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The crucial zeroth-order light due to the pixelation effect of spatial light modulator (SLM) has been a serious issue in the field of light modulation, especially in applications with a high numerical aperture optical system. In this…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-30 Yueqiang Zhu , Kaige Wang , Jintao Bai , Wei Zhao

Here we present an efficient, visible-light, gigahertz-frequency acousto-optic modulator fabricated on a 200 mm wafer in a volume CMOS foundry. Our device combines a piezoelectric transducer and a photonic waveguide within a single…

Acoustic-resolution optoacoustic microscopy (AR-OAM) retrieves anatomical and functional contrast from living tissues at depths not reachable with optical microscopy. The imaging performance of AR-OAM has been advanced with image…

Performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in low-visibility conditions, such as environments filled with smoke, dust and transparent objets, has long been a challenging task. Sensors like cameras and Light Detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fuhua Jia , Xiaoying Yang , Mengshen Yang , Yang Li , Hang Xu , Adam Rushworth , Salman Ijaz , Heng Yu , Tianxiang Cui

In high-performance RF photonic systems, the Electro-Optic (EO) modulators play a critical role as a key component, requiring low SWaP-C and high linearity. While traditional lithium niobate (LiNbO$_3$) Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZMs) have…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Md Jubayer Shawon , Vishal Saxena

Optical techniques for spatiotemporal control can produce laser pulses with custom amplitude, phase, or polarization structure. In nonlinear optics and plasma physics, the use of structured pulses typically follows a forward design…

The generation of rapidly tunable Optical Vortex (OV) beams is one of the most demanding research areas of the present era as they possess Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) with additional degrees of freedom that can be exploited to enhance…

Spatiotemporal fusion aims to improve both the spatial and temporal resolution of remote sensing images, thus facilitating time-series analysis at a fine spatial scale. However, there are several important issues that limit the application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Houcai Guo , Dingqi Ye , Lorenzo Bruzzone

The spatial sensitivity of an ultrasound transducer, which strongly influences its suitability for different applications, depends on the shape of the transducer surface. Accurate simulation of these spatial effects is important for…

Simultaneous, diffraction-limited control of multiple optical beams is crucial for applications ranging from lithography to optogenetics, deep tissue imaging, and tweezer-based manipulation of cells, particles, or atoms. Despite the desire…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-14 Ian Christen , Christopher Panuski , Thomas Propson , Dirk Englund

All-dielectric optical metasurfaces can locally control the amplitude and phase of light at the nanoscale, enabling arbitrary wavefront shaping. However, lack of post-fabrication tunability has limited the true potential of metasurfaces for…

We investigate the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the context of high harmonic generation (HHG) within semiconductor crystals. Our contribution deals with the transfer and conservation of OAM in the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , M. F. Ciappina

Acousto-optics imaging (AOI) is a hybrid imaging modality that is capable of mapping the light fluence rate in deep tissue by local ultrasound modulation of the diffused photons. Since the intensity of the modulated photons is relatively…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-28 Ahiad Refael Levi , Yoav Hazan , Aner Lev , Bruno Sfez , Amir Rosenthal

We present a method for full spatial phase and amplitude control of a laser beam using a twisted nematic liquid crystal display combined with a spatial filter. By spatial filtering we combine four neighboring pixels into one superpixel. At…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. van Putten , I. M. Vellekoop , A. P. Mosk

The on-demand tailoring of light's spatial shape is of great relevance in a wide variety of research areas. Computer-controlled devices, such as Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) or Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs), offer a very accurate,…

This paper characterizes the performance of massive multiuser spatial modulation MIMO systems, when a regularized form of the least-squares method is used for detection. For a generic distortion function and right unitarily invariant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Bernhard Gäde , Ralf R. Müller , H. Vincent Poor

Under a thin lens and paraxial approximation, the phase transformation function of a lens was simulated on a Liquid Crystal (LC) based Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). The properties of an array of such lenses simulated on transmitting type…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-08 Akondi Vyas , M B Roopashree , B Raghavendra Prasad

Acousto-optic (AO) interactions provide a powerful interface between the microwave and optical domains, enabling functionalities such as optical switching, non-reciprocal propagation and efficient microwave-to-optical transduction.…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) recognition of vortex beams is critical for applications ranging from optical communications to quantum technologies. However, conventional approaches designed for free-space propagation struggle when light…