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Opt Lett ; 48(8): 2094-2097, 2023 Apr 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37058650

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High harmonic generation (HHG) in monolayer MoS2 is studied using fully microscopic many-body models based on the semiconductor Bloch equations and density functional theory. It is shown that Coulomb correlations lead to a dramatic enhancement of HHG. In particular, near the bandgap, enhancements of two orders of magnitude or more are observed for a wide range of excitation wavelengths and intensities. For excitation at excitonic resonances, strong absorption leads to spectrally broad sub-floors of the harmonics that is absent without Coulomb interaction. The widths of these sub-floors depend strongly on the dephasing time for polarizations. For times of the order of 10 fs the broadenings are comparable to the Rabi energies and reach one electronvolt at fields of approximately 50 MV/cm. The intensities of these contributions are approximately four to six orders below the peaks of the harmonics.

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J Phys Condens Matter ; 34(28)2022 May 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35453129

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Anab initiobased fully microscopic many-body approach is used to study the carrier relaxation dynamics in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. Bandstructures and wavefunctions as well as phonon energies and coupling matrix elements are calculated using density functional theory. The resulting dipole and Coulomb matrix elements are implemented in the Dirac-Bloch equations to calculate carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon scatterings throughout the whole Brillouin zone (BZ). It is shown that carrier scatterings lead to a relaxation into hot quasi-Fermi distributions on a single femtosecond timescale. Carrier cool down and inter-valley transitions are mediated by phonon scatterings on a picosecond timescale. Strong, density-dependent energy renormalizations are shown to be valley-dependent. For MoTe2, MoSe2and MoS2the change of energies with occupation is found to be about 50% stronger in the Σ and Λ side valleys than in theKandK' valleys. However, for realistic carrier densities, the materials always maintain their direct bandgap at theKpoints of the BZ.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 125(8): 083901, 2020 Aug 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32909805

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The influence of propagation on the nonperturbative high-harmonic features in long-wavelength strong pulse excited semiconductors is studied using a fully microscopic approach. For sample lengths exceeding the wavelength of the exciting light, it is shown that the propagation effectively acts as a very strong additional dephasing that reduces the relative height of the emission plateau up to six orders of magnitude. This propagation induced dephasing clarifies the need to use extremely short polarization decay times for the quantitative analysis of experimental observations.

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J Cardiovasc Pharmacol ; 76(2): 159-163, 2020 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32590402

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OBJECTIVE: Administration of unfractionated heparin to STEMI patients by the ambulance service is an established practice in Scotland, but the efficacy is unknown. We studied the effects of unfractionated heparin in STEMI patients treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention, on infarct artery patency and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS: Consecutive patients (n = 1000) admitted to Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, from 2010 to 2014 for primary percutaneous coronary intervention were allocated to 2 groups: 437 (44%) prehospital heparin (PHH) administered by paramedics, and 563 (56%) in-hospital heparin. A trained medical student assessed coronary flow at presentation and collected the data. Mortality status was ascertained at 30 days and 5 years. Cox proportional hazards regression models were generated. The patient groups were similar, although PHH had shorter symptom onset-treatment time (187 vs. 251 minutes, P < 0.001) and less cardiogenic shock (3.9% vs. 8.0%, P = 0.008). Initial coronary flow was not different between the groups. Thirty day mortality in PHH was 2.5% versus 8.3%, P < 0.001. Independent predictors of 30-day mortality were age (odds ratio 1.07, 95% CI 1.04-1.09), cardiogenic shock (5.97, 3.33-10.69), radial access (0.53, 0.28-0.98), and PHH (0.33, 0.17-0.66). Five-year mortality in PHH was 13.0% versus 21.6%, P < 0.001. Significant predictors of long-term mortality were age (1.07, 1.06-1.09), cardiogenic shock (3.40, 2.23-5.17), and PHH (0.68, 0.49-0.96). CONCLUSIONS: PHH was associated with reduced short- and long-term mortality after adjusting for important potential confounders.


Asunto(s)
Anticoagulantes/administración & dosificación , Enfermedad de la Arteria Coronaria/terapia , Servicios Médicos de Urgencia , Heparina/administración & dosificación , Intervención Coronaria Percutánea , Infarto del Miocardio con Elevación del ST/terapia , Factores de Edad , Ambulancias , Anticoagulantes/efectos adversos , Enfermedad de la Arteria Coronaria/diagnóstico , Enfermedad de la Arteria Coronaria/mortalidad , Enfermedad de la Arteria Coronaria/fisiopatología , Esquema de Medicación , Femenino , Heparina/efectos adversos , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Intervención Coronaria Percutánea/efectos adversos , Intervención Coronaria Percutánea/mortalidad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Medición de Riesgo , Factores de Riesgo , Infarto del Miocardio con Elevación del ST/diagnóstico , Infarto del Miocardio con Elevación del ST/mortalidad , Infarto del Miocardio con Elevación del ST/fisiopatología , Escocia , Choque Cardiogénico/mortalidad , Factores de Tiempo , Resultado del Tratamiento , Grado de Desobstrucción Vascular
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Opt Lett ; 44(12): 3122-3125, 2019 Jun 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31199396

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We identify a two-stage filamentation regime for high-power 10 µm multipicosecond pulses propagating in the atmosphere. The first low-intensity stage is mainly regularized by ionization through excitation induced dephasing, which can lead to strong pulse shortening downstream. This shortening in turn causes a significant reduction of the many-body induced plasma, which changes the dynamics drastically. As a result, a distinct second stage is predicted where peak intensities are clamped at 1 order of magnitude higher than in the first stage. The complex dynamics found in the second stage can result in the spatial and temporal breakup of the wavepacket, reduction of ionization losses, and extreme spectral broadening.

