Mechanistic Study in Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis through Microchip Laser Ablation in Organic Solvents by Barana Sandakelum Hettiarachchi, Yusuke Takaoka, Yuta Uetake, Yumi Yakiyama, Hiroshi Y. Yoshikawa, Mihoko Maruyama, Hidehiro Sakurai

“…This study explores the productivity of Au NPs in different organic solvents, revealing the necessity of multiple laser pulses to generate Au NPs successfully. This phenomenon, known as the ‘incubation effect,’ is linked to the lower pulse energy in the experimental condition and the thermal conductivity of the solvents. …”
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Standoff detection of bacterial spores by field deployable coherent Raman spectroscopy by Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Kelly Curtis, Claire L. Lonsdale, Debbie Padgen, Christopher R. Howle, Giulio Cerullo

“…Among them, particularly promising is Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy, using synchronized pump/Stokes laser pulses to set up a vibrational coherence of target molecules at a laser focus, which is read by further interaction with a probe pulse, resulting in the emission of a coherent beam detectable at a distance. …”
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Characterization of Femtosecond Laser and Porcine Crystalline Lens Interactions by Optical Microscopy by Olfa Ben Moussa, Abderazek Talbi, Sylvain Poinard, Thibaud Garcin, Anne-Sophie Gauthier, Gilles Thuret, Philippe Gain, Aurélien Maurer, Xxx Sedao, Cyril Mauclair

“…The use of ultrafast laser pulses for eye anterior segment surgery has seen a tremendous growth of interest as the technique has revolutionized the field, from the treatment of myopia, hyperopia, and presbyopia in the cornea to laser-assisted cataract surgery of the crystalline lens. …”
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Laser-Inscribed Stress-Induced Birefringence of Sapphire by Hua Fan, Meguya Ryu, Reo Honda, Junko Morikawa, Zhen-Ze Li, Lei Wang, Jovan Maksimovic, Saulius Juodkazis, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun

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Study of Optical and Structural Properties of Copper Metal Cu Nanoparticles by Muna allhiby, Mutaz AlJuboori

“…Its purity is (99.9) immersed in distilled (deionized) water, where the metal target was first removed from copper placed in (5mL) of distilled water with a specific laser energy (260mJ) and for a number of fixed laser pulses (50, 100, 150) respectively. The size and optical properties of nanoparticles were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and visible-UV spectrometry, respectively. eV) at the pulse (50) and (2.77eV) at the (100) and its value was (2.69eV) at the (150) pulse. …”
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Variability in bacterial flagella re-growth patterns after breakage by Guillaume Paradis, Fabienne F. V. Chevance, Willisa Liou, Thibaud T. Renault, Kelly T. Hughes, Simon Rainville, Marc Erhardt

“…In contrast, no re-growth was observed on filaments that had been broken using ultrashort laser pulses, a technique allowing for very local damage to individual filaments. …”
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Flexible Neural Probes with Optical Artifact-Suppressing Modification and Biofriendly Polypeptide Coating by Minghao Wang, Ye Fan, Lili Li, Fei Wen, Bangbang Guo, Minyi Jin, Jiahui Xu, Yuhao Zhou, Xiaoyang Kang, Bowen Ji, Yuhua Cheng, Gaofeng Wang

“…Here, five kinds of neural interface materials are deposited on flexible polyimide-based neural probes and illuminated with a series of blue laser pulses to study their electrochemical performance and photoelectric noises for single-unit recording. …”
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Backward Flux Re-Deposition Patterns during Multi-Spot Laser Ablation of Stainless Steel with Picosecond and Femtosecond Pulses in Air by Tong Zhou, Sebastian Kraft, Walter Perrie, Jörg Schille, Udo Löschner, Stuart Edwardson, Geoff Dearden

“…This interesting phenomenon is observed with both 10 ps and 600 fs NIR laser pulses at 5 kHz repetition rate. Ablation spot geometries could be altered with the use of beam splitting optics or a phase-only Spatial Light modulator. …”
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Enhanced Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Heavy Metal Detection in Agriculture: A Review by Zihan Yang, Jie Ren, Mengyun Du, Yanru Zhao, Keqiang Yu

“…The three main approaches to enhancing LIBS are sample pretreatment, adding laser pulses, and using auxiliary devices. An enhanced LIBS signal may improve the LOD of heavy metal elements in agriculture and the sensitivity and stability of the LIBS technique. …”
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Reconstruction of façades in point clouds from multi aspect oblique ALS by S. Tuttas, U. Stilla

“…In a first step windows are detected by a search for measurements of laser pulses which pass the windows (voyeur effect) and reflect behind the façade (indoor points). …”
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URSA-PQ: A Mobile and Flexible Pump-Probe Instrument for Gas Phase Samples at the FLASH Free Electron Laser by Jan Metje, Fabiano Lever, Dennis Mayer, Richard James Squibb, Matthew S. Robinson, Mario Niebuhr, Raimund Feifel, Stefan Düsterer, Markus Gühr

