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6 Citations
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Simulation of Far-Field Light Distribution of Micro-LED Based on Its Structural Parameters

  • Wei Wei,
  • Yiying Chen,
  • Chenxi Wang,
  • Xing Peng and ,
  • Tang Tang and
  • Zhizhong Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 December 2022

To clarify how micro-LED far-field light distributions differ from Lambertian distributions owing to small-sized-structure effects, the light distribution of a micro-LED was simulated via the ray-tracing method in this study. Specifically, considerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability Modeling of Complex Systems in Materials and Devices)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,842 Views
11 Pages

Sending-or-Not-Sending Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution with Light Source Monitoring

  • Yucheng Qiao,
  • Ziyang Chen,
  • Yichen Zhang,
  • Bingjie Xu and
  • Hong Guo

26 December 2019

Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) is proposed to achieve a remote key distribution with a maximum secure transmission distance up to over 500 km. Although the security of TF-QKD in its detection part is guaranteed, there are some remaining...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,000 Views
12 Pages

Passive Light Source Monitoring for Sending or Not Sending Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution

  • Xuerui Qian,
  • Chunhui Zhang,
  • Huawei Yuan,
  • Xingyu Zhou and ,
  • Jian Li and
  • Qin Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 April 2022

Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) can break the repeaterless linear bound and possess the measurement-device-independent security, and thus seems very promising in practical applications of quantum secure communication. In most reported TF...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Quantum Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
15,793 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2012

Accurate determination of the intensity-average diameter of polystyrene latex (PS-latex) by dynamic light scattering (DLS) was carried out through extrapolation of both the concentration of PS-latex and the observed scattering angle. Intensity-averag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Molecules to Nanomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,010 Views
16 Pages

9 February 2020

A new displacement sensor with light-field modulation, named as time grating, was proposed in this study. The purpose of this study was to reduce the reliance on high-precision measurements on high-precision manufacturing. The proposed sensor uses a...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,804 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2025

The twin-field (TF) protocol is a key protocol in quantum key distribution (QKD) that enables remote key distribution, achieving a maximum secure transmission distance of over 500 km. However, the TF protocol still faces several security issues in re...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,554 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2018

The angular dependency of light scattering intensity from differently sized particles strongly influences the apparent particle size distribution, as determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods. Manufactured nanomaterials have size distribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomaterials in Biocatalyst)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,297 Views
17 Pages

Wearable Dual-Mode Biosensing System for Dynamic Light Dosimetry in Tissues

  • Jun Wei,
  • Lansixu Ma,
  • Wenxuan Li,
  • Peng Xu and ,
  • Yizhen Wang,
  • Feifan Zhou and
  • Fuhong Cai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Phototherapy is a physical treatment modality that utilizes natural or artificial light sources and harnesses radiant energy to treat diseases. Dynamic monitoring of the actual light dose received by tissues is crucial to the success of phototherapy....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Portable, Wearable and Wireless Biosensing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,040 Views
15 Pages

The hollow slab bridge is a widely used bridge type for urban bridges. The slabs are prefabricated in a factory and are assembled on site, and then the hinge joints are poured on site. Shallow hinge joints have been used in most existing hollow slab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Process Monitoring and Structural Damage Identification for Buildings and Bridges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,350 Views
19 Pages

Analysis and 3D Imaging of Multidimensional Complex THz Fields and 3D Diagnostics Using 3D Visualization via Light Field

  • Michael Gerasimov,
  • Adnan Haj Yahya,
  • Vadim Patrick Nave,
  • Egor Dyunin and ,
  • Jacob Gerasimov and
  • Aharon Friedman
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

We present a numerical platform for 3D imaging and general analysis of multidimensional complex THz fields. A special 3D visualization is obtained by converting electromagnetic (EM) radiation to a light field via the Wigner distribution function, whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing, Modeling and its Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,251 Views
24 Pages

