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Designing Doppler-resilient unimodular discrete phase-coded waveforms (DPWs) with low delay-Doppler sidelobes is critical for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. Existing block coordinate descent (BCD) methods suffer from high…
A single-pixel digital holography system with phase-encoded illumination using a digital micromirror device (DMD) as a spatial light modulator (SLM) is presented. The enhanced switching rate of DMDs, far exceeding the stringent frame-rate…
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Phase Measuring Deflectometry (PMD) acquires the two components of the local surface gradient via a sequence of two orthogonal sinusoidal fringe patterns that have to be displayed and captured separately. We will demonstrate that the…
We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…
The Unlimited Sensing Framework (USF) is a digital acquisition protocol that allows for sampling and reconstruction of high dynamic range signals. By acquiring modulo samples, the USF circumvents the clipping or saturation problem that is a…
We introduce a frequency-multiplexed readout scheme for superconducting phase qubits. Using a quantum circuit with four phase qubits, we couple each qubit to a separate lumped-element superconducting readout resonator, with the readout…
TES-based bolometer and microcalorimeter arrays with thousands of pixels are under development for several space-based and ground-based applications. A linear detector response and low levels of cross talk facilitate the calibration of the…
We have designed and characterized a micro-SQUID with dispersive readout for use in low temperature scanning probe microscopy systems. The design features a capacitively shunted RF SQUID with a tunable resonance frequency from 5 to 12 GHz,…
Sparse random mode decomposition (SRMD) is a novel algorithm that constructs a random time-frequency feature space to sparsely approximate spectrograms, effectively separating modes. However, it fails to distinguish adjacent or overlapped…
The aim of this paper is two-fold: (1) to provide a detailed investigation of the turbulent flow in an inline high-shear rotor stator mixer; (2) to provide a comparison of two different classes of turbulence models and solution methods…
Tucker decomposition is proposed to reduce the memory requirement of the far-fields in the fast multipole method (FMM)-accelerated surface integral equation simulators. It is particularly used to compress the far-fields of FMM groups, which…
This paper investigates the system achievable rate and optimization for the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with an energy harvesting (EH) relay. Firstly we propose a time…
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are the most attractive radiation detectors for far-infrared and sub-mm astronomy: They combine ultimate sensitivity with the possibility to create very large detector arrays, in excess of 10…
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,…
We develop a novel method of replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulation, mass-scaling REMD (MSREMD) method, which improves trajectory accuracy at high temperatures, and thereby contributes to numerical stability. In addition, the…