Research Progress
  • Cryogenically Operated High-power Thin-disk Laser Developed for Beam Quality
    Researchers at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics have developed a cryogenically cooled Ho:YLF thin-disk laser that delivers 128 W continuous-wave output at 2 µm, with 62.5% efficiency and near diffraction-limited beam quality. This wor... In a study published in Optics Express, Prof. Fu Yuxi and his team from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) developed a cryogenically cooled Ho: YLF composite thin-disk laser oscillator with output power at the hundred-watt level....
    May 19, 2025
  • Researchers Developed Long-term Tracker with Excellent Performance
    Research's form Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel long-term visual object tracking framework. By implicitly repressing potential aberrances and incorporating contextual information su... A study published in Knowledge-Based Systems, led by Prof. Zhao Hui from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced an innovative long-term visual tracker based on contextual constraints and...
    May 19, 2025
  • Quasi-Guided Modes Enhance Tunable Nonlinearity in Novel Developed Metasurface
    Researchers from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel nonlocal metasurface based on an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) thin film. They introduced quasi-guided modes (Q-GMs) that strongly co... In a study published in Laser Photonics Reviews, Prof. LIU Hongjun from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the collaborators developed an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nonlocal metasurface structu...
    Apr 24, 2025
  • AI-Enhanced Spectroscopy Enables Rapid Water Quality Sensing
    Researchers from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a physicochemical-informed spectral Transformer model combined with UV−vis-SWNIR spectroscopy for water quality sensing. By embedding ... A research team led by Prof. HU Bingliang and Prof. YU Tao from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the physicochemical-informed spectral Transformer (PIST) model combined with ultra...
    Apr 08, 2025
  • New Technology Developed to Enhance Two-Photon Imaging
    Researchers from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an image-based interferometric focus sensing (IBIFS) method for wavefront correction in wide-field, deep-tissue two-photon microscopy. ... In a study published in Nanophotonics, Prof. YAO Baoli from Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed the image-based interferometric focus sensing (IBIFS) technology, which vastly expands ...
    Apr 08, 2025