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Superluminal Motion-Assisted Four-Dimensional Light-in-Flight Imaging

Morimoto, Kazuhiro  
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Wu, Ming-Lo  
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Ardelean, Andrei  
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January 8, 2021
Physical Review X

Advances in high-speed imaging techniques have opened new possibilities for capturing ultrafast phenomena such as light propagation in air or through media. Capturing light in flight in three-dimensional xyt space has been reported based on various types of imaging systems, whereas reconstruction of light-in-flight information in the fourth dimension z has been a challenge. We demonstrate the four-dimensional light-in-flight imaging based on the observation of a superluminal motion captured by a new time-gated megapixel single-photon avalanche diode camera. A high-resolution light-in-flight video is generated without laser scanning, camera translation, interpolation, or dark noise subtraction. An unsupervised machine-learning technique is applied to analyze the measured spatiotemporal data set. A theoretical formula is introduced to perform least-square regression for numerically solving a nonlinear inverse problem, and extra-dimensional information is recovered without prior knowledge. The algorithm relies on the mathematical formulation equivalent to the superluminal motion in astrophysics, which is scaled by a factor of a quadrillionth. The reconstructed light-in-flight trajectory shows good agreement with the actual geometry of the light path. Applicability of the reconstruction approach to more complex scenes with multiple overlapped light trajectories is verified based on a data set generated by Monte Carlo simulations. Our approach could potentially provide novel functionalities to high-speed imaging applications such as non-line-of-sight imaging and time-resolved optical tomography.

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevX.11.011005
Web of Science ID

WOS:000606324800001

Author(s)
Morimoto, Kazuhiro  
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Wu, Ming-Lo  
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Ardelean, Andrei  
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Charbon, Edoardo  
Date Issued

2021-01-08

Published in
Physical Review X
Volume

11

Issue

1

Article Number

011005

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

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looking

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March 26, 2021
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