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This paper explores the prospect of CMOS devices to assay lead in drinking water, using calorimetry. Lead occurs together with traces of radioisotopes, e.g. Lead-210, producing $\gamma$-emissions with energies ranging from 10 keV to several…

This article experimentally examines different configurations of a novel multi-camera array microscope (MCAM) imaging technology. The MCAM is based upon a densely packed array of "micro-cameras" to jointly image across a large field-of-view…

Traditional CMOS sensors suffer from restricted dynamic range and sub optimal performance under extreme lighting conditions. They are affected by electronic noise in low light conditions and pixel saturation while capturing high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Sumit Sharma , Girish Rongali , Kaushik Mitra

In absence of a lens to form an image, incoherent or partially coherent light scattering off an obstructive or reflective object forms a broad intensity distribution in the far field with only feeble spatial features. We show here that…

The development of a multiple-channel lock-in optical spectrometer (LIOS) is presented, which enables parallel phase-sensitive detection at the output of an optical spectrometer. The light intensity from a spectrally broad source is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. S. Fodor , S. Rothenberger , J. Levy

In recent years, scientific CMOS (sCMOS) sensors have found increasing applications to X-ray detection, including X-ray astronomical observations. In order to examine the performance of sCMOS sensors, we have developed X-ray cameras based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Wenxin Wang , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Qiong Wu , Zhenqing Jia , Xinyang Wang , Weimin Yuan , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Inspired by the ever-increasing demand for higher data transmission rates and the tremendous attention toward all-optical signal processing based on miniaturized nanophotonics, in this paper, for the first time, we investigate the…

Fundus photography is indispensable for clinical detection and management of eye diseases. Limited image contrast and field of view (FOV) are common limitations of conventional fundus cameras, making it difficult to detect subtle…

Massive MIMO has been the subject of intense interest in both academia and industry for the past few years. 3GPP standardization for cellular systems have adopted the principles of massive MIMO and categorized the use of large rectangular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Reza Monir Vaghefi , Ramesh Chembil Palat , Giovanni Marzin , Kiran Basavaraju , Yiping Feng , Mihai Banu

The Teledyne COSMOS-66 is a next-generation CMOS camera designed for astronomical imaging, featuring a large-format sensor ($8120 \times 8120$ pixels, each $10 \mu m$), high quantum efficiency, high frame rates, and a correlated…

In this paper, we present the results of rigorous electromagnetic broadband simulations applied to CMOS image sensors as well as experimental measurements. We firstly compare the results of 1D, 2D, and 3D broadband simulations in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 A. Crocherie , Jérôme Vaillant , F. Hirigoyen

We demonstrated a CMOS imaging system that adapts each pixel's exposure and sampling rate to capture high dynamic range (HDR) videos. The system consist of a custom designed image sensor with pixel-wise exposure configurability and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Jie , Zhang , Jonathan P. Newman , Xiao Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , John Rattray , Ralph Etienne-Cummings , Matthew A. Wilson

LiDAR and cameras are two complementary sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving. LiDAR point clouds have accurate spatial and geometry information, while RGB images provide textural and color data for context reasoning. To exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Rui Wan , Shuangjie Xu , Wei Wu , Xiaoyi Zou , Tongyi Cao

The prevalent use of large volume liquid argon detectors strongly motivates the development of novel readout and monitoring technology which functions at cryogenic temperatures. This paper presents the development of a cryogenic CMOS camera…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Nicola McConkey , Neil Spooner , Matthew Thiesse , Michael Wallbank , Thomas Karl Warburton

Dynamic comparators are the core of high-speed, high-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used for communication applications. Most of the dynamic comparators attain high-speed operation only for sufficiently high input difference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Komala Krishna , Nandakumar Nambath

Compressive imaging using coded apertures (CA) is a powerful technique that can be used to recover depth, light fields, hyperspectral images and other quantities from a single snapshot. The performance of compressive imaging systems based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Edwin Vargas , Julien N. P. Martel , Gordon Wetzstein , Henry Arguello

A large field of view of an optical system is needed for many applications, and optical systems with high magnification often suffer from a limited field of view due to the limited size of the camera sensor. This study proposes a novel…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sai Deepika Sure , Jawahar Prabhakar Desai , Joseph Rosen

AXIS, a Probe mission concept now in a Phase A study, will provide transformative studies of high-energy astrophysical phenomena thanks to its high-resolution X-ray spectral imaging. These capabilities are enabled by improvements to the…

Aims. We describe a pilot study to explore a new generation of fast and low noise CMOS image sensors for time domain astronomy, using two remote telescopes with a baseline of 1800 km. Methods. Direct imaging with novel qCMOS image sensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Martin M. Roth , Paško Roje , Stella Vješnica , Stefan Cikota , Alex J. Brown , Mike Kretlow , Marco Azzaro , Santiago Reinhart , Jesús Aceituno , Thomas Kupfer

We present a novel three-dimensional (3D) imaging approach that combines two-dimensional spatial Fourier-domain imaging techniques with traditional radar pulse compression to recover both cross-range and down-range scene information. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer