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Existing super-resolution methods of optical imaging hold a solid place as an application in natural sciences, but many new developments allow for beating the diffraction limit in a more subtle way. One of the recently explored strategies…

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We propose to use high numerical aperture single mode optical fibers like photonic crystal fiber for lensless in-line holographic microscopy. Highly divergent beam helps to overcome the spatial sampling limitation of the image sensor. In…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab K. Dutta

We propose and demonstrate that a conventional multimode fiber can function as a high resolution, low loss spectrometer. The proposed spectrometer consists only of the fiber and a camera that images the speckle pattern generated by…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Hui Cao

For the past forty years, optical fibres have found widespread use in ground-based and space-based instruments. In most applications, these fibres are used in conjunction with conventional optics to transport light. But photonics offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Seong-Sik Min , Emma Lindley , Sergio Leon-Saval , Simon Ellis , John Lawrence , Martin Roth , Hans-Gerd Lohmannsroben , Sylvain Veilleux

The mid-infrared spectral window is essential for molecular fingerprinting and atmospheric sensing, yet unlocking its full potential is currently constrained by a fundamental instrumental trade-off: existing systems cannot simultaneously…

We present a proof of concept compact diffraction limited high-resolution fiber-fed spectrograph by using a 2D multicore array input. This high resolution spectrograph is fed by a 2D pseudo-slit, the Photonic TIGER, a hexagonal array of…

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Recently, we demonstrated how an astrophotonic light reformatting device, based on a multicore fibre photonic lantern and a three-dimensional waveguide component, can be used to efficiently reformat the point spread function of a telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Fraser A. Pike , Aurélien Benoît , David G. MacLachlan , Robert J. Harris , Itandehui Gris Sánchez , David Lee , Tim A. Birks , Robert R. Thomson

This article presents a method to perform diffraction tomography in a standard microscope that includes an LED array for illumination. After acquiring a sequence of intensity-only images of a thick sample, a ptychography-based…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-30 Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang

The resolution limits of classical spectroscopy can be surpassed by quantum-inspired methods leveraging the information contained in the phase of the complex electromagnetic field. Their counterpart in spatial imaging has been widely…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-02 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak

The integrated optical circuit is a promising architecture for the realization of complex quantum optical states and information networks. One element that is required for many of these applications is a high-efficiency photon detector…

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…

Microscopes and various forms of interferometers have been used for decades in optical metrology of objects that are typically larger than the wavelength of light {\lambda}. However, metrology of subwavelength objects was deemed impossible…

The spectrogram is a classical DSP tool used to view signals in both time and frequency. Unfortunately, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal limits our ability to use them for detecting and measuring narrowband signal modulation in wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Ray Maleh , Frank A. Boyle

One of the problems of producing instruments for Extremely Large Telescopes is that their size (and hence cost) scales rapidly with telescope aperture. To try to break this relation alternative new technologies have been proposed, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert James Harris , Jeremy Allington-Smith

We investigate the potential of photonic lantern (PL) fiber fed spectrometers for two-dimensional spectroastrometry. Spectroastrometry, a technique for studying small angular scales by measuring centroid shifts as a function of wavelength,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Yoo Jung Kim , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Jonathan Lin , Yinzi Xin , Daniel Levinstein , Steph Sallum , Nemanja Jovanovic , Sergio Leon-Saval

We demonstrate the use of an optimized 5 core photonic lantern (PL) to simultaneously measure tip/tilt errors at the telescope focal plane, while also providing the input to an instrument. By replacing a single mode (SM) fiber with the PL…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-24 Mark K. Corrigan , Timothy J. Morris , Robert J. Harris , Theodoros Anagnos

Photonic lanterns (PLs) are tapered waveguides that gradually transition from a multi-mode fiber geometry to a bundle of single-mode fibers. In astronomical applications, PLs can efficiently couple multi-mode telescope light into a…

We introduce an approach for performing spectrally resolved electron microscopy without the need for an electron spectrometer. The method involves an electron beam prepared as a coherent superposition of multiple paths, one of which passes…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-24 F. Javier García de Abajo , Cruz I. Velasco

We demonstrate a new kind of optical spectrometer employing photonic crystal patterns to outcouple waveguided light from a transparent substrate. This spectrometer consists of an array of photonic crystal patterns, nanofabricated in a…