New frontiers in time-domain diffuse optics, a review

A Pifferi, D Contini, AD Mora, A Farina… - … of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The recent developments in time-domain diffuse optics that rely on physical concepts (eg,
time-gating and null distance) and advanced photonic components (eg, vertical cavity …

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 …

CMOS imager with 1024 SPADs and TDCs for single-photon timing and 3-D time-of-flight

F Villa, R Lussana, D Bronzi, S Tisa… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a CMOS imager consisting of 32× 32 smart pixels, each one able to detect
single photons in the 300-900 nm wavelength range and to perform both photon-counting …

Metrology of single-photon sources and detectors: a review

CJ Chunnilall, IP Degiovanni, S Kück… - Optical …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The generation, measurement, and manipulation of light at the single-and few-photon levels
underpin a rapidly expanding range of applications. These range from applications moving …

Photon-efficient computational 3-D and reflectivity imaging with single-photon detectors

D Shin, A Kirmani, VK Goyal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capturing depth and reflectivity images at low light levels from active illumination of a scene
has wide-ranging applications. Conventionally, even with detectors sensitive to individual …

100 000 frames/s 64× 32 single-photon detector array for 2-D imaging and 3-D ranging

D Bronzi, F Villa, S Tisa, A Tosi, F Zappa… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the design and characterization of a multipurpose 64× 32 CMOS single-photon
avalanche diode (SPAD) array. The chip is fabricated in a high-voltage 0.35-μm CMOS …

Direct time-of-flight single-photon imaging

I Gyongy, NAW Dutton… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a tutorial introduction to the direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) signal chain
and typical artifacts introduced due to detector and processing electronic limitations. We …

Deep end-to-end time-of-flight imaging

S Su, F Heide, G Wetzstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present an end-to-end image processing framework for time-of-flight (ToF) cameras.
Existing ToF image processing pipelines consist of a sequence of operations including …

A SPAD-based QVGA image sensor for single-photon counting and quanta imaging

NAW Dutton, I Gyongy, L Parmesan… - … on Electron Devices, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD)-based quarter video graphics array image
sensor with 8-μm pixel pitch and 26.8% fill factor (FF) is presented. The combination of …

Lidar with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: Recent advances and developments

Y Guan, H Li, L Xue, R Yin, L Zhang, H Wang… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lidar has already achieved long-distance and high-accuracy detection due to the improved
sensitivity and timing accuracy of single-photon detectors (SPDs). However, single-photon …