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We report on recent technical developments in the front- and back-ends for the four 20 m radio telescopes of the Japanese Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) project, VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). We present a brief…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Kazuhiro Hada , Mieko Takamura , Tomoaki Oyama , Aya Yamauchi , Syunsaku Suzuki

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

The conversion of phase variations in an optical wavefield into intensity information is of fundamental importance for optical imaging technology including microscopy of biological cells. While conventional approaches to phase-imaging…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-07 Lukas Wesemann , Jon Rickett , Timothy J. Davis , Ann Roberts

This manuscript is concerned with phase changes of signals transmitted through deforming optical fibres. As a first result, it establishes an exact relation between observable phase changes and the deformation tensor along the fibre. This…

Since space-domain information can be utilized, microphone array beamforming is often used to enhance the quality of the speech by suppressing directional disturbance. However, with the increasing number of microphone, the complexity would…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lu Ma , Xin Zhao , Pei Zhao , Tengrong Su

VLBI is unique, among the space geodetic techniques, in its contribution to defining and maintaining the International Celestial Reference Frame, providing precise measurements of coordinates of extragalactic radiosources. The quest for…

Nonlinear interferometers are promising tools for quantum metrology, as they are characterized by an improved phase sensitivity scaling compared to linear interferometers operating with classical light. However, the multimodeness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Scharwald , T. Meier , P. R. Sharapova

Collaborative beamforming enables nodes in a wireless network to transmit a common message over long distances in an energy efficient fashion. However, the process of making available the same message to all collaborating nodes introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-22 Lun Dong , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

Interferometric observations of stars in late stages of stellar evolution and the impact of VLTI observations are discussed. Special attention is paid to the spectral information that can be derived from these observations and on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Bloecker , K. -H. Hofmann , G. Weigelt

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Interferometry is the primary density control diagnostic for large-scale fusion devices, including ITER and DEMO. In this paper we present a ray tracing simulation based on TRAVIS accounting for relativistic effects. The study shows that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-13 K. J. Brunner , N. Marushchenko , Y. Turkin , W. Biel , J. Knauer , M. Hirsch , R. Wolf

New generation of radio interferometers are envisaged to produce high quality, high dynamic range Stokes images of the observed sky from the corresponding under-sampled Fourier domain measurements. In practice, these measurements are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jasleen Birdi , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

All 21-cm signal experiments rely on electronic receivers that affect the data via both multiplicative and additive biases through the receiver's gain and noise temperature. While experiments attempt to remove these biases, the residuals of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Bang D. Nhan , Alec Handy , Neil Bassett , Joshua Hibbard , David Bordenave , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns

Radio interferometer arrays such as HERA consist of many close-packed dishes arranged in a regular pattern, giving rise to a large number of `redundant' baselines with the same length and orientation. Since identical baselines should see an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Samir Choudhuri , Philip Bull , Hugh Garsden

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

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The optimal source-finding strategy for linear polarization data is an unsolved problem, with many inhibitive factors imposed by the technically-challenging nature of polarization observations. Such an algorithm is essential for Square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 J. S. Farnes , G. Heald , H. Junklewitz , D. D. Mulcahy , M. Haverkorn , C. L. Van Eck , C. J. Riseley , M. Brentjens , C. Horellou , V. Vacca , D. I. Jones , A. Horneffer , R. Paladino

We present computer simulations of interferometric imaging with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Astronomical MultiBEam Recombiner (AMBER) phase-closure instrument. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Przygodda , T. Bloecker , K. -H. Hofmann , G. Weigelt

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is one of the systematic challenges preventing 21cm interferometric instruments from detecting the Epoch of Reionization. To mitigate the effects of RFI on data analysis pipelines, numerous inpaint…

Phase imaging techniques extract the optical path-length information of a scene, whereas wavefront sensors provide the shape of an optical wavefront. Since these two applications have different technical requirements, they have developed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Soldevila , V. Durán , P. Clemente , J. Lancis , E. Tajahuerce

Here we introduce interferometric devices by combining optical feedback (cavities) with unbiased multiports, which unlike traditional beam dividers, allow light to reflect back out of the port from which it originated. By replacing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Christopher R. Schwarze , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko