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 …

A review of single-photon avalanche diode time-of-flight imaging sensor arrays

F Piron, D Morrison, MR Yuce… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors using light pulses or continuous waves allow accurate distance
measurements. Three-dimensional imagers can be based on an array of timing or time …

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 …

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 …

Three-dimensional single-photon imaging through obscurants

R Tobin, A Halimi, A McCarthy, M Laurenzis… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the depth imaging of objects through various densities of different obscurants
(water fog, glycol-based vapor, and incendiary smoke) using a time-correlated single-photon …

Super-resolution single-photon imaging at 8.2 kilometers

ZP Li, X Huang, PY Jiang, Y Hong, C Yu, Y Cao… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR), offering single-photon sensitivity and
picosecond time resolution, has been widely adopted for active imaging applications. Long …

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 …

Three-dimensional imaging of stationary and moving targets in turbid underwater environments using a single-photon detector array

A Maccarone, F Mattioli Della Rocca, A McCarthy… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Three-dimensional imaging in underwater environments was investigated using a
picosecond resolution silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector array …

Photon-efficient 3d imaging with a non-local neural network

J Peng, Z **ong, X Huang, ZP Li, D Liu, F Xu - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
Photon-efficient imaging has enabled a number of applications relying on single-photon
sensors that can capture a 3D image with as few as one photon per pixel. In practice …

Long range 3D imaging through atmospheric obscurants using array-based single-photon LiDAR

PY Jiang, ZP Li, WL Ye, Y Hong, C Dai, X Huang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has emerged as a strong candidate
technology for active imaging applications. In particular, the single-photon sensitivity and …