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This paper presents a performance analysis framework for linear detection in fast-fading channels with possibly correlated channel and noise. The framework is both accurate and adaptable, making it well-suited for analyzing a wide range of…
The use of optical fiber as sensor as well as transmission medium for sensing data is discussed, enabling the use of optically active sensors without power supply at distances of tens of kilometers. Depending on the interrogation system, a…
Photonic systems and technologies traditionally relegated to table-top experiments are poised to make the leap from the laboratory to real-world applications through integration. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) lasers, through their…
Future wireless networks may operate at millimeter-wave (mmW) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) frequencies to enable high data rate requirements. While large antenna arrays are critical for reliable communications at mmW and sub-THz bands, these…
Automatic detection of faults in optical fibers is an active area of research that plays a significant role in the design of reliable and stable optical networks. A fiber measurement system that combines automated data acquisition and…
Optical fibres constitute an exceptional sensing platform. However, standard fibres present an inherent sensing challenge: they confine light by design to an inner core. Consequently, nearly all distributed fibre sensors are restricted to…
We describe an easy-to-implement technique that allows for a complete experimental characterization of sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fibers. Our method is based on a direct and fast numerical analysis of the backward Brillouin…
In fiber optic sensing, time delays induced by polarization mode dispersion can distort signals in systems relying on phase or intensity variations for measurement, degrading performance, especially in long distance, high-precision…
Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…
The accuracy of traditional localization methods significantly degrades when the direct path between the wireless transmitter and the target is blocked or non-penetrable. This paper proposes N2LoS, a novel approach for precise…
Highly coherent sensing matrices arise in discretization of continuum imaging problems such as radar and medical imaging when the grid spacing is below the Rayleigh threshold. Algorithms based on techniques of band exclusion (BE) and local…
Monitoring the optical phase change in a fiber enables a wide range of applications where fast phase variations are induced by acoustic signals or vibrations in general. However, the quality of the estimated fiber response strongly depends…
A standard multimode optical fiber can be used as a general purpose spectrometer after calibrating the wavelength dependent speckle patterns produced by interference between the guided modes of the fiber. A transmission matrix was used to…
In fiber-fed galaxy redshift surveys, the finite size of the fiber plugs prevents two fibers from being placed too close to one another, limiting the ability of studying galaxy clustering on all scales. We present a new method for…
Biclustering is a powerful unsupervised learning technique for simultaneously identifying coherent subsets of rows and columns in a data matrix, thus revealing local patterns that may not be apparent in global analyses. However, most…
The backhaul of hundreds of light fidelity (LiFi) base stations (BSs) constitutes a major challenge. Indoor wireless optical backhauling is a novel approach whereby the interconnections between adjacent LiFi BSs are provided by way of…
Scattering induced mode splitting in active microcavities is demonstrated. Below the lasing threshold, quality factor enhancement by optical gain allows resolving, in the wavelength-scanning transmission spectrum, the resonance dips of the…
We propose a new machine-learning approach for fiber-optic communication systems whose signal propagation is governed by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE). Our main observation is that the popular split-step method (SSM) for…
We present a method for measuring the transmission loss of an optical fiber using simplified optical correlation-domain reflectometry. By intentionally lowering the spatial resolution of the system, we observe the Rayleigh scattered signal…
This paper analyzes the spatial bandwidth of line-of-sight (LoS) channels in massive MIMO systems. For the linear large-scale antenna arrays (LSAA) of transceivers placed in random locations in 3D space, a simple but accurate closed-form…