Sub-10 ps Minimum Ionizing Particle Detection With Geiger-Mode APDs

Gramuglia, Francesco; Ripiccini, E.; Fenoglio, Carlo Alberto; Wu, Ming-Lo; Paolozzi, L.; Bruschini, Claudio; Charbon, Edoardo

doi:10.3389/fphy.2022.849237

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“…Si SPADs can also be fabricated via a standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. While CMOS-SPADs exhibit slightly lower efficiencies than their custom counterparts, they can be engineered for better timing jitter, with recent demonstrations reaching 20 ps . Due to their efficiency and timing performance, Si SPADs are currently the dominant photon detection technology for correlation experiments using visible light.…”

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Photon Correlations in Spectroscopy and Microscopy

et al. 2022

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Measurements of photon temporal correlations have been the mainstay of experiments in quantum optics. Over the past several decades, advancements in detector technologies have supported further extending photon correlation techniques to give rise to novel spectroscopy and imaging methods. This Perspective reviews the evolution of these techniques from temporal autocorrelations through multidimensional photon correlations to photon correlation imaging. State-of-the-art singlephoton detector technologies are discussed, highlighting the main challenges and the unique current perspective of photon correlations to usher in a new generation of spectroscopy and imaging modalities.

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confidence: 99%

Photon Correlations in Spectroscopy and Microscopy

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“…It was positioned, together with two LGAD detectors [11] (named here LGAD0 and LGAD1), in the middle of the six detection planes of the UniGe FEI4 telescope for charged-particle tracking [25], as shown in the layout in figure 2. Two SPAD detectors [26] (named here SPAD0 and SPAD1) were installed downstream the telescope to have additional time references of very high precision. The DUT, the two LGADs and the two SPADs were read by two oscilloscopes, while the telescope planes by a dedicated data acquisition system.…”

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Testbeam results of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector proof-of-concept prototype

Iacobucci

Zambito²,

Milanesio³

et al. 2022

J. Inst.

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The proof-of-concept prototype of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector, a multi-PN junction monolithic silicon detector with continuous gain layer deep in the sensor depleted region, was tested with a beam of 180 GeV pions at the CERN SPS. The prototype features low noise and fast SiGe BiCMOS frontend electronics and hexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch. At a sensor bias voltage of 125 V, the detector provides full efficiency and average time resolution of 30, 25 and 17 ps in the overall pixel area for a power consumption of 0.4, 0.9 and 2.7 W/cm2, respectively. In this first prototype the time resolution depends significantly on the distance from the center of the pixel, varying at the highest power consumption measured between 13 ps at the center of the pixel and 25 ps in the inter-pixel region.

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“…Beside the usage as imaging device, e.g. in [6], also light detection and ranging [7], and direct minimum ionizing particle detection [8] are mentioned.…”

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Monolithic MHz-frame rate digital SiPM-IC with sub-100 ps precision and 70 μm pixel pitch

Diehl,

Hansen,

Vanat

et al. 2024

J. Inst.

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This paper presents the design and characterization of a monolithic integrated circuit (IC) including digital silicon photomultipliers (dSiPMs) arranged in a 32 × 32 pixel matrix at 70 μm pitch. The IC provides per-quadrant time stamping and hit-map readout, and is fabricated in a standard 150-nm CMOS technology. Each dSiPM pixel consists of four single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) sharing a quenching and subsequent processing circuitry and has a fill factor of 30 %. A sub-100 ps precision, 12-bit time-to-digital converter (TDC) provides timestamps per quadrant with an acquisition rate of 3 MHz. Together with the hit map, the total sustained data throughput of the IC amounts to 4 Gbps. Measurements obtained in a dark, temperature-stable environment as well as by using a pulsed laser environment show the full dSiPM-IC functionality. The dark-count rate (DCR) as function of the overvoltage and temperature, the TDC resolution, differential and integral nonlinearity (DNL/INL) as well as the propagation delays across the matrix are presented. With aid of additional peripheral test structures, the main building blocks are characterized and key parameters are presented.

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Sub-10 ps Minimum Ionizing Particle Detection With Geiger-Mode APDs

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Photon Correlations in Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Photon Correlations in Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Testbeam results of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector proof-of-concept prototype

Monolithic MHz-frame rate digital SiPM-IC with sub-100 ps precision and 70 μm pixel pitch

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