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Whilst most engineered systems use signals that are continuous in time, there is a domain of systems in which signals consist of events. Events, like Dirac delta functions, have no meaningful time duration. Many important real-world systems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Jonathan Tapson , André van Schaik

Arbitrary Detuning ASynchronous OPtical Sampling (ADA-SOPS) is an emerging technique for extending standard pump--probe experiments performed with two femtosecond lasers to multitimescale experiments, which are of great interest for the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-17 Laura Antonucci , A. Bonvalet , X. Solinas , M. Joffre

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exploit event-driven and addition-only computation to substantially improve efficiency for intelligent computation. A key temporal property of SNNs, elastic inference, allows outputs to emerge progressively,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kang You , Chen Nie , Lee Jun Yan , Ziling Wei , Cheng Zou , Zekai Xu , Yu Feng , Honglan Jiang , Zhezhi He

The single photon source is an important part of the quantum key distribution (QKD) system. At present, the single photon source is large in size and complex in structure for a lot of discrete components which are used. The miniaturization…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Bo Feng , Futian Liang , Xinzhe Wang , Chenxi Zhu , Yulong Zhu , Ge Jin

Single Photon Avalanche Diode sensor arrays operating in direct time of flight mode can perform 3D imaging using pulsed lasers. Operating at high frame rates, SPAD imagers typically generate large volumes of noisy and largely redundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Saeed Afshar , Tara Julia Hamilton , Langdon Davis , Andre van Schaik , Dennis Delic

Event vision sensors (neuromorphic cameras) output sparse, asynchronous ON/OFF events triggered by log-intensity threshold crossings, enabling microsecond-scale sensing with high dynamic range and low data bandwidth. As a nonlinear system,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nimrod Kruger , Nicholas Owen Ralph , Gregory Cohen , Paul Hurley

The emerging hybrid integrated quantum photonics combines advantages of different functional components into a single chip to meet the stringent requirements for quantum information processing. Despite the tremendous progress in hybrid…

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) injection system plays a fundamental role to preserve the quality of injected high-brightness beams for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics program and to maintain the maximum storable intensity. The…

We present a multiplexed single photon source that re-synchronises heralded single photons generated by four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fibre using a fibre delay loop controlled by a single switch. By combining the probabilities of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Rowan A. Hoggarth , Robert J. A. Francis-Jones , Peter J. Mosley

Embedded systems continue to rapidly proliferate in diverse fields, including medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and more generally, the Internet of Things (IoT). Many embedded systems require application-specific hardware components to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVSs) asynchronously stream events in correspondence of pixels subject to brightness changes. Differently from classic vision devices, they produce a sparse representation of the scene. Therefore, to apply standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Marco Cannici , Marco Ciccone , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

The PhaseII Upgrades of CMS are being planned for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) era when the mean number of interactions per beam crossing ("in-time pileup") is expected to reach ~140-200. The potential backgrounds arising from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 Sebastian N. White

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

The continuous push for high-performance photonic switches is one of the most crucial premises for the sustainable scaling of programmable and reconfigurable photonic circuits for a wide spectrum of applications. Conventional optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-12 Yinpeng Hu , Yi Sun , Ye Lu , Huan Li , Liu Liu , Yaocheng Shi , Daoxin Dai

In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling sensing and communication functionality in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enabled base station (BS) operating in an indoor factory (InF) environment. The BS is performing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Navid Keshtiarast , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Marina Petrova

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at LBNL is upgrading several LLRF systems for its Linac and Sub-Harmonic Bunchers, where it is desired to have a unified LLRF system design to support various RF frequencies (at 125MHz, 500MHz and 3GHz) and…

Automated Driving Systems (ADS), including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), must fulfill not only high functional expectations but also stringent timing constraints mandated by international regulations and standards. Regulatory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sebastian Dingler , Philip Rehkop , Florian Mayer , Ralf Muenzenberger

A Time of Flight monitoring system has been developed for BES3. The light source is a 442-443 nm laser diode, which is stable and provides a pulse width as narrow as 50 ps and a peak power as large as 2.6 W. Two optical-fiber bundles with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. A. Harris , J. W. Kennedy , Q. Liu , L. Nguyen , S. L. Olsen , M. Rosen , C. P. Shen , G. S. Varner , Y. K. Heng , Z. J. Sun , K. J. Zhu , Q. An , C. Q. Feng , S. B. Liu

This paper introduces a neuromorphic methodology for eye tracking, harnessing pure event data captured by a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) camera. The framework integrates a directly trained Spiking Neuron Network (SNN) regression model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Pietro Bonazzi , Sizhen Bian , Giovanni Lippolis , Yawei Li , Sadique Sheik , Michele Magno

In this paper, we propose LoopLynx, a scalable dataflow architecture for efficient LLM inference that optimizes FPGA usage through a hybrid spatial-temporal design. The design of LoopLynx incorporates a hybrid temporal-spatial architecture,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jianing Zheng , Gang Chen