N. Ornelas-Soto, I. Aguilar-Hernández, N. K. Afseth, T. López-Luke, F. F. Contreras‐Torres, J. Wold
{"title":"Ultrasensitive detection of phenolic antioxidants by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy","authors":"N. Ornelas-Soto, I. Aguilar-Hernández, N. K. Afseth, T. López-Luke, F. F. Contreras‐Torres, J. Wold","doi":"10.1117/12.2272054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272054","url":null,"abstract":"Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful surface-sensitive technique to study the vibrational properties of analytes at very low concentrations. In this study, ferulic acid, p-coumaric acid, caffeic acid and sinapic acid were analyzed by SERS using Ag colloids. Analytes were detected up to 2.5x10-9M. For caffeic acid and coumaric acid, this detection limit has been reached for the first time, as well as the SERS analysis of sinapic acid using silver colloids.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"10453 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130429007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MIMO processing based on higher-order Poincaré spheres","authors":"G. Fernandes, N. Muga, A. Pinto","doi":"10.1117/12.2276251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276251","url":null,"abstract":"A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) algorithm based on higher-order Poincaré spheres is demonstrated for space-division multiplexing (SDM) systems. The MIMO algorithm is modulation format agnostic, robust to frequency offset and does not require training sequences. In this approach, the space-multiplexed signal is decomposed in sets of two tributary signals, with each set represented in a higher-order Poincaré sphere. For any arbitrary complex modulation format, the samples of two tributaries can be represented in a given higher-order Poincaré sphere with a symmetry plane. The crosstalk along propagation changes the spatial orientation of this plane and, therefore, it can be compensated by computing and realigning the best fit plane. We show how the transmitted signal can be successfully recovered using this procedure for all possible combinations of tributaries. Moreover, we analyze the convergence speed for the MIMO technique considering several optical-to-noise ratios.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121340850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Mazhukin, V. Mazhukin, A. V. Shapranov, A. V. Shapranov, M. Demin, A. Mazhukin, A. Mazhukin
{"title":"Modeling of dynamics of nanosecond laser ablation in phase explosion regime","authors":"V. Mazhukin, V. Mazhukin, A. V. Shapranov, A. V. Shapranov, M. Demin, A. Mazhukin, A. Mazhukin","doi":"10.1117/12.2271981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271981","url":null,"abstract":"A hydrodynamic model was developed that takes into account the kinetics of heterogeneous phase transitions (melting and evaporation) under the action of pulsed laser radiation on metal targets. With the use of continual and molecular dynamic modeling, the initial stage of the explosive boiling of an Al target under the influence of ns laser radiation was studied. The simulation confirmed the presence of a temperature maximum below the surface of superheated metastable liquid underlying the homogeneous evaporation (phase explosion) of metals.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129866876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Aymerich, A. I. Gómez-Varela, Ezequiel Álvarez, M. Flores-Arias
{"title":"Laser based manufacturing of channels and improvement of their lifetime with sol-gel coatings","authors":"M. Aymerich, A. I. Gómez-Varela, Ezequiel Álvarez, M. Flores-Arias","doi":"10.1117/12.2271778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271778","url":null,"abstract":"A preclinical device that mimics half blood vessel by using laser technologies has been developed. By employing a Nd:YVO4 laser a channel has been manufactured over soda-lime glass. Using a CO2 laser combined with a roller furnace, a thermal treatment has been applied to the channel to enhance its quality. The glass structure was employed as master to replicate the channel in PDMS by soft-lithography. To avoid the deterioration of the PDMS, channels were coated with three different sol-gel coatings compositions. Endothelial cells were cultured over the channels to determine the most suitable surface for cell growing.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130015157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Salas, A. Yebra, A. M. Pozo, C. Lucena, M. M. Pérez
{"title":"Study of photo activation reaction of experimental graphene dental nanocomposites through dynamic laser speckle","authors":"M. Salas, A. Yebra, A. M. Pozo, C. Lucena, M. M. Pérez","doi":"10.1117/12.2272419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272419","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to characterize the photo activation reaction of experimental graphene dental nanocomposites and to compare this reaction between commercial nanocomposite by dynamic laser speckle patterns. One commercial nanocomposite and two experimental graphene nanocomposites were used. LED curing unit was used to produce the photo activation reaction and the speckle patterns were generated by the incident light from the laser diode. These patterns were captured with the CMOS camera; later the speckle correlation was calculated. The photo activation process originates different speckle patterns between the commercial and the experimental graphene nanocomposites; having this less speckle activity.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114322590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Shcherbakov, Adan Omar Arellanes, E. Tepichín Rodríguez, V. Chavushyan
