Programmable low-coherence wavefronts for enhanced localization

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Abstract
Engineering the properties of electromagnetic wavefronts has become essential to imaging, wireless security, sensing, and wireless communication. In particular, wavefronts that exhibit low spatial coherence can enable sensing functionalities with high accuracy and low latency. The typical use of such wavefronts cannot take advantage of these possibilities, as they require the ability to dynamically reconfigure the wavefront in a controllable and repeatable fashion, over a broad spectral bandwidth. Here, we propose a new approach for generating broadband reconfigurable wavefronts which not only exhibit low spatial coherence at a particular frequency, but are also decorrelated with the wavefronts simultaneously generated at other frequencies. We demonstrate that this frequency-domain decorrelation is a key feature that, in combination with dynamic reconfigurability, enables localization measurements with an order-of-magnitude improvement in accuracy compared to the state of the art.
Funding Information
  • Cisco Systems
  • Intel Corporation
  • National Science Foundation (2433923, 2402783, 2211618, 2433923, 2402783, 2211618, 2402781, 2433924, 2211616, 1954780, 2433923, 2402783, 2211618)
  • United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office (W911NF-23-1-0340, W911NF-23-1-0340, W911NF-23-1-0340)
  • DOE | LDRD | Los ALamos National Laboratory (89233218CNA000001, 89233218CNA000001)
  • DOE | LDRD | Sandia National Laboratories (DE-NA-0003525, DE-NA-0003525)

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