Propagation and Depolarization of a Short Pulse of Light in Sea Water

  • Evgeniy E. Gorodnichev,
  • Kirill A. Kondratiev,
  • Alexandr I. Kuzovlev and
  • Dmitrii B. Rogozkin

We present the results of a theoretical study of underwater pulse propagation. The vector radiative transfer equation (VRTE) underlies our calculations of the main characteristics of the scattered light field in the pulse. Under the assumption of hig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Fields in the Ocean from Natural and Artificial Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,032 Views
23 Pages

19 April 2019

Current water color remote sensing algorithms typically do not consider the vertical variations of phytoplankton. Ecolight with a radiative transfer program was used to simulate the underwater light field of vertical inhomogeneous waters based on the...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,114 Views
19 Pages

Soft X-ray Transmission Microscopy on Lithium-Rich Layered-Oxide Cathode Materials

  • Andrea Sorrentino,
  • Laura Simonelli,
  • Arefehsadat Kazzazi,
  • Nina Laszczynski and ,
  • Agnese Birrozzi,
  • Angelo Mullaliu,
  • Eva Pereiro,
  • Stefano Passerini,
  • Marco Giorgetti and
  • Dino Tonti
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 March 2021

Energy-dependent full field transmission soft X-ray microscopy (TXM) is able to give a full picture at the nanometer scale of the chemical state and spatial distribution of oxygen and other elements relevant for battery materials, providing pixel-by-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synchrotron- and FEL-Based X-ray Methods for Battery Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
14,520 Views
67 Pages

28 April 2014

Understanding as well as realistic reproduction of the appearance of materials play an important role in computer graphics, computer vision and industry. They enable applications such as digital material design, virtual prototyping and faithful virtu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,035 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2024

The spectral response of an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is crucial for an AOTF based spectral imaging system. The acousto-optic (AO) interaction within the spatial-distributed area of the acoustic field determines the spectral response of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,494 Views
10 Pages

10 July 2019

A new type of laser system, known as a digital laser, was proposed in 2013. Many well-known laser beams with known analytical forms have been successfully generated in digital lasers. However, for a light field that does not have an analytical form,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,954 Views
12 Pages

Complex Wavefront Shaping through a Multi-Core Fiber

  • Jiawei Sun,
  • Nektarios Koukourakis and
  • Jürgen W. Czarske

27 April 2021

Wavefront shaping through a multi-core fiber (MCF) is turning into an attractive method for endoscopic imaging and optical cell-manipulation on a chip. However, the discrete distribution and the low number of cores induce pixelated phase modulation,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Optical and Computational Imaging towards Biomedical Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,266 Views
13 Pages

Virtual Laboratory for the Full-Field Goniophotometer of Luminaires

  • Shasha Liu,
  • Fan Cao,
  • Xiaoyang He and
  • Nianyu Zou

10 May 2023

In order to solve the problem that students have insufficient understanding of the full-field goniophotometer instrumentation due to the expensive equipment and the high requirements of the experimental environment, virtual reality technology is used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,939 Views
10 Pages

Due to its complex spatial distribution, the higher-order Hermite–Gaussian mode possesses significant application in fields such as precision measurement and optical communication. The spatial light modulator, with its capability to modulate th...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,263 Views
14 Pages

Multiple Phase Stepping Generation in Alkali Metal Atoms: A Comparative Theoretical Study

  • Abu Mohamed Alhasan,
  • Abeer S. Altowyan,
  • A. Y. Madkhli and
  • Salah Abdulrhmann

13 March 2023

We theoretically demonstrated optical phase switches in light storage-like experiments. Typical light storage (LS) and retrieval experiments consist of the probe field in the probe channel with writing and reading fields across the drive branch, as w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,896 Views
14 Pages

Simple Method of Light Field Calculation for Shaping of 3D Light Curves

  • Svetlana N. Khonina,
  • Alexey P. Porfirev,
  • Sergey G. Volotovskiy,
  • Andrey V. Ustinov and
  • Sergey V. Karpeev

