PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00127-6
Suyi Zhong, Liang Qiao, Xichuan Ge, Xinzhu Xu, Yuzhe Fu, Shu Gao, Karl Zhanghao, Huiwen Hao, Wenyi Wang, Meiqi Li, Peng Xi
{"title":"Three-dimensional dipole orientation mapping with high temporal-spatial resolution using polarization modulation","authors":"Suyi Zhong, Liang Qiao, Xichuan Ge, Xinzhu Xu, Yuzhe Fu, Shu Gao, Karl Zhanghao, Huiwen Hao, Wenyi Wang, Meiqi Li, Peng Xi","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00127-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00127-6","url":null,"abstract":"Fluorescence polarization microscopy is widely used in biology for molecular orientation properties. However, due to the limited temporal resolution of single-molecule orientation localization microscopy and the limited orientation dimension of polarization modulation techniques, achieving simultaneous high temporal-spatial resolution mapping of the three-dimensional (3D) orientation of fluorescent dipoles remains an outstanding problem. Here, we present a super-resolution 3D orientation mapping (3DOM) microscope that resolves 3D orientation by extracting phase information of the six polarization modulation components in reciprocal space. 3DOM achieves an azimuthal precision of 2° and a polar precision of 3° with spatial resolution of up to 128 nm in the experiments. We validate that 3DOM not only reveals the heterogeneity of the milk fat globule membrane, but also elucidates the 3D structure of biological filaments, including the 3D spatial conformation of λ-DNA and the structural disorder of actin filaments. Furthermore, 3DOM images the dipole dynamics of microtubules labeled with green fluorescent protein in live U2OS cells, reporting dynamic 3D orientation variations. Given its easy integration into existing wide-field microscopes, we expect the 3DOM microscope to provide a multi-view versatile strategy for investigating molecular structure and dynamics in biological macromolecules across multiple spatial and temporal scales.","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140603412","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}
PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00128-5
Changhong Dai, Tong Liu, Dongyi Wang, Lei Zhou
{"title":"Multiplexing near- and far-field functionalities with high-efficiency bi-channel metasurfaces","authors":"Changhong Dai, Tong Liu, Dongyi Wang, Lei Zhou","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00128-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00128-5","url":null,"abstract":"Propagating waves and surface waves are two distinct types of light-transporting modes, the free control of which are both highly desired in integration photonics. However, previously realized devices are bulky in sizes, inefficient, and/or can only achieve one type of light-manipulation functionality with a single device. Here, we propose a generic approach to design bi-channel meta-devices, constructed by carefully selected meta-atoms possessing reflection phases of both structural-resonance and geometric origins, which can exhibit two distinct light-manipulation functionalities in near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) channels, respectively. After characterizing the scattering properties of basic meta-atoms and briefly stating the theoretical strategy, we design/fabricate three different meta-devices and experimentally characterize their bi-channel wave-control functionalities in the telecom regime. Our experiments show that the first two devices can multiplex the generations of NF and FF optical vortices with different topological charges, while the third one exhibits anomalous surface plasmon polariton focusing in the NF and hologram formation in the FF simultaneously. Our results expand the wave-control functionalities of metasurfaces to all wave-transporting channels, which may inspire many exciting applications in integration optics.","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140586593","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":"Ultra-wideband terahertz fingerprint enhancement sensing and inversion model supported by single-pixel reconfigurable graphene metasurface","authors":"Bingwei Liu, Yan Peng, YuFan Hao, Yiming Zhu, Shengjiang Chang, Songlin Zhuang","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00129-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00129-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The molecular fingerprint sensing technology based on metasurface has unique attraction in the biomedical field. However, in the terahertz (THz) band, existing metasurface designs based on multi-pixel or angle multiplexing usually require more analyte amount or possess a narrower tuning bandwidth. Here, we propose a novel single-pixel graphene metasurface. Based on the synchronous voltage tuning, this metasurface enables ultra-wideband (<span>(sim)</span> 1.5 THz) fingerprint enhancement sensing of trace analytes, including chiral optical