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This work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud , Maxine Varughese

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

A general method for tight focusing of waves, based on compensation of the angular spectrum, is established. We apply the method to monochromatic, polychromatic and diffusive waves. Diffusive and monochromatic waves may form spatially…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-27 Lars Egil Helseth

Quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT) offers a simple way to cancel dispersion broadening in a sample while also providing twice the resolution compared to classical OCT. However, to achieve these advantages, a bright and broadband…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Anna Romanova , Vadim Rodimin , Konstantin Katamadze

Current spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) methods rely on a posteriori numerical calculation. We present an alternative for accessing optically the spectroscopic information in OCT, i.e. without any post-processing, by using…

Coherent diffraction imaging methods enable imaging beyond lens-imposed resolution limits. In these methods, the object can be recovered by minimizing an error metric that quantifies the difference between diffraction patterns as observed,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Saugat Kandel , S. Maddali , Marc Allain , Stephan O. Hruszkewycz , Chris Jacobsen , Youssef S G Nashed

The harmonic oscillator with dissipation is studied within the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. By using the Wang-Uhlenbeck method, the Fokker-Planck equation, obtained from the master equation for the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelian Isar

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

We propose a general alternating minimization algorithm for nonconvex optimization problems with separable structure and nonconvex coupling between blocks of variables. To fix our ideas, we apply the methodology to the problem of blind…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Robert Hesse , D. Russell Luke , Shoham Sabach , Matthew K. Tam

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

We demonstrate optical coherence tomography based on an SU(1,1) nonlinear interferometer with high-gain parametric down-conversion. For imaging and sensing applications, this scheme promises to outperform previous experiments working at low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Gerard J. Machado , Gaetano Frascella , Juan P. Torres , Maria V. Chekhova

We present a numerical implementation, based on Wannier interpolation, of a Kubo-Greenwood formalism for computing the spatially dispersive optical conductivity in crystals at first order in the wave vector of light. This approach is more…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-21 Andrea Urru , Ivo Souza , Óscar Pozo Ocaña , Stepan S. Tsirkin , David Vanderbilt

In this paper, we provide a distributed frequency offset estimation algorithm based on a variant of belief propagation (BP). Each agent in the network pre-compensates its carrier frequency individually so that there is no frequency offset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jian Du , Shaodan Ma

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful and noninvasive method for retinal imaging. In this paper, we introduce a fast segmentation method based on a new variant of spectral graph theory named diffusion maps. The research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Raheleh Kafieh , Hossein Rabbani , Michael D. Abramoff , Milan Sonka

In this paper a novel distributed algorithm for blind macro calibration in sensor networks based on output synchronization is proposed. The algorithm is formulated as a set of gradient-type recursions for estimating parameters of sensor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Miloš S. Stanković , Srđan S. Stanković , Karl Henrik Johansson

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful technology for rapid volumetric imaging in biomedicine. The bright field imaging approach of conventional OCT systems is based on the detection of directly backscattered light, thereby…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures cross-sectional data and is used for the screening, monitoring, and treatment planning of retinal diseases. Technological developments to increase the speed of acquisition often results in systems…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Timothy T. Yu , Da Ma , Jayden Cole , Myeong Jin Ju , Mirza F. Beg , Marinko V. Sarunic

We propose a joint channel estimation and data detection algorithm for massive multilple-input multiple-output systems based on diffusion models. Our proposed method solves the blind inverse problem by sampling from the joint posterior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Nicolas Zilberstein , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

We exploit geometric properties of quantum states of light in optical cavities to carry out quantum non-demolition measurements. We generalize the 'mode invisibility' method to obtain information about the Wigner function of a squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Marvellous Onuma-Kalu , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We propose a non-convex variational model for the super-resolution of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images of the murine eye, by enforcing sparsity with respect to suitable dictionaries learnt from high-resolution OCT data. The…

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