TY  - JOUR
AU  - McCarthy, Aongus
AU  - Krichel, Nils J.
AU  - Gemmell, Nathan R.
AU  - Ren, Ximing
AU  - Tanner, Michael G.
AU  - Dorenbos, Sander N.
AU  - Zwiller, Val
AU  - Hadfield, Robert H.
AU  - Buller, Gerald S.
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Kilometer-range, high resolution depth imaging via 1560 nm wavelength single-photon detection
T2  - Opt. Express
JO  - Opt. Express
SP  - 8904
EP  - 8915
VL  - 21
IS  - 7
KW  - SSPD
KW  - SNSPD
KW  - lidar
KW  - SSPD applications
KW  - SNSPD applications
AB  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.008904
DO  - 10.1364/OE.21.008904
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ID  - McCarthy_etal2013
ER  -