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Traditional optical Kerr gates (OKG) often suffer from leakage fluorescence background when sampling and measuring fluorescence spectra due to the limited extinction of the polarizers used in optical Kerr gates. In this letter, we propose a cascaded optical Kerr gate (COKG) for measuring fluorescence spectroscopy with a high signal-to-noise ratio by suppressing this leakage fluorescence background...Show More
A 1080 nm single-polarization single frequency distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) fiber laser is fabricated by directly inscribing fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in ytterbium-doped fiber using a femtosecond laser. The high reflectivity FBG with high birefringence is prepared by femtosecond laser overexposure, serving a polarizing element. The low reflectivity FBG is inscribed by scanning axially along...Show More
Pursuing flexible tactile electronic skin sensors with superior comprehensive performances is highly desired in practical applications. However, current flexible tactile electronic skin sensors suffer insufficient flexibility and sensitivity, as well as high-cost and low-efficiency in fabrication and susceptible to contaminant in sensing performances. Here, a highly sensitive all-flexible tactile ...Show More
In this article, a nanosecond pulse generation circuit is designed and fabricated based on a commercial Si-p-i-n rectifier diode using the DSRD principle. The circuit is composed of four parallel stacks with a 3-kV pulse output and a rise time of less than 2 ns. Each stack contains four diodes in a series. The working principle and main parameters of the circuit are analyzed by Pspice, and the sim...Show More
Whispering gallery (WG) mode resonators are experiencing a surge in the application of biosensing, attributing to high speed, flexibility, low cost, multi-analyte detection and compatibility with extra optical elements. The decoration of localized surface plasmon nanostructures to a dielectric WG mode resonator offers unprecedented sensitivity compared with a pure dielectric resonator. However, at...Show More
The infrared (IR) is a strategically important band for numerous applications from environment to biochemical imaging. Here a novel IR optical component integrates more than 2000 plano-concave microlenses on the zinc selenide (ZnSe) surface within a footprint of 5×5mm2 is proposed by a combined method of femtosecond laser direct irradiation and chemical wet etching. Microlenses with diameter from ...Show More
We demonstrated a wide-range wavelength-tunable passively mode-locked fiber laser based on the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) fabricated by femtosecond laser as the wavelength selection element. A ring fiber cavity with the nonlinear-optical loop mirror as its saturable absorber was employed for mode-locking operation. The peak wavelength of the fiber laser was 1547.9 nm with a spectral full-width-at-h...Show More
In this paper, we propose an off-axis tilted fiber Bragg grating (OTFBG) in which the grating structure is limited to one side of the fiber core cross section. The tilted grating planes are fabricated using a femtosecond laser with a phase mask. The wavelength range of the OTFBG cladding mode resonance could be twice that of a conventional tilted fiber Bragg grating with the same tilt angle. The r...Show More
Immunoassay is a biochemical test that measures the presence or concentration of biomolecule in a solution by the means of the antibody (or antigen). Most immunoassays involve chemically linking antibodies or antigens with some kind of detectable labels which produce measurable signals in response to the binding. The use of labels creates problems, including complexity in the screening process and...Show More
We propose a method to suppress the speckle of optical Kerr gated (OKG) imaging in highly turbid medium using an 800-nm femtosecond laser, in which, the 800-nm fundamental frequency light and the supercontinuum (SC) containing the fundamental frequency are used as the gating beam and imaging beam, respectively. A sequence of images of a test chart hidden behind a highly turbid medium is obtained u...Show More
Microscopic imaging of hidden objects in scattering media is demonstrated using a differential optical Kerr gate (DOKG). The results show that the high spatial frequency components of the imaged object filtered by the optical Kerr gate can be considerably compensated using the DOKG. Microscopic images with a maximal lateral resolution of ~2-μm can be achieved. Compared with OKG microscopic imaging...Show More
We report a 680-nm photoluminescence (PL) from a femtosecond-laser-modified region inside silicon. Light-emitting structures were formed inside silicon by femtosecond laser irradiation in an air atmosphere. The formation of light-emitting structures arose from laser-induced oxygen doping, and the doping depths of a few hundred micrometers could be reached. PL intensities increased with increasing ...Show More
The fabrication of complex metallic microstructures based on femtosecond laser micromachining and metal microsolidify process is demonstrated. This method is beneficial for building complex embedded 3D metal microstructures, electronic components, and hybrid electronic-microfluidic devices.Show More
Reported here is the direct fabrication of the convex microlens arrays on poymethylmethacrylate using laser-induced structural modification. Based on single femtosecond pulse in situ modification, sixty thousand convex microlenses, whose diameters was <;12 μm, could be fabricated per minute, exhibiting much higher efficiency than conventional laser direct writing technique. The formation mechanism...Show More
Microlens array (MLA) has attracted increasing interest as its application in micro-optical device and system. In this letter, we proposed a new approach that applies rotational displacement MLA to the laser homogenization system. These are nonregular arrays consisting of close-packed concave MLAs on two sides with specific rotation angle. And, the double-sided MLAs diffusers with new design param...Show More
We developed a multiframe observation method of femtosecond laser pulse propagating in transparent medium based on optical polarigraphy technique. An echelon was introduced into the probe light and divided it into multipulses both in time and space, allowing a multiframe detection of the intense laser pulse propagating in materials. Using this method, we realized a multiframe observation of a sing...Show More
We present a developed femtosecond laser enhanced wet chemical etching method to fabricate close-packed and high numerical aperture (NA) microlens arrays (MLAs). Its ability to fabricate 100% fill factor MLAs with controllable NA is demonstrated and the maximum NA value of the lenses reaches to 0.47. This letter provides a simple and efficient way to achieve controllable and low cost optical eleme...Show More
We present a straightforward method to measure the temporal chirp structure of supercontinuum (SC) pulses. Wavelength-tunable laser pulses acquired from the chirped SC are spatially separated from the incident SC region, which can be detected with zero background in the detection plane. Experimental results show that this convenient method, which is based on ultrafast transient lens effect, has ma...Show More
We have demonstrated the high time-resolved three dimensional (3-D) imaging using a chirped supercontinuum (SC) and an ultrafast optical Kerr gate (OKG) generated with a femtosecond laser, in which a sapphire plate and a Bi2O3-B2O3-SiO2 oxide glass (BI glass) were used to generate the chirped SC and the optical Kerr gate, respectively. The experimental results show that the 3-D imaging using BI gl...Show More
Using the optical Kerr shutter (OKS) technique with an 800-nm femtosecond laser, we demonstrated that the response time of the glass was less than 85 fs. The nonlinear refractive-index of Bi2O3-B2O3-SiO2 (BI) oxide glass was estimated to be about 2.93times10- 15cm2/W. By measuring the dependence of the OKS signals on the pump power and on the polarization angle between pump and probe beams, we fou...Show More
We present a novel X-ray frame camera with variable exposure time that is based on double-gated micro-channel plates (MCP). Two MCPs are connected so that their channels form a Chevron-MCP structure, and four parallel micro-strip lines (MSLs) are deposited on each surface of the Chevron-MCP. The MSLs on opposing surfaces of the Chevron-MCP are oriented normal to each other and subjected to high vo...Show More