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Ultrafast experiments require precise temporal characterization of laser pulses, where pulse reconstruction is typically achieved through iterative retrieval algorithms. In this context, the amplitude swing technique has emerged as a robust…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-12 Cristian Barbero , Íñigo J. Sola , Benjamín Alonso

We demonstrate that full temporal characterisation of few-cycle electromagnetic pulses, including retrieval of the carrier envelope phase (CEP), can be directly obtained from Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) techniques in which the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Edward W. Snedden , David A. Walsh , Steven P. Jamison

We propose a simple all-in-line single-shot scheme for diagnostics of ultrashort laser pulses, consisting of a multi-mode fiber, a nonlinear crystal and a CCD camera. The system records a 2D spatial intensity pattern, from which the pulse…

High-throughput computational imaging requires efficient processing algorithms to retrieve multi-dimensional and multi-scale information. In computational phase imaging, phase retrieval (PR) is required to reconstruct both amplitude and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Xuyang Chang , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

Tuneable ultrafast laser pulses are a powerful tool for measuring difficult-to-access degrees of freedom in materials science. In general these experiments require the ability to address resonances and excitations both above and below the…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Allan S. Johnson , Emmanuel B. Amuah , Christian Brahms , Simon Wall

We present an algorithm for resampling a function from its values on a non-Cartesian grid onto a Cartesian grid. This problem arises in many applications such as MRI, CT, radio astronomy and geophysics. Our algorithm, termed SParse Uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Amir Kiperwas , Daniel Rosenfeld , Yonina C. Eldar

Ultra-long-period (ULP) pulsars, a newly identified class of celestial transients, offer unique insights into astrophysics, though very few have been detected to date. In radio astronomy, most time-domain detection methods cannot find these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 X. Li , K. Adamek , W. Armour

We report a simple fiber-implemented technique for complete reconstruction of intensity profile and phase of ultrashort laser pulses based on processing only pulse spectrum and two self-phase modulated spectra measured after a short piece…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-12 E. A. Anashkina , A. V. Andrianov , M. Yu. Koptev , A. V. Kim

Phase retrieval refers to a classical nonconvex problem of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. Inspired by the compressed sensing technique, signal sparsity is exploited in recent studies of phase retrieval to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zai Yang , Cishen Zhang , Lihua Xie

Temporally multimode squeezed states have been a topic of recent interest due to their applications in quantum communication, information processing, and sensing. Characterizing the mode shapes is crucial for effectively manipulating these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Elina Sendonaris , Thomas Zacharias , Robert Gray , James Williams , Alireza Marandi

We present a phase retrieval algorithm for dispersion scan (d-scan), inspired by ptychography, which is capable of characterizing multiple mutually-incoherent ultrafast pulses (or modes) in a pulse train simultaneously from a single d-scan…

MRI data is acquired in Fourier space/k-space. Data acquisition is typically performed on a Cartesian grid in this space to enable the use of a fast Fourier transform algorithm to achieve fast and efficient reconstruction. However, it has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Daniel Abraham , Mark Nishimura , Xiaozhi Cao , Congyu Liao , Kawin Setsompop

A Python package for the calculation of spectrograms with optimized time and frequency resolution for application in the analysis of numerical simulations on ultrashort pulse propagation is presented. Gabor's uncertainty principle prevents…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 O. Melchert , B. Roth , U. Morgner , A. Demircan

Modern, large scale monitoring systems have to process and store vast amounts of log data in near real-time. At query time the systems have to find relevant logs based on the content of the log message using support structures that can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Julian Reichinger , Thomas Krismayer , Jan Rellermeyer

In recent years, neural networks have been used to solve phase retrieval problems in imaging with superior accuracy and speed than traditional techniques, especially in the presence of noise. However, in the context of interferometric…

We present a convex relaxation-based algorithm for large-scale general phase retrieval problems. General phase retrieval problems include i.a. the estimation of the phase of the optical field in the pupil plane based on intensity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Reinier Doelman , H. Thao Nguyen , Michel Verhaegen

We demonstrate a new ultrafast pulse reconstruction modality which is somewhat reminiscent of frequency resolved optical gating but uses a modified setup and a conceptually different reconstruction algorithm that is derived from…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 D. Spangenberg , E. Rohwer , M. H. Brügmann , T. Feurer

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is high-resolution lensless microscopy that has been applied to image a wide range of specimens using synchrotron radiation, X-ray free electron lasers, high harmonic generation, soft X-ray laser and…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-23 Jose A Rodriguez , Rui Xu , Chien-Chun Chen , Yunfei Zou , Jianwei Miao

Advances in neural imaging have enabled neuroscientists to study how large neural populations conspire to produce perception, behavior and cognition. Despite many advances in optical methods, there exists a fundamental tradeoff between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Esther Whang , Skyler Thomas , Ji Yi , Adam S. Charles

Photoplethysmographic imaging is a camera-based solution for non-contact cardiovascular monitoring from a distance. This technology enables monitoring in situations where contact-based devices may be problematic or infeasible, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Robert Amelard , David A Clausi , Alexander Wong