Adams, B.Anderson, J. T.Attenkofer, K.Bogdan, M.Byrum, K.Drake, G.Insepov, Z.2017-09-262017-09-262009Adams, B., Anderson, J. T., Attenkofer, K., Bogdan, M., Byrum, K., Drake, G., ... & Insepov, Z. (2009, May). A design for large-area fast photo-detectors with transmission-line readout and waveform sampling. In Real Time Conference, 2009. RT'09. 16th IEEE-NPSS (pp. 49-61). IEEE.http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2699We present a preliminary design and the results of simulation for a photo-detector module to be used in applications requiring the coverage of areas of many square meters with time resolutions less than 10 picoseconds and position resolutions of less than a millimeter for charged particles. The source of light is Cherenkov light in a radiator/window; the amplification is provided by panels of micro-pores functionalized to act as microchannel plates (MCPs). The good time and position resolution stems from the use of an array of parallel 50 Ω transmission lines (strips) as the collecting anodes. The anode strips feed multi-GS/sec sampling chips which digitize the pulse waveform at each end of the strip, allowing a measurement of the time from the average of the two ends, and a 2-dimensional position measurement from the difference of times on a strip, and, in the orthogonal direction, the strip number, or a centroid of the charges deposited on adjacent strips. The module design is constructed so that large areas can be `tiled' by an array of modules.enOpen Access - the content is available to the general publicAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United Statesphoto-detectortransmission lineswaveformConference Paper