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Plasmonic systems have attracted remarkable interest due to their application to the subwavelength confinement of light and the associated enhancement of light-matter interactions. However, this requires light to dwell at a given spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lizhen Lu , Emanuele Galiffi , Kun Ding , Tianyu Dong , Xikui Ma , John Pendry

We propose a method for implementing automated state transformations on single-photon multipath qudits encoded in a one-dimensional transverse spatial domain. It relies on transferring the encoding from this domain to the orthogonal one by…

Optical imaging of the intensity, phase and polarization distributions of optical field is fundamental to numerous applications. Traditional methods rely on bulky optical components and require multiple measurements. Recently,…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-19 Yanjun Bao , Baojun Li

We demonstrate two-step phase-shifting interferometry (holography) of complex laser modes generated by a spatial light modulator (SLM), in which the amplitude and phase of the signal are determined directly from measurements of…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-16 Lark E. Bradsby , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens

Non-visual imaging sensors are widely used in the industry for different purposes. Those sensors are more expensive than visual (RGB) sensors, and usually produce images with lower resolution. To this end, Cross-Modality Super-Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Guy Shacht , Sharon Fogel , Dov Danon , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ilya Leizerson

The on-demand tailoring of light's spatial shape is of great relevance in a wide variety of research areas. Computer-controlled devices, such as Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) or Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs), offer a very accurate,…

Optical phase-space functions describe spatial and angular information simultaneously; examples include light fields in ray optics and Wigner functions in wave optics. Measurement of phase-space enables digital refocusing, aberration…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Label-free imaging of rapidly moving, sub-diffraction sized structures has important applications in both biology and material science, as it removes the limitations associated with fluorescence tagging. However, unlabeled nanoscale…

We present a method for calibrating the response of a phase-only spatial light modulator in nonlinear microscopy. Our method uses the microscope image itself as calibration measurement and requires no additional hardware components. Our…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-04 Daniël W. S. Cox , Harish Sasikumar , Ivo M. Vellekoop

Complex Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) is introduced as a novel approach to phase retrieval enabled control of monochromatic light transmission through highly scattering media. In a simple optical setup, a spatial light modulator is used…

We demonstrate a method to create arbitrary intensity distributions of multiple wavelengths of light, which can be useful for ultracold atom experiments, by using regional phase-calculation algorithms to find a single hologram which is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-26 David Bowman , Philip Ireland , Graham D. Bruce , Donatella Cassettari

Enabling efficient injection of light into single-mode fibers (SMFs) is a key requirement in realizing diffraction-limited astronomical spectroscopy on ground-based telescopes. SMF-fed spectrographs, facilitated by the use of adaptive…

A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm performed in spatial domain based on similarity characteristics is proposed incorporating with region segmentation. In this paper, a new similarity measure is developed based on the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ya-Qiong Zhang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li

The Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is an important image quality metric typically used in the automotive domain. However, despite the fact that optical quality has an impact on the performance of computer vision in vehicle automation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Daniel Jakab , Eoin Martino Grua , Brian Micheal Deegan , Anthony Scanlan , Pepijn Van De Ven , Ciarán Eising

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful technique in biomedical research that uses the fluorophore decay rate to provide additional contrast in fluorescence microscopy. However, at present, the calculation, analysis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Varun Mannam , Yide Zhang , Xiaotong Yuan , Cara Ravasio , Scott S. Howard

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perception of images collected in dim environments and provide high-quality data support for image recognition tasks. When dealing with photos captured under non-uniform illumination, existing…

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Depth cameras are emerging as a cornerstone modality with diverse applications that directly or indirectly rely on measured depth, including personal devices, robotics, and self-driving vehicles. Although time-of-flight (ToF) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Seung-Hwan Baek , Noah Walsh , Ilya Chugunov , Zheng Shi , Felix Heide

In Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) experiments, the acquisition parameters are generally kept constant throughout the collection of a data set. This limits data collection to one data set at a time, and frequent human…

Under a thin lens and paraxial approximation, the phase transformation function of a lens was simulated on a Liquid Crystal (LC) based Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). The properties of an array of such lenses simulated on transmitting type…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-08 Akondi Vyas , M B Roopashree , B Raghavendra Prasad

We propose to enhance the performance of localized plasmon structured illumination microscopy (LP-SIM) via intensity correlations. LP-SIM uses sub-wavelength illumination patterns to encode high spatial frequency information. It can enhance…