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Sabrina Hartmann, Jens Jenewein, Enno Giese, Sven Abend + 3 more
'Albert Roura' 'Ernst M. Rasel' 'Wolfgang P. Schleich'] We provide a comprehensive study of atomic Raman and Bragg diffraction when coupling to a pair of counterpropagating light gratings (double diffraction) or to a single one (single diffraction) and discuss the transition from one case to the other in a…
Agnieszka Siemion
Diffractive optical elements are well known for being not only flat but also lightweight, and are characterised by low attenuation. In different spectral ranges, they provide better efficiency than commonly used refractive lenses. An overview of the recently invented terahertz optical structures based on diffraction…
Jiafan Guan, Zhipeng Dong, Xianyue Deng, Yuzuru Takashima + 2 more
'Jonathan B. Hopkins' 'Robert M. Panas'] Phase light modulator (PLM) by MEMS mirror array operating in a piston-mode motion enables a high-speed diffractive beam steering in a random-access and flexible manner that makes a lidar system more intelligent and adaptive. Diffraction efficiency is determined by the range of…
Haoxiang Jiang, Jingfeng Liu, Gengyan Chen, Xue-Hua Wang
The diffraction spectra of imaginary-part photonic crystal (IPPC) slabs are analyzed using the scattering-matrix method. By investigating the thickness dependence of the diffraction, we find a remarkable red shift of central wavelength of the diffraction spectrum, which obviously distinguishes from the phenomenon of…
Ye Wang, Yongyi Chen, Li Qin, Lijun Wang + 1 more
Since surface relief transmission gratings have very strict requirements on operators and use environment, according to the semiconductor laser external cavity spectral beam combining system, this paper proposes a design scheme for a semiconductor laser array spectral beam combining system based on the grating-external…
Zhexin Zhao, Yun‐Han Lee, Xiayu Feng, Michael J. Escuti + 2 more
'Barry Silverstein'] Abstract: Considerable efforts have been devoted into augmented reality (AR) displays to enable the immersive user experience in the wearable glasses form factor. Transparent waveguide combiners offer a compact solution to guide light from the microdisplay to the front of eyes while maintaining the…
Elisa Bonnini, Elisa Buffagni, Andrea Zappettini, Stephen Doyle + 1 more
'Claudio Ferrari'] It is demonstrated that crystals with curved diffracting planes made of relatively light elements, such as silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide, in the Laue diffraction geometry and in an energy range between 60 and 600 keV can reach a higher diffraction efficiency than more dense mosaic crystals…
Howe, Leslie, Rajapaksha, Tharindu D. + 16 more
The emergence of planar meta-lenses on flexible materials has profoundly impacted the long-standing perception of diffractive optics. Despite their advantages, these lenses still face challenges in design and fabrication to obtain high focusing efficiency and resolving power. A nanofabrication technique is demonstrated…
Xingang Dai, Yanjun Hu, Bowen Niu, Qun Dai + 6 more
Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are specialized optical components that manipulate light through diffraction for various applications, including holography, spectroscopy, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), and light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The performance of DOEs is highly determined by…
S. L. S. Storm, D. Axford, R. L. Owen
X-ray induced radiation damage is a limiting factor for the macromolecular crystallographer and data must often be merged from many crystals to yield complete datasets for structure solution of challenging samples. Increasing the X-ray energy beyond the typical 10-15 keV range promises to provide an extension of…
R. Casini, Peter G. Nelson
We derive from first principles the expression for the angular/wavelength distribution of the intensity diffracted by a blazed reflective grating, according to a scalar theory of diffraction. We considered the most common case of a groove profile with rectangular apex. Our derivation correctly identifies the geometric…
Micheal McLamb, Yanzeng Li, Serang Park, Marc Lata + 1 more
—A theoretical approach for uniformly extracting light propagating through a light guide plate is developed here. Typically, liquid crystal display modalities utilize a backlit lighting system illuminated from the edge with light emitting diodes. The backlight acts as a light guide plate and is coupled with a diffuser…
Taylor S. Chonis, Gary J. Hill, J. C. Clemens, B. H. Dunlap + 1 more
'Hanshin Lee'] The Visible Integral field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) is an array of at least 150 copies of a simple, fiber-fed integral field spectrograph that will be deployed on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) to carry out the HET Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). Each spectrograph contains a volume phase…
Stefano Marchesini, Anne Sakdinawat
Diffractive lenses fabricated by lithographic methods are one of the most popular image forming optics in the x-ray regime. Most commonly, binary diffractive optics, such as Fresnel zone plates are used due to their ability to focus at high resolution and to manipulate the x-ray wavefront. We report here a binary zone…
Shomik Verma, Daniel Farrell, Rachel Evans
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are a promising technology to help integrate solar cells into the built environment, as they are colorful, semi-transparent, and can collect diffuse light. While LSCs have traditionally been cuboidal, in recent years a variety of unconventional geometries have arisen, for example…
Ian Khaw, Benjamin Croop, Jialei Tang, Anna Möehl + 2 more
The uneven illumination of a Gaussian profile makes quantitative analysis highly challenging in laser-based wide-field fluorescence microscopy. Here we present flat-field illumination (FFI) where the Gaussian beam is reshaped into a uniform flat-top profile using a high-precision refractive optical component. The long…
Stephanie Tenney, Lauren Tan, Xuanheng Tan, Mikayla Sonnleitner + 6 more
Large area absorbers with localized defect emission are of interest for energy concentration via the antenna effect. Transfer between 2D and 0D quantum-confined structures is advantageous as it affords maximal lateral area antennas with continuously tunable emission. We report the quantum efficiency of energy transfer…
Stefan Diesing, Le Zhang, Eli Zysman-Colman, Ifor Samuel
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are a revolutionary self-emitting display technology that has been successfully commercialized in mobile phones and TVs. The injected charges form both singlet and triplet excitons, and for high efficiency it is important to enable dark triplets to emit light. Currently materials…
Thomas D. Schneider
Unlike the Carnot heat engine efficiency published in 1824, an isothermal efficiency derived from thermodynamics and information theory can be applied to biological systems. The original approach by Pierce and Cutler in 1959 to derive the isothermal efficiency equation came from Shannon’s channel capacity of 1949 and…
Antonino Ingargiola
Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) experiments can detect the distance between a donor and an acceptor fluorophore on the 3-10nm scale. In ratiometric smFRET experiments, the FRET efficiency is estimated from the ratio of acceptor and total signal (donor + acceptor). An excitation scheme…
Anna Archetti, Matteo Bruzzone, Giulia Tagliabue, Marco dal Maschio
Bessel Beams (BBs) and BB lattices are structured-light excitation profiles frequently applied in material processing, nonlinear spectroscopy and in many fluorescence microscopy methods such as Light Sheet Microscopy (LSM). In LSM, BBs and BB-lattices offer wider excitation profiles, higher acquisition rate, enhanced…