ZUNINO A.

The ecological perspective has been used in literature to study the features of the life environment that influences the people quality of life and other relevant topics like the sense of safety and sense of unsafety. The perception of living in a safe place seems to play an important role in the well-being process, since, as known, the sense...

A novel tool for the simultaneous shaping and parallelization of a laser beam is presented. Our method exploits the interaction of light and ultrasound in a fluid to form various light intensity patterns with a large tunability and at high speed. Arrays of tailored beams (Gaussian, annular, or Bessel) can be formed by properly selecting the...

The high versatility of laser direct-write (LDW) systems offers remarkable opportunities for Industry 4.0. However, the inherent serial nature of LDW systems can seriously constrain manufacturing throughput and, consequently, the industrial scalability of this technology. Here we present a method to parallelise LDWs by using acoustically shaped...

Mueller Matrix Microscopy exploits the generation and the analysis of polarized light to create label-free contrast in biological images. However, when dealing with Optical Scanning Microscopy, it is required a fast generation of the polarization states in order to obtain a good Signal-to-Noise Ratio at the pixel-dwell time rate. In this work,...

Acoustic waves in an optical medium cause rapid periodic changes in the refraction index, leading to diffraction effects. Such acoustically controlled diffraction can be used to modulate, deflect, and focus light at microsecond timescales, paving the way for advanced optical microscopy designs that feature unprecedented spatiotemporal...

Light Sheet Microscopy (LSM), being capable of optical sectioning at diffraction-limited resolution and at low light doses [1], has become the tool of choice for volumetric imaging of large samples. Unfortunately, traditional LSM architectures are limited in speed because a z-stack is collected by either sample translation or synchronized...

Light-sheet microscopes have become the tool of choice for volumetric imaging of large samples. Based on a wide-field acquisition scheme, they are capable of optical sectioning at diffraction-limited resolution and minimal overall photodamage. Unfortunately, traditional architectures are limited in speed because 3D images are collected by...