Design and characterisation of a fast CMOS APS imager for high speed laser detection

Author

Casadei, B. ; Lenormand, J.P. ; Cunin, B. ; Hu, Y.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Electron. et de Phys. des Syst. Instrum., Strasbourg, France

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1065

Abstract

CMOS active pixel sensors (APS) have performances competitive with CCD technology, and offer advantages in on-chip functionality, system power reduction, cost and miniaturisation. We present design of a fast CMOS APS imager for high speed laser detections which can replace the streak cameras. This imager is composed of 64×64 active pixels. The simulation and experimental results show that a gain of 7.3 μν/e^- has been obtained with a noise level of 106 e rms. The power consumption of the chip is 30 mW at 50 images/sec

Keywords

CMOS image sensors; SPICE; VLSI; high-speed optical techniques; integrated circuit noise; low-power electronics; shot noise; 30 mW; FAMOSI imager; SPICE model; VLSI; active pixel sensor imager; fast CMOS APS imager; high speed laser detection; imager design; low power consumption; miniaturisation; noise optimisation; on-chip functionality; reduced cost; shot noise; system on chip; system power reduction; CMOS image sensors; CMOS technology; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Cost function; Laser noise; Optical design; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928243

Filename

928243