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Ultrafast processes in matter, such as the electron emission following light absorption, can now be studied using ultrashort light pulses of attosecond duration ($10^{-18}$s) in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range. The lack of spectral…

Recently three-dimensional (3D) imaging achieves tremendous success in consumer and industrial manufacturing. However, current 3D imaging methods rarely observe dynamical events happening in a short time interval due to the imaging speed…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-15 Jiajie Teng , Qiang Guo , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

To understand the scientific imaging capability, one must characterize the intra-pixel sensitivity variation (IPSV) of the CMOS image sensor. Extracting an IPSV map contributes to an improved detector calibration that allows to eliminate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Swaraj Mahato , J. De Ridder , Guy Meynants , Gert Raskin , H. Van Winckel

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

Passive, compact, single-shot 3D sensing is useful in many application areas such as microscopy, medical imaging, surgical navigation, and autonomous driving where form factor, time, and power constraints can exist. Obtaining RGB-D scene…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bhargav Ghanekar , Salman Siddique Khan , Pranav Sharma , Shreyas Singh , Vivek Boominathan , Kaushik Mitra , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Optical imaging with microarcsecond resolution will reveal details across and outside stellar surfaces but requires kilometer-scale interferometers, challenging to realize either on the ground or in space. Intensity interferometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Dainis Dravins

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are affordable photodetectors, capable to collect extremely fast low-energy events, due to their single-photon sensibility. This makes them very suitable for time-of-flight-based range imaging systems,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-09 Quercus Hernandez , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

Conventional LIDAR systems require hundreds or thousands of photon detections to form accurate depth and reflectivity images. Recent photon-efficient computational imaging methods are remarkably effective with only 1.0 to 3.0 detected…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-13 Joshua Rapp , Vivek K Goyal

Absorption imaging of ultracold atoms is the foundation for quantitative extraction of information from experiments with ultracold atoms. Due to the limited exposure time available in these systems, the signal-to-noise ratio is largest for…

Event-based cameras are biologically inspired sensors that output asynchronous pixel-wise brightness changes in the scene called events. They have a high dynamic range and temporal resolution of a microsecond, opposed to standard cameras…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Antea Hadviger , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Temporal photon correlation measurement, instrumental to probing the quantum properties of light, typically requires multiple single photon detectors. Progress in single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array technology highlights their…

Single Pixel Imaging is an emerging imaging technique that employs a bucket detector (photodiode) to sample a spatially modulated light field, rather than measuring the spatial distribution with an array of detectors. This approach provides…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-22 Dennis Scheidt

We demonstrate coincidence measurements of spatially entangled photons by means of a novel type of multi-pixel based detection array. The adopted sensor is a fully digital 8$\times$16 silicon photomultiplier array allowing not only photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-19 Manuel Unternährer , Bänz Bessire , Leonardo Gasparini , David Stoppa , André Stefanov

Event cameras, also known as dynamic vision sensors, are an emerging modality for measuring fast dynamics asynchronously. Event cameras capture changes of log-intensity over time as a stream of 'events' and generally cannot measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Dekel Galor , Amit Kohli , Jacob L Yates , Laura Waller

We demonstrate photon-counting single-pixel imaging in the ultraviolet region. Toward this target, we develop a high-performance compact single-photon detector based on a 4H-SiC single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), where a tailored readout…

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

It is not widely appreciated that many subtleties are involved in the accurate measurement of intensity-correlated photons; even for the original experiments of Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT). Using a monolithic 4x4 array of single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 D. L. Boiko , N. J. Gunther , N. Brauer , M. Sergio , C. Niclass , G. B. Beretta , E. Charbon

Event cameras are a new type of sensors that are different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Kun Xiao , Guohui Wang , Yi Chen , Jinghong Nan , Yongfeng Xie

Over the past years, there have been many efforts towards generating interactions between two optical beams so strong that they could be observed at the level of individual photons. Such strong interactions, beyond opening up a new regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 Amir Feizpour Matin Hallaji Greg Dmochowski , Aephraim M. Steinberg

We show that an intensity speckle can be directly interpreted as the properties of incident light - amplitude, phase, polarization, and coherency over spatial positions. Revisiting the speckle-correlation scattering matrix (SSM) method [Lee…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-07 KyeoReh Lee , YongKeun Park