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Impact of Classical Control Electronics on Qubit Fidelity

Quantum processors rely on classical electronic controllers to manipulate and read out the state of quantum bits (qubits). As the performance of the quantum processor improves, nonidealities in the classical controller can become the performance bottleneck ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

SPINE (SPIN Emulator) - A Quantum-Electronics Interface Simulator

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

A quantum computer comprises a quantum processor and the associated control electronics used to manipulate the qubits at the core of a quantum processor. CMOS circuits placed close to the quantum bits and operating at cryogenic temperatures offer the best ...

IEEE2019

Time Domain NIRS Optode based on Null/Small Source-Detector Distance for Wearable Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Sreenil Saha

We present the designs of novel optode based probes integrating light detection and light-pulsing electronics in a single CMOS chip with functional blocks such as a fast pulse-laser driver and synchronized single-photon detection circuit, while exploiting ...

IEEE2019

Cryo-CMOS Electronics for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon

Quantum computers hold the promise to solve some of the most complex problems of today. The core of a quantum computer is a quantum processor, which is composed of quantum bits (qubits). Qubits are fragile and their state needs to be corrected in real time ...

IEEE2019

Toward a Full-Flexible and Fast-Prototyping TOF-PET Block Detector Based on TDC-on-FPGA

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Typically, a time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) block detector is built using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), since they integrate a high number of channels at a reasonable power consumption and into a small area. How ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

The electronic interface for quantum processors

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

Quantum computers can potentially provide an unprecedented speed-up with respect to traditional computers. However, a significant increase in the number of quantum bits (qubits) and their performance is required to demonstrate such quantum supremacy. While ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Performance characterization of Altera and Xilinx 28 nm FPGAs at cryogenic temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

Quantum computers enable a massive speed-up in calculations, thanks to the nature of quantum operations. To unlock quantum computation, a classical system infrastructure is required for the control of qubits and processing of their data. While qubits are g ...

2018

Applications of a reconfigurable SPAD line imager

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, 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

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, 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

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Towards a scalable quantum computer

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

A quantum machine may solve some complex problems that are intractable for even the most powerful classical computers. By exploiting quantum superposition and entanglement phenomena, quantum algorithms can achieve from polynomial to exponential speed up wh ...

2018

The Cryogenic Temperature Behavior of Bipolar, MOS, and DTMOS Transistors in Standard CMOS

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

Both CMOS bandgap voltage references and temperature sensors rely on the temperature behavior of either CMOS substrate BJTs or MOS transistors in weak inversion. Bipolar transistors are generally preferred over MOS transistors because of their lower spread ...

2018

An order-statistics-inspired, fully-digital readout approach for analog SiPM arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

In this paper we present a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) readout system based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), which is capable of converting any commercial 16-channel analog SiPM array into a hybrid device with fully-digital readout for applica ...

2018

Characterization and Compact Modeling of Nanometer CMOS Transistors at Deep-Cryogenic Temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

Cryogenic characterization and modeling of two nanometer bulk CMOS technologies (0.16-μm and 40-nm) are presented in this paper. Several devices from both technologies were extensively characterized at temperatures of 4 K and below. Based on a detailed und ...

2018

A time-gated large-array SPAD camera for picosecond resolution real-time FLIM

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have recently emerged as promising detectors for many wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) applications, thanks to their picosecond range temporal resolution, single-photon sensitivity and f ...

2018

Widefield High Frame Rate Single-Photon SPAD Imagers for SPIM-FCS

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Andrei Ardelean

Photon-counting sensors based on standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) represent an emerging class of imagers that enable the counting and/or timing of single photons at zero readout noise (better than high ...

2018

High-Performance Back-Illuminated Three-Dimensional Stacked Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Implemented in 45-nm CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Preethi Padmanabhan, Myung Jae Lee, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

We present a high-performance back-illuminated three-dimensional stacked single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), which is implemented in 45-nm CMOS technology for the first time. The SPAD is based on a P + /Deep N-well junction with a circular shape, for whi ...

2018

A Novel 32 x 32, 224 Mevents/s Time Resolved SPAD Image Sensor for Near-Infrared Optical Tomography

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Scott Anthony Lindner, Jingjing Jiang, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Martin Wolf

To increase the spatial resolution of near-infrared optical tomography, we successfully designed and tested a 32×32 time-resolved SPAD image sensor with unprecedented sensitivity in the near-infrared and fast image acquisition speed. ...

2018

Time Domain Near-Infrared Optical Tomography with Time-of-Flight SPAD Camera: The New Generation

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Scott Anthony Lindner, Jingjing Jiang, Chunmin Zhang, Martin Wolf

We present the first laboratory results of the new generation of time domain near-infrared optical tomography setup, which is based on a time-of-flight 32×32 SPAD camera with high photon detection probability in the NIR range. ...

2018

A back-illuminated 3D-stacked single-photon avalanche diode in 45nm CMOS technology

Edoardo Charbon, Preethi Padmanabhan, Myung Jae Lee, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

We report on the world's first back-illuminated 3D-stacked single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) in 45nm CMOS technology. This SPAD achieves a dark count rate of 55.4cps/μm 2 , a maximum photon detection probability of 31.8% at 600nm, over 5% in the 420-920 ...

2018

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