New frontiers in time-domain diffuse optics, a review

A Pifferi, D Contini, AD Mora, A Farina… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The recent developments in time-domain diffuse optics that rely on physical concepts (eg,
time-gating and null distance) and advanced photonic components (eg, vertical cavity …

A review of single-photon avalanche diode time-of-flight imaging sensor arrays

F Piron, D Morrison, MR Yuce… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors using light pulses or continuous waves allow accurate distance
measurements. Three-dimensional imagers can be based on an array of timing or time …

Non-line-of-sight imaging using a time-gated single photon avalanche diode

M Buttafava, J Zeman, A Tosi, K Eliceiri, A Velten - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
By using time-of-flight information encoded in multiply scattered light, it is possible to
reconstruct images of objects hidden from the camera's direct line of sight. Here, we present …

CMOS imager with 1024 SPADs and TDCs for single-photon timing and 3-D time-of-flight

F Villa, R Lussana, D Bronzi, S Tisa… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a CMOS imager consisting of 32× 32 smart pixels, each one able to detect
single photons in the 300-900 nm wavelength range and to perform both photon-counting …

A review of new time-to-digital conversion techniques

S Tancock, E Arabul, N Dahnoun - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are vital components in time and distance measurement
and frequency-locking applications. There are many architectures for implementing TDCs …

CMOS SPADs: Design issues and research challenges for detectors, circuits, and arrays

DP Palubiak, MJ Deen - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solid-state single photon detectors are playing a significant role in the development of high-
performance single-photon imaging systems for fluorescence lifetime imaging, time-of-flight …

Time-to-digital converter using a tuned-delay line evaluated in 28-, 40-, and 45-nm FPGAs

JY Won, JS Lee - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a bin-width tuning method for a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-
based delay line for a time-to-digital converter (TDC). Changing the hit transitions and …

3D photon-to-digital converter for radiation instrumentation: Motivation and future works

JF Pratte, F Nolet, S Parent, F Vachon, N Roy… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analog and digital SiPMs have revolutionized the field of radiation instrumentation by
replacing both avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes in many applications …

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 low-power gateable Vernier ring oscillator time-to-digital converter for biomedical imaging applications

Z Cheng, MJ Deen, H Peng - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a high resolution, high precision and ultra-low power consumption time-to-
digital converter (TDC) is presented. The proposed TDC is based on the gateable Vernier …