Hand-held laser for miniature photoacoustic microscopy: triggerable, millimeter scale, cost-effective, and functional

Hanjie Wang; Xingyu Zhu; Xiaobin Weng; Lanxin Deng; Yitao Zheng; Zihan Shen; Huiyue You; Huajun Tang; Xin Dong; Mingyu Li; Shengchuang Bai; Jun Dong; Hongsen He

doi:10.1364/PRJ.553607

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 1637(2025)

Hand-held laser for miniature photoacoustic microscopy: triggerable, millimeter scale, cost-effective, and functional On the Cover

Hanjie Wang¹, Xingyu Zhu¹, Xiaobin Weng¹, Lanxin Deng², Yitao Zheng¹, Zihan Shen¹, Huiyue You¹, Huajun Tang³, Xin Dong³, Mingyu Li², Shengchuang Bai^4,6, Jun Dong^1,5,7, and Hongsen He^1,5、*

Author Affiliations

¹Laboratory of Laser and Applied Photonics (LLAP), Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China

²Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug Target Research, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China

³Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁴Laboratory of Infrared Material and Devices, Research Institute of Advanced Technologies, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

⁵Fujian Key Laboratory of Ultrafast Laser Technology and Applications, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China

⁶e-mail: baishengchuang@nbu.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: jdong@xmu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Imaging Systems, Microscopy, and Displays

Received: Dec. 22, 2024

Accepted: Apr. 17, 2025

Published Online: May. 30, 2025

The Author Email: Hongsen He (hshe@xmu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.553607

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.553607

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