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Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lukas Danner , Max Hofheinz , Nicolas Bourlet , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

We propose and demonstrate a computational imaging technique that uses structured illumination based on a two-dimensional discrete cosine transform to perform imaging with a single-pixel detector. A scene is illuminated by a projector with…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-17 Bao-Lei Liu , Zhao-Hua Yang , Ling-An Wu

We consider the use of single-photon counting detectors in coherence-domain imaging. Detectors operated in this mode exhibit reduced noise, which leads to increased sensitivity for weak light sources and weakly reflecting samples. In…

Recent advances in photographic sensing technologies have made it possible to achieve light detection in terms of a single photon. Photon counting sensors are being increasingly used in many diverse applications. We address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Paramanand Chandramouli , Samuel Burri , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon , Andreas Kolb

Single-pixel compressive imaging can recover images from a small amount of measurements, offering many benefits especially for the scenes where the array detection is unavailable. However, the widely used random patterns fail to explore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Wen-Kai Yu , Yi-Ming Liu

Compressive sensing (CS) combines data acquisition with compression coding to reduce the number of measurements required to reconstruct a sparse signal. In optics, this usually takes the form of projecting the field onto sequences of random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Davood Mardani , H. Esat Kondakci , Lane Martin , Ayman F. Abouraddy , George K. Atia

The conventional high-level sensing techniques require high-fidelity images as input to extract target features, which are produced by either complex imaging hardware or high-complexity reconstruction algorithms. In this letter, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Hao Fu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

An experiment demonstrating single-pixel single-arm complementary compressive microscopic ghost imaging based on a digital micromirror device (DMD) has been performed. To solve the difficulty of projecting speckles or modulated light…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-14 Wen-Kai Yu , Xu-Ri Yao , Xue-Feng Liu , Long-Zhen Li , Ling-An Wu , Guang-Jie Zhai

Single-photon avalanche detectors (SPADs) are crucial sensors of light for many fields and applications. However, they are not able to resolve photon number, so typically more complex and more expensive experimental setups or devices must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Patrick Banner , Deniz Kurdak , Yaxin Li , Alan Migdall , J. V. Porto , S. L. Rolston

Cameras for imaging in short and mid-wave infrared spectra are significantly more expensive than their counterparts in visible imaging. As a result, high-resolution imaging in those spectrum remains beyond the reach of most consumers. Over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Huaijin Chen , M. Salman Asif , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Single photon detectors are important for a wide range of applications each with their own specific requirements, which makes necessary the precise characterization of detectors. Here, we present a simple and accurate methodology of…

Single-pixel imaging leverages a single-pixel detector and structured illumination patterns to reconstruct images, offering a cost-effective solution for imaging across a wide range of wavelengths, such as x-ray and terahertz. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Hamidreza Oliaei-Moghadam

The measurement rate of cameras that take spatially multiplexed measurements by using spatial light modulators (SLM) is often limited by the switching speed of the SLMs. This is especially true for single-pixel cameras where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jian Wang , Mohit Gupta , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

A limitation of many compressive imaging architectures lies in the sequential nature of the sensing process, which leads to long sensing times. In this paper we present a novel architecture that uses fewer detectors than the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Tomas Björklund , Enrico Magli

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) stands out as one of the most widely used microscopy techniques, thanks to its three-dimensional imaging capability and its sub-diffraction spatial resolution, achieved through the closure of a…

Faint light spectroscopy has many important applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy, lidar and astronomical observations. However, long measurement time limit its application on real-time measurement. In this work, a photon counting…

We demonstrate a wavefront sensor based on the compressive sensing, single-pixel camera. Using a high-resolution spatial light modulator (SLM) as a variable waveplate, we weakly couple an optical field's transverse-position and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-30 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

The Compressive Sensing (CS) as a novel acquisition approach that finds its usage in image processing. The hypothesis like this one assures signal recovery with high quality from decreased number of samples compared with the number required…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Drazen Jelic , Ana Scekic , Melvudin Hot , Nemanja Sevaljevic

Compressed sensing (CS) is an innovative technique allowing to represent signals through a small number of their linear projections. In this paper we address the application of CS to the scenario of progressive acquisition of 2D visual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Giulio Coluccia , Enrico Magli

The abundant spatial and angular information from light fields has allowed the development of multiple disparity estimation approaches. However, the acquisition of light fields requires high storage and processing cost, limiting the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Emmanuel Martinez , Edwin Vargas , Henry Arguello