{"title":"Accuracy evaluation of calibration methods for large field of view stereo-DIC","authors":"Kang Wei, Xinxing Shao, Xiaoyuan He","doi":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113298","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113298","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, numerous techniques and methods for large field-of-view (FOV) camera calibration have been proposed for applications in aerospace and civil engineering. However, it remains challenging to delve into the specifics of a calibration method and compare its accuracy with that of other methods. This study comprehensively examined five representative large-FOV calibration methods and analyzed their differences in calibration parameters, epipolar distance, reprojection error, three-dimensional coordinate error, and displacement measurement error. Additionally, it focuses on evaluating the accuracy of the camera’s intrinsic parameters across several calibration methods and discusses the impact of two types of corresponding points used for extrinsic parameter calculation. The paper concludes by summarizing the key findings in large-FOV calibration and presenting the advantages and disadvantages of the selected methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19511,"journal":{"name":"Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 113298"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144205065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konstantin B. Yushkov , Alexander I. Chizhikov , Victoria S. Shcherbakova , Vladimir Ya. Molchanov , Vladislav N. Ginzburg , Sergey E. Stukachev , Andrey A. Shaykin , Ivan V. Yakovlev , Efim A. Khazanov
{"title":"Dispersive Fourier synthesis: universal method and MATLAB tool for acousto-optic arbitrary femtosecond laser pulse shaping","authors":"Konstantin B. Yushkov , Alexander I. Chizhikov , Victoria S. Shcherbakova , Vladimir Ya. Molchanov , Vladislav N. Ginzburg , Sergey E. Stukachev , Andrey A. Shaykin , Ivan V. Yakovlev , Efim A. Khazanov","doi":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Femtosecond pulse shaping is a variety of experimental methods for manipulating temporal profile of ultrashort laser pulses. One of common tools for pulse shaping is acousto-optic programmable Bragg gratings. We describe the Dispersive Fourier Synthesis algorithm for generating arbitrary transmission functions of acousto-optic programmable dispersive filters and delay lines used therein. The algorithm performs computation of radio-frequency waveforms providing arbitrary complex-valued transmission functions for the said devices. An open-source MATLAB script was developed based on this algorithm taking into account the ease of use of a commercial radio-frequency driver. The experiments include full validation of the algorithm: calibration of frequency-to-wavelength mapping, determination of optimal driving power, and closed-loop femtosecond pulse compression in the front-end of the PEARL (PEtawatt pARametric Laser) facility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19511,"journal":{"name":"Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 113263"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144205371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Teller, Susana Plascencia, Cristina Sastre Jachimska, Samuele Grandi, Hugues de Riedmatten
{"title":"A solid-state temporally multiplexed quantum memory array at the single-photon level","authors":"Markus Teller, Susana Plascencia, Cristina Sastre Jachimska, Samuele Grandi, Hugues de Riedmatten","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-01042-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-01042-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The exploitation of multimodality in different degrees of freedom is one of the most promising ways to increase the rate of heralded entanglement between distant quantum nodes. In this paper, we realize a spatially-multiplexed solid-state quantum memory array with ten individually controllable spin-wave memory cells featuring on-demand read-out and temporal multiplexing. By combining spatial and temporal multiplexing, we store weak coherent pulses at the single-photon level in up to 250 spatio-temporal modes, with an average signal-to-noise ratio of 10(2). We perform a thorough characterization of the whole system, including its multiplexing and demultiplexing stage. We verify that the memory array exhibits low cross-talk even at the single-photon level. The measured performance indicates readiness for storing non-classical states and promises a speed-up in entanglement distribution rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of pulse frequency on the structure and properties of TC11 alloy prepared by laser additive manufacturing","authors":"Chunlun Chen, Zhenlin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Jinghao Zhuang, Yongsheng Zhao, Yan Liu, Shuangquan Guo, Hui Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113304","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113304","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Compared with continuous wave laser, pulsed laser causes the melt pool temperature and melt motion to show periodic changes, which is conducive to obtaining finer microstructures. In this paper, TC11 titanium alloy was prepared by pulsed laser direct energy deposition (P-LDED) to improve its microstructure and tensile properties. The results show that the grain size of the pulsed laser deposited samples is significantly reduced from 3.46 μm in the samples deposited by continuous laser direct energy deposition (C-LDED) to 2.64 μm in the samples deposited by low-frequency P-LDED, and the coefficient of variation is reduced from 0.41 to 0.34. In addition, compared with the TC11 alloy deposited by C-LDED, the low-frequency pulsed laser significantly enhanced its tensile strength with an average tensile strength of 1229.2, which is a 10.1 % improvement, but the elongation decreased. Interestingly, compared to the low-frequency pulsed laser, the TC11 prepared by the high-frequency P-LDED showed a slight decrease in tensile strength but an increase in elongation of 28.3 %.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19511,"journal":{"name":"Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 113304"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lili Geng , Meichen Wu , Jiayi Guo , Junhao Wan , Fanya Jin , Zhaotan Jiang , Zhi Wang
