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In this paper we propose a new framework for distributed source coding of structured sources, such as sparse signals. Our framework capitalizes on recent advances in the theory of linear inverse problems and signal representations using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maxim Goukhshtein , Petros T. Boufounos , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Stark C. Draper

Optical interferometry has made tremendous development in fundamentals and applications of light. Traditional optical interferometry using simplex plane phase light just allows one dimensional measurement, but incapable of retrieving…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Zhenyu Wan , Jian Wang

Quantum metrology takes advantage of nonclassical resources such as entanglement to achieve a sensitivity level below the standard quantum limit. To date, almost all quantum-metrology demonstrations are restricted to improving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yi Xia , Wei Li , William Clark , Darlene Hart , Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang

Interference is conventionally attributed to path-accumulated phase differences, with measurement treated as a passive readout. Here we demonstrate that single-particle interference is governed by the relative phase between the prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

In this work, we propose a CNN-based approach to estimate the spectral reflectance of a surface and the spectral power distribution of the light from a single RGB image of a V-shaped surface. Interreflections happening in a concave surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Rada Deeb , Joost Van De Weijer , Damien Muselet , Mathieu Hebert , Alain Tremeau

Controlling the flow of broadband electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge in optoelectronics. Surface plasmon polaritons (or plasmons) provide subwavelength localization of light, but are affected by significant…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Maxim S. Elizarov , Yuri S. Kivshar , A. Fratalocchi

Refraction by the atmosphere causes the positions of sources to depend on the airmass through which an observation was taken. This shift is dependent on the underlying spectral energy of the source and the filter or bandpass through which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Matthias Lee , Tamas Budavari , Ian Sullivan , Andrew Connolly

Presented is a novel way to combine snapshot compressive imaging and lateral shearing interferometry in order to capture the spatio-spectral phase of an ultrashort laser pulse in a single shot. A deep unrolling algorithm is utilised for the…

Integrated optics has brought unprecedented levels of stability and performance to quantum photonic circuits. However, integrated devices are not merely micron-scale equivalents of their bulk-optics counterparts. By exploiting the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ryan P. Marchildon , Amr S. Helmy

A new type of an optical interferometer is discussed the phase difference between the interfering beams in which is substantially wavelength dependent. It is shown that the function measured with this device is an integral transform of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-29 M. V. Lebedev

Curved refractive objects are common in the human environment, and have a complex visual appearance that can cause robotic vision algorithms to fail. Light-field cameras allow us to address this challenge by capturing the view-dependent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dorian Tsai , Peter Corke , Thierry Peynot , Donald G. Dansereau

We analyse a nonlinear interferometer, also known as an SU(1,1) interferometer, in the presence of internal losses and inefficient detectors. To overcome these limitations, we consider the effect of seeding one of the interferometer input…

By placing a diffractive element in front of an image sensor, we are able to multiplex the spectral and angular information of a scene onto the image sensor. Reconstruction of the angular-spectral distribution is attained by first…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-06 Peng Wang , Rajesh Menon

To navigate reliably in indoor environments, an industrial autonomous vehicle must know its position. However, current indoor vehicle positioning technologies either lack accuracy, usability or are too expensive. Thus, we propose a novel…

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In this paper, we focus on radar imaging using active sensing with a single transceiver and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RISs are arrays with tunable passive phase shifter elements that can modify the propagation channel. The…

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This paper describes a direct conversion receiver applying compressed sensing with the objective to relax the analog filtering requirements seen in the traditional architecture. The analog filter is cumbersome in an \gls{IC} design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jacek Pierzchlewski , Thomas Arildsen , Torben Larsen

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to accurately detect objects hidden in the surrounding environment. However, the existing COD methods mainly locate camouflaged objects in the RGB domain, their performance has not been fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Mengyao Sun , Sanyi Zhang , Xiaofei Zhou , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao

In this work, we investigate a tool for hybrid quantum systems that implements a transducer to map small position changes of a micro-mechanical membrane onto the polarization of a laser beam. This is achieved with an interferometric setup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Hayat Abbas , Thomas Fernholz

The amplification obtained using weak values is quantified through a detailed investigation of the signal to noise ratio for an optical beam deflection measurement. We show that for a given deflection, input power and beam radius, the use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-14 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

In this paper, we develop a novel phase retrieval approach to reconstruct x-ray differential phase shift induced by an object. A primary advantage of our approach is a higher-order accuracy over that with the conventional linear…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang