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We report on the design of an all-mirror wavefront-division interferometer capable of spectroscopic studies across multiple spectral ranges$\unicode{x2013}$from the plasma frequencies of metals to terahertz wavelengths and beyond. The…

Aperture array interferometers, such as that proposed for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will see the entire sky, hence the standard approach to simulating visibilities will not be applicable since it relies on a tangent plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-11 J. D. McEwen , A. M. M. Scaife

We propose a new technique to obtain super-resolution images with radio interferometer using sparse modeling. In standard radio interferometry, sampling of ($u$, $v$) is quite often incomplete and thus obtaining an image from observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Mareki Honma , Kazunori Akiyama , Makoto Uemura , Shiro Ikeda

Pupil-remapping is a new high-dynamic range imaging technique that has recently demonstrated feasibility on sky. The current prototypes present however deceiving limiting magnitude, restricting the current use to the brightest stars in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Florentin Millour , Romain Petrov , Stéphane Lagarde , Philippe Berio , Yves Bresson , Lyu Abe

Quantitative characterization of the spatial structure of single photons is essential for free-space quantum communication and quantum imaging. We introduce an interferometric technique that enables the complete characterization of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Wiktor Szadowiak , Sanjukta Kundu , Jerzy Szuniewicz , Radek Lapkiewicz

We present an analytical description and an experimental realization of interscale mixing microscopy, a diffraction-based imaging technique that is capable of detecting wavelength/10 objects in far-field measurements with both coherent and…

A long-held astronomical vision is to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, show their evolution over time, and reveal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) is a future world facility that will image the process of planetary formation. It will have an angular resolution and sensitivity sufficient to resolve sub-Hill sphere structures around newly formed giant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 Michael J. Ireland , John D. Monnier

BIFROST will be a short-wavelength ($\lambda$ = 1.0 - 1.7$\mu$m) beam combiner for the VLT Interferometer, combining both high spatial ($\lambda$/2B = 0.8 mas) and spectral (up to R = 25,000) resolution. It will be part of the Asgard Suite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Daniel J. Mortimer , Sorabh Chhabra , Stefan Kraus , Narsireddy Anugu , Romain Laugier , Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , John D. Monnier

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

Current detection methods of planetary companions do not allow retrieving their spectral information properties. The method of Differential Interferometry has the potential to complement such information by comparing interferometric…

Hyperspectral imaging is an important tool having been applied in various fields, but still limited in observation of dynamic scenes. In this paper, we propose a snapshot hyperspectral imaging technique which exploits both spectral and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Chao Deng , Xuemei Hu , Jinli Suo , Yuanlong Zhang , Zhili Zhang , Qionghai Dai

We present the optical and cryo-mechanical solutions for the Spectrograph of VSI (VLTI Spectro-Imager), the second generation near-infrared (J, H and K bands) interferometric instrument for the VLTI. The peculiarity of this spectrograph is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Lorenzetti , G. Li Causi , R. Speziali , F. Vitali , D. Loreggia , C. Baffa , P. Kern , L. Jocou , F. Malbet , P. Rabou

Intensity interferometry permits very long optical baselines and the observation of sub-milliarcsecond structures. Using planned kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes at short wavelengths, intensity interferometry may increase the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dainis Dravins , Hannes Jensen , Stephan LeBohec , Paul D. Nuñez

The SPEAR (or 'FIMS') instrumentation has been used to conduct the first large-scale spectral mapping of diffuse cosmic far ultraviolet (FUV, 900-1750 AA) emission, including important diagnostics of interstellar hot (10^4 K - 10^6 K) and…

Radio interferometry is the current method of choice for deep space astronomy, but in the past few decades optical techniques have become increasingly common. This research seeks to characterize the performance of aperture masking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-28 Kyle Morgenstein

Many low-frequency radio interferometers are aiming to detect very faint spectral signatures from structures at cosmological redshifts, particularly of neutral Hydrogen using its characteristic 21 cm spectral line. Due to the very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Chris Carilli

The direct imaging and characterization of Earth-like planets is among the most sought-after prizes in contemporary astrophysics, however current optical instrumentation delivers insufficient dynamic range to overcome the vast contrast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Kotani , S. Lacour , G. Perrin , G. Robertson , P. Tuthill

Context: Exoplanet science has made staggering progress in the last two decades, due to the relentless exploration of new detection methods and refinement of existing ones. Yet astrometry offers a unique and untapped potential of discovery…