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most citedExploring One-point Statistics in HERA Phase I Data: Effects of Foregrounds and Systematics on Measuring One-Point Statistics

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physics.optics2026

New techniques for high-resolution imaging and high-precision wavefront sensing via masked-aperture interferometry

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Bojan Nikolic, Chris Carilli +2

Achieving high-angular-resolution imaging on subarcsecond scales is fundamentally limited by wavefront aberrations imparted by the propagation medium and by optical elements along…

physics.acc-ph2026

Exploiting Non Redundant Aperture Interferometry as a Diagnostics Tool for Synchrotron Light Characterization

C. Carilli, U. Iriso, B. Nikolic +2

We recently introduced a novel interferometric method inspired by radio astronomy, utilizing a Non-Redundant Aperture (NRA) mask with self-calibration to fully characterize the two…

physics.acc-ph2026

Capabilities and Limitations of Non-Redundant Aperture Interferometry for Beam Size Measurements

C. Carilli, U. Iriso, B. Nikolic +3

Non-Redundant Aperture Interferometry (NRAI) is a beam characterization technique developed at ALBA in collaboration with radio-astronomy institutes. It enables the single-acquisit…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Exploring One-point Statistics in HERA Phase I Data: Effects of Foregrounds and Systematics on Measuring One-Point Statistics

Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Nicholas S. Kern +61

Measuring one-point statistics in redshifted 21 cm intensity maps offers an opportunity to explore non-Gaussian features of the early universe. We assess the impact of instrumental…

astro-ph.IM2025

A New Method for Aperture Masking Interferometric Imaging: Demonstration with the JWST

Christopher Carilli, Bojan Nikolic, Laura Torino +2

We present a new method for aperture masking interferometric (AMI) imaging at near-IR wavelengths using radio astronomical techniques. The method starts with derivation of interfer…

physics.optics2025

Two-dimensional Light Beam Shape Characterization using Interferometric Closure Amplitudes

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Bojan Nikolic, Chris Carilli +2

We introduce a novel technique using closure amplitudes, inspired by radio interferometry, to determine with high angular resolution the two-dimensional profile of a light beam usi…

physics.optics2025

A New Method for Wavefront Sensing using Optical Masking Interferometry

C. L. Carilli, L. Torino, B. Nikolic +2

Wave front sensing of the surface of equal phase for a propagating electromagnetic wave is a vital technology in fields ranging from real time adaptive optics, to high accuracy met…

physics.acc-ph2024

New interferometric aperture masking technique for full transverse beam characterization using synchrotron radiation

Ubaldo Iriso, Laura Torino, Chris Carilli +2

Emittance measurements using synchrotron radiation are usually performed using x-rays to avoid diffraction limits. Interferometric techniques using visible light are also used to m…

physics.acc-ph2024

Deriving the size and shape of the ALBA electron beam with optical synchrotron radiation interferometry using aperture masks: technical choices

C. L. Carilli, L. Torino, U. Iriso +2

We explore non-redundant aperture masking to derive the size and shape of the ALBA synchrotron light source at optical wavelengths using synchrotron radiation interferometry. We sh…

physics.optics2024

Laboratory Demonstration of Image-Plane Self-Calibration in Interferometry

Christopher L. Carilli, Bojan Nikolic, Laura Torino +2

We demonstrate the Shape-Orientation-Size conservation principle for a 3-element interferometer using aperture plane masking at the ALBA visible synchrotron radiation light source.…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Two-dimensional Synchrotron Beam Characterisation from a Single Interferogram

Bojan Nikolic, Christopher L. Carilli, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan +2

Double-aperture Young interferometry is widely used in accelerators to provide a one-dimensional beam measurement. We improve this technique by combining and further developing tec…

astro-ph.IM2022

Image-Plane Self-Calibration in Interferometry

C. L. Carilli, B. Nikolic, N. Thyagarajan

We develop a new process of image plane self-calibration for interferometric imaging data. The process is based on Shape-Orientation-Size (SOS) conservation for the principal trian…