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On-chip spectropolarimetry by fingerprinting with random surface arrays of nanoparticles
Optical metasurfaces revolutionized the approach to moulding the propagation
of light by enabling simultaneous control of the light phase, momentum,
amplitude and polarization. Thus, instantaneous spectropolarimetry became
possible by conducting parallel intensity measurements of differently
diffracted optical beams. Various implementations of this very important
functionality have one feature in common - the determination of wavelength
utilizes dispersion of the diffraction angle, requiring tracking the diffracted
beams in space. Realization of on-chip spectropolarimetry calls thereby for
conceptually different approaches. In this work, we demonstrate that random
nanoparticle arrays on metal surfaces, enabling strong multiple scattering of
surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), produce upon illumination complicated SPP
scattered patterns, whose angular spectra are uniquely determined by the
polarization and wavelength of light, representing thereby spectropolarimetric
fingerprints. Using um-sized circular arrays of randomly distributed
{\mu}m-sized gold nanoparticles (density ~ 75 {\mu}m}) fabricated on
gold films, we measure angular distributions of scattered SPP waves using the
leakage radiation microscopy and find that the angular SPP spectra obtained for
normally incident light beams different in wavelength and/or polarization are
distinctly different. Our approach allows one to realize on-chip
spectropolarimetry by fingerprinting using surface nanostructures fabricated
with simple one-step electron-beam lithography.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Single-qubit optical quantum fingerprinting
We analyze and demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of linear optical
single-qubit fingerprinting over its classical counterpart. For one-qubit
fingerprinting of two-bit messages, we prepare `tetrahedral' qubit states
experimentally and show that they meet the requirements for quantum
fingerprinting to exceed the classical capability. We prove that shared
entanglement permits 100% reliable quantum fingerprinting, which will
outperform classical fingerprinting even with arbitrary amounts of shared
randomness.Comment: 4 pages, one figur
Performing the Union: the Prüm Decision and the European dream
In 2005, seven European countries signed the so-called Prüm Treaty to increase transnational collaboration in combating international crime, terrorism and illegal immigration. Three years later, the Treaty was adopted into EU law. EU member countries are obliged to have systems in place to allow authorities of other member states access to nationally held data on DNA, fingerprints, and vehicles by August 2011. In this paper, we discuss the conditions of possibility for the Prüm network to emerge, and argue that rather than a linear story of technological and political convergence and harmonisation, the (hi)story of Prüm is heterogeneous and patchy. This is reflected also in the early stages of implementing the Prüm Decision which proves to be more difficult than it was hoped by the drivers of the Prüm process. In this sense, the Prüm network sits uncomfortably with success stories of forensic science (many of which served the goal of justifying the expansion of technological and surveillance systems). Instead of telling a story of heroic science, the story of Prüm articulates the European dream: One in which goods, services, and people live and travel freely and securely
LocNet: Global localization in 3D point clouds for mobile vehicles
Global localization in 3D point clouds is a challenging problem of estimating
the pose of vehicles without any prior knowledge. In this paper, a solution to
this problem is presented by achieving place recognition and metric pose
estimation in the global prior map. Specifically, we present a semi-handcrafted
representation learning method for LiDAR point clouds using siamese LocNets,
which states the place recognition problem to a similarity modeling problem.
With the final learned representations by LocNet, a global localization
framework with range-only observations is proposed. To demonstrate the
performance and effectiveness of our global localization system, KITTI dataset
is employed for comparison with other algorithms, and also on our long-time
multi-session datasets for evaluation. The result shows that our system can
achieve high accuracy.Comment: 6 pages, IV 2018 accepte
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