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[Institution of Engineering and Technology 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018) - London, UK (9-13 April 2018)] 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018) - Time-modulated Periodic Systems with PT Symmetry
摘要： This work explores the effects of parity-time (PT) symmetry in time-modulated periodic systems. Mechanisms for dynamic tunability of exceptional points are presented. We show that synthetic linear momentum imparted by time-modulation leads to uni-directional exceptional points. Such structures could see application in uni-directional lasers with tunable directionality.
关键词： semiconductor lasers,photonic crystals,distributed feedback lasers,time-varying circuits,parity-time symmetry,time-varying systems,optical modulation
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Vibrational Microspectroscopy for Cancer Screening
摘要： Vibrational spectroscopy analyses vibrations within a molecule and can be used to characterise a molecular structure. Raman spectroscopy is one of the vibrational spectroscopic techniques, in which incident radiation is used to induce vibrations in the molecules of a sample, and the scattered radiation may be used to characterise the sample in a rapid and non-destructive manner. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a complementary vibrational spectroscopic technique based on the absorption of IR radiation by the sample. Molecules absorb specific frequencies of the incident light which are characteristic of their structure. IR and Raman spectroscopy are sensitive to subtle biochemical changes occurring at the molecular level allowing spectral variations corresponding to disease onset to be detected. Over the past 15 years, there have been numerous reports demonstrating the potential of IR and Raman spectroscopy together with multivariate statistical analysis techniques for the detection of a variety of cancers including, breast, lung, brain, colon, oral, oesophageal, prostate and cervical cancer. This paper discusses the recent advances and the future perspectives in relation to cancer screening applications, focussing on cervical and oral cancer.
关键词： cytology,oral cancer,Raman spectroscopy,FTIR spectroscopy,optical diagnosis,cervical cancer,lasers,screening
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Plasmon Tunability of Gold Nanostars at the Tip Apexes
摘要： Herein, we present an optimized bottom-up approach to fabricate homogeneous Au nanostars with plasmon resonances fully tunable between the red and the infrared. The synthetic method relies on the kinetic control of the reaction upon optimization of the reactant concentrations (i.e., gold seeds, reducing agent, and gold salt). Optical enhancing properties of the obtained materials are demonstrated by using SERS with visible and infrared lasers.
关键词： SERS,plasmon tunability,gold nanostars,visible and infrared lasers
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Anomalous passive Q-switching induced by Cr <sup>4+</sup> :YAG: with pulse repetition rate approaching up to 1 MHz
摘要： Anomalous passive Q-switching behavior was demonstrated in an Yb:KLu(WO4)2 laser, with a Cr4+:YAG crystal plate acting as saturable absorber whose initial transmission amounted to 99.3%. In stable Q-switched operation realized under high output coupling of 80%, 1.83 W of average output power was produced at a pulse repetition rate of 0.97 MHz, far beyond the upper limit imposed by the recovery time of the saturable absorber. The largest pulse energy, shortest pulse duration, and highest peak power were, respectively, 1.89 μJ, 39 ns, and 48.5 W. The high-repetition-rate passive Q-switching performance shows a close similarity to some Yb-ion lasers passively Q-switched by 2D saturable absorbers.
关键词： Cr4+:YAG,Yb lasers,passive Q-switching,Yb:KLuW crystal
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Comparison of Optical Single Sideband Techniques for THz-over-fiber Systems
摘要： The use of single sideband (SSB) signals and envelope detection is a promising approach to enable the use of economic free-running lasers in photonic THz communications. To combat the signal-signal beat interference (SSBI) associated with envelope detection, broad guard bands (GBs) may be used given the large unregulated spectrum available at THz frequencies (100 GHz – 10 THz). In this scenario, the conventional way of generating SSB signals through a digital SSB filter (here referred to as the CSSB scheme) would require quite high analog digital-to-analog converter (DAC) bandwidths. Digital virtual SSB (DVSSB) and analog virtual SSB (AVSSB) have been proposed in direct-detection optical systems for relaxing the DAC bandwidth requirements. In this paper, we compare the three techniques through simulations and implement them, for the first time, in a THz-over-fiber (ToF) system operating at 250 GHz. For the transmission experiments we employ 5 GBd 16-QAM signals with three different GBs (5.5 GHz, 4.75 GHz and 3.5 GHz). The simulations show that the best performance is obtained with the AVSSB technique, while the worst is obtained with the DVSSB scheme, where the quality of the generated sideband degrades with carrier-to-sideband power ratio. In the experimental transmissions, where receiver noise was the main source of noise, similar behavior was found between the three techniques. At the 3.5 GHz GB, however, the DVSSB exhibited a penalty of 1 dB with respect to the other two. This is likely to be due to nonlinear distortions caused by the increase in the virtual tone power.
关键词： microwave photonics,Broadband communication,semiconductor lasers,photonic integrated circuits,digital signal processing,envelope detectors,optical mixing,millimeter wave communication
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Optimization and Characterization of High-Harmonic Generation for Probing Solid Density Plasmas
摘要： The creation of high energy density plasma states produced during laser–solid interaction on a sub-picosecond timescale opens a way to create astrophysical plasmas in the lab to investigate their properties, such as the frequency-dependent refractive index. Available probes to measure absorption and phase-changes given by the complex refractive index of the plasma state are extreme-UV (EUV) and soft X-ray (XUV) ultra-short pulses from high harmonic generation (HHG). For demanding imaging applications such as single-shot measurements of solid density plasmas, the HHG probe has to be optimized in photon number and characterized in intensity and wavefront stability from shot-to-shot. In an experiment, a coherent EUV source based on HHG driven by a compact diode-pumped laser is optimized in photons per pulse for argon and xenon, and the shot-to-shot intensity stability and wavefront changes are characterized. The experimental results are compared to an analytical model estimating the HHG yield, showing good agreement. The obtained values are compared to available data for solid density plasmas to con?rm the feasibility of HHG as a probe.
关键词： pump-probe,XUV,diode-pumped lasers,high energy density physics,high-harmonic generation
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14