Time-of-Flight Imaging at 10 ps Resolution with an ICCD Camera

Lucrezia Cester; Ashley Lyons; Maria Chiara Braidotti; Daniele Faccio

doi:10.3390/s19010180

Time-of-Flight Imaging at 10 ps Resolution with an ICCD Camera

Sensors (Basel). 2019 Jan 6;19(1):180. doi: 10.3390/s19010180.

Authors

Lucrezia Cester¹, Ashley Lyons², Maria Chiara Braidotti³, Daniele Faccio⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. 2400515C@student.gla.ac.uk.
² School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Ashley.lyons@glasgow.ac.uk.
³ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Mariachiara.braidotti@glasgow.ac.uk.
⁴ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Daniele.faccio@glasgow.ac.uk.

Abstract

ICCD cameras can record low light events with extreme temporal resolution. Thus, they are used in a variety of bio-medical applications for single photon time of flight measurements and LIDAR measurements. In this paper, we present a method which allows improvement of the temporal resolution of ICCD cameras down to 10 ps (from the native 200 ps of our model), thus placing ICCD cameras at a better temporal resolution than SPAD cameras and in direct competition with streak cameras. The higher temporal resolution can serve for better tracking and visualization of the information carried in time-of-flight measurements.

Keywords: LIDAR; iCCD; lasers; photonics; single photon; time of flight.