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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

8-Gsps 1-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) were newly developed toward the realization of the wideband observation. The development of the wideband ADCs is one of the most essential developments for the radio interferometer. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Okuda , S. Iguchi

We construct a terahertz time-domain spectrometer (THz-TDS) system based on photoconductive antenna (PCA). A 800 nm Ti sapphire femtosecond laser with 80 MHz repetition rate provides the pump and probe laser pulse, which has a 45 fs pulse…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jitao Zhang , Wei-Ren Ng , Mingguang Tuo , Min Liang , M. E. Gehm , Hao Xin

This work discusses the suitability of typical power line communication (PLC) pulses for fault sensing in power lines via pulse-compression time-domain reflectometry (TDR). For this purpose, we first carefully outline a TDR system operating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Lucas Giroto de Oliveira , Mateus de L. Filomeno , Luiz Fernando Colla , H. Vincent Poor , Moisés V. Ribeiro

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) allow physical signals to be processed using digital hardware. Their conversion consists of two stages: Sampling, which maps a continuous-time signal into discrete-time, and quantization, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Nir Shlezinger , Ariel Amar , Ben Luijten , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina C. Eldar

At present, fast waveform digitizing circuit is more and more employed in modern physics experiments for processing the signals from an array detector. A new fast waveform sampling digitizing circuit developed by us is presented in this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 HaiBo Yang , Hong Su , Jie Kong , Ke Cheng , JinDa Chen , ChengMing Du , JingZhe Zhang

Real-time frequency readout of time-dependent pulsed signals with a high sensitivity are key elements in many applications using atomic devices, such as FID atomic magnetometers. In this paper, we propose a frequency measurement algorithm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-06 Tong Gong , Ming-Rui Shu , Jiang He , Kai Liu , Yi-Ren Li , Xin-Jun Hao , Dong Sheng , Yu-Ming Wang , Yu-Kun Feng

This paper describes a step by step approach for implementing a scalable and run-time adaptable multi-standard packet detector for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (OFDM) based communication standards. The paper briefly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 James Chacko , Marko Jacovic , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Kapil R. Dandekar

1 ps timing resolution is the entry point to signature based searches relying on secondary/tertiary vertices and particle identification. We describe a preliminary design for PSEC5, an 8-channel 40 GS/s waveform-sampling ASIC in the TSMC 65…

This article presents a novel technique for precise measurement of time and charge based solely on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) device and few satellite discrete electronic components used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET).…

Digital correlators play a significant role in dynamic light scattering (DLS) technology, which characterizes particle size distribution. We present a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital correlator that can be applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Akhmarzhan Islambek , Kecheng Yang , Wei Li , Kai Li

In the last years, high-resolution time tagging has emerged as the tool to tackle the problem of high-track density in the detectors of the next generation of experiments at particle colliders. Time resolutions below 50ps and event average…

Electronic systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous as our world digitises. Simultaneously, even basic components are experiencing a wave of improvements with new transistors, memristors, voltage/current references, data converters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Patrick Foster , Jinqi Huang , Alex Serb , Spyros Stathopoulos , Christos Papavassiliou , Themis Prodromakis

Detectors based on pixels with timing capabilities are gaining increasing importance in the last years. Next-to-come high-energy physics experiments at colliders requires the use of time information in tracking, due to the increasing levels…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-25 Adriano Lai , Gian Matteo Cossu

In the last decade, quantum computing has grown from novel physics experiments with a few qubits to commercial systems with hundreds of qubits. As quantum computers continue to grow in qubit count, the classical control systems must scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Yilun Xu , Abhi D. Rajagopala , Neelay Fruitwala , Gang Huang

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity, their latency performance on specific hardware platforms…

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

We present the design of a new $\mu$TCA-based waveform digitizer, which will be deployed in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and will allow our pileup identification requirement to be met. This digitizer features five independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 David A. Sweigart

This paper addresses simultaneous, high-precision measurement and analysis of generic reference signals by using inexpensive commercial off-the-shelf Software Defined Radio hardware. Sine reference signals are digitally down-converted to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 Carsten Andrich , Alexander Ihlow , Julia Bauer , Niklas Beuster , Giovanni Del Galdo

Radiation measurement relies on pulse detection, which can be performed using various configurations of high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). For optimal power consumption, design…