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 …

Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection

A Morteza Najarian, M Vafaie, B Chen… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fast-response optical sensing across the electromagnetic spectrum is an enabler of
quantum systems, 3D machine vision and augmented reality, yet existing technologies are …

Detection in adverse weather conditions for autonomous vehicles via deep learning

QA Al-Haija, M Gharaibeh, A Odeh - Ai, 2022 - mdpi.com
Weather detection systems (WDS) have an indispensable role in supporting the decisions of
autonomous vehicles, especially in severe and adverse circumstances. With deep learning …

Requirements for automotive lidar systems

Z Dai, A Wolf, PP Ley, T Glück, MC Sundermeier… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) are fundamental sensors that help driving tasks for
autonomous driving at various levels. Commercially available systems come in different …

Polarization lidar: Principles and applications

X Liu, L Zhang, X Zhai, L Li, Q Zhou, X Chen, X Li - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traditional lidar techniques mainly rely on the backscattering/echo light intensity and
spectrum as information sources. In contrast, polarization lidar (P-lidar) expands the …

From multiphase to novel single-phase multichannel shift-clock fast counter time-to-digital converter

N Lusardi, F Garzetti, A Costa… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With countless applications, time measurements are among industrial electronics' current
most important challenges. This is not a matter of precision, which by now standard …

Fundamental limits to depth imaging with single-photon detector array sensors

S Scholes, G Mora-Martín, F Zhu, I Gyongy, P Soan… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Single-Photon Avalanche Detector (SPAD) arrays are a rapidly emerging
technology. These multi-pixel sensors have single-photon sensitivities and pico-second …

Historical perspectives, state of art and research trends of SPAD arrays and their applications (Part II: SPAD arrays)

I Cusini, D Berretta, E Conca, A Incoronato… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The ability to detect single photons is becoming an enabling key capability in an increasing
number of fields. Indeed, its scope is not limited to applications that specifically rely on single …

Common corruption robustness of point cloud detectors: Benchmark and enhancement

S Li, Z Wang, F Juefei-Xu, Q Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection through LiDAR-based point cloud has recently been important in
autonomous driving. Although achieving high accuracy on public benchmarks, the state-of …

A direct time-of-flight image sensor with in-pixel surface detection and dynamic vision

I Gyongy, AT Erdogan, NAW Dutton… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
3D flash LIDAR is an alternative to the traditional scanning LIDAR systems, promising
precise depth imaging in a compact form factor, and free of moving parts, for applications …