Design of Ultra-Low Noise and Low Temperature Usable Power System for High-Precision Detectors

In high-precision detector systems, the power supply usually need to be ultra-low noise and stabilized. Design and implementation of an ultra-low noise power supply is described in this paper. We implemented and tested the power system actually in a scientific CCD (Charge-coupled device) detector system, but the design structure could be used in many high-precision detector systems as infrared detector or high-energy particles detectors. The power system uses DC-DC switching regulators and LDO regulators for power generating, uses multi-stage filters for noise reducing. Multi-output power supply with noise about 40 μV
_rms
is achieved, the overall energy efficiency is 68.5%. Besides, the electronic system takes the low temperature as an important consideration, and the system has been tested in an extreme environment as low as 193 K.