{"title":"Structural and mechanical properties of titanium nitride films modulated by assisting ions","authors":"Lili Geng , Meichen Wu , Jiayi Guo , Junhao Wan , Fanya Jin , Zhaotan Jiang , Zhi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165756","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metal nitride superhard coating is an important way to protect metallic materials from wear and corrosion. In this work, series of TiN<em><sub>x</sub></em> films were prepared by dual ion beam deposition, in which ion-sputtered particles were bombarded by low energy assisting ions on substrates. The crystal structure and mechanical properties of the films deposited by assisting ion energy <em>E<sub>a</sub></em> and current density <em>J<sub>a</sub></em> were studied. The films exhibit fcc-(111) optimal alignment. Assisting ion bombardment can further enhance the crystallinity of the films. Assisting ions can also promote the performances of the hardness, elastic modulus, critical load and wear resistance of the films to a significant extend. The results show that assisting ion beam is a promising technique to fabricate and modulate the properties of superhard nitride coatings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"566 ","pages":"Article 165756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144213249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LiTaO3 versus LiNbO3 as optical-to-terahertz converter","authors":"S.B. Bodrov , M.V. Sarafanova , A.I. Shugurov , M.I. Bakunov","doi":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113259","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113259","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A potential of LiTaO<sub>3</sub> for nonlinearly converting ultrashort laser pulses to terahertz transients is experimentally evaluated in comparison with the widely studied isomorphic LiNbO<sub>3</sub>. The experiments were carried out with pump laser pulses of submillijoule energy at two wavelengths of 800 and 1030 nm. Contrary to the common assumption that wider bandgap of LiTaO<sub>3</sub> makes it advantageous over LiNbO<sub>3</sub> for a pump of 800 nm wavelength, a <span><math><mo>∼</mo></math></span>1.5 times lower conversion efficiency was observed for LiTaO<sub>3</sub>. This observation supports recent unexpected finding that three-photon absorption coefficient at the wavelength of 800 nm is higher in LiTaO<sub>3</sub> than in LiNbO<sub>3</sub>. For 1030 nm pump wavelength, the conversion efficiency was <span><math><mo>∼</mo></math></span>2–3 times (depending on the pump power) lower for LiTaO<sub>3</sub> than for LiNbO<sub>3</sub>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19511,"journal":{"name":"Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 113259"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144204720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunable Optimally-Coded Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging for Scene Adaptation (Laser Photonics Rev. 19(10)/2025)","authors":"Chong Zhang, Wenjing Liu, Juntao Li, Siqi Li, Lizhi Wang, Hua Huang, Yuanjin Zheng, Yongtian Wang, Jinli Suo, Weitao Song","doi":"10.1002/lpor.202570044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202570044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Tunable Optimally Coded Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging</b></p><p>The cover feature highlights the principles and capabilities of the tunable optimally coded snapshot hyperspectral imaging (TOSHI) system. By leveraging the refreshability of the LCoS-SLM, TOSHI dynamically optimizes optical encoding and software decoding based on scene data, enhancing spectral and spatial reconstruction accuracy. This image demonstrates its effectiveness in adaptive hyperspectral imaging across various lighting conditions and complex scenes. Integrating hardware encoding with deep learning-based reconstruction, TOSHI advances computational hyperspectral imaging for scientific and industrial applications. For more details, see article 2401921 by Weitao Song and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":204,"journal":{"name":"Laser & Photonics Reviews","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lpor.202570044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
QuantumPub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.22331/q-2025-06-04-1763
Victor Gonzalez Avella, Jakub Czartowski, Dardo Goyeneche, Karol Życzkowski
