Optical Bloch Oscillations of a Dual Airy Beam

Junfeng Liu; Yiqi Zhang; Hua Zhong; Jingwen Zhang; Rong Wang; Milivoj R. Belić; Yanpeng Zhang

doi:10.1002/andp.201700307

Optical Bloch oscillations of an Airy beam in a photonic lattice with a linear transverse index gradient

Optics Express ◽

10.1364/oe.22.022763 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (19) ◽

pp. 22763 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Fajun Xiao ◽

Baoran Li ◽

Meirong Wang ◽

Weiren Zhu ◽

Peng Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Bloch Oscillations ◽

Airy Beam ◽

Transverse Index ◽

Index Gradient

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Wideband mm-wave Non-diffracting Airy Beam Forming

12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018) ◽

10.1049/cp.2018.0668 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

R. Kadlimatti ◽

H. Gaddam ◽

H. Larocque ◽

E. Karimi ◽

R.W. Boyd ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Beam Forming ◽

Airy Beam

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Coherent control of Bloch oscillations by means of optical pulse shaping

Physical Review B ◽

10.1103/physrevb.71.153304 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 71 (15) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

R. Fanciulli ◽

A. M. Weiner ◽

M. M. Dignam ◽

D. Meinhold ◽

K. Leo

Keyword(s):

Pulse Shaping ◽

Optical Pulse ◽

Coherent Control ◽

Bloch Oscillations ◽

Optical Pulse Shaping

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Probing Bloch oscillations using a slow-light sensor

Advanced Optical Technologies ◽

10.1515/aot-2020-0028 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 243-246

Author(s):

Pei-Chen Kuan ◽

Chang Huang ◽

Shau-Yu Lan

Keyword(s):

Phase Shift ◽

Optical Lattice ◽

Cold Atoms ◽

Slow Light ◽

Internal State ◽

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽

Bloch Oscillations ◽

Bloch Oscillation ◽

Induced Transparency ◽

Transparency Condition

AbstractWe implement slow-light under electromagnetically induced transparency condition to measure the motion of cold atoms in an optical lattice undergoing Bloch oscillation. The motion of atoms is mapped out through the phase shift of light without perturbing the external and internal state of the atoms. Our results can be used to construct a continuous motional sensor of cold atoms.

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Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces

Nanophotonics ◽

10.1515/nanoph-2020-0536 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Qingqing Cheng ◽

Juncheng Wang ◽

Ling Ma ◽

Zhixiong Shen ◽

Jing Zhang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Biomedical Imaging ◽

Frequency Dispersion ◽

Light Sheet ◽

Photonic Devices ◽

Self Healing ◽

Beam Focusing ◽

Light Sheet Microscopy ◽

Airy Beam ◽

Potential Applications ◽

Airy Beams

AbstractAiry beams exhibit intriguing properties such as nonspreading, self-bending, and self-healing and have attracted considerable recent interest because of their many potential applications in photonics, such as to beam focusing, light-sheet microscopy, and biomedical imaging. However, previous approaches to generate Airy beams using photonic structures have suffered from severe chromatic problems arising from strong frequency dispersion of the scatterers. Here, we design and fabricate a metasurface composed of silicon posts for the frequency range 0.4–0.8 THz in transmission mode, and we experimentally demonstrate achromatic Airy beams exhibiting autofocusing properties. We further show numerically that a generated achromatic Airy-beam-based metalens exhibits self-healing properties that are immune to scattering by particles and that it also possesses a larger depth of focus than a traditional metalens. Our results pave the way to the realization of flat photonic devices for applications to noninvasive biomedical imaging and light-sheet microscopy, and we provide a numerical demonstration of a device protocol.

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Application of Airy beam light sheet microscopy to examine early neurodevelopmental structures in 3D hiPSC-derived human cortical spheroids

Molecular Autism ◽

10.1186/s13229-021-00413-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dwaipayan Adhya ◽

George Chennell ◽

James A. Crowe ◽

Eva P. Valencia-Alarcón ◽

James Seyforth ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Human Brain ◽

Light Sheet ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Model Systems ◽

Large Field ◽

Autism Spectrum Conditions ◽

Patient Specific ◽

Airy Beam

Abstract Background The inability to observe relevant biological processes in vivo significantly restricts human neurodevelopmental research. Advances in appropriate in vitro model systems, including patient-specific human brain organoids and human cortical spheroids (hCSs), offer a pragmatic solution to this issue. In particular, hCSs are an accessible method for generating homogenous organoids of dorsal telencephalic fate, which recapitulate key aspects of human corticogenesis, including the formation of neural rosettes—in vitro correlates of the neural tube. These neurogenic niches give rise to neural progenitors that subsequently differentiate into neurons. Studies differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) in 2D have linked atypical formation of neural rosettes with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum conditions. Thus far, however, conventional methods of tissue preparation in this field limit the ability to image these structures in three-dimensions within intact hCS or other 3D preparations. To overcome this limitation, we have sought to optimise a methodological approach to process hCSs to maximise the utility of a novel Airy-beam light sheet microscope (ALSM) to acquire high resolution volumetric images of internal structures within hCS representative of early developmental time points. Results Conventional approaches to imaging hCS by confocal microscopy were limited in their ability to image effectively into intact spheroids. Conversely, volumetric acquisition by ALSM offered superior imaging through intact, non-clarified, in vitro tissues, in both speed and resolution when compared to conventional confocal imaging systems. Furthermore, optimised immunohistochemistry and optical clearing of hCSs afforded improved imaging at depth. This permitted visualization of the morphology of the inner lumen of neural rosettes. Conclusion We present an optimized methodology that takes advantage of an ALSM system that can rapidly image intact 3D brain organoids at high resolution while retaining a large field of view. This imaging modality can be applied to both non-cleared and cleared in vitro human brain spheroids derived from hiPSCs for precise examination of their internal 3D structures. This process represents a rapid, highly efficient method to examine and quantify in 3D the formation of key structures required for the coordination of neurodevelopmental processes in both health and disease states. We posit that this approach would facilitate investigation of human neurodevelopmental processes in vitro.

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