Time-to-digital converter card for multichannel time-resolved single-photon counting applications

Davide Tamborini; Davide Portaluppi; Simone Tisa; Alberto Tosi

doi:10.1117/12.2079740

13 March 2015 Time-to-digital converter card for multichannel time-resolved single-photon counting applications

Davide Tamborini, Davide Portaluppi, Simone Tisa, Alberto Tosi

Proceedings Volume 9369, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering II; 93690Q (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079740
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We present a high performance Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) card that provides 10 ps timing resolution and 20 ps (rms) timing precision with a programmable full-scale-range from 160 ns to 10 μs. Differential Non-Linearity (DNL) is better than 1.3% LSB (rms) and Integral Non-Linearity (INL) is 5 ps rms. Thanks to the low power consumption (400 mW) and the compact size (78 mm x 28 mm x 10 mm), this card is the building block for developing compact multichannel time-resolved instrumentation for Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting (TCSPC). The TDC-card outputs the time measurement results together with the rates of START and STOP signals and the number of valid TDC conversions. These additional information are needed by many TCSPC-based applications, such as: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM), Time-of-Flight (TOF) ranging measurements, time-resolved Positron Emission Tomography (PET), single-molecule spectroscopy, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), quantum optics, etc.

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Davide Tamborini, Davide Portaluppi, Simone Tisa, and Alberto Tosi "Time-to-digital converter card for multichannel time-resolved single-photon counting applications", Proc. SPIE 9369, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering II, 93690Q (13 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079740

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