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These results suggest that SBA can obtain highly accurate and precise Lw in nearly all natural aquatic environments.The point spread function (PSF) of an imaging system has a minimum size, a "diffraction limit," determined by the size of the limiting aperture. Image features smaller than this PSF can be, in a conventional imaging system, resolved only if the intensity noise is low enough to permit deconvolution. Measuring image-plane intensity as a function of spatial mode rather than position has the potential to reduce the quantum noise and thus enable subdiffraction resolution at lower light levels or in shorter measurement times than can be tolerated with conventional imaging. Here we examine experimental measurements of intensity and intensity noise as a function of spatial mode. We characterize the impulse response of a spatial mode coupling measurement at the focal plane of an imaging system to the position of a far-field point source. Our measured intensity noise scales with power in a way that suggests photon shot noise is a significant contributor, and we find that the signal-to-noise ratio of our modal-basis measurement of point source position exceeds that of a conventional image-plane pixel array for subdiffraction objects imaged against dark backgrounds. The mode coupling is measured with a custom mode-separating fiber photonic lantern. selleck inhibitor Photonic lanterns and equivalent structures constructed from rigid waveguides are simple, passive devices that lend themselves to real-world implementations of this measurement scheme with minimal size, weight, power, and cost.To develop a more advanced 3D computed tomography of the chemiluminescence method, the first quantitative 3D diagnosis was realized. The nonlinearity coefficient, the nonuniformity coefficient of the camera response, and various optical fiber attenuation coefficients were obtained through correction experiments. The conversion relationship between the number of photons released by the target object per unit time and the camera gray value at a specified solid angle was also calibrated. To verify the quantitative reconstruction equation, 3D reconstructions of a methane-air flat flame and a simulated phantom were performed for comparison. The method can overcome artificial distortions caused by uncorrected reconstruction.This publisher's note corrects two sentences in Appl. Opt.59, 4404 (2020)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.390663.We experimentally demonstrate high-speed visible light communication (VLC) and high-quality solid-state lighting (SSL) using polymethyl-methacrylate-doped phosphor film based on cesium lead bromide quantum dot (CsPbBr3-QD) and potassium fluorosilicate K2SiF6Mn4+, which is excited by a blue gallium nitride laser diode. A 1.6 Gbps data rate is achieved by employing a non-return-to-zero on-off keying modulation scheme. The measured bit error rate of 2.7×10-3 adheres to the standard threshold (3.8×10-3) of forward error correction. Moreover, the generated white-light source has a high color rendering index of 93.8 and a correlated color temperature of 4435 K, and it exhibits a Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) 1931 chromaticity coordinate at (0.3556, 0.3520), which is close to the ideal CIE value of white light (0.3333, 0.3333). This work opens up exciting possibilities for future high-speed indoor VLC and high-quality SSL.Extracting skeletons from fringe patterns is the key to the fringe skeleton method, which is used to extract phase terms in electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI). Because of massive inherent speckle noise, extracting skeletons from poor, broken ESPI fringe patterns is challenging. In this paper, we propose a method based on a modified M-net convolutional neural network for skeleton extraction from poor, broken ESPI fringe patterns. In our method, we pose the problem as a segmentation task. The M-net performs excellent segmentation, and we modify its loss function to suit our task. The broken ESPI fringe patterns and corresponding complete skeleton images are used to train the modified M-net. The trained network can extract and inpaint the skeletons simultaneously. We evaluate the performance of the network on two groups of computer-simulated ESPI fringe patterns and two groups of experimentally obtained ESPI fringe patterns. Two related recent methods, the gradient vector fields based on variational image decomposition and the U-net based method, are compared with our method. The results demonstrate that our method can obtain accurate, complete, and smooth skeletons in all cases, even where fringes are broken. It outperforms the two compared methods quantitatively and qualitatively.State-of-the-art 3D range geometry compression algorithms that utilize principles of phase shifting perform encoding with a fixed frequency; therefore, it is not possible to encode individual points within a scene at various degrees of precision. This paper presents a novel, to the best of our knowledge, method for accurately encoding 3D range geometry within the color channels of a 2D RGB image that allows the encoding frequency-and therefore the encoding precision-to be uniquely determined for each coordinate. The proposed method can thus be used to balance between encoding precision and file size by encoding geometry along a statistical distribution. For example, a normal distribution allows for more precise encoding where the density of data is high and less precise encoding where the density of data is low. Alternative distributions may be followed to produce encodings optimized for specific applications. In general, the nature of the proposed encoding method enables the precision to be freely controlled at each point or centered around identified features of interest, ideally enabling this method to be used within a wide range of applications.Spectrally narrowband imaging in remote sensing applications can be advantageous for detecting atomic emission features. This is especially useful in detecting specific constituents within rocket plumes, which are challenging to discern from naturally occurring sunglints. In this paper, we demonstrate a dual-beam technique, implemented with a Wollaston prism, for calibrating a Voigt magneto-optical filter for a linear polarizer's finite extinction ratio, as well as optical misalignment between the linear polarizers' transmission axes. Such a strategy would be key towards expanding the filter's field of view while maintaining its classification capabilities. Validation of the potassium Voigt filter is demonstrated using the simulation tool ElecSus in combination with a potassium hollow cathode lamp. RMS error between the filter's temperature response and that of the simulation was approximately 2%. We then demonstrate the detection of a potassium model rocket motor outdoors alongside a sunglint. Results indicate a 20-fold increase in contrast when using our dual-beam calibration strategy.