Underwater Optical Wireless Communications: Overview.

Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (UOWC) is not a new idea, but it has recently attracted renewed interest since seawater presents a reduced absorption window for blue-green light. Due to its higher bandwidth, underwater optical wireless communications can support higher data rates at low latency levels compared to acoustic and RF counterparts. The paper is aimed at those who want to undertake studies on UOWC.

Smartphone sensors for stone lithography authentication.

Nowadays mobile phones include quality photo and video cameras, access to wireless networks and the internet, GPS assistance and other innovative systems. These facilities open them to innovative uses, other than the classical telephonic communication one. Smartphones are a more sophisticated version of classic mobile phones, which have advanced computing power, memory and connectivity.

Max Frei theory revisitation: does really strokes depth change along time?

A serious problem in questioned document examination is to establish the age of written lines. With respect to paper dating, in the past, Max Frei theory (based only on microscope analysis) claimed that strokes are time-dependent. Therefore, according to this theory, it has been asserted that from the analysis of the strokes depth changes it is possible to try to date the handwritten document (to find out that the document is older than .

Potentiality of 3D laser profilometry to determine the sequence of homogenous crossing lines on questioned documents.

The determination of the sequence of line crossings is still a current problem in the field of forensic documents examination. Optical examination, lifting technique, ESDA technique, and electron microscopy are the most widely used methods for the determination of the writing order of crossing texts. However, at present many examinations of intersecting lines result in an inconclusive opinion, particularly if the same type and colour of ink is involved.

Low-cost optoelectronic system for three-dimensional artwork texture measurement.

A new optoelectronic system based on a projection unit in which light, coming from a laser diode coupled to an optic fiber impinges on a diffractive optical element (DOE) to produce sinusoidal fringes is proposed for three-dimensional (3-D) texture measurement. If the projected fringe pattern is viewed at an angle different from the projection angle, the fringe profile is phase-modulated by the 3-D object shape. The 3-D map information is obtained with the aid of a fringe analyzer based on phase-shifting synthetic moiré pattern, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), signal demodulation techniques and a robust and fast phase unwrapping performed by a specially developed software.