Recent developments and design challenges of high-performance ring oscillator CMOS time-to-digital converters

Z Cheng, X Zheng, MJ Deen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are increasingly used as building blocks in biomedical
imaging, digital communication, and measurement instrumentation systems. When …

A CMOS 3-D imager based on single photon avalanche diode

D Stoppa, L Pancheri, M Scandiuzzo… - … on Circuits and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 64-pixel linear array aimed at 3-D vision applications is implemented in a high-voltage 0.8
μm CMOS technology. The detection of the incident light signals is performed using …

Influence of waveform characteristics on LiDAR ranging accuracy and precision

X Li, B Yang, X Xie, D Li, L Xu - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Time of flight (TOF) based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a technology for calculating
distance between start/stop signals of time of flight. In lab-built LiDAR, two ranging systems …

A high-sensitivity and low-walk error LADAR receiver for military application

HS Cho, CH Kim, SG Lee - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated receiver with high sensitivity and low walk error for a military purpose pulsed
time-of-flight (TOF) LADAR system is proposed. The proposed receiver adopts a dual-gain …

A CMOS receiver–TDC chip set for accurate pulsed TOF laser ranging

S Kurtti, JP Jansson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated receiver-time-to-digital converter (TDC) chip set is developed for pulsed time-
of-flight (TOF) laser rangefinding. The receiver detects the current pulse from the optical …

On laser ranging based on high-speed/energy laser diode pulses and single-photon detection techniques

J Kostamovaara, J Huikari, L Hallman… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the construction principles and performance of a pulsed time-of-flight
(TOF) laser radar based on high-speed (FWHM~ 100 ps) and high-energy (~ 1 nJ) optical …

Integrated receiver including both receiver channel and TDC for a pulsed time-of-flight laser rangefinder with cm-level accuracy

J Nissinen, I Nissinen… - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated receiver that includes both the time-to-digital converter (TDC) and the receiver
channel and is intended for a pulsed time-of-flight laser rangefinder with a measurement …

A wide dynamic range CMOS laser radar receiver with a time-domain walk error compensation scheme

S Kurtti, J Nissinen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This integrated receiver channel designed for a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) laser rangefinder
consists of a fully differential transimpedance amplifier channel and a timing discriminator …

An 8-ch LIDAR Receiver Based on TDC With Multi-Interval Detection and Real-Time Calibration

D Li, M Liu, R Ma, Z Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an 8-ch LIDAR receiver for pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) imaging laser
detection and ranging application. The proposed LIDAR receiver can achieve both 100 m …

Wideband receiver for a three-dimensional ranging LADAR system

TH Ngo, CH Kim, YJ Kwon, JS Ko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-noise, high-gain, wide-linear-dynamic-range, wide-band receiver for a pulsed, direct,
three-dimensional ranging LADAR system has been designed and implemented in a 0.13 …