Generation and applications of broadband high-frequency laser ultrasound with nanostructured materials

Carlos Serpa; Diogo A. Pereira; Tiago Pinto; Alexandre D. Silva; Luis G. Arnaut

doi:10.1117/12.2609744

3 March 2022 Generation and applications of broadband high-frequency laser ultrasound with nanostructured materials

Carlos Serpa, Diogo A. Pereira, Tiago Pinto, Alexandre D. Silva, Luis G. Arnaut

Proceedings Volume 11960, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2022; 1196015 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609744
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In the present work we show that the interaction between short lasers pulses and tailor-made nanostrucured materials can produce broadband high-frequency ultrasound. In order to obtain efficient light-to-pressure conversion we used nanostructured carbon nanotubes permeated with high thermal expansion polydimethylsiloxane and nanometric TiO₂ particles with adsorbed dye infused polystyrene. It is possible to achieve ultrasound pulses with central frequencies of 80 MHz and bandwidths of 125 MHz (at -6 dB) using a 6 ns pulsed laser. The aforementioned materials are used in order to establish proof-of-concept of the non-destructive ultrasound pulses interaction with biological membranes, exemplified by the unloading of Green Fluorescence Protein from giant unilamellar vesicles, and of non-invasive material inspection, illustrated with the measurement of the thickness of thin paint layers based on ultrasound frequency attenuation.

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Carlos Serpa, Diogo A. Pereira, Tiago Pinto, Alexandre D. Silva, and Luis G. Arnaut "Generation and applications of broadband high-frequency laser ultrasound with nanostructured materials", Proc. SPIE 11960, Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2022, 1196015 (3 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609744

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