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We present a rapid-scan, time-domain terahertz spectrometer employing femtosecond Er:fiber technology and an acousto-optic delay with attosecond precision, enabling scanning of terahertz transients over a 12.4 ps time window at a waveform…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. Urbanek , M. Möller , M. Eisele , S. Baierl , D. Kaplan , C. Lange , R. Huber

A highly integrated, high performance, and re-configurable device, which is designed for the Nitrogen-Vacancy center based quantum applications, is reported. The digital compartment of the device is fully implemented in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 X. Qin , Z. Shi , Y. Xie , L. Wang , X. Rong , W. Jia , W. Zhang , J. Du

In this article, we introduce, a novel open-source framework designed for efficient parallel computation of projections in tomography leveraging either multiple CPU cores or GPUs. This framework efficiently implements forward and back…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Georg Schramm , Kris Thielemans

Spectrometers based on the magnetic adiabatic collimation followed by an electrostatic filter (MAC-E-filter) principle combine high angular acceptance with an excellent energy resolution. These features make MAC-E-filters very valuable for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-20 Alexander Fulst , Alexey Lokhov , Mariia Fedkevych , Nicholas Steinbrink , Christian Weinheimer

We report the first demonstration of using the Quantum Instrumentation and Control Kit (QICK) system on RFSoCFPGA technology to drive an entangled photon pair source and to detect the photon signals. With the QICK system, we achieve high…

The detectors for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund use natural Gd as the neutron converter. In 2024, beam time was obtained at the neutron time-of flight experiment (nTOF) at CERN to study the feasibility…

The quality of high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) deposited films can often improve through the effective use of metal-ion acceleration, requiring precise measurements of time-of-flight (ToF). These measurements are commonly…

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In the context of range monitoring for particle therapy, this study presents the first experimental results obtained with the TIARA detector using carbon-ion beams at the CNAO clinical center in Pavia, Italy. TIARA is based on the Prompt…

The fractional Fourier transform (FrFT), a fundamental operation in physics that corresponds to a rotation of phase space by any angle, is also an indispensable tool employed in digital signal processing for noise reduction. Processing of…

Two major challenges in time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) are low spatial resolution and high radioactive dose to the patient, both of which result from limitations in detection technology rather than fundamental…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) estimates a blood volume pulse (BVP) waveform from facial videos captured by commodity cameras. Although recent deep models improve robustness compared to classical signal-processing approaches, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian , Karen Panetta

The BGO calorimeter, which provides a wide measurement range of the primary cosmic ray spectrum, is a key sub-detector of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE). The readout electronics of calorimeter consists of 16 pieces of Actel ProASIC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-17 Zhongtao Shen , Changqing Feng , Shanshan Gao , Deliang Zhang , Di Jiang , Shubin Liu , Qi An

In this paper, we propose time and frequency synchronization techniques for uplink multiuser OTFS (MU-OTFS) systems in high-mobility scenarios. This work focuses on accurately estimating and correcting timing offsets (TOs) and carrier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Mohsen Bayat , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

Electronic systems for qubit control and measurement serve as a bridge between quantum programming language and quantum information processors. With the rapid development of superconducting quantum circuit (SQC) technology, synchronization…

We present a novel spatio-temporal reuse framework for time-resolved light transport, enabling efficient Monte Carlo rendering of time-of-flight (ToF) phenomena such as time-gated imaging and transient light capture. Existing ToF rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Juhyeon Kim , Wojciech Jarosz , Adithya Pediredla

This paper presents a low hardware consumption, resolution-configurable, automatically calibrating Gray code oscillator time-to-digital converter (TDC) in Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+, 20nm UltraScale and 28nm Virtex-7 field-programmable gate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Yu Wang , Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity, their latency performance on specific hardware platforms…

This article presents the timing performance of materials with fast light emission, tested as Minimum Ionizing Particle detectors using 150 GeV hadron beams in Monte Carlo simulations and at the CERN SPS North Area. Pixels of cross-section…

The use of Time-over-Threshold (TOT) for the discrimination between fast neutrons and gamma-rays is advantageous when large number of detection channels are required due to the simplicity of its implementation. However, the results obtained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-01 A. Roy , D. Vartsky , I. Mor , E. O. Cohen , Y. Yehuda-Zada , A. Beck , L. Arazi

Aim: Investigate whether a time walk assessment derived from crystal light sharing and multi-photon time stamps can improved the TOF resolution. Method: Monte Carlo simulations were performed for SiPM (FBK-NUV-HD) coupled to conventional…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-12 Stephan Walrand , Michel Hesse , François Jamar