Quantum Enhanced LIDAR

该项目旨在利用从非经典光源获得的量子相关性来帮助提高新兴一代激光雷达系统的性能。 目标检测长期以来一直被认为受益于光学领域中的各种量子效应。许多已经开发的协议提供了很大的希望，但是它们中的大多数缺乏一个或多个功能，这是在实际应用中（如激光雷达）进行现场部署所必需的。 激光雷达是一种类似于雷达的技术，它使用光而不是无线电波来收集周围环境的信息。它在实现自动驾驶汽车方面发挥着关键作用。激光雷达传感器体积大，体积大，价格昂贵。此外，在雨、雪、雨夹雪、冰雹、烟雾和烟雾等条件下，它们的性能会显着恶化。 在这个项目中，我们计划与我们的工业合作伙伴一起开发量子增强激光雷达，以减轻现有激光雷达系统的局限性。

This project aims to utilize quantum correlations in obtained from non-classical sources of light to help enhance the performance of emerging generations of LIDAR systems. Target detection has long been known to benefit from various quantum effects in the optical regime. Many of the already developed protocols offer great promise, however most of them lack one or more feature, which are necessary for their field deployment in practical applications such as LIDAR. Lidar is a technology similar to radar that uses light instead of radio waves to gather information about the surrounding environment. It [plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous vehicles. Lidar sensors are big, bulky and expensive. Moreover, their performance deteriorates significantly in conditions such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, smoke, and smog. In this project together with our industrial partner we plan to develop quantum enhanced LIDAR which can mitigate the limitations of the existing LIDAR systems.