Noise effect on 2D photoluminescence decay analysis using the RATS method in a single-pixel camera configuration

0569065 - ÚFP 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Junek, Jiří - Žídek, Karel
Noise effect on 2D photoluminescence decay analysis using the RATS method in a single-pixel camera configuration.
Optics Express. Roč. 30, č. 8 (2022), s. 12654-12669. ISSN 1094-4087
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_026/0008390
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : photoluminescence * RATS * single-pixel camera
OECD category: Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)
Impact factor: 3.8, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-30-8-12654&id=470959

Using a random temporal signal for sample excitation (RATS method) is a new, capable approach to measuring photoluminescence (PL) dynamics. The method can be used in single-point measurement (0D), but also it can be converted to PL decay imaging (2D) using a single-pixel camera configuration. In both cases, the reconstruction of the PL decay and PL snapshot is affected by ubiquitous noise. This article provides a detailed analysis of the noise effect on the RATS method and possible strategies for its suppression. We carried out an extensive set of simulations focusing on the effect of noise introduced through the random excitation signal and the corresponding PL waveform. We show that the PL signal noise level is critical for the method. Furthermore, we analyze the role of acquisition time, where we demonstrate the need for a non-periodic excitation signal. We show that it is beneficial to increase the acquisition time and that increasing the number of measurements in the single-pixel camera configuration has a minimal effect above a certain threshold. Finally, we study the effect of a regularization parameter used in the deconvolution step, and we observe that there is an optimum value set by the noise present in the PL dataset. Our results provide a guideline for optimization of the RATS measurement, but we also study effects generally occurring in PL decay measurements methods relying on the deconvolution step.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0340364