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Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager
Active imagers capable of reconstructing 3-dimensional (3D) scenes in the presence of strong background noise are highly desirable for many sensing and imaging applications. A key to this capability is the time-resolving photon detection that distinguishes true signal photons from the noise. To this...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32066725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14591-8 |
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author | Rehain, Patrick Sua, Yong Meng Zhu, Shenyu Dickson, Ivan Muthuswamy, Bharathwaj Ramanathan, Jeevanandha Shahverdi, Amin Huang, Yu-Ping |
author_facet | Rehain, Patrick Sua, Yong Meng Zhu, Shenyu Dickson, Ivan Muthuswamy, Bharathwaj Ramanathan, Jeevanandha Shahverdi, Amin Huang, Yu-Ping |
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description | Active imagers capable of reconstructing 3-dimensional (3D) scenes in the presence of strong background noise are highly desirable for many sensing and imaging applications. A key to this capability is the time-resolving photon detection that distinguishes true signal photons from the noise. To this end, quantum parametric mode sorting (QPMS) can achieve signal to noise exceeding by far what is possible with typical linear optics filters, with outstanding performance in isolating temporally and spectrally overlapping noise. Here, we report a QPMS-based 3D imager with exceptional detection sensitivity and noise tolerance. With only 0.0006 detected signal photons per pulse, we reliably reconstruct the 3D profile of an obscured scene, despite 34-fold spectral-temporally overlapping noise photons, within the 6 ps detection window (amounting to 113,000 times noise per 20 ns detection period). Our results highlight a viable approach to suppress background noise and measurement errors of single photon imager operation in high-noise environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-70261012020-02-21 Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager Rehain, Patrick Sua, Yong Meng Zhu, Shenyu Dickson, Ivan Muthuswamy, Bharathwaj Ramanathan, Jeevanandha Shahverdi, Amin Huang, Yu-Ping Nat Commun Article Active imagers capable of reconstructing 3-dimensional (3D) scenes in the presence of strong background noise are highly desirable for many sensing and imaging applications. A key to this capability is the time-resolving photon detection that distinguishes true signal photons from the noise. To this end, quantum parametric mode sorting (QPMS) can achieve signal to noise exceeding by far what is possible with typical linear optics filters, with outstanding performance in isolating temporally and spectrally overlapping noise. Here, we report a QPMS-based 3D imager with exceptional detection sensitivity and noise tolerance. With only 0.0006 detected signal photons per pulse, we reliably reconstruct the 3D profile of an obscured scene, despite 34-fold spectral-temporally overlapping noise photons, within the 6 ps detection window (amounting to 113,000 times noise per 20 ns detection period). Our results highlight a viable approach to suppress background noise and measurement errors of single photon imager operation in high-noise environments. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7026101/ /pubmed/32066725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14591-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Rehain, Patrick Sua, Yong Meng Zhu, Shenyu Dickson, Ivan Muthuswamy, Bharathwaj Ramanathan, Jeevanandha Shahverdi, Amin Huang, Yu-Ping Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title | Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title_full | Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title_fullStr | Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title_full_unstemmed | Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title_short | Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
title_sort | noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32066725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14591-8 |
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