Abstract:
Devices and methods for recording dynamics of cellular and/or biochemical processes, including a device including one or more dispersive elements configured to receive a pulsed laser beam with a spectrum of different wavelengths and disperse the spectrum of the pulsed laser beam; and one or more first elements configured to receive the dispersed spectrum of the pulsed laser beam, and generate a multiphoton excitation area in a biological sample by re-overlapping in time and space the dispersed spectrum of the pulsed laser beam on an area in the biological sample, wherein the device is configured to record at high speed changes of cellular and biochemical processes of a population of cells of the biological sample based on generation of the multiphoton excitation area in the biological sample.
Abstract:
A void-arranged structure that includes a pair of principal surfaces opposing each other and a plurality of void sections that penetrate through the pair of principal surfaces. The void-arranged structure is configured of a plurality of unit structures each of which includes a first void section and a second void section having a different shape from a shape of the first void section, and the overall shape of the unit structure, when the principal surface is viewed from above, is not mirror-symmetric with respect to a predetermined imaginary plane orthogonal to the principal surface of the void-arranged structure.
Abstract:
An apparatus configured to obtain a physical property of an object by time-domain spectroscopy includes: a detection unit; a delay unit configured to adjust a time difference between generation and detection; a shaping unit configured to collect the electromagnetic wave pulses; a waveform obtaining unit configured to construct a time waveform of the electromagnetic wave pulses; and a collecting position adjusting unit configured to adjust a collecting position. When the collecting position is moved, an amount of adjustment when the collecting position matches first and second reflection portions, respectively, of the object, and a difference by the delay unit required for detecting first and second pulses of the time waveform are obtained, and from an amount of change of the amount of adjustment and the difference, a thickness and a refractive index of a region between the first and second reflection portions of the object are calculated.
Abstract:
A coating facility includes a coating unit for applying a coating layer to a body; and a sensor system for characterizing a coating of the body, the coating including the applied coating layer, in a non-contact manner by use of THz radiation. The sensor system includes a THz system, a processing unit and a positioning system. The THz system includes a light source generating a source light radiation; a flexible first radiation guide cable transmitting the source light radiation; a THz emitter having a THz radiation generator coupled to the light source via the flexible first radiation guide cable for receiving the source light radiation from the light source and adapted for generating outgoing THz radiation from the source light radiation, and a THz optical system for directing the outgoing THz radiation towards the coated body; and a THz detector for detecting incoming THz radiation having interacted with the coating.
Abstract:
A wellbore tool for determining a speed of sound of a fluid sample, such as a hydrocarbon sample or a wellbore fluid, is described herein. The wellbore tool includes a photoacoustic system for analyzing the fluid sample. The photoacoustic system includes a laser system that generates a laser pulse, an interface disposed between the fluid sample and the laser system, and an acoustic detector that receives an acoustic pulse that is generated in response to absorption of the laser pulse. The acoustic pulse is generated when the laser pulse is absorbed by the fluid sample or the interface. This acoustic pulse then moves through the fluid sample and is detected by the acoustic detector. The acoustic pulse is then used to determine a speed of sound of the fluid sample.
Abstract:
Provided is a nonlinear optical device capable of alleviating, without the need for a complicated compensation mechanism, temporal broadening and the waveform distortion resulting from a group-velocity dispersion slope, to thereby irradiate an object with short optical pulses having high peak power. The nonlinear optical device includes a short optical pulse source (10) for generating short optical pulses and a short optical pulse delivery system (20) for delivering the short optical pulses generated from the short optical pulse source to an object, in which there is generated substantially no nonlinear optical effect and there is substantially no amount of group-velocity dispersion, the short optical pulse source generates short optical pulses, and the short optical pulses have a spectral width (full width at half maximum) λFWHM satisfying λ1
Abstract:
Provided is a measuring apparatus, including: an irradiation unit configured to irradiate an object to be examined with an electromagnetic wave, the object to be examined being brought into contact with a window member; a sensing unit configured to sense the electromagnetic wave from the object to be examined that is brought into contact with the window member; and a dielectric constant adjusting unit configured to change a dielectric constant of the window member.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic wave pulse measuring device, includes an elastic vibration wave generating section which irradiates a predetermined area of a sample with an elastic vibration wave, an electromagnetic wave pulse generating section which irradiates the predetermined area, which is irradiated with the elastic vibration wave, with an electromagnetic wave pulse, and an electromagnetic wave pulse detecting section which measures a waveform of the electromagnetic wave pulse modulated in the predetermined area by the elastic vibration wave. The timing at which the electromagnetic wave pulse detecting section measures the waveform of the electromagnetic wave pulse is a timing at which a phase angle of the elastic vibration wave has a predetermined value when the elastic vibration wave generating section generates the elastic vibration wave.
Abstract:
An information obtaining apparatus includes a splitting unit, a terahertz wave generation unit, a terahertz wave detection unit, a fiber, a changing unit that changes an optical path length difference between optical path lengths of pump light and probe light by changing an optical path length of the fiber, a waveform construction unit, and an obtaining unit that obtains information related to the optical path length of the fiber. The obtaining unit includes a splitting unit that splits the pump or probe light before propagating through the fiber into first light and second light, a formation unit that forms interfering light, and an optical detection unit that detects an intensity of the interfering light. The waveform construction unit constructs a terahertz wave time waveform by extracting a detection result of the terahertz wave detection unit based on a detection result of the optical detection unit.