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Short-wave infrared compressive imaging of single photons

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Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Daniel Lum, Varun B. Verma, John Howell, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Abstract

We present a short-wave infrared (SWIR) single photon camera based on a single superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) and compressive imaging. We show SWIR single photon imaging at a megapixel resolution with a low signal-to-background ratio around 0.6, show SWIR video acquisition at 20 frames per second and 64x64 pixel video resolution, and demonstrate sub-nanosecond resolution time-of-flight imaging. All scenes were sampled by detecting only a small number of photons for each compressive sampling matrix. In principle, our technique can be used for imaging faint objects in the mid- IR regime.
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
26
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015519

Keywords

single photon imaging, compressive sensing, mid-infrared detection
Mathematics and statistics, Image and signal processing and Optical physics and communications

Citation

Gerrits, T. , Lum, D. , Verma, V. , Howell, J. , Mirin, R. and Nam, S. (2018), Short-wave infrared compressive imaging of single photons, Optics Express, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015519 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created June 6, 2018, Updated July 9, 2019