Enhanced performance photon-counting time-of-flight sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 423-429

  Warburton, Ryan E ^a   McCarthy, Aongus ^a   Wallace, Andrew M ^a   Hernandez Marin, Sergio ^a   Cova, Sergio ^b   Lamb, Robert A ^c   Buller, Gerald S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione   (Italy)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTION CIRCUITRY; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING TECHNIQUE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33846494072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000423     Document Type: Article

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