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Here, we present a concept based on the realization that a complex medium can be used as a simple interferometer. Changes in the wavefront of an incident coherent beam can be retrieved by analyzing changes in speckle patterns when the beam…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-07 KyungDuk Kim , HyeonSeung Yu , KyeoReh Lee , YongKeun Park

Including information from additional spectral bands (e.g., near-infrared) can improve deep learning model performance for many vision-oriented tasks. There are many possible ways to incorporate this additional information into a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Charles Godfrey , Elise Bishoff , Myles McKay , Eleanor Byler

Establishing a precise connection between imaged intensity and the incident wavefront is essential for emerging applications in adaptive optics, holography, computational microscopy, and non-line-of-sight imaging. While prior work has shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Ali Almuallem , Nicholas Chimitt , Bole Ma , Qi Guo , Stanley H. Chan

Ptychography enables coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) of extended samples by raster scanning across the illuminating XUV/X-ray beam thereby generalizing the unique advantages of CDI techniques. Table-top realizations of this method are…

This book chapter describes how spectral correlations in scattered light fields can be utilized for high-precision time-of-flight sensing. The chapter should serve as a gentle introduction and is intended for computational imaging…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Florian Willomitzer

The Stroke Minimization algorithm developed at the Princeton High Contrast Imaging Laboratory has proven symmetric dark hole generation using minimal stroke on two deformable mirrors (DM) in series. The windowed approach to Stroke…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tyler D. Groff , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Alexis Carlotti , A J Eldorado Riggs

We construct frames adapted to a given cover of the time-frequency or time-scale plane. The main feature is that we allow for quite general and possibly irregular covers. The frame members are obtained by maximizing their concentration in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Monika Dörfler , José Luis Romero

When used with coherent light, optical imaging systems, even diffraction-limited, are inherently unable to reproduce both the amplitude and the phase of a two-dimensional field distribution because their impulse response function varies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brainis , C. Muldoon , L. Brandt , A. Kuhn

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the broadcast effect arising in filterless optical networks on the computational complexity of the wavelength assignment problem. We model conflicts using an appropriate interference digraph,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hugo Boulier , David Coudert , Frédéric Havet , François Pirot

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

We report on the experimental demonstration of the broadband "trapped rainbow" in the visible range using arrays of adiabatically tapered optical nano waveguides. Being a distinct case of the slow light phenomenon, the trapped rainbow…

We describe the design of a temporal imaging system that simultaneously reshapes the temporal profile and converts the frequency of a photonic wavepacket, while preserving its quantum state. A field lens, which imparts a temporal quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Yunhui Zhu , Jungsang. Kim , Daniel J. Gauthier

We perform spectroscopy on the hyperfine splitting of $^{85}$Rb atoms trapped in far-off-resonance optical traps. The existence of a spatially dependent shift in the energy levels is shown to induce an inherent dephasing effect, which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Kaplan , M. F. Andersen , T. Grünzweig , N. Davidson

Ptychography is an imaging technique which involves a sample being illuminated by a coherent, localized probe of illumination. When the probe interacts with the sample, the light is diffracted and a diffraction pattern is detected. Then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Mark Iwen , Michael Perlmutter , Mark Philip Roach

We present a method to measure the spectrally-resolved transmission matrix of a multiply scattering medium, thus allowing for the deterministic spatiospectral control of a broadband light source by means of wavefront shaping. As a…

X-ray ptychography utilizes overlapping illuminations to reconstruct the object's phase and absorption signal with spatial resolutions much smaller than the focus size. Usually, the illumination overlap is chosen to be between 50% and 60%…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-29 Felix Wittwer , Peter Modregger

Random lasers with low spatial coherence have important potential applications in high quality imaging and displaying. Here, a random laser with tunable angular spectra is proposed and fabricated through directly coupling an asymmetric…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-08 Huihui Shen , Yaoxing Bian , Junyan Li , Weinian Liu , Hanyi Xue , Zhaona Wang

In this paper, we study the spectral properties of re-parameterized light field. Following previous studies of the light field spectrum, which notably provided sampling guidelines, we focus on the two plane parameterization of the light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

Optical spectroscopy is a fundamental tool in numerous areas of science and technology. Much effort has focused on miniaturizing spectrometers, but thus far at the cost of high spectral resolution and broad operating range. Here, we…

Beam shaping techniques enable tailored beam trajectories, offering unprecedented connectivity opportunities in wireless communications. Current approaches rely on flat apertures, which limit trajectory flexibility due to inherent geometric…