Short-Wave Infrared Compressive Imaging of Single Photons

Authors

Thomas Gerrits, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Daniel J. Lum, University of Rochester
Varun B. Verma, National Institute of Standards and Technology
John C. Howell, Chapman UniversityFollow
Richard P. Mirin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-6-2018

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.

Comments

This article was originally published in Optics Express, volume 26, issue 12, in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015519

Recommended Citation

T. Gerrits, D. J. Lum, V. Verma, J. Howell, R. P. Mirin, and S. W. Nam, Short-Wave Infrared Compressive Imaging of Single Photons, Optics Express 26(12), 15519-15527. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.015519

Peer Reviewed

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