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Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

Active polarimetric imagery is a powerful tool for accessing the information present in a scene. Indeed, the polarimetric images obtained can reveal polarizing properties of the objects that are not avalaible using conventional imaging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Muriel Roche , Philippe Réfrégier

We report the efficient creation and detection of hybrid entanglement between one photon's polarization and another photon's complex transverse polarization pattern. The polarization measurement of the first photon triggers a polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Robert Fickler , Radek Lapkiewicz , Sven Ramelow , Anton Zeilinger

In this last of a series of three papers on the development of an advanced solid-state neutron polarizer, we present the final construction of the polarizer and the results of its commissioning. The polarizer uses spin-selective reflection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-22 A. K. Petoukhov , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , T. Bigault , P. Courtois , A. Devishvili , D. Jullien , T. Soldner

Measuring relativistic reflection is an important tool to study the innermost regions of the an accreting black hole system. In the following we present a brief review on the different aspects contributing to the relativistic reflection.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 Thomas Dauser , Javier A. García , Jörn Wilms

Reprocessing of X-ray pulsar radiation by the atmosphere of a companion in a binary system may result in reflected pulse radiation with a period of the pulses equal to the period of the pulsar under suitable conditions. In this paper the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. V. Dementyev

In this paper, we calculate some of the polarized neutron matter properties, using the lowest order constrained variational method with the $AV_{18}$ potential and employing a microscopic point of view. A comparison is also made between our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-26 G. H. Bordbar , M. Bigdeli

Neutron reflectometry is a powerful tool used for studies of surfaces and interfaces. In general the absorption in the typical studied materials can be neglected and this technique is limited to the measurement of the reflectivity only. In…

We review recent progress on the modeling and use of reflection spectra from irradiated and ionized accretion discs. On the computational side, calculations of reflection spectra from discs with non-uniform density structure have shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Ballantyne , R. R. Ross , A. C. Fabian

We introduce the technique of Entangled-Beam Reflectometry for extracting spatially correlated (magnetic or non-magnetic) information from material surfaces or thin films. Our amplitude- and phase-sensitive technique exploits the coherent…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-23 Q. Le Thien , R. Pynn , G. Ortiz

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

Polarized neutron scattering is a very important analysis technique for studies of magnetism, spintronics, and high-sensitivity measurements, among others, offering invaluable information. Yet, the efficiency of such experiments rely on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 A. Zubayer , N. Ghafoor , A. Glavic , J. Stahn , M. Lorentzon , A. Le Febvrier , P. Eklund , J. Birch , F. Eriksson

The reflections caused by common semi-reflectors, such as glass windows, can impact the performance of computer vision algorithms. State-of-the-art methods can remove reflections on synthetic data and in controlled scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Patrick Wieschollek , Orazio Gallo , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz

Unlike opaque object, novel view synthesis of transparent object is a challenging task, because transparent object refracts light of background causing visual distortions on the transparent object surface along the viewpoint change.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Heechan Yoon , Seungkyu Lee

Reconstructing an object's geometry and appearance from multiple images, also known as inverse rendering, is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and vision. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed because the captured image is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Akshat Dave , Yongyi Zhao , Ashok Veeraraghavan

In this study, we explore an approach aimed at enhancing the transmission or reflection coefficients of absorbing materials through the utilization of joint measurements of entangled photon states. On the one hand, through the…

Information on the polarization properties of scattered light from plasmonic systems are of paramount importance due to fundamental interest and potential applications. However, such studies are severely compromised due to the experimental…

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Optical approaches for wavefront shaping traditionally rely on phase modulation through holographic techniques. Shaping the phase determines a wave's diffraction and hence its intensity distribution in space. We instead show that shaping…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron