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This study presents the coherent and dissipative coupling realized in the hybrid photonic resonators that have been achieved via the constructive and destructive interference of the photonic resonator fields with the radiation of a common…

Interaction of charges in CCDs with the already accumulated charge distribution causes both a flux dependence of the point-spread function (an increase of observed size with flux, also known as the brighter/fatter effect) and pixel-to-pixel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-16 Daniel Gruen , Gary M. Bernstein , Mike Jarvis , Barnaby Rowe , Vinu Vikram , Andrés A. Plazas , Stella Seitz

We describe a rapid and direct method for regularizing, post-facto, the point-spread function (PSF) of a telescope or other imaging instrument, across its entire field of view. Imaging instruments in general blur point sources of light by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-20 J. M. Hughes , C. E. DeForest , D. B. Seaton

Most optical and IR spectra are now acquired using detectors with finite-width pixels in a square array. This paper examines the effects of such pixellation, using computed simulations to illustrate the effects which most concern the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-05 J. Gordon Robertson

Coherent photonic computing uses both the phase and amplitude of light to implement linear operations such as dot products and matrix multiplication but requires phase stability between the interfering paths. This poses a challenge for such…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Shenghan Gao , Kathy Lüdge , Francesco Da Ros , Nathan Youngblood

All observations by the aperture photometer (PHT-P) and the far-infrared (FIR) camera section (PHT-C) of ISOPHOT included reference measurements against stable internal fine calibration sources (FCS) to correct for temporal drifts in…

The intra-cluster light (ICL) in observations is usually identified through the surface brightness limit method. In this paper, for the first time we produce the mock images of galaxy groups and clusters using a cosmological hydro-…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Lin Tang , WeiPeng Lin , Weiguang Cui , Xi Kang , Yang Wang , E. Contini , Yu Yu

Integrated photonic neural networks (IPNNs) are emerging as promising successors to conventional electronic AI accelerators as they offer substantial improvements in computing speed and energy efficiency. In particular, coherent IPNNs use…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Sanmitra Banerjee , Mahdi Nikdast , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

We present a new technique for monitoring microlensing activity even in highly crowded fields, and use this technique to place limits on low-mass MACHOs in the haloes of M31 and the Galaxy. Unlike present Galactic microlensing surveys, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Austin B. Tomaney , Arlin P. S. Crotts

Camera Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines can get appealing results in different image signal processing tasks. Nonetheless, the majority of these methods, including those employing an encoder-decoder deep architecture for the task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Yunhao Yang , Yi Wang , Chandrajit Bajaj

Difference imaging or image subtraction is a method that measures differential photometry by matching the pointing and point-spread function (PSF) between image frames. It is used for the detection of time-variable phenomena. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-10 Dun Wang , David W. Hogg , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Bernhard Schölkopf

We introduce a new method to determine the relative contributions of different types of stars to the integrated light of nearby early-type galaxies. As is well known, the surface brightness of these galaxies shows pixel-to-pixel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Pieter van Dokkum , Charlie Conroy

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

We present the implementation and use of algorithms for matching point-spread functions (PSFs) within the Pan-STARRS Image Processing Pipeline (IPP). PSF-matching is an essential part of the IPP for the detection of supernovae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Paul A. Price , Eugene A. Magnier

We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

This study investigates some of the consequences of representing the sky by a rectangular grid of pixels on the dynamic range of images derived from radio interferometric measurements. In particular, the effects of image pixelization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. D. Cotton , Juan M. Uson

The photon statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) exhibit dependencies on wavelength, pump power, and coincidence time. Notably, the average photon numbers were found to asymmetrically increase with increasing pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Jeffrey Carvalho , Chiran Wijesundara , Tim Thomay

We present a concept to improve the spatial resolution of silicon pixel-detectors via the implementation of a sub-pixel cross-coupling, which introduces directional charge sharing between pixels. The charge-collection electrode is segmented…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-24 Sinuo Zhang , David-Leon Pohl , Tomasz Hemperek , Jochen Dingfelder

Accessing the point-spread function (PSF) of a complex optical system is important for a variety of imaging applications. However, placing an invasive point source is often impractical, and estimating it blindly with multiple frames is slow…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tengfei Wu , Jonathan Dong , Sylvain Gigan

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…