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Nanophotonic technologies inherently rely on tailoring light-matter interactions through the excitation and interference of deeply confined optical resonances. However, existing concepts in optical mode engineering remain heuristic and are…

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Hybrid analog and digital BeamForming (HBF) is one of the enabling transceiver technologies for millimeter Wave (mmWave) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. This technology offers highly directional communication, which is able…

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To develop a low-complexity multicast beamforming method for millimeter wave communications, we first propose a channel gain estimation method in this article. We use the beam sweeping to find the best codeword and its two neighboring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhaohui Li , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Programmable metasurfaces promise a great potential to construct low-cost phased array systems due to the capability of elaborate modulation over electromagnetic (EM) waves. However, they are in either reflective or transmissive mode, and…

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Multi-mode fiber (MMF) endoscopes are a new type of endoscope that use only a single optical fiber to transmit images, achieving much higher spatial resolution for a given diameter than commercial fiber bundle endoscopes. However, a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-22 Ruo Yu Gu , Elaine Chou , Cory Rewcastle , Ofer Levi , Joseph M. Kahn

The control of structured waves has recently opened innovative scenarios in the perspective of radiation propagation and light-matter interaction. In particular, the transmission of customized electromagnetic fields is investigated for…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-26 Gianluca Ruffato , Vincenzo Grillo , Filippo Romanato

We exploit free-space interactions between electron beams and tailored light fields to imprint on-demand phase profiles on the electron wave functions. Through rigorous semiclassical theory involving a quantum description of the electrons,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 F. Javier García de Abajo , Andrea Konečná

This paper introduces a two-and multi-level phase mask design for improved depth of focus. A novel technique is proposed incorporating cubic and generalized cubic wavefront coding (WFC). The obtained system is optical-electronic requiring…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 Vladimir Katkovnik , Nicholas Hogasten , Karen Egiazarian

Broad beam beamforming (BF) design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can be convenient for initial access, synchronization, and sensing capabilities in cellular networks by avoiding overheads of sweeping methods while making…

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Rapid and low-power control over the direction of a radiating light field is a major challenge in photonics and a key enabling technology for emerging sensors and free-space communication links. Current approaches based on bulky motorized…

In photonics, the idea of controlling light in a similar way that magnetic fields control electrons has always been attractive. It can be realized by synthesizing pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs) in photonic crystals (PhCs). Previous works…

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The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scalability. Optics is a promising contender for providing lower…

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The wide bandwidths offered at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have made them an attractive choice for future wireless communication systems. Recent works have presented beamforming strategies for enabling in-band full-duplex (FD)…

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When light passes through a multimode fiber, two-dimensional random intensity patterns are formed due to the complex interference within the fiber. The extreme sensitivity of speckle patterns to the frequency of light paved the way for…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-25 Şahin Kürekci , S. Süleyman Kahraman , Emre Yüce

Controlling the polarization and wavefront of light is essential for compact photonic systems in modern science and technology. This may be achieved by metasurfaces, a new platform that has radically changed the way people engineer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Guowen Ding , Ke Chen , Na Zhang , Junming Zhao , Tian Jiang , Yijun Feng

In astronomy or biological imaging, refractive index inhomogeneities of e.g. atmosphere or tissues induce optical aberrations which degrade the desired information hidden behind the medium. A standard approach consists in measuring these…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-01 Tengfei Wu , Marc Guillon , Gilles Tessier , Pascal Berto

Multimode fibers provide a promising platform for realizing high-power laser amplifiers with suppressed nonlinearities and instabilities. The potential degradation of optical beam quality has been a major concern for highly multimode fiber…

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