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We report that $> 80%$ of the photons generated inside a photonic crystal slab resonator can be funneled within a small divergence angle of $\pm 30^\circ$. The far-field radiation properties of a photonic crystal slab resonant mode are…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-13 Se-Heon Kim , Sun-Kyung Kim , Yong-Hee Lee

This paper presents the design and characterization of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna array optimized for operation within the Ku-band frequency range. The antenna array is impedance-matched to 50 Ohms and utilizes a microstrip line…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Muhammad Asfar Saeed , Augustine O. Nwajana

We present a novel frequency-filtering method for measuring and calculating frequency-filtered photon-correlations. This novel method is a cavity-based system we call the multi-mode array filter, which consists of an array of tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jacob Ngaha , Scott Parkins , Howard J. Carmichael

Multi-target detection is one of the primary tasks in radar-based localization and sensing, typically built on phased array antennas. However, the bulky hardware in the phased array restricts its potential for enhancing detection accuracy,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Haobo Zhang , Ruoqi Deng , Liang Liu , Boya Di

The imaging problem of a specular reflector is revisited. Retaining terms through second order in the reflector surface expansion, we derive the form of the aberration-limiting aperture for arbitrary magnification assuming no bandwidth…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Stanislav Stoupin , David Sagan

Concealing objects from interrogation has been a primary objective since the integration of radars into surveillance systems. Metamaterial-based invisibility cloaking, which was considered a promising solution, did not yet succeed in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Vitali Kozlov , Dmytro Vovchuk , Pavel Ginzburg

A design study of a horizontal neutron reflectometer adapted to the general baseline of the long pulse European Spallation Source (ESS) is presented. The instrument layout comprises solutions for the neutron guide, high-resolution pulse…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Nekrassov , M. Trapp , K. Lieutenant , J. -F. Moulin , M. Strobl , R. Steitz

A phased-array antenna is a device that generates radiation patterns whose shape and direction can be electronically controlled by tailoring the amplitude and phase of the signals that feed each element of the array. These devices provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 J. W. Zang , A. Alvarez-Melcon , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

We introduce a dual-wavelength Fourier ptychographic topography (FPT) method that extends the lambda/2 height-range limit of single-wavelength FPT. By reconstructing complex fields at two illumination wavelengths and exploiting their phase…

In radio astronomy, holography is a commonly used technique to create an image of the electric field distribution in the aperture of a dish antenna. The image is used to detect imperfections in the reflector surface. Similarly, holography…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 U. Kiefner , R. B. Wayth , D. B. Davidson , M. Sokolowski

Next-generation nano and quantum devices have increasingly complex 3D structure. As the dimensions of these devices shrink to the nanoscale, their performance is often governed by interface quality or precise chemical or dopant composition.…

In an ultrasonic array system, increasing the aperture size to achieve a high resolution requires more transmit and receive channels, thus making it essential to have an analysis technique that can reconstruct the shape and physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 Kai Yabumoto , Takayoshi Yumii , Kenjiro Kimura

High resolution (~1 arcminute) astronomical imaging at low frequency (below 150 MHz) has only recently become practical with the development of new calibration algorithms for removing ionospheric distortions. In addition to opening a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. S. Cohen , H. J. A. Röttgering

Mitigating the far sidelobes of a wide field-of-view telescope is one of the critical issues for polarization observation of the cosmic microwave background. Since even small reflections of stray light at the millimeter-wave absorbers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Fumiya Miura , Hayato Takakura , Yutaro Sekimoto , Junji Inatani , Frederick Matsuda , Shugo Oguri , Shogo Nakamura

A metallic ring based, diode-integrated, low-profile, power-dependent, reflective metasurface working from 3 GHz to 3.6 GHz is proposed in this letter. Unlike the previous study which shifts a band up and down to change the impedance of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Xiaozhen Yang , Erda Wen , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

We present the design, fabrication and measured performance of a hierarchical sinuous-antenna phased array coupled to superconducting transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers for millimeter wavelengths. The architecture allows for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 Ari Cukierman , Adrian T. Lee , Christopher Raum , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook

A new digital backend has been developed for the BEST-2 array at Radiotelescopi di Medicina, INAF-IRA, Italy which allows concurrent operation of an FX correlator, and a direct-imaging correlator and beamformer. This backend serves as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Griffin Foster , Jack Hickish , Alessio Magro , Danny C. Price , Kristian Zarb Adami

Propagation-based X-ray phase contrast enables nanoscale imaging of biological tissue by probing not only the attenuation, but also the real part of the refractive index of the sample. Since only intensities of diffracted waves can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Simon Maretzke , Thorsten Hohage

We present the design, modeling, and experimental validation of a radio-frequency based time-to-position conversion system for keV electrons incorporating a helical deflector operating in the 400-1000 MHz range. The device performs circular…

Two novel methods, including the scanning envelope synthesis (SES) method and the active reflection self-cancellation (ARC) method, are proposed to design wide-angle scanning heterogeneous element phased arrays. Heterogeneous strategy is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Yongzheng Li , Wanchen Yang , Quan Xue , Wenquan Che