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Eklem Hastalik Cerrahisi ; 28(3): 214-8, 2017 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29125823

RESUMEN

Instabilities of the cervical spine after complete or incomplete corpectomy may be the result from resection due to stenosis induced myelopathy, tumors, infections or fractures. In this article, we report a 49-year-old female patient after surgical decompression and stabilization at C5/7 with permanent cervicobrachialgia due to cervical stenosis at C5/7. Corpectomy of C6 and stabilization of C5/7 were performed with a combination of cage and plate. At an outpatient control 16 months after reoperation, the patient complained of neck pain, while the control X-ray showed a fracture of the implant. Due to instability of the device, a revision was indicated, resulting in removal of all components with restabilization. Definitive stabilization was performed with a PINA® cage, discectomy and cage implantation at C4/5 and C7/Th1 and a plate from C4 to Th1 with screw fixation in C4/5/Th1. Postoperative course was complication free and the patient was without pain or neurological symptoms at follow-up after 12 months with all implants in radiologically regular position. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report to describe such a complication.


Asunto(s)
Vértebras Cervicales/cirugía , Fracturas Periprotésicas/etiología , Prótesis e Implantes/efectos adversos , Fusión Vertebral/instrumentación , Descompresión Quirúrgica , Discectomía , Femenino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Fracturas Periprotésicas/diagnóstico por imagen , Estenosis Espinal/cirugía
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Opt Lett ; 42(19): 3722-3725, 2017 Oct 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28957115

RESUMEN

We predict that long wavelength self-trapped multi-terawatt pulses can be sustained over multiple kilometers in the atmosphere. Unlike filaments, these pulses exhibit low loss propagation and retain most of their launch power at range. A novel mechanism involving an aggregation of weakly linear and nonlinear cumulative optical responses is shown to be responsible and is dominated by an ultrafast dynamical lensing resulting from a field intensity driven many-body Coulomb mediated free electron polarization associated with spatially separated species in the gas. An initial few picosecond pulse can compress down to 140 fs over multiple kilometers.

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Sensors (Basel) ; 16(9)2016 Aug 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27589749

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The integration of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors in lithium-ion cells for in-situ and in-operando temperature monitoring is presented herein. The measuring of internal and external temperature variations was performed through four FBG sensors during galvanostatic cycling at C-rates ranging from 1C to 8C. The FBG sensors were placed both outside and inside the cell, located in the center of the electrochemically active area and at the tab-electrode connection. The internal sensors recorded temperature variations of 4.0 ± 0.1 °C at 5C and 4.7 ± 0.1 °C at 8C at the center of the active area, and 3.9 ± 0.1 °C at 5C and 4.0 ± 0.1 °C at 8C at the tab-electrode connection, respectively. This study is intended to contribute to detection of a temperature gradient in real time inside a cell, which can determine possible damage in the battery performance when it operates under normal and abnormal operating conditions, as well as to demonstrate the technical feasibility of the integration of in-operando microsensors inside Li-ion cells.

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Science ; 352(6291): 1301-4, 2016 Jun 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27284190

RESUMEN

Tailored light sources have greatly advanced technological and scientific progress by optimizing the emission spectrum or color and the emission characteristics. We demonstrate an efficient spectrally broadband and highly directional warm-white-light emitter based on a nonlinear process driven by a cheap, low-power continuous-wave infrared laser diode. The nonlinear medium is a specially designed amorphous material composed of symmetry-free, diamondoid-like cluster molecules that are readily obtained from ubiquitous resources. The visible part of the spectrum resembles the color of a tungsten-halogen lamp at 2900 kelvin while retaining the superior beam divergence of the driving laser. This approach of functionalizing energy-efficient state-of-the-art semiconductor lasers enables a technology complementary to light-emitting diodes for replacing incandescent white-light emitters in high-brilliance applications.

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Opt Lett ; 40(23): 5459-62, 2015 Dec 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26625025

RESUMEN

We utilize an asynchronous optical sampling technique to study the gain dynamics of vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) under mode-locked operation. This allows for an in situ characterization of the gain depletion and recovery over nanoseconds with femtosecond-scale resolution. Our method allows for a more direct study of intracavity gain dynamics than traditional pump/probe measurements. We observe a rapid depletion of the gain on the timescale of the intracavity pulse. Afterward, a rapid recovery over a few picoseconds due to intraband scattering and carrier heating takes place, followed by a long recovery attributed to the continuous supply of carriers by the pump laser.

