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Input refinement with incremental learning for accurate digital twin-enabled self-driven QoT optimization in optical networks
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Naked-eye viewable 3D metasurface holographic movie made of silicon nitride

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Fundamentals to emerging concepts and applications of metasurfaces for flat optics: a tutorial (Adv. Opt. Photon.)
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Towards accurate penetration depth estimation in near-infrared spectroscopy: a quantitative analysis of source-detector distance dependence in porcine kidney models (Biomed. Opt. Express)
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Integrated laser technologies for artificial intelligence applications [Invited] (Opt. Express)
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Deep 3D laser micromachining enabled by kilohertz-rate adaptive energy-flux compensation (Optica)
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Rapid photonic THz continuous wave compressive imaging with super-resolution over a large field of view (Optica)
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Applied Optics
Blind deconvolution extraction of Doppler-broadened spectra in LIF spectroscopy under model-free constraints
Summary by Alfio E. Vinci

A practical tool to infer temperature and velocity of heavy species in cold plasmas.

Deducing the true...

Optics Letters
Evaluating tartrazine as an optical clearing agent for fluorescence lifetime imaging
Summary by Zihao Ou

Tartrazine clears the path for deeper fluorescence lifetime imaging.

This work systematically evaluates...

Optics Express
Ultra-fast and accurate multimode waveguide design based on a dataset-based eigenmode expansion method
Summary by Emir Salih Magden

Song and Sohn introduce an innovative dataset-based eigenmode expansion framework to enable ultra-fast yet highly...

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