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提出了一种160×128像素的单光子图像传感器,每个像素内集成了55ps分辨率、10位时间数字转换器(TDC),能够高精度地解析单个光子的到达时间,解决了荧光寿命成像(FLIM)等应用中对高时间分辨率光子检测的需求。
Day-Uey Li3, Matthew W Fishburn1, Yuki Maruyama1, David Stoppa4, Fausto Borghetti4, Marek Gersbach5, Robert K Henderson3, Edoardo Charbon1 1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, STMicroelectronics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 4 Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Trento, Italy, 5 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Image sensors capable of resolving the time-of-arrival (ToA) of individual photons with high resolution are needed in several applications, such as fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), optical rangefinding, and positron emission tomography. In FRET, for example, typical fluorescence lifetime is of the order of 100 to 300ps, thus deepsubnanosecond resolutions are needed in the instrument response function (IRF). This in turn requires new time-resolved image sensors with better time
Chockalingam Veerappan1, Justin Richardson2, Richard Walker2,3,