{"title":"An advanced arrangement of the optical spectrograph based on acousto-optical and cross-disperser techniques for astronomical applications","authors":"A. Shcherbakov, Adan Omar Arellanes, E. Tepichín Rodríguez, V. Chavushyan","doi":"10.1117/12.2276366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276366","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a new avenue to creating the optical spectrometer for the Guillermo Haro astrophysical observatory (Mexico), which combines specifically progressed prism spectrometer with modern acousto-optical approach in the frame of a joint instrument. This schematic arrangement includes two principal novelties. First, we exploit recently developed acousto-optical nonlinearity of the two-phonon light scattering in crystals with linear acoustic losses, which admits an additional physical degree of freedom. This effect allows us to use nonlinear acousto-optical effect for linear processing of optical signals in parallel regime within all the visible range. Similar effect is based on the possibility for tuning the frequency of elastic waves and admits the nonlinear apodization improving the dynamic range. Secondly, we are using the cross-disperser technique with acousto-optical processing for the first time to our knowledge. Additionally, the acousto-optical spectrometers can provide almost 100% efficiency in the acousto-optical interaction in the optimized regime. In the case of 4% Mg doped LiNbO3 crystal the absorption edge can be shifted down to 370 nm for limited intensity of incoming light. The observation window of optical spectrometer in that observatory is ~ 9 cm, so that the theoretical estimations of maximal performances for a low-loss LiNbO3-crystal for this optical aperture at 405 nm give the spectral resolution 0.0523 Å, resolving power 77,400, and number of spots 57,500. The illustrative proof-of-principle experiments with available for us 6-cm LiNbO3-crystal have been performed and demonstrated the spectral resolution 0.0782 Å at 405 nm and resolving power 51,790.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116351234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Kalinowski, Ana Paula Gebert de Oliveira Franco, L. Z. Karam
{"title":"Dental resins properties studied by Bragg gratings","authors":"H. Kalinowski, Ana Paula Gebert de Oliveira Franco, L. Z. Karam","doi":"10.1117/12.2275877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275877","url":null,"abstract":"Fibre Bragg sensors are a key device in biomedical research for simultaneous measurement of deformations and temperature. The present study shows results from the characterization of dental resin materials with different composition and applications. The results show that all investigated polymer materials demonstrate a temperature rise within the first few seconds after starting activation procedure. The mode of activation and the material composition influence the polymerization shrinkage values.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116731272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gomes, João C. Costa, R. Alves, N. Silva, A. Guerreiro
{"title":"SPaCe-GEM: solver of the Einstein equations using GPUs under the gravitoelectromagnetic approximation","authors":"M. Gomes, João C. Costa, R. Alves, N. Silva, A. Guerreiro","doi":"10.1117/12.2272069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272069","url":null,"abstract":"Under specific conditions, there is a formal analogy between the fundamental equations of electromagnetism and relativistic gravitation, described by the Einstein field equations of general relativity. In this paper, we report on how we have used this analogy to implement a solver of the Einstein equations adapting algorithms initially developed for electromagnetism, combined with methods of heterogeneous supercomputing, in GPU that can achieve fast computing and exhibit good performance. We also present the results of the simulations used to validate our solver.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116755577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrophotometric characterization of hemozoin as a malaria biomarker","authors":"I. Silva, R. Lima, G. Minas, S. Catarino","doi":"10.1117/12.2270995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2270995","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria is a parasitic disease with more than a billion people worldwide at risk of contraction. The disease is predominantly widespread in regions with precarious healthcare conditions and resources. Despite the several available malaria diagnostic methods, only two are predominantly used in the field in malaria-endemic countries: microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests. In this work, an alternative diagnostic system is proposed, based on optical absorption spectrophotometry. The main objective of this paper is the spectrophotometric study of hemozoin as a malaria biomarker, since it is a sub-product of the malaria infection. The optical absorbance of hemoglobin and hemozoin solutions in purified water was measured in the visible spectrum range using a spectrophotometric setup. The results showed main absorbance peaks at 540 nm and 574 nm for hemoglobin, and at 672 nm for hemozoin. The tests performed in aqueous solutions have shown that both hemoglobin and synthetic hemozoin, when alone in solution, were detected by absorbance, with sensitivity of 0.05 g/L, and with a high linearity (R2> 0.92 for all wavelength peaks). Furthermore, it was found that the whole blood and the hemoglobin spectra have similar absorption peaks. By combining whole blood and synthetic hemozoin solutions, it was proved that both the hemozoin and the hemoglobin absorbance peaks could still be detected by spectrophotometry. For instance, in polydimethylsiloxane wells, the proposed method was able to detect hemozoin in whole blood samples for optical paths as low as 3 mm in cylindrical wells, thus proving the capability for this method’s miniaturization. With this work, it is possible to conclude that hemozoin is a viable candidate as a biomarker for malaria detection by optical absorption spectrophotometry and also, that an autonomous, fully integrated and low cost miniaturized system, based on such a principle, could provide an efficient diagnosis of malaria.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114672588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying tunability of some NIR semiconductor lasers by external cavity setup","authors":"M. A. Bani, M. Nazeri, Hamed Abbasi","doi":"10.1117/12.2272170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272170","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, tunability of three near-infrared semiconductor lasers which typically lase at 808 nm, 892 nm and 980 nm is studied. Both Littrow (wavelength dependent beam direction setup) and Littman (wavelength independent beam direction setup) configurations have been used. The wavelength and the power of the output beam of the laser have been measured. In all three cases, Littrow configuration shows a little better tuning range. In both Littrow and Littman configurations the wavelengths near the main wavelength of the laser had more power. The highest achieved power of these lasers in the Littrow setup was more than that of the Littman setup.","PeriodicalId":150522,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Optics and Photonics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128229604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}