Development of a Sampling ASIC for Fast Detector Signals

In the context of the Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) project the motivation to measure time-of-flight at the picosecond resolution has pushed towards a faster signal rise-time (below 100 ps) and a higher bandwidth output (higher than 1 GHz) detector, thus, leading to a new signal development and integrity studies of Micro-Channel Plates (MCP) photo-detectors. Similarly, the signal path, is being simulated and characterized, from the anodes to the input of the readout electronics, to minimise losses. Furthermore, to acquire the detector fast pulses a new 10 Gs/s high input bandwidth, 130 nm CMOS sampling chip is being developed. (authors)