{"title":"Cyclic measurements and simplified quantum state tomography","authors":"Victor Gonzalez Avella, Jakub Czartowski, Dardo Goyeneche, Karol Życzkowski","doi":"10.22331/q-2025-06-04-1763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-06-04-1763","url":null,"abstract":"Tomographic reconstruction of quantum states plays a fundamental role in benchmarking quantum systems and accessing information encoded in quantum-mechanical systems. Among the informationally complete sets of quantum measurements, the tight ones provide a linear reconstruction formula and minimize the propagation of statistical errors. However, implementing tight measurements in the lab is challenging due to the high number of required measurement projections, involving a series of experimental setup preparations. In this work, we introduce the notion of cyclic tight measurements, which allow us to perform full quantum state tomography while considering only repeated application of a single unitary-based quantum device during the measurement stage. This type of measurement significantly simplifies the complexity of the experimental setup required to retrieve the quantum state of a physical system. Additionally, we design a feasible setup preparation procedure that produces well-approximated cyclic tight measurements in every finite dimension.","PeriodicalId":20807,"journal":{"name":"Quantum","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01693-2
Mahendran Vellaichamy, Uroš Jagodič, Jaka Pišljar, Jaka Zaplotnik, Urban Mur, Andreja Jelen, Andriy Nych, Deepshika Malkar, Anna V. Ryzhkova, Miha Škarabot, Miha Ravnik, Igor Muševič
{"title":"Microscale generation and control of nanosecond light by light in a liquid crystal","authors":"Mahendran Vellaichamy, Uroš Jagodič, Jaka Pišljar, Jaka Zaplotnik, Urban Mur, Andreja Jelen, Andriy Nych, Deepshika Malkar, Anna V. Ryzhkova, Miha Škarabot, Miha Ravnik, Igor Muševič","doi":"10.1038/s41566-025-01693-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01693-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The softness of liquid crystals, their anisotropic material properties, their strong response to external fields and their ability to align on patterned surfaces makes them unsurpassable for a number of photonic applications, such as flat-panel displays, light modulators, tunable filters, entangled photon light sources, lasers and many others. However, the microscale integration of liquid crystals into microphotonic devices that not only perform like silicon photonic chips but also use less energy, operate exclusively on light, are biocompatible and can self-assemble has not been explored. Here we demonstrate a soft-matter photonic chip that integrates tunable liquid-crystal microlasers and laser microprinted polymer waveguides. We demonstrate the control of the liquid crystal’s microlaser emission by nanosecond optical pulses and introduce the concept of resonant stimulated-emission depletion to switch the light by light. This opens a way to design an entirely new class of photonic integrated devices that can be made both biodegradable and biocompatible with a rich variety of applications in medicine, wearable photonics and logic circuits. We anticipate that soft-matter photonic circuits will not only outperform solid-state photonics in terms of a huge reduction in the number of production steps, the use of non-toxic chemicals and a better energy efficiency, but also could open an avenue to the paradigm of soft-matter photonics.</p>","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":35.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144201525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02565-z
L. Sun, S. Gu, X. Wang, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. Ioannidis, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, J. Dou, G. Zhao
{"title":"A temperate 10-Earth-mass exoplanet around the Sun-like star Kepler-725","authors":"L. Sun, S. Gu, X. Wang, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. Ioannidis, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, J. Dou, G. Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02565-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02565-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The detection of low-mass exoplanets (≤10 Earth masses (<i>M</i><sub><span>⊕</span></sub>)) yields fundamental inputs for current theories of planet formation and evolution, and supplies critical information for the planned direct-imaging missions that aim to detect and characterize Earth-like planets in the habitable zones around solar-like stars. However, the most efficient detection techniques available for low-mass exoplanets (that is, photometric transit and radial velocity methods) are heavily biased towards the detection of short-period planets (for example, ≤100 days) and strongly favour late-type stars. Here we report the discovery of Kepler-725 c, a 10 ± 3 <i>M</i><sub><span>⊕</span></sub> exoplanet within the habitable zone of the late G-type dwarf Kepler-725. Through analysis of the transit timing variations of the relatively short-period (39.64 days) warm Jupiter Kepler-725 b, we find that Kepler-725 c has a period of 207.5 days and travels in an eccentric orbit (with an eccentricity of 0.44 ± 0.02 and an orbital semi-major axis of 0.674 ± 0.002 au), receiving a time-averaged insolation of 1.4 times the Earth’s value. This discovery demonstrates that the transit timing variation method enables the detection and accurate mass measurement of a super-Earth/mini-Neptune within a solar-like star’s habitable zone. Similar searches for such exoplanets could be conducted in other exoplanetary systems in the era of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission and upcoming PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars and Earth 2.0 missions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144202116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}