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We present an application of a quadrature phase interferometer to the measurement of the angular position of a parallel laser beam with interferometric precision. In our experimental realization we reach a resolution of 6.8e-10 rad (1.4e-4…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-10-16 Pierdomenico Paolino , Ludovic Bellon

Beam position monitor (BPM) can easily reinforce the handling of beam orbits and measure the absolute beam position [1]. Its data can be used to optimize and correct beam in both first turn and closed orbit mode. In order to set the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Jiandong Yuan , Lizhen Ma , Bin Zhang , Junjie Yao

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is fundamental to fusing multi-modal perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. Traditional calibration methods require extensive data collection in controlled environments and cannot compensate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Weiduo Yuan , Jerry Li , Justin Yue , Divyank Shah , Konstantinos Karydis , Hang Qiu

Interferometric imaging now achieves angular resolutions as fine as 10 microarcsec, probing scales that are inaccessible to single telescopes. Traditional synthesis imaging methods require calibrated visibilities; however, interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Andrew A. Chael , Michael D. Johnson , Katherine L. Bouman , Lindy L. Blackburn , Kazunori Akiyama , Ramesh Narayan

Beam prediction is critical for reducing beam-training overhead in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, especially in high-mobility vehicular scenarios. This paper presents a BEV-Fusion based framework that unifies camera, LiDAR, radar, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Jiaming Zeng , Cunhua Pan , Haoyang Weng , Ruijing Liu , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

We address the problem of calibrating a polarimetric backscattering setup that includes a beamsplitter, taking its optical properties into account. Using Fisher information, we justify a specific calibration configuration involving…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-29 V. Stefanov , B. P. Singh , A. Stefanov

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibration methods. We simplify and refactor the standard TES model…

One major problem of phase-referencing VLBI observations are phase errors due to the unknown tropospheric zenith delay at each antenna. These errors degrade the quality of the phase-referenced image and limit the achievable astrometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid , H. Falcke

The high resolution spectrograph ESPRESSO on the VLT allows measurements of fundamental constants at unprecedented precision and hence enables tests for spacetime variations predicted by some theories. In a series of recent papers, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Chung-Chi Lee , John K. Webb , Robert F. Carswell , Vladimir A. Dzuba , Victor V. Flambaum , Dinko Milaković

This manual is intended to help ALMA and other interferometer users improve images by recognising limitations and how to overcome them and deciding when and how to use self-calibration. The images provided by the ALMA Science Archive are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. M. S. Richards , E. Moravec , S. Etoka , E. B. Fomalont , A. F. Pérez-Sánchez , M. C. Toribio , R. A. Laing

This approach permits much finer adjustments of the beam direction and position when compared to other beam steering techniques of the same mechanical precision. This results in a much increased precision, accuracy and mechanical stability.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 G. Drougakis , K. G. Mavrakis , S. Pandey , G. Vasilakis , K. Poulios , D. G. Papazoglou , W. von Klitzing

A new technique for maintaining high contrast in an atom interferometer is used to measure large de Broglie wave phase shifts. Dependence of an interaction induced phase on the atoms' velocity is compensated by applying an engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tony D. Roberts , Alexander D. Cronin , Martin V. Tiberg , David E. Pritchard

Our aim is to assess the benefits and limitations of using the redundant visibility information in regular phased array systems for improving the calibration. Regular arrays offer the possibility to use redundant visibility information to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Parisa Noorishad , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Arnold van Ardenne , Thijs van der Hulst

Broadband femtosecond-laser frequency combs are filtered to spectrographically resolvable frequency-mode spacing, and the limitations of using cavities for spectral filtering are considered. Data and theory are used to show implications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. A. Braje , M. S. Kirchner , S. Osterman , T. Fortier , S. A. Diddams

With the increased accuracy and angular scale coverage of the recent CMB experiments it has become important to include calibration and beam uncertainties when estimating cosmological parameters. This requires an integration over possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. L. Bridle , R. Crittenden , A. Melchiorri , M. P. Hobson , R. Kneissl , A. N. Lasenby

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway

Deviations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) energy spectrum from a perfect blackbody uniquely probe a wide range of physics, ranging from fundamental physics in the primordial Universe ($\mu$-distortion) to late-time baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Alina Sabyr , Carlos Sierra , J. Colin Hill , Jeffrey J. McMahon

This paper presents a joint calibration scheme for voltage (V) and current (I) probes that helps resolve accurately voltage-current phase differences even when the difference is very close to $90^{\circ}$. The latter has been a major issue…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Mahreen , A. Ganguli , Veda Prakash Gajula , Satyananda Kar , Debaprasad Sahu

We presented a new method for measuring the squares of the amplitudes and phases of partial vortex-beams in a complex beam array in real time. The method is based on measuring the high-order intensity moments and analyzing the solutions of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 A. Volyar , M. Bretsko , Ya. Akimova , Yu. Egorov

Precision calibration poses challenges to experiments probing the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (z~30-6). In both interferometric and global signal experiments, systematic…