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Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a valuable label-free modality that has gained significant interest due to its wide potentials, from basic biology to clinical applications. Most existing QPI systems measure microscopic objects via…

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Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a valuable technique by which one can investigate the physical characteristics of the surfaces of materials. However, its widespread use is hampered by the time-consuming nature of running an experiment…

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Stereolithography (SLA) and digital light processing (DLP) are powerful additive manufacturing techniques that address a wide range of applications including regenerative medicine, prototyping, and manufacturing. Unfortunately, these…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Callie I. Higgins , Tobin E. Brown , Jason P. Killgore

In this work is presented a microbalance for single microparticle sensing based on resonating AFM cantilever. The variation of the resonator eigenfrequency is related to the particle mass positioned at the free apex of the cantilever. An…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-09 Marco Mauro , Raffaele Battaglia , Gianluca Ferrini , Roberto Puglisi , Donatella Balduzzi , Andrea Galli

In the present work PLL-based circuits with sinusoidal phase detector characteristic and active proportionally-integrating (PI) filter are considered. The notion of lock-in range -- an important characteristic of PLL-based circuits, which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-29 K. D. Aleksandrov , N. V. Kuznetsov , G. A. Leonov , M. V. Yuldashev , R. V. Yuldashev

Sampling is the first step to convert an analogue optical signal into a digital electrical signal. The latter can be further processed and analysed by well-known electrical signal processing methods. Optical pulse sources like mode-locked…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-10 Stefan Preussler , Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor , Thomas Schneider

The introduction of digital signal processing (DSP) assisted coherent detection has been a cornerstone of modern fiber-optic communication systems. The ability to digitally, i.e. after analogue-to-digital converter, compensate for chromatic…

With recent advances in scanning probe microscopy (SPM), it is now routine to determine the atomic structure of surfaces and molecules while quantifying the local tip-sample interaction potentials. Such quantitative experiments are based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Omur E. Dagdeviren , Yoichi Miyahara , Aaron Mascaro , Tyler Enright , Peter Grütter

We investigate nano scanning in tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) under quality (Q) control via numerical simulations performed in SIMULINK. We focus on the simulation of whole scan process rather than the simulation of cantilever…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Aydin Varol , Ihsan Gunev , Bilal Orun , Cagatay Basdogan

Quasi-phase matching (QPM) is a technique extensively utilized in nonlinear optics for enhancing the efficiency and stability of frequency conversion processes. However, the conventional QPM relies on periodically poled ferroelectric…

Analog quantum simulators can directly emulate time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics, enabling the exploration of diverse physical phenomena such as phase transitions, quench dynamics, and non-equilibrium processes. Realizing accurate analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Yulong Dong , Christopher Kang , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

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

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

The recent introduction of coherent optical communications has created a compelling need for ultra-fast phase-sensitive measurement techniques operating at milliwatt peak power levels and in time scales ranging from sub-picoseconds to…

We introduce a quantum control technique using polychromatic pulse sequences (PPS), consisting of pulses with different carrier frequencies, i.e. different detunings with respect to the qubit transition frequency. We derive numerous PPS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Svetoslav S. Ivanov , Boyan T. Torosov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

Confocal microscopy is the cornerstone of cellular biology and biomedical research due to its non-destructive imaging, compatibility with live cells, sensitivity, optical sectioning, and subcellular resolution. To meet the demand for rapid…

Precise measurements of the frequency and phase of an electrical or optical signal play a key role in various branches of science and engineering. Tracking changing laser frequencies is especially demanding when the lasers themselves are…

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Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) are essential for a wide range of photonic applications, such as frequency metrology, biological imaging, and high-bandwidth coherent communications. The growing demand for compact and scalable photonic systems is…

In current generation digital phase locked loop (DPLL) architectures, techniques like adaptive loop bandwidth with loop order switching and switched phase-detection are employed to achieve better lock time and jitter performance. This work…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pallavi Paliwal , Debasattam Pal , Shalabh Gupta

We revisit the problem of non-parametric closed-loop identification in frequency domain; we give a brief survey of the literature and provide a small noise analysis of the direct, indirect, and joint input-output methods when two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Roy S. Smith