Guo , Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Xueye Hu , Qi An , J. W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Lei Zhao , Zhengguo Zhao , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

High-performance multimode/multiwavelength (de)multiplexer is one of the most pivotal photonic devices for advanced on-chip interconnect systems. Traditional on-chip photonic (de)multiplexing requires large device footprint for maintaining…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Faqian Chong , Yulun Wu , Bingtao Gao , Shilong Li , Hongsheng Chen , Song Han

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) is the established standard for the practical generation of a multiplicity of quantum optical states. These include two-mode squeezed vacuum, heralded non-Gaussian states and entangled photon pairs. Detailed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Malte Avenhaus , Benjamin Brecht , Kaisa Laiho , Christine Silberhorn

We present the prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for high-luminosity LHC operation. This ASIC is based on a previously submitted demonstrator ASIC designed for timing…

A characterisation of the Timepix4 pixel front-end with a strong focus on timing performance is presented. Externally generated test pulses were used to probe the per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) and measure the time-bin sizes by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 K. Heijhoff , K. Akiba , R. Ballabriga , M. van Beuzekom , M. Campbell , A. P. Colijn , M. Fransen , R. Geertsema , V. Gromov , X. Llopart Cudie

In most digital-to-time converter (DTC) based applications, apart from maintaining low integral non-linearity (INL), it is also required of the system to achieve a wide frequency translation range. To achieve this performance, we present a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-11 Pallavi Paliwal , Vivek Yadav , Shalabh Gupta

Conventional analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) fail to capture high-dynamic-range (HDR) signals due to clipping. Modulo ADCs circumvent this limitation by folding the input prior to quantization and algorithmically reconstructing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Zeyuan Li , Wenyi Yan , Lu Gan , Guoquan Li , Hongqing Liu

With the advent of the 5G wireless networks, achieving tens of gigabits per second throughputs and low, milliseconds, latency has become a reality. This level of performance will fuel numerous real-time applications, such as autonomy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Ashkan Samiee , Yiming Zhou , Tingyi Zhou , Bahram Jalali

- This paper describes a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is implemented for high speed camera. In the pipeline ADC design, prime factor is designing operational amplifier with high gain so ADC have been high speed. The other advantage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Eri Prasetyo , Hamzah Afandi , Nurul Huda Dominique Ginhac , Michel Paindavoine

We present the design and performance of a prototype ASIC digitizer for integrated wire chamber readout, implemented in 65 nm commercial CMOS technology. Each channel of the 4-channel prototype is composed of two 16-bit Time-to-Digital…

This work presents the design and preliminary performance of a highly-multiplexed superconducting detector readout. The readout system is implemented on the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC Evaluation Board. The current design uses 12% of the DSPs, 60%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Jennifer Pearl Smith , John I. Bailey , III. , Benjamin A. Mazin

We developed a coherent frequency-domain THz spectroscopic technique on a coplanar waveguide in the ultrabroad frequency range from 200 MHz to 1.6 THz based on continuous wave (CW) laser spectroscopy. Optical beating created by mixing two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Katsumasa Yoshioka , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki , Masayuki Hashisaka

With present-day detectors in high energy physics one often faces fast analog pulses of a few nanoseconds length which cover large dynamic ranges. In many experiments both amplitude and timing information have to be measured with high…