17 August 2023

We propose a method for generating three-dimensional light fields with given intensity and phase distributions using purely phase transmission functions. The method is based on a generalization of the well-known approach to the design of diffractive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Focusing and Optical Vortices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,217 Views
21 Pages

Variable Light Condition Improves Root Distribution Shallowness and P Uptake of Soybean in Maize/Soybean Relay Strip Intercropping System

  • Li Wang,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Bin Cheng,
  • Yongli Du and ,
  • Sisi Qin,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Mei Xu,
  • Junji Lu,
  • Ting Liu and
  • Wenyu Yang
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

15 September 2020

In this study, soybean root distribution in an inter-cropping system was influenced by various environmental and biotic cues. However, it is still unknown how root development and distribution in inter-cropping responds to aboveground light condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,570 Views
10 Pages

16 March 2021

In this study, we examine the quality of microscale ghost images as a function of the measured histographic signal distribution of the speckle fields from a nonuniform pseudothermal light source. This research shows that the distribution of the detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Micro- and Nanooptics to Optical Sensing, Measurement and Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
2,706 Views
12 Pages

High Absorption Broadband Ultra-Long Infrared Absorption Device Based on Nanoring–Nanowire Metasurface Structure

  • Jiao Wang,
  • Hua Yang,
  • Zao Yi,
  • Junqiao Wang and ,
  • Shubo Cheng,
  • Boxun Li and
  • Pinghui Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Long-wave infrared (LWIR) broadband absorption is of great significance in science and technology. The electromagnetic field energy is absorbed by the metamaterials material, leading to the enhanced light absorption, from which the Metal–Dielec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Radiation and Micro-/Nanophotonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,627 Views
11 Pages

Full-Resolution Light-Field Camera via Fourier Dual Photography

  • Yuhang Hu,
  • Manhong Yao,
  • Zhuobin Huang,
  • Junzheng Peng and ,
  • Zibang Zhang and
  • Jingang Zhong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 August 2022

Conventional light-field cameras with a micro-lens array suffer from resolution trade-off and shallow depth of field. Here we develop a full-resolution light-field camera based on dual photography. We extend the principle of dual photography from rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,696 Views
8 Pages

1 December 2020

In this paper, the phenomenon of the optical bistability of a cavity field is theoretically investigated in an optomechanical system containing an N-type atomic ensemble. In this hybrid optomechanical system, the atoms are coupled with two controllin...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,806 Views
11 Pages

12 April 2023

The detailed characteristics of the harmonics emission of atoms driven via a linearly polarized laser field combined with an orthogonal, weaker electrostatic field were investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation....

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,068 Views
15 Pages

Distributed Poloidal Magnetic Field Measurement in Tokamaks Using Polarization-Sensitive Reflectometric Fiber Optic Sensor

  • Prasad Dandu,
  • Andrei Gusarov,
  • Willem Leysen,
  • Perry Beaumont and ,
  • Marc Wuilpart and
  • JET Contributors
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 June 2023

Determination of the poloidal magnetic field distribution in tokamaks is of prime importance for the successful operation of tokamaks. In this paper, we propose a polarization-sensitive reflectometry-based optical fiber sensor for measuring the spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Technologies and Applications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,316 Views
8 Pages

12 January 2023

In this paper, an on chip two-dimensional Newton’s ring-like plasmonic sensor is designed for differentiating the chirality of circularly polarized lights (CPLS). The structure of the plasmonic sensor consists of a circular arc slit and an arra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,990 Views
20 Pages

Spiral Caustics of Vortex Beams

  • Viktor A. Soifer,
  • Sergey I. Kharitonov,
  • Svetlana N. Khonina,
  • Yurii S. Strelkov and
  • Alexey P. Porfirev

