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Digital aberration measurement and removal play a prominent role in computational imaging platforms aimed at achieving simple and compact optical arrangements. A recent important class of such platforms is Fourier ptychography, which is…

We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Recovering both amplitude and phase information from a system is a fundamental goal of optical imaging. At the same time, it is crucial to operate at low photon doses to avoid altering the sample, particularly in biological applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Alberto Paniate , Giuseppe Ortolano , Sarika Soman , Marco Genovese , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

Edge intelligence is constrained by the energy and latency costs of shuttling data through electronic memory hierarchies. Optical systems offer a fundamentally different computational regime: once an input wavefront is launched into a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prakul Sunil Hiremath

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…

We demonstrate universal and programmable three-mode linear optical operations in the time domain by realizing a scalable dual-loop optical circuit suitable for universal quantum information processing (QIP). The programmability, validity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Kazuma Yonezu , Yutaro Enomoto , Takato Yoshida , Shuntaro Takeda

Image segmentation is a very popular and important task in computer vision. In this paper, inverse quantum Fourier transform (IQFT) for image segmentation has been explored and a novel IQFT-inspired algorithm is proposed and implemented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Taoreed Akinola , Xiangfang Li , Richard Wilkins , Pamela Obiomon , Lijun Qian

CPI is a novel imaging modality capable of addressing the intrinsic limitations of conventional plenoptic imaging - namely, the resolution loss and the sacrificed change of perspective, - while guaranteeing the typical advantages of…

Pixel size in cameras and other refractive imaging devices is typically limited by the free-space diffraction. However, a vast majority of semiconductor-based detectors are based on materials with substantially high refractive index. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-28 Bo Fan , Sandeep Inampudi , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Recently quanta image sensors (QIS) -- ultra-fast, zero-read-noise binary image sensors -- have demonstrated remarkable imaging capabilities in many challenging scenarios. Despite their potential, the adoption of these sensors is severely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Dutson , Vivek Boominathan , Mohit Gupta , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) has found significant applications in the field of biomedical imaging which works on the principle of interferometry. The theory behind achieving interference in QPM with conventional light sources such…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-26 Azeem Ahmad , Nikhil Jayakumar , Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia

Imaging through diffusive media is a challenging problem, where the existing solutions heavily rely on digital computers to reconstruct distorted images. We provide a detailed analysis of a computer-free, all-optical imaging method for…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuhang Li , Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

One approach to quantum information processing is to use photons as quantum bits and rely on linear optical elements for most operations. However, some optical nonlinearity is necessary to enable universal quantum computing. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Prabin Adhikari , Mohammad Hafezi , J. M. Taylor

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a pivotal computational imaging technique that achieves phase and amplitude reconstruction with high resolution and wide field of view, using low numerical aperture objectives and LED array…

An all optical implementation of quantum information processing with semiconductor macroatoms is proposed. Our quantum hardware consists of an array of semiconductor quantum dots and the computational degrees of freedom are energy-selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eliana Biolatti , Rita C. Iotti , Paolo Zanardi , Fausto Rossi

In the field of quantitative imaging, the image information at a pixel or voxel in an underlying domain entails crucial information about the imaged matter. This is particularly important in medical imaging applications, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Guozhi Dong , Moritz Flaschel , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Clemens Sirotenko , Karsten Tabelow

Quantitative phase imaging has become a topic of considerable interest in the microscopy community. We have recently described one such technique based on the use of a partitioned detection aperture, which can be operated in a single shot…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-20 Roman Barankov , Jean-Charles Baritaux , Jerome Mertz

The classical image segmentation algorithm based on grayscale morphology can effectively segment images with uneven illumination, but with the increase of the image data, the real-time problem will emerge. In order to solve this problem, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Lu Wang , Mengmeng Cui

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography is an emerging imaging technique aimed at estimating the distribution of optical parameters inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Antti Hannukainen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander , Tanja Tarvainen

One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann