Laser-based distance measurement using picosecond resolution time-correlated single-photon counting

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 712-716

  Pellegrini, Sara ^a,b   Buller, Gerald S ^a   Smith, Jason M ^a   Wallace, Andrew M ^a   Cova, Sergio ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance; Machine vision; Pulsed picosecond laser; Ranging; Single photon avalanche diode; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PULSED PICOSECOND LASER; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

DEPTH SENSOR; LASER MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034094227     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/11/6/314     Document Type: Article

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