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Optical interferometric imaging enables astronomical observation at extremely high angular resolution. The necessary optical information for imaging, such as the optical path differences and visibilities, is easy to extract from fringes…

Adaptive optics enables the deployment of interferometer-based spectroscopy without the need for moving parts necessary for scanning the interferometer arms. Here, we employ a Michelson Interferometer in conjunction with a Spatial Light…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jesneil Lauren Lewis , Ayan Banerjee

In this lecture, we describe a number of advanced gain calibration techniques. In particular, self-calibration is an important tool in interferometric imaging at all wavelengths. It allows the observer to determine and remove residual phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 Crystal L. Brogan , Todd R. Hunter , Ed B. Fomalont

Subwavelength grating micro-polarizer arrays, as a type of focal plane division simultaneous detection method, are significantly advancing the development and practical application of polarization imaging technology. Based on the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-17 Tianshi Lu , Fuyuan Deng , Yufeng Wei , Zhipeng Zeng , Xinghui Li

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

Using kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes, intensity interferometry may increase the spatial resolution in optical astronomy by an order of magnitude, enabling images of rapidly rotating stars with structures in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez

Phase-contrast and dark-field imaging are relatively new X-ray imaging modalities that provide additional information to conventional attenuation-based imaging. However, this new information comes at the price of a more complex acquisition…

We demonstrate a 2-grating free electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a transmission electron microscope. A symmetric binary phase grating and condenser lens system forms two spatially separated, focused probes at the sample…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-13 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , Benjamin J. McMorran

Image reconstruction in very-long baseline interferometry operates under severely sparse aperture coverage with calibration challenges from both the participating instruments and propagation medium, which introduce the risk of biases and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Samuel Lai , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , O. Ivy Wong , Foivos Diakogiannis

Lensless imaging is an elegant approach to high-resolution microscopy, which is rapidly gaining popularity in applications where imaging optics are problematic. However, current lensless imaging methods require objects to be placed within a…

The detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets is a major theme driving modern astronomy, with the vast majority of such measurements being achieved by Doppler radial-velocity and transit observations. Another technique -- direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Barnaby Norris , Nick Cvetojevic , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Paul N. Stewart , Ned Charles , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Withford , Peter Tuthill

Interstellar scintillation can be used to probe transverse sizes of radio sources on scales inaccessible to the nominal resolution of any terrestrial telescope, e.g. $\lesssim 10^{-6}$ arc sec. Methodology is presented that exploits this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Cordes

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert I. Reid

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Hani Almansouri , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

We propose an image reconstruction method for an X-ray telescope system with an angular resolution booster proposed by Maeda et al.(2018). The system consists of double multi-grid masks in front of an X-ray mirror and an off-focused…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Mikio Morii , Shiro Ikeda , Yoshitomo Maeda

We describe a "spatio-spectral" deconvolution algorithm for wide-band imaging in radio interferometry. In contrast with the existing multi-frequency reconstruction algorithms, the proposed method does not rely on a model of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 André Ferrari , Jérémy Deguignet , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Antony Schutz , Oleg Smirnov

This paper describes the setup of two different solutions for laboratory X-ray microscopy working with geometric magnification. One setup uses thin-film transmission targets with an optimized tungsten-layer thickness and the electron gun…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas Ebensperger , Philipp Stahlhut , Frank Nachtrab , Simon Zabler , Randolf Hanke

We have been developing an x-ray imaging system, Multi-Image X-ray Interferometer Module (MIXIM), to achieve a high angular resolution with a compact system size. MIXIM is comprised of a mask with equally-spaced apertures and an x-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Kazunori Asakura , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Tomokage Yoneyama , Hirofumi Noda , Marina Yoshimoto , Tomohiro Hakamata , Hironori Matsumoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi

Automated radiology report generation offers an effective solution to alleviate radiologists' workload. However, most existing methods focus primarily on single or fixed-view images to model current disease conditions, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kang Liu , Zhuoqi Ma , Xiaolu Kang , Yunan Li , Kun Xie , Zhicheng Jiao , Qiguang Miao