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Modern PET scanners based on scintillating crystals use solid state photo detectors for light readout. The small area of these devices is beneficial for spatial resolution, but also leads to a large number of electronic channels to be read…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-04 Peter Fischer , Michael Ritzert , Thomas Kerschenbauer

The broad energy response, low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution have made X-ray Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) an obvious choice for developing soft X-ray astronomical instruments over the last half century. They also come…

The development of wide-area cryogenic light detectors with good energy resolution is one of the priorities of next generation bolometric experiments searching for rare interactions, as the simultaneous read-out of the light and heat…

A front-end readout electronics system has been developed for silicon strip detectors. The system uses an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) ATHED to realize multi-channel E&T measurement. The slow control of ASIC chips is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-13 Yi Qian , Hong Su , Jie Kong , Cheng-Fu Dong , Xiao-Li Ma , Xiao-Gang Li

The SST-1M is one of three prototype small-sized telescope designs proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and is built by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions. The SST-1M will operate with DigiCam - an innovative, compact…

Current, state-of-the-art CCDs are close to being able to deliver all key performance figures for future strategic X-ray missions except for the required frame rates. Our Stanford group is seeking to close this technology gap through a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 S. Herrmann , P. Orel , T. Chattopadhyay , R. G. Morris , G. Prigozhin , K. Donlon , R. Foster , M. Bautz , S. Allen , C. Leitz

Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD, also known as AC-LGAD) are innovative silicon sensors, based on the LGAD technology, characterized by a continuous gain layer that spreads across the whole sensor active area. RSDs are very promising…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 F. Siviero , F. Giobergia , L. Menzio , F. Miserocchi , M. Tornago , R. Arcidiacono , N. Cartiglia , M. Costa , M. Ferrero , G. Gioachin , M. Mandurrino , V. Sola

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe out to high redshift. Common mm/sub-mm emission lines are…

Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for photon-number-resolving measurements in quantum information science. To be practical…

We describe the signal-processing firmware and software for a frequency-domain multiplexed (FDM) biasing and demodulation system that reads out Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for mm-wavelength cosmology telescopes. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 Graeme Smecher , Francois Aubin , Eric Bissonnette , Matt Dobbs , Peter Hyland , Kevin MacDermid

This article presents the readout electronics of a novel beam monitoring system for ion research facility accelerator. The readout electronics are divided into Front-end Card (FEC) and Readout Control Unit (RCU). FEC uses Topmetal II minus…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-18 Honglin Zhang , Haibo Yang , Xianqin Li , Yuezhao Zhang , Xiangming Sun , Dong Wang , Ran Huang , Yao Wang , Wei Zhou , Chengxin Zhao

Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generation Stage-5 spectroscopic surveys and potentially, future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Kenneth W. Lin , Abby Bault , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent

We present a design for an array of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) integrated with phased array antennas for imaging at 150 GHz under high background conditions. The microstrip geometry KID detectors are projected to achieve photon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-26 Shibo Shu , Jack Sayers , Peter K. Day

The high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) brings unprecedented requirements for precision bunch-by-bunch luminosity measurement and beam-induced background monitoring in real time. A key component of the CMS Beam Radiation…

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 present a control and measurement setup for superconducting qubits based on Xilinx 16-channel radio-frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC) device. The proposed setup consists of four parts: multiple RFSoC boards, a setup to synchronise every…

Focal plane arrays consisting of low-noise, polarisation-sensitive detectors have made possible the pioneering advances in the study of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To make further progress, the next generation of CMB experiments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 P. S. Barry , S. Doyle , A. L. Hornsby , A. Kofman , E. Mayer , Q. Y. Tang , J. Vieira , E. Shirokoff

The need for simulated data in autonomous driving applications has become increasingly important, both for validation of pretrained models and for training new models. In order for these models to generalize to real-world applications, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Åsmund Brekke , Fredrik Vatsendvik , Frank Lindseth

We present the architectural concept for the Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for the Probe Mission for far-IR Astrophysics (PRIMA). FIRESS spans the 24--235 micron range with four R ~ 100 slit-fed grating modules, each…

We describe the on-line algorithms developed to probe Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) in this paper. LEKIDs are millimeter wavelength detectors for astronomy. LEKID arrays are currently operated in different instruments…