Millimeter-Precision Laser Rangefinder Using a Low-Cost Photon Counter

By Andreas Eisele

In this book we successfully demonstrate a millimeter-precision laser rangefinder using a low-cost photon counter. An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) comprises timing circuitry and single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) as the photodetectors. For the timing circuitry, a novel binning architecture for sampling the received signal is proposed which mitigates non-idealities that are inherent to a system with SPADs and timing circuitry in one chip.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 373150152X
• ISBN13: 9783731501527
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"