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Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision down to about 10 ps, we have made a systematic study of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-19 J. W. Zhao , B. H. Sun , I. Tanihata , S. Terashima , L. H. Zhu , A. Enomoto , D. Nagae , T. Nishimura , S. Omika , A. Ozawa , Y. Takeuchi , T. Yamaguchi

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

For TOF positron emission tomography (TOF PET) detectors, time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are essential to resolve the coincidence time of the photon pairs. Recently, an efficient TDC structure called ring-oscillator-based (RO-based)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-12 Ke Cui , Xiangyu Li , Zongkai Liu , Rihong Zhu

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

In this paper we present a novel high-resolution multi-channel FPGA-based time-to-digital converter (TDC). We designed and implemented a complex electronic circuit on the FPGA, whose overall accuracy is several orders of magnitude greater…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Balazs Jakli , Adam Rak , Gyorgy Cserey

Time-of-flight measurement is an important advancement in PET scanners to improve image reconstruction with a lower delivered radiation dose. This article describes the monolithic ASIC for the TT-PET project, a novel idea for a…

A system based on commercially available items, such as a laser diode, emitting in the visible range $\sim 400$ nm,and multimode fiber patches, fused fiber splitters and optical switches may be assembled,for time calibration of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Bonesini , R. Bertoni , A. deBari , M. Rossella

To meet the stringent time calibration requirements for the Belle II experiment upgrade, particularly for its large-size KL and Muon Detector comprising tens of thousands of scintillator channels with time resolutions better than 100 ps, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-23 Ziyu Liu , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Xiaolong Wang , Junhao Yin , Minggang Zhao

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

The design of a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on a multiphase clock implemented using a single field-programmable gate array is discussed in this paper. The TDC can increase the resolution of the measurement by using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-05 Zhong Qi , Xiangting Meng , Deyuan Li , Lei Yang , Zeen Yao , Dongcang Li

A new timing detector measuring ~50 MeV/c positrons is under development for the MEG II experiment, aiming at a time resolution $\sigma_t \sim 30~\mathrm{ps}$. The resolution is expected to be achieved by measuring each positron time with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-23 P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , S. Shirabe , Y. Uchiyama

The multi-gap resistive plate chambers (MRPCs) will be used as the Time-of-Flight (ToF) system in the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID). The time resolution required by the experiment for the MRPC system is 20 ps in order to make a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-11 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang

Time-stretch electro-optic detection allows THz waveforms to be recorded in single-shot, up to Megahertz acquisition rates. This capability is required in accelerator physics, and also opens new applications in table-top THz time-domain…

The paper presents a system for measuring photon statistics and photon timing in the few-photon regime down to the single-photon level. The measurement system is based on superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 N. Lusardi , J. W. N. Los , R. B. M. Gourgues , G. Bulgarini , A. Geraci

We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for highly segmented scintillator counters like the MEG II pixelated Timing Counter (pTC), consisting of 512-centimeter scale scintillator counters read out by silicon…

A high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on wave union (four-edge WU A), dual-sampling, and sub-TDL methods is proposed and implemented in a 16-nm Xilinx UltraScale+ field-programmable gate array (FPGA). We combine WU and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-02 Yu Wang , Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

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

A single-shot measurement technique for ultrafast phenomena with high throughput enables the capture of rare events within a short time scale, facilitating the exploration of rare ultrafast processes. Photonic time stretch stands out as a…

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

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…

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