Publications de Ivan Michel Antolovic

Large reconfigurable quantum circuits with SPAD arrays and multimode fibers

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Reprogrammable integrated optics provides a natural platform for tunable quantum photonic circuits, but faces challenges when high dimensions and high connectivity are involved. Here, we implement high-dimensional linear transformations on spatial modes of ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Challenges and prospects for multi-chip microlens imprints on front-side illuminated SPAD imagers

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Vladimir Pesic, Tommaso Milanese

The overall sensitivity of frontside-illuminated, silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays has often suffered from fill factor limitations. The fill factor loss can however be recovered by employing microlenses, whereby the challenges specific t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Heralded Spectroscopy: a new single-particle probe for nanocrystal photophysics

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

Semiconductor nanocrystals feature multiply-excited states that display intriguing physics and significantly impact nanocrystal-based technologies. Fluorescence supplies a natural probe to investigate these states. Still, direct observation of multiexciton ...

SPIE2023

High-efficiency fill factor recovery using refractive microlens arrays imprinted on 0.5–256 kpixel front-side illuminated SPAD imagers

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Frédéric Zanella, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Vladimir Pesic, Tommaso Milanese

Silicon-based single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) implemented in front-side illuminated arrays and imagers have often suffered from fill factor limitations. The corresponding reduced sensitivity can be sometimes traded off with longer acquisition times ...

SPIE2023

Method and light microscope with a plurality of arrays of photon-counting detector elements

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A method for operating a light microscope comprises emitting and guiding a plurality of illumination light beams towards a specimen (6) to form a plurality of separated illumination light spots (2A, 2B, 2C, 2D) at the specimen; and guiding detection light ...

2022

Using Heralded Spectrometry to Measure the Biexciton Binding Energy of an Individual Quantum Dot

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

Spectrometry of a quantum state of light is a fundamental challenge with practical implications. Here, we demonstrate how such a technique can super-resolve the exciton and biexciton energies in a single quantum dot at room temperature. ...

Optica2022

SPAD array technology enables fluctuation-contrast super-resolution in a confocal microscope

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A fluorescence correlation contrast is a straightforward approach to super-resolution imaging. Combining a SPAD array with a novel detection scheme (ISM), we obtain images with up to x4 times resolution enhancement. ...

OSA-SPIE2021

High sensitivity single-photon avalanche diode array

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

The present invention relates to a photodetector array for capturing image data, comprising: - photodetector cells arranged on a substrate, each including a single-photon avalanche diode, wherein the active areas of the photodetector cells are neighbored a ...

2021

Resolving the Controversy in Biexciton Binding Energy of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals through Heralded Single-Particle Spectroscopy

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

Understanding exciton-exciton interaction in multiply excited nanocrystals is crucial to their utilization as functional materials. Yet, for lead halide perovskite nanocryst-als, which are promising candidates for nanocrystal-based technologies, numerous c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Heralded Spectroscopy Reveals Exciton-Exciton Correlations in Single Colloidal Quantum Dots

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

Multiply excited states in semiconductor quantum dots feature intriguing physics and play a crucial role in nanocrystal-based technologies. While photoluminescence provides a natural probe to investigate these states, room-temperature single-particle spect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

The invention relates to an image sensor comprising a photodetector array including neighboring photodetector elements, each photodetector element comprising: - a photodetector cell having a photodiode and a reset unit; - a cell control unit coupled with t ...

2021

Random flip-flop: adding quantum randomness to digital circuits for improved cyber security, artificial intelligence and more

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Mario Stipcevic

Harnessing quantum randomness for the generation of random numbers is an important concept crucial for information security and many other computer-related applications. Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are evolving from bulky, slow, and expensive ...

SPIE2021

Light microscope with reconfigurable sensor array

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A light microscope comprises a light source (10) for illuminating a specimen (35), a sensor array (60) comprised of photon-counting detector elements (61, 62) for measuring detection light (15) coming from the specimen (35), and a control device (70) for c ...

2020

System, device and method for quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A system for photon correlation of an illuminated object and/or a light source, including a light source for illuminating the object or to correlate, an optical system having an object-facing side configured to face the object or the light source and a pro ...

2020

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

Light microscope with photon-counting detector elements and imaging method

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A light microscope comprises a light source (10) for illuminating a specimen (35), a photon-counting detector array (60) with a plurality of photon-counting detector elements (61-64) for measuring detection light (15) coming from the specimen (35), wherein ...

2020

Optical-stack optimization for improved SPAD photon detection efficiency

Claudio Bruschini, Rolando Ferrini, Edoardo Charbon, Frédéric Zanella, Marc Schnieper, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü, Ekin Kizilkan

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are direct photon-to-digital detectors that enable scalable arrays with Poisson-limited signal-to-noise ratio and picosecond timing resolution. However, SPAD detectors require a guard-ring structure to prevent lateral ...

2019

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Martin Wolf

A 252 x 144 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel sensor, called Ocelot, is reported for light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The sensor, fabricated in the 180-nm CMOS technology, features 1728 12-bit time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with 48.8-ps res ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Temporal photon correlation measurement, instrumental to probing the quantum properties of light, typically requires multiple single photon detectors. Progress in single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array technology highlights their potential as high-perf ...

2019