A fully digital readout employing extended counting method to achieve very low quantization noise

Huseyin Kayahan; Ömer Ceylan; Melik Yazici; Yasar Gurbuz

doi:10.1117/12.2018518

18 June 2013 A fully digital readout employing extended counting method to achieve very low quantization noise

Huseyin Kayahan, Ömer Ceylan, Melik Yazici, Yasar Gurbuz

Proceedings Volume 8704, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXIX; 870431 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2018518
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a digital ROIC for staring type arrays with extending counting method to realize very low quantization noise while achieving a very high charge handling capacity. Current state of the art has shown that digital readouts with pulse frequency method can achieve charge handling capacities higher than 3Ge^- with quantization noise higher than 1000e^-. Even if the integration capacitance is reduced, it cannot be lower than 1-3 fF due to the parasitic capacitance of the comparator. For achieving a very low quantization noise of 200 electrons in a power efficient way, a new method based on measuring the time to measure the remaining charge on the integration capacitor is proposed. With this approach SNR of low flux pixels are significantly increased while large flux pixels can store electrons as high as 2.33Ge^-. A prototype array of 32x32 pixels with 30μm pitch is implemented in 90nm CMOS process technology for verification. Simulation results are given for complete readout.

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Huseyin Kayahan, Ömer Ceylan, Melik Yazici, and Yasar Gurbuz "A fully digital readout employing extended counting method to achieve very low quantization noise", Proc. SPIE 8704, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXIX, 870431 (18 June 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2018518

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