Single Photon and Quantum Enhanced Imaging

这个博士将研究围绕单光子和量子增强成像的关键问题。例如，由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，为InGaAs/InP探测器技术提供了替代方案，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。镶嵌滤波器在快速多光谱和高光谱成像方面具有关键优势，该项目将研究将其整合到单光子技术中，用于主动和被动成像，特别是短波红外成像。微透镜的效率提高的潜力将被检查，并在单光子焦平面阵列上的激光写入微透镜的第一次尝试将被尝试。该项目将利用单光子成像技术的这些技术进步来解决三维成像和量子增强成像，包括重影成像。该项目将利用先进的图像处理算法，通过这些稀疏光子测量进行图像重建。

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.