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Brillouin spectroscopy is a powerful optical technique for viscoelastic characterization of samples without contact. However, like all optical systems, Brillouin spectroscopy performances are degraded by optical aberrations, and have…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-09 Eitan Edrei , Giuliano Scarcelli

Confocal Brillouin microscopy enables high-resolution mechanical imaging but has low acquisition speed, partly due to its pixel-by-pixel mapping strategy. Line-scanning Brillouin microscopy (LSBM) significantly improves imaging speed by…

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Spontaneous Brillouin scattering (SpBS) provides a non-contact tool for probing the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of materials, enabling important applications such as distributed optical fiber sensing and high-resolution…

Brillouin microscopy is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique for imaging the mechanical properties of biological specimens in a label-free, non-contact manner. We present a standardized file format and open-source tools to facilitate…

Mid-InfraRed spectroscopy is a promising label-free technique that can offer insights into morphological and pathological alterations in biological tissues at the molecular level. Owing to the development of the Fourier Transform InfraRed…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Xiangyu Zhao , Yudong Tian , Jingzhu Shao , Chongzhao Wu

Hyperspectral imaging systems based on multiple-beam interference (MBI), such as Fabry-Perot interferometry, are attracting interest due to their compact design, high throughput, and fine resolution. Unlike dispersive devices, which measure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Mohamad Jouni , Daniele Picone , Mauro Dalla Mura

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is revolutionizing low-noise lasers and microwave photonic systems. However, despite extensive explorations of a low-loss and versatile integrated platform for Brillouin photonic circuits, current…

We observe an interference pattern using a simple fiber-optic interferometer consisting of an electrical spectrum analyzer and a narrowband light source, which is commonly employed for observing the Brillouin gain spectrum. This…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Neisei Hayashi , Kentaro Nakamura

Brillouin spectroscopy emerges as a promising non-invasive tool for nanoscale imaging and sensing. One-dimensional semiconductor superlattice structures are eminently used for selectively enhancing the generation or detection of phonons at…

We present an all-fiber, fully open Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) cavity that is suitable for fluidic measurement applications. Fabrication of the FPI involves the alignment and bonding of three optical fiber sections using either…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 Dewen Duan , Qian Kang , Qianhui Yang , Zihao Zhao , Na Li , Guan-Xiang Du , Yi-Yuan Xie

Brillouin Light Scattering is a powerful technique to measure the microwave excitations present in a magnetic system. In microfocused mode, the light is focused on the sample using a microscope objective. This accelerates substantially the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Nessrine Benaziz , Thibaut Devolder , Jean-Paul Adam

Generating ultra-low linewidths and high output power in an integrated single mode laser remains a critical challenge for future compact, portable, precision applications. Moreso, achieving these characteristics in a laser design that…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-06 Kaikai Liu , Karl D. Nelson , Ryan O. Behunin , Daniel J. Blumenthal

Stimulated Brillouin microlasers offer chip-scale light sources with high spectral purity and low phase noise--key attributes for applications spanning precision metrology, quantum technologies, and coherent information processing. However,…

Brillouin microscopy is an emerging label-free imaging technique to assess local viscoelastic properties. Quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering is demonstrated for the first time using low power continuous-wave lasers at 795~nm.…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-16 Tian Li , Fu Li , Xinghua Liu , Vladislav V. Yakovlev , Girish S. Agarwal

We describe the recent modifications to the data reduction technique for observations acquired with the scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) mounted on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory that allow the…

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We present a new optical arrangement which allows to avoid the broadening by finite aperture in Brillouin spectroscopy. In this system, all the rays scattered at the same angle by the whole scattering volume are collected on a single pixel…

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Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a pivotal computational imaging technique that achieves phase and amplitude reconstruction with high resolution and wide field of view, using low numerical aperture objectives and LED array…

Sensing with undetected photons has become a vibrant, application-driven research domain with a special focus on the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region. Since the mid-IR contains spectral bands with highly specific and strong molecular…

We present a novel implementation for extremely high resolution spectroscopy using custom-designed Fabry Perot Interferometer (FPI) arrays. For a given telescope aperture at the seeing limited case, these arrays can achieve resolutions well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Sagi Ben-Ami , Mercedes López-Morales , Juliana Garcia-Mejia , Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad , Andrew Szentgyorgyi

The back-linked Fabry-Perot interferometer (BLFPI) is an interferometer topology proposed for space gravitational wave antennas with the use of inter-satellite Fabry-Perot interferometers. The BLFPI offers simultaneous and independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Ryosuke Sugimoto , Yusuke Okuma , Koji Nagano , Kentaro Komori , Kiwamu Izumi