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Imaging through a strongly diffusive medium remains an outstanding challenge in particular in association with applications in biological and medical imaging. Here we propose a method based on a single-photon time-of-flight camera that…

Lensless optical imaging eliminates the need for refractive optics, enabling compact and low-cost cameras with a large field-of-view, supporting point-of-care diagnostics and industrial monitoring. Practical deployments, however, remain…

We demonstrate a compressed sensing, photon counting lidar system based on the single-pixel camera. Our technique recovers both depth and intensity maps from a single under-sampled set of incoherent, linear projections of a scene of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , Matthew R. Ware , John C. Howell

Terahertz (THz) imaging provides cutting edge technique in biology, medical sciences and non-destructive evaluation. However, due to the long wavelength of the THz wave, the obtained resolution of THz imaging is normally a few hundred…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-22 Jiayu Zhao , Wei Chu , Lanjun Guo , Zhi Wang , Ya Cheng , Weiwei Liu , Zhizhan Xu

We present a single-shot detection method of terahertz-correlated second harmonic generation in plasma-based sources by directly mixing an optical probe into femtosecond laser-induced plasma filaments in air. The single-shot second harmonic…

Observing and studying the evolution of rare non-repetitive natural phenomena such as optical rogue waves or dynamic chemical processes in living cells is a crucial necessity for developing science and technologies relating to them. One…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Farshid Shateri , Shiva Behzadfar , Zahra Kavehvash

In this text, results of a 0.35 terahertz (THz) dynamic aperture imaging approach are presented. The experiments use an optical modulation approach and a single pixel detector at a stand-off imaging distance of approx 1 meter. The optical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-22 Sven Augustin , Peter Jung , Sven Frohmann , Heinz-Wilhelm Huebers

Lightwave-driven terahertz scanning tunnelling microscopy (THz-STM) is capable of exploring ultrafast dynamics across a wide range of materials with angstrom resolution. In contrast to scanning near-field optical microscopy, where photons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Vedran Jelic , Stefanie Adams , Mohamed Hassan , Kaedon Cleland-Host , S. Eve Ammerman , Tyler L. Cocker

Compressive spectral imaging (CSI) has emerged as an alternative spectral image acquisition technology, which reduces the number of measurements at the cost of requiring a recovery process. In general, the reconstruction methods are based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Jorge Bacca , Yesid Fonseca , Henry Arguello

Spectral vision task plays a pivotal role in extracting discriminative spectral-spatial features from high-dimensional data, enabling fine-grained identification beyond human vision. Traditional methods usually involve first collecting rich…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jiaqi Song , Baolei Liu , Muchen Zhu , Yao Wang , Yue Yu , Zhaohua Yang , Xiaolan Zhong , Fan Wang

An appealing requirement from the well-known diffraction tomography (DT) exists for success reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data. Inspired by the well-known compressive sensing (CS), the accurate super-resolution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Lianlin Li , Wenji Zhang , Fang Li

We developed a coherent frequency-domain THz spectroscopic technique on a coplanar waveguide in the ultrabroad frequency range from 200 MHz to 1.6 THz based on continuous wave (CW) laser spectroscopy. Optical beating created by mixing two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Katsumasa Yoshioka , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki , Masayuki Hashisaka

Sub-terahertz (Sub-THz) waves possess exceptional attributes, capable of penetrating non-metallic and non-polarized materials while ensuring bio-safety. However, their practicality in imaging is marred by the emergence of troublesome…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-07 Shao-Hsuan Wu , Yiyao Zhang , Ke Chen , Shang Hua Yang

Terahertz (THz) technology is promising in several applications such as imaging, spectroscopy and communications. Among several methods in the generation and detection of THz waves, a THz time domain system (TDS) that is developed using…

Terahertz (THz) generation by optical rectification in LiNbO$_3$ (LN) is a widely used technique for generating intense THz radiation. The spatiotemporal characterization of THz pulses from these sources is currently limited to far-field…

We report on the measurement of terahertz electric-field vector waveforms by using a system that contains no mechanical moving parts. It is known that two phase-locked femtosecond lasers with different repetition rates can be used to…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-26 Mayuri Nakagawa , Makoto Okano , Shinichi Watanabe

Single-shot ultrafast absorbance spectroscopy based on the frequency encoding of the kinetics is analyzed theoretically and implemented experimentally. The kinetics are sampled in the frequency domain using linearly chirped, amplified 33 fs…

The microwave imaging based on inverse scattering strategy holds important promising in the science, engineering, and military applications. Here we present a compressed-sensing (CS) inspired large- aperture computational single-sensor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Dapeng Lao , Lianlin Li , Jun Ding , Yun Bo Li , Tie Jun Cui

In low-altitude surveillance and early warning systems, detecting weak moving targets remains a significant challenge due to low signal energy, small spatial extent, and complex background clutter. Existing methods struggle with extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Weihua Gao , Chunxu Ren , Wenlong Niu , Xiaodong Peng

Temporal imaging systems are outstanding tools for single-shot observation of optical signals that have irregular and ultrafast dynamics. They allow long time windows to be recorded with femtosecond resolution, and do not rely on complex…