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Long-baseline interferometry (LBI) is used to reconstruct the image of faint thermal objects. The image quality, for a given exposure time, is in general limited by a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We show theoretically that a significant…

We introduce a framework for the reconstruction of the amplitude, phase and polarisation of an optical vector-field using calibration measurements acquired by an imaging device with an unknown linear transformation. By incorporating…

We introduce a novel laser-scanning optical microscopy technique that employs optical-frequency-comb (OFC) lasers. This method facilitates multimodal spectroscopic imaging by analyzing interferograms produced via a dual-comb spectroscopic…

Many important techniques for investigating the properties of extragalactic radio sources, such as spectral-index and rotation-measure mapping, involve the comparison of images at two or more frequencies. In the case of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Croke , D. C. Gabuzda

Polarimetric imaging has been applied in a growing number of applications in robotic vision (ex. underwater navigation, glare removal, de-hazing, object classification, and depth estimation). One can find on the market RGB Polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

A crucial part of a space mission for very-long baseline interferometery (VLBI), which is the technique capable of providing the highest resolution images in astronomy, is orbit determination of the mission's space radio telescope(s). In…

This paper considers the problem of accurate measurement of circular polarization in imaging spectral-line VLBI observations in the lambda=7 mm and lambda=3 mm wavelength bands. This capability is especially valuable for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. J. Kemball , L. Richter

Long baseline optical interferometry and aperture synthesis using ground-based telescopes can enable unprecedented angular resolution astronomy in the optical domain. However, atmospheric turbulence leads to large, dynamic phase errors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Ross Cheriton , Siegfried Janz , Glen Herriot , Jean-Pierre Véran , Brent Carlson

Fourier ptychographic microscopy is a computational imaging technique that provides quantitative phase information and high resolution over a large field-of-view. Although the technique presents numerous advantages over conventional…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-16 Eric Li , Stuart Sherwin , Gautam Gunjala , Laura Waller

One of the important goals of present research is to control and manipulate coherence in a broad variety of systems, such as semiconductor spintronics, biological photosynthetic systems, superconducting qubits and complex atomic networks.…

Adaptive techniques make practical many quantum measurements that would otherwise be beyond current laboratory capabilities. For example: they allow discrimination of nonorthogonal states with a probability of error equal to the Helstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 H. M. Wiseman , D. W. Berry , S. D. Bartlett , B. L. Higgins , G. J. Pryde

Calibrating telescope data is one of the most important issues an observer faces. In this chapter we describe a number of the methods which are commonly used to calibrate radio telescope data in the centimeter wavelength regime. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. O'Neil

Atmospheric propagation effects at millimeter wavelengths can significantly alter the phases of radio signals and reduce the coherence time, putting tight constraints on high frequency Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations.…

A new type of an optical interferometer is discussed the phase difference between the interfering beams in which is substantially wavelength dependent. It is shown that the function measured with this device is an integral transform of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-29 M. V. Lebedev

This tutorial paper describes the problem of image reconstruction from interferometric data with a particular focus on the specific problems encountered at optical (visible/IR) wavelengths. The challenging issues in image reconstruction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Éric Thiébaut , Jean-François Giovannelli

In this paper, we describe the principle of a multi-aperture interferometer that uses a phase-shifting technique and is suitable for quick, snapshot imaging of astrophysical objects at extreme angular resolution through Fourier inversion. A…

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Environment perception is a key component of any autonomous system and is often based on a heterogeneous set of sensors and fusion thereof for which sensor sensor calibration plays fundamental role. It can be divided to intrinsic and…

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We describe a nonlinear interferometric setup to perform a complete optical Bell measurement, i.e. to unambigously discriminate the four polarization entangled EPR-Bell photon pairs. The scheme is robust against detector inefficiency.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 MGA Paris , M Plenio , D Jonathan , S Bose , GM D'Ariano

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) can perform Fizeau interferometry in the focal plane, which accesses spatial information out to the LBT's full 22.7-m edge-to-edge baseline. This mode has previously been used to obtain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Eckhart Spalding , Phil Hinz , Steve Ertel , Erin Maier , Jordan Stone

Our ability to calibrate current kilometer-scale interferometers can potentially confound the inference of astrophysical signals. Current calibration uncertainties are well described by a Gaussian process. I exploit this description to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Reed Essick