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Analysis of vibration and acoustic signals for noncontact measurement of engine rotation speed
The non-contact measurement of engine speed can be realized by analyzing engine vibration frequency. However, the vibration signal is distorted by harmonics and noise in the measurement. This paper presents a novel method for the measurement of engine rotation speed by using the cross-correlation of vibration and acoustic signals. This method can enhance the same frequency components in engine vibration and acoustic signal. After cross-correlation processing, the energy centrobaric correction method is applied to estimate the accurate frequency of the engine's vibration. This method can be implemented with a low-cost embedded system estimating the cross-correlation. Test results showed that this method outperformed the traditional vibration-based measurement method.Web of Science203art. no. 68
Revealing Carrier-Envelope Phase through Frequency Mixing and Interference in Frequency Resolved Optical Gating
We demonstrate that full temporal characterisation of few-cycle
electromagnetic pulses, including retrieval of the carrier envelope phase
(CEP), can be directly obtained from Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG)
techniques in which the interference between non-linear frequency mixing
processes is resolved. We derive a framework for this scheme, defined Real
Domain-FROG (ReD-FROG), as applied to the cases of interference between sum and
difference frequency components and between fundamental and sum/difference
frequency components. A successful numerical demonstration of ReD-FROG as
applied to the case of a self-referenced measurement is provided. A
proof-of-principle experiment is performed in which the CEP of a single-cycle
THz pulse is accurately obtained and demonstrates the possibility for THz
detection beyond the bandwidth limitations of electro-optic sampling.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. To be submitted for publication in Optics
Express, January 201
Unifying parameter estimation and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm for continuous variables
We reveal a close relationship between quantum metrology and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on continuous-variable quantum systems. We develop a general procedure, characterized by two parameters, that unifies parameter estimation and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm. Depending on which parameter we keep constant, the procedure implements either the parameter-estimation protocol or the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm. The parameter-estimation part of the procedure attains the Heisenberg limit and is therefore optimal. Due to the use of approximate normalizable continuous-variable eigenstates, the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm is probabilistic. The procedure estimates a value of an unknown parameter and solves the Deutsch-Jozsa problem without the use of any entanglement
Direct 3D Tomographic Reconstruction and Phase-Retrieval of Far-Field Coherent Diffraction Patterns
We present an alternative numerical reconstruction algorithm for direct
tomographic reconstruction of a sample refractive indices from the measured
intensities of its far-field coherent diffraction patterns. We formulate the
well-known phase-retrieval problem in ptychography in a tomographic framework
which allows for simultaneous reconstruction of the illumination function and
the sample refractive indices in three dimensions. Our iterative reconstruction
algorithm is based on the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. We demonstrate the
performance of our proposed method with simulation studies
Compensation for the setup instability in ptychographic imaging
The high-frequency vibration of the imaging system degrades the quality of
the reconstruction of ptychography by acting as a low-pass filter on ideal
diffraction patterns. In this study, we demonstrate that by subtracting the
deliberately blurred diffraction patterns from the recorded patterns and adding
the properly amplified subtraction to the original data, the high-frequency
components lost by the vibration of the setup can be recovered, and thus the
image quality can be distinctly improved. Because no prior knowledge regarding
the vibrating properties of the imaging system is needed, the proposed method
is general and simple and has applications in several research fields.Comment: 13pages, 10figure
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