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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

Coherent manipulation of atomic states is a key concept in high-precision spectroscopy and used in atomic fountain clocks and a number of optical frequency standards. Operation of these standards can involve a number of cyclic switching…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 M. Kazda , V. Gerginov , N. Huntemann , B. Lipphardt , S. Weyers

Time-resolved atom interferometry, as employed in applications such as gravitational wave detection and searches for ultra-light dark matter, requires precise control over systematic effects. In this work, we investigate phase noise arising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Noam Mouelle , Jeremiah Mitchell , Valerie Gibson , Ulrich Schneider

We present an optimized Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) with phase change materials for photonic neural networks (PNNs). With 0.2 dB loss, -38 dB crosstalk, and length of 52 micrometer, the designed MZI significantly improves the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Amin Shafiee , Sanmitra Banerjee , Benoit Charbonnier , Sudeep Pasricha , Mahdi Nikdast

The analysis of adaptive carrier phase estimation is investigated in long-haul high speed n-level phase shift keying (n-PSK) optical fiber communication systems based on the one-tap normalized least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tianhua Xu , Tiegen Liu , Yimo Zhang , Gunnar Jacobsen , Jie Li , Sergei Popov

In this paper, we present PTZ-Calib, a robust two-stage PTZ camera calibration method, that efficiently and accurately estimates camera parameters for arbitrary viewpoints. Our method includes an offline and an online stage. In the offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jinhui Guo , Lubin Fan , Bojian Wu , Jiaqi Gu , Shen Cao , Jieping Ye

A single intensity-only holographic interferogram can records the full amplitude and phase information of optical field. However, current digital holography technologies cannot recover the lossless phase information from a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Qinnan Zhang , Shengyu Lu , Jiaosheng Li , Wenjie Li , Dong Li , Xiaoxu Lu , Liyun Zhong , Jindong Tian

The quality of energy produced in renewable energy systems has to be at the high level specified by respective standards and directives. The estimation accuracy of grid signal parameters is one of the most important factors affecting this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Józef Borkowski , Dariusz Kania

Accurate flux density calibration is essential for precise analysis and interpretation of observations across different observation modes and instruments. In this research, we firstly introduce the flux calibration model incorporated in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Ziming Liu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Chen Xu , Tiantian Liang , Qingze Chen , Ningyu Tang , Qingliang Yang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have emerged as a promising technology for future 6G wireless networks, offering programmable control of the wireless environment by adjusting the phase shifts of reflecting elements. However, IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Xianhua Yu , Dong Li

The super-sensitivity attained in quantum phase estimation is known to be compromised in the presence of decoherence. This is particularly patent at blind spots -- phase values at which sensitivity is totally lost. One remedy is to use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Walker Larson , Bahaa Saleh

In this paper we compare the performance of multi and single-mode interferometry for the estimation of the phase of the complex visibility. We provide a theoretical description of the interferometric signal which enables to derive the phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Tatulli , N. Blind , J. P. Berger , A. Chelli , F. Malbet

We study a spectral initialization method that serves a key role in recent work on estimating signals in nonconvex settings. Previous analysis of this method focuses on the phase retrieval problem and provides only performance bounds. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Yue M. Lu , Gen Li

Studies of MHD turbulence often investigate the Fourier power spectrum to provide information on the nature of the turbulence cascade. However, the Fourier power spectrum only contains the Fourier amplitudes and rejects all information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

Blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) is a vital marker for healthcare monitoring. Traditional SpO2 estimation methods often rely on complex clinical calibration, making them unsuitable for low-power, wearable applications. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Zequan Liang , Ruoyu Zhang , Wei Shao , krishna Karthik , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless vital sign monitoring using standard RGB cameras. However, existing methods rely on fixed parameters optimized for particular lighting conditions and camera setups, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Cecilia G. Morales , Fanurs Chi En Teh , Kai Li , Pushpak Agrawal , Artur Dubrawski

The authors demonstrate a form of two-photon-counting interferometry by measuring the coincidence counts between single-photon-counting detectors at an output port of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) following injection of broad-band…

Strong turbulence conditions create amplitude aberrations through the effects of near-field diffraction. When integrated over long optical path lengths, amplitude aberrations (seen as scintillation) can nullify local areas in the recorded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-30 Justin R. Crepp , Stanimir O. Letchev , Sam J. Potier , Joshua H. Follansbee , Nicholas T. Tusay

The diffraction contrast modalities accessible by X-ray grating interferometers are not imaged directly but have to be inferred from sine like signal variations occurring in a series of images acquired at varying relative positions of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-01 Jonas Dittmann , Andreas Balles , Simon Zabler

Phase-contrast imaging is an emerging technology that may increase the signal-difference-to-noise ratio in medical imaging. One of the most promising phase-contrast techniques is Talbot interferometry, which, combined with energy-sensitive…