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Repair and reconstruction of large bone defect were often difficult, and bone substitute materials, including autogenous bone, allogenic bone and artificial bone, were common treatment strategies. The key to elucidate the clinical effect of these bone repair materials was to study their osteogenic capacity and immunotoxicological compatibility. In this paper, the mechanical properties, micro-CT imaging analysis, digital image analysis and histological slice analysis of the three bone grafts were investigated and compared after different time points of implantation in rat femur defect model. Autogenous bone and biphasic calcium phosphate particular artificial bone containing 61.4% HA and 38.6% β-tricalcium phosphate with 61.64% porosity and 0.8617 ± 0.0068 g/cm3 density (d ≤ 2 mm) had similar and strong bone repair ability, but autogenous bone implant materials caused greater secondary damage to experimental animals; allogenic bone exhibited poor bone defect repair ability. At the early stage of implantation, the immunological indexes such as Immunoglobulin G, Immunoglobulin M concentration and CD4 cells’ population of allogenic bone significantly increased in compared with those of autologous bone and artificial bone. Although the repair process of artificial bone was relatively inefficient than autologous bone graft, the low immunotoxicological indexes and acceptable therapeutic effects endowed it as an excellent alternative material to solve the problems with insufficient source and secondary trauma of autogenous bone.

We have successfully fabricated a basic magneto -optical spatial light modulator (MO-SLM) device driven by spin-transfer-switching (STS), which we call Spin-SLM technology. The SLM device is comprised of a one dimensional ten-pixel light modulation array (1 $\times$ 10 pixels) with a fine pitch of 1 $\mu{\hbox{m}}$ . The light modulation pixels were composed of Gd-Fe based giant magneto resistance (GMR) devices, with a free layer of Gd-Fe, an Ag spacer and a Co-Fe/Tb-Fe-Co pinned layer. The GMR devices were sandwiched by a Cu bottom and Indium zinc oxide top electrodes in order to inject current perpendicular to the film plane for switching. Incident light penetrating the transparent top electrode can be modulated due to its magneto-optic Kerr effect with the Gd-Fe free layer. The fabricated device cell size is ${\hbox{220}}\times {\hbox{300}}\ {\hbox{nm}}^{2}$ . We confirmed successful switching of the individual free layers, which was controlled by STS. We have also fabricated magnetic hologram patterns with the same magnetic materials used in the light modulation layer of the Spin-SLM device in order to determine its feasibility in display applications. The pixel pitch of the pattern was one micron and a reconstructed image by laser light was successfully observed with a wide viewing zone angle as 38 deg, which is nearly the same value expected from calculations. Although these patterns do not have an electrode to switch the magnetization direction, we confirmed the potential of Spin-SLM technology as a display device for 3D holography applications.

We studied the polarization state in an apertureless scanning near-field microscopy (a-SNOM) operating in reflection mode by using three-dimensional Finite-difference Time-domain (FDTD) method. As a result, the electric field around tip apex in the near-field region enhanced four times stronger than the incident light for ppolarization when the tip-sample separation was 10 nm. We find that the p- and s-polarization state is maintained for the scattered light when the probe is perpendicular to the sample. When the probe is not perpendicular to the sample, the polarization state of scattered light will rotate an angle that equals to the inclination angle of probe with p-polarization illumination. On the other hand, the polarization state will not rotate with s-polarization illumination.

We present a new type of aperture antenna with V-groove structures that are made of Au to enhance strong circularly polarized light (CPL). Simulations using the finite element method revealed that strong CPL was enhanced within the aperture with a diameter of 10 nm. The intensity of the electric field was enhanced and was 22,700 times greater than that of the incident light. The channel plasmon polaritons generated in the V-groove structures were responsible for the strong enhancement. The influence of the angle and length of the V-groove on the enhancement of the CPL was investigated.

In the last decade, the circularly polarized light has been widely used in various novel applications, such as probing the geometric and electromagnetic chiral properties of biomolecules [1], all-optical magnetic recording [2] and control of the spin-wave emission [3] in submicron regions. To implement those researches in nano-regions, it is essential to generate nano-size circularly polarized light. Nakagawa et al. [4] has reported that nano-size circularly polarized light could be generated with a cross aperture antenna. However, the intensity of generated circularly polarized light is not enhanced. Here, we propose a new type cross V-groove aperture antenna with a diameter of 10 nm, which could generate circularly polarized light, with its intensity enhanced more than 1000 times.

Polarization properties of apertureless-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (a-SNOM) were measured experimentally and were also analyzed using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation. Our study reveals that the polarization properties in the a-SNOM are maintained and the a-SNOM works as a wave plate expressed by a Jones matrix. The measured signals obtained by the lock-in detection technique could be decomposed into signals scattered from near-field region and background signals reflected by tip and sample. Polarization images measured by a-SNOM with an angle resolution of 1° are shown. FDTD analysis also reveals the polarization properties of light in the area between a tip and a sample are p-polarization in most of cases.