Publications related to Non-line-of-sight propagation

A Gradient-Gated SPAD Array for Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Jiuxuan Zhao, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee

Time-resolved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging based on single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors have demonstrated impressive results in recent years. To acquire adequate number of indirect photons from a hidden scene in the presence of overwhelming ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Partial discharge localization in power transformers using acoustic time reversal

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Hamidreza Karami, Florent Quentin Aviolat

The localization of partial discharges (PD) is important to monitor the conditioning of high voltage insulator materials. One of the key components in power grids is the high power transformer. Localization of PDs in these pieces of equipment can increase ...

Elsevier2022

A Correlation-Based Electromagnetic Time Reversal Technique to Locate Indoor Transient Radiation Sources

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Zhaoyang Wang, Qi Li

To overcome the multipath interference in locating transient electromagnetic (EM) radiation sources in an indoor environment, we propose a criterion that calculates the correlation between back-propagated signals from observation points, to be used in EM t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

An experimental validation of partial discharge localization using electromagnetic time reversal

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Hamidreza Karami

The localization of partial discharge (PD) sources is of importance for the monitoring and maintenance of power transformers. Time difference of arrival (TDoA) based methods are widely adopted in the literature for the localization of PDs. Recently, time r ...

Nature Research2021

Nature of Crack Path Instabilities in Thin Sheets Cut by Blunt Objects

Iryna Sivak

Cutting a brittle thin sheet with a blunt object leaves an oscillating crack that seemingly violates the principle of local symmetry for fracture. We experimentally find that at a critical value of a well chosen control parameter the straight propagation i ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Analysis of a bipolar upward lightning flash based on simultaneous records of currents and 380-km distant electric fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Wolfgang Schulz, Davide Pavanello, Dongshuai Li

In this paper, we present and discuss simultaneous records of current and wideband electric field waveforms at 380 km distance from the strike point associated with an upward bipolar flash initiated from the Säntis Tower. The flash contains 23 negative str ...

Elsevier2019

Modeling of parasitic oscillations in smooth-wall circular symmetric dielectric-loaded gyrotron beam ducts

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

The self-consistent simulation of the electron beam interaction was performed in the presence of a lossy dielectric layer in the smooth-wall beam duct of a gyrotron oscillator. For this purpose, the linear and spectral code TWANGlinspec was extended. In th ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Constant-pressure sound waves in non-Hermitian disordered media

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Stefan Rotter

When waves impinge on a disordered material they are back-scattered and form a highly complex interference pattern. Suppressing any such distortions of a wave’s free propagation is a challenging task with many applications in a number of different discipli ...

2018

Photoinitiator-free Laser Fabrication of Ultra-compact, Low-loss Waveguides in Polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

Owing to its excellent elasticity, wide spectral range of transparency, and outstanding chemical and thermal stability, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an elastomer of great technological importance, being widely used in the fabrication of microfluidic and ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Learning Tomography Assessed Using Mie Theory

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim

In optical diffraction tomography, the multiply scattered field is a nonlinear function of the refractive index (RI) of the object. The Rytov method relies on a single-scattering propagation model and is commonly used to reconstruct images. Recently, a rec ...

American Physical Society (APS)2018

Multi-directional emission and detection of spin waves propagating in yttrium iron garnet with wavelengths down to about 100 nm

Dirk Grundler

We performed broadband spin-wave spectroscopy on 200 nm thick yttrium iron garnet containing arrays of partially embedded magnetic nanodisks. Using integrated coplanar waveguides (CPWs), we studied the excitation and transmission of spin waves depending on ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Lake Imaging and Monitoring Aerial Drone

David Andrew Barry, Ludovic Zulliger, Jean-Luc Liardon, Karl Johannes Kangur, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Lukas Oliver Hostettler

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included (i) fuselage capable of accommodating an imaging package or other instrumentation, (ii) suitability for over-lake BVLOS author ...

2018

Assessment of the Influence of Losses on the Performance of the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Fault Location Method

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Reza Razzaghi, Gaspard Lugrin

Electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) has been shown to be an efficient method for locating faults in AC and DC power grids. In the available literature, the back-propagation medium has been considered to have identical losses as the direct-time medium. How ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Analysis of lightning-ionosphere interaction using simultaneous records of source current and 380 km distant electric field

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Wolfgang Schulz, Davide Pavanello, Dongshuai Li

We present simultaneous current and wideband electric field waveforms at 380 km associated with upward lightning flashes initiated from the Santis Tower, Switzerland. To the best of our knowledge, the dataset presented in this study includes the first simu ...

Elsevier2017

Throughput Analysis of Large Networks : Spatial Diversity, Beamforming Gain, and Transmission Modes

Serj Haddad

While wired infrastructure constitutes the backbone of most wireless networks, wireless systems appeal the most to the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of today's communication systems because of their ease of deployment and mobility, not to menti ...

EPFL2017

Near-field characterization of Bloch surface waves based 2D optical components

Richa Dubey

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are surface electromagnetic modes that propagate at the interface between a multilayer substrate and a homogeneous external medium. The optical field of the surface mode is confined near the surface of the multilayer. This vertic ...

EPFL2017

Spatial Multiplexing of QPSK Signals With a Single Radio: Antenna Design and Over-the-Air Experiments

Juan Ramon Mosig, Andreas Peter Burg, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Mohsen Yousefbeiki, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

This paper describes the implementation and performance analysis of the first fully operational beam-space multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for the spatial multiplexing of two QPSK streams. The antenna is composed of a planar three-port radiat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Analysis of lightning electromagnetic field propagation in mountainous terrain and its effects on ToA-based lightning location systems

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Keyhan Sheshyekani, Dongshuai Li, Qilin Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the propagation effects on lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields over mountainous terrain by using a three-dimensional (3-D) finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We also discuss the time delay error in the time-of-arri ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Listening to Distances and Hearing Shapes : Inverse Problems in Room Acoustics and Beyond

Ivan Dokmanic

A central theme of this thesis is using echoes to achieve useful, interesting, and sometimes surprising results. One should have no doubts about the echoes' constructive potential; it is, after all, demonstrated masterfully by Nature. Just think about the ...

EPFL2015

Propagation in Finite Lossy Media: An Application to WBAN

Anja Skrivervik

The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has become an important part of the wireless communication world in the past decade leading to the need for efficient antennas for In-, On- and Off-Body links. The design of such antennas depends critically on the unde ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015