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The multifunctional photodetector, modulator, and optical bistable switch are achieved in a single device, which greatly reduces the photonic overhead and provides potential applications for future integrated optoelectronics.Inspired by the concept of system-in-a-package (SiP) in electronics, here we report a hybrid microwave photonic receiver prototype by integrating lithium niobate (LiNbO3) dual-parallel phase modulators with silicon nitride (Si3N4) integrated tunable microring filters. In particular, we experimentally characterize these employed key elements and evaluate the down-conversion performance of RF signals from 4-20 GHz to the intermediate frequency. With the advantages of the tunable microwave photonic signal filtering, uniform system performance within a broad operation bandwidth, and low SWaP, the demonstrated hybrid microwave photonic receiver module shows a potential setup to satisfy the requirements of wireless communication systems, phased-array radar systems, and electronic warfare.We introduce an image transform designed to highlight features with high degree of radial symmetry for identification and subpixel localization of particles in microscopy images. The transform is based on analyzing pixel value variations in radial and angular directions. We compare the subpixel localization performance of this algorithm to other common methods based on radial or mirror symmetry (such as fast radial symmetry transform, orientation alignment transform, XCorr, and quadrant interpolation), using both synthetic and experimentally obtained data. We find that in all cases it achieves the same or lower localization error, frequently reaching the theoretical limit.Hyperspectral light detection and ranging (HSL) can acquire the spatial and spectral information simultaneously, which can provide more information than hyperspectral imaging and single band lidar. However, the echo intensity from targets is influenced by incident angle, and relative studies were still limited which result in the effect of incident angle on HSL not being completely understood. In this study, the incident angle effect in the whole band of HSL was analyzed and corrected. Then, five types of vegetation sample with different spectral characteristics were collected at the leaf level. Spectral range changing from 550 to 830 nm with a 1 nm spectral resolution was obtained. Lambert-Beckman model was applied to analyze the effect of the incident angle on the echo intensity. The experimental results demonstrated that the Lambert-Beckman model can efficiently apply in fitting the changing of echo intensity with incidence angle and efficiently eliminate the specular effect of target. In addition, the coefficient of variation ratio is significantly improved compared to the reference target-based model. The results illustrated that, compared to reference target-based model, the Lambert-Beckman model can efficiently explain and correct the incident angle effect with specular reflection in HSL. In addition, it was found that the specular fraction Ks, which is reduced with the increasing of reflectance, is dominating the incident angle effect in the whole band, while roughness m keeps stable at different wavelengths. Thus, this research will provide notably advanced insight into correcting the echo intensity of HSL.Light-based additive manufacturing techniques enable a rapid transition from object design to production. In these approaches, a 3D object is typically built by successive polymerization of 2D layers in a photocurable resin. A recently demonstrated technique, however, uses tomographic dose patterning to establish a 3D light dose distribution within a cylindrical glass vial of photoresin. Lensing distortion from the cylindrical vial is currently mitigated by either an index matching bath around the print volume or a cylindrical lens. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/pifithrin-alpha.html In this work, we show that these hardware approaches to distortion correction are unnecessary. Instead, we demonstrate how the lensing effect can be computationally corrected by resampling the parallel-beam radon transform into an aberrated geometry. We also demonstrate a more general application of our computational approach by correcting for non-telecentricity inherent in most optical projection systems. We expect that our results will underpin a more simple and flexible class of tomographic 3D printers where deviations from the assumed parallel-beam projection geometry are rectified computationally.Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have attracted remarkable interest for visible and near-infrared single-photon detection due to their outstanding performance. However, conventional SNSPDs are generally used as binary photon-counting detectors. Another important characteristic of light, i.e., polarization, which can provide additional information of the object, has not been resolved using the standalone SNSPD. In this work, we present a first prototype of the polarimeter based on a four-pixel superconducting nanowire array, capable of resolving the polarization state of linearly-polarized light at the single-photon level. The detector array design is based on a division of focal plane configuration in which the orientation of each nanowire division (pixel) is offset by 45°. Each single nanowire pixel operates as a combination of a photon detector and almost linear polarization filter, with an average polarization extinction ratio of ∼10. The total system detection efficiency of the array is ∼1% at a total dark count rate of 680 cps, with a timing jitter of 126 ps, when the detector array is free-space coupled and illuminated with 1550-nm photons. The mean errors of the measured angle of polarization and degree of linear polarization were about -3° and 0.12, respectively. Furthermore, we successfully demonstrated polarization imaging at low-light level using the proposed detector. Our results pave the way for the development of a single-photon sensitive, fast, and large-scale integrated polarization polarimeter or imager. Such detector may find promising application in photon-starved polarization resolving and imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution.
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