24‐3: Distinguished Student Paper: Towards a Solid‐State LIDAR Using Holographic Illumination and a SPAD‐Based Time‐Of‐Flight Image Sensor. Issue 1 (28th June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bantounos, Konstantinos; Smeeton, Tim M.; Underwood, Ian
• Is Part Of: Digest of technical papers. Volume 53:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 279
• Page End: 282
• Publication Date: 2022-06-28
• Subjects: Photon Counting -- 3D -- CMOS Single Photon Avalanche Diode -- SPAD -- Time of Flight -- SLM -- LCoS -- LIDAR -- Holographic illumination -- Structured illumination -- Holography; Information display systems -- Congresses; 621.3815422
• DOI: 10.1002/sdtp.15473
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0097-966X

Abstract

Abstract : Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems are finding their way into an increasing number of applications including autonomous vehicles. Imaging based on Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays has demonstrated great promise for LIDAR, typically using flood illumination or raster‐scanning of a small spot. Holographic illumination, on the other hand, has been successfully applied to display systems such as automotive Head Up Displays (HUDs). It holds promise as the method of illumination for a LIDAR system. We present a novel architecture and report initial results to show that it can improve the depth accuracy of 3D imaging.