Our HyperFine spectrometers are being used in labs around the world, and we track the science they enable. Here are the published papers we have found so far.
Rapid, Broadband, Optical Spectroscopy of Cold Radicals - arXiv:2505.03650 (2025) Ashay N. Patel, Madison I. Howard, Timothy C. Steimle, Nicholas R. Hutzler
High-contrast Brillouin spectrometer based on a hybrid VIPA-etalon cascade scheme - Proc. SPIE 12844, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics XI, 1284403 Sophie Chagnon-Lessard, Ian Miller, John Hunter, Kevin Gourley, and Hubert Jean-Ruel (12 March 2024). DOI: 10.1117/12.3008831
In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of human skin with motion-corrected Brillouin microscopy - Biomed. Opt. Express 15, 1777-1784 (2024) Maria N. Romodina, Asha Parmar, and Kanwarpal Singh
First on-sky results of a FIOS prototype, a Fabry Perot Based Instrument for Oxygen Searches - Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Surangkhana Rukdee, Sagi Ben-Ami, Mercedes López-Morales, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, David Charbonneau, Juliana García-Mejía, Johannes Buchner
First steps in the development of next-generation chirped volume Bragg gratings by means of fs laser inscription in fused silica - Optics Express 31.9 (2023): 14286-14298, Perevezentsev, Evgeny A., et al
Heterodyne linewidth measurement of a free-running single frequency diamond Raman laser - MRes thesis, Macquarie University (2020). Master's thesis, Macquarie University (2020). Abedi, Seyed Farshad
Optical spectroscopy combined in situ with instrumented indentation. - Journal of Applied Physics 132, 121101 (2022). A. Useinov, V. Reshetov, A. Gusev, and E. Gladkih
Performances of a VIPA-based spectrometer for Brillouin scattering experiments in the diamond anvil cell under laser heating - High Pressure Research DOI: 10.1080/08957959.2022.2109968 (2022) A. Forestier, G. Weck, F. Datchi, P. Loubeyre. DOI: 10.1080/08957959.2022.2109968
A Narrow-Linewidth Linearly Polarized 1018-nm Fiber Source for Pumping Diamond Raman Laser. - Frontiers in Physics 9, 727109 (2021). Front. Phys. 9: 727109. doi: 10.3389/fphy (2021). Yang, Xuezong, et al. DOI: 10.3389/fphy
Dynamic wavelength control of laser pulse profiles at picosecond to nanosecond timescales - Opt. Express 30, 1875-1884 (2022). D. E. Mittelberger, R. D. Muir, and J. E. Heebner
Probing molecular crowding in compressed tissues with Brillouin light scattering - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (4) e2113614119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113614119. - Guqi Yan, Sylvain Monnier, Malèke Mouelhi, Thomas Dehoux. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113614119.
Trade-off study of a high-resolution spectrograph on a CubeSat to study exoplanets - Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets X. Vol. 11823. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2021. Rukdee, Surangkhana
Passively Q-switched 914 nm microchip laser for lidar systems - Optics Express 29(15) 23799-23809 (2021). 29.15 (2021): 23799-23809. Nägele, Marco, Klaus Stoppel, and Thomas Dekorsy
THESEUS1 modulates cell wall stiffness and abscisic acid production in Arabidopsis thaliana - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.1 (2022). Bacete, Laura, et al
Elastic modulus measurement based on virtual image phase array confocal Brillouin spectroscopy technology - Infrared and Laser Engineering 50(4) 20200265 (2021). 2021, 50(4): 20200265. doi: 10.3788/IRLA20200265 Xu Meng et al. DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20200265
Ultra-high resolution spectroscopy from ground and space for exoplanet atmosphere characterization - Proc. Innovation Aviation & Aerospace Industry Int. Conf. 2021 (IAAI-2021), MDPI. in Proceedings of the Innovation Aviation & Aerospace Industry - International Conference 2021, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi:10.3390/IAAI-2021-10600. Rukdee, S. DOI: 10.3390/IAAI-2021-10600.
