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Nonlinear interferometers allow for mid-infrared spectroscopy with near-infrared detection using correlated photons. Previous implementations have demonstrated a spectral resolution limited by spectrally selective detection. In our work, we…

Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron

Single photon detectors are indispensable tools in optics, from fundamental measurements to quantum information processing. The ability of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors to detect single photons with unprecedented…

Expanding far beyond traditional applications in optical interconnects at telecommunications wavelengths, the silicon nanophotonic integrated circuit platform has recently proven its merits for working with mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical…

Time-resolved near-infrared absorption spectroscopy of single non-repeatable transient events is performed at high spectral resolution with a dual-comb interferometer using a continuous-wave laser followed by a single electro-optic…

We develop a device model for pixelless converters of far/mid-infrared radiation (FIR/MIR) images into near-infrared/visible (NIR/VIR) images. These converters use polycrystalline graphene layers (PGLs) immersed in the van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 V. Ryzhii , M. S. Shur , M. Ryzhii , V. E. Karasik , T. Otsuj

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging plays an important role in numerous applications. However, long acquisition times and significant data volumes present a challenge to LiDAR imaging. This paper proposes a task-optimized adaptive sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Multi-sensor fusion using LiDAR and RGB cameras significantly enhances 3D object detection task. However, conventional LiDAR sensors perform dense, stateless scans, ignoring the strong temporal continuity in real-world scenes. This leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sara Shoouri , Morteza Tavakoli Taba , Hun-Seok Kim

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Steve McLaughlin

Mid-infrared spectrum can be recorded from almost any material making the mid-infrared spectroscopy an extremely important and widely used sample characterization and analytical technique. However, sensitivity photoconductive detectors…

Single-photon Lidar (SPL) offers unprecedented sensitivity and time resolution, which enables Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) systems to identify space debris from distances spanning thousands of kilometers. However, existing SPL systems face…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-10 Xialin Liu , Jia Qiang , Genghua Huang , Liang Zhang , Zheng Zhao , Rong Shu

We demonstrate photon counting at 1550 nm wavelength using microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) made from TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer films with superconducting transition temperature Tc ~ 1.4 K. The detectors have a lumped-element design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-07 W. Guo , X. Liu , Y. Wang , Q. Wei , L. F. Wei , J. Hubmayr , J. Fowler , J. Ullom , L. Vale , M. R. Vissers , J. Gao

Super-resolution of LiDAR range images is crucial to improving many downstream tasks such as object detection, recognition, and tracking. While deep learning has made a remarkable advances in super-resolution techniques, typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Youngsun Kwon , Minhyuk Sung , Sung-Eui Yoon

Applications relying on mid-infrared radiation (Mid-IR, $\lambda\sim$ 3-30 $\mu$m) have progressed at a very rapid pace in recent years, stimulated by scientific and technological breakthroughs. Mid-IR cameras have propelled the field of…

Detecting small objects, such as drones, over long distances presents a significant challenge with broad implications for security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems. Traditional imaging-based methods rely on…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Mid-infrared reconfigurable edge-enhanced imaging is highly demanded in sensing and vision fields. Here, we propose a novel scheme for mid-infrared upconversion imaging with high tunability between bright-field and edge-enhanced modalities.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhuohang Wei , Kun Huang , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

Interstellar scattering is known to broaden distant objects spatially and temporally. The latter aspect is difficult to analyse, unless the signals carry their own time stamps. Pulsars are so kind to do us this favour. Typically the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-26 Olaf Wucknitz

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) single-photon devices capture range and intensity information from a 3D scene. This modality enables long range 3D reconstruction with high range precision and low laser power. A multispectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Miguel Márquez , Henry Arguello-Fuentes , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Stephen McLaughlin