We review the progress in multiplexed single-photon sources, including overviews on heralded single-photon sources and photon-number-resolving detectors, the various approaches to multiplexing, and their successful experimental realizations. We also...
We present an all-fiber erbium-doped mode-locked laser capable of switching among continuously tunable single-pulse mode-locking, wavelength-multiplexing asynchronous-pulse mode-locking, and polarization-multiplexing asynchronous-pulse mode-locking s...
In emerging nanotechnologies, due to the manufacturing process, a significant percentage of components may be faulty. In order to make systems based on unreliable nano-scale components reliable, it is necessary to design fault-tolerant architectures....
An on-chip 64-channel hybrid (de)multiplexer for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is designed and demonstrated on a 220 nm SOI platform for the demands of large capacity optical interconnections. The designe...
The phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) has been widely applied in various fields. However, due to fading noise, false alarms often occur; this limits its engineering applications. In this paper, a fading suppression method...
Plasmonic biosensing technologies have emerged as powerful analytical tools for sensitive and label-free characterisation of biomolecular interactions and complex samples. The increasing demand for comprehensive molecular profiling has accelerated th...
This paper reports our investigation of wireless communication performance obtained using orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing, from theoretical evaluation to experimental study. First, we show how we performed a basic theoretical study on wir...
In many situations, the complete microscopic structure of a network is empirically inaccessible and has to be inferred from aggregate information using some probabilistic model. While several network reconstruction methods have been developed in the...
Mycoviruses are viruses that naturally infect and replicate in fungi. They are widespread in all major fungal groups including plant and animal pathogenic fungi. Several dsRNA mycoviruses have been reported in Aspergillus fumigatus. Multiplex polymer...
Fiber-optic ball resonators are an attractive technology for refractive index (RI) sensing and optical biosensing, as they have good sensitivity and allow for a rapid and repeatable manufacturing process. An important feature for modern biosensing de...
Heterogeneity among interacting units plays an important role in numerous biological and man-made complex systems. While the impacts of heterogeneity on synchronization, in terms of structural mismatch of the layers in multiplex networks, has been st...
This article reports on the interrogation of fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensors that are multiplexed in an asymmetric tree topology. At each stage in the topology, FBGs are connected at one output port of a 50:50 coupler with fibers of different...
This paper introduces an innovative approach to integral volumetric imaging employing time and polarization multiplexing techniques to present volumetric three-dimensional images. Traditional integral volumetric imaging systems with a coarse lens arr...
High-throughput multiplexed assays are needed to simplify detection of Helicobacter species in experimental infection and routine health monitoring of laboratory mice. Therefore, fluorescent bead-based hybridization assays for Helicobacter sp. DNA an...
Multiplexed single-photon sources can produce indistinguishable single photons with high probability in near-perfect spatial modes. Such systems, realized with optical elements having losses, can be optimized—that is, both the optimal number of...
Holographic data storage (HDS) has emerged as a promising technology for high-capacity data storage. In this study, we propose a novel approach to enhance the storage density in HDS through a multiplexing perfect optical vortex (POV) hologram. By uti...
Networks are useful to describe the structure of many complex systems. Often, understanding these systems implies the analysis of multiple interconnected networks simultaneously, since the system may be modelled by more than one type of interaction....
The ever-growing demand for fast, cheap, and reliable diagnostic tools for personalised medicine is encouraging scientists to improve existing technology platforms and to create new methods for the detection and quantification of biomarkers of clinic...
Traditional immunohistochemistry (IHC) has already become an essential method of diagnosis and therapy in cancer management. However, this antibody-based technique is limited to detecting a single marker per tissue section. Since immunotherapy has re...
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) type 1 (European genotype) and PRRSV type 2 (North American genotype) are prevalent all over the world. Nowadays, the North American genotype PRRSV (NA-PRRSV) has been widely circulating in...
Nowadays, multiplex analysis is very popular, since it allows to detect a large number of biomarkers simultaneously. Traditional multiplex analysis is usually based on changes of photoluminescence (PL) intensity and/or PL band spectral positions in t...
In order to increase transmission capacity, multiplexing schemes in different physical dimensions, including time, frequency, modulation quadrature, polarization, and space, can be employed. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a red color laser-...
Metasurface holography offers significant advantages, including a broad field of view, minimal noise, and high imaging quality, making it valuable across various optical domains such as 3D displays, VR, and color displays. However, most passive pure-...
Prostate cancer (PCa) remains one of the most prominent forms of cancer for men. Since the early 1990s, Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) has been a commonly recognized PCa-associated protein biomarker. However, PSA testing has been shown to lack in sp...
The increasing demand for rapid and multi-target detection in integrated photonic sensing systems necessitates scalable and low-complexity multiplexing strategies. Conventional multiplexing approaches, such as wavelength-division and time-division mu...
