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Photonics, Volume 9, Issue 5

May 2022 - 93 articles

Cover Story: Insight into electron dynamics of, e.g., biochemical molecules in the water window with a photon energy of 284–530 eV relies on well-defined ultra-short soft X-ray pulses. Their elongation during wavelength-dispersive monochromatization can be compensated by a second diffractive optical element. We propose a new time-delay-compensating monochromator based on reflection zone plates (RZPs) on curved substrates. As an example, a sub-femtosecond (fs) pulse with a bandwidth of 5 eV around E0 = 410 eV is elongated to 1.7 ps on a mirror stripe whose length of 0.5 mm narrows the bandwidth on the sample to 0.7 eV at a pulse duration of 4.4 fs. The spherical shape of the RZPs corrects for aberrations over a wide spectral range around E0. Alternatively, using an open mirror stripe for the full bandpass, chirped pulses may be compressed, too. View this paper
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Articles (93)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,226 Views
10 Pages

Ultraviolet (UV) communication is considered an effective complement to traditional wireless communication. However, the scattering models of existing non-line-of-sight (NLOS) UV, which are complex, are difficult to combine with the test. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,370 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Accommodation on Peripheral Refraction under Two Illumination Conditions

  • Raquel van Ginkel,
  • María Mechó,
  • Genis Cardona and
  • José M. González-Méijome

The clinical importance of peripheral refraction as a function of accommodation has become increasingly evident in the last years with special attention given to myopia control. Low order ocular aberrations were measured with a Hartmann–Shack a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,931 Views
18 Pages

Multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs) made from WC and SiC were previously used to focus megahertz X-ray pulse trains of the European XFEL free-electron laser, but suffered damage with trains of 30 pulses or longer at an incident fluence of about 0.13 J/cm2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,386 Views
9 Pages

The 2 μm waveband is considered to have great potential in optical communications. Driven by the demands on high-performance functional devices in this spectral band, various integrated photonic components have been demonstrated. In this work, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,735 Views
12 Pages

Due to excellent characteristics of specific stiffness and thermal stability, silicon carbide-based (SiC) material is commonly selected to construct large-scale lightweight mirror. In general, the fabrication process of SiC mirror is similar to the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,537 Views
18 Pages

Research on the optical properties of black carbon (BC) aerosols is highly important for investigating global climate change. A general inhomogeneous particle superposition model is developed. Inhomogeneous particles with arbitrary shapes can be cons...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,397 Views
18 Pages

An important imaging technique in biomedicine, the conventional optical microscopy relies on relatively complicated and bulky lens and alignment mechanics. Based on the Gabor holography, the lensless digital holographic microscopy has the advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,805 Views
14 Pages

Weak Randomness Analysis of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Finite Resources

  • Xiao-Lei Jiang,
  • Xiao-Qin Deng,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Yi-Fei Lu,
  • Jia-Ji Li,
  • Chun Zhou and
  • Wan-Su Bao

The ideal quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol requires perfect random numbers for bit encoding and basis selecting. Perfect randomness is of great significance to the practical QKD system. However, due to the imperfection of practical quantum dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,472 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Optical and Near-Infrared Luminescence of Er3+ and Er3+/Yb3+ Co-Doped Heavy Metal Borate Glasses for Optical Amplifier Applications

  • Vinod Hegde,
  • G. Devarajulu,
  • A. G. Pramod,
  • Sangeeta B. Kolavekar,
  • Dalal Abdullah Aloraini,
  • Aljawhara H. Almuqrin,
  • M. I. Sayyed and
  • G. Jagannath

For the near-infrared emission, Er3+ and Er3+/Yb3+ co-activated borate based glass hosts were synthesized by the method of melting andquenching. The emission intensity was maximum for 0.5 mol% Er3+ singly activated glass in the near-infrared (NIR) re...

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