Kilometer-range, high resolution depth imaging via 1560 nm wavelength single-photon detection.
Opt Express
; 21(7): 8904-15, 2013 Apr 08.
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ABSTRACT
This paper highlights a significant advance in time-of-flight depth imaging by using a scanning transceiver which incorporated a free-running, low noise superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, we were able to obtain centimeter resolution depth images of low-signature objects in daylight at stand-off distances of the order of one kilometer at the relatively eye-safe wavelength of 1560 nm. The detector used had an efficiency of 18% at 1 kHz dark count rate, and the overall system jitter was ~100 ps. The depth images were acquired by illuminating the scene with an optical output power level of less than 250 µW average, and using per-pixel dwell times in the millisecond regime.
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Diagnostic_studies
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2013
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