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Photoacoustic imaging is a new non-destructive medical imaging technology based on photoacoustic effect. It can reflect the difference of light absorption energy by detecting photoacoustic signal. At present, the analysis methods of…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xianlin Song , Jianshuang Wei , Qi Jiang , Lingfang Song

A statistical model of the nonlinear response of silicon photomultipliers is presented. It includes losses of both the photodetection efficiency and the gain during pixel recovery periods as well as the effect of correlated and uncorrelated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Jaime Rosado

We develop a first-principles theory of phonon-assisted optical absorption in semiconductors and insulators which incorporates the temperature dependence of the electronic structure. We show that the Hall-Bardeen-Blatt theory of indirect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-22 Marios Zacharias , Christopher E. Patrick , Feliciano Giustino

We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Franklyn Quinlan , Tara M. Fortier , Haifeng Jiang , Scott A. Diddams

We study the optical response of a binary system of identical atoms in which one of them is excited by an incoherent pump. %We study the properties of photon scattering, absorption and emission, together with the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 L. Acevedo , J. Sánchez-Cánovas , M. Donaire

We theoretically study how time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy can be applied for imaging coherent electron dynamics in molecules. We consider a process in which a pump pulse triggers coherent electronic dynamics in a…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Daria Popova-Gorelova , Jochen Küpper , Robin Santra

We show that by manipulating the momentum (k) of a propagating optical pulse, the intensity can be controlled and highly enhanced in a linear binary photonic time crystal (PTC) system. The optical pulse equipped with k lying within the…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-24 Snehashis Sadhukhan , Somnath Ghosh

n a recent experiment, we reported the time-domain intensity noise measurement of a single photon source relying on single molecule fluorescence control. In this article we present data processing, starting from photocount timestamps. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Romain Alleaume , Francois Treussart , Jean-Michel Courty , Jean-Francois Roch

Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is a powerful technique for investigating the dynamics of excited carriers in quantum materials. Typically, data analysis proceeds via the inspection of time distribution curves (TDCs),…

We study the linear optical absorption of bulk semiconductors in the presence of a homogeneous constant (dc) electric field with an approach suitable for including excitonic effects while working with many-band models. The absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Federico Duque-Gomez , J. E. Sipe

It is proposed a few-atom Doppler-sensitive absorption spectroscopy scheme resolving the long-standing dilemma regarding the nature of an atomic quantum translational motion (superpositional or non-superpositional) and its measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 A. Zh. Muradyan

The time-frequency degree of freedom of the electromagnetic field is the final frontier for single-photon measurements. The temporal and spectral distribution a measurement retrodicts (that is, the state it projects onto) is determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Tzula B. Propp , Steven J. van Enk

We present the Focus-Induced Photoresponse (FIP) technique, a novel approach to optical distance measurement. It takes advantage of a widely-observed phenomenon in photodetector devices: a nonlinear, irradiance-dependent photoresponse. This…

Spontaneous emission of a photon by an atom is described theoretically in three dimensions with the initial wave function of a finite-mass atom taken in the form of a finite-size wave packet. Recoil and wave-packet spreading are taken into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fedorov , M. A. Efremov , A. E. Kazakov , K. W. Chan , C. K. Law , J. H. Eberly

We describe block oriented multidimensional pulse position modulation and its resilience against impulsive noise. The modulation implements the encoder and part of the decoder of the BBC algorithm. We tested the modulation on circuits that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-22 Michael D. Collins , William B. Johnson

The aim of the study is to demonstrate that some methods are more relevant for implementing the Real-Time Nearfield Acoustic Holography than others. First by focusing on the forward propagation problem, different approaches are compared to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-10-13 Jean-Hugh Thomas , Vincent Grulier , Sébastien Paillasseur , Jean-Claude Pascal

A theory is presented (and supported by numerical simulations) for phase-coherent reflection of light by a disordered medium which either absorbs or amplifies radiation. The distribution of reflection eigenvalues is shown to be the Laguerre…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. C. J. Paasschens , P. W. Brouwer

When used with coherent light, optical imaging systems, even diffraction-limited, are inherently unable to reproduce both the amplitude and the phase of a two-dimensional field distribution because their impulse response function varies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brainis , C. Muldoon , L. Brandt , A. Kuhn

The time-domain technique for impedance spectroscopy consists of computing the excitation voltage and current response Fourier images by fast or discrete Fourier transformation and calculating their relation. Here we propose an alternative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-12-14 Daniil D. Stupin , Sergei V. Koniakhin , Nikolay A. Verlov , Michael V. Dubina

We show that a laser pulse can always be found that induces a desired optical response from an arbitrary dynamical system. As illustrations, driving fields are computed to induce the same optical response from a variety of distinct systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Andre G. Campos , Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Herschel Rabitz