A VIPA Spectrograph with Ultra-high Resolution and Wavelength Calibration for Astronomical Applications - The Astronomical Journal 160(3) 135 (2020). August 2020, Xiaoming Zhu, Dong Lin, Zhibo Hao, Liang Wang and Jinping He
On the rotational–translational equilibrium in non-thermal argon plasmas at atmospheric pressure - Plasma Sources Science and Technology 30(3) 035020 (2021). (2021). Accepted Manuscript. Labelle, Francis, Antoine Durocher-Jean, and Luc Stafford
Free-space confocal magneto-optical spectroscopies at milliKelvin temperatures. - Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems 2021. Vol. 11806. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2021., B. J. Lawrie, M. Feldman, C. E. Marvinney, Y. Y. Pai
Fraunhofer Line Discrimination (FLD) - Sandia National Laboratories conference poster SAND2019-3564C (2019). Smith, Mark W., U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Interferometer systems and methods thereof - U.S. Patent 11,169,027 B2, granted 9 November 2021. Munro, James F. U.S. Patent Application No. 16/699,571
Ultra-high-resolution optical absorption spectroscopy of DC plasmas at low pressure using a supercontinuum laser combined with a laser line tunable filter and a HyperFine spectrometer - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54(8) 085204 (2021). Antoine Durocher-Jean, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Laura-Isabelle Dion-Bertrand, Sébastien Blais-Ouellette and Luc Stafford (2020)
Evaluation of commercial Virtually Imaged Phase Array and Fabry-Pérot based Brillouin spectrometers for applications to biology. - Biomedical optics express, Optical Society - SOA Publishing, Guqi Yan, Antony Bazir, Jérémie Margueritat, Thomas Dehoux
Development and validation of hybrid Brillouin-Raman spectroscopy for non-contact assessment of mechano-chemical properties of urine proteins as biomarkers of kidney diseases - BMC Nephrology Abduzhappar Gaipov, Zhandos Utegulov, Rostislav Bukasov, Duman Turebekov, Pavel Tarlykov, Zhannur Markhametova, Zhangatay Nurekeyev, Zhanar Kunushpayeva & Alisher Sultangaziyev
Superconductivity of Strontium Titanate in Reduced Dimensions - Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh (2020). Pai, Yun-Yi (2020) Superconductivity of Strontium Titanate in Reduced Dimensions. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)
Single-frequency 620 nm diamond laser at high power, stabilized via harmonic self-suppression and spatial-hole-burning-free gain - Optics Letters 44(4) 839-842 (2019). Xuezong Yang, Ondrej Kitzler, David J. Spence, Robert J. Williams, Zhenxu Bai, Soumya Sarang, Lei Zhang, Yan Feng, and Richard P. Mildren
Diamond sodium guide star laser - Optics Letters 45(7) 1898-1901 (2020). Xuezong Yang, Ondrej Kitzler, David J. Spence, Zhenxu Bai, Yan Feng, and Richard P. Mildren
White Papers
Technical Note – Dependence of the precision of Brillouin shifts on the SNR of the signal. We show that the precision of a Brillouin shift measurement is proportional to the SNR of the Brillouin signal. Tips are provided for the optimization of this signal, and for estimating the precision of any measurement by simply calculating the total number of photo-electrons contributing to the Brillouin signal.
Brillouin Spectrum of Bovine Bones. The mechanical properties of a polished bovine bone were optically probed using the LightMachinery
Brillouin system. This technique analyzes the inelastic scattering of photons following interactions with acoustic phonons in a material.
Technical Note – Differing plasma conditions affect the calibration lines in Hg lamps.
John Reid, Hubert Jean-Ruel
Spectrometer Application Report - Preliminary Brillouin measurements of a cow’s liver
Greg Wardle, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
Measuring Magnons, Spin Wave Brillouin Spectroscopy with the LightMachinery HyperFine Spectrometer
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
Mapping the Mechanical Properties of Cells via Brillouin Spectroscopy
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Greg Wardle, Evgueni Ponomarev
Calibration lamps with differing plasma conditions
John Reid with insight provided by Luc Stafford of the University of Montreal
Measuring narrowband filters with LightMachinery Spectrometers
John Reid
Laser Characterization with Etalon-Based Cross-Dispersion Spectrometers
John Reid, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Sophie Chagnon-Lessard, Taylor Breen, and Tristan McNairn.
More: Laser Characterization with Etalon-Based Cross-Dispersion Spectrometers (Part 2) We present measurements on a laser diode module characterized with a LightMachinery HN-8995-2 spectrometer operating in the 980 nm wavelength region.
Resolving the magnetic hyperfine structure of Hg Isotopes using a VIPA grating spectrometer
Hubert Jean-Ruel, John Reid, and Greg Dodd
Introduction to the operating principles of the HyperFine spectrometer
John Reid, Hubert Jean-Ruel and Greg Dodd
Brillouin Spectroscopy of a Plastic Film
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
Brillouin Spectroscopy of Nb2O5 Thin Films
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
Brillouin Spectroscopy in a Diamond Anvil Cell
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard & David Walker
Brillouin Spectroscopy of a Silicon Wafer
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
Exploration of the Sun’s spectrum with LightMachinery spectrometers
John Reid (If the video doesn't load for you, you can use this link)
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Poster for Bio-Brillouin 2020: BIOLOGICAL BRILLOUIN SCATTERING WITH THE HYPERFINE SPECTROMETER
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard
