qutools quTAG MC - Introduction to quTAG MC; quTAG MC Time-to-Digital Converter Overview; Technical Specifications Overview

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1. Introduction
1.1 quTAG MC – state of the art time-to-digital converter
The quTAG MC – Multi Channel – is a time-to-digital converter that measures electric signals
and marks them with time tags. This stream of time tags can be used in various and versatile
applications – from measurements in the picosecond range up to an hour.
The universal time tagging method allows correlation measurements (cross-correlation, auto-
correlation), lifetime measurements (start-(multi)stop) and many more possibilities within one
measurement. The saved stream of time tags contains all information needed to reconstruct
every measurement and analysis performed.
1.2 Technical overview
The key features of the quTAG device are:
• High timing resolution (bin size 1 ps)
• High event rates
• USB3.0 interface
• Easy-to-use
The device can be used for a variety of Applications:
• Time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC)
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging
• Quantum information experiments
• LIDAR