Photonic chirped radio-frequency generator with ultra-fast sweeping rate and ultra-wide sweeping range

An Ultra Fast Image Generator (UFig) for wide-field astronomy

Simulated wide-field images are becoming an important part of observational astronomy, either to prepare for new surveys or to test measurement methods. In order to efficiently explore vast parameter spaces, the computational speed of simulation codes is a central requirement to their implementation. We introduce the Ultra Fast Image Generator (UFig) which aims to bring wide-field imaging simul...

Fast Occlusion Sweeping

While realistic illumination significantly improves the visual quality and perception of rendered images, it is often very expensive to compute. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for embedding a global ambient occlusion computation within the fast sweeping algorithm while determining isosurfaces. With this method we can approximate ambient occlusion for rendering volumetric data with mi...

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Unified Pulsed Laser Range Finder and Velocimeter using Ultra-Fast Time-To-Digital Converter

In this paper, we present a high accuracy laser range finder and velocimeter using ultra-fast time-to-digital converter (TDC). The system operation is based on the measuring the round-trip time of a narrow laser pulse. A low-dark current high-speed PIN photodiode is used to detect the triggered laser beam and to produce start signal. The pulsed laser diode generates 45W optical power at 30ns du...

Dimensional Metrology and Frequency Sweeping Interferometry