MiSPiA: microelectronic single-photon 3D imaging arrays for low-light high-speed safety and security applications
Author(s) -
Alberto Tosi,
Franco Zappa
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.2032733
Subject(s) - photon , microelectronics , cmos , pixel , ranging , physics , photon counting , image sensor , computer science , optics , optoelectronics , telecommunications
This paper reports the achievements so far attained in the development of high-performance CMOS SPADs for single-photon sensitive 2D imagers, based on photon-counting and 3D ranging cameras. The latters are based on both the direct in-pixel measurement of the Time-of-Flight of each photon bouncing bounce from the scene back to the camera and the “indirect” phase-resolved method to count reflected photons in well-defined time slots, synchronous to the active illumination of the scene. MiSPiA SPADs are the new state-of-the-art among SPADs in CMOS technologies
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