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Inverse scattering in optical coherence tomography (OCT) seeks to recover both structural images and intrinsic tissue optical properties, including refractive index, scattering coefficient, and anisotropy. This inverse problem is…

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Optical tweezers exploit light--matter interactions to trap particles ranging from single atoms to micrometer-sized eukaryotic cells. For this reason, optical tweezers are a ubiquitous tool in physics, biology, and nanotechnology. Recently,…

Diffuse optical breast imaging utilizes near-infrared (NIR) light propagation through tissues to assess the optical properties of tissue for the identification of abnormal tissue. This optical imaging approach is sensitive, cost-effective,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenxiang Cong , Xavier Intes , Ge Wang

The field of biomedical imaging has undergone a rapid growth in recent years, mostly due to the implementation of ad-hoc designed experimental setups, theoretical support methods and numerical reconstructions. Especially for biological…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Daniele Ancora

Photon transport through a diffusing slab can be described by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). When the slab is highly scattering and weakly absorbing, the RTE simplifies to the diffusion equation. In this paper, an inverse diffusion…

We present a simple measurement and analysis technique to determine the fraction of optical loss due to both radiation (scattering) and linear absorption in microphotonic components. The method is generally applicable to optical materials…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew Borselli , Thomas J. Johnson , Oskar Painter

The optical interaction of light and matter is modeled as an oscillating dipole in a plane wave. We analyze absorption, scattering and extinction for this system by the energy flow, which is depicted by streamlines of the Poynting vector.…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-05 Moritz Striebel , Jeff F. Young , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ilja Gerhardt

In this paper, we report on the optical absorption in porous silicon. We model the absorption process assuming that porous silicon is a pseudo 1D material system having a distribution of band gaps. We show that in order to explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shouvik Datta , K. L. Narasimhan

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is a reliable and widespread technique for monitoring qualitative changes in absorption inside highly scattering media. It has been shown, however, that Acousto-Optic (AO) imaging can provide significantly…

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

Deconvolution is the most commonly used image processing method to remove the blur caused by the point-spread-function (PSF) in optical imaging systems. While this method has been successful in deblurring, it suffers from several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Huangxuan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Ningbo Chen , Ke Li , Lidai Wang , Xiaojing Gong , Wei Zheng , Liang Song , Zhicheng Liu , Dong Liang , Chengbo Liu

We discuss recently emerging applications of the state-of-art deep learning methods on optical microscopy and microscopic image reconstruction, which enable new transformations among different modes and modalities of microscopic imaging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

We propose a joint channel estimation and data detection algorithm for massive multilple-input multiple-output systems based on diffusion models. Our proposed method solves the blind inverse problem by sampling from the joint posterior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Nicolas Zilberstein , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

We present an experimental approach to detect the saturated absorption spectroscopy different from conventional scheme. Using this approach, crossovers are removed to avoid their overlap with other peaks in the spectrum and sensitivity of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jun Duan , Xianghui Qi , Xiaoji Zhou , Xuzong Chen

High-precision laser interferometric instruments require optical surfaces with a close to perfect contour, as well as low scattering and absorption. Especially point absorbers are problematic because they heat up at high optical intensities…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-20 Leif Albers , Malte Hagemann , Roman Schnabel

The common and traditional method for dispersion compensation in optical domain is concatenating the transmit optical fiber by a compensating optical fiber having high-negative dispersion coefficient. In this paper, we take an opposite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Mohammad Hadi , Farokh Marvasti , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

Scattering medium brings great difficulties to locate and image planar objects especially when the object has a large depth. In this letter, a novel learning-based method is presented to locate and image the object hidden behind a thin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Shuo Zhu , Enlai Guo , Qianying Cui , Dongliang Zheng , Lianfa Bai , Jing Han

We have developed a method for the linear reconstruction of an image from undersampled, dithered data. The algorithm, known as Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction, or informally as Drizzle, preserves photometry and resolution, can weight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 A. S. Fruchter , R. N. Hook

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

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