Super-resolution depth information from a short-wave infrared laser gated-viewing system by using correlated double sampling

Benjamin Göhler; Peter Lutzmann

doi:10.1117/12.2278431

5 October 2017 Super-resolution depth information from a short-wave infrared laser gated-viewing system by using correlated double sampling

Benjamin Göhler, Peter Lutzmann

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Proceedings Volume 10434, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing XI; 104340M (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278431
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Primarily, a laser gated-viewing (GV) system provides range-gated 2D images without any range resolution within the range gate. By combining two GV images with slightly different gate positions, 3D information within a part of the range gate can be obtained. The depth resolution is higher (super-resolution) than the minimal gate shift step size in a tomographic sequence of the scene. For a state-of-the-art system with a typical frame rate of 20 Hz, the time difference between the two required GV images is 50 ms which may be too long in a dynamic scenario with moving objects.

Therefore, we have applied this approach to the reset and signal level images of a new short-wave infrared (SWIR) GV camera whose read-out integrated circuit supports correlated double sampling (CDS) actually intended for the reduction of kTC noise (reset noise). These images are extracted from only one single laser pulse with a marginal time difference in between.

The SWIR GV camera consists of 640 x 512 avalanche photodiodes based on mercury cadmium telluride with a pixel pitch of 15 μm. A Q-switched, flash lamp pumped solid-state laser with 1.57 μm wavelength (OPO), 52 mJ pulse energy after beam shaping, 7 ns pulse length and 20 Hz pulse repetition frequency is used for flash illumination.

In this paper, the experimental set-up is described and the operating principle of CDS is explained. The method of deriving super-resolution depth information from a GV system by using CDS is introduced and optimized. Further, the range accuracy is estimated from measured image data.

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Benjamin Göhler and Peter Lutzmann "Super-resolution depth information from a short-wave infrared laser gated-viewing system by using correlated double sampling", Proc. SPIE 10434, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing XI, 104340M (5 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278431

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