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Quantum imaging with undetected light has recently emerged as a technique in which quantum correlations and nonlinear interferometry are combined to decouple illumination and detection paths. This approach has been more recently extended…

Infrared imaging is indispensable for its ability to penetrate obscurants and visualize thermal signatures, yet its practical use is hindered by the intrinsic limitations of conventional detectors. Nonlinear upconversion, which converts…

The potential for improving the penetration depth of optical coherence tomography systems by using increasingly longer wavelength light sources has been known since the inception of the technique in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, the…

A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Susan Chan , Ryan E. Warburton , Genevieve Gariepy , Jonathan Leach , Daniele Faccio

In the non-line of sight (NLOS) ultraviolet (UV) scattering communication, the received signals exhibit the characteristics of discrete photoelectrons due to the extremely large path loss. We design and demonstrate an NLOS UV scattering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Guanchu Wang , Kun Wang , Chen Gong , Difan Zou , Zhimeng Jiang , Zhengyuan Xu

This paper introduces an identification method that determines whether a millimeter-wave wireless transmission using directional antennas is being established over a line-of-sight (LOS) or a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cluster for indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Pengfei Lyu , Aziz Benlarbi-Delaï , Zhuoxiang Ren , Julien Sarrazin

Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise, super-resolution techniques remain…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephane Perrin , Keshia Badu , Paul Montgomery , Sylvain Lecler

Efficient exploration and mapping in unknown indoor environments is a fundamental challenge, with high stakes in time-critical settings. In current systems, robot perception remains confined to line-of-sight; occluded regions remain unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kush Garg , Akshat Dave

Robust autonomous navigation in environments with limited visibility remains a critical challenge in robotics. We present a novel approach that leverages Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) sensing using single-photon LiDAR to improve visibility and…

Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero , Luke Apostolides , Suman Ghosh , Paul Pu Liang , Ramesh Raskar

Being able to see beyond the direct line of sight is an intriguing prospective and could benefit a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has demonstrated that time-resolved measurements of indirect diffuse light contain…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Julian Iseringhausen , Matthias B. Hullin

A photon-number-resolving detector based on a four-element superconducting nanowire single photon detector is demonstrated to have sub-30-ps resolution in measuring the arrival time of individual photons. This detector can be used to…

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear-optics approach to pattern recognition with single-pixel imaging and deep neural network. It employs mode selective image up-conversion to project a raw image onto a set of coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ting Bu , Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

We develop a scannerless non-line-of-sight three dimensional imaging system based on a commercial 32x32 SPAD camera combined with a 70 ps pulsed laser. In our experiment, 1024 time histograms can be achieved synchronously in 3s with an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Chenfei Jin , Meng Tang , Legeng Jia , Xiaorui Tian , Jie Yang , Kai Qiao , Siqi Zhang

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

The ability to detect and image short-wave infrared light has important applications in surveillance, autonomous navigation, and biological imaging. However, the current infrared imaging technologies often pose challenges due to their large…

In modern high-gain free-electron lasers, ultra-fast photon pulses designed for studying chemical, atomic and biological systems are generated from a serial of behaviors of high-brightness electron beam at the time-scale ranging from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Guanglei Wang , Meng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Haixiao Deng , Xueming Yang

The ability to know what is hidden around a corner or behind a wall provides a crucial advantage when physically going around the obstacle is impossible or dangerous. Previous solutions to this challenge were constrained e.g. by their…

Conventional imaging requires a line of sight to create accurate visual representations of a scene. In certain circumstances, however, obtaining a suitable line of sight may be impractical, dangerous, or even impossible. Non-line-of-sight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Fadlullah Raji , John Murray-Bruce