Abstract: A sensor system includes: a sensor substrate having a metal nanomesh structure attachable to a surface of an object or a biological organism; a light source configured to emit light toward the sensor substrate; and a detector configured to detect surface-enhanced Raman-scattered light from molecules adsorbed on the metal nanomesh structure, by light emission from the light source. A method for fabricating a sensor substrate includes: preparing a mesh fiber sheet made of a given material by electrospinning; forming a metal layer on the mesh fiber sheet by a prescribed film formation method; and removing the mesh fiber sheet using liquid that dissolves the given material to obtain the sensor substrate having a metal nanomesh structure.

Abstract: Systems and methods for flow cytometry. The methods comprise: labeling cells of a sample with Raman tags; causing the sample to flow through a microfluidic channel of a flow cytometer through which a laser beam passes; detecting Raman signals emitted from the Raman tags while being illuminated by the laser beam; and determining characteristics of the cells based on the detected Raman signals.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a dual-comb laser. The methods comprise: generating pulsed laser beams by first and second laser sources of the dual-comb laser, at least one of the first and second laser sources comprises a diode pumped solid state laser with an output intensity that is modifiable; and matching phase repetition rates of the pulsed laser beams by selectively modifying the output intensity of the diode pumped solid state laser.

Abstract: Systems and methods for flow cytometry. The methods comprise: labeling cells of a sample with Raman tags; causing the sample to flow through a microfluidic channel of a flow cytometer through which a laser beam passes; detecting Raman signals emitted from the Raman tags while being illuminated by the laser beam; and determining characteristics of the cells based on the detected Raman signals.

Abstract: A stimulated Raman scattering microscope device is configured to irradiates a sample with a first optical pulse at a first repetition frequency, to irradiate the sample with a second optical pulse of an optical frequency different from an optical frequency of the first optical pulse at a second repetition frequency, and to detect optical pulses of the first repetition frequency that are included in detected light from the sample irradiated with the first optical pulse and the second optical pulse, as a detected optical pulse train. The second optical pulse is generated by dispersing predetermined optical pulses that include lights of a plurality of optical frequencies, regulating to output optical pulses of a predetermined number of different optical frequencies out of the dispersed optical pulses at the second repetition frequency, and coupling the regulated optical pulses.

Abstract: A Raman scattering enhancing-substrate is provided by arraying a plurality of porous carbon elements in a columnar form or in a massive form made of a porous carbon material with holes of 10 to 50 nm in diameter, on a support base. This substrate is manufactured by, for example, filling a template that is made of anodic aluminum oxide to have an array of a plurality of holes in a columnar form or in a cube form, with pyrrole as a monomer and polymerizing the pyrrole-filling template to form a polypyrrole nanoarray; making the entire polypyrrole nanoarray porous to provide a porous polypyrrole nanoarray that is a porous body with pores of 10 to 50 nm in diameter; and carbonizing the porous polypyrrole nanoarray.

Abstract: A display control device and a display control program can present classification performance of an artificial neural network in a form interpretable by humans. The display control device includes a probability obtainer that obtains a probability of a classification result of an input image from a probability calculator that calculates the probability, and a display controller that displays a distribution of probabilities obtained by the probability obtainer for input images using at least one of display axes of a graph as a probability axis to indicate the probabilities.

Abstract: A flow cytometer including a flow cell in which an imaging object flows; a laser beam irradiator configured to radiate laser beam; a camera including an image sensor of N×M pixels; and an optical system configured to introduce the laser beam from the laser beam irradiator to imaging range of flow cell and to introduce signal light, such as transmitted, reflected or scattered light, from imaging range of flow cell, to camera. Optical system includes a mirror device that is placed on a Fourier plane of imaging optical system, that has at least one mirror specularly reflecting the signal light, and that is driven and rotated in conjunction with a flow in flow cell, such that each part of an image formed by the signal light is introduced into an identical pixel of the image sensor for at least a predetermined time period from a predetermined timing.

