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Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

Terahertz (THz) band communications is envisioned as a key technology for future wireless standards. Substantial progress has been made in this field, with advances in hardware design, channel models, and signal processing. High-rate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Arjun Singh , Vitaly Petrov , Hichem Guerboukha , Innem V. A. K. Reddy , Edward W. Knightly , Daniel M. Mittleman , Josep M. Jornet

Conventional sensor systems record information about directly visible objects, whereas occluded scene components are considered lost in the measurement process. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) methods try to recover such hidden objects from their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nicolas Scheiner , Florian Kraus , Fangyin Wei , Buu Phan , Fahim Mannan , Nils Appenrodt , Werner Ritter , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer , Bernhard Sick , Felix Heide

As transceiver elevation angles increase from small to large, existing ultraviolet (UV) non-line-of-sight (NLoS) models encounter two challenges: i) cannot estimate the channel characteristics of UV NLoS communication scenarios when there…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Tianfeng Wu , Fang Yang , Tian Cao , Ling Cheng , Yupeng Chen , Jian Song , Julian Cheng , Zhu Han

The terahertz (THz) frequency range is key to study collective excitations in many crystals and organic molecules. However, due to the large wavelength of THz radiation, the local probing of these excitations in smaller crystalline…

In this contribution, we explore the imaging limits of terahertz single-pixel cameras and present a way to improve the achievable signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution using a technique called dithering masks. The proposed procedure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-10 Sven Augustin , Tom Szollmann , Peter Jung , Heinz-Wilhelm Huebers

Terahertz waves hold immense potential across diverse fields, including healthcare monitoring, biomedical imaging, precision navigation, high-speed communication, security screening, industrial quality control, and space exploration.…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Yifan Zhao , Shahed-E- Zumrat , Szu-An Tsao , Mona Jarrahi

Since its first demonstration in 1995, terahertz time-domain imaging has attracted an increasingly growing interest for its ability to reveal spectral fingerprints of materials, probe changes in refractive index and absorption, as well as…

Terahertz (THz) communications are envisioned as a promising technology for sixth-generation (6G) and beyond systems, owing to its unprecedented multi-gigahertz (GHz) bandwidth. In this paper, channel measurement campaigns in indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yi Chen , Chong Han , Ziming Yu , Guangjian Wang

Recently, terahertz (THz) communication has drawn considerable attention as one of the promising technologies for the future wireless communications owning to its ultra-wide bandwidth. Nonetheless, one major obstacle that prevents the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Octavia A. Dobre , Pei Xiao

We present theoretical formulation and experimental demonstration of a novel technique for the fast compression-less terahertz imaging based on the broadband Fourier optics. The technique exploits k-vector/frequency duality in Fourier…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-28 Hichem Guerboukha , Kathirvel Nallappan , Maksim Skorobogatiy

Existing time-resolved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods reconstruct hidden scenes by inverting the optical paths of indirect illumination measured at visible relay surfaces. These methods are prone to reconstruction artifacts due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kiseok Choi , Inchul Kim , Dongyoung Choi , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

Terahertz (THz) technology is a cutting-edge scheme with various promising applications, such as next generation telecommunication, non-destructive evaluation, security check, and in-depth characterization, owing to their sensitivity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-05 Kun Liu , Jian Zhou

Owning abundant bandwidth resource, the Terahertz (0.1-10 THz) band is a promising spectrum to support sixth-generation (6G) and beyond communications. As the foundation of channel study in the spectrum, channel measurement is ongoing in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yiqin Wang , Yuanbo Li , Yi Chen , Ziming Yu , Chong Han

Terahertz (THz) communication (0.1-10 THz) is regarded as a promising technology, which provides rich available bandwidth and high data rate of terahertz bit per second (Tbps). However, THz signals suffer from high path loss, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Sha Xie , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

Metasurfaces offer unprecedented flexibility in the design and control of light propagation, replacing bulk optical components and exhibiting exotic optical effects. One of the basic properties of the metasurfaces, which renders them as…

The millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based Wi-Fi sensing technology has recently attracted extensive attention since it provides a possibility to realize higher sensing accuracy. However, current works mainly concentrate on sensing scenarios where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shiwen He , Kangli Cai , Shiyue Huang , Zhenyu Anz , Wei Huang , Ning Gao

In this text, results of a 0.35 terahertz (THz) dynamic aperture imaging approach are presented. The experiments use an optical modulation approach and a single pixel detector at a stand-off imaging distance of approx 1 meter. The optical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-22 Sven Augustin , Peter Jung , Sven Frohmann , Heinz-Wilhelm Huebers

Terahertz imaging provides valuable insights into the composition and structure of objects or materials, with applications spanning security screening, medical imaging, materials science, and cultural heritage preservation. Despite its…

Due to large reflection and diffraction losses in the THz band, it is arguable to achieve reliable links in the none-line-of-sight (NLoS) cases. Intelligent reflecting surfaces, although are expected to solve the blockage problem and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yuanbo Li , Yiqin Wang , Yi Chen , Ziming Yu , Chong Han