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    The document describes a new fast optical camera called TpxCam that uses Timepix chips and a silicon pixel sensor to provide nanosecond-scale time resolution and high quantum efficiency for photons between 400-1050nm. It aims to resolve fast processes and time-of-flight particles by improving on commercial cameras that have resolutions of 100μs. The camera works by measuring only pixel times when the signal exceeds a threshold, like Timepix. It is available from Amsterdam Scientific Instruments and could have applications in time stamping, light sources, single photon detection, and ion imaging.

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    The document describes a new fast optical camera called TpxCam that uses Timepix chips and a silicon pixel sensor to provide nanosecond-scale time resolution and high quantum efficiency for photons between 400-1050nm. It aims to resolve fast processes and time-of-flight particles by improving on commercial cameras that have resolutions of 100μs. The camera works by measuring only pixel times when the signal exceeds a threshold, like Timepix. It is available from Amsterdam Scientific Instruments and could have applications in time stamping, light sources, single photon detection, and ion imaging.

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    The document describes a new fast optical camera called TpxCam that uses Timepix chips and a silicon pixel sensor to provide nanosecond-scale time resolution and high quantum efficiency for photons between 400-1050nm. It aims to resolve fast processes and time-of-flight particles by improving on commercial cameras that have resolutions of 100μs. The camera works by measuring only pixel times when the signal exceeds a threshold, like Timepix. It is available from Amsterdam Scientific Instruments and could have applications in time stamping, light sources, single photon detection, and ion imaging.

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    TpxCam - Fast Imaging Lab

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    The document describes a new fast optical camera called TpxCam that uses Timepix chips and a silicon pixel sensor to provide nanosecond-scale time resolution and high quantum efficiency for photons between 400-1050nm. It aims to resolve fast processes and time-of-flight particles by improving on commercial cameras that have resolutions of 100μs. The camera works by measuring only pixel times when the signal exceeds a threshold, like Timepix. It is available from Amsterdam Scientific Instruments and could have applications in time stamping, light sources, single photon detection, and ion imaging.

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    TpxCam MENU

    TpxCam
    Fast novel system for time stamping of optical photons

    Resolving the time evolution of fast processes, measuring the time-of-


    flight of particles or lifetime for fluorescent processes, and looking at time
    correlations in spatially resolved events are the main drivers for the
    development of sensors with the best possible time resolution. When an
    event-triggered time measurement is needed with best possible spatial
    resolution, silicon pixel arrays offer the best performance. There were a
    number of exciting developments in this area over the last decade, when
    the time resolution improved by orders of magnitude, and it is currently
    approaching the nanosecond scale. Several devices exist which perform to
    this specification, including the Timepix CMOS ASICs, which were
    developed by the Medipix collaboration for detection of X-rays and other
    types of radiation in a variety of applications [1,2]. We describe here fast
    optical cameras based on a new silicon pixel sensor, which in combination
    with the Timepix chips, will provide nanosecond scale time resolution and
    high quantum efficiency for photons with wavelength between 400 and
    1050nm.

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    High-end optical imagers with good sensitivity are commercially available


    for framing rates up to 10kHz, corresponding to a time resolution of 100µs,
    which is orders of magnitude inferior to the requirements stated above.
    Specialized cameras based on CCD or CMOS technology are becoming
    available which can achieve faster rates. Since the data rate is becoming
    prohibitively large at this speed, this could be achieved by “ photon
    counting” or "photon time stamping" i.e. by measuring only the time for
    pixels in which the signal exceeds a certain predefined level. This
    technique was implemented in Timepix, which, after the addition of a pixel
    sensor, is normally used for the detection of charged particles and X-rays,
    with the sensor attachment achieved via the “bump-bonding” process.
    Here we describe a new silicon pixel sensor with a thin entrance window
    and an anti-reflective coating, similar to the ones used for astronomic
    CCDs. The sensor has a design compatible with Timepix and employs
    commercially available readout systems, for example SPIDR [3].

    The Tpx3Cam is available to get from Amsterdam Scientific Instruments .

    References
    1. Timepix
    2. Timepix 3
    3. SPIDR readout

    Applications
    Time Stamping Light Sources Single Photon Ion Imaging
    Detection

    Recent Publications
    21. G. D'Amen, M. Keach, A. Nomerotski, P. Svihra and A. Tricoli: Novel
    imaging technique for α-particles using a fast optical camera.; Arxiv
    20. H. Van Sa Lam, S. Yarlagadda, A. Venkatachalam, T. Nganba Wangjam,
    R. K. Kushawaha, C. Cheng, P. Svihra, A. Nomerotski, T. Weinacht, D.
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    Rolles, and V. Kumarappan: Angle-dependent strong-field ionization


    and fragmentation of carbon dioxide measured using rotational wave
    packets. Physical Review A. (2020) 102; DOI
    .. more

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    TpxCam team 2020

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