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We have constructed a thermally compensated field-widened monolithic Michelson interferometer that can be used with a medium-resolution spectrograph to measure precise Doppler radial velocities of stars. Our prototype monolithic fixed-delay…

In this work, a method for directly measuring target velocity in three dimensions using a dual axis correlation interferometric radar is presented. Recent advances have shown that the measurement of a target's angular velocity is possible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Jason Merlo , Eric Klinefelter , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

In passive radar, a network of distributed sensors exploit signals from so-called Illuminators-of-Opportunity to detect and localize targets. We consider the case where the IO signal is available at each receiver node through a reference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mats Viberg , Daniele Gerosa , Tomas McKelvey , Patrik Dammert , Thomas Eriksson

Just as the ordinary Doppler effect serves as a tool to measure radial velocities of celestial objects, so can the relativistic Doppler effect be implemented to measure a combination of radial and transverse velocities by using recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leonid M. Ozernoy

Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable element gains, leading to time, frequency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 S. A. Brackenhoff , A. R. Offringa , M. Mevius , L. V. E. Koopmans , J. K. Chege , E. Ceccotti , C. Höfer , L. Gao , S. Ghosh , F. G. Mertens , S. Munshi

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a non-invasive tool for watching the microstructure of fibrous nerve and muscle tissue. From dMRI, it is possible to estimate 2-rank diffusion tensors imaging (DTI) fields, that are widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Hernan Dario Vargas Cardona , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Alvaro A. Orozco

The existing particle image velocimetry (PIV) do not consider the curvature effect of the non-straight particle trajectory, because it seems to be impossible to obtain the curvature information from a pair of particle images. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yong Lee , Shuang Mei

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), employ synthetic Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) to cancel the otherwise overwhelming laser frequency noise. The phase readouts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

We demonstrated a simple technique for monitoring range variation with millimeter-precision between two remote sites using off-the-shelf wireless communication modules. The need for the flexible positioning of wireless devices is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Bhola R. Panta , Kohta Kido , Satoshi Yasuda , Yuko Hanado , Seiji Kawamura , Hiroshi Hanado , Kenichi Takizawa , Masugi Inoue , Nobuyasu Shiga

The detection of moving infrared dim-small targets has been a challenging and prevalent research topic. The current state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on ConvLSTM to aggregate information from adjacent frames to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Dengyan Luo , Yanping Xiang , Hu Wang , Luping Ji , Shuai Li , Mao Ye

In distributed fiber-optic sensing based on optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR), Doppler frequency shifts due to the changes of disturbances during one sweep period introduce demodulation errors that accumulate along both the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-28 Qiang Yang , Weilin Xie , Congfan Wang , Bowen Li , Xin Li , Xiang Zheng , Wei Wei , Yi Dong

Radio interferometers can measure the full polarization state of incoming waves by cross--correlating all combinations of two orthogonal polarizations at each antenna. The independent sets of electronics used to detect the two polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-18 W. D. Cotton

The Hubble constant value is currently known to 10% accuracy unless assumptions are made for the cosmology (Sandage et al. 2006). Gravitational lens systems provide another probe of the Hubble constant using time delay measurements.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 G. Gürkan , N. Jackson , I. W. A. Browne , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , A. Berciano Alba

High-Sfrequency (HF) ray tracing in the complex ionospheric medium generally faces a fundamental trade-off between path accuracy and computational efficiency. This paper presents a high-fidelity Ray Tracing Method (RTM) synergistically…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Qinglin Li , Wen Liu , Zhigang Zhang , Fengjuan Sun , Rong Chen , Zhongxin Deng , Zhiqiang Yao

Disk-integrated observations of the Sun provide a unique vantage point to explore stellar activity and its effect on measured radial velocities. Here, we report a new approach for disk-integrated solar spectroscopy and evaluate its…

A novel approach for measuring fast oscillations of an absolute value of interferometer optical path difference (OPD) has been developed. The principles of frequency-scanning interferometry are utilized for registration of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 Nikolai Ushakov , Leonid Liokumovich

Managing group-delay (GD) spread is vital for reducing the complexity of digital signal processing (DSP) in long-haul systems using multi-mode fibers. GD compensation through mode permutation, which involves periodically exchanging power…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Oleksiy Krutko , Rebecca Refaee , Anirudh Vijay , Nika Zahedi , J. M. Kahn

Passive radar systems can detect and track the moving targets of interest by exploiting non-cooperative illuminators-of-opportunity to transmit orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. These targets are searched using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Mengjiao Shi , Yunhai Xiao , Peili Li

We propose Intra-Gauge Rotated Vector Sum (IG-RVS), a DSP-based fading mitigation method for coherent ${\varphi}$-OTDR. IG-RVS exploits spatial diversity within the gauge length by phase-aligning and coherently summing neighboring bins,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-18 Igor Koltchanov , André Richter

The next-generation, broadband geodetic very long baseline interferometry system, named VGOS, is developing its global network, and VGOS networks with a small size of 3--7 stations have already made broadband observations from 2017 to 2019.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Ming H. Xu , James M. Anderson , Robert Heinkelmann , Susanne Lunz , Harald Schuh , Guang L. Wang