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- Awel, Salah, et al.
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Optical bunching of particles in a liquid flow
- 2021
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - : Optical Society of America. - 1094-4087. ; 29:21, s. 34394-34410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- High-speed liquid micro-jets are used to rapidly and repeatedly deliver protein microcrystals to focused and pulsed X-ray beams in the method of serial femtosecond crystallography. However, the current continuous flow of crystals is mismatched to the arrival of X-ray pulses, wasting vast amounts of an often rare and precious sample. Here, we introduce a method to address this problem by periodically trapping and releasing crystals in the liquid flow, creating locally concentrated crystal bunches, using an optical trap integrated in the microfluidic supply line. We experimentally demonstrate a 30-fold increase of particle concentration into 10 Hz bunches of 6.4 tm diameter polystyrene particles. Furthermore, using particle trajectory simulations, a comprehensive description of the optical bunching process and parameter space is presented. Adding this compact optofluidics device to existing injection systems would thereby dramatically reduce sample consumption and extend the application of serial crystallography to a greater range of protein crystal systems that cannot be produced in high abundance. Our approach is suitable for other microfluidic systems that require synchronous measurements of flowing objects. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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- Axelsson, Johan, et al.
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Quantitative Cherenkov emission spectroscopy for tissue oxygenation assessment
- 2012
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 20:5, s. 5133-5142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Measurements of Cherenkov emission in tissue during radiation therapy are shown to enable estimation of hemoglobin oxygen saturation non-invasively, through spectral fitting of the spontaneous emissions from the treated tissue. Tissue oxygenation plays a critical role in the efficacy of radiation therapy to kill tumor tissue. Yet in-vivo measurement of this has remained elusive in routine use because of the complexity of oxygen measurement techniques. There is a spectrally broad emission of Cherenkov light that is induced during the time of irradiation, and as this travels through tissue from the point of the radiation deposition, the tissue absorption and scatter impart spectral changes. These changes can be quantified by diffuse spectral fitting of the signal. Thus Cherenkov emission spectroscopy is demonstrated for the first time quantitatively in vitro and qualitatively in vivo, and has potential for real-time online tracking of tissue oxygen during radiation therapy when fully characterized and developed. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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- Axelsson, Johan, et al.
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Spatially varying regularization based on spectrally resolved fluorescence emission in fluorescence molecular tomography
- 2007
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 15:21, s. 13574-13584
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fluorescence molecular tomography suffers from being mathematically ill-conditioned resulting in non-unique solutions to the reconstruction problem. In an attempt to reduce the number of possible solutions in the underdetermined system of equations in the reconstruction, we present a method to retrieve a spatially varying regularization map outlining the feasible inclusion position. This approach can be made very simple by including a few multispectral recordings from only one source position. The results retrieved through tissue phantom experiments imply that initial reconstructions with spatially varying priors reduces artifacts and show slightly more accurate reconstruction results compared to reconstructions using no priors.
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- Azzouz, H, et al.
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Levitated droplet dye laser
- 2006
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 14:10, s. 4374-4379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present the first observation, to our knowledge, of lasing from a levitated, dye droplet. The levitated droplets are created by computer controlled pico-liter dispensing into one of the nodes of a standing ultrasonic wave (100 kHz), where the droplet is trapped. The free hanging droplet forms a high quality optical resonator. Our 750 nL lasing droplets consist of Rhodamine 6G dissolved in ethylene glycol, at a concentration of 0.02 M. The droplets are optically pumped at 532 nm light from a pulsed, frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser, and the dye laser emission is analyzed by a fixed grating spectrometer. With this setup we have achieved reproducible lasing spectra in the visible wavelength range from 610 nm to 650 nm. The levitated droplet technique has previously successfully been applied for a variety of bio-analytical applications at single cell level. In combination with the lasing droplets, the capability of this high precision setup has potential applications within highly sensitive intra-cavity absorbance detection. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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- Bachimanchi, Harshith, et al.
