Modeling of a 3D CMOS sensor for time-of-flight measurements

Rico Kuhla; Bedrich J. Hosticka; Peter Mengel; Ludwig Listl

doi:10.1117/12.512946

19 February 2004 Modeling of a 3D CMOS sensor for time-of-flight measurements

Rico Kuhla, Bedrich J. Hosticka, Peter Mengel, Ludwig Listl

Proceedings Volume 5251, Detectors and Associated Signal Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512946
Event: Optical Systems Design, 2003, St. Etienne, France

Abstract

A solid state 3D-CMOS camera system for direct time-of-flight image acquisition consisting of a CMOS imaging sensor, a laser diode module for active laser pulse illumination and all optics for image forming is presented, including MDSI & CDS algorithms for time-of-flight evaluation from intensity imaging. The investigation is carried out using ideal and real signals. For real signals the narrow infrared laser pulse of the laser diode module and the shutter function of the sensors column circuit were sampled by a new sampling procedure. A discrete sampled shutter function was recorded by using the impulse response of a narrow pulse of FWHM=50ps and an additional delay block with step size of Δτ = 0.25ns. A deterministic system model based on LTI transfer functions was developed. The visual shutter windows give a good understanding of differences between ideal and real output functions of measurement system. Simulations of shutter and laser pulse brought out an extended linear delay domain from MDSI. A stochastic model for the transfer function and photon noise in time domain was developed. We used the model to investigate noise in variation the laser pulse shutter configuration.

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Rico Kuhla, Bedrich J. Hosticka, Peter Mengel, and Ludwig Listl "Modeling of a 3D CMOS sensor for time-of-flight measurements", Proc. SPIE 5251, Detectors and Associated Signal Processing, (19 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512946

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