Dual-Mode Imaging Receiver
Category: IT/Electrical
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
United States
Product Description:This single-photon sensitive camera simultaneously produces high-frame-rate imagery while supporting multiple optical communication links from spatially separated users through a single receive aperture (lens).
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
United States
Product Description:This single-photon sensitive camera simultaneously produces high-frame-rate imagery while supporting multiple optical communication links from spatially separated users through a single receive aperture (lens).
Figure 1: The enabling technology is a custom focal plane array that integrates photon-counting detectors with a custom CMOS readout circuit to enable each pixel in the array to function either as an imaging pixel or as a communication receiver, hence the name Dual-Mode Imaging Receiver.