title: Control, Readout and Commissioning of the Ultra-High Speed 1 Megapixel DSSC X-Ray Camera for the European XFEL
creator: Kirchgessner, Manfred
subject: ddc-000
subject: 000 Generalities, Science
subject: ddc-004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: The goal of this thesis was to develop the software and firmware basis to control and  read out the 1-Megapixel DEPFET Sensor with Signal Compression (DSSC) detector,  which is being built for the European XFEL (EuXFEL). The DSSC detector proposes  single photon resolution at 0.5 keV photon energy, high dynamic range of 10000  photons at a very high frame rate of 4.5 MHz.  During this thesis, the readout chain has been implemented, which receives the average  data rate of 134 GBit/s from the detector and transfers sorted image data via four  QSFP+ fiber cables to the DAQ system. Additional control software and firmware has  been developed for commissioning of the first 1/16th megapixel prototypes. A multifunctional  measurement and data analysis framework has been created which is used  for characterization of the detector, particularly of properties of the complex readout  ASICs. Additional parameter trimming routines to automatically adapt gain and offset  parameters of a large pixel matrix have been developed in order to generate suitable  configurations which have been applied during two measurement campaigns at the Petra  III synchrotron. For integration into the new Karabo framework, which is provided  by XFEL for beamline control, several software devices have been implemented.
date: 2018
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23870/1/Dissertation_MKirchgessner.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00023870
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-238702
identifier:   Kirchgessner, Manfred  (2018) Control, Readout and Commissioning of the Ultra-High Speed 1 Megapixel DSSC X-Ray Camera for the European XFEL.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23870/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng