This paper presents a fully-automated method to establish a calibration dataset from on-site scans and recalibrate the intrinsic parameters of a spinning multi-beam 3-D scanner. The proposed method has been tested on a Velodyne HDL-64E S2 LiDAR system, which contains 64 rotating laser rangefinders. By time series analysis, we found that the collected range data have random measurement errors of...

During injection or instability, the transverse profile of an individual bunch in a storage ring can change significantly in a few turns. However, most synchrotron-light imaging techniques are not designed for this time scale. We have developed a novel diagnostic that enhances the utility of a fast gated camera by adding, inexpensively, some features of a dual-axis streak camera, in order to wa...

We present a method for measuring molecular-beam epitaxy growth rates in near real-time on rotating substrates. This is done by digitizing a video image of the reflection high-energy electron diffraction screen, automatically tracking and measuring the specular spot width, and using numerical techniques to filter the resulting signal. The digitization and image and signal processing take approx...

By shining a tightly focused laser light on a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) and moving the centre of the beam along a spiral path one may stir the BEC and create vortices. It is shown that one can induce rotation of the BEC in the direction opposite to the direction of stirring. When a spoon, stick or another object of a similar shape is used to stir a liquid, the liquid rotates in the directi...

The price of single point diamond tools with a sharp tip is very high due to complex machining process and highly expensive machining equipments. Yet, the performance is not quite satisfactory. In this paper, we have presented a very simple and cost effective machining process for the sharpening and polishing of diamond stylus using low energy reactive ion beam machining (RIBM). In our method, ...

Integrating and differentiating matrices allow the numerical integration and differentiation of functions whose values are known at points of a discrete grid. Previous derivations of these matrices have been restricted to one-dimensional grids or to rectangular grids with uniform spacing in at least one direction. The present work develops integrating and differentiating matrices for grids with...