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J. Schröder

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arXiv2026

Active Fourier Spectroscopy: From fixed sampling protocols to adaptive measurement

Fourier-transform spectroscopy (FTS) is based on the Nyquist-Shannon theorem, which dictates a strict sampling protocol for the measurement of continuous signals. Here we introduce Active Fourier Spectroscopy (AFS), a generalization of FTS in which measurements are still taken in the Fourier-conjugate delay domain, but where the most informative acquisition points are selected adaptively and the spectrum is reconstructed by sequential, uncertainty-aware inference rather than by fixed-grid Fourier inversion. Our approach relies on a theoretical insight that the Nyquist condition applies only under complete ignorance about the system under investigation, and shows how to systematically improve upon it when prior knowledge exists. Because AFS recovers conventional FTS whenever the prior is uninformative, its performance never falls below that of conventional sampling. We demonstrate AFS for optical spectroscopy in three settings vital to research and medicine: clinical FTIR-based blood plasma analysis, optical metrology of structured laser beams, and hyperspectral imaging with an RGB camera. In each case AFS reaches a higher target reconstruction quality from far fewer acquisitions and provides complete uncertainty quantification in real time, propagated rigorously through downstream analysis.

physics.optics↗

arXiv2026

A robust mixed finite element formulation for third medium contact

Third medium contact provides a smooth continuum alternative to classical contact algorithms by replacing explicit contact constraints with a highly compliant fictitious medium. In this work, an auxiliary-field stabilization is introduced in which a deformation-gradient-like field is treated as an independent unknown in the third medium and coupled to the physical deformation gradient by a penalty term. A gradient contribution acting on the auxiliary field provides the regularization mechanism without requiring a direct evaluation of higher displacement derivatives. Linear and quadratic interpolation spaces are investigated, including continuous and element-wise discontinuous auxiliary-field approximations. The numerical results show that continuous low-order auxiliary fields provide an effective gradient-type stabilization of the third medium, even when the displacement field is approximated by first-order finite elements. For element-wise discontinuous auxiliary fields, the additional unknowns remain local to each element and can be eliminated locally by static condensation, so that the global system does not necessarily contain additional auxiliary degrees of freedom. Benchmark problems involving large deformation, progressive self-contact and severe third-medium compression are used to assess the formulation.

math.NA↗