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Dual-comb microscopy (DCM), based on a combination of dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) with two-dimensional spectral encoding (2D-SE), is a promising method for scan-less confocal laser microscopy giving an amplitude and phase image contrast…

We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of mode-selective photonic lanterns using double-clad fibers. Here, we exploited several custom-pulled double-clad fibers to achieve the symmetry break required to excite higher-order…

Image transmission through multimode optical fibers has been an area of immense interests driven by the demand for miniature endoscopes in biomedicine and higher speed and capacity in telecommunications. Conventionally, a complex-valued…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tianrui Zhao , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Wenfeng Xia

Acquiring high-contrast optical images deep inside biological tissues is still a challenging problem. Confocal microscopy is an important tool for biomedical imaging since it improves image quality by rejecting background signals. However,…

Various optical ultrasound microsensors have been developed with size ranging from tens to hundreds of micrometers. However, it becomes challenging to further minimize these sensors' size. In this work, we proposed a method that use a…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Mengyue Zhang , Changhui Li

A wavelength-tunable Optical Fiber Tweezer (OFT) based on a Graded Index Multimode Fiber (GIMF) with a flat endface is proposed. It is shown that the design can support a trapping position which is far from the tip of the GIMF compared with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Esmaeil Mobini , Arash Mafi

Endomicroscopy is indispensable for minimally invasive diagnostics in clinical practice. For optical keyhole monitoring of surgical interventions, high-resolution fiber endoscopic imaging is considered to be very promising, especially in…

We developed a multifocus optical-resolution photoacoustic microscope (MPAM) with extended depth of field (DoF) by using a tunable acoustic gradient (TAG) lens and a pulse delay method. TAG lens is designed to control the divergence angle…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-09 Xianlin Song

The use of multicore optical fibers is now recognized as one of the most promising methods to implement the space-division multiplexing techniques required to overcome the impending capacity limit of conventional single-mode optical fibers.…

Transmission matrix (TM) linearly maps the incident and transmitted complex fields, and has been used widely due to its ability to characterize scattering media. It is computationally demanding to reconstruct the TM from intensity images…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-05 Jingshan Zhong , Zhong Wen , Quanzhi Li , Qilin Deng , Qing Yang

Multimode fibers (MMF) are an example of a highly scattering medium which scramble the coherent light propagating within them and produce seemingly random patterns. Thus, for applications such as imaging and image projection through a MMF,…

Multicore fibers are gaining growing attention in astronomy. The two main attributes which make them attractive for astronomy are that they reduce the distance between cores and hence have a superior fill factor to other approaches and they…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Nemanja Jovanovic , Olivier Guyon , Hajime Kawahara , Takayuki Kotani

Progress in neuroscience constantly relies on the development of new techniques to investigate the complex dynamics of neuronal networks. An ongoing challenge is to achieve minimally-invasive and high-resolution observations of neuronal…

This paper presents a theoretical design of chalcogenide glass based tapered microstructured optical fiber (MOF) to generate high power parabolic pulses (PPs) at the mid-IR wavelength (~ 2 {\mu}m). We optimize fiber cross-section by the…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-03 Ajanta Barh , S. Ghosh , Ravi K. Varshney , Bishnu P. Pal

We demonstrate nanowatt-level saturated absorption using a sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fiber (TOF) suspended in a gas of metastable xenon atoms. This ultralow-power nonlinearity is enabled by a small optical mode area…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. B. Pittman , D. E. Jones , J. D. Franson

Vision transformer based models bring significant improvements for image segmentation tasks. Although these architectures offer powerful capabilities irrespective of specific segmentation tasks, their use of computational resources can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Manyi Yao , Abhishek Aich , Yumin Suh , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Christian Shelton , Manmohan Chandraker

Two-Photon Laser-Scanning Microscopy is a powerful tool for exploring biological structure and function because of its ability to optically section through a sample with a tight focus. While it is possible to obtain 3D image stacks by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Courtney Johnson , Jack Exell , Jonathon Kuo , Kevin Welsher

A simple imaging system together with complex semidefinite programming is used to generate the transmission matrix of a multimode fiber. Once the transmission matrix is acquired, we can modulate the phase of the input signal to induce…

Photonic computing shows promise for transformative advancements in machine learning (ML) acceleration, offering ultra-fast speed, massive parallelism, and high energy efficiency. However, current photonic tensor core (PTC) designs based on…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

With the rapid development of large multimodal models (LMMs), multimodal understanding applications are emerging. As most LMM inference requests originate from edge devices with limited computational capabilities, the predominant inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Cheng Yuan , Zhening Liu , Jiashu Lv , Jiawei Shao , Yufei Jiang , Jun Zhang , Xuelong Li
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