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Single photon lidar with low-power laser opens up air and space applications

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The single-photon airborne lidar system could make single-photon lidar practical for air and space applications such as 3D terrain mapping. Image: Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China

The lidar system has the capability to achieve an imaging resolution that surpasses the diffraction limit of light when used with sub-pixel scanning and a new 3D deconvolution algorithm

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