Time-multiplexing non-line-of-sight imaging

Tailin Li; Xianmin Zheng; Kaiyuan Zhao; Min Li; Shiye Xia; Yaqing Liu; Ge Ren; Yihan Luo

doi:10.3788/COL202523.071102

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 7, 071102(2025)

Time-multiplexing non-line-of-sight imaging

Tailin Li^1,2,3,4, Xianmin Zheng^1,2,3,4, Kaiyuan Zhao^1,2,3,4, Min Li^1,2,3,4, Shiye Xia^1,2,3,4, Yaqing Liu^1,2,3,4, Ge Ren^1,2,3,4, and Yihan Luo^1,2,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹National Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China

²Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China

³Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China

⁴University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Tailin Li, Xianmin Zheng, Kaiyuan Zhao, Min Li, Shiye Xia, Yaqing Liu, Ge Ren, Yihan Luo, "Time-multiplexing non-line-of-sight imaging," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 071102 (2025)

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