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We give instructions for the construction and operation of a simple apparatus for performing optically detected magnetic resonance measurements on diamond samples containing high concentrations of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. Each NV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Haimei Zhang , Carina Belvin , Wanyi Li , Jennifer Wang , Julia Wainwright , Robbie Berg , Joshua Bridger

Spin ensembles of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are emerging as powerful spin-based sensors for magnetic, electric and thermal field imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here we characterize the formation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-13 Tim R. Eichhorn , Claire A. McLellan , Ania C. B. Jayich

This paper proposes an efficient approach for tuning L1 feedback filter of adaptive controller for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. The feedback filter provides performance that trades off fast closed loop dynamics, robustness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Babajide O. Ayinde , Mohamed A. Abido

We investigate the improvements in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor image processing that can be realised using total variation minimisation techniques to remove noise from these images. We perform Monte-Carlo simulation to demonstrate that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Alastair Basden

Given the variety of the visual world there is not one true scale for recognition: objects may appear at drastically different sizes across the visual field. Rather than enumerate variations across filter channels or pyramid levels, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Dequan Wang , Evan Shelhamer , Bruno Olshausen , Trevor Darrell

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method to strongly increase the sensitivity of spin measurements on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, which can be readily implemented in existing quantum sensing experiments. While charge…

Sparse sensor placement is a central challenge in the efficient characterization of complex systems when the cost of acquiring and processing data is high. Leading sparse sensing methods typically exploit either spatial or temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Thomas L. Mohren , Thomas L. Daniel , Steven L. Brunton , Bingni W. Brunton

This paper improves visual-inertial systems to boost the localization accuracy for low-cost rescue robots. When robots traverse on rugged terrain, the performance of pose estimation suffers from big noise on the measurements of the inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoling Long , Qingwen Xu , Yijun Yuan , Zhenpeng He , Sören Schwertfeger

Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas yet it still remains a highly challenging research topic. Omni-swarm, a decentralized omnidirectional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hao Xu , Yichen Zhang , Boyu Zhou , Luqi Wang , Xinjie Yao , Guotao Meng , Shaojie Shen

We propose a strategy to measure weak static magnetic fields with nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond. Inspired by avian magnetoreception models, we consider the feasibility of utilizing quantum coherence phenomena to measure weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Lu-Si Li , Hong-Hui Li , Li-Li Zhou , Zhi-Sheng Yang , Qing Ai

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

The sensitivity in optical interferometry is strongly affected by losses during the signal propagation or at the detection stage. The optimal quantum states of the probing signals in the presence of loss were recently found. However, in…

Inhomogeneities in the refractive index of a biological sample can introduce phase aberrationsin microscopy systems, severely impairing the quality of images. Adaptive optics can be employed to correct for phase aberrations and improve…

Camera placement is crutial in multi-camera systems such as virtual reality, autonomous driving, and high-quality reconstruction. The camera placement challenge lies in the nonlinear nature of high-dimensional parameters and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yihan Cao , Jiazhao Zhang , Zhinan Yu , Kai Xu

We develop an improved phase calibration method of a reflective spatial light modulator (SLM) using interferometry by employing novel phase masks. We generate the optimised phase masks by using Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm (IFTA)…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Amar Deo Chandra , Ayan Banerjee

Measuring field-aligned currents (FACs) using magnetic field observations provides a powerful means to probe the multi-scale interactions between the magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere. In this study, we apply the curlometer…

Vector magnetometry is an essential tool in characterizing the distribution of currents and magnetization in a broad range of systems. Point defect sensors, like the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, have demonstrated impressive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 N. M. Beaver , N. Voce , P. Meisenheimer , R. Ramesh , P. Stevenson

Quantum magnetometers based on spin defects in solids enable sensitive imaging of various magnetic phenomena, such as ferro- and antiferromagnetism, superconductivity, and current-induced fields. Existing protocols primarily focus on static…

The precise optical, label-free, measurement of mass at the nanoscale has been significantly advanced by techniques based on interferometric scattering, such as mass photometry (MP). These methods exploit the interference between a…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jan Becker

The extraction of weak signals plays a crucial role in quantum precision measurement, where the estimation results are often limited by low signal-to-noise ratios. Here, we demonstrate a parameter-estimation framework based on the adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yihan Wang , Xiaofeng Jin , Yuchuan Ming , Jianxiang Miao , Xiao-Ming Lu , M. W. Mitchell , Jia Kong