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Photonics, Volume 9, Issue 7

2022 July - 72 articles

Cover Story: Highly efficient laser ion acceleration is investigated by reducing the laser group velocity and, therefore, the phase velocity of the excited wavefields in the target below the ion trapping velocity. This is realized by choosing the target’s electron density near the critical density. To enhance the overall efficiency, an overdense foil is placed behind the near-critical trapping region. Our carefully designed density profiles can convert three quarters of laser energy into ion energy with ions reaching 2.5 MeV maximum energy, compared with less than 1% efficiency and 0.1 MeV maximum energy when the overdense foil alone is considered. The proposed target may be designed by the adoption of carbon nanotube foam whose tube diameter matches the desired critical density. View this paper
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Articles (72)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,176 Views
12 Pages

Holographic Tailoring of Structured Light Field with Digital Device

  • Zhensong Wan,
  • Zijian Shi,
  • Qiang Liu and
  • Xing Fu

Structured light fields have attracted much attention due to rich spatial degrees of freedom. The tailoring of an arbitrary structured light field on demand is the precondition for the application of structured light. Therefore, the computer holograp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,490 Views
11 Pages

Range Intensity Profiles of Multi-Slice Integration for Pulsed Laser Range-Gated Imaging System

  • Hongsheng Lin,
  • Hongwei Han,
  • Liheng Ma,
  • Zhichao Ding,
  • Dongdong Jin and
  • Xiaohui Zhang

Pulsed laser range-gated imaging (PLRGI) is one of the most effective methods to achieve underwater high-resolution imaging. When searching target, there are two methods can be used: fixed gate and sliding gate. In practice, fixed gate has a small de...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,004 Views
9 Pages

Manipulating Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement in Three-Dimensional Spiral Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

  • Qian Yu,
  • Chuan Xu,
  • Sixin Chen,
  • Pengcheng Chen,
  • Saiwei Nie,
  • Shijie Ke,
  • Dunzhao Wei,
  • Min Xiao and
  • Yong Zhang

We propose and theoretically investigate two-photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) correlation through spontaneous parameter down-conversion (SPDC) processes in three-dimensional (3D) spiral nonlinear photonic crystals (NPCs). By properly designing t...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,958 Views
11 Pages

Despite the literature providing compelling evidence for the medical efficacy of photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy, its consistency in terms of accuracy and standardization needs improving. Identification of new technology and reliable and ethical bio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,269 Views
15 Pages

Changes in Cell Biology under the Influence of Low-Level Laser Therapy

  • Piotr Rola,
  • Szymon Włodarczak,
  • Maciej Lesiak,
  • Adrian Doroszko and
  • Adrian Włodarczak

Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has become an important part of the therapeutic process in various diseases. However, despite the broad use of LLLT in everyday clinical practice, the full impact of LLLT on cell life processes has not been fully unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,893 Views
15 Pages

Flexible Multiplane Structured Illumination Microscope with a Four-Camera Detector

  • Karl A. Johnson,
  • Daniel Noble,
  • Rosa Machado,
  • Tristan C. Paul and
  • Guy M. Hagen

Fluorescence microscopy provides an unparalleled tool for imaging biological samples. However, producing high-quality volumetric images quickly and without excessive complexity remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate a four-camera structured illumi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,139 Views
12 Pages

High-Performance Electro-Optical Mach–Zehnder Modulators in a Silicon Nitride–Lithium Niobate Thin-Film Hybrid Platform

  • Huangpu Han,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Chenghao Liu,
  • Zhengfang Wang,
  • Yunpeng Jiang,
  • Guangyue Chai,
  • Shuangchen Ruan and
  • Bingxi Xiang

We analyzed a Mach–Zehnder electro-optical modulator based on a silicon nitride strip–loaded waveguide on 0.5 μm thick x-cut lithium niobate thin film. The optical and radio frequency parameters for two different modulator structures (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,388 Views
12 Pages

Nonlocal Effective Medium (NLEM) for Quantitative Modelling of Nanoroughness in Spectroscopic Reflectance

  • Eleftheria Lampadariou,
  • Konstantinos Kaklamanis,
  • Dimitrios Goustouridis,
  • Ioannis Raptis and
  • Elefterios Lidorikis

