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Although several existing and upcoming telescopes have imaging as their primary mode, they also have a sensitive phased-array mode with a multiple-beam forming capability enabling high time resolution studies of several types of objects,…
An FPGA-based digital-receiver has been developed for a low-frequency imaging radio interferometer, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The MWA, located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, consists of…
This letter presents a dual quadrature phasemeter, an implementation of a phase-locked loop designed to track the phase of homodyne and heterodyne inter-satellite laser links. The dual quadrature phasemeters use dual quadrature optical…
An X-ray detector will be presented that is the combination of a segmented ionization chamber featuring one-dimensional spatial resolution integrated with an intelligent ADC front-end, multi DSP processing and embedded PC platform. This…
The second generation (2G) cellular networks are the current workhorse for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Diversity in 2G devices can be present both in form of multiple receive branches and blind repetitions. In presence of…
Efficient operation of a submillimeter interferometer requires remote (preferably automated) control of mechanically tuned local oscillators, phase-lock loops, mixers, optics, calibration vanes and cryostats. The present control system for…
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the world's largest radio telescope, will enhance and boost a large number of science projects, including the search for pulsars. The frequency domain acceleration search is an efficient…
Fluid Antenna Systems (FASs) have recently been proposed for enhancing the performance of wireless communication. Previous antenna designs to meet the requirements of FAS have been based on mechanically movable or liquid antennas and…
In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the spectrometer is a fundamental component of MRI systems, responsible for the transmission of radiofrequency (RF) pulses that excite hydrogen nuclei and the subsequent acquisition of MR signals for…
Large-scale (or massive) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to be one of the key technologies in next-generation multi-user cellular systems, based on the upcoming 3GPP LTE Release 12 standard, for example. In this work, we…
In this paper, we propose a distributed flexible coupler antenna (FCA) array to enhance communication performance with low hardware cost. At each FCA, there is one fixed-position active antenna and multiple passive couplers that can move…
The Data Acquisition System of the LZ experiment, the 10-tonne dark matter detector to be installed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), will collect signals from 788 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Because the signals from…
The scientific motivation is reviewed for a next generation radio observatory operating at frequencies between about 200 MHz and 2 GHz with about 2 orders of magnitude greater sensitivity than that which is currently available, together…
A coupled oscillator array is shown to approximate convolutions with Gabor filters for image processing tasks. Pixelated image fragments and filter functions are converted to voltages, differenced, and input into a corresponding array of…
In this paper we present the electromagnetic modeling and beam pattern measurements of a 16-elements ultra wideband sparse random test array for the low frequency instrument of the Square Kilometer Array telescope. We discuss the importance…
This paper develops a channel estimation technique for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. Our method exploits the sparse structure in mmWave channels for low training overhead and accounts for the phase errors in the channel…
In this paper, we implement a low-latency rapid-prototyping platform for signal processing based on software-defined radios (SDRs) and off-the-shelf PC hardware. This platform allows to evaluate a wide variety of algorithms in real-time…
In the recent years, multi-core processor designs have found their way into many computing devices. To exploit the capabilities of such devices in the best possible way, signal processing algorithms have to be adapted to an operation in…
This work proposes a tri-band shared-aperture antenna array with three wide bands, covering the 5G mid-band and the 6G centimetric band, which is a promising candidate for future 6G base station antennas. The challenge of suppressing…
Computing the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform(sFFT) of a K-sparse signal of size N has emerged as a critical topic for a long time. The sFFT algorithms decrease the runtime and sampling complexity by taking advantage of the signal inherent…