Long-range time-of-flight scanning sensor based on high-speed time-correlated single-photon counting

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 6241-6251

  McCarthy, Aongus ^a   Collins, Robert J ^a   Krichel, Nils J ^a   Fernández, Verónica ^a,b   Wallace, Andrew M ^a   Buller, Gerald S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; SCANNING;

PULSED LASER SOURCES; REPETITION RATE; SCANNING OPTICAL; SCANNING SENSORS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING TECHNIQUES;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 73349137285     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006241     Document Type: Article

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