In this paper, we present methods to analyze dialog coherence that help us to automatically distinguish between coherent and incoherent conversations. We build a machine learning classifier using local transition patterns that span over adjacent dialog turns and encode lexical as well as semantic information in dialogs. We evaluate our algorithm on the Switchboard dialog corpus by treating orig...

An adaptive optical system based on incoherent digital holography is described. Theoretical and experimental studies show that wavefront sensing and compensation can be achieved by numerical processing of digital holograms of incoherent objects and a guide star, thereby dispensing with the hardware components of conventional adaptive optics systems, such as lenslet arrays and deformable mirrors...

New spectral features in an inhomogeneously broadened N-type four-level atomic system are analyzed and discussed. The atomic-level scheme uses an incoherent pumping rate in place of the incoherent recycling pump. We show that the gain profile includes an extra dip that appears only in the Doppler-broadened case. The dependence of this feature on various parameters, as well as consequences for t...

The structured illumination (SI) technique has already been well established as a resolution enhancer in many studies and well demonstrated in many optical imaging systems during the past decade. The ability to use the SI in incoherent imaging systems was also introduced, especially in fluorescence microscopy. In this Letter, we propose and demonstrate a new approach to combine the SI technique...

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless transmission system with continuous phase modulation (CPM) is considered. A novel MIMO CPM receiver with incoherent modulation is presented. The incoherent demodulation of CPM allows an uncomplicated handling of a frequency offset compared to coherent approaches requiring exact knowledge of the carrier frequency. Blind signal separation (BSS) is ...

A theory describing propagation and self-focusing of partially spatially incoherent light beams in nonlinear media is developed. It is shown that this process is effectively governed by an infinite set of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger-like equations, provided they are initially appropriately weighted with respect to the incoherent angular power spectrum of the source. The particular case of spa...

We present a new imaging method to record multicolor digital holograms from objects emitting fluorescent light. The fluorescent light specific to the emission wavelength of various fluorescent dyes after excitation of three dimensional (3D) objects is recorded on a digital monochrome camera after reflection from a diffractive optical element (DOE). For each wavelength of fluorescent emission, t...

YAAKOV LUMER, YI LIANG, RAN SCHLEY, IDO KAMINER, ELAD GREENFIELD, DAOHONG SONG, XINZHENG ZHANG, JINGJUN XU, ZHIGANG CHEN, AND MORDECHAI SEGEV* Physics Department, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute & School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China College of Physics Science...

We analyze the inversionless gain in a three-level ladder system by replacing the usual coherent coupling field with an incoherent field. Surprisingly, it is found that one can obtain inversionless amplification of a weak probe even in the absence of a coherent field in the model. We conclude that gain is determined by the ensemble average of the product of the two-photon coherence and the "eff...

Upconversion of images is a generic method for shifting the spectral content of entire images. A comprehensive theory for upconversion of incoherent light images is presented and compared against experiments. In particular we consider the important case for upconversion of infinity corrected light. We show that the spatial resolution for upconversion of incoherent light images is better than fo...