Title :
A fully-integrated 780×800μm2 multi-digital silicon photomultiplier with column-parallel time-to-digital converter
Author :
Mandai, Shingo ; Jain, Vishwas ; Charbon, Edoardo
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper presents a digital silicon photomultiplier based on column-parallel time-to-digital converter (TDC), so as to improve the time resolution of single-photon detection. By reducing the number of pixels per TDC, the pixel-to-pixel skew is reduced. We achieved 264 ps FWHM time resolution of single-photon detection using a 48-fold column-parallel TDC with a temporal resolution of 51.8ps (LSB), fully integrated in standard CMOS technology. The potential for multi-photon detection is discussed in the paper with a 48-column-parallel TDC configuration.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; photomultipliers; silicon; time-digital conversion; 48-fold column-parallel TDC; CMOS technology; FWHM time resolution; LSB; Si; column-parallel time-to-digital converter; fully-integrated multidigital silicon photomultiplier; multiphoton detection; pixel-to-pixel skew; single-photon detection; temporal resolution; Arrays; Detectors; Jitter; Photomultipliers; Photonics; Radiation detectors; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
ESSCIRC (ESSCIRC), 2012 Proceedings of the
Conference_Location :
Bordeaux
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2212-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-8833
DOI :
10.1109/ESSCIRC.2012.6341263
