Publications by Andrei Ardelean

SwissSPAD2/3: a family of natively digital, time gated SPAD cameras with continuous streaming at up to 100 kpfs and picosecond system-level synchronization for quantum imaging applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos

The SwissSPAD2/3 camera family is based on quarter megapixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) time gated imagers. The 16.38-µm low-noise pixels feature a single-bit memory and built-in all-solid-state nanosecond time gating without the need for externa ...

SPIE2024

Imaging sensor device using an array of single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean

The invention relates to an Imaging sensor device in a stacked arrangement comprising: - a pixel array tier comprising a plurality of pixel segments each having a plurality of pixels for photon detection each providing a digital pixel output; - a processin ...

2024

Coupling a recurrent neural network to SPAD TCSPC systems for real-time fluorescence lifetime imaging

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos, Yang Lin

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) has been receiving increased attention in recent years as a powerful diagnostic technique in biological and medical research. However, existing FLI systems often suffer from a tradeoff between processing speed, accuracy, ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

SoDaCam: Software-defined Cameras via Single-Photon Imaging

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Mohit Gupta

Reinterpretable cameras are defined by their post-processing capabilities that exceed traditional imaging. We present "SoDaCam" that provides reinterpretable cameras at the granularity of photons, from photon-cubes acquired by single-photon devices. Photon ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Massively parallel, real-time multispeckle diffuse correlation spectroscopy using a 500 × 500 SPAD camera

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Marsili, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) is a promising noninvasive technique for monitoring cerebral blood flow and measuring cortex functional activation tasks. Taking multiple parallel measurements has been shown to increase sensitivity, but is not easily ...

2023

Learned Compressive Representations for Single-Photon 3D Imaging

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Mohit Gupta

Single-photon 3D cameras can record the time-of-arrival of billions of photons per second with picosecond accuracy. One common approach to summarize the photon data stream is to build a per-pixel timestamp histogram, resulting in a 3D histogram tensor that ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

A 500 x 500 Dual-Gate SPAD Imager With 100% Temporal Aperture and 1 ns Minimum Gate Length for FLIM and Phasor Imaging Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

In this article, we report on SwissSPAD3 (SS3), a 500 x 500 pixel single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, fabricated in 0.18-mu m CMOS technology. In this sensor, we introduce a novel dual-gate architecture with two contiguous temporal windows, or gate ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A 500×500 Dual-Gate SPAD Imager with 100% Temporal Aperture and 1 ns Minimum Gate Width for FLIM and Phasor Imaging Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean, Paul Mos

International Image Sensors Society2021

Architecture and Characterization of a CMOS 3D-Stacked FSI Multi-Channel Digital SiPM for Time-of-Flight PET Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Andrei Ardelean, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio

IEEE2021

CMOS 3D-Stacked FSI Multi-Channel Digital SiPM for Time-of-Flight Vision Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Andrei Ardelean, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio

International Image Sensors Society2021

Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo, Emanuele Ripiccini

Blumino is the first analog silicon photomultiplier with integrated amplifier, comparator and time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry enables system-level advantages, such as internal para ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Superluminal Motion-Assisted Four-Dimensional Light-in-Flight Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Kazuhiro Morimoto, Andrei Ardelean, Ming-Lo Wu

Advances in high-speed imaging techniques have opened new possibilities for capturing ultrafast phenomena such as light propagation in air or through media. Capturing light in flight in three-dimensional xyt space has been reported based on various types o ...

American Physical Society2021

Wide-field time-gated SPAD imager for phasor-based FLIM applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean

We describe the performance of a new wide area time-gated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array for phasor-FLIM, exploring the effect of gate length, gate number and signal intensity on the measured lifetime accuracy and precision. We conclude that th ...

IOP2020

Megapixel time-gated SPAD image sensor for 2D and 3D imaging applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü, Kazuhiro Morimoto, Andrei Ardelean, Ming-Lo Wu

We present a 1 Mpixel single-photon avalanche diode camera featuring 3.8 ns time gating and 24 kips frame rate, fabricated in 180 nm CMOS image sensor technology. We designed two pixels with a pitch of 9.4 mu m in 7 T and 5.75 T configurations respectively ...

2020

CMOS 3D-Stacked FSI Multi-Channel Digital SiPM for Time-of-Flight PET Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Andrei Ardelean, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

2020

Fluorescence lifetime imaging with a single-photon SPAD array using long overlapping gates: an experimental and theoretical study

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Andrei Ardelean

Developing large arrays of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) with on-chip time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) capabilities continues to be a difficult task due to stringent silicon real estate constraints, high data rates and system complex ...

2019

Widefield High Frame Rate Single-Photon SPAD Imagers for SPIM-FCS

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Andrei Ardelean

Photon-counting sensors based on standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) represent an emerging class of imagers that enable the counting and/or timing of single photons at zero readout noise (better than high ...

2018