Browsing by Author "Yang, Y. C."

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Compact optical curvature sensor with a flexible microdisk laser on a polymer substrate
(2009-09-15)
Shih, M. H.
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Hsu, K. S.
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Kunag, Wan
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Yang, Y. C.
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Wang, Y. C.
We demonstrate a chip-scale compact optical curvature sensor. It consists of a low threshold InGaAsP microdisk laser on a flexible polydimethylsiloxane polymer substrate. The curvature dependence of lasing wavelength was characterized by bending the cavity at different bending radii. The measurements showed that the lasing wavelength decreases monotonously with an increasing bending curvature. A good agreement between experiment and three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulation was also obtained. The sensitivity of the compact device to the bending curvature is -23.7 nm/mm from the experiment. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
Flexible compact microdisk lasers on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate
(2009-01-19)
Shih, M. H.
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Hsu, S.
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Wang, Y. C.
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Yang, Y. C.
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Tsai, S. K.
Compact microdisk cavities were fabricated on a polydimethylsiloxane substrate. The lasing of the flexible compact cavity was achieved with a low threshold power. The whispering-gallery mode of the microdisk was also characterized with three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulation. The curvature dependence in output power and threshold was also demonstrated by bending the microdisk cavity. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
Flexible compact microdisk lasers on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate
(2009-01-19)
Shih, M. H.
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Hsu, S.
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Wang, Y. C.
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Yang, Y. C.
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Tsai, S. K.
Compact microdisk cavities were fabricated on a polydimethylsiloxane substrate. The lasing of the flexible compact cavity was achieved with a low threshold power. The whispering-gallery mode of the microdisk was also characterized with three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulation. The curvature dependence in output power and threshold was also demonstrated by bending the microdisk cavity. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
Flexible Photonic Crystal Defect Lasers on a Polydimethylsiloxane Polymer Substrate
(2010)
Hsu, K. S.
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Yang, Y. C.
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Tsai, Y. Y.
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Shih, M. H.
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Wu, M. C.
We demonstrated a flexible photonic crystal defect laser on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer substrate. The curvature dependences of lasing power and threshold were also characterized by bending the photonic crystal cavity at different bending curvatures. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
Imaging cells and sub-cellular structures with ultrahigh resolution full-field X-ray microscopy
(2013-05-01)
Chien, C. C.
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Tseng, P. Y.
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Chen, H. H.
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Hua, T. E.
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Chen, S. T.
Our experimental results demonstrate that full-field hard-X-ray microscopy is finally able to investigate the internal structure of cells in tissues. This result was made possible by three main factors: the use of a coherent (synchrotron) source of X-rays, the exploitation of contrast mechanisms based on the real part of the refractive index and the magnification provided by high-resolution Fresnel zone-plate objectives. We specifically obtained high-quality microradiographs of human and mouse cells with 29 nm Rayleigh spatial resolution and verified that tomographic reconstruction could be implemented with a final resolution level suitable for subcellular features. We also demonstrated that a phase retrieval method based on a wave propagation algorithm could yield good subcellular images starting from a series of defocused microradiographs. The concluding discussion compares cellular and subcellular hard-X-ray microradiology with other techniques and evaluates its potential impact on biomedical research. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.