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 …

Advances in single-photon lidar for autonomous vehicles: Working principles, challenges, and recent advances

J Rapp, J Tachella, Y Altmann… - IEEE Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safety and success of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on their ability to accurately
map and respond to their surroundings in real time. One of the most promising recent …

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 …

Heat-assisted detection and ranging

F Bao, X Wang, SH Sureshbabu, G Sreekumar, L Yang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Machine perception uses advanced sensors to collect information about the
surrounding scene for situational awareness,,,,,–. State-of-the-art machine perception using …

Metasurface-dressed two-dimensional on-chip waveguide for free-space light field manipulation

Y Ding, X Chen, Y Duan, H Huang, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We show that a metasurface-coated two-dimensional (2D) slab waveguide enables the
generation of arbitrary complex light fields by combining the extreme versatility and freedom …

A reconfigurable heterostructure transistor array for monocular 3D parallax reconstruction

Z Li, H Xu, Y Zheng, L Liu, L Li, Z Lou, L Wang - Nature Electronics, 2025 - nature.com
Sensors that are capable of three-dimensional detection of depth field information in the
spatial domain are of potential use in applications such as robotics, satellite imaging and …

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 …

Air‐stable low‐symmetry narrow‐bandgap 2D sulfide niobium for polarization photodetection

Y Wang, P Wu, Z Wang, M Luo, F Zhong… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐symmetry 2D materials with unique anisotropic optical and optoelectronic
characteristics have attracted a lot of interest in fundamental research and manufacturing of …

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 …

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 …