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A Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Imager for Fluorescence Lifetime Applications

Edoardo Charbon
2007
Conference Papers

Abstract

A 64-by-64-pixel CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) imager for time-resolved fluorescence detection features actively quenched and reset pixels, allowing gated detection to eliminate pile-up nonlinearities common to most time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) approaches. Timing information is collected using an on-chip time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on a counter and a supply-regulated delay-locked loop (DLL).

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Edoardo Charbon
2007
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c0bf17fc-1977-46d1-89ac-1e19d2c0c3b0

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