isomers, with a limit of detection (LoD) ≤ 0.64 μg/mm<sup>2</sup>. The enhancement of the fingerprint signal (<span>(sim)</span> 17.4 dB) originates from the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect excited by the metasurface, and the ideal overlap between the light field constrained by single-layer graphene (SLG) and ultra-thin analyte. Meanwhile, due to the unique nonlinear enhancement mechanism in graphene tuning, the absorption envelope distortion is inevitable. To solve this problem, a universal fingerprint spectrum inversion model is developed for the first time, and the restoration of standard fingerprints reaches R<sub>max</sub><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0.99. In addition, the asynchronous voltage tuning of the metasurface provides an opportunity for realizing the dynamic reconfiguration of EIT resonance and the slow light modulation in the broadband range. This work builds a bridge for ultra-wideband THz fingerprint sensing of trace analytes, and has potential applications in active spatial light modulators, slow light devices and dynamic imaging equipments.</p>","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140582007","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}
PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00123-w
Zachary N. Coker, Maria Troyanova-Wood, Zachary A. Steelman, Bennett L. Ibey, Joel N. Bixler, Marlan O. Scully, Vladislav V. Yakovlev
{"title":"Brillouin microscopy monitors rapid responses in subcellular compartments","authors":"Zachary N. Coker, Maria Troyanova-Wood, Zachary A. Steelman, Bennett L. Ibey, Joel N. Bixler, Marlan O. Scully, Vladislav V. Yakovlev","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00123-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00123-w","url":null,"abstract":"Measurements and imaging of the mechanical response of biological cells are critical for understanding the mechanisms of many diseases, and for fundamental studies of energy, signal and force transduction. The recent emergence of Brillouin microscopy as a powerful non-contact, label-free way to non-invasively and non-destructively assess local viscoelastic properties provides an opportunity to expand the scope of biomechanical research to the sub-cellular level. Brillouin spectroscopy has recently been validated through static measurements of cell viscoelastic properties, however, fast (sub-second) measurements of sub-cellular cytomechanical changes have yet to be reported. In this report, we utilize a custom multimodal spectroscopy system to monitor for the very first time the rapid viscoelastic response of cells and subcellular structures to a short-duration electrical impulse. The cytomechanical response of three subcellular structures - cytoplasm, nucleoplasm, and nucleoli - were monitored, showing distinct mechanical changes despite an identical stimulus. Through this pioneering transformative study, we demonstrate the capability of Brillouin spectroscopy to measure rapid, real-time biomechanical changes within distinct subcellular compartments. Our results support the promising future of Brillouin spectroscopy within the broad scope of cellular biomechanics.","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140586592","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":"Three-channel robust optical encryption via engineering coherence Stokes vector of partially coherent light","authors":"Yonglei Liu, Zhen Dong, Yimeng Zhu, Haiyun Wang, Fei Wang, Yahong Chen, Yangjian Cai","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00126-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00126-7","url":null,"abstract":"Optical encryption strategies utilizing fully coherent light have been widely explored but often face challenges such as speckle noise and beam instabilities. In this work, we introduce a novel protocol for multi-channel optical information encoding and encryption using vectorial spatial coherence engineering of a partially coherent light beam. By characterizing the beam’s spatial coherence structure with a $$2 times 2$$ coherence matrix, we demonstrate independent control over the three components of the coherence Stokes vector. This allows for three-channel optical information encoding and encryption, with applications in color image representation. Unlike existing methods based on fully coherent light modulations, our approach utilizes a two-point dependent coherence Stokes vector, proving resilient to random noise in experimental scenarios. Our findings provide a robust foundation for higher-dimensional optical encoding and encryption, addressing limitations associated with partially coherent light in complex environments.","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140586349","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}
PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00124-9
Xiangyu Guo, Jingjing Zhao, Liqun Sun, Varun Gupta, Lin Du, Komal Sharma, Aidan Van Vleck, Kaitlyn Liang, Liangcai Cao, Lingjie Kong, Yuanmu Yang, Yong Huang, Adam de la Zerda, Guofan Jin
