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Ultrafast time-of-flight 3D LiDAR

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Time-of-flight 3D imaging is an invaluable remote sensing tool, but raster speeds are currently limited by pulsed-laser scanning rates. By adapting techniques from ultrafast time-stretch imaging, a new LiDAR platform scans orders of magnitude faster than today’s commercial line-scanning pulsed-LiDAR systems.

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Fig. 1: Time-stretch LiDAR operating principle.

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Lum, D.J. Ultrafast time-of-flight 3D LiDAR. Nat. Photonics 14, 2–4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0568-2

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