Configurable electronics with low noise and 14-bit dynamic range for photodiode-based photon detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 565, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 768-783

  Muller, Hans ^a   Pimenta, Rui ^a   Yin, Zhongbao ^b   Zhou, Daicui ^b   Cao, Xi ^c   Li, Qingxia ^c   Liu, Yingzhuang ^c   Zou, FeiFei ^c   Skaali, Bernhard ^d   Awes, Terry C ^e  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altro ADC; APD; Configurable front end electronics; Discrete low noise shaper; Dynamic range; Photodiode; Photon detector readout; Timing resolution

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; GAIN CONTROL; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE (APD); CONFIGURABLE FRONT END ELECTRONICS; DISCRETE LOW-NOISE SHAPER; DYNAMIC RANGE; PHOTON DETECTOR READOUT; TIMING RESOLUTION;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33748043666     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.246     Document Type: Article

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