4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

The design of a cost effective high precision time measurement unit for use in a Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer

6 Jul 2016, 16:10
1h 50m
Kramer Law building

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Board: C.083
Poster Presentation Track C - Photonics Poster Session (2)

Speaker

Mr Stubb James (CPUT)

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

No

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

K Govender, govenderk@cput.ac.za

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

No

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Single and entangled photon sources are usually characterized by measuring the first and second order coherence function. The Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer is used to measure the second order coherence function. This research will discuss the design of a cost effective high resolution time measurement unit, which will be used to characterize entangled photons generated via four-wave-mixing in Rubidium vapour. This requires the design of a device that will be capable of measuring the time interval between the arrivals of two photons with a resolution of about 1ns. Currently field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are a popular choice to perform these types of measurements. We review the design methods implemented by FPGAs such as tapped delay lines, the Vernier Method and the use of ISERDES and describe the potential resolution an FPGA can achieve. We report here on the design and construction of a device with similar capabilities using a PIC micro-controller, making use of its capacitive time measurement unit (CTMU) to implement a time-to-amplitude conversion (TAC). The digitized output of the TAC is then relayed to Labview for further processing.

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, N/A)?

MEng

Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)

Yes

Primary author

Mr Stubb James (CPUT)

Co-authors

Prof. Gerhard De Jager (UCT) Dr Kessie Govender (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)

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