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Assistive visual navigation systems for visually impaired individuals have become increasingly popular thanks to the rise of mobile computing. Most of these devices work by translating visual information into voice commands. In complex…

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The row-column addressed array is an emerging probe for ultrafast 3-D ultrasound imaging. It achieves this with far fewer independent electronic channels and a wider field of view than traditional 2-D matrix arrays, of the same channel…

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays are currently being developed and deployed for astronomical applications in the visible and near infrared and for sub-millimetre astronomy. One of the main drawbacks of MKIDs is that large…

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For trace gas sensing and precision spectroscopy, optical cavities incorporating low-loss mirrors are indispensable for path length and optical intensity enhancement. Optical interference coatings in the visible and near-infrared (NIR)…

Anisotropic Diffusion is widely used for noise reduction with simultaneous preservation of vascular structures in maximum intensity projected (MIP) angiograms. However, extension to minimum intensity projected (mIP) venograms in…

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With the recent surge of generative models, diffusion-based approaches have become mainstream for view synthesis tasks, either in an explicit depth-warp-inpaint or in an implicit end-to-end manner. Despite their success, both paradigms…

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Current architectures for neutral-atom arrays utilize devices such as acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) and spatial light modulators (SLMs) to multiplex a single classical control line into N qubit control lines. Dynamic control is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Edita Bytyqi , Josiah Sinclair , Joshua Ramette , Vladan Vuletić

Camera arrays provide spatial and angular information within a single snapshot. With refocusing methods, focal planes can be altered after exposure. In this letter, we propose a light field refocusing method to improve the imaging quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Yulan Guo , Chao Xiao , Wei An

Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) phased arrays can be an enabling technology for a broad range of applications including free-space laser communications on compact moving platforms. However, scaling PIC phased arrays to a large number of…

It is widely believed that adaptive optics only has a role in correcting turbulent wavefronts on large telescopes using very bright reference stars. Unfortunately these are very scarce and many astronomical targets require wavefront…

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Two key metrics for imaging systems are their magnification and optical bandwidth. While high-quality imaging systems today achieve bandwidths spanning the whole visible spectrum and large changes in magnification via optical zoom, these…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-28 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

We present a virtual reality display that is capable of generating a dense collection of depth/focal planes. This is achieved by driving a focus-tunable lens to sweep a range of focal lengths at a high frequency and, subsequently, tracking…

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Multi-target detection is one of the primary tasks in radar-based localization and sensing, typically built on phased array antennas. However, the bulky hardware in the phased array restricts its potential for enhancing detection accuracy,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Haobo Zhang , Ruoqi Deng , Liang Liu , Boya Di

Compact varifocal lenses are essential to various imaging and vision technologies. However, existing varifocal elements typically rely on mechanically-actuated systems with limited tuning speeds and scalability. Here, an ultrathin…

Despite recent advances, high performance single-shot 3D microscopy remains an elusive task. By introducing designed diffractive optical elements (DOEs), one is capable of converting a microscope into a 3D "kaleidoscope", in which case the…

All-optical devices are essential for next generation ultrafast, ultralow-power and ultrahigh bandwidth information processing systems. Silicon microring resonators (SiMRR) provide a versatile platform for all-optical switching and…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar , Sukhdev Roy

Pinhole imaging is the most primitive and simplest lensless imaging paradigm, capable of transcending the physical limitations of conventional lens optics. This modality is particularly attractive for accessing a virtually infinite depth of…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yanan Li , Kun Huang , Jianan Fang , Zhuohang Wei , Heping Zeng

With the development of high repetition rate laser sources and advanced multi-particle correlation analyses such as covariance mapping, particle detection techniques such as velocity map imaging (VMI) are poised to offer unprecedented views…

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Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Kaniz Fatema , Vaibhav Thakur , Emad A. Mohammed

Advancements in high-efficiency hybrid variable reluctance (HVR) actuators are an enabling technology for building the next generation of large-format deformable mirrors, including adaptive secondary mirrors. The Netherlands Organization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-06 Rachel Bowens-Rubin , Daren Dillon , Philip M. Hinz , Stefan Kuiper