Publications associées à Brillouin distributed fiber sensing at ultra-high spatial resolution

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Pixel super-resolution with spatially entangled photons

Pixelation is common in quantum imaging systems and limit the image spatial resolution. Here, the authors introduce a pixel super-resolution approach based on measuring the full spatially-resolved joint probability distribution of spatially-entangled photo ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Nanoscale Mapping of Light Emission in Nanospade-Based InGaAs Quantum Wells Integrated on Si(100): Implications for Dual Light-Emitting Devices

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Nicolas Tappy, Didem Dede, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Valerio Piazza, Akshay Balgarkashi, Raphaël François Lemerle

III-V semiconductors outperform Si in many optoelectronics applications due to their high carrier mobility, efficient light emission and absorption processes, and the possibility to engineer their band gap through alloying. However, complementing Si techno ...

2022

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Direct time-of-flight SPAD image sensors for light detection and ranging

Preethi Padmanabhan

Depth sensing is an increasingly important feature in many applications of consumer, automotive, augmented/virtual reality (AR-VR), space and bio-medical imaging. Long range, high depth resolution, high spatial resolution, and high frame rates are often co ...

EPFL2021

Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical refocusin ...

2021

High spatial resolution distributed and dynamic strain sensing using direct detection

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang

A distributed dynamic strain sensing system based on frequency-scanned phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is proposed and demonstrated. It demonstrates a record spatial resolution of 20 cm, compared with other direct-detection dynamic strain ...

Optica Publishing Group2021

Distributed and dynamic strain sensing with high spatial resolution and large measurable strain range

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

A distributed and dynamic strain sensing system based on frequency-scanning phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is proposed and demonstrated. By utilizing an RF pulse scheme with a fast arbitrary waveform generator, a train of optical pulses ...

2020

Graph-based regularization of inverse problems in imaging

Mattia Rossi

As of today, the extension of the human visual capabilities to machines remains both a cornerstone and an open challenge in the attempt to develop intelligent systems. On the one hand, the development of more and more sophisticated imaging devices, capable ...

EPFL2020

Selective femtosecond laser ablation via two-photon fluorescence imaging through a multimode fiber

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Eirini Kakkava, Marilisa Romito, Donald Benjaman Conkey

We demonstrate the ability of a multimode fiber probe to provide two-photon fluorescence (TPF) imaging feedback that guides the femtosecond laser ablation (FLA) in biological samples for highly selective modifications. We implement the system through the p ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Waveguide platform and methods for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of sub-cellular structures

Anna Archetti

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is widespread, owing to its demonstrated ability to resolve dynamical processes within cells and to identify the structure and position of specific proteins in the interior of protein complexes. Nowadays, subcellula ...

EPFL2019

Tomographic imaging with harmonic holography in tissues of known refractive index distribution

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu

High-resolution imaging in thick biological tissues beyond a few transport mean free path of photons remains a formidable challenge to modern science and technology. Recent advancements in optical tomography have enabled the reconstruction of the three-dim ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Time-resolved Single-photon Detector Arrays for High Resolution Near-infrared Optical Tomography

Scott Anthony Lindner

Oxygenation is an important marker in many clinical settings, e.g. diagnosing ischaemic brain injuries in preterm infants or determining treatment effectiveness in cancer patients. Despite significant efforts to determine the oxygenation state of the human ...

EPFL2018

Optimizing Image Denoising for Long-Range Brillouin Distributed Fiber Sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Linear and nonlinear two-dimensional image processing approaches are analyzed with the aim of removing noise from data acquired by distributed optical fiber sensors based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA). The impact of the filter parameter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Hybrid PDMS/glass microfluidics for high resolution imaging and application to sub-wavelength particle trapping

Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Mario Lucien Henri Tonin

We demonstrate the fabrication of a hybrid PDMS/glass microfluidic layer that can be placed on top of non-transparent samples and allows high-resolution optical microscopy through it. The layer mimics a glass coverslip to limit optical aberrations and can ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Piégeage optique résonant et analyse du mouvement de nanoparticules piégées dans des cristaux photoniques à cavités creuses

Mario Lucien Henri Tonin

Optical trapping was used for decades in biotechnology for a broad range of applications. It can be used for remote manipulation, application of pico-Newton forces and even study DNA processes. Nevertheless, optical trapping setups can be cumbersome. In or ...

EPFL2016

Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

Distributed fiber sensing possesses the unique ability to measure the distributed profile of an environmental quantity along many tens of kilometers with spatial resolutions in the meter or even centimeter scale. This feature enables distributed sensors to ...

Chinese Acad Sciences, Changchun Inst Optics Fine Mechanics And Physics2016

Brillouin dynamic gratings in optical fibres for distributed sensing and advanced optical signal processing

Andrey Denisov

This thesis presents results of a research on applications of Brillouin dynamic gratings - distributed reflectors that can be dynamically created in an optical fibre by two optical waves. A basic theory of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is introduce ...

EPFL2015

Very high resolution digital elevation models: are multi-scale derived variables ecologically relevant?

Stéphane Joost, Kevin Leempoel

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are often used in landscape ecology to retrieve elevation or first derivative terrain attributes such as slope or aspect in the context of species distribution modelling. However, DEM-derived variables are scale-dependent an ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Towards 1’000’000 resolved points in a distributed optical fibre sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Increasing the number of resolved points, by either improving the spatial resolution or extending the measurement range, is one of the main challenges being currently faced in distributed optical fibre sensing. This paper explores the main parameters affec ...

SPIE2014

Generation and application of dynamic gratings in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Nikolay Primerov

Since the invention of optical fiber cable data transmission using light has become ubiquitous in the past years. Nonlinear optical effects, which are hardly noticed in our daily life, have become crucial and highly influential for the design and performan ...

EPFL2013