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Manipulating broadband fields in scattering media is a modern challenge across photonics and other wave domains. Recent studies have shown that complex propagation in scattering media can be harnessed to manipulate broadband light wave…

Seeing around corners, also known as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a computational method to resolve or recover objects hidden around corners. Recent advances in imaging around corners have gained significant interest. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Tomohiro Maeda , Guy Satat , Tristan Swedish , Lagnojita Sinha , Ramesh Raskar

Digital revolution and recent advances in telecommunications technology enable to design communication systems which operate within the regions close to the theoretical capacity limits. Ever-increasing demand for wireless communications and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ali Rıza Ekti , Ali Boyacı , Altan Alparslan , Ilhami Unal , Serhan Yarkan , Ali Gorcin , Huseyin Arslan , Murat Uysal

The wireless research community has expressed major interest in the sub-terahertz band for enabling mobile communications in future wireless networks. The sub-terahertz band offers a large amount of available bandwidth and, therefore, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Marco Di Renzo , Davide Dardari , Nicolo' Decarli

Emerging single-photon-sensitive sensors combined with advanced inverse methods to process picosecond-accurate time-stamped photon counts have given rise to unprecedented imaging capabilities. Rather than imaging photons that travel along…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 D. Faccio , A. Velten , G. Wetzstein

Terahertz (THz) tomographic imaging has recently attracted significant attention thanks to its non-invasive, non-destructive, non-ionizing, material-classification, and ultra-fast nature for object exploration and inspection. However, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Weng-Tai Su , Yi-Chun Hung , Po-Jen Yu , Shang-Hua Yang , Chia-Wen Lin

The terahertz (THz) spectral domain offers a myriad of applications spanning chemical spectroscopy, medicine, security and imaging[1]. It has also recently become a playground for fundamental studies of light-matter interactions [2-6]. THz…

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging relies on collecting light that is rendered incoherent from the multiple scattering events and is then post-processed to provide an estimate of the hidden scene. Here we employ coherent phase control of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ilya Starshynov , Omair Ghafur , James Fitches , Daniele Faccio

Paradoxically, imaging with resolution much below the wavelength $\lambda$ - now common place in the visible spectrum - remains challenging at lower frequencies, where arguably it is needed most due to the large wavelengths used. Techniques…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-12 Alessandro Tuniz , Boris T. Kuhlmey

This paper provides an analysis of radio wave scattering for frequencies ranging from the microwave to the Terahertz band (e.g., 1 GHz - 1 THz), by studying the scattering power reradiated from various types of materials with different…

Active imaging systems sample the Transient Light Transport Matrix (TLTM) for a scene by sequentially illuminating various positions in this scene using a controllable light source, and then measuring the resulting spatiotemporal light…

THz spectroscopy is an emerging tool for detection of microorganisms and harmful compounds in the food industry, the study of proteins in biomedicine and the development of electron-beam X-ray sources for molecular imaging and lithography.…

The emerging 5G and future 6G technologies are envisioned to provide higher bandwidths and coverage using millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-Terahertz (THz) frequency bands. The growing demand for higher data rates using these bands can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh , Wahab Khawaja , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc , Hiroyuki Nomoto , Yasuaki Ide

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering the 3D geometry of objects that are hidden from the direct line of sight. In the past, this method has suffered from the weak available multibounce signal limiting scene size, capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ji Hyun Nam , Eric Brandt , Sebastian Bauer , Xiaochun Liu , Eftychios Sifakis , Andreas Velten

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) spectrum can support significantly higher data rates compared to lower frequency bands and hence are being actively considered for 5G wireless networks and beyond. These bands have high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kairui Du , Ozgur Ozdemir , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging techniques use light that diffusely reflects off of visible surfaces (e.g., walls) to see around corners. One approach involves using pulsed lasers and ultrafast sensors to measure the travel time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Mariko Isogawa , Dorian Chan , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Matthew O'Toole

Accurate channel modeling is essential for realizing the potential of terahertz (THz) communications in 6G indoor networks, where existing models struggle with severe frequency selectivity and multipath effects. We propose a physically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Ziang Zhao , Weixi Liang , Kai Hu , Qun Zhang , Xiongbin Yu , Qiang Li

The use of terahertz (THz) communications with massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems in 6G can potentially provide high data rates and low latency communications. However, accurate channel estimation in THz frequencies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Kitae Kim , Yan Kyaw Tun , Md. Shirajum Munir , Chirsto Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

This tutorial aims to provide details on the underlying principles and methodologies of atom-based terahertz imaging techniques. Terahertz imaging is a growing field of research which can provide complementary information to techniques…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Lucy Downes , Lara Torralbo-Campo , Kevin Weatherill

A compact terahertz (THz) polarimetric spectrometer and imaging system is demonstrated using polarization-sensitive frequency-selective surfaces (PS-FSS) and rapid, intensity-based detection. Real-time Stokes parameter extraction enables…