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LinoSPAD2: an FPGA-based , hardware-reconfigurable 512x1 single-photon camera system

Milanese, Tommaso  
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Bruschini, Claudio  
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Burri, Samuel  
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December 18, 2023
Optics Express

We report on LinoSPAD2, a single-photon camera system, comprising a 512x1 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) front -end and one or two FPGA-based back-ends. Digital signals generated by the SPADs are processed by the FPGA in real time, whereas the FPGA offers full reconfigurability at a very high level of granularity both in time and space domains. The LinoSPAD2 camera system can process 512 SPADs simultaneously through 256 channels, duplicated on each FPGA-based back -end, with a bank of 64 time -to -digital converters (TDCs) operating at 133 MSa/s, whereas each TDC has a time resolution of 20 ps (LSB). To the best of our knowledge, LinoSPAD2 is the first fully reconfigurable SPAD camera system of large format. The SPAD front -end features a pitch of 26.2 mu m, a native fill factor of 25.1%, and a microlens array achieving 2.3x concentration factor. At room temperature, the median dark count rate (DCR) is 80 cps at 7 V excess bias, the peak photon detection probability (PDP) is 53% at 520 nm wavelength, and the single-photon timing resolution (SPTR) is 50 ps FWHM. The instrument response function (IRF) is around 100 ps FWHM at system level. The LinoSPAD2 camera system is suitable for numerous applications, including LiDAR imaging, heralded spectroscopy, compressive Raman sensing, and other computational imaging techniques. (c) 2023 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement

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research article
DOI
10.1364/OE.505748
Web of Science ID

WOS:001155136800002

Author(s)
Milanese, Tommaso  
Bruschini, Claudio  
Burri, Samuel  
Bernasconi, Ermanno  
Ulku, Arin C.
Charbon, Edoardo  
Date Issued

2023-12-18

Publisher

Optica Publishing Group

Published in
Optics Express
Volume

31

Issue

26

Start page

44295

End page

44314

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Spad Line Sensor

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Avalanche-Diode

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Time

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Cmos

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Resolution

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Array

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Detector

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Spectroscopy

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Technology

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Lidar

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

20QT21-187716

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February 23, 2024
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