Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ad7723
M S Swapna, S Sankararaman and D Korte
The progress made in lasers and data acquisition systems has paved the way for innovative non-destructive evaluation methods based on the photothermal phenomenon. Beam deflection spectrometry (BDS) is a photothermal spectroscopic technique that offers ultra-sensitivity, high signal-to-noise ratios, and reduced sample preparation requirements. These advantages provide precise assessment of advanced material (AM) properties. This review presents a comprehensive in-depth analysis, thus helping researchers to understand the potential and future perspectives of BDS along with the theory, instrumentation, and application supported by the literature data. The objective of this review is also to present the possibilities of BDS in the characterization of AMs, including organic, inorganic, and hybrid organic–inorganic materials in the form of thin films, coatings, composites, and nanomaterials.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ad7722
Ruijie Xiao, Guixia Pan and Ye Liu
We investigate the tunable multicolor optomechanically induced transparency and the effect of slow/fast light in a hybrid electro-optomechanical system, in which a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA) and a type three-level atomic ensemble are placed in a optical cavity with two oscillator modes. The system is driven by a strong pump field and a weak probe field, respectively. Multicolor transparency windows appear in the output field under the atom-photon-OPA-phonon-phonon coherent interaction. And the position and width of the transparent port of the output field can be manipulated by properly modifying the different parameters of the subsystem. We also research the slow/fast light effect related to phase and group delay in the probe field. Our proposal provides a great flexibility for phonon storage and has some potential applications in quantum information processing.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ad7720
Srivathsav Karnati and Biswajit Pathak
Biospeckle offers a practical tool for contact-free testing and monitoring of biological samples, providing unique insights into dynamics of biological processes. In the present work, we design an experimental arrangement to perform quality assessment on biological samples using biospeckle patterns. We analyse the speckle patterns and evaluate its important parameters by constructing a grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Furthermore, we propose an alternative and reliable method to study the biospeckle patterns by constructing a color-channel assessment matrix. The proposed approach provides both qualitative and quantitative information of the sample under study, with minimum speckle images and no stringent requirement of correct parameter selection, unlike in the case of GLCM method. Proof-of-concept experimental results are provided that demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method in evaluating the quality of biological samples.
{"title":"Analysis of biospeckle pattern using grey-level and color-channel assessment methods","authors":"Srivathsav Karnati and Biswajit Pathak","doi":"10.1088/1555-6611/ad7720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1555-6611/ad7720","url":null,"abstract":"Biospeckle offers a practical tool for contact-free testing and monitoring of biological samples, providing unique insights into dynamics of biological processes. In the present work, we design an experimental arrangement to perform quality assessment on biological samples using biospeckle patterns. We analyse the speckle patterns and evaluate its important parameters by constructing a grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Furthermore, we propose an alternative and reliable method to study the biospeckle patterns by constructing a color-channel assessment matrix. The proposed approach provides both qualitative and quantitative information of the sample under study, with minimum speckle images and no stringent requirement of correct parameter selection, unlike in the case of GLCM method. Proof-of-concept experimental results are provided that demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method in evaluating the quality of biological samples.","PeriodicalId":17976,"journal":{"name":"Laser Physics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ad71ac
Harith Ahmad, Bilal Nizamani, Muhamad Zharif Samion, Zamri Radzi and Shufeng Sun
In this work, the potential of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) in ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN) fibers to produce a dual-wavelength fiber laser (DWFL) is presented, covering the O- and S- communication bands. These DWFLs are rarely reported, and this is the first demonstration in these bands using AWGs and ZBLAN fibers with dopants such as praseodymium and thulium. The O-band DWFL was achieved in a praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber laser (PDFFL), and the S-band DWFL was obtained in thulium-doped fluoride fiber lasers (TDFFLs). The dual wavelength with a wavelength spacing of 2.7 nm was generated at operating wavelengths of 1307.4 and 1310.1 nm in the O-band. Meanwhile, the S-band DWFL was generated at operating wavelengths of 1503.6 and 1505.9 nm, with a wavelength spacing of 2.3 nm. The two DWFLs were switched by changing AWG channels within the PDFFL and TDFFL cavities. The O-band and S-band DWFLs were switchable at wavelength spacings of 2.7–22.8 nm and 2.3–20.8 nm, respectively. These DWFLs in communication bands provide opportunities for possible applications in dense wavelength division multiplexing high-speed optical networks.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ad6d4f
Rustem Shakhmuratov
The generation of pulses from a periodic phase-modulated continuous wave (CW) laser field, which is transmitted through a group-delay-dispersion (GDD) circuit, is considered. A time lens (TL), consisting of a quadratic phase modulator and a GDD circuit is proposed in combination with temporal array illuminators (TAI) using another GDD circuit. The time lens producing field compression into pulses is realized for a particular value of the normalized fractional Talbot length (NFTL) <inline-formula>