Spectroscopic reflectance is a versatile optical methodology for the characterization of transparent and semi-transparent thin films in terms of thickness and refractive index. The Fresnel equations are used to interpret the measurements, but their a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,599 Views
8 Pages

Photopolymer resins used in stereolithographic 3D printing are limited to penetration depths of less than 1 mm. Our approach explores the use of near-infrared (NIR) to visible upconversion (UC) emissions from lanthanide-based phosphors to initiate ph...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,987 Views
9 Pages

Product of Two Laguerre–Gaussian Beams

  • Victor V. Kotlyar,
  • Eugeny G. Abramochkin,
  • Alexey A. Kovalev and
  • Alexandra A. Savelyeva

We show that a product of two Laguerre–Gaussian (pLG) beams can be expressed as a finite superposition of conventional LG beams with particular coefficients. Based on such an approach, an explicit relationship is derived for the complex amplitu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,359 Views
9 Pages

Flat Optical Frequency Comb Generation Based on Monolithic Integrated LNOI Intensity and Phase Modulator

  • Yujia Zhang,
  • Xuanhao Wang,
  • Zhengkai Li,
  • Weiqiang Lyu,
  • Yanjia Lyu,
  • Cheng Zeng,
  • Zhiyao Zhang,
  • Shangjian Zhang,
  • Yali Zhang and
  • Yong Liu
  • + 2 authors

A flat optical frequency comb (OFC) is generated by using a monolithic integrated electro-optic intensity and phase modulator fabricated on lithium niobite on insulator (LNOI) platform. The LNOI-based modulation chip consists of a push–pull Mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,177 Views
17 Pages

Sparse wavelength division multiplex (WDM) enabled distributed satellite cluster networks (DSCNs) have emerged as a promising architecture to accommodate future extensive applications. Networking of the DSCNs will face the challenges of explosively i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,490 Views
10 Pages

The Effect of Non-Uniform Irradiation on Laser Photovoltaics: Experiments and Simulations

  • Hao Wang,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Huomu Yang,
  • Guoliang Deng,
  • Qingdong Yang,
  • Ruijun Niu and
  • Yudan Gou

Laser wireless power transmission (LWPT) has various applications for mobile devices and specific equipment under extreme conditions. The light spot received by laser photovoltaics is usually non-uniform, resulting in system efficiency reduction. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,389 Views
12 Pages

Half-Period Gray-Level Coding Strategy for Absolute Phase Retrieval

  • Zipeng Ran,
  • Bo Tao,
  • Liangcai Zeng and
  • Xiangcheng Chen

N-ary gray-level (nGL) coding strategy is an effective method for absolute phase retrieval in the fringe projection technique. However, the conventional nGL method contains many unwrapping errors at the boundaries of codewords. In addition, the numbe...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,728 Views
9 Pages

The Performance of Orbital Angular Momentum Mode (|l| = 1~3) Amplification Based on Ring-Core Erbium-Doped Fibers

  • Shuaishuai Liu,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Qi Jiang,
  • Xiaobo Xue,
  • Jianxiang Wen,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Fufei Pang and
  • Tingyun Wang

We demonstrated that a ring-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier (RC-EDFA) can support orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes with topological charges (|l| = 1~3). The dependence of the characteristics on the length of the RC-EDF was investigated experime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,213 Views
13 Pages

Research on Tunable SPR Sensors Based on WS2 and Graphene Hybrid Nanosheets

  • Di Wang,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Haima Yang,
  • Bo Huang and
  • Guohui Zeng

A prismatic excitation-based affinity biosensor consisting of the prism (BK7), WS2/graphene hybrid nanosheets, and silver (Ag) as the active metal for the surface plasmon resonance is proposed in this present research. The introduction of the transit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,218 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm called the partial-failure segregated multicasting routing and spectrum assignment (PFS MRSA) algorithm to improve the service blocking performance of the multicast transmission in flex-grid optical networks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,748 Views
10 Pages

Real-Time Access to Collisions between a Two-Soliton Molecule and a Soliton Singlet in an Ultrafast Fiber Laser

  • Junwen Li,
  • Heping Li,
  • Zhuang Wang,
  • Zhiyao Zhang,
  • Shangjian Zhang and
  • Yong Liu

