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The photon counting imaging paradigm in the visible and the infrared comes from the very small energy carried by a single photon at these wavelengths. Usually to detect photons the photoelectric effect is used. It converts a photon to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Jean-Luc Gach , Isaure De Kernier , Philippe Feautrier

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) is a noble technique that is used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging worldwide. The scintillator based imaging system that is being used around the world for TOF-PET is very expensive. Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-02 Rajesh Ganai , Shaifali Mehta , Mehulkumar Shiroya , Mitali Mondal , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

The requirements to achieve high detection efficiency (above 50\%) and gigahertz (GHz) frame rate for the proposed 42-keV X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at Los Alamos are summarized. Direct detection scenarios using C (diamond), Si, Ge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 Zhehui Wang

We present a single-photon-sensitive spectrometer, based on a linear array of 512 single-photon avalanche diode detectors, with 0.04 nm spectral and 40 ps temporal resolutions. We employ a fast data-driven operation that allows direct…

A pulse oximeter is an optical device that monitors tissue oxygenation levels. Traditionally, these devices estimate the oxygenation level by measuring the intensity of the transmitted light through the tissue and are embedded into everyday…

Photon counting lidar has become an invaluable tool for 3D depth imaging due to the fine-precision it can achieve over long ranges. However, high frame rate, high resolution lidar devices produce an enormous amount of time-of-flight (ToF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Michael Patrick Sheehan , Julian Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Electron Multiplying CCDs (EMCCDs) are used much less often than they might be because of the challenges they offer camera designers more comfortable with the design of slow-scan detector systems. However they offer an entirely new range of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Craig Mackay , Keith Weller , Frank Suess

Photons are critical to quantum technologies since they can be used for virtually all quantum information tasks: in quantum metrology, as the information carrier in photonic quantum computation, as a mediator in hybrid systems, and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-02 Jonathan Lavoie , John M. Donohue , Logan G. Wright , Alessandro Fedrizzi , Kevin J. Resch

In the CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) experiment constructed at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (Fair) at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, MRPC(Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber) is adopted to construct the large TOF…

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the sky. Here we describe the photometric calibration of the PTF data products that relates the PTF magnitudes to other mag systems. The calibration…

Photon-number resolving (PNR) single-photon detectors are of interest for a wide range of applications in the emerging field of photon based quantum technologies. Especially photonic integrated circuits will pave the way for a high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-18 Ekkehart Schmidt , Eric Reutter , Mario Schwartz , Hüseyin Vural , Konstantin Ilin , Michael Jetter , Peter Michler , Michael Siegel

Time-of-flight three dimensional imaging is an important tool for many applications, such as object recognition and remote sensing. Unlike conventional imaging approach using pixelated detector array, single-pixel imaging based on projected…

Photon loss is the biggest enemy for scalable photonic quantum information processing. This problem can be tackled by using quantum error correction, provided that the overall photon loss is below a threshold of 1/3. However, all reported…

Since their inception, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors have been enabling quantum optical applications and the rise of the photonic quantum industry. The evolution in the detector design and read-out strategies has led to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Lorenzo Stasi , Towsif Taher , Giovanni V. Resta , Hugo Zbinden , Rob Thew , Félix Bussières

3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) image sensors are used widely in applications such as self-driving cars, Augmented Reality (AR) and robotics. When implemented with Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), compact, array format sensors can be made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Germán Mora Martín , Stirling Scholes , Alice Ruget , Robert K. Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Detectors of propagating microwave photons have recently been realized using superconducting circuits. However a number-resolved photocounter is still missing. In this letter, we demonstrate a single-shot counter for propagating microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Rémy Dassonneville , Réouven Assouly , Théau Peronnin , Pierre Rouchon , Benjamin Huard

Time of flight system (TOF) based on MRPC technology is widely used in modern physics experiments, and it also plays an important role in particle identification. With the increase of accelerator energy and luminosity, TOF system is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Yi Wang , Qiunan Zhang , Dong Han , Fuyue Wang , Yancheng Yu , Pengfei Lyu , Yuanjing Li

Encoding quantum information in the photon temporal mode (TM) offers a robust platform for high-dimensional quantum protocols. The main practical challenge, however, is to design a device that operates on single photons in specific TMs and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Vahid Ansari , Georg Harder , Markus Allgaier , Benjamin Brecht , Christine Silberhorn

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lukas Danner , Max Hofheinz , Nicolas Bourlet , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-03 P. -E. Vert , J. Lecoq , G. Montarou , N. Pauna , B. Joly , M. Boutemeur , H. Mathez , R. Gaglione , P. Le Dû