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The interaction of a weak probe laser with an inverted-Y type four-level atomic system driven by two additional coherent fields is investigated theoretically. Under the influence of the coherent coupling fields, the steady-state linear…

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Mode-sorting is a procedure that decomposes a light field into a basis of transverse modes, directing each mode into a separate spatial location, allowing the constituent mode intensities to be measured simultaneously. We demonstrate a…

Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

Compressive imaging is an emerging application of compressed sensing, devoted to acquisition, encoding and reconstruction of images using random projections as measurements. In this paper we propose a novel method to provide a scalable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Quantum imaging with spatially entangled photons offers advantages such as enhanced spatial resolution, robustness against noise, and counter-intuitive phenomena, while a biphoton spatial aberration generally degrades its performance.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yi Zheng , Zhao-Di Liu , Jian-Shun Tang , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Radio interferometry probes astrophysical signals through incomplete and noisy Fourier measurements. The theory of compressed sensing demonstrates that such measurements may actually suffice for accurate reconstruction of sparse or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , G. Puy , A. M. M. Scaife , P. Vandergheynst

Inverse rendering remains a core challenge in graphics and vision, especially in the snapshot configurations required for lightweight desktop workflows, where the per-frame information budget is highly constrained. Previous inverse…

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

The nonlinear response of materials, an increasingly important aspect of light-matter interaction, can be challenging to measure in highly absorbing materials. Here, we introduce an interferometric technique that enables a direct…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-25 C. D. Cruz , J. C. Stephenson , J. K. Wahlstrand

The primary purpose of the Fermilab Recycler Ring Transverse Digital Damper System is to prevent instabilities due to high phase space densities of the cooled antiproton beam. The system was designed to facilitate Beam Transfer Function…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 N. Eddy , J. L. Crisp , M. Hu

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is gradually moving towards network applications. It is important to improve the performance of QKD systems such as photonic integration for compact systems, the stability resistant to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Huaxing Xu , Yaqi Song , Xiaofan Mo , Yitang Dai , Changlei Wang , Shaohua Wang , Rui Zhang

A unidirectional imager would only permit image formation along one direction, from an input field-of-view (FOV) A to an output FOV B, and in the reverse path, the image formation would be blocked. Here, we report the first demonstration of…

Optical limiters are designed to transmit low intensity light, while blocking the light with excessively high intensity. A typical passive limiter absorbs excessive electromagnetic energy, which can cause its overheating and destruction. We…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-11 Eleana Makri , Hamidreza Ramezani , Tsampikos Kottos , Ilya Vitebskiy

Improvements to dual-comb interferometers will benefit precision spectroscopy and sensing, distance metrology, tomography, telecommunications etc. A specific requirement of such interferometers is to enforce mutual coherence between the two…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Zaijun Chen , Ming Yan , Theodor W. Hänsch , Nathalie Picqué

We introduce a model to design reflectors that take into account the inverse square law for radiation. We prove existence of solutions, both in the near and far field cases, when the input and output energies are prescribed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-31 Cristian E. Gutierrez , Ahmad Sabra

Reflectance bounds the frequency spectrum of illumination in the object appearance. In this paper, we introduce the first stochastic inverse rendering method, which recovers the attenuated frequency spectrum of an illumination jointly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yuto Enyo , Ko Nishino

continuum-robots, prosthetic devices and wearable body-shape sensors. A miniaturised one-degree-of-freedom joint-angle sensor is devised, using a single light emitting/receiving optical fibre with a coupler connected to a Keyence (FS-N11MN,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Dalia Osman , Vignesh Vignesh , Yohan Noh

Free-space optical information transfer through diffusive media is critical in many applications, such as biomedical devices and optical communication, but remains challenging due to random, unknown perturbations in the optical path. In…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Bijie Bai , Cagatay Isil , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Ninety years after their prediction, quantum vacuum nonlinearities in macroscopic electromagnetic fields still await a direct experimental verification in the laboratory. A particularly promising route towards their first measurement is the…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-20 Aimé Matheron , Michal Šmíd , Matt Zepf , Felix Karbstein

We proposed a novel approach to coherent imaging of dynamic samples. The inter-frame similarity of the sample's local structures is found to be a powerful constraint in phasing a sequence of diffraction patterns. We devised a new image…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-11 Pengju Sheng , Fucai Zhang