Publications related to Satellite laser ranging

New dwarf galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero galaxy

We report the discovery of 40 new satellite dwarf galaxy candidates in the sphere of influence of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), the most luminous galaxy in the Local Volume. Using the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam, we surveyed 14.4 deg(2) of its surroundings, ext ...

Oxford Univ Press2023

Comparison of JET-C DD neutron rates independently predicted by the ASCOT and TRANSP Monte Carlo heating codes

Henri Weisen

Simulations of the DD neutron rates predicted by the ASCOT and TRANSP Monte Carlo heating codes for a diverse set of JET-C (JET with carbon plasma facing components) plasmas are compared. A previous study (Weisen et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 076029) of this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Constructing periodic orbits of high-dimensional chaotic systems by an adjoint-based variational method

Tobias Schneider, Sajjad Azimi, Omid Ashtari

Chaotic dynamics in systems ranging from low-dimensional nonlinear differential equations to high-dimensional spatiotemporal systems including fluid turbulence is supported by nonchaotic, exactly recurring time-periodic solutions of the governing equations ...

2022

BLOOM: Bimodal Lattice One-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications

Ngoc Khanh Karol Nguyen

We give a construction of an efficient one-out-of-many proof system, in which a prover shows that he knows the pre-image for one element in a set, based on the hardness of lattice problems. The construction employs the recent zero-knowledge framework of Ly ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase

Eduardo Carrascosa Casado

This roadmap article highlights recent advances, challenges and future prospects in studies of the dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. It comprises nineteen contributions by scientists with leading expertise in complementary experimental a ...

SPRINGER2021

Journal of Physics : Conference Series, CISBAT 2021 Carbon-neutral cities - energy efficiency and renewables in the digital era

CISBAT 2021 took place from 8 to 10 September 2021 online and at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland under the heading "Carbon Neutral Buildings - Energy Efficiency & Renewabl ...

IOP2021

Microresonator Dual-Comb Coherent FMCW LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Anton Lukashchuk

We introduce a novel architecture for parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR). Using dual soliton microcombs, we demonstrate a parallel distance measurement with 24 channels requiring only a single FMCW pump laser and cohe ...

IEEE2020

Microresonator soliton based massively parallel coherent LiDAR

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Massively parallel coherent LiDAR using dissipative Kerr solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate an architecture for massively parallel frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging (LiDAR) by transferring linear chirps of a single narrow linewidth laser onto all soliton comb teeth though generation of a dissipative Kerr soli ...

IEEE2020

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Tobias Herr

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibres to mode-locked lasers, they provide insights into the fundamental inter ...

Nature Research2020

Time reversal applied to fault location in power networks: Pilot test results and analyses

Mario Paolone, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi

This paper presents the results of a pilot test performed on a real medium voltage distribution network in Switzerland with the aim of assessing the performance of a fault location system relying on the Electromagnetic Time Reversal (EMTR) method. To the b ...

2020

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts

Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade, optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast distance acquisition with high accuracy. Driven by emerging high-volume appli ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Stellar-to-halo mass relation of cluster galaxies

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan

In the formation of galaxy groups and clusters, the dark matter haloes containing satellite galaxies are expected to be tidally stripped in gravitational interactions with the host. We use galaxy-galaxy weak lensing to measure the average mass of dark matt ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Breathing dissipative solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Dissipative solitons are self-localized structures resulting from a double balance between dispersion and nonlinearity as well as dissipation and a driving force. They occur in a wide variety of fields ranging from optics, hydrodynamics to chemistry and bi ...

Springer Nature2017

Derivation of the Cramér-Rao Bound in the GNSS-Reflectometry Context for Static, Ground-Based Receivers in Scenarios with Coherent Reflection

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

The use of the reflected Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ (GNSS) signals in Earth observation applications, referred to as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), has been already studied for more than two decades. However, the estimation precision that can be ac ...

Mdpi Ag2016

An Efficient Time-frequency Algorithm for the Weak Signal Acquisition of Modernized GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang

The new GPS/Galileo/Compass signals use much longer code lengths and higher code frequencies than the GPS L1 C/A signal. As a result, they can provide improved ranging and anti-jamming performances. Unfortunately, their acquisition complexity is significan ...

2014

Automated approach for rigorous light detection and ranging system calibration without preprocessing and strict terrain coverage requirements

Jan Skaloud

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has demonstrated its capabilities as a prominent technique for the direct acquisition of high density and accurate topographic information. To achieve the potential accuracy of such systems, a rigorous system calibration ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2012

On Secure and Precise IR-UWB Ranging

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski, Manuel Flury

To provide high ranging precision in multipath environments, a ranging protocol should find the first arriving path, rather than the strongest path. We demonstrate a new attack vector that disrupts such precise Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation, and allows ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery

Pascal Fua, Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, Christoph Strecha, Olivier Küng, François Gervaix

This paper presents an affordable, fully automated and accurate mapping solutions based on ultra-light UAV imagery. Several datasets are analysed and their accuracy is estimated. We show that the accuracy highly depends on the ground resolution (flying hei ...

2011

Bloch oscillations of an exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate

Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac

We study theoretically Bloch oscillations of half-matter, half-light quasiparticles: exciton-polaritons. We propose an original structure for the observation of this phenomenon despite the constraints imposed by the relatively short lifetime of the particl ...

2011