Publications by Claudio Bruschini

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Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical refocusin ...

2021

Heralded Spectroscopy Reveals Exciton-Exciton Correlations in Single Colloidal Quantum Dots

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Multiply excited states in semiconductor quantum dots feature intriguing physics and play a crucial role in nanocrystal-based technologies. While photoluminescence provides a natural probe to investigate these states, room-temperature single-particle spect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

A 65k pixel, 150k frames-per-second camera with global gating and micro-lenses suitable for fluorescence lifetime imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Francesco Regazzoni, François Eric Powolny

This paper presents our work on a 65k pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based imaging sensor realized in a 0.35 mu m standard CMOS process. At a resolution of 512 by 128 pixels the sensor is read out in 6.4ps to deliver over 150k monochrome frames ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Highly sensitive single-molecule detection of macromolecule ion beams

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Jad Benserhir

The analysis of proteins in the gas phase benefits from detectors that exhibit high efficiency and precise spatial resolution. Although modern secondary electron multipliers already address numerous analytical requirements, additional methods are desired f ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

A 512 x 512 SPAD Image Sensor With Integrated Gating for Widefield FLIM

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic

In this paper, we report on SwissSPAD2, an image sensor with 512 x 512 photon-counting pixels, each comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a 1-b memory, and a gating mechanism capable of turning the SPAD ON and OFF, with a skew of 250 and 344 p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

A 500 x 500 Dual-Gate SPAD Imager With 100% Temporal Aperture and 1 ns Minimum Gate Length for FLIM and Phasor Imaging Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

In this article, we report on SwissSPAD3 (SS3), a 500 x 500 pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, fabricated in 0.18-mu m CMOS technology. In this sensor, we introduce a novel dual-gate architecture with two contiguous temporal windows, or gate ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Towards quantum telescopes (Abstract: Y07.00001 )

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Ermanno Bernasconi

The idea of exploiting quantum features of light to perform more precise astrophysical measurements is a long-desired goal of both the optics and astrophysics communities, but only recently have theoretical proposals started to be experimentally implemente ...

2024

A 5x5 SPADnet Digital SiPM Tile for PET Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

SPADnet is a sensor platform for the detection and processing of gamma photons generated in a PET system. SPADnet uses the novel technique of deferred coincidence detection, whereas timestamps associated with gamma events and their energy are routed at hig ...

2015

NIR Fluorescence lifetime macroscopic imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü

The performance of SwissSPAD2 (SS2), a large scale, widefield time-gated CMOS SPAD imager developed for fluorescence lifetime imaging, has recently been described in the context of visible range and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of dyes w ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Seeing Photons in Color

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Paul Mos

Megapixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have been developed recently, opening up the possibility of deploying SPADs as general-purpose passive cameras for photography and computer vision. However, most previous work on SPADs has been limited ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Resolving the Controversy in Biexciton Binding Energy of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals through Heralded Single-Particle Spectroscopy

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Understanding exciton-exciton interaction in multiply excited nanocrystals is crucial to their utilization as functional materials. Yet, for lead halide perovskite nanocryst-als, which are promising candidates for nanocrystal-based technologies, numerous c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Predicting Important Photons for Energy-Efficient Single-Photon Videography

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) detect individual photons with fine temporal resolutions, enabling capabilities like imaging in near-total darkness, extreme dynamic range, and rapid motion. Due to these capabilities, and coupled with the recent emerg ...

2025

Single-photon avalanche diode imagers in biophotonics: review and outlook

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are solid-state detectors that offer imaging capabilities at the level of individual photons, with unparalleled photon counting and time-resolved performance. This fascinating technology has progressed at a very ...

2019

Applications of a reconfigurable SPAD line imager

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in standard CMOS processes enable cost-effective volume production of sensors capable of time-stamping individual photons with high accuracy. This capability makes the sensors ideally suited for application ...

2018

Dynamic range extension for photon counting arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Confocal microscopes use photomultiplier tubes and hybrid detectors due to their large dynamic range, which typically exceeds the one of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The latter, due to their photon counting operation, are usually limited to an o ...

2018

A 0.32 x 0.12 mm2 Cryogenic BiCMOS 0.1-8.8 GHz Low Noise Amplifier Achieving 4 K Noise Temperature for SNWD Readout

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Jad Benserhir

A significant number of cryogenic low -noise amplifiers (cryo-LNAs) are required for the readout of superconducting nanowire detector (SNWD) arrays. It is desirable to have compact cryo-LNAs in place so that the size of the readout circuitry for the SNWD a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

First Near-Ultraviolet- and Blue-Enhanced Backside-Illuminated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on Standard SOI CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee

We present the world's first backside-illuminated (BSI) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based on standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This SPAD achieves a good dark count rate (DCR) after backs ...

2019

Toward video-rate compressive spontaneous Raman imaging via single-photon avalanche diode arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri

Spontaneous Raman microscopy is well-known for its remarkable chemical contrast yet suffers from slow acquisition speeds. Recently, the compressive Raman microspectroscopy framework has shown that a significant speed advantage is brought by leveraging shot ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Random flip-flop: adding quantum randomness to digital circuits for improved cyber security, artificial intelligence and more

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Harnessing quantum randomness for the generation of random numbers is an important concept crucial for information security and many other computer-related applications. Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are evolving from bulky, slow, and expensive ...

SPIE2021