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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have gained immense popularity in recent years because of their ability to improve wireless coverage and their flexibility to adapt to the changes in a wireless environment. These advantages are…

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We propose and demonstrate a new phase retrieval method for imaging through random media. Although methods to recover the Fourier amplitude through random distortions are well established, recovery of the Fourier phase has been a more…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-14 Byungjae Hwang , Taeseong Woo , Cheolwoo Ahn , Jung-Hoon Park

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have become a vital technology for improving the spectrum and energy efficiency of forthcoming wireless networks. Nevertheless, practical implementation is obstructed by the excessive overhead…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Xianhua Yu , Dong Li , Bowen Gu , Liuqing Yang , Sumei Sun , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper develops a unifying framework for signal reconstruction from interferometric measurements that is broadly applicable to various applications of interferometry. In this framework, the problem of signal reconstruction in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Davood Mardani , George K. Atia , Ayman F. Abouraddy

In the last two decades many people have been searching for the optimal wavefront sensor as it can boost the performance of high-contrast imagining by orders of magnitude on the ELTs. According classical information theory, the optimal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Jared R. Males , Olivier Guyon

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

In this paper we compare the performance of multi and single-mode interferometry for the estimation of the phase of the complex visibility. We provide a theoretical description of the interferometric signal which enables to derive the phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Tatulli , N. Blind , J. P. Berger , A. Chelli , F. Malbet

We propose an illumination strategy for interferometric imaging that allows for robust depth recovery from intensity-only measurements. For an array with colocated sources and receivers, we show that all the possible interferometric data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Measuring the phase of light is fundamental to optical imaging, sensing, and signal processing applications. Conventional optical phase measurements rely on multipath configurations, bulky interferometric setups, and computationally…

To directly image Earth-like planets, contrast levels of 10^-8 - 10^-10 are required. The next generation of instruments will need wavefront control below the nanometer level to achieve these goals. The Zernike wavefront sensor (ZWFS) is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 M. Darcis , S. Y. Haffert , V. Chambouleyron , D. S. Doelman , P. J. de Visser , M. A. Kenworthy

Atmospheric turbulence is a serious problem for ground-based interferometers. It places tight limits on both sensitivity and measurement precision. Phase referencing is a method to overcome these limitations via the use of a bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Benjamin F. Lane , Matthew W. Muterspaugh

Commonly used wavefront sensors, the Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor and the pyramid wavefront sensor, for example, have large dynamic range or high sensitivity, trading one regime for the other. A new type of wavefront sensor is being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-19 Meghan Farris O'Brien , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Joseph D. Long , Lauren Schatz , Jared R. Males , Kyle Van Gorkom , Alex Rodack

Single-wavelength interferometry achieves high resolution for smooth surfaces but struggles with rough, industrially relevant ones due to limited unambiguous measuring range and speckle effects. Multi-wavelength interferometry addresses…

The visualization of pure phase objects by wavefront sensing has important applications ranging from surface profiling to biomedical microscopy, and generally requires bulky and complicated setups involving optical spatial filtering,…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-29 Jianing Liu , Hao Wang , Yuyu Li , Lei Tian , Roberto Paiella

Fraunhofer diffraction is a well-known phenomenon achieved with most wavelength even without lens. A single-shot intensity measurement of diffraction is generally considered inadequate to reconstruct the original light field, because the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-04 An-Dong Xiong , Xiao-Peng Jin , Wen-Kai Yu , Qing Zhao

We present a new approach for image reconstruction and weak lensing measurements with interferometers. Based on the shapelet formalism presented in Refregier (2001), object images are decomposed into orthonormal Hermite basis functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier

Fusion frames are extensively studied due to their effectiveness in recovering signals from large-scale data. They are applicable in distributed processing, wireless sensor networks, and packet encoding systems due to their robustness and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Avinash Bhardwaj , Animesh Bhandari

We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

Several experimental results show that it is possible to extract useful phase information from reflected GPS signals over the oceans. In this work we begin the development of the theoretical background to account for these results and fully…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Ruffini i Fores , Francois Soulat

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Chao Song , Tariq Alkhalifah , Umair Bin Waheed , Silin Wang , Cai Liu