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We developed a microscopy technique that can measure the local refractive index without sampling the optical phase delay of the electromagnetic radiation. To do this, we designed and experimentally demonstrated a setup with two co-localized…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Antonio Fiore , Carlo Bevilacqua , Giuliano Scarcelli

We present a new, model-independent approach for measuring non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern. Our approach is based on the empirical distribution function of the normalized spherical harmonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Frode K. Hansen , Domenico Marinucci , Paolo Natoli , Nicola Vittorio

We show that time dependent gravitational potential can be directly detected from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The signature can be measured by cross-correlating the CMB with the projected density field reconstructed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities feature ultrahigh Q-factors and small mode volumes, offering strong light-matter interactions for sensing applications. However, unmodified surfaces are weakly responsive togas-phase refractive…

Measurement-based control, utilizing an active feedback loop, is a standard tool in technology. Feedback control is also emerging as a useful and fundamental tool in quantum technology and in related fundamental studies, where it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Cheng Wang , Louise Banniard , Laure Mercier de Lépinay , Mika A. Sillanpää

We present a concept of a millimeter wavefront sensor that allows real-time sensing of the surface of a ground-based millimeter/submillimeter telescope. It is becoming important for ground-based millimeter/submillimeter astronomy to make…

Continuous wavefront sensing benefits space observatories in on-orbit optical performance maintenance. To measure the phase of a wavefront, phase retrieval is an attractive technique as it uses multiple point spread function (PSF) images…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Hyukmo Kang , Kyle Van Gorkom , Meghdoot Biswas , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

The angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background has been measured out to sufficiently small angular scale to encompass a few acoustic oscillations. We use a phenomenological fit to the angular power spectrum to quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Douspis , P. G. Ferreira

We describe measurements on microwave coplanar resonators designed for quantum bit experiments. Resonators have been patterned onto sapphire and silicon substrates, and quality factors in excess of a million have been observed. The resonant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Healey , T. Lindstrom , M. S. Colclough , C. M. Muirhead , A. Ya Tzalenchuk

We present a method for beam deconvolution for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The code takes as input the time-ordered data, along with the corresponding detector pointings and known beam shapes, and produces as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Elina Keihänen , Martin Reinecke

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard

Sky temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the premier probes of cosmology. To minimize instrumentally induced systematic errors, CMB anisotropy experiments measure temperature differences across the sky using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Hao Liu , Ti-Pei Li

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Millimeter-wave is one of the technologies powering the new generation of wireless communication systems. To compensate the high path-loss, millimeter-wave devices need to use highly directional antennas. Consequently, beam misalignment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Steve Blandino , Thibault Bertrand , Claude Desset , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

Mild, unavoidable deviations from circular-symmetry of instrumental beams in current Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments now pose a significant challenge to deriving high precision inferences from the high sensitivity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-22 Nidhi Joshi , Santanu Das , Aditya Rotti , Sanjit Mitra , Tarun Souradeep

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Broadband time-ordered data obtained from telescopes with a wavelength-dependent, asymmetric beam pattern can be used to extract maps at multiple wavelengths from a single scan. This technique is especially useful when collecting data on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Brianna Cantrall , Solomon Quinn , Emory F. Bunn

A method is described for the determination of the effective electromagnetic parameters of a metamaterial based only on external measurements or simulations, taking boundary effects at the interfaces between a conventional material and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sung Kim , Edward F. Kuester , Christopher L. Holloway , Aaron D. Scher , James Baker-Jarvis

Using a turn-key Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser frequency comb, an off-the-shelf supercontinuum device, and Fabry-Perot mode filters, we report the generation of a 16 GHz frequency comb spanning a 90 nm band about a center wavelength of 566…