{"title":"Visualizing cortical blood perfusion after photothrombotic stroke in vivo by needle-shaped beam optical coherence tomography angiography","authors":"Xiangyu Guo, Jingjing Zhao, Liqun Sun, Varun Gupta, Lin Du, Komal Sharma, Aidan Van Vleck, Kaitlyn Liang, Liangcai Cao, Lingjie Kong, Yuanmu Yang, Yong Huang, Adam de la Zerda, Guofan Jin","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00124-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00124-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Optical imaging techniques provide low-cost, non-radiative images with high spatiotemporal resolution, making them advantageous for long-term dynamic observation of blood perfusion in stroke research and other brain studies compared to non-optical methods. However, high-resolution imaging in optical microscopy fundamentally requires a tight optical focus, and thus a limited depth of field (DOF). Consequently, large-scale, non-stitched, high-resolution images of curved surfaces, like brains, are difficult to acquire without z-axis scanning. To overcome this limitation, we developed a needle-shaped beam optical coherence tomography angiography (NB-OCTA) system, and for the first time, achieved a volumetric resolution of less than 8 μm in a non-stitched volume space of 6.4 mm × 4 mm × 620 μm in vivo. This system captures the distribution of blood vessels at 3.4-times larger depths than normal OCTA equipped with a Gaussian beam (GB-OCTA). We then employed NB-OCTA to perform long-term observation of cortical blood perfusion after stroke in vivo, and quantitatively analyzed the vessel area density (VAD) and the diameters of representative vessels in different regions over 10 days, revealing different spatiotemporal dynamics in the acute, sub-acute and chronic phase of post-ischemic revascularization. Benefiting from our NB-OCTA, we revealed that the recovery process is not only the result of spontaneous reperfusion, but also the formation of new vessels. This study provides visual and mechanistic insights into strokes and helps to deepen our understanding of the spontaneous response of brain after stroke.</p>","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"235 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140314275","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":"Ultrafast laser one-step construction of 3D micro-/nanostructures achieving high-performance zinc metal anodes","authors":"Yanan Liu, Ye Ding, Zeping Liu, Xingchen Li, Sichao Tian, Lishuang Fan, Jichang Xie, Liangliang Xu, Jinwoo Lee, Jian Li, Lijun Yang","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00122-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00122-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aqueous zinc-ion batteries provide a most promising alternative to the existing lithium-ion batteries due to their high theoretical capacity, intrinsic safety, and low cost. However, commercializing aqueous zinc-ion batteries suffer from dendritic growth and side reactions on the surface of metallic zinc, resulting in poor reversibility. To overcome this critical challenge, here, we report a one-step ultrafast laser processing method for fabricating three-dimensional micro-/nanostructures on zinc anodes to optimize zinc nucleation and deposition processes. It is demonstrated that the three-dimensional micro-/nanostructure with increased specific surface area significantly reduces nucleation overpotential, as well as preferentially absorbs zinc ions to prevent dendritic protuberances and corrosion. As a result, the presence of three-dimensional micro-/nanostructures on the zinc metal delivers stable zinc plating/stripping beyond 2500 h (2 mA cm<sup>-2</sup>/1 mAh cm<sup>-2</sup>) in symmetric cells, a high Coulombic efficiency (99.71%) in half cells, and moreover an improved capacity retention (71.8%) is also observed in full cells. Equally intriguingly, the pouch cell with three-dimensional micro-/nanostructures can operate across various bending states without severely compromising performance. This work provides an effective strategy to construct ultrafine and high-precision three-dimensional micro-/nanostructures achieving high-performance zinc metal anodes and is expected to be of immediate benefit to other metal-based electrodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140171802","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":"Vacuum-ultraviolet (λ < 200 nm) photodetector array","authors":"Siqi Zhu, Zhuogeng Lin, Zhao Wang, Lemin Jia, Naiji Zhang, Wei Zheng","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00120-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00120-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV, 10–200 nm) imaging photodetector (PD) based on the wide bandgap semiconductor (WBGS) can realize a more detailed observation of solar storms than the silicon ones. Here, an 8 × 8 VUV PD array based on the semiconductor AlN with an ultra-wide bandgap