Single-photon detection for long-range imaging and sensing

RH Hadfield, J Leach, F Fleming, DJ Paul, CH Tan… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon detectors with picosecond timing resolution have advanced rapidly in the past
decade. This has spurred progress in time-correlated single-photon counting applications …

Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint

F Wang, C Wang, M Chen, W Gong, Y Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Ghost imaging (GI) facilitates image acquisition under low-light conditions by single-pixel
measurements and thus has great potential in applications in various fields ranging from …

Single-photon imaging over 200 km

ZP Li, JT Ye, X Huang, PY Jiang, Y Cao, Y Hong, C Yu… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Long-range active imaging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target
recognition. Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to have high …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting telecom single photons with 99.5− 2.07+ 0.5% system detection efficiency and high time resolution

J Chang, JWN Los, JO Tenorio-Pearl, N Noordzij… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Single photon detectors are indispensable tools in optics, from fundamental measurements
to quantum information processing. The ability of superconducting nanowire single photon …

Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43 km

C Wu, J Liu, X Huang, ZP Li, C Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Non–line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging has the ability to reconstruct hidden objects from indirect
light paths that scatter multiple times in the surrounding environment, which is of …

Single-photon computational 3D imaging at 45 km

ZP Li, X Huang, Y Cao, B Wang, YH Li, W **… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) offers single-photon sensitivity and
picosecond timing resolution, which is desirable for high-precision three-dimensional (3D) …

Submerged single-photon LiDAR imaging sensor used for real-time 3D scene reconstruction in scattering underwater environments

A Maccarone, K Drummond, A McCarthy… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a fully submerged underwater LiDAR transceiver system based on single-
photon detection technologies. The LiDAR imaging system used a silicon single-photon …

Robust real-time 3D imaging of moving scenes through atmospheric obscurant using single-photon LiDAR

R Tobin, A Halimi, A McCarthy, PJ Soan, GS Buller - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recently, time-of-flight LiDAR using the single-photon detection approach has emerged as a
potential solution for three-dimensional imaging in challenging measurement scenarios …

Full waveform LiDAR for adverse weather conditions

AM Wallace, A Halimi, GS Buller - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present and discuss the case for full waveform pixel and image acquisition and
processing to enable LiDAR sensors to penetrate and reconstruct 3D surface maps through …

Multiscale optical field manipulation via planar digital optics

X Luo - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Replacing curved and bulky optical elements with thin and lightweight counterparts is a
persistent pursuit of the optical society. Metasurfaces, as two-dimensional artificial …