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

• Published in: IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference. Rediscovering Measurement in the Age of Informatics (Cat. No.01CH 37188) Vol. 2; pp. 1065 - 1069 vol.2
• Main Authors: Casadei, B., Lenormand, J.P., Cunin, B., Hu, Y.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2001
• Subjects: Cameras; Charge coupled devices; CMOS image sensors; CMOS technology; Cost function; Laser noise; Optical design; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; System-on-a-chip
• DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2001.928243
• ISBN: 9780780366466; 0780366468
• ISSN: 1091-5281

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/spl times/64 active pixels. The simulation and experimental results show that a gain of 7.3 /spl mu//spl nu//e/sup -/ has been obtained with a noise level of 106 e rms. The power consumption of the chip is 30 mW at 50 images/sec.