scholarly journals Design and Analysis of a W-Band Metasurface-Based Computational Imaging System

IEEE Access ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 9911-9918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Zvolensky ◽  
Jonah N. Gollub ◽  
Daniel L. Marks ◽  
David R. Smith
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4011
Author(s):  
Chuanwei Yao ◽  
Yibing Shen

The image deconvolution technique can recover potential sharp images from blurred images affected by aberrations. Obtaining the point spread function (PSF) of the imaging system accurately is a prerequisite for robust deconvolution. In this paper, a computational imaging method based on wavefront coding is proposed to reconstruct the wavefront aberration of a photographic system. Firstly, a group of images affected by local aberration is obtained by applying wavefront coding on the optical system’s spectral plane. Then, the PSF is recovered accurately by pupil function synthesis, and finally, the aberration-affected images are recovered by image deconvolution. After aberration correction, the image’s coefficient of variation and mean relative deviation are improved by 60% and 30%, respectively, and the image can reach the limit of resolution of the sensor, as proved by the resolution test board. Meanwhile, the method’s robust anti-noise capability is confirmed through simulation experiments. Through the conversion of the complexity of optical design to a post-processing algorithm, this method offers an economical and efficient strategy for obtaining high-resolution and high-quality images using a simple large-field lens.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Montori ◽  
Elisa Chiuppesi ◽  
Paola Farinelli ◽  
Luca Marcaccioli ◽  
Roberto Vincenti Gatti ◽  
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This paper presents recent advances on reconfigurable reflectarrays at the University of Perugia. In particular, the activities carried out in the framework of the FP7 project ARASCOM (“MEMS and Liquid Crystal based” Agile Reflectarray Antennas for Security and COMmunication). As for ARASCOM outcomes, the purpose of the project is the design of a very large reconfigurable reflectarray controlled with micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for mm-wave imaging system at 76.5 GHz. A system with sufficient resolution to detect concealed weapons impose challenging requirements on the antenna, which shall be made of hundreds of thousands elements. The problem has been addressed by exploiting some innovative solutions and architectures that will be described in this document. In particular, the dimensioning of the reflectarray, the proposed 1-bit geometry of elementary cell, and the innovative biasing control architecture are reported together with the MEMS design and fabrication and the experimental results of a demonstrating board that validated the adopted procedure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 452-462
Author(s):  
Xiao-tian WU ◽  
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Bo LÜ ◽  
Bo LIU ◽  
Hang YANG ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Han ◽  
Long Li ◽  
Shuncheng Tian ◽  
Xiangjin Ma ◽  
Qiang Feng ◽  
...  

This article presents a holographic metasurface antenna with stochastically distributed surface impedance, which produces randomly frequency-diverse radiation patterns. Low mutual coherence electric field patterns generated by the holographic metasurface antenna can cover the K-band from 18 to 26 GHz with 0.1 GHz intervals. By utilizing the frequency-diverse holographic metasurface (FDHM) antenna, we build a near-field microwave computational imaging system based on reflected signals in the frequency domain. A standard horn antenna is adopted to acquire frequency domain signals radiated from the proposed FDHM antenna. A detail imaging restoration process is presented, and the desired targets are correctly reconstructed using the 81 frequency-diverse patterns through full-wave simulation studies. Compressed sensing technique and iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithms are applied for the imaging reconstruction. The achieved compressive ratio of this computational imaging system on the physical layer is 30:1.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoya Nakamura ◽  
Keiichiro Kagawa ◽  
Shiho Torashima ◽  
Masahiro Yamaguchi

A lensless camera is an ultra-thin computational-imaging system. Existing lensless cameras are based on the axial arrangement of an image sensor and a coding mask, and therefore, the back side of the image sensor cannot be captured. In this paper, we propose a lensless camera with a novel design that can capture the front and back sides simultaneously. The proposed camera is composed of multiple coded image sensors, which are complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors in which air holes are randomly made at some pixels by drilling processing. When the sensors are placed facing each other, the object-side sensor works as a coding mask and the other works as a sparsified image sensor. The captured image is a sparse coded image, which can be decoded computationally by using compressive sensing-based image reconstruction. We verified the feasibility of the proposed lensless camera by simulations and experiments. The proposed thin lensless camera realized super-field-of-view imaging without lenses or coding masks and therefore can be used for rich information sensing in confined spaces. This work also suggests a new direction in the design of CMOS image sensors in the era of computational imaging.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergiy Shylo ◽  
Yuriy Sydorenko ◽  
Dana Wheeler ◽  
Douglas Dundonald

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