Photon-counting laser ranging with InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode in the passively quenched and 1-GHz sinusoidally gated

Jianhua Huang; Min Ren; Yan Liang; Zhiyuan Wang; Xiaomeng Wang; Weibin Kong; E. Wu; Guang Wu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2014.01.133

Photon-counting laser ranging with InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode in the passively quenched and 1-GHz sinusoidally gated

Jianhua Huang^*
, Min Ren
, Yan Liang
, Zhiyuan Wang
, Xiaomeng Wang
, Weibin Kong
, E. Wu
, Guang Wu
, Heping Zeng

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute for Advanced Study in Precision Spectroscopy

East China Normal University

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Abstract

We experimentally studied photon-counting laser ranging at 1550 nm using InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode based single-photon detectors (SPDs). The SPDs operated in the passive quenching and 1-GHz sinusoidal gating Geiger modes, corresponding to continuous and quasi-continuous photon-counting ranging, respectively. Despite that the passively quenched SPD provided relatively high effective detection efficiency, quasi-continuous photon-counting ranging excelled the continuous one with fast acquisition speed and improved depth resolution due to the short deadtime and low timing jitter of the SPD in 1-GHz sinusoidally gated mode.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3744-3747
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optik
Volume	125
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2014.01.133
State	Published - Jul 2014

Keywords

Continuous and quasi-continuous modes
InGaAs/InP APD
Photon-counting ranging

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Photon-counting laser ranging with InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode in the passively quenched and 1-GHz sinusoidally gated

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