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Integrated quantum photonics, which allows for the development and implementation of chip-scale devices, is recognized as a key enabling technology on the road towards scalable quantum networking schemes. However, many state-of-the-art…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 Salih Yanikgonul , Victor Leong , Jun Rong Ong , Ching Eng Png , Leonid Krivitsky

Single Photon Avalanche Diode sensor arrays operating in direct time of flight mode can perform 3D imaging using pulsed lasers. Operating at high frame rates, SPAD imagers typically generate large volumes of noisy and largely redundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Saeed Afshar , Tara Julia Hamilton , Langdon Davis , Andre van Schaik , Dennis Delic

Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) represent a cutting-edge imaging technology, capable of detecting individual photons with remarkable timing precision. Building on this sensitivity, Single Photon Cameras (SPCs) enable image capture at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Sumit Sharma , Gopi Raju Matta , Kaushik Mitra

3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging is used in a variety of applications such as augmented reality (AR), computer interfaces, robotics and autonomous systems. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are one of the enabling technologies providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Germán Mora-Martín , Alex Turpin , Alice Ruget , Abderrahim Halimi , Robert Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are new and promising imaging sensors. These sensors are sensitive enough to detect individual photons hitting each pixel, with extreme temporal resolution and without readout noise. Thus, SPADs stand…

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Single-photon cameras (SPCs) are emerging as sensors of choice for various challenging imaging applications. One class of SPCs based on the single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detects individual photons using an avalanche process; the raw…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Lucas J. Koerner , Shantanu Gupta , Atul Ingle , Mohit Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have transformed optical imaging by enabling photon-counting sensitivity, picosecond resolution, and high frame-rate operation. These capabilities, however, have remained confined to the visible…

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…

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Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-11 Francesco Ceccarelli , Giulia Acconcia , Angelo Gulinatti , Massimo Ghioni , Ivan Rech , Roberto Osellame

Single photon detection is important for a wide range of low-light applications, including quantum information processing, spectroscopy, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR). A key challenge in these applications has been to integrate…

Spatial correlations between two photons are the key resource in realising many quantum imaging schemes. Measurement of the bi-photon correlation map is typically performed using single-point scanning detectors or single-photon cameras…

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) single-photon devices capture range and intensity information from a 3D scene. This modality enables long range 3D reconstruction with high range precision and low laser power. A multispectral…

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Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Steve McLaughlin

A near-infrared (NIR) enhanced silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) fabricated in a customized 0.13 $\mu$m CMOS technology is presented. The SPAD has a depleted absorption volume of approximately 15 $\mu$m x 15 $\mu$m x 18 $\mu$m.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-13 Edward Van Sieleghem , Andreas Süss , Pierre Boulenc , Jiwon Lee , Gauri Karve , Koen De Munck , Celso Cavaco , Chris Van Hoof

A single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD) for high-speed quantum-key generation has successfully been developed. It has the highest photon detection repetition frequency and the lowest dark count rate in the world, as a board-mountable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-28 Seigo Takahashi , Akio Tajima , Akihisa Tomita

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based transient imaging suffers from an aberration called pile-up. When multiple photons arrive within a single repetition period of the illuminating laser, the SPAD records only the arrival of the first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-21 Adithya K. Pediredla , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Mauro Buttafava , Alberto Tosi , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Single-shot high-resolution spectroscopy at the single-photon-level has emerged as a promising measurement technique, enabling novel observations and evaluations that were previously challenging. This technology is particularly effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Yuki Nagoro , Hidehito Sato , Hiroyuki Tezuka , Tomoyuki Horikiri

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for fast, online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using times of arrival of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Quentin Legros , Julian Tachella , Rachael Tobin , Aongus McCarthy , Sylvain Meignen , Gerald S. Buller , Yoann Altmann , Stephen McLaughlin , Michael E. Davies

Single-photon lidar has emerged as a prime candidate technology for depth imaging through challenging environments. Until now, a major limitation has been the significant amount of time required for the analysis of the recorded data. Here…

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