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Improvements to dual-comb interferometers will benefit precision spectroscopy and sensing, distance metrology, tomography, telecommunications etc. A specific requirement of such interferometers is to enforce mutual coherence between the two…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Zaijun Chen , Ming Yan , Theodor W. Hänsch , Nathalie Picqué

We report a broadband long-wave infrared Fourier transform spectrometer with sensitivity exceeding that of previously reported direct-detection implementations. The system combines dual-comb spectroscopy with electro-optic sampling,…

Miniaturized spectrometers for Raman spectroscopy have the potential to open up a new chapter in sensing. Raman spectroscopy is essential for material characterization and biomedical diagnostics, however, its weak signal and the need for…

Nonlinear frequency conversion provides an elegant method to detect photons in a spectral range which differs from the pump wavelength, making it highly attractive for photons with inherently low energy. Aside from the intensity of the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-10 Tobias Pfeiffer , Jens Klier , Georg von Freymann , Daniel Molter

The problem of phase retrieval is a classic one in optics and arises when one is interested in recovering an unknown signal from the magnitude (intensity) of its Fourier transform. While there have existed quite a few approaches to phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Kishore Jaganathan , Yonina C. Eldar , Babak Hassibi

Optical levitation of nanoscale particles has emerged as a platform for precision measurement. Extremely low damping, together with optical interferometric position detection, makes possible exquisite force measurement and promises…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Chris Dawson , James Bateman

An ${\rm SU(1,1)}$ interferometer uses a sequence of two optical parametric amplifiers for achieving sub-shot-noise sensitivity to a phase shift introduced in between. We present the first realization of a wide-field ${\rm SU(1,1)}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 G. Frascella , E. E. Mikhailov , N. Takanashi , R. V. Zakharov , O. V. Tikhonova , M. V. Chekhova

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy provides label-free imaging of biological tissues with unique contrast mechanisms, but its resolution is limited by the diffraction limit. Here, we present the first experimental demonstration of…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-28 Jungho Moon , Sungsam Kang , Jin Hee Hong , Seokchan Yoon , Wonshik Choi

Bragg spectroscopy is one of the best established experimental methods for high energy resolution X-ray measurements; however, this technique is limited to the measurement of photons producedfrom well collimated (tens of microns) or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-08 A. Scordo , C. Curceanu , M. Miliucci , F. Sirghi , J. Zmeskal

The optical interferometry has been widely used in various high precision applications. Usually, the minimum precision of an interferometry is limited by various technique noises in practice. To suppress such kind of noises, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Guihua Zeng

We propose and explore the potential of a method to extract high signal-to-noise (S/N) integrated spectra related to physical and/or morphological regions on a 2-dimensional field using Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) observations by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. F. Rosales-Ortega , S. Arribas , L. Colina

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become an essential component of modern conditional diffusion models. Although highly effective in practice, the underlying mechanisms by which CFG enhances quality, detail, and prompt alignment are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Tobias Vontobel , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

This paper presents how photonics associated with new arising detection technologies is able to provide fully integrated instrument for coherent beam combination applied to astrophysical interferometry. The feasibility and operation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Pierre Kern , Etienne Le Coärer , Pierre Benech

Space Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (S-VLBI) observations at high frequencies hold the prospect of achieving the highest angular resolutions and astrometric accuracies, resulting from the long baselines between ground and satellite…

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Interferometric scattering microscopy has been a very promising technology for highly sensitive label-free imaging of a broad spectrum of biological nanoparticles from proteins to viruses in a high-throughput manner. Although it can reveal…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Celalettin Yurdakul , Haonan Zong , Yeran Bai , Ji-Xin Cheng , M. Selim Unlu

Optical phase measurements play a key role in the detection of macroscopic parameters such as position, velocity, and displacement. They also permit to qualify the microscopic properties of photonic waveguides such as polarization mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Romain Dalidet , Laurent Labonté , Gregory Sauder , Sébastien Tanzilli , Anthony Martin

Optical phase determination is an important and established tool in diverse fields such as astronomy, biology, or quantum optics. There is increasing interest in using a lower number of total photons. However, different noise sources, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Q. Pears Stefano , A. G. Magnoni , D. Rodrigues , J. Tiffenberg , C. Iemmi

Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Haoshuo Chen , Nicolas K. Fontaine , Joan M. Gene , Roland Ryf , David T. Neilson , Gregory Raybon

Radio interferometry probes astrophysical signals through incomplete and noisy Fourier measurements. The theory of compressed sensing demonstrates that such measurements may actually suffice for accurate reconstruction of sparse or…

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