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Spike camera, a type of neuromorphic sensor with high-temporal resolution, shows great promise for high-speed visual tasks. Unlike traditional cameras, spike camera continuously accumulates photons and fires asynchronous spike streams. Due…

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Infrared (IR) imaging has become a viable tool for visualizing various chemical bonds in a specimen. The performance, however, is limited in terms of spatial resolution and imaging speed. Here, instead of measuring the loss of the IR beam,…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-20 Yeran Bai , Delong Zhang , Lu Lan , Yimin Huang , Kerry Maize , Ali Shakouri , Ji-Xin Cheng

We developed a novel technique for frequency measurement and synthesis, based on the operation of a femtosecond comb generator as transfer oscillator. The technique can be used to measure frequency ratios of any optical signals throughout…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jörn Stenger , Harald Schnatz , Christian Tamm , Harald R. Telle

We report the first quantum frequency downconversion experiment. Using the difference frequency generation process in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide, we successfully observed the phase-preserved frequency downconversion of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 Hiroki Takesue

Using a streak camera, we directly measure time- and space-resolved dynamics of N2+ emission from a self-seeded filament. We observe characteristic signatures of superfluorescence even under ambient conditions and show that the timing of…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-03 Ali Rastegari , Jean-Claude Diels , Lee R. Liu , Ladan Arissian

The INTEGRAL/SPI, X-gamma-ray spectrometer (20 keV - 8 MeV) is an instrument for which recovering source intensity variations is not straightforward and can constitute a difficulty for data analysis. In most cases, determining the source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Bouchet , P. -R Amestoy , A. Buttari , F. -H. Rouet , M. Chauvin

We present a random number generation scheme that uses broadband measurements of the vacuum field contained in the radio-frequency sidebands of a single-mode laser. Even though the measurements may contain technical noise, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 T. Symul , S. M. Assad , P. K. Lam

Measuring an electric field waveform beyond radio frequencies is often accomplished via a second-order nonlinear interaction with a laser pulse shorter than half of the field's oscillation period. However, synthesizing such a gate pulse is…

Power spectral density measurements of any sampled signal are typically restricted by both acquisition rate and frequency response limitations of instruments, which can be particularly prohibitive for video-based measurements. We have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Wesley Philip Wong , Ken Halvorsen

The most frequency-stable sources of electromagnetic radiation are produced optically, and optical frequency combs provide the means for high fidelity frequency transfer across hundreds of terahertz and into the microwave domain. A critical…

Frequency up-conversion, enabled by molecular optomechanical coupling, has recently emerged as a promising approach for converting infrared signals into the visible range through quantum coherent conversion of signals. However, detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Fen Zou , Lei Du , Yong Li , Hui Dong

In our work, we have engineered low capacitance single quantum dot photodiodes as sensor devices for the optoelectronic sampling of ultrafast electric signals. By the Stark effect, a time-dependent electric signal is converted into a…

We propose a method for tailoring the frequency spectrum of bright squeezed vacuum by generating it in a nonlinear interferometer, consisting of two down-converting nonlinear crystals separated by a dispersive medium. Due to a faster…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Sh. Iskhakov , S. Lemieux , A. Perez , R. W. Boyd , G. Leuchs , M. Chekhova

This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Prahlad Anand , Qiranul Saadiyean , Aniruddh Sikdar , Nalini N , Suresh Sundaram

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically a controllable way of shifting the frequency of an optical pulse by using a combination of spectral hole burning, slow light effect, and linear Stark effect in a rare-earth-ion doped crystal.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Qian Li , Yupan Bao , Axel Thuresson , Adam N. Nilsson , Lars Rippe , Stefan Kröll

Classical time-resolved optical spectroscopy experiments are performed using sequences of ultrashort light pulses, with photon fluxes incident on the sample which are many orders of magnitude higher than real-world conditions corresponding…

A major limitation of transient optical spectroscopy is that relatively high laser fluences are required to enable broadband, multichannel detection with acceptable signal-to-noise levels. Under typical experimental conditions, many…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Siedah J. Hall , Peter J. Budden , Anne Zats , Matthew Y. Sfeir

Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum consisting of discrete, evenly spaced narrow lines, each having an absolute frequency measurable within the accuracy of an atomic clock. Their development, a decade…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-13 Albert Schliesser , Nathalie Picqué , Theodor W. Hänsch

High-speed long-range quantum communication requires combining frequency multiplexed photonic channels with quantum memories. We experimentally demonstrate an integrated quantum frequency conversion protocol that can convert between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Paul Fisher , Robert Cernansky , Ben Haylock , Mirko Lobino

Quantum illumination is a quantum-optical sensing technique in which an entangled source is exploited to improve the detection of a low-reflectivity object that is immersed in a bright thermal background. Here we describe and analyze a…