LiDAR is the optical alternative to RADAR. By means of laser light a three-dimensional detection of space can be achieved and is used among other things in autonomous vehicles or in robotics. In the recently published publication "Time-stretch LiDAR as a spectrally scanned time-of-flight ranging camera" in Nature Photonics, a system is described that enables fast, inertia-free detection in two spatial dimensions. This independence from inertia-limits is a decisive advantage over mechanical scanning systems and is achieved by a spectral approach and additional time-encoding. The spectro-temporal method in combination with newly developed laser technology is now employed in this time-stretch LiDAR system and enables very fast acquisition speeds.
The full text of the publication can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-019-0548-6
Currently, the manuscript is also available free of charge via a pilot project on the portal researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1749-4893_Nature_Photonics/publication/337692338_Time-stretch_LiDAR_as_a_spectrally_scanned_time-of-flight_ranging_camera/links/5de5ef3f92851c83645d0ce3/Time-stretch-LiDAR-as-a-spectrally-scanned-time-of-flight-ranging-camera.pdfhttps>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0548-6https
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Sebastian 'Nino' Karpf is a Juniorprofessor for translational biomedical photonics at the Institute of Biomedical Optics (BMO) at the University of Lübeck since April 2018. The Juniorprofessorship was established as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Excellence Chair Program (SH-Chair Prof. Robert Huber) and the Excellenccluster "Precision Medicine for Inflammation (PMI)" (DFG - EXC 2167). In these programs, novel optical methods are researched and subsequently applied to biomedical inflammation research.
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