Optical solitons in ultrafast fiber lasers, as a result of dual balances between dispersion and nonlinearity as well as gain and loss, enable various soliton interactions. Soliton collisions are among the most intriguing soliton interactions, which f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,680 Views
13 Pages

This paper investigates the employment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to improve the asymptotic capacity of the multiple-input single-output (MISO) visible light communication (VLC) system in the case of high signal-to-noise (SNR). For...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,828 Views
9 Pages

Yttrium Oxide (Y2O3) as a Pulse Initiator in a Mode-Locking Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser

  • N. F. Zulkipli,
  • A. R. Muhammad,
  • M. Batumalay,
  • A. H. A. Rosol,
  • A. Altuncu,
  • F. E. Durak,
  • M. F. Ma’mun and
  • S. W. Harun

Mode-locking is an ultra-short pulse laser generation technique. The range of pulse duration may vary from picoseconds to femtoseconds. Yttrium Oxide (Y2O3) based saturable absorber (SA) was appropriately revealed in the mode-locked method within the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,660 Views
13 Pages

A Multichannel Superconductor-Based Photonic Crystal Optical Filter Tunable in the Visible and Telecom Windows at Cryogenic Temperature

  • Luz E. González,
  • Lina M. Segura-Gutierrez,
  • John E. Ordoñez,
  • Gustavo Zambrano and
  • John H. Reina

We design and evaluate the performance of a one-dimensional photonic crystal (PhC) optical filter that comprises the integration of alternating layers of a barium titanate ferroelectric (BaTiO3) and an yttrium oxide dielectric (Y2O3), with a critical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,993 Views
13 Pages

Low-Cost 3D-Printed Electromagnetically Driven Large-Area 1-DOF Optical Scanners

  • Ching-Kai Shen,
  • Yu-Nung Huang,
  • Guan-Yang Liu,
  • Wei-An Tsui,
  • Yi-Wen Cheng,
  • Pin-Hung Yeh and
  • Jui-che Tsai

In this paper, we demonstrate 3D-printed 1-DOF (one torsional axis; 1 degree of freedom) optical scanners with large mirror areas (up to 20 × 20 mm2). Each device consists of an aluminum-coated square silicon substrate serving as the mirror, tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,496 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, the transmission mechanism of the spike information embedded in the low frequency fluctuation (LFF) dynamic in a cascaded laser system is numerically demonstrated. In the cascaded laser system, the LFF waveform is first generated by a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,455 Views
15 Pages

Dose Response Effect of Photobiomodulation on Hemodynamic Responses and Glucose Levels in Men with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial

  • Stephanie N. Linares,
  • Thomas Beltrame,
  • Gabriela A. M. Galdino,
  • Maria Cecília M. Frade,
  • Juliana C. Milan-Mattos,
  • Mariana O. Gois,
  • Audrey Borghi-Silva,
  • Priscila F. de Biase,
  • Fúlvia B. Manchado-Gobatto and
  • Aparecida M. Catai
  • + 3 authors

This study verifies the acute dose response effect of photobiomodulation (PBM) by light emitting diodes (LEDs) on hemodynamic and metabolic responses in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Thirteen participants with T2DM (age 52 ±...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,209 Views
10 Pages

Quantitative Characterization of Age-Related Changes in Peripheral Vessels of a Human Palm Using Raster-Scan Optoacoustic Angiography

  • Valeriya Perekatova,
  • Mikhail Kirillin,
  • Svetlana Nemirova,
  • Anna Orlova,
  • Alexey Kurnikov,
  • Aleksandr Khilov,
  • Ksenia Pavlova,
  • Viacheslav Kazakov,
  • Vadim Vildanov and
  • Pavel Subochev
  • + 1 author

The analysis of age-related changes in skin vessels based on optoacoustic angiographic images during the in vivo skin monitoring of healthy volunteers at different ages is reported. As a result of a quantitative analysis of the three-dimensional OA i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,163 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Photodynamic Therapy on the Early Outcome of Implants Placed on Patients with Periodontitis

  • Pabbati Krishna Vardhan,
  • Rashmi Paramashivaiah,
  • Munivenkatappa Laxmaiah Venkatesh Prabhuji,
  • Shaeesta Khaleelahmed Bhavikatti,
  • Sakeenabi Basha,
  • Suraj Arora,
  • Syed Nahid Basheer,
  • Syed Wali Peeran,
  • Omir Aldowah and
  • Artak Heboyan

