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This work presents, for the first time the optical generation of non-diffracting beams via photorefractive holography. Optical generation of non-diffracting beams using conventional optics components is difficult and, in some instances,…

Passive optical elements can play key roles in photonic applications such as plasmonic integrated circuits. Here we experimentally demonstrate passive gap-plasmon focusing and routing in two-dimensions. This is accomplished using a high…

We consider the problem of estimating the directions of arrival (DOAs) of multiple sources from a single snapshot of an antenna array, a task with many practical applications. In such settings, the classical Bartlett beamformer is commonly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Lioz Berman , Sharon Gannot , Tom Tirer

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a tomographic technique that can be used to measure the three-dimensional (3D) refractive index distribution within living cells without the requirement of any marker. In principle, ODT can be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-03 Paul Müller , Mirjam Schürmann , Chii J. Chan , Jochen Guck

Recent advances in the field of attosecond science hold the promise of tracking electronic processes at the shortest space and time scales. Imaging methods that combine attosecond temporal with nanometer spatial resolution are currently out…

Organic solar cells (OSCs) are uniquely suited for semitransparent applications due to their adjustable absorption spectrum. However, most high-performance semitransparent cells reported to date are based on materials that have shown high…

Topological photonic crystals (PCs) can support robust edge modes to transport electromagnetic energy in an efficient manner. Such edge modes are the eigenmodes of the PDE operator for a joint optical structure formed by connecting together…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Chiu-Yen Kao , Junshan Lin , Braxton Osting

A multispeckle technique for efficiently measuring correctly ensemble-averaged intensity autocorrelation functions of scattered light from non-ergodic and/or non-stationary systems is described. The method employs a CCD camera as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Virgile. Viasnoff , Francois Lequeux , D. J. Pine

The serial nature of two-photon polymerization (2PP) limits fabrication throughput. While diffractive optical elements (DOEs) can be used to generate multiple write spots in a single plane, three-dimensional structures still require…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Thomas Le Deun , Joël Rovera , Kevin Heggarty

Three-dimensional elements, with refractive index distribution structured at sub-wavelength scale, provide an expansive optical design space that can be harnessed for demonstrating multi-functional free-space optical devices. Here we…

Optical neural networks (ONNs) perform extensive computations using photons instead of electrons, resulting in passively energy-efficient and low-latency computing. Among various ONNs, the diffractive optical neural networks (DONNs)…

In this paper, a systematic approach is employed to design a photonic crystal with a boundary between positive and negative refraction to boost the refractive properties of the crystal. Mathematical techniques are employed to turn the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Saeed Pahlavan

Control of light through a microscope objective with a high numerical aperture is a common requirement in applications such as optogenetics, adaptive optics, or laser processing. Light propagation, including polarization effects, can be…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

Deterministic placement of single dopants is essential for scalable quantum devices based on group-V donors in silicon. We demonstrate a non-destructive, high-efficiency method for detecting individual ion implantation events using…

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) typically utilizes limited semantic annotations to obtain initial Class Activation Maps (CAMs). However, due to the inadequate coupling between class activation responses and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongjie Zhu , Zeyu Zhang , Guansong Pang , Xu Wang , Shimin Wen , Yu Bai , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai , Yang Zhao

We present numerical experiments regarding the diffraction characteristics and their precompensation arising from changing the macroscopic geometry of a flat HOE into a sphere segment. In particular, we discuss a parametric optimization…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Tobias Graf , Dominik Hayd

Addressing the need for efficient and integrated multiscale crystallographic and defect analyses of advanced materials, this paper presents the implementation of a new multi-configuration detection system, integrating a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-19 Nohayla El-Khairaoui , Julien Guyon , Nathalie Gey , Luc Morhain , Nabila Maloufi

Beam combination with high efficiency is desirable to overcome the power limit of single electromagnetic sources, enabling long-distance optical communication and high-power laser. The efficiency of coherent beam combination is severely…

Integrated sensing and communication has been identified as an enabling technology for forthcoming wireless networks. In an effort to achieve an improved performance trade-off between multiuser communications and radar sensing, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The computational design of heteroatom-doped organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) remains challenging, as predictive methods must accurately describe long-range charge-transfer (CT) excitations while remaining computationally…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Aditi Singh , Ram Dhari Pandey , Subrata Jana , Prasanjit Samal , Paweł Tecmer , Szymon Śmiga