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Ultrahigh-resolution fiber-optic sensing has been demonstrated with a meter-long, high-finesse fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer (FFPI). The main technical challenge of large, environment-induced resonance frequency drift is addressed by…
Open-access optical microcavities are Fabry-Perot type cavities consisting of two micrometer-size mirrors, separated by an air (or vacuum) gap typically of a few micrometers. Compared to integrated microcavities, this configuration is more…
Detecting elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is crucial in diagnosing and managing various neurological conditions. These fluctuations in pressure are transmitted to the optic nerve sheath (ONS), resulting in changes to its diameter,…
Simulations of three dimensional ultrasound propagation in heterogeneous media are computationally intensive due to the constraints arising from the large size of the domain, which is on the order of hundreds of wavelengths, and the small…
Annually, more than 16 billion medical needles are consumed worldwide. However, the functions of the medical needle are still limited to cutting and delivering or drawing material through the needle to a target site. Ultrasound combined…
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Ultrasound is a well-established method for particle size reduction in dispersions and emulsions. Ultrasonic processors are used in the generation of nano-size material slurries, dispersions and emulsions because of the potential in the…
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities can confine photons within a microscale volume for long periods of time, strongly enhancing light-matter interactions, and making it a crucial platform in optical science and applications. Current…
Optical microcavities are essential in numerous technologies and scientific disciplines. However, their application in many areas relies exclusively upon discrete microcavities in order to satisfy challenging combinations of ultra-low-loss…
Fast-responding detector arrays are commonly used for imaging rapidly-changing scenes. Besides array detectors, a single-pixel detector combined with a broadband optical spectrum can also be used for rapid imaging by mapping the spectrum…
Phase sensitive detection in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is a powerful method for functional imaging of biological events with high spatiotemporal resolution. The depth-dependent signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a…
Particles with electric charge 10^(-12)e in bulk mass are not excluded by present experiments. In the present letter we provide a feasible scheme to measure the millicharged particles via the optical cavity coupled to a levitated…
Here we demonstrate a new concept for designing an ultra-sensitive deformed cavity biosensor. Owning to the breaking of rotational symmetry, the field distribution is not uniform along the cavity boundary and results in the dependence of…
We report the realization of a spatial and spectrally tunable air-gap Fabry-Perot type microcavity of high finesse and cubic-wavelength-scale mode volume. These properties are attractive in the fields of opto-mechanics, quantum sensing and…
The generation of ultra-low noise microwave and mmWave in miniaturized, chip-based platforms can transform communication, radar, and sensing systems. Optical frequency division that leverages optical references and optical frequency combs…
Ultrasound imaging of the forearm has demonstrated significant potential for accurate hand gesture classification. Despite this progress, there has been limited focus on developing a stand-alone end- to-end gesture recognition system which…
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