Laser applications to chemical, security, and environmental analysis: introduction to the feature issue

Johannes Kiefer, Thomas Seeger, Thomas Dreier, Weidong Chen, Hans Stauffer, and Wolfgang Meier

Appl. Opt. 58(10), LAC1-LAC3 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Velocimetry based on dye visualization for a pulsatile tubing flow measurement

Zifeng Yang and Mark Johnson

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C7-C13 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

OH planar laser-induced fluorescence measurements with high spatio-temporal resolution for the study of auto-ignition

Christoph M. Arndt, Robert Schießl, and Wolfgang Meier

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C14-C22 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectroscopic investigation of high-pressure femtosecond two-photon laser-induced fluorescence of carbon monoxide up to 20 bar

Yejun Wang and Waruna D. Kulatilaka

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C23-C29 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurements of mixture fraction and flow velocity using 100 kHz 2D Rayleigh scattering imaging

Naibo Jiang, Paul S. Hsu, Paul M. Danehy, Zhili Zhang, and Sukesh Roy

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C30-C35 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of two measurement strategies to obtain the residence time distribution in combustion chambers using tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy

Sebastian Bürkle, Lukas G. Becker, Maria A. Agizza, Andreas Dreizler, and Steven Wagner

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C36-C46 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of N₂–N₂ and N₂–O₂ S-branch Raman linewidths using time-resolved picosecond pure rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Christian Meißner, Jonas I. Hölzer, and Thomas Seeger

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C47-C54 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct measurement of CO₂S-branch Raman linewidths broadened by O₂, Ar, and C₂H₄

Naibo Jiang, Sukesh Roy, Paul S. Hsu, and James R. Gord

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C55-C60 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative fuel-to-air ratio determination for elevated-pressure methane/air flames using chemiluminescence emission

Walker McCord, Mark Gragston, Yue Wu, Zhili Zhang, Paul Hsu, Keith Rein, Naibo Jiang, Sukesh Roy, and James R. Gord

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C61-C67 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-repetition-rate burst-mode-laser diagnostics of an unconfined lean premixed swirling flame under external acoustic excitation

Sirui Wang, Xunchen Liu, Guoqing Wang, Liangliang Xu, Lei Li, Yingzheng Liu, Zhen Huang, and Fei Qi

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C68-C78 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (9)]

Ultrashort-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for detecting airborne metals during energetic reactions

Morgan O’Neil, Andrew Demko, Eric L. Petersen, and Waruna D. Kulatilaka

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C79-C83 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of the spectral excitation behavior of methane according to InP, GaSb, IC, and QC lasers as excitation source by sensor applications

Tobias Milde, Morten Hoppe, Herve Tatenguem, Christian Assmann, Wolfgang Schade, and Joachim Sacher

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C84-C91 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Gas-phase Raman spectroscopy of non-reacting flows: comparison between free-space and cavity-based spontaneous Raman emission

Lee Weller, Maxim Kuvshinov, and Simone Hochgreb

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C92-C103 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental investigation on an acoustically forced flame with simultaneous high-speed LII and stereo PIV at 20 kHz

Chen Fu, Xiaoyuan Yang, Zhongqiu Li, Haodong Zhang, Yifan Yang, and Yi Gao

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C104-C111 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

10 kHz simultaneous PIV/PLIF study of the diffusion flame response to periodic acoustic forcing

Yi Gao, Xiaoyuan Yang, Chen Fu, Yifan Yang, Zhongqiu Li, Haodong Zhang, and Fei Qi

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C112-C120 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous high-speed SO₂ PLIF imaging and stereo-PIV measurements in premixed swirling flame at 20 kHz

Xiaoyuan Yang, Chen Fu, Guoqing Wang, Zhongqiu Li, Tianyu Li, and Yi Gao

Appl. Opt. 58(10), C121-C129 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling the remote-sensing reflectance of highly turbid waters

Joel Wong, Soo Chin Liew, Elizabeth Wong, and Zhongping Lee

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2671-2677 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization and analysis of infrared multilayer diffractive optical elements with finite feature sizes

