Single Photon and Quantum Enhanced Imaging

这个PHD将研究围绕单光子和量子增强成像的关键问题。例如，Heriot-Watt开发的Ge-on-Si单光子探测器最近已成为一种关键的新兴单光子探测器，提供了InGaAs/InP探测器技术的替代方案，同时涵盖了硅的所有集成潜力。这些探测器将应用于单光子深度成像等关键应用领域。马赛克滤光片可以在快速多光谱和高光谱成像方面提供关键优势，本项目将研究它们与单光子技术的集成，以进行主动和被动成像，特别是在短波红外成像方面。将研究微透镜用于提高效率的潜力，并尝试在单光子焦平面阵列上首次尝试激光写入微透镜。该项目将利用单光子成像技术中的这些技术进步来解决三维成像和量子增强成像，包括幽灵成像。该项目将使用先进的图像处理算法来重建这些稀疏光子测量的图像。

This PhD will examine key issues around single photon and quantum enhanced imaging. For example, Ge-on-Si single-photon detectors developed by Heriot-Watt have recently become a key emerging single-photon detector, offering an alternative for InGaAs/InP detector technology, whilst encompassing all the integration potential of silicon. These detectors will be applied to key application areas such as single-photon depth imaging. Mosaic filters can offer key advantages in terms of rapid multi-spectral and hyperspectral imaging, and this project will examine their integration into single-photon technology for active and passive imaging, particularly in the short wave infrared. The potential of microlenses for efficiency enhancement will be examined and the first attempt at laser written microlenses on single-photon focal plane arrays will be attempted. The project will use these technological advances in single-photon image technology to address three-dimensional imaging and quantum-enhanced imaging, including ghost imaging. The project will utilise advanced image processing algorithms for image reconstruction with these sparse photon measurements.