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 …

SPADs and SiPMs arrays for long-range high-speed light detection and ranging (LiDAR)

F Villa, F Severini, F Madonini, F Zappa - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a 3D imaging technique, widely used in many
applications such as augmented reality, automotive, machine vision, spacecraft navigation …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

High-resolution depth maps imaging via attention-based hierarchical multi-modal fusion

Z Zhong, X Liu, J Jiang, D Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depth map records distance between the viewpoint and objects in the scene, which plays a
critical role in many real-world applications. However, depth map captured by consumer …

3D photon-to-digital converter for radiation instrumentation: Motivation and future works

JF Pratte, F Nolet, S Parent, F Vachon, N Roy… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analog and digital SiPMs have revolutionized the field of radiation instrumentation by
replacing both avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes in many applications …