Paper Info
Title
Pixellated readout IC: Analysis for single photon infrared detector for fast time of arrival applications
Abstract
The nano-injection sensor is a new approach towards high-sensitivity short-wave infrared photon imagers. It resolves the conflict of requiring a large area for high quantum efficiency and small area for high fidelity by using a relatively large micron-scale absorbing volume, and nano-scale sensing elements, which regulates the electron flow and amplifies the signal. The front-end electronics for the Single Photon Imaging nano-injection detector consists of an ROIC with 32 × 32 pixel array with a pixel size of 100μm × 100μm. Each pixel consists of a charge sensitive preamplifier with leakage current compensation circuit, a shaping amplifier, an AC-coupled comparator with a 7bit trimming DAC for offset cancellation, a 10-bit counter for photon counting, and a 10-bit shift register for data readout. The ROIC provides dead-time less, continuous readout with 32 parallel LVDS outputs to achieve full frame readout within 5 μs. Simulation results of the ROIC are presented in this work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7168725
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
single photon detection, photon counting, time of arrival, dead-time less readout
Particle detector,Photon counting,Preamplifier,Comparator,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Detector,Photonics,Infrared detector,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0271-4302
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farah Fahim101.35
Vala Fathipouri200.34
Grzegorz Deptuch301.01
Hooman Mohseni401.01