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A method is described for the reconstruction of the amplitude and phase of the object exit wave function by phase-plate transmission electron microscopy. The proposed method can be considered as in-line holography and requires three images,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 B. Gamm , M. Dries , K. Schultheiss , H. Blank , A. Rosenauer , R. R. Schröder , D. Gerthsen

We propose a method to track signals from quadrant photodiodes (QPD) in heterodyne laser interferometers that employ digital phase-locked loops for phase readout. Instead of separately tracking the four segments from the QPD and then…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-17 Gerhard Heinzel , Miguel Dovale Álvarez , Alvise Pizzella , Nils Brause , Juan José Esteban Delgado

Optical heterodyne detection is a powerful technique for characterizing a wide range of physical excitations. Here, we use two types of optical heterodyne detection techniques (fundamental and parametric pumping) to microscopically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 A. Alemán , A. A. Awad , S. Muralidhar , R. Khymyn , A. Kumar , A. Houshang , D. Hanstorp , J. Åkerman

Phase super-sensitivity is obtained when the sensitivity in a phase measurement goes beyond the quantum shot noise limit, whereas super-resolution is obtained when the interference fringes in an interferometer are narrower than half the…

Ultrathin flat meta-optics have shown great promise for holography in recent years. However, most of the reported meta-optical holograms rely on only phase modulation and neglect the amplitude information. Modulation of both amplitude and…

Mode division multiplexing (MDM) is mooted as a technology to address future bandwidth issues, and has been successfully demonstrated in free space using spatial modes with orbital angular momentum (OAM). To further increase the data…

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

The detection of ultrafast optical and radio-frequency (RF) signals is crucial for applications ranging from high-speed communications to advanced sensing. However, conventional detectors are fundamentally constrained by their intrinsic…

Phase retrieval in inline holography is a fundamental yet ill-posed inverse problem due to the nonlinear coupling between amplitude and phase in coherent imaging. We present a novel off-the-shelf solution that leverages a diffusion model…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-12 Jeongsol Kim , Chanseok Lee , Jongin You , Jong Chul Ye , Mooseok Jang

Multi-wavelength digital holography enables surface-shape measurements with an exceptional dynamic range by combining interferometric resolution with synthetic wavelengths spanning multiple length scales. Although the concept promises…

Holography is an optical technique enabling to record phase objects. Holographic interferometry uses this faculty to make a phase object interfere with a memory of itself at a preceding time, recorded on a hologram. Interference fringes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-23 Jean Colombani , Jacques Bert

Sensing with undetected photons allows access to spectral regions with simultaneous detection of photons of another region and is based on nonlinear interferometry. To obtain the full information of a sample, the corresponding interferogram…

The detection of individual photons is an inherently binary mechanism, revealing either their absence or presence while concealing their spectral information. For multi-color imaging techniques, such as single photon spectroscopy,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-27 O. Kahl , S. Ferrari , V. Kovalyuk , A. Vetter , G. Lewes-Malandrakis , C. Nebel , A. Korneev , G. Goltsman , W. Pernice

High-energy (1-100 keV) electrons can coherently couple to plasmonic and dielectric nanostructures creating cathodoluminescence (CL) of which the spectral features reveal details of the material's resonant modes at deep-subwavelength…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 N. J. Schilder , H. Agrawal , E. C. Garnett , A. Polman

Mutual phase coherence is the most crucial factor in asynchronous optical sampling system, and its enhancement is commonly achieved by phase-locking both femtosecond lasers to a shared narrow-linewidth cavity-stabilized laser. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Honglei Yang , Shengkang Zhang , Huan Zhao , Jun Ge

We demonstrate the feasibility of high-quality digital holography of the human retina in real-time with a fast camera and commodity computer hardware. High throughput rendering of digital Fresnel holograms from optically-acquired inline…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Leo Puyo , Loic Bellonnet-Mottet , Antoine Martin , Francois Te , Michel Paques , Michael Atlan

We propose a method for optical nano-imaging in which the structure of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous medium may be recovered from far-field power measurements. Neither phase control of the illuminating field nor phase measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Alexander A. Govyadinov , George Y. Panasyuk , John C. Schotland

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway

In the Tapping mode, a variation of the oscillation amplitude and phase as a function of the tip sample distance is the necessary measurement to access quantitatively to the properties of the surface. In the present work, we give a…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-08-16 Jean-Pierre Aimé , Rodolphe Boisgard , Laurent Nony , Gérard Couturier