Counting of overlapped photon detector single pulses by analog/digital sampling and deconvolution
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng in Optical Engineering
- Vol. 36 (1) , 210-216
- https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601161
Abstract
The application of analog/digital converters and inverse techniques for optical receiving by photon detectors, when their output single pulses are strongly overlapped, is described. It is shown that the counting of overlapped pulses can be realized by a set of linear transformations—conversion of single pulses into decayed oscillations, digitizing, averaging, Fourier deconvolution, normalizing, and digital filtering. This method does not use discriminators, being insensitive to the pulse shape. The theoretical analysis is supported by computer simulations and experimental data. It is shown that photon statistics can be saved into the retrieved optical profiles at mean counting rates exceeding 1 GHz. The retrieving error is not higher than Poisson fluctuations. This method is effective simultaneously in the both typical regimes of photon detectors—photon counting and overlapping. It can be applied in lidar remote sensing, time-resolved spectroscopy, etc. © 1997 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Key words: photon counting; overlapped single pulses; inverse problems; analog/digital sampling.Keywords
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