19 January 2021

We discuss the nonparaxial focusing of laser light into a three-dimensional (3D) spiral distribution. For calculating the tangential and normal components of the electromagnetic field on a preset curved surface we propose an asymptotic method, using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,602 Views
16 Pages

Generating Convergent Laguerre-Gaussian Beams Based on an Arrayed Convex Spiral Phaser Fabricated by 3D Printing

  • Chang Liu,
  • Chai Hu,
  • Dong Wei,
  • Mingce Chen and ,
  • Jiashuo Shi,
  • Haiwei Wang,
  • Changsheng Xie and
  • Xinyu Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 August 2020

A convex spiral phaser array (CSPA) is designed and fabricated to generate typical convergent Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams. A type of 3D printing technology based on the two-photon absorption effect is used to make the CSPAs with different featured s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical MEMS, Volume II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,922 Views
13 Pages

Formulas are presented for calculating the irradiance field, which is formed in a turbid medium with a narrow scattering phase function and homogeneous optical properties when an infinitely narrow light beam passes through it. The calculations are ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Fields in the Ocean from Natural and Artificial Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,362 Views
8 Pages

4 November 2022

This work is devoted to deriving the entropy of a single photon in a beam of light from first principles. Based on the quantum processes of light–matter interaction, we find that, if the light is not in equilibrium, there are two different ways...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,570 Views
9 Pages

Structured light beams have played important roles in the fields of optical imaging and optical manipulation. However, light fields scatter when they encounter highly anisotropic scattering media, such as biological tissue, which destroys their origi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Applications of Biophotonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,869 Views
13 Pages

Determining the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Vortex Beam Using Strong Field Ionization

  • Harrison Pasquinilli,
  • Alex Schimmoller,
  • Spencer Walker and
  • Alexandra S. Landsman

29 November 2023

While interferometric methods exist for classifying vortex states of light, these techniques usually require destroying the beam of interest to determine the light’s OAM. A recent two-color pump-probe experiment employed strong field ionization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Laser Fields)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,433 Views
19 Pages

Rectification of Images Distorted by Microlens Array Errors in Plenoptic Cameras

  • Suning Li,
  • Yanlong Zhu,
  • Chuanxin Zhang,
  • Yuan Yuan and
  • Heping Tan

23 June 2018

A plenoptic cameras is a sensor that records the 4D light-field distribution of target scenes. The surface errors of a microlens array (MLA) can cause the degradation and distortion of the raw image captured by a plenoptic camera, resulting in the co...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,560 Views
23 Pages

Interference of two and four light beams with linear or circular polarization is studied analytically and numerically based on the Richards–Wolf formalism. We consider such characteristics of the interference fields as the distribution of inten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structured Light Beams: Science and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,451 Views
10 Pages

4 September 2021

For high-power applications, it is important to improve the light extraction efficiency and light output of the vertical direction of LEDs. Flip-chip LEDs (FCLEDs) with an Ag/SiO2/distributed Bragg reflector/SiO2 composite reflection micro structure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microsystem for Electronic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,339 Views
20 Pages

New Coupled Canopy–Light Model (CCLM) to Improve Visual Polymorphism Simulation of Fir Morphology

  • Yuanqing Zuo,
  • Huaiqing Zhang,
  • Zeyu Cui,
  • Yang Liu and ,
  • Kexin Lei,
  • Xingtao Hu,
  • Hanqing Qiu,
  • Jiansen Wang,
  • Jing Zhang and
  • Tingdong Yang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

17 March 2023

Environmental factors substantially influence the growth of trees. The current studies on tree growth simulation have mainly focused on the effect of environmental factors on diameter at breast height and tree height. However, the influence of enviro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and Visualization Methods: Monitoring, Modeling, Simulations and Interaction of Forest Resource)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,613 Views
22 Pages

