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Recent detector concepts at future linear or circular $e^- e^+$ colliders emphasize the benefits of time-of-flight measurements for particle identification of long-lived charged hadrons. That method relies on a precise estimation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-16 Winfried A. Mitaroff

We propose a scheme in which an arbitrary incidence can be made perfectly reflected/transmitted if a phase setup is adjusted under a specific condition. We analyze the intracavity field variation as well as the output field with changing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Miaodi Guo , Xuemei Su

The accuracy of indoor wireless localization systems can be substantially enhanced by map-awareness, i.e., by the knowledge of the map of the environment in which localization signals are acquired. In fact, this knowledge can be exploited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Along with the growing interest in using the transverse-spatial modes of light in quantum and classical optics applications, developing an accurate and efficient measurement method has gained importance. Here, we present a technique relying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Markus Hiekkamäki , Shashi Prabhakar , Robert Fickler

In this paper, we report for the first time on a new channel modelling technique for multi-link LiFi scenarios. By considering simplified numerical calculation, it models the links between multiple optical frontends and multiple mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sreelal Maravanchery Mana , Kerolos Gabra Kamel Gabra , Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini , Peter Hellwig , Jonas Hilt , Volker Jungnickel

Single-photon lidar has become a prominent tool for depth imaging in recent years. At the core of the technique, the depth of a target is measured by constructing a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Michael P. Sheehan , Julián Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors have become a de-facto sensor for many robot state estimation tasks, spurring development of many LiDAR Odometry (LO) methods in recent years. While some smoothing-based LO methods have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Easton R. Potokar , Taylor Pool , Daniel McGann , Michael Kaess

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

Specular reflection can be problematic for the determination of the cloud thermodynamic phase for near-nadir-pointing space LIDARs. A LIDAR system biased towards the specular contribution for backscatter, if near-concurrent to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Richard J. Murchie , Dolf Huybrechts , Aaron Strangfeld , Mateusz P. Mrozowski

We investigate the possibility of implementing a given projection measurement using linear optics and arbitrarily fast feedforward based on the continuous detection of photons. In particular, we systematically derive the so-called Dolinar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Takeoka , Masahide Sasaki , Peter van Loock , Norbert Lütkenhaus

Modeling perception sensors is key for simulation based testing of automated driving functions. Beyond weather conditions themselves, sensors are also subjected to object dependent environmental influences like tire spray caused by vehicles…

Real-time spatial monitoring in underground longwall operations is challenging due to methane-related safety risks, poor visibility, elevated thermal loads, spatial confinement, and bandwidth-limited communications. Currently available…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Pasindu Ranasinghe , Bikram Banerjee , Simit Raval

Bender element is used to determine the shear modulus of the soil sample, and to accurately predict the shear modulus of any sample, it required to preciously locate the advent point of the shear wave component in the recorded output…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-01-17 Tarun Naskar

In the past ten years, the use of 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) LiDARs in mobile robotics has grown rapidly. Based on our accumulation of relevant research, this article systematically reviews and analyzes the use 3D ToF LiDARs in research and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Tao Yang , You Li , Cheng Zhao , Dexin Yao , Guanyin Chen , Li Sun , Tomas Krajnik , Zhi Yan

We present a compact and lightweight 1.5 {\mu}m lidar using a free-running single-photon detector (SPD) based on a multi-mode fiber (MMF) coupling InGaAs/InP negative feedback avalanche diode. The ultimate light detection sensitivity of SPD…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Chao Yu , Jiawei Qiu , Haiyun Xia , Xiankang Dou , Jun Zhang , Jian-Wei Pan

Fast, efficient, and accurate depth-sensing is important for safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles. Direct time-of-flight LiDAR has the potential to fulfill these demands, thanks to its ability to provide high-precision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Justin Folden , Atul Ingle , Sanjeev J. Koppal

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras possess compact design and high measurement precision to be applied to various robot tasks. However, their limited sensing range restricts deployment in large-scale scenarios. Depth completion has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Juncheng Chen , Tiancheng Lai , Xingpeng Wang , Bingxin Liao , Baozhe Zhang , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jiuxuan Zhao , Ashley Lyons , Arin Can Ulku , Hugo Defienne , Daniele Faccio , Edoardo Charbon

For the first time, a versatile, eyesafe, compact and direct detection Doppler lidar is developed using upconversion single-photon detection method. An all-fiber and polarization maintaining architecture is realized to guarantee the high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Haiyun Xia , Mingjia Shangguan , Chong Wang , Guoliang Shentu , Jiawei Qiu , Qiang Zhang , Xiankang Dou , Jianwei Pan

We propose a novel real-time LiDAR intensity image-based simultaneous localization and mapping method , which addresses the geometry degeneracy problem in unstructured environments. Traditional LiDAR-based front-end odometry mostly relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wenqiang Du , Giovanni Beltrame