Diameter, geometric albedo and compositional constraints for (298) Baptistina through visible and mid-infrared photometry

Spectral absorptions on Phobos and Deimos in the visible/near infrared wavelengths and their compositional constraints

Absorption features on Phobos and Deimos in the visible/near infrared wavelength region (0.4–3.9 lm) are mapped using observations from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). Fe electronic absorptions diagnostic of olivine and pyroxene are not detected. A broad absorption centered around 0.65 lm within the red spectral units of both moons is detected, and this feature...

Silicon Nitride Photonic Integration Platforms for Visible, Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared Applications

Silicon nitride photonics is on the rise owing to the broadband nature of the material, allowing applications of biophotonics, tele/datacom, optical signal processing and sensing, from visible, through near to mid-infrared wavelengths. In this paper, a review of the state of the art of silicon nitride strip waveguide platforms is provided, alongside the experimental results on the development o...

Visible and Infrared Image Registration Employing Line-Based Geometric Analysis

We present a new method to register a pair of visible (ViS) and infrared (IR) images. Unlike most of existing systems that align interest points of two images, we align lines derived from edge pixels, because the interest points extracted from both images are not always identical, but most major edges detected from one image do appear in another image. To solve feature matching problem, we emph...

Chapter 2 A Femtosecond Visible / Visible and Visible / Mid - Infrared Transient Absorption Study of the Light Harvesting Complex

A femtosecond visible/visible and visible/mid-infrared transient absorption study of the light harvesting complex II.

Light harvesting complex II (LHCII) is the most abundant protein in the thylakoid membrane of higher plants and green algae. LHCII acts to collect solar radiation, transferring this energy mainly toward photosystem II, with a smaller amount going to photosystem I; it is then converted into a chemical, storable form. We performed time-resolved femtosecond visible pump/mid-infrared probe and visi...