Background: Immediate implant is a subtype of implant that is placed following tooth extraction within the socket without further delay. These implants are known to preserve the alveolar bone and minimize the total number of surgical interventions in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,540 Views
9 Pages

Dynamics of Fractional Vortex Beams at Fraunhofer Diffraction Zone

  • Eduardo Peters,
  • Gustavo Funes,
  • L. Martínez-León and
  • Enrique Tajahuerce

Fractional vortex beams (FVBs) possess unique topological properties that are manifested in the vortex distribution. However, there are still discrepancies in the value of the vortex strength of FVBs at the far field. In this work we present a comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,964 Views
14 Pages

Propagation Characteristics of Hermite–Gaussian Beam under Pointing Error in Free Space

  • Xin Liu,
  • Dagang Jiang,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Lingzhao Kong,
  • Qinyong Zeng and
  • Kaiyu Qin

Hermite–Gaussian (HG) beams have significant potential to improve the capacity of free-space optical communication (FSOC). The influence of pointing error on the propagation characteristics of an HG beam cannot be ignored in the FSOC system. Al...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,959 Views
32 Pages

Carrier-selective passivating contacts for effective electron and hole extraction are crucial to the attainment of high efficiency in crystalline silicon (Si) solar cells. In this comprehensive review, the principle of carrier extraction and recombin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,075 Views
10 Pages

Laser Beat-Wave Acceleration near Critical Density

  • Ernesto Barraza-Valdez,
  • Toshiki Tajima,
  • Donna Strickland and
  • Dante E. Roa

We consider high-density laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in the nonrelativistic regime of the laser. In place of an ultrashort laser pulse, we can excite wakefields via the Laser Beat Wave (BW) that accesses this near-critical density regime. Her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,330 Views
9 Pages

In this paper, we propose a new frequency quadrupling scheme to generate a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated vector millimeter-wave signal, in which an optical filter is not necessary. To eliminate constellation overlapping of the genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,809 Views
12 Pages

The optothermal manipulation of micro-objects is significant for understanding and exploring the unknown in the microscale word, which has found many applications in colloidal science and life science. In this work, we study the transverse forces of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,614 Views
8 Pages

We report the generation of long-term stable squeezed vacuum states at 1064 nm using a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (DOPA) with a periodically poled KTiOPO4 crystal (PPKTP). The OPA is pumped by a 532 nm light produced by frequency doublin...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,077 Views
9 Pages

High-Peak-Power Sub-Nanosecond Mode-Locking Pulses Generated by a Dual-Loss-Modulated QML Laser with AOM and SnSe2

  • Zihao Dai,
  • Baohao Xu,
  • Xinyu Hu,
  • Kai Jiang,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Wenjing Tang and
  • Lihua Cao

In order to investigate the pulse modulation potential of SnSe2 in all-solid-state lasers, an active and passive dual-loss-modulated (APDM) Q-switched and mode-locking (QML) Nd:YVO4 laser was realized by employing an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,774 Views
14 Pages

Advances in Mid-Infrared Single-Photon Detection

  • Stefano Dello Russo,
  • Arianna Elefante,
  • Daniele Dequal,
  • Deborah Katia Pallotti,
  • Luigi Santamaria Amato,
  • Fabrizio Sgobba and
  • Mario Siciliani de Cumis

The current state of the art of single-photon detectors operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range is reported in this review. These devices are essential for a wide range of applications, such as mid-infrared quantum communications, sensing, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,639 Views
11 Pages

Photobiomodulation Using Different Infrared Light Sources Promotes Muscle Precursor Cells Migration and Proliferation

  • Renan Lovisetto,
  • Tainá Caroline dos Santos Malavazzi,
  • Lucas Andreo,
  • Maria Fernanda Setubal Destro Rodrigues,
  • Sandra Kalil Bussadori,
  • Kristianne Porta Santos Fernandes and
  • Raquel Agnelli Mesquita-Ferrari

Photobiomodulation (PBM) has demonstrated positive effects on the muscle repair process. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of infrared PBM using different light sources—low-level laser (LLL) at 780 nm (40 or 70 mW, 10 J/cm2, 0.4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,210 Views
13 Pages

