Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
The demonstration of the first enzyme-based electrode to detect glucose, published in 1967 by S. J. Updike and G. P. Hicks, kicked off huge efforts in building sensors where biomolecules are exploited as native or modified to achieve new or improved sensing performances. In this growing area, bionanotechnology has become prominent in demonstrating ...
Published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
In this paper, we propose a robust and accurate estimation method for the distance required for digital holography (DH) reconstruction using convolutional neural networks (CNN) in off-axis DH (off-axis DH). This method applies adaptive spectral pooling to reflect distance-related optical characteristics and minimize information loss during the trai...
Published in 2D Materials
Recent advances in the field of vertically stacked 2D materials have revealed a rich exciton landscape. In particular, it has been demonstrated that out-of-plane electrical fields can be used to tune the spectral position of spatially separated interlayer excitons. Other studies have shown that there is a strong hybridization of exciton states, res...
Published in Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering
Skin thickness, including the adipose layer, which varies from individual to individual, affects the bone density measurement using light. In this study, we proposed a method to measure skin thickness using light and to correct the bias caused by differences in skin thickness and verified the proposed method by experiments using a phantom. We measu...
Published in Physica Scripta
Different (GeZn)100−xSex9≤x≤25at% chalcogenide films have been thermally evaporated onto cleaned glass substrates. The film transmission (T) and reflection (R) spectra have been measured over the wavelength spectral range (0.3–2.5 μm). The composition dependence of the optical band gap (E g ) has been illustrated and interpreted in the light of the...
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) uses a cavity to engineer the mode structure of the vacuum electromagnetic field such as to enhance the interaction between light and matter. Exploiting these ideas in solid-state systems has lead to circuit QED which has emerged as a valuable tool to explore the rich physics of quantum optics and as a platform ...
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science
Optical surveys of aquatic particles and their particle size spectra have become important tools in studies of light propagation in water, classification of water masses, and the dynamics of trophic interactions affecting particle aggregation and flux. Here, we demonstrate that typical settings used in image analysis vastly underestimate particle n...
Published in New Journal of Physics
The ability to design passive structures that perform different operations on different electromagnetic fields is key to many technologies, from beam-steering to optical computing. While many techniques have been developed to optimise structures to achieve specific functionality through inverse design, designing multi-function materials remains cha...
KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave detector, was operated for its solo observation from February 25th to March 10th, 2020, and its first joint observation with the GEO 600 detector from April 7th -- 21st, 2020 (O3GK). This study presents an overview of the input optics systems of the KAGRA detector, which consist of various opt...
Published in European Journal of Physics
A metalens is an ultra-thin lens made of a metasurface, with focusing and imaging functions, and with promising applications in miniature optical systems, such as mobile devices. This paper gives an introduction to the optics of metalenses. First, we examine the focusing and imaging characteristics of metalenses. And then, as an essential step, we ...
