Fully-integrated multifunctional fast time to amplitude converter for high-performance timing applications

Giulia Acconcia; Francesco Malanga; Ivan Labanca; Massimo Ghioni; Ivan Rech

doi:10.1117/12.2599831

12 September 2021 Fully-integrated multifunctional fast time to amplitude converter for high-performance timing applications

Giulia Acconcia, Francesco Malanga, Ivan Labanca, Massimo Ghioni, Ivan Rech

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Proceedings Volume 11868, Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Security and Defence VI; 1186808 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599831
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Timing measurements with single photon detectors have acquired a prominent role in many applications, especially where they allow the recovery of faint light signals in harsh environments. We present a new fully-integrated multifunctional Time-to-Amplitude Converter (TAC), featuring 8 channels with a full scale range up to 100ns and a linearity better than 1% of the LSB peak to peak. The maximum speed of the converter is obtained in the Fast-TAC configuration (80MHz), while the precision of the converter can be maximized by exploiting multiple channels to perform the same conversion, achieving an overall jitter as low as 1.4ps.

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Giulia Acconcia, Francesco Malanga, Ivan Labanca, Massimo Ghioni, and Ivan Rech "Fully-integrated multifunctional fast time to amplitude converter for high-performance timing applications", Proc. SPIE 11868, Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Security and Defence VI, 1186808 (12 September 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599831

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