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BMC Oral Health
January 2025
Conservative Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Background: In recent years, there have been suggestions for new restorative strategies that aim to effectively utilize modern adhesive technologies and protect the remaining intact tooth structure. This study was conducted to evaluate the clinical performance of fiber reinforced resin composites in restoring Class II MOD cavities over 18 months.
Methods: Forty-five participants with class II MOD cavities were randomly enrolled.
Sci Adv
January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China.
Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is the foundation of quantum optics to test the degree of indistinguishability of two incoming photons, playing a key role in quantum communication, sensing, and photonic quantum computing. Realizing high-visibility HOM interference with massively parallel optical channels is challenging due to the lack of available natural optical references for aligning independent arrayed laser pairs. Here, we demonstrate 50 parallel comb-teeth pairs of continuous-wave weak coherent photons HOM interference using two independently frequency post-aligned soliton microcombs (SMCs), achieving an average fringe visibility over 46%.
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February 2025
Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Trigeminal neuralgia is the most common cause of facial pain in individuals over 50 years old and can have a profoundly negative impact on quality of life. Epidemiological studies have measured the annual incidence of trigeminal neuralgia at around 4-5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year. In Iceland, this would amount to about 16-20 new cases annually.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChirp modulation can generate a relatively flat electro-optic frequency comb (EO comb) and offers the advantage of frequency reconfigurability, demonstrating significant potential in high-precision sensing and absorption spectroscopy measurements. However, nonresonant devices such as waveguides are susceptible to limitations in modulation efficiency and bandwidth during electro-optic modulation. In this paper, by utilizing chirp modulation resonance mode, we have realized an EO comb based on a lithium niobate resonator with small tooth spacing and high flatness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA coherent optical frequency comb (OFC) with suppressed linewidth is demonstrated based on the spectral broadening of a directly modulated semiconductor microcavity laser with self-injection locking. Due to the high electro-optical response, the directly modulated microcavity laser provides a 10-GHz-spaced seeding OFC with 9 comb teeth in a 10 dB flatness window. Besides, an optical feedback fiber loop with two sub-loops is introduced to reduce the linewidth of the microlaser and suppress the undesired longitudinal modes.
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