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Double-Fourier interferometry is the most viable path to sub-arcsecond spatial resolution for future astronomical instruments that will observe the universe at far-infrared wavelengths. The double transform spatio-spectral interferometry…

While, in general, interferometers provide high spatial resolution for imaging small-scale structure (corresponding to high spatial frequencies in the Fourier plane), single-dishes can be used to image the largest spatial scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Stanimirovic

Biological soft tissues encountered in clinical and pre-clinical imaging mainly consist of light element atoms, and their composition is nearly uniform with little density variation. Thus, x-ray attenuation imaging suffers from low image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Wenxiang Cong , Atsushi Momose , Ge Wang

Microscopes face a trade-off between spatial resolution, field-of-view, and frame rate -- improving one of these properties typically requires sacrificing the others, due to the limited spatiotemporal throughput of the sensor. To overcome…

After reionization, emission in the 21 cm hyperfine transition provides a direct probe of neutral hydrogen distributed in galaxies. Different from galaxy redshift surveys, observation of baryon acoustic oscillations in the cumulative 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Xiao-Chun Mao

Image simulation for scanning transmission electron microscopy at atomic resolution for samples with realistic dimensions can require very large computation times using existing simulation algorithms. We present a new algorithm named PRISM…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-24 Colin Ophus

To obtain the initial pressure from the collected data on a planar sensor arrangement in Photoacoustic tomography, there exists an exact analytic frequency domain reconstruction formula. An efficient realization of this formula needs to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Julian Schmid , Thomas Glatz , Behrooz Zabihian , Mengyang Liu , Wolfgang Drexler , Otmar Scherzer

This study introduces a short-time Fourier transform-based method for reconstructing signals encoded using modulo analog-to-digital converters with 1-bit folding information. In contrast to existing Fourier-based reconstruction approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Neil Irwin Bernardo

A real-time ranging lidar with 0.1 Mega Hertz update rate and few-micrometer resolution incorporating dispersive Fourier transformation and instantaneous microwave frequency measurement is proposed and demonstrated. As time-stretched…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Lijie Zhao , Haiyun Xia , Yihua Hu , Tengfei Wu , Zhen Zhang , Jibo Han , Yunbin Wu , Tiancheng Luo

The Tianlai Pathfinder is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of using a wide field of view radio interferometers to map the density of neutral hydrogen in the Universe after the Epoch of Reionizaton. This approach, called 21~cm…

Entangled photons (biphotons) in the time-frequency degree of freedom play a crucial role in both foundational physics and advanced quantum technologies. Fully characterizing them poses a key scientific challenge. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Baihong Li , Changhua Chen , Boxin Yuan , Xiaofei Zhang , Ruifang Dong , Shougang Zhang , Rui-Bo Jin

We present the design of an all-reflective, bi-folded Schmidt telescope aimed at surveys of extended astronomical objects with extremely-low surface brightness. The design leads to a high image quality without any diffracting spider, along…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Eduard Muslimov , David Valls-Gabaud , Gérard Lemaître , Emmanuel Hugot , Wilfred Jahn , Simona Lombardo , Xin Wang , Pascal Vola , Marc Ferrari

Nonlinear interferometers allow for mid-infrared spectroscopy with near-infrared detection using correlated photons. Previous implementations have demonstrated a spectral resolution limited by spectrally selective detection. In our work, we…

We have developed a digital fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectrometer made of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The base instrument has independent ADC and FPGA modules, which allow us to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kazumasa Iwai , Yûki Kubo , Hiromitsu Ishibashi , Takahiro Naoi , Kenichi Harada , Kenji Ema , Yoshinori Hayashi , Yuichi Chikahiro

Fourier single-pixel imaging (FSI) has proven capable of reconstructing high-quality two-dimensional and three-dimensional images. The utilization of the sparsity of natural images in Fourier domain allows high-resolution images to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Zibang Zhang , Xueying Wang , Jingang Zhong

Full-color imaging is significant in digital pathology. Compared with a grayscale image or a pseudo-color image that only contains the contrast information, it can identify and detect the target object better with color texture information.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yuting Gao , Jiurun Chen , Aiye Wang , An Pan , Caiwen Ma , Baoli Yao

Following the recent developement of Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) in the visible range by Zheng et al. (2013), we propose an adaptation for hard x-rays. FPM employs ptychographic reconstruction to merge a series of low-resolution,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-27 H. Simons , H. F. Poulsen , J. P. Guigay , C. Detlefs

Fractional programming (FP) arises in various communications and signal processing problems because several key quantities in the field are fractionally structured, e.g., the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound, the Fisher information, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Kaiming Shen , Ziping Zhao , Yannan Chen , Zepeng Zhang , Hei Victor Cheng

It is shown here that precision is gained by analyzing the interferometric spectra directly from the interferograms, with no previous Fourier transformation to put them in the standard frequency domain. The method is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-20 Miguel Lagos , Rodrigo Paredes , Cesar Retamal

The ability to subtract foreground contamination from low-frequency observations is crucial to reveal the underlying 21 cm signal. The traditional line-of-sight methods can deal with the removal of diffuse emission and unresolved point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-Chun Mao