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We demonstrate high resolution extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coherent diffractive imaging in the most general reflection geometry by combining ptychography with tilted plane correction. This method makes it possible to image extended surfaces…

In this study, we present a novel platform based on scanning microwave microscopy for manipulating and detecting tiny vibrations of nanoelectromechanical resonators using a single metallic tip. The tip is placed on the top of a grounded…

Interferometric imaging is a well established method to image phase objects by mixing the image wavefront with a reference one on a CCD camera. It has also been applied to fast transient phenomena, mostly through the analysis of single…

Multimode fibers recently emerged as compact minimally-invasive probes for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging. However, the commonly used silica fibers have a relatively low numerical aperture (NA) limiting the spatial resolution of a…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Zhouping Lyu , Lyubov Amitonova

The dispersion surfaces of printed periodic structures in layered media are efficiently computed using a full-wave method based on the periodic Method of Moments (MoM). The geometry of the dispersion surface is estimated after mapping the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Denis Tihon , Shambhu Nath Jha , Modeste Bodehou , Christophe Craeye

The characterization of individual nanoparticles in a liquid constitutes a critical challenge for environmental, material, and biological sciences. To detect nanoparticles, electronic approaches are especially desirable owing to their…

Adaptive optics systems are critical in any application where highly resolved imaging or beam control must be performed through a dynamic medium. Such applications include astronomy and free-space optical communications, where light…

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

Wavefront sensing is a set of techniques providing efficient means to ascertain the shape of an optical wavefront or its deviation from an ideal reference. Due to its wide dynamical range and high optical efficiency, the Shack-Hartmann is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 B. Stoklasa , L. Motka , J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

This work presents a novel approach for monocular dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. The surface to be estimated is represented as a piecewise planar surface, defined as a group of surfels each having as parameters its position…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Emanuel Trabes , Julio Daniel Dondo Gazzano , Carlos Federico Sosa Páez

We present surface normal estimation using a single near infrared (NIR) image. We are focusing on fine-scale surface geometry captured with an uncalibrated light source. To tackle this ill-posed problem, we adopt a generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Youngjin Yoon , Gyeongmin Choe , Namil Kim , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

We introduce "microdeflectometry", a novel technique for measuring the microtopography of specular surfaces. The primary data is the local slope of the surface under test. Measuring the slope instead of the height implies high information…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerd Häusler , Claus Richter , Karl-Heinz Leitz , Markus C. Knauer

We present a novel and straightforward approach for the spatio-spectral characterization of ultrashort pulses. This minimally intrusive method relies on placing a mask with specially arranged pinholes in the beam path before the focusing…

Wavefront shaping can tailor multipath interference to control multiple scattering of waves in complex optical systems. However, full-wave simulations that capture multiple scattering are computationally demanding given the large system…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-14 Ho-Chun Lin , Zeyu Wang , Chia Wei Hsu

In analogy with optical near-field scanning methods, we use tapered dielectric waveguides as probes for a millimeter wave vector network analyzer. By scanning thin samples between two such probes we are able to map the spatially varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Nathan S. Greeney , John A. Scales

We propose a compact snapshot monocular depth estimation technique that relies on an engineered point spread function (PSF). Traditional approaches used in microscopic super-resolution imaging such as the Double-Helix PSF (DHPSF) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Bhargav Ghanekar , Vishwanath Saragadam , Dushyant Mehra , Anna-Karin Gustavsson , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

The Habitable Worlds Observatory requires active speckle suppression to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Focal plane wavefront sensing and control allows us to detect, and subsequently remove, time-varying speckles through measurements…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Joshua Liberman , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Jared R. Males , Kevin Derby , Ewan S. Douglas

Imaging with optical resolution through highly scattering media is a long sought-after goal with important applications in deep tissue imaging. Although being the focus of numerous works, this goal was considered impractical until recently.…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-10 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg

Using a time-gated dual quadrature spectral interferometry technique, for the first time we demonstrate single-shot characterization of both spectral amplitude and phase of ~1THz bandwidth optical arbitrary waveforms generated from a 10 GHz…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-27 V. R. Supradeepa , Daniel E. Leaird , Andrew M. Weiner

Measurements of microscale surface patterns are essential for process and quality control in industries across semiconductors, micro-machining, and biomedicines. However, the development of miniaturized and intelligent profiling systems…