Chao Yang, Hongfang Yang, Chuang Li, and Changxi Xue

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2589-2595 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Free-space transmission system in a tunable simulated atmospheric turbulence channel using a high-repetition-rate broadband fiber laser

Junda Chen, Tianshu Wang, Xinmeng Zhang, Zhiwen Sun, Ziqi Jiang, Haifeng Yao, Peidi Chen, Yiwu Zhao, and Huilin Jiang

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2635-2640 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Vector optical fiber magnetometer based on capillaries filled with magnetic fluid

Jingang Cui, Dawei Qi, He Tian, and Hanyang Li

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2754-2760 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast design method of smooth freeform lens with an arbitrary aperture for collimated beam shaping

Xianglong Mao, Jinpeng Li, Fengbiao Wang, Rong Gao, Xing Li, and Yongjun Xie

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2512-2521 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimentally measuring a detectability index of a computational imaging system

Bradley L. Preece, David Haefner, and George Nehmetallah

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2446-2455 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of neutral-density filters to nonuniformity correction

Songtao Chang and Yaoyu Zhang

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2575-2583 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Orthographic projection images-based photon-counted integral Fourier holography

Min Wan, Inbarasan Muniraj, Ra’ed Malallah, Ni Chen, John J. Healy, James P. Ryle, and John T. Sheridan

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2656-2661 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz image super-resolution based on a deep convolutional neural network

Zhenyu Long, Tianyi Wang, ChengWu You, Zhengang Yang, Kejia Wang, and Jinsong Liu

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2731-2735 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

3D tomography reconstruction improved by integrating view registration

Ning Liu, Qingchun Lei, Yue Wu, and Lin Ma

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2596-2604 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Scan angle error measurement based on phase-stepping algorithms in scanning beam interference lithography

Minkang Li, Xiansong Xiang, Changhe Zhou, and Chunlong Wei

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2641-2649 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved methodology for performing the inverse Abel transform of flame images for color ratio pyrometry

Jochen A. H. Dreyer, Radomir I. Slavchov, Eric J. Rees, Jethro Akroyd, Maurin Salamanca, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2662-2670 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature perturbation related to the invisible ink vibrationally excited nitric oxide monitoring (VENOM) technique: a simulation study

Joshua D. Winner, Feng Pan, Madison H. McIlvoy, Rodney D. W. Bowersox, and Simon W. North

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2702-2712 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-beam-quality operation of a 2 μm passively Q-switched solid-state laser based on a boron nitride saturable absorber

Yingjie Shen, Linjun Li, Xiaoming Duan, Ruijun Lan, Long Zhou, Wenqiang Xie, and Xining Yang

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2546-2550 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of parameters of a laser cleaning soil rust layer on the surface of ceramic artifacts

Jiawei Xu, Chenwei Wu, Xiang Zhang, Fan Gao, Tiancheng Yu, and Xiao Yuan

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2725-2730 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Large-energy mode-locked ytterbium-doped linear-cavity fiber laser based on chemical vapor deposition-Bi₂Se₃ as a saturable absorber

Xile Han, Huanian Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chonghui Li, Quanxin Guo, Jinjuan Gao, Shouzhen Jiang, and Baoyuan Man

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2695-2701 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Verification of an integral figure of merit for mid-IR nonlinear crystals

A. A. Ionin, I. O. Kinyaevskiy, A. M. Sagitova, and Y. M. Andreev

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2485-2489 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-matched nonlinear wave-mixing processes in XUV region with multicolor lasers

Khoa Anh Tran, Khuong Ba Dinh, Peter Hannaford, and Lap Van Dao

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2540-2545 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

On the possibility of simultaneous temperature, species, and electric field measurements by coupled hybrid fs/ps CARS and EFISHG

Jonathan E. Retter and Gregory S. Elliott

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2557-2566 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance evaluation of continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides

Qiang Jin, Taoce Yin, Zhihua Tu, Daru Chen, Yaocheng Shi, Daoxin Dai, and Shiming Gao

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2584-2588 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Retaining 3D shape of picosecond laser pulses during optical harmonics generation

