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Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging

Interferometric Multi-beam Photon-Counting Enhanced Lidar

Kai-Ting Ting, Benjamin T. Scheck, Daniel Feldkhun, Josh Combes, Kelvin H. Wagner

Published Jan 1, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

A non-redundant array of frequency-shifted beams is transmitted to overlap and interfere on the target for structured-illumination computational lidar imaging. Time-tagged photons are detected and Fourier analyzed to demonstrate a quantum advantage of multi-beam interferometry.
DOI
10.1364/dh.2024.m2b.2

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