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

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

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

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, 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

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, 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

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

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, 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

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

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

International Image Sensors Society2021

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

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

IEEE2021