I. V. Kuzmin, S. Yu. Mironov, E. I. Gacheva, A. K. Poteomkin, and E. A. Khazanov

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2678-2686 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersive wave and four-wave mixing generation in noninstantaneous nonlinear fiber solitons

Sebastian Vergara Palacio and Rodrigo Acuna Herrera

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2736-2744 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of bottle beam based on dual-beam for trapping particles in air

Zhikun Yang, Xinglei Lin, He Zhang, Xiaohui Ma, Yonggang Zou, Li Xu, Yingtian Xu, and Liang Jin

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2471-2480 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Towards predicting removal rate and surface roughness during grinding of optical materials

Tayyab Suratwala, Rusty Steele, Lana Wong, Phil Miller, Eyal Feigenbaum, Nan Shen, Nathan Ray, and Michael Feit

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2490-2499 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of high-precision reflective volume Bragg gratings

Peng Chen, Yunxia Jin, Dongbing He, Junming Chen, Jiao Xu, Huifang Dai, Jingyin Zhao, Fanyu Kong, and Hongbo He

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2500-2504 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Tilted light coupling structure for the thickness reduction of a liquid crystal display backlight

Sheng Xu, Tao Yang, Huanghui Miao, Yuzhen Xu, Qiongxin Shen, Tailiang Guo, Zhengxing Cui, Enguo Chen, and Yun Ye

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2567-2574 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical improvement for modulating a high flux solar simulator designed for solar thermal and thermochemical research

Leopoldo Martínez-Manuel, Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Carlos A. Pineda-Arellano, J. Gonzalo Carrillo-Baeza, and Daniel A. May-Arrioja

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2605-2615 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a compact deep-sea Raman spectroscopy system and direct bicarbonate detection in sea trials

Jinjia Guo, Wangquan Ye, Qingsheng Liu, Fujun Qi, Kai Cheng, Dewang Yang, and Ronger Zheng

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2630-2634 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of lateral misalignment on the optical rotational Doppler effect

Song Qiu, Tong Liu, Zhimeng Li, Chen Wang, Yuan Ren, Qiongling Shao, and Chaoyang Xing

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2650-2655 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast compensation for arbitrary focusing through scattering media

Li Zhan, Dean Liu, Aihua Yang, Jie Miao, and Jianqiang Zhu

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2624-2629 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optomechanical transistor: controlling the optical bistability in a photonic molecule

Hua-Jun Chen, Jian-Yong Yang, De-Ming Zhao, and Hong-Wei Wu

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2463-2470 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical bistability and multistability induced by quantum coherence in diamond germanium-vacancy color centers

Hongjun Zhang, Gaiying Wang, Dong Sun, Xiaowei Li, and Hui Sun

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2522-2529 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum-laser diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in conjunction with an extended Kubelka–Munk model—a methodology for determination of temperature-dependent quantum efficiency in highly scattering and fluorescent media

Michael C. Brupbacher, Dajie Zhang, William M. Buchta, Marc B. Airola, David M. Brown, Michael E. Thomas, and James B. Spicer

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2438-2445 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Glucose sensing by absorption spectroscopy using lensed optical fibers

Silje S. Fuglerud, Karolina B. Milenko, Reinold Ellingsen, Astrid Aksnes, and Dag R. Hjelme

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2456-2462 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable plasmonic effects arising from metal–dielectric nanorods

Yuan-Fong Chou Chau, Chung-Ting Chou Chao, Hung Ji Huang, Ren Chong Lim, and Hai-Pang Chiang

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2530-2539 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable metasurface refractive index plasmonic nano-sensor utilizing an ITO thin layer in the near-infrared region

Fatemeh Baranzadeh and Najmeh Nozhat

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2616-2623 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed amplitude modulator with a high modulation index based on a plasmonic resonant tunable metasurface

Luigi Bibbò, Qiang Liu, Karim Khan, Ashish Yadav, Sayed Elshahat, Zi-Lan Deng, and Zhengbiao Ouyang

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2687-2694 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Chromatic aberration of plane-symmetric optical systems: publisher’s note

Yiqing Cao, Lijun Lu, and Zhiyong Deng

Appl. Opt. 58(10), 2556-2556 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF