Time-of-flight optical ranging system based on time-correlated single-photon counting

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 31, 1998, Pages 7298-7304

  Massa, John S ^a   Buller, Gerald S ^a   Walker, Andrew C ^a   Cova, Sergio ^b   Umasuthan, Manikam ^a   Wallace, Andrew M ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL RANGING SYSTEM; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME OF FLIGHT;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032209651     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007298     Document Type: Article

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