“…‘ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy for probing photoenergy conversion in quantum systems’) instrument is equipped with a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer (MBES) and tools to characterize the spatial and temporal overlap of optical and X-ray laser pulses. Its adherence to the CAMP instrument dimensions allows for a wide range of sample sources as well as other spectrometers to be included in the setup. …”
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Shortcuts to adiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspace with transitionless quantum driving algorithm by Xue-Ke Song, Hao Zhang, Qing Ai, Jing Qiu, Fu-Guo Deng

“…It can be efficiently realized by controlling appropriately the frequencies of the external laser pulses. Also, our scheme has good scalability with more qubits. …”
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Photodisruption of the Inner Limiting Membrane: Exploring ICG Loaded Nanoparticles as Photosensitizers by Kaat De Clerck, Geraldine Accou, Félix Sauvage, Kevin Braeckmans, Stefaan C. De Smedt, Katrien Remaut, Karen Peynshaert

“…To overcome this barrier, we intend to perforate the ILM by use of a light-based approach which relies on the creation of vapor nanobubbles (VNBs) when irradiating photosensitizers with high intensity laser pulses. Upon collapse of these VNBs, mechanical effects can disrupt biological structures. …”
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Temperature-Dependent Optical Properties of Bismuth Triborate Crystal in the Terahertz Range: Simulation of Terahertz Generation by Collinear Three-Wave Mixing in the Main Crystal... by Dmitry Ezhov, Nazar Nikolaev, Valery Antsygin, Sofia Bychkova, Yury Andreev, Valery Svetlichnyi

“…Considering an approach that uses nonlinear crystals with high radiation resistance, pumped by intense laser pulses near their damage threshold, we suggest the crystal of bismuth triborate (BiB₃O₆, BIBO). …”
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In situ electrical and thermal monitoring of printed electronics by two-photon mapping by Francesco Pastorelli, Nicolò Accanto, Mikkel Jørgensen, Niek F. van Hulst, Frederik C. Krebs

“…In this study, we demonstrate that nonlinear optical microscopy is a promising technique to achieve this goal. Using ultrashort laser pulses we stimulate two-photon absorption in a roll coated polymer semiconductor and map the resulting two-photon induced photoluminescence and second harmonic response. …”
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Soft monolithic infrared neural interface for simultaneous neurostimulation and electrophysiology by Marcello Meneghetti, Jaspreet Kaur, Kunyang Sui, Jakob F. Sørensen, Rune W. Berg, Christos Markos

“…The developed implant is capable of stimulating the brain activity in localized cortical domains by delivering laser pulses in the 2 μm spectral region while recording electrophysiological signals. …”
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Copper-Chitosan Nanoantimicrobials Prepared by Laser Ablation Synthesis in Aqueous Solutions by Maria Chiara Sportelli, Annalisa Volpe, Rosaria Anna Picca, Adriana Trapani, Claudio Palazzo, Antonio Ancona, Pietro Mario Lugarà, Giuseppe Trapani, Nicola Cioffi

“…Copper-chitosan (Cu-CS) nanoantimicrobials are a novel class of bioactive agents, providing enhanced and synergistic efficiency in the prevention of biocontamination in several application fields, from food packaging to biomedical. Femtosecond laser pulses were here exploited to disrupt a Cu solid target immersed into aqueous acidic solutions containing different CS concentrations. …”
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Digital Integration of LiDAR System Implemented in a Low-Cost FPGA by Jiajian Huang, Shengyao Ran, Wei Wei, Qun Yu

“…A laser transceiver with a symmetrical transmitting and receiving lens emits and collects laser pulses to range distance using the time-of-flight (ToF) method. …”
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Electronic/optoelectronic memory device enabled by tellurium-based 2D van der Waals heterostructure for in-sensor reservoir computing at the optical communication band by Zha, Jiajia, Shi, Shuhui, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Huang, Haoxin, Yang, Peng, Yao, Yao, Li, Siyuan, Xia, Yunpeng, Zhang, Zhuomin, Wang, Wei, Wang, Huide, Wang, Shaocong, Yuan, Zhen, Yang, Zhengbao, He, Qiyuan, Tai, Huiling, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong, Yu, Hongyu, Ho, Johnny C., Wang, Zhongrui, Zhang, Hua, Tan, Chaoliang

“…In this work, an electronic/optoelectronic memory device enabled by tellurium-based 2D van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure is reported, where the ferroelectric CuInP2 S6 and tellurium channel endow this device with both the long-term potentiation/depression by voltage pulses and short-term potentiation by 1550 nm laser pulses (a typical wavelength in the conventional fiber optical communication band). …”
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Possibility of CO2 laser-pumped multi-millijoule-level ultrafast pulse terahertz sources by György Tóth, Gergő Illés, Gabit Nazymbekov, Nelson Mbithi, Gábor Almási, János Hebling

“…However, until now, the extremely high-energy THz pulses needed by the THz counterparts of the microwave accelerators were generated by optical rectification (OR) of ultrafast Ti:sapphire or Yb laser pulses. These lasers, however, are not very effective. …”
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