Michel E Marhic,Peter A Andrekson,Periklis Petropoulos et al.
Michel E Marhic et al.
The prospects for using fiber optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) in optical communication systems are reviewed. Phase-insensitive amplifiers (PIAs) and phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs) are considered. Low-penalty amplification at/or near...
Yue Wang,Paulina O Morawska,Alexander L Kanibolotsky et al.
Yue Wang et al.
A very compact explosive vapor sensor is demonstrated based on a distributed feedback polymer laser pumped by a commercial InGaN light-emitting diode. The laser shows a two-stage turn on of the laser emission, for pulsed drive currents abov...
Few-cycle, broadband, mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator pumped by a 20-fs Ti:sapphire laser [0.03%]
飞秒钛宝石激光器泵浦的少周期宽带中红外光学参量振荡器
Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar,Adolfo Esteban-Martin,Takuro Ideguchi et al.
Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar et al.
A few-cycle, broadband, singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) for the mid-infrared based on MgO-doped periodically-poled LiNbO3 (MgO:PPLN), synchronously pumped by a 20-fs Ti:sapphire laser is reported. By using crystal intera...
Coherent fluorescence emission by using hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystals [0.03%]
利用混合光子-等离激元晶体实现相干荧光发射
Lei Shi,Xiaowen Yuan,Yafeng Zhang et al.
Lei Shi et al.
The spatial and temporal coherence of the fluorescence emission controlled by a quasi-two-dimensional hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal structure covered with a thin fluorescent-molecular-doped dielectric film is investigated experimentally...
Yuan Luo,Vijay Raj Singh,Dipanjan Bhattacharya et al.
Yuan Luo et al.
Optical sectioning techniques offer the ability to acquire three-dimensional information from various organ tissues by discriminating between the desired in-focus and out-of-focus (background) signals. Alternative techniques to confocal, su...
Photoacoustic Microscopy [0.03%]
photo声显微镜技术
Junjie Yao,Lihong V Wang
Junjie Yao
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is a hybrid in vivo imaging technique that acoustically detects optical contrast via the photoacoustic effect. Unlike pure optical microscopic techniques, PAM takes advantage of the weak acoustic scattering in...
Haohua Tu,Stephen A Boppart
Haohua Tu
Biophotonics and nonlinear fiber optics have traditionally been two independent fields. Since the discovery of fiber-based supercontinuum generation in 1999, biophotonics applications employing incoherent light have experienced a large impa...
Shuhua Yue,Mikhail N Slipchenko,Ji-Xin Cheng
Shuhua Yue
Because each nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging modality is sensitive to specific molecules or structures, multimodal NLO imaging capitalizes the potential of NLO microscopy for studies of complex biological tissues. The coupling of multiphoto...
Dan Zhu,Kirill V Larin,Qingming Luo et al.
Dan Zhu et al.
Tissue optical clearing technique provides a prospective solution for the application of advanced optical methods in life sciences. This paper gives a review of recent developments in tissue optical clearing techniques. The physical, molecu...
Claus-Peter Richter,Agnella Izzo Matic,Jonathon D Wells et al.
Claus-Peter Richter et al.
This paper reviews the existing research on infrared neural stimulation, a means of artificially stimulating neurons that has been proposed as an alternative to electrical stimulation. Infrared neural stimulation (INS) is defined as the dir...