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Adaptive optics systems are critical in any application where highly resolved imaging or beam control must be performed through a dynamic medium. Such applications include astronomy and free-space optical communications, where light…

Step-frequency radar (SFR) is a high resolution radar approach, where multiple pulses are transmitted at different frequencies, covering a wide spectrum. The obtained resolution directly depends on the total bandwidth used, or equivalently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Sagar Shah , Yao Yu , Athina Petropulu

Wavefront aberrations can reflect the imaging quality of high-performance optical systems better than geometric aberrations. Although laser interferometers have emerged as the main tool for measurement of transmitted wavefronts, their…

Phase diffusion represents a crucial obstacle towards the implementation of high precision interferometric measurements and phase shift based communication channels. Here we present a nearly optimal interferometric scheme based on homodyne…

Compressive sensing has been used to demonstrate scene reconstruction and source localization in a wide variety of devices. To date, optical compressive sensors have not been able to achieve significant volume reduction relative to…

Spectrometry is a general physical-analysis approach for investigating light-matter interactions. However, the complex designs of existing spectrometers render them resistant to simplification and miniaturization, both of which are vital…

CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (CPS) are ultra-light and highly granular silicon pixel detectors suited for highly sensitive charged particle tracking. Being manufactured with cost efficient standard CMOS processes, CPS may integrate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Deveaux

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

Diffusion models have gained prominence as powerful generative tools for solving inverse problems due to their ability to model complex data distributions. However, existing methods typically rely on complete knowledge of the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hongkun Dou , Zike Chen , Zeyu Li , Hongjue Li , Lijun Yang , Yue Deng

The next generation of large ground- and space-based optical telescopes will have segmented primary mirrors. Co-phasing the segments requires a sensitive wavefront sensor capable of measuring phase discontinuities. The Zernike wavefront…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Maaike A. M. van Kooten , Sam Ragland , Rebecca Jensen-Clem , Yinzi Xin , Jacques-Robert Delorme , J. Kent Wallace

There are scientific and technological needs to improve the co-phasing of the primary mirrors of segmented telescopes. We have developed a methodology for using the wavefront sensor of an adaptive optics (AO) system to disentangle the phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Benjamin Calvin , Michael Fitzgerald , Sam Ragland

As photonic technologies continue to grow in multidimensional aspects, integrated photonics holds a unique position and continuously presents enormous possibilities to research communities. Applications span across data centers,…

In an effort to transcend the limitations of differential imaging of exoplanets in the era of extremely large telescopes (ELTs), the first paper in this series established a rigorous, fully polarimetric framework for determining the science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-18 Richard A. Frazin

The weak measurement wavefront sensor detects the phase gradient of light like the Shack-Hartmann sensor does. However, the use of one thin birefringent crystal to displace light beams results in a wavelength-dependent phase difference…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-27 Yi Zheng , Mu Yang , Zheng-Hao Liu , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We present a promising approach to the extremely fast sensing and correction of small wavefront errors in adaptive optics systems. As our algorithm's computational complexity is roughly proportional to the number of actuators, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-26 Christoph U. Keller , Visa Korkiakoski , Niek Doelman , Rufus Fraanje , Raluca Andrei , Michel Verhaegen

Cascaded phase shifters (CPSs) based on silicon photonics integrated chips play important roles in quantum information processing tasks. Owing to an increase in the scale of silicon photonics chips, the time required to calibrate various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Yanxiang Jia , Xuyang Wang , Yizhuo Hou , Yu Zhang , Yuqi Shi , Qiang Zhang , Jun Zou , Yongmin Li

The Multiconjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) for ESO-Very Large Telescopes (VLT) will demonstrate on sky the MultiConjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) technique. In this paper the laboratory tests relative to the first preliminary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Carmelo Arcidiacono , Matteo Lombini , Emiliano Diolaiti , Jacopo Farinato , Roberto Ragazzoni

Several km-scale gravitational-wave detectors have been constructed world wide. These instruments combine a number of advanced technologies to push the limits of precision length measurement. The core devices are laser interferometers of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Charlotte Bond , Daniel Brown , Andreas Freise , Kenneth Strain

Beamforming design for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is challenging due to prohibitive computational complexity and complex near-field propagation effects. To address this, this paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xiyuan Liu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Wang , Qiaoyan Peng , Jun Wu

For ExAO instruments for the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs), alternative architectures of WFS are under consideration because there is a tradeoff between detector size, speed, and noise that reduces the performance of GSMT-ExAO…