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In-vacuum active pixel detectors enable high sensitivity, highly parallel time- and space-resolved detection of ions from complex surfaces. For the first time, a Timepix detector assembly was combined with a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-05 András Kiss , Julia H. Jungmann , Donald F. Smith , Ron M. A. Heeren

Efficient measurement of high-dimensional quantum correlations, especially spatial ones, is essential for quantum technologies, given their inherent high dimensionality and easy manipulation with basic optical elements. We propose and…

This work presents the first measurements performed on the Timespot1 ASIC. As the second prototype developed for the TimeSPOT project, the ASIC features a 32x32 channels hybrid-pixel matrix. Targeted to space-time tracking applications in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-30 Lorenzo Piccolo , Sandro Cadeddu , Luca Frontini , Adriano Lai , Valentino Liberali , Angelo Rivetti , Alberto Stabile

We present the first 1Mpixel SPAD camera ever reported. The camera features 3.8ns time gating and 24kfps frame rate; it was fabricated in 180nm CIS technology. Two pixels have been designed with a pitch of 9.4$\mu$m in 7T and 5.75T…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Kazuhiro Morimoto , Andrei Ardelean , Ming-Lo Wu , Arin Can Ulku , Ivan Michel Antolovic , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon

The hybrid pixel detector Timepix3 allows the measurement of the time and energy deposition of an event simultaneously in each 55 $\mu$m pixel, which makes Timepix3 a promising approach for a compact Compton camera. However, the angular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Jiaxing Wen , Xutao Zheng , Huaizhong Gao , Ming Zeng , Yuge Zhang , Minghai Yu , Yuchi Wu , Jirong Cang , Ge Ma , Zongqing Zhao

The planned luminosity increase at the Large Hadron Collider in the coming years has triggered interest in the use of the particles' time of arrival as additional information in specialized detectors to mitigate the impact of pile-up. The…

SiGe BiCMOS technology can be used to produce ultra-fast, low-power silicon pixel sensors that provide state-of-the-art time resolution even without an internal gain mechanism. The development of such sensors requires the identification of…

High-speed imaging of cells in flow is essential for probing cellular heterogeneity in large populations. Existing imaging approaches based on single-pixel detection and spatio-temporal encoding provide exceptional speed, but typically rely…

As the ubiquity of smart mobile devices continues to rise, Optical Camera Communication systems have gained more attention as a solution for efficient and private data streaming. This system utilizes optical cameras to receive data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Hang Su , Ling Gao , Tao Liu , Laurent Kneip

We demonstrate all-optical temporal integration of arbitrary optical waveforms with temporal features as short as ~1.9ps. By using a four-port micro-ring resonator based on CMOS compatible doped glass technology we perform the 1st- and…

Time-resolved photon-counting plays an indispensable role in precision metrology in both classical and quantum regimes. In particular, time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) has been the key enabling technology for applications such…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-29 Bowen Li , Jan Bartos , Yijun Xie , Shu-Wei Huang

Temporal imaging systems are outstanding tools for single-shot observation of optical signals that have irregular and ultrafast dynamics. They allow long time windows to be recorded with femtosecond resolution, and do not rely on complex…

With the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) the number of collisions per bunch crossing increases. To cope with these high rates in the pixel trackers, per-pixel time measurements are required, which implies the need for fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-18 Daan Oppenhuis

High-precision time-interval measurement is a fundamental technique in many advanced applications, including time and distance metrology, particle physics, and ultra-precision machining. However, many of these applications are confined by…

Event cameras output asynchronous events to represent intensity changes with a high temporal resolution, even under extreme lighting conditions. Currently, most of the existing works use a single contrast threshold to estimate the intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ziwei Wang , Yonhon Ng , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

Some applications in scientific imaging, like space-based high-precision photometry, benefit from a detailed characterization of the sensitivity variation within a pixel. A detailed map of the intra-pixel sensitivity (IPS) allows to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Swaraj Bandhu Mahato , Joris De Ridder , Guy Meynants , Gert Raskin , Hans Van Winckel

Methods to visualize the two-dimensional distribution of molecules by mass spectrometric imaging evolve rapidly and yield novel applications in biology, medicine, and material surface sciences. Most mass spectrometric imagers acquire high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-11 Casimir Bamberger , Uwe Renz , Andreas Bamberger

Advances in solid-state technology have enabled the development of silicon photomultiplier sensor arrays capable of sensing individual photons. Combined with high-frequency time-to-digital converters (TDCs), this technology opens up the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Ewout van den Berg , Emmanuel Candes , Garry Chinn , Craig Levin , Peter Olcott , Carlos Sing-Long

Photonic integrated circuits have been extensively explored for optical processing with the aim of breaking the speed bottleneck of digital electronics. However, the input/output (IO) bottleneck remains one of the key barriers. Here we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Minjia Chen , Yizhi Wang , Chunhui Yao , Adrian Wonfor , Shuai Yang , Richard Penty , Qixiang Cheng

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi