Developing the Readout Electronics for a Custom 64 × 64 SPAD Array: From Single-Board Prototyping to FPGA Implementation Toward Stellar Intensity Interferometry [PDF]
SensorsSingle-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays enable photon-starved applications, including time-of-flight imaging and stellar intensity interferometry. Their astronomical use remains scarcely explored, as the bottleneck is usually not detection but rather
Álvaro Quintana +3 more
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A review of SPAD array chip design for direct time-of-flight LiDAR [PDF]
Discover NanoAs the requirements of LiDAR for data processing volume, ranging accuracy, and anti-interference capability continue to rise, significant transformations have occurred in recent years in the system architecture, data flow design, and algorithm modules of
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SPADs and SiPMs Arrays for Long-Range High-Speed Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
Sensors, 2021 Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a 3D imaging technique, widely used in many applications such as augmented reality, automotive, machine vision, spacecraft navigation and landing.
Federica Villa +3 more
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Multispectral Depth-Resolved Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy Using SPAD Array Detectors and Fiber Probes [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays are increasingly exploited and have demonstrated potential in biochemical and biomedical research, both for imaging and single-point spectroscopy applications. In this study, we explore the application of SPADs
João L. Lagarto +7 more
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A time-correlated single photon counting SPAD array camera with a bespoke data-processing algorithm for lightsheet fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and FLIM videos [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA wide-field microscope with epi-fluorescence and selective plane illumination was combined with a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array camera to enable live-cell fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) using time-correlated single-photon counting ...
Jakub Nedbal +7 more
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Spot Tracking and TDC Sharing in SPAD Arrays for TOF LiDAR [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a widespread technique for 3D ranging and has widespread use in most automated systems that must interact with the external environment, for instance in industrial and security applications. In this work, we study a
Vincenzo Sesta +6 more
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320 × 240 SPAD Direct Time-of-Flight Image Sensor and Camera Based on In-Pixel Correlation and Switched-Capacitor Averaging [PDF]
SensorsCorrelation-Assisted Direct Time-of-Flight (CA-dToF) is demonstrated for the first time on a large 320 × 240-pixel SPAD array sensor that includes on-chip high-speed timing support circuitry.
Maarten Kuijk +7 more
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Localization of single molecules with structured illumination and structured detection [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsA new high-precision single-molecule localization scheme, ISM-FLUX, is an implementation of MINFLUX using image-scanning microscopy (ISM) with a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector.
Luciano A. Masullo
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On the time gating of SPADs in a synchronized time-gated SPAD array in Raman spectroscopy [PDF]
2017 IEEE SENSORS, 2017 The effect of the timing of the biasing of a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) on the accuracy of a time-gated SPAD array has been studied in this work. The measurement was realized in a time-gated Raman spectrometer utilizing a 16×256 CMOS SPAD array with on-chip time gating electronics.
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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 The ability to detect single photons is becoming an enabling key capability in an increasing number of fields. Indeed, its scope is not limited to applications that specifically rely on single photons, such as quantum imaging, but extends to applications where a low signal is overwhelmed by background light, such as laser ranging, or in which faint ...
Cusini, I +8 more
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