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Si and III-nitride based photonic crystal cavities for optical trapping and non-linear optics

Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Villa, Jun Wang, Enrico Tartari

The project data will be organised in the following folder system : One main folder for the each subproject : GaN nonlinear optics and Optical trapping Each folder is organised in the following sub-folder system (not all may be used), each with a readme- ...

Zenodo2025

Partial crystallization in Pd-BMG systems: From understanding structure towards influencing functionality through temperature-time series

Roland Logé

Small quantities of crystalline domains created in an amorphous matrix are seen as an active driver for enhanced properties in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). We investigated partial crystallization and phase transformations through a series of isotherms at ...

2024

Subwavelength imaging using a solid-immersion diffractive optical processor

Demetri Psaltis, Niyazi Ulas Dinç, Carlo Gigli

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength imaging of phase ...

Springernature2024

Tangentially viewing phase contrast imaging for turbulence measurements in toroidal fusion devices

Stefano Coda

Phase contrast imaging (PCI) is an established and powerful technique for measuring density fluctuations in plasmas and has been successfully applied to several fusion devices. Rooted in a concept first developed for microscopy, PCI belongs to the category ...

2024

Overcoming the probing-depth dilemma in spectroscopic analyses of batteries with muon-induced X-ray emission (MIXE)

Corsin Battaglia

Battery research often encounters the challenge of determining chemical information, such as composition and elemental oxidation states, of a layer buried within a cell stack in a non-destructive manner. Spectroscopic techniques based on X-ray emission or ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Experimental and numerical investigations of electron transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron plasma-wave interaction in tokamaks

Stefano Coda, Laurent Villard, Laurie Porte, Joan Decker, Aylwin Iantchenko, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Giovanni Di Giannatale

Energy transfer from electron-cyclotron (EC) waves to the plasma is being routinely used in tokamaks to heat and drive current through the electron channel. Technical applications such as magnetohydrodynamic mode mitigation require power deposition with a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

SYNAPSE: An international roadmap to large brain imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo

Since 2020, synchrotron radiation facilities in several Asia-Pacific countries have been collaborating in a major project called "SYNAPSE"(Synchrotrons for Neuroscience: an Asia-Pacific Scientific Enterprise). They use x-ray imaging to attack in a coordina ...

ELSEVIER2022

Brain micro-vasculature imaging: An unsupervised deep learning algorithm for segmenting mouse brain volume probed by high-resolution phase-contrast X-ray tomography

Alessandra Patera, Anne Bonnin

High-throughput synchrotron-based tomographic microscopy at third generation light sources allows to probe cm-sized samples at micrometer-resolution. In this work, we present an approach to image a full mouse brain. With Indian-ink as a contrast agent, it ...

WILEY2021

A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA

Stefano Coda, Stephan Brunner, Matthieu Toussaint, Aylwin Iantchenko

A core fluctuation diagnostic based on the phase-contrast imaging (PCI) technique has been designed for the JT-60SA tokamak, with the assistance of a synthetic diagnostic coupled to a gyrokinetic code. Using a tangentially viewing geometry, this system wou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Micrometer-resolution X-ray tomographic full-volume reconstruction of an intact post-mortem juvenile rat lung

Goran Lovric

In this article, we present an X-ray tomographic imaging method that is well suited for pulmonary disease studies in animal models to resolve the full pathway from gas intake to gas exchange. Current state-of-the-art synchrotron-based tomographic phase-con ...

SPRINGER2021

Development of novel experimental and computational methods for three-dimensional coherent and super-resolution microscopy

Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux

Optical microscopy is one widely used tool to study cell functions and the interaction of molecules at a sub-cellular level. Optical microscopy techniques can be broadly divided into two categories: partially coherent and incoherent. Coherent microscopy te ...

EPFL2020

Characterization of flat-fielding systems for quantitative microscopy

Suliana Manley, Dora Mahecic, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim

Optical flat-fielding systems, such as field-mapping or integration-based beam shapers, are used to transform nonuniform illumination into uniform illumination. Thus, flat-fielding paves the way for imaging that is independent of position within a field of ...

2020

Experimental station Bernina at SwissFEL: condensed matter physics on femtosecond time scales investigated by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods

Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Jochen Rittmann

The Bernina instrument at the SwissFEL Aramis hard X-ray free-electron laser is designed for studying ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter and material science. Ultrashort pulses from an optical laser system covering a large wavelength range can be used ...

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)2019

Propagation-based phase-contrast synchrotron imaging of aortic dissection in mice: from individual elastic lamella to 3D analysis

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Bram Trachet, Lydia Aslanidou

In order to show the advantage and potential of propagation-based phase-contrast synchrotron imaging in vascular pathology research, we analyzed aortic medial ruptures in BAPN/AngII-infused mice, a mouse model for aortic dissection. Ascending and thoraco-a ...

Nature Research2018

Ancient administrative handwritten documents: X-ray analysis and imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

Handwritten characters in administrative antique documents from three centuries have been detected using different synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques. Heavy elements in ancient inks, present even for everyday administrative manuscripts as shown by X-ray ...

International Union of Crystallography2015

High Performance Reconstruction Framework for Straight Ray Tomography : from Micro to Nano Resolution Imaging

Masih Nilchian

We develop a high-performance scheme to reconstruct straight-ray tomographic scans. We preserve the quality of the state-of-the-art schemes typically found in traditional computed tomography but reduce the computational cost substantially. Our approach is ...

EPFL2015

Towards an incoherent off-axis digital holographic microscope

Christian Depeursinge, Frédéric Montfort

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a system in which off-axis digital holographic microscopy is realized using a broadband illumination source. Single-shot holographic measurements are enabled, while the coherence noise is removed thanks to the broa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Imaging brain amyloid deposition using grating-based differential phase contrast tomography

Patrick Aebischer, Jean-Charles Bensadoun, Peter Modregger

One of the core pathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain. Current efforts of medical imaging research aim at visualizing amyloid plaques in living patients in order to evaluate the progression of ...

Elsevier2012

On the origin of the MR image phase contrast: An in vivo MR microscopy study of the rat brain at 14.1 T

Rolf Gruetter, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Rajika Maddage

Recent studies at high magnetic fields using the phase of gradient-echo MR images have shown the ability to unveil cortical substructure in the human brain. To investigate the contrast mechanisms in phase imaging, this study extends, for the first time, ph ...

Elsevier2009

Focus-detector arrangement for generating projective or tomographic phase contrast recordings with X-ray optical gratings

A focus-detector arrangement of an X-ray apparatus is disclosed for generating projective or tomographic phase contrast recordings with a phase grating. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, in the gaps between its bars, the phase grating ...

2007