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Dark wavefront sensing in its simplest and more crude form is a quad-cell with a round spot of dark ink acting as occulting disk at the center. This sensor exhibits fainter limiting magnitude than a conventional quad-cell, providing that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Carmelo Arcidiacono , Roberto Ragazzoni , Valentina Viotto , Maria Bergomi , Jacopo Farinato , Demetrio Magrin , Marco Dima , Marco Gullieuszik , Luca Marafatto

A novel reconstruction method is introduced for the severely ill-posed inverse problem of limited-angle tomography. It is well known that, depending on the available measurement, angles specify a subset of the wavefront set of the unknown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Elli Karvonen , Matti Lassas , Pekka Pankka , Samuli Siltanen

Context. Solar wavefront sensing has been a challenge for astrophysical instrumentalists, due to the low contrast between the Sun and the sky background compared to night-time observations, which limits the performance of adaptive optics…

We introduce a modified corner cube reflector that encodes information from passive optical sensors in its retroreflected diffraction pattern, enabling remote sensor-state measurement over a single-ended optical link. The design interferes…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Anne R. Kroo , Olav Solgaard

Highly directional mmWave/THz links require rapid beam alignment, yet exhaustive codebook sweeps incur prohibitive training overhead. This letter proposes a sensing-assisted adaptive probing policy that maps multimodal sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Abidemi Orimogunje , Vukan Ninkovic , Ognjen Kundacina , Hyunwoo Park , Sunwoo Kim , Dejan Vukobratovic , Evariste Twahirwa , Gaspard Gashema

Thermally induced fluctuations impose a fundamental limit on precision measurement. In optical interferometry, the current bounds of stability and sensitivity are dictated by the excess mechanical damping of the high-reflectivity coatings…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-17 Garrett D. Cole , Wei Zhang , Michael J. Martin , Jun Ye , Markus Aspelmeyer

A simple procedure for the design of recursive digital filters with an infinite impulse response (IIR) and non-recursive digital filters with a finite impulse response (FIR) is described. The fixed-lag smoothing filters are designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Hugh Lachlan Kennedy

Precise measurements in optical and atomic systems often rely on differential interferometry. This method allows to handle large and correlated phase noise contributions -- such as environmental vibrations, thermal fluctuations, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Luca Pezzè , Andrea Santoni , Chiara Mazzinghi , Marco Fattori , Augusto Smerzi

We introduce Dynamic Tiling, a model-agnostic, adaptive, and scalable approach for small object detection, anchored in our inference-data-centric philosophy. Dynamic Tiling starts with non-overlapping tiles for initial detections and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Son The Nguyen , Theja Tulabandhula , Duy Nguyen

Recently it has been shown that the intensity time-bandwidth product of optical signals can be engineered to match that of the data acquisition instrument. In particular, it is possible to slow down an ultrafast signal, resulting in…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jacky Chan , Ata Mahjoubfar , Mohammad H. Asghari , Bahram Jalali

This paper is concerned with the multi-frequency factorization method for imaging the support of a wave-number-dependent source function. It is supposed that the source function is given by the inverse Fourier transform of some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

We study frequency dependent (FD) input-output schemes for signal-recycling interferometers, the baseline design of Advanced LIGO and the current configuration of GEO 600. Complementary to a recent proposal by Harms et al. to use FD input…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen

We present the concept of a novel time-focusing technique for neutron spectrometers, which allows to disentangle time-focusing from beam divergence. The core of this approach is a double rotating-crystal monochromator that can be used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-02 M. Zanatta , K. H. Andersen , P. P. Deen , A. Orecchini , A. Paciaroni , C. Petrillo , F. Sacchetti

In this study, we investigated the application of the direct sampling method (DSM) to identify small dielectric objects in a limited-aperture inverse scattering problem. Unlike previous studies, we consider the bistatic measurement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Won-Kwang Park

The use of low-dimensional objects in the field of cavity optomechanics is limited by their low scattering cross section compared to the size of the optical cavity mode. Fiber-based Fabry-P\'{e}rot microcavities can feature tiny mode cross…

Although detection with Transformer (DETR) is increasingly popular, its global attention modeling requires an extremely long training period to optimize and achieve promising detection performance. Alternative to existing studies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhe Chen , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

We present a reference-free computational wavefront sensor based on binary amplitude modulation and phase retrieval. The method employs Digital Micro-mirror Device as a programmable amplitude modulator and reconstructs the complex optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Ondrej Denk , Jan Pilar , Martin Divoky , Miroslav Cech , Tomas Mocek

This paper investigates a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS)-assisted Rydberg Atomic REceiver (RARE) architecture under magnitude-only heterodyne readout. We show that, unlike conventional coherent systems, the optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Hong-Bae Jeon , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

Time-frequency analysis is often used to study non stationary multicomponent signals, which can be viewed as the surperimposition of modes, associated with ridges in the TF plane. To understand such signals, it is essential to identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Nils Laurent , Sylvain Meignen

Refractive-index (RI) sensing plays a pivotal role in various domains, encompassing applications like glucose sensing, biosensing, and gas detection. Despite the advantages of optical fiber sensors, such as their compact size, flexibility,…