A Delay-Locked Loop (DLL) is presented that can track the phase of a continuous-wave modulated light signal. Using it in a time-of-flight set-up allows tracking of an object{\textquoteright}s distance in a fast and reliable way. The CMOS detector is built around a current-assisted photonic demodulator (CAPD) with an additional common-mode feedback (CMFB) avoiding detector saturation. The DLL control loop is implemented in an external FPGA, enabling flexibility and tuning of the control parameters. The system is a good candidate for industrial time-of-flight applications, where reaction time is important and outliers are unwanted. This novel DLL implementation has a phase noise below 1° and a settling time of 1 ms at a modulation frequency of 20 MHz.
Deleener, R, Ingelberts, H & Kuijk, M 2015, A Delay Locked Loop for Instantaneous Time-Of-Flight Sensing based on a CMOS Demodulation Detector. in 2015 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings. IEEE, pp. 1335-1338, IEEE SENSORS 2015, Busan, Korea, Republic of, 1/11/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370519
Deleener, R., Ingelberts, H., & Kuijk, M. (2015). A Delay Locked Loop for Instantaneous Time-Of-Flight Sensing based on a CMOS Demodulation Detector. In 2015 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings (pp. 1335-1338). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370519
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title = "A Delay Locked Loop for Instantaneous Time-Of-Flight Sensing based on a CMOS Demodulation Detector",
abstract = "A Delay-Locked Loop (DLL) is presented that can track the phase of a continuous-wave modulated light signal. Using it in a time-of-flight set-up allows tracking of an object{\textquoteright}s distance in a fast and reliable way. The CMOS detector is built around a current-assisted photonic demodulator (CAPD) with an additional common-mode feedback (CMFB) avoiding detector saturation. The DLL control loop is implemented in an external FPGA, enabling flexibility and tuning of the control parameters. The system is a good candidate for industrial time-of-flight applications, where reaction time is important and outliers are unwanted. This novel DLL implementation has a phase noise below 1° and a settling time of 1 ms at a modulation frequency of 20 MHz.",
keywords = "Current-Assisted Photonic Demodulator, Delay Locked Loops, Photonic Demodulation, Optical Detectors, Time-Of-Flight Imaging",
author = "Robin Deleener and Hans Ingelberts and Maarten Kuijk",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370519",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4799-8202-8",
pages = "1335--1338",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE",
note = "IEEE SENSORS 2015 ; Conference date: 01-11-2015 Through 04-11-2015",
}