“Photoniques”, the magazine published by the SFO (Société Française d’Optique), is a bi-monthly scientific magazine dedicated entirely to the design and implementation of optical solutions.
This summer’s edition dealt specifically with optical applications in the defence sector and we are proud to announce that ISL was asked to provide an article on NLOS (Non-Line-Of-Sight imaging) technology titled “Using light to see around the corner” (see article).
Abstract
The new SPAD (Single Photon Avalanche Diodes) cameras now offer extraordinary performances. As their name suggests, they are sensitive to a single photon of light, and their temporal resolution is constantly increasing, so that currently picosecond resolution may be achieved; some matrices even reaching one megapixel. Such characteristics open up new applications that we could only dream of a short time ago: seeing light travelling through the air (light-in-flight imaging), designing sensors with flight times that come close to spatial resolutions of about 1 mm, or even seeing around the corner (non-line-of-sight imaging, NLOS). This article is dedicated specially to this latter application.
This article follows another article published in 2011 and dedicated entirely to active imaging technology (see here).
Obviously the technology has developed a lot since 2011. It shows very well how much progress research in the field of optics has made at ISL in the last decade. And this passion for dynamic research has not diminished since the founding days of ISL, when Hubert Schardin’s works attracted the attention of the research community (see here).