Abstract: Provided are an irradiation device, a laser microscope system, an irradiation method, and a laser microscope detection method which can further widen a bandwidth of detection light as a multiplexed signal. Laser light beams are separated and enter a first AOD (24) and a second AOD (34) so that a plurality of first diffracted light beams and a plurality of second diffracted light beams with deflection angles and sizes of frequency shifts different from each other are generated. The first diffracted light beams and the second diffracted light beams are superposed by a beam splitter (19) so as to generate a plurality of interference light beams with beat frequencies different from each other. An objective lens (52) is formed by aligning a plurality of irradiation spots of interference light beam linearly in a main scanning direction and irradiates a sample (T) with the interference light beam.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a probe beam (14) having undergone dispersive Fourier transformation by a dispersive Fourier transformation unit is spatially mapped, an inspection object (18, 20) is irradiated with the probe beam (14), and transmitted light (15) from the inspection object (18, 20) is detected, whereby an image is generated on the basis of the intensity of the transmitted light (15). Accordingly, an imaging apparatus can be provided which can irradiate the inspection object (18, 20) with the weak probe beam (14) having an intensity attenuated by the dispersive Fourier transformation unit, which can generate an image only by detecting the transmitted light (15) from the inspection object (18, 20), and which has a high throughput of generating images while an influence on the inspection object (18, 20) is suppressed.

Abstract: Provided is a Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device capable of improving an acquisition speed of a molecular vibration spectrum. The Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device (1) of the present invention rotates a scanning mirror (26b) by rotation of a rotating shaft (26a) to change a light path length of scanning light and delay or advance the scanning light with respect to reference light in accordance with a rotation angle of the scanning mirror (26b) from an initial position, and is thus capable of moving the scanning mirror (26b) at a high speed as compared with a case where a movable mirror is mechanically moved as in a conventional Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device, thereby improving an acquisition speed of a molecular vibration spectrum.

Abstract: A flow cytometer including a flow cell in which an imaging object flows; a laser beam irradiator configured to radiate laser beam; a camera including an image sensor of N×M pixels; and an optical system configured to introduce the laser beam from the laser beam irradiator to imaging range of flow cell and to introduce signal light, such as transmitted, reflected or scattered light, from imaging range of flow cell, to camera. Optical system includes a mirror device that is placed on a Fourier plane of imaging optical system, that has at least one mirror specularly reflecting the signal light, and that is driven and rotated in conjunction with a flow in flow cell, such that each part of an image formed by the signal light is introduced into an identical pixel of the image sensor for at least a predetermined time period from a predetermined timing.

Abstract: A stimulated Raman scattering microscope device is configured to irradiates a sample with a first optical pulse at a first repetition frequency, to irradiate the sample with a second optical pulse of an optical frequency different from an optical frequency of the first optical pulse at a second repetition frequency, and to detect optical pulses of the first repetition frequency that are included in detected light from the sample irradiated with the first optical pulse and the second optical pulse, as a detected optical pulse train. The second optical pulse is generated by dispersing predetermined optical pulses that include lights of a plurality of optical frequencies, regulating to output optical pulses of a predetermined number of different optical frequencies out of the dispersed optical pulses at the second repetition frequency, and coupling the regulated optical pulses.

Abstract: Provided are an irradiation device, a laser microscope system, an irradiation method, and a laser microscope detection method which can further widen a bandwidth of detection light as a multiplexed signal. Laser light beams are separated and enter a first AOD (24) and a second AOD (34) so that a plurality of first diffracted light beams and a plurality of second diffracted light beams with deflection angles and sizes of frequency shifts different from each other are generated. The first diffracted light beams and the second diffracted light beams are superposed by a beam splitter (19) so as to generate a plurality of interference light beams with beat frequencies different from each other. An objective lens (52) is formed by aligning a plurality of irradiation spots of interference light beam linearly in a main scanning direction and irradiates a sample (T) with the interference light beam.

