Publications related to Aperture synthesis

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

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

Fundamental bounds on the precision of iSCAT, COBRI and dark-field microscopy for 3D localization and mass photometry

Jonathan Yuelin Dong

Interferometric imaging is an emerging technique for particle tracking and mass photometry. Mass or position are estimated from weak signals, coherently scattered from nanoparticles or single molecules, and interfered with a co-propagating reference. In th ...

2021

Application of Fundamental In-Body Radiation Limitations to Practical Design of Antennas for Implantable Bioelectronics

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Fundamental in-body limitations on achievable radiation efficiency could provide decision-making assistance to engineers working on antennas for implantable bioelectronics. In this study, proof-of-concept conformal microstrip antennas are proposed based on ...

IEEE2020

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu, Chao Xiang

Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology(1). An important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of dissipative Kerr solitons in coherently pumped high-quality-factor optical micror ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

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

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

Superresolved synthetic aperture microscope

Theo Lasser, Daniel Pawel Szlag, Tomas Lukes, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux

Optical system comprising a synthetic aperture generating unit; said synthetic aperture generating unit being adapted for generating several apertures, which are correlated by interference for improving contrast and/or resolution based on the interference ...

2017

Growth Of Organic Semiconductor Thin Films with Multi-Micron Domain Size and Fabrication of Organic Transistors Using a Stencil Nanosieve

Jürgen Brugger, Shenqi Xie, Valentin Flauraud

To grow small molecule semiconductor thin films with domain size larger than modern-day device sizes, we evaporate the material through a dense array of small apertures, called a stencil nanosieve. The aperture size of 0.5 μm results in low nucleation dens ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Towards an Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer With < 1 Hz Residual Frequency Noise

Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Volet, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

We introduce an architecture for optical-frequency synthesis using photonic-chip frequency combs and a heterogeneously integrated CW laser. The Kerr dual-comb that we describe offers a microwave-optical link to discipline the laser to an RF clock. ...

Ieee2017

Direct Temperature Map Estimation in Optical Long Baseline Interferometry

Alessio Ferrari, Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez

We present a method to recontruct temperature map directly from spectro-interferometric data. It uses a sparse coding method to describe each pixel as a blackbody. Results are shown on the Herbig Be HD98922. Aside from recovering the mean environment tempe ...

SPIE2016

Optofluidics of plants

Demetri Psaltis, Andreas Vasdekis, Jae-Woo Choi

Optofluidics is a tool for synthesizing optical systems, making use of the interaction of light with fluids. In this paper we explore optofluidic mechanisms that have evolved in plants where sunlight and fluidic control combine to define most of the functi ...

2016

Chip-scale Optical Resonator Enabled Synthesizer (CORES) Miniature systems for optical frequency synthesis

Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Volet, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

An approach for a low-power chip-scale package is described, that provides a laser output with a programmable frequency across 50 nm of bandwidth centered at 1550 nm, and a resolution of one part in 10(14). ...

Ieee2016

Scalable splitting algorithms for big-data interferometric imaging in the SKA era

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Jason Douglas McEwen

In the context of next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, the efficient processing of large-scale datasets is extremely important. Convex optimisation tasks under the compressive sensing framework have recently emerged and provid ...

OUP2016

A scalable algorithm for radio-interferometric imaging

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

In recent works, sparse models and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric (RI) imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. In this paper, we propose a scalable algorithm f ...

2015

Dimension embedding for big data in radio interferometry

Yves Wiaux, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Vijay Kartik

As radio telescope data is now increasingly high-dimensional, data reduction has become essential to reduce computational load while preserving accurate signal reconstruction. Gridding the continuous Fourier visibilities represents the standard approach to ...

2015

Multi-resonant compact nanoaperture with accessible large nearfields

Hatice Altug, Arif Engin Cetin, Serap Aksu, Dordaneh Etezadi

We present a compact and multi-resonant aperture system supporting large local electromagnetic fields, which is highly advantageous for applications demanding high signal-to-noise ratio. The system is composed of subwavelength H-shaped apertures with exten ...

2015

ARE ULTRA-FAINT GALAXIES AT z=6-8 RESPONSIBLE FOR COSMIC REIONIZATION? COMBINED CONSTRAINTS FROM THE HUBBLE FRONTIER FIELDS CLUSTERS AND PARALLELS

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hakim Atek, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Mathilde Jauzac, Johan Richard

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the Frontier Fields to accurately measure the galaxy rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) in the redshift range z similar to 6-8. We combine observations in three lensing clusters, A2744, MACS 041 ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

On Rendering Synthetic Images for Training an Object Detector

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Artem Rozantsev

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a coarse 3D model of ...

Elsevier2015

Overlooked persistent and bioaccumulative pollutants in Lake Geneva : their measurement, occurrence, and concentration distribution in the water column and sediments

Saer Samanipour

Persistent and bioaccumulative pollutants (PBPs) are continually introduced into the environment as a part of the massive ongoing chemical production that began several decades ago. The PBPs include several chemical families such as: industrial compounds, ...

EPFL2015