Pulsed UV laser machining is an established method for production of 2.5D and 3D features in a wide variety of materials. In addition to direct laser patterning by ablation, exposure of photoresist using pulsed lasers can eliminate the need for large area contact photomasks. Half-tone machining, either by ablation or exposure, allows the production of high quality shallow features where the sur...

The coherence of a single-mode laser diode, under high-speed pulsed modulation, is limited by instabilities in the lasing wavelength arising from transient phenomena in the junction region of the laser. This paper reports the results of an experiment to characterize the effects of these modal instabilities on the temporal coherence of pulsed laser diodes. The primary intent of the experiment wa...

We have been studying the pulse radiolysis using photo-cathode rf gun at Waseda Univ. Pulse radiolysis is one of the powerful methods to trace early chemical reactions by ionizing radiation. In pulse radiolysis, the probe light absorption, which produced by active species formed by electron beam of rf gun, is measured at each wavelength and made possible to trace reactions. Therefore, we have u...

Laser (or light) hair removal, also referred to as photoepilation, is the most commonly used laser or light-based cosmetic medical procedure. The extended theory of selective photothermolysis is the basic principle for destruction of hair follicles using light. In this type of laser application the chromophore is follicular melanin. Several types of lasers and light sources have been effective ...

BACKGROUND The human lens is continuously exposed to high levels of light. Ultraviolet radiation is believed to play a causative role in the development of cataract. In vivo, however, the lens is mainly exposed to visible light and the ageing lens absorbs a great part of the short wavelength region of incoming visible light. The aim of the present study was to examine the optical effects on hum...

This research shows a novel method for hazard identification of a chemical and UV light on a single cell level with a laser probe beam. The laser probe beam was passed through interface of cell membrane/culture medium of a cultured human hepatoblastoma cell line HepG2. Deflection of the laser probe beam, which was induced by changes in concentration gradients due to the active materials movemen...

Cyrille Boyer, May Lim, and co-workers highlight recent advances in upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) as NIR-initiated controlled drug delivery systems. Surface modification strategies are reviewed alongside with the influence of the laser power intensity and illumination time on the drug release pattern in article 1500437. NIRto-UV/visible UCNPs have emerged as potential remotecontrolled nano...

Hexagonally ordered mesoporous silica materials MCM-41 and SBA-15 have been synthesized and loaded with Ag nanoparticles, utilizing both chemical synthesis and ultrashort pulsed laser ablation in liquid. In laser ablation, a silver target, immersed in aqueous suspension of ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15, was irradiated by ultra-short laser pulses to generate silver nanoparticles. For comparis...

Recently, an urgent requirement of ultraviolet (UV) semiconductor laser with lower cost and higher performance has motivated our intensive research in zinc oxide (ZnO) material owing to its wide direct band gap and large exciton binding energy. Here, we demonstrate for the first time continuous-wave laser in electrically-pumped hollow polygonal microcavities based on epitaxial ZnO/MgO-core/shel...