Monolithic time-to-amplitude converter for photon timing applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7355, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Resnati, D ^a   Rech, I ^a   Ghioni, M ^a   Cova, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Time correlated single photon counting; Time to amplitude converter

Indexed keywords

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CONVERSION RATES; DEADTIME; DIFFERENTIAL NONLINEARITY; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL COMPONENTS; FAST COUNTING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-COUNT RATE; INTERVAL MEASUREMENT; LOW AREA; LOW-SIZE; MODERN APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PARALLEL ANALYSIS; PHOTON TIMING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SINGLE CHIPS; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-TO-AMPLITUDE CONVERTER;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70350068685     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.822862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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