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We present a novel Fourier camera, an in-hardware optical compression of high-speed frames employing pixel-level sign-coded exposure where pixel intensities temporally modulated as positive and negative exposure are combined to yield…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 R. Wes Baldwin , Vijayan Asari , Keigo Hirakawa

We propose a focal-plane wavefront sensor (FPWFS) based on a short multimode fiber (MMF) capable of operating under moderately broadband illumination. By coupling the aberrated focal-plane field into an MMF of length <1 cm, we preserve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito , Natalia Arteaga-Marrero , Ian Cunnyngham , Jeff Kuhn

Fourier optical processing underpins optical information manipulation, yet extending such operations to short wavelengths within compact platforms remains challenging. Here, we address this challenge by embedding reconfigurable…

The use of Wavefront Sensors (WFS) is nowadays fundamental in the field of instrumental optics. This paper discusses the principle of an original and recently proposed new class of WFS. Their principle consists in evaluating the slopes of…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-23 Francois Henault

Natural materials typically interact weakly with the magnetic component of light which greatly limits their applications. This has led to the development of artificial metamaterials and metasurfaces. However, natural atoms, where only…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Kyle E. Ballantine , Janne Ruostekoski

Single-pixel cameras based on the concepts of compressed sensing (CS) leverage the inherent structure of images to retrieve them with far fewer measurements and operate efficiently over a significantly broader spectral range than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Qiang Guo , Hongwei Chen , Yuxi Wang , Yong Guo , Peng Liu , Xiurui Zhu , Zheng Cheng , Zhenming Yu , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Shizhong Xie

The light's image is the primary source of information carrier in nature. Indeed, a single photon's image possesses a vast information capacity that can be harnessed for quantum information processing. Our scheme for implementing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Mohammad Rezai , Jawad A. Salehi

Fourier ptychography is a recently explored imaging method for overcoming the diffraction limit of conventional cameras with applications in microscopy and yielding high-resolution images. In order to splice together low-resolution images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yican Chen , Zhi Luo , Xia Wu , Huidong Yang , Bo Huang

Thermal imaging and sensing technologies offer critical information about our thermally radiant world, and in recent years, have seen dramatic increases in usage for a range of applications. However, the cost and technical finesse of…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-29 Jyotirmoy Mandal , John Brewer , Sagar Mandal , Aaswath P. Raman

Nonlinear optical processing of ambient natural light is highly desired in computational imaging and sensing applications. A strong optical nonlinear response that can work under weak broadband incoherent light is essential for this…

State-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) systems perform non-linear Fourier-type wavefront sensing for real-time corrections of dynamic wavefront aberrations. This general class of sensors uses a filtering mask in the focal plane that converts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Victoria Laidlaw

Optical imaging through complex media, such as biological tissues or fog, is challenging due to light scattering. In the multiple scattering regime, wavefront shaping provides an effective method to retrieve information; it relies on…

Time-varying photonic systems open new possibilities for controlling light, enabling photonic time crystals, time reflection and refraction, frequency conversion, synthetic gauge fields, optical nonreciprocity, among others. These effects…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zeki Hayran , John B. Pendry , Prasad P. Iyer , Francesco Monticone

Structural colors generated due to light scattering from static all-dielectric metasurfaces have successfully enabled high-resolution, high-saturation, and wide-gamut color printing applications. Despite recent advances, most demonstrations…

Polarization information of the light can provide rich cues for computer vision and scene understanding tasks, such as the type of material, pose, and shape of the objects. With the advent of new and cheap polarimetric sensors, this imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew-Fock-Chong Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

Quantum imaging, one of the pillars of quantum technologies, is well-suited to study sensitive samples which require low-light conditions, like biological tissues. In this context, interaction-free measurements (IFM) allow us infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Alexandra Maria Palici , Tudor-Alexandru Isdraila , Stefan Ataman , Radu Ionicioiu

An integrated photonic circuit architecture to perform a modified-convolution operation based on the Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform (DFrFT) is introduced. This is accomplished by utilizing two nonuniformly-coupled waveguide lattices…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kevin Zelaya , Mohammad-Ali Miri

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence, coupled with the slowing of Moore's law, is straining computing infrastructure, as CMOS electronics face inherent limits in bandwidth, energy efficiency, and parallelism. Integrated photonic…

We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Semiconductor pixel detectors offer features for the detection of radiation which are interesting for particle physics detectors as well as for imaging e.g. in biomedical applications (radiography, autoradiography, protein crystallography)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Norbert Wermes