supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions,under grant agreement No.101059253,as part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme;It also received support from a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Additional funding was provided by Laserlab-Europe(Proposal IDs:ULF-FORTH_002794 and ULF-FORTH_025264).We further gratefully acknowledge funding by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action under grant 16KN053050.The authors would also like to thank Mrs.Aleka Manousaki for SEM technical support.
Although optical microscopy is a widely used technique across various multidisciplinary fields for inspecting small-scale objects,surfaces or organisms,it faces a significant limitation:the lateral resolution of optic...
National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFB2802000);National Natural Science Foundation of China(61827826,62175086,62131018);Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province(20220101107JC);Education Department of Jilin Province(JJKH20221003KJ);Interdisciplinary Integration and Innovation Project of JLU(JLUXKJC2021ZZ15);All authors thank Prof.
The demand for fast optical image acquisition without movable optical elements(e.g.,for self-driving car technology)can be met using bioinspired 3D compound eyes.3D laser processing strategies enable designable 3D str...
supported by the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(No.2020B0301030009);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62235009,62035003,62205173,61935013,62375181,61975133,and 12104318);the Science and Technology Innovation Commission of Shenzhen(Nos.KQTD20170330110444030 and JCYJ20200109114018750);the Scientific Instrument Developing Project of Shenzhen University(No.2023YQ001).
Diffractive optical elements(DOEs)are intricately designed devices with the purpose of manipulating light fields by precisely modifying their wavefronts.The concept of DOEs has its origins dating back to 1948 when D.G...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No.871212.
One-dimensional Airy beams allow the generation of thin light-sheets without scanning,simplifying the complex optical arrangements of light-sheet microscopes(LSMs)with an extended field of view(FOV).However,their unia...
We acknowledge the financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education[Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung(BMBF)]via the projects Printoptics,Printfunction,and Q.link.X 16KIS0862;support via the project EMPIR 17FUN06 SIQUST;This project received funding from Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung via the Opterial project;This project received funding from the EMPIR programme co-financed by the participating states and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.Furthermore,funding was received from the European Research Council(ERC)via the projects AdG ComplexPlas and PoC 3D PrintedOptics.It was also funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)via the projects SPP1839,SPP1929,GRK2642,as well as the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology(IQST).
Future quantum technology relies crucially on building quantum networks with high fidelity.To achieve this challenging goal,it is of utmost importance to connect individual quantum systems such that their emitted sing...
funded by Singapore University of Technology and Design(SUTD)—Temasek Lab through the grant IGDSP1602051。
Integrating micro-optical components at the end facet of an optical fiber enables compact optics to shape the output beam(e.g.collimating,focusing,and coupling to free space elements or photonic integrated circuits).H...
This work was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61925502 and 61535005);the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0303700 and 2017YFA0700503);We thank Professor J.H.Chen for help in the preparation of the manuscript.The authors declare no competing interests.
.The flat endface of an optical fiber tip is an emerging light-coupled microscopic platform that combines fiber optics with planar micro-and nanotechnologies.Since different materials and structures are integrated ont...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(91750205,61377052,61422506,61427819,61605117);National Key Basic Research Program of China(973)(2015CB352004);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0102401);Leading Talents of Guangdong Province Program(00201505);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2016A030312010,2016A030310063);Excellent Young Teacher Program of Guangdong Province(YQ2014151)
Optical traps use focused laser beams to generate forces on targeted objects ranging in size from nanometers to micrometers. However, for their high coefficients of scattering and absorption, micrometer-sized metallic...
Project supported by State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering,Institute of Optics and Electronics,Chinese Academy of Sciences;Sichuan Provincial Department of Education,China(Grant No.16ZA0047);the State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology,Yansan University,China(Grant No.201509);the Large Precision Instruments Open Project Foundation of Sichuan Normal University,China(Grant Nos.DJ2015-57,DJ2015-58,DJ2015-60,DJ2016-58,and DJ2016-59)
The properties of the photonic nanojet generated by a two-layer dielectric microsphere are studied. Simulation results indicate that this novel structure can generate a photonic nanojet outside its volume when the ref...
A pocket holographic slide enables the high-throughput screening of fluid samples by embedding micro-optics directly on a microchannel to achieve off-axis interferometric imaging.This holographic slide can be used to ...