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In this article we investigate the Fresnel diffraction characteristics of the hybrid optical element which is a combination of a spiral phase plate (SPP) with topological charge p and a thin lens with focal length f, named the helical lens…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 Ljiljana Janicijevic , Suzana Topuzoski

The Gaussian process (GP) is a Bayesian nonparametric paradigm that is widely adopted for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in a number of safety-critical applications, including robotics, healthcare, as well as surveillance. The consistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jinwen Xu , Qin Lu , Georgios B. Giannakis

The Gaussian state description of continuous variables is adapted to describe the quantum interaction between macroscopic atomic samples and continuous-wave light beams. The formalism is very efficient: a non-linear differential equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Madsen , K. Mølmer

We address several estimation problems in quantum optics by means of the maximum-likelihood principle. We consider Gaussian state estimation and the determination of the coupling parameters of quadratic Hamiltonians. Moreover, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Mauro D'Ariano , Matteo G. A. Paris , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

The Gaussian beam superposition method is an asymptotic method for computing high frequency wave fields in smoothly varying inhomogeneous media. In this paper we study the accuracy of the Gaussian beam superposition method and derive error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Mohammad Motamed , Olof Runborg

We introduce a Bayesian framework for measuring spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) in ultra-intense lasers that reconceptualizes what constitutes a 'single-shot' measurement. Moving beyond traditional distinctions between single- and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-06 J. Esslinger , N. Weisse , C. Eberle , J. Schroeder , S. Howard , P. Norreys , S. Karsch , A. Döpp

We derive a general expression that quantifies the total entanglement production rate in continuous variable systems, where a source emits two entangled Gaussian beams with arbitrary correlators.This expression is especially useful for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhi Jiao Deng , Steven J. M. Habraken , Florian Marquardt

Gaussian Splatting (GS) offers a promising alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) for real-time 3D scene rendering. Using a set of 3D Gaussians to represent complex geometry and appearance, GS achieves faster rendering times and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pedro Martin , António Rodrigues , João Ascenso , Maria Paula Queluz

We explore the computation of high-harmonic generation spectra by means of Gaussian basis sets in approaches propagating the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We investigate the efficiency of Gaussian functions specifically designed…

Gaussian beams are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions concentrated on a single curve through the physical domain, and superposition of Gaussian beams provides a powerful tool to generate more general high frequency solutions to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Hailiang Liu , James Ralston , Peimeng Yin

Multimode Gaussian quantum light, including multimode squeezed and/or multipartite quadrature entangled light, is a very general and powerful quantum resource with promising applications to quantum information processing and metrology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-05 Olivier Pinel , Julien Fade , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre

We report an algorithm, based on quantum optics formulation, where a coherent state is used as the elementary quantum resource for the image representation. We provide an architecture with constituent optical elements in linear order with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Vivek Mehta , Sonali Jana , Utpal Roy

A Gaussian beam method is presented for the analysis of the energy of the high frequency solution to the mixed problem of the scalar wave equation in an open and convex subset, with initial conditions compactly supported in this set, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Jean-Luc Akian , Radjesvarane Alexandre , Salma Bougacha

Bayesian analysis is a framework for parameter estimation that applies even in uncertainty regimes where the commonly used local (frequentist) analysis based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound is not well defined. In particular, it applies when no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Simon Morelli , Ayaka Usui , Elizabeth Agudelo , Nicolai Friis

We deduce the simplest form for an axicon Gaussian laser beam, i.e., one with radial polarization of the electric field.

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T. McDonald

We develop a theory of the propagation and focusing of the THz Gaussian laser beam through the layered superconductor slab of finite thickness in the presence of an external DC magnetic field in a nonlinear regime. We show that, in this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-01 N. Kvitka , H. V. Ovcharenko , Z. A. Maizelis , S. S. Apostolov , V. A. Yampol`skii

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Gaussian particles provide a flexible framework for modelling and simulating three-dimensional star-shaped random sets. In our framework, the radial function of the particle arises from a kernel smoothing, and is associated with an…

We present a Bayesian algorithm to combine optical imaging of unresolved objects from distinct epochs and observation platforms for orbit determination and tracking. By propagating the non-Gaussian uncertainties we are able to optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-26 Michael D. Schneider , William A. Dawson

Bayesian optimisation has gained great popularity as a tool for optimising the parameters of machine learning algorithms and models. Somewhat ironically, setting up the hyper-parameters of Bayesian optimisation methods is notoriously hard.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-01 Ziyu Wang , Nando de Freitas