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Harnessing nonlinear frequency upconversion of Talbot effect with flexible Talbot lengths
- 2024
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Ingår i: OPTICS EXPRESS. - 1094-4087. ; 32:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on a simple experimental scheme demonstrating nonlinear frequency upconversion of the Talbot effect with controllable Talbot lengths at high conversion efficiency. Using a microlens array (MLA) as an array illuminator at 1064 nm onto a 1.2 -mm -thick BiBO crystal, we have observed the second harmonic Talbot effect in green at 532 nm with a Talbot length twice that of the pump Talbot length. However, the Talbot length is constant for fixed parameters of the periodic object and the laser wavelength. With the formulation of a suitable theoretical framework, we have implemented a generic experimental scheme based on the Fourier transformation technique to independently control the Talbot lengths of the MLA in both the pump and the second harmonic, overcoming the stringent dependence of MLA parameters on the self-images. Deploying the current technique, we have been able to tune the Talbot lengths from z T = 26 cm to z T = 62.4 cm in the pump and z T = 12.4 cm to z T = 30.8 cm in the second harmonic, respectively. The single pass conversion efficiency of the Talbot images is 2.91% W - 1 , an enhancement of a factor of 10 6 as compared to the previous reports. This generic experimental scheme can be used to generate long-range self-images of periodic structures and also to program desired Talbot planes at required positions at both pump and upconverted frequency to avoid any mechanical constraints of experiments.
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- Baek, In Hyung, et al.
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Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber assisted high-power mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser
- 2011
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 19:8, s. 7833-7838
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on passive mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser employing a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA) specially designed and fabricated for wavelengths near 800 nm. Mode-locked pulses as short as 62 fs were generated at a repetition rate of 99.4 MHz. We achieved output powers from the SWCNT-SA mode-locked laser as high as 600 mW with a slope efficiency of 26%. The characteristics of SWCNT-SA-assisted mode-locking were compared with those of Kerr-lens mode-locking without SWCNT-SA.
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- Baghban, Mohammad Amin, et al.
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Bragg gratings in thin-film LiNbO3 waveguides
- 2017
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - : Optical Society of America. - 1094-4087. ; 25:26, s. 32323-32332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We design, fabricate and characterize sidewall corrugated Bragg gratings in a high confinement integrated optics lithium niobate platform, comprising submicrometric photonic wires, tapers and grating couplers to interface off-chip standard telecom optical fibers. We analyze the grating performance as band-rejection filter for TE-polarized signals in the telecom C-band, considering both rectangular and sinusoidal sidewall profiles, and demonstrate record extinction ratios as high as 27 dB and rejection bandwidths as narrow as 3 nm. The results show the potential for an efficient integration of novel photonic functionalities into low-footprint LiNbO3 nonlinear and electro-optical waveguide devices.
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- Bagschik, K., et al.
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Spatial coherence determination from the Fourier analysis of a resonant soft X-ray magnetic speckle pattern
- 2016
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - : Optical Society of America. - 1094-4087. ; 24:20, s. 23162-23176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a method to determine the two-dimensional spatial coherence of synchrotron radiation in the soft X-ray regime by analyzing the Fourier transform of the magnetic speckle pattern from a ferromagnetic film in a multidomain state. To corroborate the results, a Young's double-pinhole experiment has been performed. The transverse coherence lengths in vertical and horizontal direction of both approaches are in a good agreement. The method presented here is simple and gives a direct access to the coherence properties of synchrotron radiation without nanostructured test objects.
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- Barrett, Laura, et al.
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High-contrast coercive field engineering for periodic poling of RbKTiOPO4 with Ba2+/K+ ion-exchange
- 2024
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - : Optica Publishing Group. - 1094-4087. ; 32:8, s. 14252-14260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate a new method of coercive field engineering for periodic poling of RbKTiOPO4 (RKTP). By ion exchanging RKTP in a molten salt containing 7 mol% Ba(NO3)2 and 93 mol% KNO3 we achieve more than an order of magnitude difference in polarization switching time between the exchanged and non-exchanged regions. This method is used to fabricate periodic gratings of 2.92 µm in 1 mm thick bulk RKTP for second harmonic generation at 779 nm with a normalized conversion efficiency of 2%/Wcm. We show that the poled domain structures are stable at 300 °C, and that there is no bulk refractive index modification associated with the periodic ion exchange.
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- Barrios, Carlos Angulo, et al.
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Demonstration of slot-waveguide structures on silicon nitride / silicon oxide platform
- 2007
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 15:11, s. 6846-6856
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on the first demonstration of guiding light in vertical slot-waveguides on silicon nitride/silicon oxide material system. Integrated ring resonators and Fabry-Perot cavities have been fabricated and characterized in order to determine optical features of the slot-waveguides. Group index behavior evidences guiding and confinement in the low-index slot region at O-band (1260-1370nm) telecommunication wavelengths. Propagation losses of < 20 dB/cm have been measured for the transverse-electric mode of the slot-waveguides.
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