Studies have shown that the observed image texture details and semantic information are of great significance for the depth estimation on the road scenes. However, there are ambiguities and inaccuracies in the boundary information of observed objects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,511 Views
11 Pages

The scattering of light after passing through a complex medium poses challenges in many fields. Any point in the collected speckle will contain information from the entire target plane because of the randomness of scattering. The detailed information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,409 Views
13 Pages

Deformation Measurements of Helicopter Rotor Blades Using a Photogrammetric System

  • Chenglin Zuo,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Chunhua Wei,
  • Tingrui Yue and
  • Jin Song

As an important part of the helicopter, the rotor directly affects flight safety and flight quality. Knowledge of the rotor dynamic behaviors is significant for validating and optimizing the performance of the helicopter rotor system. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,261 Views
13 Pages

CO2 Gas Temperature Sensing near Room Temperature by a Quantum Cascade Laser in Inter Pulse Mode

  • Frank Herklotz,
  • Tom Rubin,
  • Theodore von Haimberger and
  • Karsten Heyne

A non-invasive CO2 gas temperature sensing technique at or close to the room temperature range based on quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy is presented. The method probes thermally populated ground state and hot-band rotational-vibrational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,574 Views
15 Pages

A New Lattice Boltzmann Scheme for Photonic Bandgap and Defect Mode Simulation in One-Dimensional Plasma Photonic Crystals

  • Huifang Ma,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Liping Song,
  • Hao Ren,
  • Wanshun Jiang,
  • Wenyue Guo and
  • Mingming Tang

A novel lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with a pseudo-equilibrium potential is proposed for electromagnetic wave propagation in one-dimensional (1D) plasma photonic crystals. The final form of the LBM incorporates the dispersive effect of plasma media...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,529 Views
13 Pages

Phase drift extremely limits the secure key rate and secure transmission distance, which is non-negligible in local oscillation continuous variable quantum key distribution (LLO CV-QKD). In order to eliminate the impact caused by phase drift, we anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,174 Views
10 Pages

We proposed an infrared narrowband metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) which is induced by toroidal dipole resonance in a dielectric-metal hybrid system. The MPA is composed of amorphous-silicon (a-Si) nanodisk quadrumer clusters, dielectric spacer,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,952 Views
10 Pages

Since their invention, confocal microscopy and super-resolution microscopy have become important choices in cell biology research. Macropinocytosis is a critical form of endocytosis. Deformation of the cell membrane is thought to be closely related t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,284 Views
10 Pages

Flexible Image Reconstruction in the Orbital Angular Momentum Holography with Binarized Airy Lens

  • Feili Wang,
  • Xiangchao Zhang,
  • Rui Xiong,
  • Xinyang Ma,
  • He Yuan,
  • Leheng Li and
  • Xiangqian Jiang

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) holography has been marked a path to achieving ultrahigh capacity holographic information systems. However, the practical applicability of the OAM holography is limited by the complicated optical setup and unadjusta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,410 Views
9 Pages

Design and Simulation of Linear All-Optical Comparator Based on Square-Lattice Photonic Crystals

  • Fariborz Parandin,
  • Saeed Olyaee,
  • Reza Kamarian and
  • Mohamadreza Jomour

An optical comparator is an important logic circuit used in digital designs. Photonic crystals are among the platforms for implementing different kinds of gates and logic circuits, and they are structures with alternating refractive indices. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,471 Views
15 Pages

Due to the advantages of high transmission rate, lower power consumption, high security, etc., underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has been widely studied and considered as a potential technique for underwater communication. However, its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,342 Views
14 Pages

Cladding-Pumped Er/Yb-Co-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Multi-Channel Operation

  • Kaspars Zakis,
  • Sergejs Olonkins,
  • Aleksejs Udalcovs,
  • Ingars Lukosevics,
  • Dmitrijs Prigunovs,
  • Jurgis Grube,
  • Liga Bikse,
  • Andis Supe,
  • Oskars Ozolins and
  • Vjaceslavs Bobrovs
  • + 1 author

Cladding-pumped erbium (Er3+)/ytterbium (Yb3+)-co-doped fiber amplifiers are more advantageous at high output powers. However, this amplification technique also has potential in telecom-related applications. These types of amplifiers have complex pro...

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