Publications related to Airy disk

Femtosecond-laser direct-write photoconductive patterns on tellurite glass

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun, Anastasia Romashkina

We report the formation of arbitrary photoconductive patterns made of tellurium (Te) nanocrystals by exposing a tellurite (TeO2-based) glass to femtosecond laser pulses. During this process, Te/TeO2-glass nanocomposite interfaces with photoconductive prope ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Image scanning microscopy with a doughnut beam: signal strength and integrated intensity

Giorgio Tortarolo

We discuss the effects of image scanning microscopy using doughnut beam illumination on the properties of signal strength and integrated intensity. Doughnut beam illumination can give better optical sectioning and background rejection than Airy disk illumi ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Impact of the turbulence wavenumber spectrum and probing beam geometry on Doppler reflectometry perpendicular velocity measurements

Frank Nüesch, Anita Frank

The perpendicular propagation velocity of turbulent density fluctuations is an important parameter in fusion plasmas, since sheared plasma flows are crucial for reducing turbulence, and thus an essential input parameter for turbulent transport simulations. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Paul Mos, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne, Arin Can Ülkü

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical refocusin ...

2021

Near-field phase profile and far-field contrast modulation for micro-lens arrays at the refraction limit

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi, Daniel Necesal

We investigate the far-field pattern generation for a micro-lens array (MLA) illuminated under different conditions. Plane wave and Gaussian beam illumination are considered for an MLA with a small diameter of 27 microns and 30 microns period. At these dim ...

2020

Koehler integrator device and application thereof in a multi-focal confocal microscope

Suliana Manley, Kyle Michael Douglass, Dora Mahecic

A Koehler integrator device (10) comprises a collimating lens (11) being arranged for collimating a light field created by an incoherent or partially coherent light source, a pair of planar first and second micro-lens arrays (12, 13) being arranged for rel ...

2020

High-throughput and adaptive super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of organelles

Dora Mahecic

Fluorescence super-resolution microscopy has allowed unprecedented insight into the workings of biological systems below the diffraction limit of light. Over the past decade, it has overcome several challenges to deliver 3D, multi-color and faster imaging ...

EPFL2020

Are Photonic Nanojets Achromatic?

Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim, Michail Symeonidis

In this work we study the evolution of the photonic nanojet (PNJ) phenomenon as the ratio of the sphere's diameter over the illumination wavelength changes, for microspheres with diameters from 2 mu m to 100 mu m. We measure the focal point position by usi ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

1.55-mu m wavelength wafer-fused OP-VECSELs in flip-chip configuration

Elyahou Kapon, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Pascal Gallo

Optically-pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs) based on flip-chip gain mirrors emitting at the 1.55-mu m wavelength range are reported. The gain mirrors employ wafer-fused InAlGaAs/InP quantum well heterostructures and GaAs/AlA ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Flip-Chip Wafer-Fused OP-VECSELs Emitting 3.65 W at the 1.55-mu m Waveband

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Pascal Gallo

Optically pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs) based on flip-chip gain mirrors emitting at the 1.55 mu m wavelength range are reported. The gain mirrors employ wafer-fused InAlGaAs/InP quantum well heterostructures and GaAs/AlA ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Simulation of microoptics under inhomogeneous illumination: Sinusoidal Phase Grating under Gaussian Beam Illumination

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

Far field pattern generation is investigated for thick sinusoidal phase grating under a Gaussian beam illumination to obtain a high field of view. We compare the Fraunhofer approximation with the High-NA propagator and demonstrate that the Fraunhofer appro ...

IEEE2019

Diffractive Optical Elements Investigation in the Phase Domain

Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim, Dong Cheon Kim, Michail Symeonidis

In this work we demonstrate the advantages of investigating diffractive optical elements in the phase domain. In this regime we can detect features that are not restrained by the diffraction limit and relate them to the geometrical and optical properties o ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Sub-millisecond electron density profile measurement at the JET tokamak with the fast lithium beam emission spectroscopy system

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, , , , , , , , ,

Light fields behind microstructures: study of the Babinet-principle in the Fresnel regime

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim, Krishnaparvathy Puthankovilakam

The Babinet’s principle is a general theorem that holds for electromagnetic waves and is often applied to diffraction of light. Diffraction pattern of a body and that of the complement body are compared and the sum of both radiation patterns must be the sa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy for extended focus optical coherence microscopy

Theo Lasser, Paul James Marchand, Arno Pino Bouwens, Jérôme Extermann, Séverine Coquoz

Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) is an interferometric technique providing 3D images of biological samples with micrometric resolution and penetration depth of several hundreds of micrometers. OCM differs from optical coherence tomography (OCT) in that i ...

2017

Flat lensless phase imager

Christophe Moser, Manon Rostykus

Lensless imaging refers to an imaging technique which requires no imaging element between the light transmitted by the sample and the camera. This configuration enables designing compact devices. In the visible range, it is mainly investigated for microsco ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Digital confocal microscopy through a multimode fiber

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Salma Farahi, Alexandre Goy

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, it suffers from ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

A microfluidic flow-cell for the study of the ultrafast dynamics of biological systems

Majed Chergui, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet

The study of biochemical dynamics by ultrafast spectroscopic methods is often restricted by the limited amount of liquid sample available, while the high repetition rate of light sources can induce photodamage. In order to overcome these limitations, we de ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Confocal polarization imaging in high-numerical-aperture space

Carlos Alberto Macias Romero

In this work we describe theoretical and experimental physical aspects of high-resolution imaging polarimetry and its application to polarization-multiplexed encoding. We theoretically demonstrate that it is possible to resolve the orientation of two fixed ...

Optical Soc Amer2014