Long-range 3D Range Detector Based on Time-correlated Single-photon Counting

Three-dimensional (3D) range detectors enabling 3D computer vision is now popular in automotive industry. With their participation, automobile safety has been further enhanced, autonomous driving has become realizable. Time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) technique utilizing complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) single photon...

Time-of-Flight 3D Imaging based on a SPAD-TDC Pixel Array in Standard 65 nm CMOS Technology

The interest in high performance three-dimensional (3D) imaging has grown in recent years due to immense demand in engineering, science, medicine and entertainment domains. The driving goals of state-of-the-art 3D imagers are high sensitivity to light and fine depth resolution at long range. Furthermore, high level of integration is desirable to...

Data Acquisition System Design for a 160x128 Single-photon Image Sensor with On-pixel 55 ps Time-to-digital Converter

Time-resolved image sensors enabling picosecond resolutions over large formats are needed in many advanced imaging fields, from fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to positron emission tomography (PET). Integrated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology embodies the new frontiers of time-resolved imaging, namely better...