Publications related to Astronomical interferometer

Quantum radio astronomy: Data encodings and quantum image processing

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Stefano Corda

We explore applications of quantum computing for radio interferometry and astronomy using recent developments in quantum image processing. We evaluate the suitability of different quantum image representations using a toy quantum computing image reconstruc ...

Elsevier2024

Validation of short-pulse reflectometry turbulence measurements with a synthetic diagnostic

Stefano Coda, Stephan Brunner, Oleg Krutkin, Umesh Kumar, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Samuele Mazzi

Experimental measurements of the turbulence amplitude utilizing a short pulse reflectometry method are presented. Two discharges with shaped plasma possessing opposite signs of triangularity are considered and a higher turbulence amplitude is found in the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment: 256-element array status and overview

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Carolyn Marie Crichton, Zeyu Zhang, Martin Kunz

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis Experiment (HIRAX) is a radio interferometer array currently in development, with an initial 256-element array to be deployed at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory Square Kilometer Array site in Sout ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2022

NIR Fluorescence lifetime macroscopic imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü

The performance of SwissSPAD2 (SS2), a large scale, widefield time-gated CMOS SPAD imager developed for fluorescence lifetime imaging, has recently been described in the context of visible range and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of dyes w ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

SBS-based fiber sensors

Luc Thévenaz

The spectra of Brillouin scattering processes in optical fibers are affected by temperature, axial strain, and other quantities of interest. This dependence forms the basis for optical Brillouin scattering based optical fiber sensors. Since the first propo ...

Elsevier2022

Development and evaluation of galaxy shape measurement algorithms for radio interferometric data

Vasileios Angelopoulos

The purpose of this Thesis is to develop, test, and characterize different models attempting to tackle the problem of measurement of galaxy shapes applied in interferometric observations. Shape measurement is a tool for estimating the underlying shear due ...

EPFL2021

Structured light engineering using a photonic nanojet

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi, Daniel Necesal

In this Letter, we present the photonic nanojet as a phenomenon in a structured light generator system that is implemented to modify the source focal spot size and emission angle. The optical system comprises a microlens array that is illuminated by a focu ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021

The e-MERGE Survey (e-MERLIN Galaxy Evolution Survey): overview and survey description

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Cole Stewart Simpson, Mark Thomas Sargent

We present an overview and description of the e-MERGE Survey (e-MERLIN Galaxy Evolution Survey) Data Release 1 (DR1), a large program of high-resolution 1.5-GHz radio observations of the GOODS-N field comprising similar to 140 h of observations with enhanc ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

A microphotonic astrocomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann, Junqiu Liu, Tobias Herr, Miles Henry Anderson, Stefan Kundermann

Earth-like planets, dark energy and variability of fundamental physical constants can be discovered by observing wavelength shifts in the optical spectra of astronomical objects(1-5). These wavelength shifts are so tiny that exquisitely accurate and precis ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Graph Spectral Clustering of Convolution Artefacts in Radio Interferometric Images

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni

The starting point for deconvolution methods in radioastronomy is an estimate of the sky intensity called a dirty image. These methods rely on the telescope point-spread function so as to remove artefacts which pollute it. In this work, we show that the in ...

IEEE2019

Optical backaction-evading measurement of a mechanical oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni

Quantum mechanics imposes a limit on the precision of a continuous position measurement of a harmonic oscillator, due to backaction arising from quantum fluctuations in the measurement field. This standard quantum limit can be surpassed by monitoring only ...

Springer2019

A Comprehensive Experimental and Reproducible Study on Selfie Biometrics in Multistream and Heterogeneous Settings

Sébastien Marcel, Guillaume Heusch, Tiago De Freitas Pereira

This contribution presents a new database to address current challenges in face recognition. It contains face video sequences of 75 individuals acquired either through a laptop webcam or when mimicking the front-facing camera of a smartphone. Sequences hav ...

2019

Towards More Accurate Radio Telescope Images

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Nezihe Merve Gürel

Radio interferometry usually compensates for high levels of noise in sensor/antenna electronics by throwing data and energy at the problem: observe longer, then store and process it all. We propose instead a method to remove the noise explicitly before ima ...

IEEE2018

Low-dimensional data embedding for scalable astronomical imaging in the SKA telescope era

Vijay Kartik

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences known to humanity. We have been studying celestial objects for millennia, and continue to peer deeper into space in our thirst for knowledge about our origins and the universe that surrounds us. Radio astronomy -- ob ...

EPFL2018

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Volet, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more wid ...

2018

LEAP: Looking beyond pixels with continuous-space EstimAtion of Point sources

Martin Vetterli, Paul Hurley, Thierry Blu, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Hanjie Pan

Context. Two main classes of imaging algorithms have emerged in radio interferometry: the CLEAN algorithm and its multiple variants, and compressed-sensing inspired methods. They are both discrete in nature, and estimate source locations and intensities on ...

2017

A Fourier dimensionality reduction model for big data interferometric imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Vijay Kartik

Data dimensionality reduction in radio interferometry can provide savings of computational resources for image reconstruction through reduced memory footprints and lighter computations per iteration, which is important for the scalability of imaging method ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Plasmonic Nanohole Arrays on Hybrid Substrate For Highly Sensitive Label-Free Biosensing

Arif Engin Cetin

A biosensor device including a metal layer, a transparent substrate layer, and a dielectric layer, wherein the metal layer includes a plurality of sub-wavelength apertures, and wherein the dielectric layer is located between the metal layer and the transpa ...

2017

Imaging in radio interferometry by iterative subset scanning using a modified amp algorithm

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Giovanni Cherubini, Sanaz Kazemi

Imaging techniques in radio interferometry often face a significant challenge posed by the large number of antenna signals received, from which the image information needs to be extracted. Beam- forming is envisaged to reduce the rate required for transpor ...

2016

Robust sparse image reconstruction of radio interferometric observations with PURIFY

Yves Wiaux, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Jason Douglas McEwen

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, to realise these goals significant challenges in image an ...

OUP2016