Monolithic time-to-digital converter chips for time-correlated single-photon counting and fluorescence lifetime measurements

Bojan Markovic; Davide Tamborini; Simone Bellisai; Andrea Bassi; Antonio Pifferi; Federica Villa; Giorgio Michele Padovini; Alberto Tosi

doi:10.1117/12.2005537

4 February 2013 Monolithic time-to-digital converter chips for time-correlated single-photon counting and fluorescence lifetime measurements

Bojan Markovic, Davide Tamborini, Simone Bellisai, Andrea Bassi, Antonio Pifferi, Federica Villa, Giorgio Michele Padovini, Alberto Tosi

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Proceedings Volume 8631, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices X; 86311F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2005537
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We present a low-power Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) chip, fabricated in a standard cost-effective 0.35 μm CMOS technology, which provides 160 ns dynamic range, 10 ps timing resolution and Differential Non-Linearity better than 0.01 LSB rms. This chip is the core of a compact TDC module equipped with an USB 2.0 interface for user-friendly control and data-acquisition. The TDC module is suitable for a wide variety of applications such as Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM), time-resolved spectroscopy, Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), quantum optics, etc. In particular, we show the application of our TDC module to fluorescence lifetime measurements.

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Bojan Markovic, Davide Tamborini, Simone Bellisai, Andrea Bassi, Antonio Pifferi, Federica Villa, Giorgio Michele Padovini, and Alberto Tosi "Monolithic time-to-digital converter chips for time-correlated single-photon counting and fluorescence lifetime measurements", Proc. SPIE 8631, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices X, 86311F (4 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2005537

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