Abstract: Provided is a Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device capable of improving an acquisition speed of a molecular vibration spectrum. The Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device (1) of the present invention rotates a scanning mirror (26b) by rotation of a rotating shaft (26a) to change a light path length of scanning light and delay or advance the scanning light with respect to reference light in accordance with a rotation angle of the scanning mirror (26b) from an initial position, and is thus capable of moving the scanning mirror (26b) at a high speed as compared with a case where a movable mirror is mechanically moved as in a conventional Fourier transform-type spectroscopic device, thereby improving an acquisition speed of a molecular vibration spectrum.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a probe beam (14) having undergone dispersive Fourier transformation by a dispersive Fourier transformation unit is spatially mapped, an inspection object (18, 20) is irradiated with the probe beam (14), and transmitted light (15) from the inspection object (18, 20) is detected, whereby an image is generated on the basis of the intensity of the transmitted light (15). Accordingly, an imaging apparatus can be provided which can irradiate the inspection object (18, 20) with the weak probe beam (14) having an intensity attenuated by the dispersive Fourier transformation unit, which can generate an image only by detecting the transmitted light (15) from the inspection object (18, 20), and which has a high throughput of generating images while an influence on the inspection object (18, 20) is suppressed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for ultrafast real-time optical imaging that can be used for imaging dynamic events such as microfluidics or laser surgery is provided. The apparatus and methods encode spatial information from a sample into a back reflection of a two-dimensional spectral brush that is generated with a two-dimensional disperser and a light source that is mapped in to the time domain with a temporal disperser. The temporal waveform is preferably captured by an optical detector, converted to an electrical signal that is digitized and processed to provide two dimensional and three dimensional images. The produced signals can be optically or electronically amplified. Detection may be improved with correlation matching against a database in the time domain or the spatial domain. Embodiments for endoscopy, microscopy and simultaneous imaging and laser ablation with a single fiber are illustrated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for ultrafast real-time optical imaging that can be used for imaging dynamic events such as microfluidics or laser surgery is provided. The apparatus and methods encode spatial information from a sample into a back reflection of a two-dimensional spectral brush that is generated with a two-dimensional disperser and a light source that is mapped in to the time domain with a temporal disperser. The temporal waveform is preferably captured by an optical detector, converted to an electrical signal that is digitized and processed to provide two dimensional and three dimensional images. The produced signals can be optically or electronically amplified. Detection may be improved with correlation matching against a database in the time domain or the spatial domain. Embodiments for endoscopy, microscopy and simultaneous imaging and laser ablation with a single fiber are illustrated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for ultrafast real-time optical imaging that can be used for imaging dynamic events such as microfluidics or laser surgery is provided. The apparatus and methods encode spatial information from a sample into a back reflection of a two-dimensional spectral brush that is generated with a two-dimensional disperser and a light source that is mapped in to the time domain with a temporal disperser. The temporal waveform is preferably captured by an optical detector, converted to an electrical signal that is digitized and processed to provide two dimensional and three dimensional images. The produced signals can be optically or electronically amplified. Detection may be improved with correlation matching against a database in the time domain or the spatial domain. Embodiments for endoscopy, microscopy and simultaneous imaging and laser ablation with a single fiber are illustrated.

Abstract: A barcode reading apparatus and method in which the spectrum of a probe light is first Fourier-transformed into space, directed upon a barcode, and then Fourier-transformed converting the spectrally encoded barcode pattern to a time domain waveform. In one implementation, the Fourier transformation from the spectrum domain into a spatial domain is performed by a dispersive element, while the Fourier transformation from the spectrally encoded barcode pattern to a time domain waveform is performed by group-velocity dispersion (GVD). The temporally encoded barcode pattern is detected by a photodetector, digitized by a digitizer, and analyzed by a digital signal processor. The invention is applicable to a number of fields which involve the reading of one- and two-dimensional barcodes, displacement sensing, surface measurements, measurement of width and gap, flow cytometry, reading of optical media, presense or absence detection, and other related fields.