Lateral flow assays (LFAs) are the mainstay of rapid point-of-care diagnostics, with the potential to enable early case management and transform the epidemiology of infectious disease. However, most LFAs only detect single biomarkers. Recognizing the...
A multiplexing method for orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams was proposed. The aperture size as a new information carrier was provided, and it could be modulated by the external variable aperture. The field of the beams propagating through turbulen...
The ability to accurately measure multiple proteins simultaneously in a single assay has the potential to markedly improve the efficiency of clinical tests composed of multiple biomarkers. We investigated the diagnostic accuracy of the two multiplex...
Multilayer networks represent multiple types of connections between the same set of nodes. Clearly, a multilayer description of a system adds value only if the multiplex does not merely consist of independent layers. In real-world multiplexes, it is...
Mode multiplexers/demultiplexers (MUX/deMUX) are key components in mode division multiplexing. A silica waveguide mode MUX consisting of four cascaded directional couplers is experimentally demonstrated. The beam propagation method is used in the dev...
1-[(Anthracen-9-yl)methylene] thiosemicarbazide shows weak fluorescence due to a photo-induced electron transfer (PET) process from the thiosemicarbazide moiety to the excited anthracene. The anthracene emission can be recovered via protonation of th...
This paper develops a distributed extra-gradient method for constrained resource allocation over multiplex networks. The proposed formulation represents resource-balance and multiplex coordination constraints through a unified monotone residual opera...
Holographic data storage is a promising technology that provides very large data storage capacity, and the multiplexing method plays a significant role in increasing this capacity. Various multiplexing methods have been previously researched. In the...
Visible light communication and positioning (VLCP) is a promising candidate for constructing a multi-functional wireless network with large-scale connectivity and centimeter-level positioning. However, there is still a lack of effective methods to of...
Reliable cytopathological diagnosis requires new methods and approaches for the rapid and accurate determination of all cell types. This is especially important when the number of cells is limited, such as in the cytological samples of fine-needle bi...
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an Integrated Multiband-Mode Multiplexing Photonic Lantern (IM3PL) that enables the selective excitation of high-order modes and stable modal preservation across multiple wavelength bands. As a proof-of-conce...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has drawn attention to the need for fast and accurate diagnostic testing. Concerns from emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and other circulating respiratory viral pathogens further underscore the importance of exp...
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Mycoviruses are viruses that specifically infect and replicate in fungi. Several mycoviruses have been previously reported in Pleurotus ostreatus, including the oyster mushroom spherical virus (OMSV), oyster mushroom isometric virus (OMIV), Pleurotus...
The individuals of real-world networks participate in various types of connections, each forming a layer in multiplex networks. Link prediction is an important problem in multiplex network analysis owing to its wide range of practical applications, s...
Diffraction waveguides are widely used in augmented reality devices as information display systems for the introduction of data into the human visual field in order to supplement information about the world around us. This paper formulates the princi...
The polarization multiplexing technique is a well-established method that improves the communication capacity of an optical system. In this paper, we designed orthogonal linear and circular polarization multiplexing metalens using a library of rectan...
Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is a perennial fruit tree, and the fruit of kiwifruit is economically and nutritionally important worldwide. To date, approximately 23 species of kiwifruit viruses have been reported worldwide. As for the detection method f...
This study addresses the limitations of existing key node identification methods for multiplex networks—defined as multi-layer networks where all layers share the same node set. To mitigate the loss of critical inter-layer information and impro...
This study established a model for price determinants with the combination of the GIS technique and spatial regression model based on the parcel prices of multiplex houses in an effort to integrate and utilize spatial data and choose a suitable model...
Detection of multiple analytes in biofluids is of significance for early disease diagnosis, effective treatment monitoring, and accurate prognostic assessment. Electrochemical sensors have emerged as a promising tool for the multiplexed detection of...
From social networks to complex infrastructures, many systems could be described by multiplex networks formed by a set of nodes connected via more than one type of links. Network disintegration, which is the problem of identifying a set of nodes or e...
To achieve multi-gas measurements of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensors under a frequency-division multiplexing mode with a narrow modulation frequency interval, we report a frequency-domain detection method. A CH4 absorption...
Tick-borne pathogens pose a significant threat to human health. In this study, a multiple droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) assay was developed to detect four tick-borne pathogens: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl), Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii), sp...
Recently, the emergent dynamics in multiplex networks, composed of layers of multiple networks, has been discussed extensively in network sciences. However, little is still known about whether and how the evolution of strategy for selecting a layer t...
Mode conversion effects in Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are widely exploited in applications such as sensing and fibre lasers. However, when FBGs are inscribed into Few-mode optical Fibres (FMFs), the mode interactions become highly complex due to the...
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