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Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Nanoscale local modification of PMMA refractive index by tip-enhanced femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation

Mihai Adrian Ionescu

Tip-enhanced optical effects have enabled a wide palette of nanoscale investigation techniques and recently they were successfully used to modify and manipulate matter with nanoscale spatial resolution. We contribute to this latter area by reporting a viab ...

ELSEVIER2023

Pixel super-resolution with spatially entangled photons

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

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

Distributed measurement of mode group effective refractive index difference in a few mode optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

The possibility to perform distributed measurements of the effective refractive index difference between distinct modes in few mode optical fibers is demonstrated using phase sensitive optical time domain reflectometry. Effective refractive index differenc ...

2022

Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning

Michael Lehning, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin

Predicting wind flow in highly complex terrain like the Alps is a challenge for all models. When physical processes need to be resolved in a spatially explicit manner, grids with high horizontal resolution of a few hundred meters are often required and dra ...

WILEY2022

Enhanced Signal-Associated Noise in a φ-OTDR System

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Suneetha Sebastian

Owing to their high sensitivity with respect to external measurands, Rayleigh-based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) find their way into applications in many industrial and academic sectors. To further transcend the limit of these sensors in terms ...

2022

Adaptive optics enables multimode 3D super-resolution microscopy via remote focusing

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer

A variety of modern super-resolution micro-scopy methods provide researchers with previouslyinconceivable biological sample imaging opportunities ata molecular resolution. All of these techniques excel atimaging samples that are close to the coverslip, how ...

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

Biodegradable Harmonophores for Targeted High-Resolution In Vivo Tumor Imaging

Sylvie Roke, Claire Jacqueline Léa Teulon

Optical imaging probes have played a major role in detecting and monitoring a variety of diseases. In particular, nonlinear optical imaging probes, such as second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes, hold great promise as clinical contrast agents, as they ...

2021

Structured light generation by refractive-diffractive micro optical array illuminators

Maryam Yousefi

Structured light generation having broad applications in different optical fields, is the topic of this thesis. Our structured light generation strategy is based on applying periodic microoptical elements at the refraction-diffraction limit, under a focuse ...

EPFL2021

Megapixel SPAD cameras for time-resolved applications

Kazuhiro Morimoto

Progress in optics technology has enriched our daily lives in many ways. Various types of single-photon detector technologies have emerged in the last century. Among these, single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology outperforms other detectors for its ...

EPFL2020

Wavefront shaping and deep learning in fiber endoscopy

Eirini Kakkava

Fiber endoscopy plays an important role in the clinical diagnosis and treatment processes involved in modern medicine. Thin fiber probes can relay information from confined places in the human body that are inaccessible for conventional bulky microscopes. ...

EPFL2020

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

Fat navigators and Moire phase tracking comparison for motion estimation and retrospective correction

Daniel Gallichan, Frédéric Gretsch

Purpose To compare motion tracking by 2 modern methods (fat navigators [FatNavs] and Moir' phase tracking [MPT]) as well as their performance for retrospective correction of very high resolution acquisitions. Methods A direct comparison of FatNavs and MPT ...

Wiley2020

Towards Real-World Super-Resolution using Deep Neural Networks

Ruofan Zhou

Image super-resolution reconstructs a higher-resolution image from the observed low-resolution image. In recent years, machine learning models have been widely employed and deep learning networks have achieved state-of-the-art super-resolution performance. ...

EPFL2020

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

Kernel Modeling Super-Resolution on Real Low-Resolution Images

Sabine Süsstrunk, Ruofan Zhou

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), trained on corresponding pairs of high- and low-resolution images, achieve state-of-the-art performance in single-image super- resolution and surpass previous signal-processing based approaches. However, their per ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

High-resolution distributed shape sensing using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry and multicore fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

In this paper, a highly-sensitive distributed shape sensor based on a multicore fiber (MCF) and phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The implemented system features a high strain sensitivit ...

2019

Temporal Super-Resolution Microscopy Using a Hue-Encoded Shutter

Sylvain Calinon, Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling, Emmanuel Pignat, Christian Jaques

Limited time-resolution in microscopy is an obstacle to many biological studies. Despite recent advances in hardware, digital cameras have limited operation modes that constrain frame-rate, integration time, and color sensing patterns. In this paper, we pr ...

2019

Scanning near-field optical microscopy with new probes and feedback modes

Anton Smirnov

Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) technique enables to overcome Abbe diffraction limit of far-field optics as well as to obtain simultaneously optical and topographical images. While the optical resolution of the method is limited by the apertu ...

EPFL2019