is presented, exhibiting the shortest cutoff wavelength (203 nm) reported so far. The PD array with a Pt/AlN/SiC/Ti/Au photovoltaic structure shows an excellent selective response to VUV light, an extremely low dark current density of 2.85 × 10<sup>–11</sup> A·cm<sup>−2</sup>@ -2 V, a responsivity of 0.054 A·W<sup>−1</sup>@ 0 V and an ultra-short rise time of 13 ns. Also, the clear boundaries and an obvious contrast between light and dark of the VUV image displayed in the imaging measurement indicate the good imaging ability of this PD array, which can be used for the imaging application with high signal-to-noise ratio and high response speed. These results provide rich experience for the development of VUV imaging PDs based on WBGSs both in their fabrication and the practical applications in VUV detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140128853","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}
PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00121-y
Xingye Chen, Chang Qiao, Tao Jiang, Jiahao Liu, Quan Meng, Yunmin Zeng, Haoyu Chen, Hui Qiao, Dong Li, Jiamin Wu
{"title":"Self-supervised denoising for multimodal structured illumination microscopy enables long-term super-resolution live-cell imaging","authors":"Xingye Chen, Chang Qiao, Tao Jiang, Jiahao Liu, Quan Meng, Yunmin Zeng, Haoyu Chen, Hui Qiao, Dong Li, Jiamin Wu","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00121-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00121-y","url":null,"abstract":"Detection noise significantly degrades the quality of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) images, especially under low-light conditions. Although supervised learning based denoising methods have shown prominent advances in eliminating the noise-induced artifacts, the requirement of a large amount of high-quality training data severely limits their applications. Here we developed a pixel-realignment-based self-supervised denoising framework for SIM (PRS-SIM) that trains an SIM image denoiser with only noisy data and substantially removes the reconstruction artifacts. We demonstrated that PRS-SIM generates artifact-free images with 20-fold less fluorescence than ordinary imaging conditions while achieving comparable super-resolution capability to the ground truth (GT). Moreover, we developed an easy-to-use plugin that enables both training and implementation of PRS-SIM for multimodal SIM platforms including 2D/3D and linear/nonlinear SIM. With PRS-SIM, we achieved long-term super-resolution live-cell imaging of various vulnerable bioprocesses, revealing the clustered distribution of Clathrin-coated pits and detailed interaction dynamics of multiple organelles and the cytoskeleton.","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008142","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}
PhotoniXPub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1186/s43074-024-00119-6
Haiyao Yang, Haoran Mo, Jianzhi Zhang, Lihong Hong, Zhi-Yuan Li
{"title":"Observation of single-molecule Raman spectroscopy enabled by synergic electromagnetic and chemical enhancement","authors":"Haiyao Yang, Haoran Mo, Jianzhi Zhang, Lihong Hong, Zhi-Yuan Li","doi":"10.1186/s43074-024-00119-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43074-024-00119-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There has been a long fundamental pursuit to enhance and levitate the Raman scattering signal intensity of molecule by a huge number of ~ 14–15 orders of magnitude, to the level comparable with the molecule fluorescence intensity and truly entering the regime of single-molecule Raman spectroscopy. In this work we report unambiguous observation of single-molecule Raman spectroscopy via synergic action of electromagnetic and chemical enhancement for rhodamine B (RhB) molecule absorbed within the plasmonic nanogap formed by gold nanoparticle sitting on the two-dimensional (2D) monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> and 2 nm SiO<sub>2</sub> coated gold thin film. Raman spectroscopy down to an extremely dilute value of 10<sup>–18</sup> mol/L can still be clearly visible, and the statistical enhancement factor could reach 16 orders of magnitude compared with the reference detection sample of silicon plate. The electromagnetic enhancement comes from local surface plasmon resonance induced at the nanogap, which could reach ~ 10–11 orders of magnitude, while the chemical enhancement comes from monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> 2D material, which could reach 4–5 orders of magnitudes. This synergic route of Raman enhancement devices could open up a new frontier of single molecule science, allowing detection, identification, and monitor of single molecules and their spatial–temporal evolution under various internal and external stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":93483,"journal":{"name":"PhotoniX","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008141","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}