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Photek Company Presentation
Jon Howorth
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Company Profile
• Located in St Leonards-on-Sea – South East England• Established September 1991• Purchased assets of electro optics division of ITL• 48 employees
– 11 sales/administrative– 7 R&D– 30 production/test
• Specialise in electro-optic detector design and manufacture
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Sales Revenue Growth
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Image intensifiers
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Photomultiplier detectors
• Ultra fast response time• Transit time spread 20 – 100ps
(model dependant) • Gated photon counting detectors
have been used to accurately measure the distance to the moon to an accuracy of +/- 3mm
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Image photon detectors
• 25 and 40 mm versions• Single photon counting• Resistive anode• X, Y, time output• Applications
– Chemical luminescence– Bio luminescence– Thermo luminescence– Missile detection
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GUVI detector
• 25mm UV photon counting• MgF2 input window• Csl photocathode• Wedge and strip anode• 106 cps• 3x106 gain
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HiContent & IRPICS Technology Transfer
Electronics & Ceramics Technology
MCP Detector R&D
Life Science Applications
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Related Developments
• HiContent & IRPICS detector– Multi-channel photon detectors– Use same readout electronics as KTP project
• Stand alone HPTDC module– Hardware/software developed for HiContent & KTP
projects will be developed into a standalone module
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KTP Project Objective
To develop a commercial imaging photon detector for life science applications, capable of
– Better than 50 picosecond resolution timing resolution (1 picosecond is a trillionth of second)
– High rate readout (>10 MHz)– Coarse spatial resolution (e.g. 100×100 pixels)– Integrated electronics & data analysis options
Called the Charge Division Imaging Readout detector (CDIR)
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Electronics
• Project uses two Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) developed at CERN for particle physics applications in the LHC
• The NINO ASIC (top) is a fast amplifier/discriminator specifically designed for high rate applications with tight timing requirements
• The HPTDC ASIC (bottom) is a Time-to-Digital Convertor (TDC) for high rate applications, giving 25 picosecond resolution
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Benefits for Photek
• Experience of working with ASICs in the context of photon detectors
• High time resolution electronics to match Photek’s best in class photon timing detectors
• Experience integrating readout electronics with hardware data analysis
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Thank you for listening