A fast driver circuit for single-photon sensors |
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| Authors: | Rosario Mita Pier Giorgio Fallica |
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| Affiliation: | a Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi, University of Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, I-95125, Catania, Italy
b ST Microelectronic, Catania site, Stradale Primosole, I-95021, Catania, Italy |
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| Abstract: | A fast active quenching and recharging circuit (AQRC) for single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) is presented in this paper. The proposed driver exhibits a lower than 10 ns overall quenching time allowing a tunable excess voltage from 5 to 12 V. The circuit was designed by using the dielectrically insulated BiCMOS technology supplied by ST Microelectronics. Many post-layout ELDO simulations have validated the high performance of the proposed topology, which is actually the fastest AQRC reported in the literature. |
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| Keywords: | Active quenching circuit Analog/digital circuit Driver CMOS design |
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