Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …

Driven by applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging and material
characterisation, Raman spectroscopies are attracting growing interest from a variety of …

This tutorial-review introduces the fundamentals of polarized light interaction with biological
tissues and presents some of the recent key polarization optical methods that have made …

Barium titanate (BaTiO3) is a synthetic crystal used in electromechanical transducers and
multilayer ceramic capacitors. Since it is not available in nature, a variety of growth methods …

Second harmonic generation (SHG) and third harmonic generation (THG) microscopies
have emerged as powerful imaging modalities to examine structural properties of a wide …

Optical contrasts in microscopy are sensitive to light polarization, whose interaction with
molecular dipoles provides an important lever for probing molecular orientation. Polarization …

The impact of heterogeneous surface oxide formation on the electrochemical performance of
single silver nanoparticles is explored using in situ superlocalization optical microscopy …

Coherent Raman scattering processes such as coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering and
stimulated Raman scattering are described in a tutorial way keeping simple physical …

Type II collagen fibril diameters in cartilage are beneath the diffraction limit of optical
microscopy, which makes the assessment of collagen organization very challenging. In this …

Multimode optical fibers have seen increasing applications in communication, imaging, high-
power lasers, and amplifiers. However, inherent imperfections and environmental …