Design and performance of a high-speed and low-noise preamplifier for SiPM

Considering the R&D for upgrading the K^(0)_(L) andμdetectors in the Belle II experiment using a scintillator and silicon pho-tomultiplier(SiPM),we designed a compact high-speed and low-noise preamplifier.The preamplifier demonstrated a good gain stability,bandwidth of 426 MHz,baseline noise level ofσ≈0.6 mV,dynamic range of up to170 mV of the input signal amplitude,good time resolution of 20 ps,and it can be comprehensively applied to SiPMs.Adopting pole-zero-cancelation in the preamplifier reduces both the rise and fall times of the SiPM signal,which can significantly improve the time resolution and reduce the pile-up when using a large SiPM or an array of SiPMs.Various combinations of the preamplifier and several types of SiPMs demonstrated time resolutions better than 50 ps for most cases;when the number of detected photons was larger than 60,a time resolution of approximately 25 ps was achieved.

Superposed probabilistically shaped QAM constellation design based on nonlinear coding for MIMO visible light communication systems

In this study, we propose a superposed probabilistically shaped(PS) quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM) constellation scheme for multiple-input multiple-output visible light communication systems. PS QAM signals are generated from a nonlinear coding equation that converts uniformly distributed 8-level signals into PS 9-or 10-level signals, which are then mapped into PS 9QAM or 10QAM signals. Square-shaped 9QAM and trapezoid-shaped 10QAM constellations are introduced to maximize the minimum Euclidean distance(MED) of the superposed constellation. Finally, the PS 9QAM and 10QAM signals are superposed with the 4QAM signals in a flipped manner to obtain PS 36QAM or 40QAM signals at the receiver, respectively.To exploit the temporal correlation of the resulting signal from nonlinear coding, we developed a detection algorithm based on Viterbi decoding. Experimental results confirmed the superiority of the proposed schemes by achieving a higher MED and stronger ability to resist nonlinearity. Compared with the traditional scheme, the peak-to-peak voltage dynamic ranges of the superposed 36QAM and 40QAM constellation schemes were improved by 52% and 48%, respectively.