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ArticleNature communications2025

Two-photon absorption under few-photon irradiation for optical nanoprinting.

Zi-Xin Liang, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Jing-Tao Chen, Xian-Zi Dong, Feng Jin, Mei-Ling Zheng, Xuan-Ming Duan

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Near-Infrared Cocrystal Nanofluorophore with Enhanced Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Zi-Xin Liang *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Yuan-Yuan Zhao *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. yyzhao@jnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1544-3771
Jing-Tao Chen *Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Xian-Zi Dong *Laboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Feng JinLaboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3035-2723
Mei-Ling ZhengLaboratory of Organic NanoPhotonics and CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zhengmeiling@mail.ipc.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9459-799X
Xuan-Ming DuanGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. xmduan@jnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8004-4836

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62005097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two-photon absorption (TPA) has been widely applied for three-dimensional imaging and nanoprinting; however, the efficiency of TPA imaging and nanoprinting using laser scanning techniques is limited by its trade-off to reach high resolution. Here, we unveil a concept, few-photon irradiated TPA, supported by a spatiotemporal model based on the principle of wave-particle duality of light. This model describes the precise time-dependent mechanism of TPA under ultralow photon irradiance with a single tightly focused femtosecond laser pulse. We demonstrate that a feature size of 26 nm (1/20 λ) and a pattern period of 0.41 λ with a laser wavelength of 517 nm can be achieved by performing digital optical projection nanolithography under few-photon irradiation using the in-situ multiple exposure technique, improving printing efficiency by 5 orders of magnitude. We show deeper insights into the TPA mechanism and encourage the exploration of potential applications for TPA in nanoprinting and nanoimaging.

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