Enhanced performance photon-counting time-of-flight sensor

Opt Express. 2007 Jan 22;15(2):423-9. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.000423.

Abstract

We describe improvements to a time-of-flight sensor utilising the time-correlated single-photon counting technique employing a commercially-available silicon-based photon-counting module. By making modifications to the single-photon detection circuitry and the data analysis techniques, we experimentally demonstrate improved resolution between multiple scattering surfaces with a minimum resolvable separation of 1.7 cm at ranges in excess of several hundred metres.