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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 7(10): 5950-8, 2015 Mar 18.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25714124

RESUMEN

In this study, we report on the electroplating and stripping of lithium in two ionic liquid (IL) based electrolytes, namely N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl) imide (Pyr14FSI) and N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Pyr14TFSI), and mixtures thereof, both on nickel and lithium electrodes. An improved method to evaluate the Li cycling efficiency confirmed that homogeneous electroplating (and stripping) of Li is possible with TFSI-based ILs. Moreover, the presence of native surface features on lithium, directly observable via scanning electron microscope imaging, was used to demonstrate the enhanced electrolyte interphase (SEI)-forming ability, that is, fast cathodic reactivity of this class of electrolytes and the suppressed dendrite growth. Finally, the induced inhomogeneous deposition enabled us to witness the SEI cracking and revealed previously unreported bundled Li fibers below the pre-existing SEI and nonrod-shaped protuberances resulting from Li extrusion.

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Opt Lett ; 38(18): 3654-7, 2013 Sep 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24104838

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We demonstrate a continuous wave, single-frequency terahertz (THz) source emitting 1.9 THz. The linewidth is less than 100 kHz and the generated THz output power exceeds 100 µW. The THz source is based on parametric difference frequency generation within a nonlinear crystal located in an optical enhancement cavity. Two single-frequency vertical-external-cavity source-emitting lasers with emission wavelengths spaced by 6.8 nm are phase locked to the external cavity and provide pump photons for the nonlinear downconversion. It is demonstrated that the THz source can be used as a local oscillator to drive a receiver used in astronomy applications.

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Opt Express ; 21(26): 31940-50, 2013 Dec 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24514789

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The longitudinal multi-mode emission in a vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser is investigated using both single shot streak camera measurements and interferometric measurement techniques. For this, the laser is operated in the single- and two-color emission regime using both an etalon and a free-running configuration without etalon, respectively. The laser emission is analyzed with respect to pump power and output coupling losses for a long and for a short resonator. We observe a steep increase of emission bandwidth close to the laser threshold and monitor the transition between longitudinal single- and multi-mode operation. Additionally, the results indicate that a stable two-color operation is related to a sufficiently high number of oscillating longitudinal modes within each color.


Asunto(s)
Transferencia de Energía , Rayos Láser , Dispersión de Radiación , Diseño de Equipo , Análisis de Falla de Equipo
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Opt Lett ; 37(1): 25-7, 2012 Jan 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22212779

RESUMEN

Wide wavelength tunability of single- and two-color operating vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) is demonstrated. Employing an external feedback based on a diffractive grating outside the cavity of a narrow-line single-color VECSEL allows for a continuous tuning of the emission wavelength over 10 nm. Employing a dual-feedback-configuration for tunable two-color emission, a tunability of the difference frequency between the two lasing wavelengths from 300 gigahertz to up to 3.5 terahertz is demonstrated.

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Appl Opt ; 50(9): C69-74, 2011 Mar 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21460985

RESUMEN

Material mixtures offer new possibilities for synthesizing coating materials with tailored optical and mechanical properties. We present experimental results on mixtures of HfO2, ZrO2, and Al2O3, pursuing applications in UV coating technology, while the mixtures are prepared by magnetron sputtering, ion beam sputtering, plasma ion-assisted deposition (PIAD), and electron beam evaporation without assistance. The properties investigated include the refractive index, optical gap, thermal shift, and mechanical stress. The first high reflectors for UV applications have been deposited by PIAD.

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Opt Express ; 18(26): 27112-7, 2010 Dec 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21196987

RESUMEN

We present a continuous wave terahertz source based on intracavity difference frequency generation within a dual color vertical external cavity surface emitting laser. Using a nonlinear crystal with a surface emitting phase matching scheme allows for high conversion efficiencies. Due to the tunability of the dual mode spacing, the entire spectral range of the terahertz gap can be covered. The terahertz output scales quadratically with the intracavity intensity, potentially allowing for terahertz intensities in the range of 10s of milliwatts and beyond.


Asunto(s)
Rayos Láser , Iluminación/instrumentación , Diseño de Equipo , Análisis de Falla de Equipo , Temperatura , Radiación Terahertz
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Opt Lett ; 34(22): 3511-3, 2009 Nov 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19927194

RESUMEN

Up to 136 mW of cw single-frequency output at 295 nm was obtained from a frequency-quadrupled optically pumped semiconductor laser. The highly strained InGaAs quantum-well semiconductor laser operates at 1178 nm in a single frequency. The single-frequency intracavity-doubled 589 nm output is further converted to 295 nm in an external resonator using beta-BaB(2)O(4).

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Opt Lett ; 31(24): 3612-4, 2006 Dec 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17130920

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We propose an efficient coherent power scaling scheme, the multichip vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL), in which the waste heat generated in the active region is distributed on multi-VECSEL chips such that the pump level at the thermal rollover is significantly increased. The advantages of this laser are discussed, and the development and demonstration of a two-chip VECSEL operating around 970 nm with over 19 W of output power is presented.

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