Abstract:
The design of a proximity sensor to be integrated into cochlea implants is described. The sensor allows the anticipation of contact between the cochlear implant and intracochlear structures, including the cochlear canal wall and basilar membrane, providing a feedback or an alarm to the surgeon performing the implant insertion such that trauma to the cochlea is avoided. This helps to preserve any residual hearing ability in patients who receive the surgical implant.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for imaging ear tissue include: directing illumination radiation to pass through an intact biological structure and be incident on ear tissue that does not include an exogenous fluorophore, at a plurality of locations, the illumination radiation including a plurality of light pulses each having a temporal duration of 500 femtoseconds or less; for each one of the plurality of locations, using a detector to detect radiation emitted from the location that passes through the intact biological structure; and forming an image of the tissue based on the detected radiation at each of the plurality of locations, where the emitted radiation corresponds to endogenous two-photon fluorescence of the tissue.
Abstract:
The present disclosure concerns a membrane-less electrolyzer comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, a first fluidic channel configured to receive an electrolyte, a second fluidic channel configured to receive the electrolyte from the first fluidic channel, a third fluidic channel configured to receive the electrolyte from the first fluidic channel. The first fluidic channel being in fluidic communication with the second and third fluidic channels. The first fluidic channel is connected to the second and third fluidic channels via a plurality of inclined fluidic canals extending from the first fluidic channel to each of the second and third fluidic channels.
Abstract:
A system and method to generate ultrashort high beam quality pulses from spatio- temporally mode-locked multimode fiber laser are described. The invention relies on engineering the intra-cavity pulse propagation in a multimode laser cavity to shape the spatial and temporal properties of the output pulses. The invention allows the generation of Kerr-induced self-beam cleaning when mode-locking is obtained. Using this invention, high power ultrashort pulses can be achieved with a Gaussian mode profile by using commercially available multimode fibers.
Abstract:
In an electrochemical reactor (R) for producing oxygen and hydrogen by means of electrolysis of an electrolyte (16), wherein the electrochemical reactor (R) comprises a first electrode set (S) and wherein the first electrode set (S) comprises a first electrode (7) and a second electrode (8), the first electrode (7) comprises a multitude of pores, the second electrode (8) comprises a multitude of pores, and the first electrode (7) is arranged inside the second electrode (8), such that an electrolyte channel (15) is formed between the first electrode (7) and the second electrode (8).
Abstract:
A multimode waveguide illuminator and imager relies on a wave front shaping system that acts to compensate for modal scrambling and light dispersion by the multimode waveguide. A first step consists of calibrating the multimode wave¬ guide and a second step consists in projecting a specific pattern on the wave¬ guide proximal end in order to produce the desire light pattern at its distal end. The illumination pattern can be scanned or changed dynamically only by chang¬ ing the phase pattern projected at the proximal end of the waveguide. The third and last step consists in collecting the optical information, generated by the sample, through the same waveguide in order to form an image. Known free space microscopy technique can be adapted to endoscopy with multimode waveguide, such as, but not limited to, fluorescence imaging or Raman spectros¬ copy or imaging, 3D linear scattering imaging or two-photon imaging. Super- resolution, i.e., resolution below the diffraction limit, is achieved for example but not limited to, using the STimulated Emission Depletion microscopy (STED) technique or the Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) technique or a stochastic illumination based method (PALM, STORM) in combination with the multimode waveguide imaging method.
Abstract:
An imaging based interferometric pressure sensor apparatus compromise a fluid pressure sensor unit (1) and an optical monitor (2). The disposable pressure sensor part comprises a rigid transparent cover plate 3 and a flexible diaphragm (4), in between forming an air-gap cavity (8). By illuminating the air-gap cavity (8) with a light source (6), the air-gap cavity generates an interference pattern which is captured by the optical imaging device (7). The pressure of the fluid (5) to be sensing is applied to flexible diaphragm, causing the deformation of the diaphragm and the variation of the air-gap thickness. Hence the interference pattern varies with pressure of fluid. The optical monitor (2) includes light source 6 and optical image device (7) which records the interference pattern from the fluid pressure sensor unit (1). The pressure of the fluid is measured by processing the captured image.
Abstract:
A device for optical computing comprises at least one modulator (210, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110, 1210, 1310, 1410, 1520, 1610, 1710, 1810, 1910, 2010, 2110, 2210) and at least one waveguide (220, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420, 1530, 1620, 1720, 1820, 1920, 2020, 2120, 2220). The at least one modulator (210, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110, 1210, 1310, 1410, 1520, 1610, 1710, 1810, 1910, 2010, 2110, 2210) is configured to modulate incident radiation, whereby input radiation is generated. The at least one waveguide (220, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420, 1530, 1620, 1720, 1820, 1920, 2020, 2120, 2220) is configured to guide the input radiation along a propagation direction. The at least one waveguide (220, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420, 1530, 1620, 1720, 1820, 1920, 2020, 2120, 2220) is configured to nonlinearly optically transform the input radiation propagating in the at least one waveguide, whereby output radiation that is outputted from the waveguide (220, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420, 1530, 1620, 1720, 1820, 1920, 2020, 2120, 2220) is optically computed.
Abstract:
The present invention is related to an endoscopic system for phase imaging, comprising a multicore waveguide (080), an optical system comprising at least one first light source (002), for illuminating the sample to be examined, a first camera (010) that is provided at the proximal side of the multicore waveguide (080) to capture a bright field intensity image of the sample (090) to be examined, and a processing unit (200), wherein the processing unit (200) comprises a deep neural network, preferably of the Unet-type and generative adversarial network (GAN) type, that is trained so as to provide phase images. The present invention is related to a method using said endoscopic device.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a system (1) and method to guide light through a scattering medium (4) and project images on a screen (5) placed after the medium (4). Many of the shortcomings of previous approaches for guiding light through scattering medium (4) have been overcome.