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The research team enables simultaneous photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging of blood vessels by improving intravascular photoacoustic imaging system. The diameter of this imaging probe is only 1.00 mm, which lays the foundation for in vivo experiments.
Research Articles
Diffraction and Gratings
High-harmonic-generation-inspired preparation of optical vortex arrays with arbitrary-order topological charges
Wuhong Zhang, and Lixiang Chen
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 030501 (2018)
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Wideband signal detection based on high-speed photonic analog-to-digital converter
Guang Yang, Weiwen Zou, Ye Yuan, and Jianping Chen
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 030601 (2018)
Thermal expanded core technique applied to high power fiber mode field adapter
Fanlong Dong, Xinhai Zhang, and Feng Song
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 030602 (2018)
Geometric Optics
Design of a hyper-numerical-aperture deep ultraviolet lithography objective with freeform surfaces
Shanshan Mao, Yanqiu Li, Jiahua Jiang, Shihuan Shen, Ke Liu, and Meng Zheng
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 030801 (2018)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology
Multi-frequency lateral shear interferometer system for simultaneous measurement of thickness and three-dimensional shape
Xiangjun Dai, Tianyu Yuan, Hanyang Jiang, Xinxing Shao, Meiling Dai, Hai Yun, Fujun Yang, and Xiaoyuan He
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031201 (2018)
Lasers and Laser Optics
Femtosecond laser highly-efficient plane processing based on an axicon-generated donut-shaped beam
Zhi Luo, Cong Wang, Xinran Dong, and Ji’an Duan
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031401 (2018)
Double Q -switched 946 nm laser with MgO:LN electro-optic crystal and MoSe2 saturable absorber
Bing Bai, Yang Bai, Diao Li, Yanxiao Sun, Jianlin Li, and Jintao Bai
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031402 (2018)
Stabilized DFB laser system with large tuning range
Jiachen Yu, Pingjun Wang, Qi Yu, Yin Zhang, Wei Xiong, and Xuzong Chen
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031403 (2018)
Self-starting simple structured dual-wavelength mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using a transmission-type semiconductor saturable absorber
Junkai Shi, and Weihu Zhou
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031404 (2018)
Three-dimensional multiple optical cages formed by focusing double-ring shaped radially and azimuthally polarized beams
Tingting Zeng, and Jianping Ding
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031405 (2018)
Optimizing power oscillations in an ellipsometric system
Manoel P. Araújo, Stefano De Leo, and Gabriel G. Maia
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031406 (2018)
4.05 kW monolithic fiber laser oscillator based on home-made large mode area fiber Bragg gratings
Baolai Yang, Hanwei Zhang, Qing Ye, Haoyang Pi, Chen Shi, Rumao Tao, Xiaolin Wang, and Xiaojun Xu
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031407 (2018)
Medical Optics and Biotechnology
Measurement of ocular axial length using full-range spectral-domain low-coherence interferometry
Yi Wang, Liang Feng, Lida Zhu, Hongxian Zhou, and Zhenhe Ma
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031701 (2018)
Photoacoustic characteristics of lipid-rich plaques under ultra-low temperature and formaldehyde treatment 
Mingjun Xu, Peng Lei, Jianqin Feng, Fangfang Liu, Sihua Yang, and Pengfei Zhang
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 031702 (2018)
OPTICAL DATA STORAGE
Four-level phase pair encoding and decoding with single interferometric phase retrieval for holographic data storage
Xiao Lin, Yong Huang, Yang Li, Jinyan Liu, Jinpeng Liu, Ruidan Kang, and Xiaodi Tan
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 032101 (2018)
Optical Design and Fabrication
Useful way to compensate for intrinsic birefringence caused by calcium fluoride in optical lithography systems
Zelong Zhou, Hongbo Shang, Yongxin Sui, and Huaijiang Yang
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 032201 (2018)
Optical Devices
Plasmonic sensor with variable claddings based on metallic slit arrays
Jing Ma, Dongdong Liu, Jicheng Wang, and Zhengda Hu
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 032301 (2018)
Spectroscopy
Excited-state population distributions of alkaline-earth metal in a hollow cathode lamp
Pengyuan Chang, Bo Pang, Yisheng Wu, and Jingbiao Chen
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 033001 (2018)
Ultrafast Optics
Polarization-gated filament-induced remote breakdown spectroscopy
Hao Guo, Zhongbin Zhu, Tiejun Wang, Na Chen, Yaoxiang Liu, Jianhao Zhang, Haiyi Sun, Jiansheng Liu, and Ruxin Li
Vol. 16, Issue 3, 033201 (2018)
