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Wireless signals are integral to modern society, enabling both communication and increasingly, environmental sensing. While various propagation models exist, ranging from empirical methods to full-wave simulations, the phenomenon of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Anurag Pallaprolu , Winston Hurst , Yasamin Mostofi

The previous research proves that the random laser emission reflects not only the scattering properties but also the absorption properties. The random laser is therefore considered a potential tool for optical properties sensing. Although…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-15 Dongqin Ni , Florian Klämpfl , Michael Schmidt , Martin Hohmann

Phase imaging techniques extract the optical path-length information of a scene, whereas wavefront sensors provide the shape of an optical wavefront. Since these two applications have different technical requirements, they have developed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Soldevila , V. Durán , P. Clemente , J. Lancis , E. Tajahuerce

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

This paper proposes a verification-based decoding approach for reconstruction of a sparse signal with incremental sparse measurements. In its first step, the verification-based decoding algorithm is employed to reconstruct the signal with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Xiaofu Wu , Zhen Yang , Lu Gan

Phase reversal occurs in the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a negatively refracting medium or a phase-conjugate interface. Here we report the experimental observation of phase reversal diffraction without the above devices. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Su-Heng Zhang , Shu Gan , De-Zhong Cao , Jun Xiong , Xiangdong Zhang , Kaige Wang

Sensing with undetected photons enables the measurement of absorption and phase shifts at wavelengths different from those detected. Here, we experimentally map the balance and loss parameter space in a non-degenerate nonlinear…

We study a device composed of an optical interferometer integrated with a ferri-magnetic sphere resonator (FSR). Magneto-optic coupling can be employed in such a device to manipulate entanglement between optical pulses that are injected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Eyal Buks , Banoj Kumar Nayak

In quantum information processing, implementing arbitrary preparations and measurements on qubits necessitates precise information to identify a specific reference frame (RF). In space quantum communication and sensing, where a shared RF is…

This work considers the problem of mitigating information leakage between communication and sensing in systems jointly performing both operations. Specifically, a discrete memoryless state-dependent broadcast channel model is studied in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Onur Günlü , Matthieu R. Bloch , Rafael F. Schaefer , Aylin Yener

In this work, we introduce reconfigurable intelligent surfaces designed to simultaneously perform reflection of single or multiple incident waves toward the receiver or receivers and sensing the angles of arrival. We achieve anomalous…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mostafa Movahediqomi , Yongming Li , Grigorii Ptitcyn , Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov

Dynamic optical sensors, as those based on the reflectivity of isotropic dielectrical interfaces, can be useful for measuring small changes in the refractive index of fluid media. Exact and approximated explicit formulas for their…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 German Caro , Eduardo Acosta , Liliana Perez , Francisco Veiras

Optical pump-probe spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the study of non-equilibrium electronic dynamics and finds wide applications across a range of fields, from physics and chemistry to material science and biology. However, a shortcoming…

A new type of quantum entangled interferometer was recently realized that employs parametric amplifiers as the wave splitting and recombination elements. The quantum entanglement stems from the parametric amplifiers, which produce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

The measurement of weak continuous forces exerted on a mechanical oscillator is a fundamental problem in various physical experiments. It is fundamentally impeded by quantum back-action from the meter used to sense the displacement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Kentaro Komori , Takuya Kawasaki , Sotatsu Otabe , Yutaro Enomoto , Yuta Michimura , Masaki Ando

Optical microscopy has been employed to derive salient characteristics of an object in various fields, including cell biology, flow cytometry, biopsy, and neuroscience. In particular, measuring the phase of light scattered from an object…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jeonghun Oh , Herve Hugonnet , Weisun Park , YongKeun Park

A theoretical model based on the transverse resonance method is proposed for the description of cylindrical multilayer dielectric resonator sensors. From this model, the resonant frequency and the sensitivities with respect to geometrical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Barrere , P. Boughedaoui , M. Valentin

Recently introduced speckle-correlations based techniques enable noninvasive imaging of objects hidden behind scattering layers. In these techniques the hidden object Fourier amplitude is retrieved from the scattered light autocorrelation,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Tengfei Wu , Ori Katz , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

Differential interferometry (DI) with two coupled sensors is a most powerful approach for precision measurements in presence of strong phase noise. However DI has been studied and implemented only with classical resources. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Landini , M. Fattori , L. Pezze , A. Smerzi

Refractive index is a fundamental optical property of powder and a key input to the measurement of the size distribution using light scattering and the measurement of the absorption and scattering coefficients using diffuse reflectance…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-05 Cory Juntunen , Adam J. Rish , Carl Anderson , Yongjin Sung