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Precise distance metrology and measurements play an important role in many fields of scientific research and industrial manufacture. Dual-comb laser ranging combines sub-wavelength ranging precision, large non-ambiguity range, and high update rate, making it the most promising candidate in precise distance metrology and measurements. However, previous demonstrations of dual-comb ranging suffer from short working distances, limited by the decoherence of lasers in interferometric schemes or by the low sensitivity of the photodetectors in response to the sparse echo photons. Here, we propose and demonstrate time-of-flight laser ranging with dual-comb nonlinear asynchronous optical sampling and photon counting by a fractal superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, achieving ranging precision of 6.2 micrometers with an acquisition time of 100 ms and 0.9 micrometers with an acquisition time of 1 s in measuring the distance of an outdoor target approximately 298 m away.
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