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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2009
Alan Lee Migdall, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Serery Polykov, Germantown, MD (US);
Sae Woo Nam, Boulder, CO (US);
Alan Lee Migdall, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Serery Polykov, Germantown, MD (US);
Sae Woo Nam, Boulder, CO (US);
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, MD (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide an inexpensive and fast pulse characterization platform capable of real time operation, suitable for acquisition of single-photon data. Embodiments of the present invention include both a digital multi-channel data acquisition instrument and an analog pulse acquisition instrument suitable for a wide range of applications in physics laboratories. An FPGA performs multi-channel acquisition in real time, time stamps single events, and determines if the events fit a predetermined signature, which causes the events to be categorized as a coincidence. The indications of coincidences are then communicated to a host computer for further processing as desired.