The artificial olfactory image was proposed by Lundström et al. in 1991 as a new strategy for an electronic nose system which generated a two-dimensional mapping to be interpreted as a fingerprint of the detected gas species. The potential distr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue An Exciting Journey of Chemical Sensors and Biosensors: A Theme Issue in Honor of Professor Ingemar Lundström)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,338 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2020

Defect size recognition is significant to the evaluation of optical element surface quality. Currently, it’s mainly achieved by the conventional image process, such as threshold segmentation. However, as the defect size gradually approaches the...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,214 Views
10 Pages

2 September 2021

A superchiral field, which can generate a larger chiral signal than circularly polarized light, is a promising mechanism to improve the capability to characterize chiral objects. In this paper, Mie scattering by a chiral sphere is analyzed based on t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dedication to Professor Michael Tribelsky: 50 Years in Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,233 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2024

This paper presents a novel method for generating and shaping reverse energy flow through the interference of light fields from a minimal number of point light sources. Until now, reverse energy flow has only been observed using complex light fields,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Diffractive Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,053 Views
7 Pages

Electrically-Tunable Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Microlens Array Based on a Photoconductive Film

  • Bing-Yau Huang,
  • Shuan-Yu Huang,
  • Chia-Hsien Chuang and
  • Chie-Tong Kuo

2 January 2020

This paper proposes an effective approach to fabricate a blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) microlens array based on a photoconductive film. Owing to the characteristics of photo-induced conducting polymer polyvinylcarbazole (PVK), in which conductivit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer-Based Materials in Liquid Crystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,688 Views
15 Pages

Research on and Experimental Verification of the Efficiency Enhancement of Powerspheres Through Distributed Incidence Combined with Intracavity Light Uniformity

  • Tiefeng He,
  • Jiawen Li,
  • Chongbo Zhou,
  • Haixuan Huang and ,
  • Wenwei Zhang,
  • Zhijian Lv,
  • Qingyang Wu,
  • Lili Wan,
  • Zhaokun Yang and
  • Xiaowei Lu
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

27 September 2025

In laser wireless power transmission systems, the powersphere serves as a spherical enclosed receiver that performs photoelectric conversion, achieving uniform light distribution within the cavity through infinite internal light reflection. However,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies of Laser Wireless Power Transmission)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,878 Views
38 Pages

Towards Next-Generation Smart Seed Phenomics: A Review and Roadmap for Metasurface-Based Hyperspectral Imaging and a Light-Field Platform for 3D Reconstruction

  • Jingrui Yang,
  • Qinglei Zhao,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Jing Guo and ,
  • Fengwei Guan,
  • Shuxin Wang,
  • Qinglong Hu,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Qi Song and
  • Chao Li
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Seed phenomics is a critical research field for understanding seed germination mechanisms. Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength nanostructures, offer a promising pathway to achieve both dispersion control and imaging functionalities within an ultr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Metasurface: Applications in Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,936 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2023

Underwater LED light sources are commonly implemented in array configurations with a wide-angle field of view, primarily catering to high-speed communication within a few meters. To increase transmission distance and mitigate oceanic turbulence effec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Free-Space Optical Communication: Physics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,760 Views
14 Pages

23 December 2022

Most of the traditional image feature point extraction and matching methods are based on a series of light properties of images. These light properties easily conflict with the distinguishability of the image features. The traditional light imaging m...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,364 Views
12 Pages

Atmospheric turbulence causes transmitted light to fade randomly, which results in irradiance scintillation fluctuations in the received signal and significantly affects the quality of wireless optical communication systems. In this paper, we investi...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,616 Views
13 Pages

Computational Theory and Experimental Research on Coherent Optical Imaging

  • Junchang Li,
  • Zhenbo Zhang,
  • Yichen Li,
  • Jinbin Gui and
  • Qinghe Song

22 August 2025

Since the advent of lasers, coherent optical imaging has found significant applications in optical precision measurement. Among these, digital holography is a key research area. In detection studies, accurately obtaining the amplitude and phase of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

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