Redesign of article pages for Optics Letters: editorial

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Opt. Lett. 40(11), ED1-ED1 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared open-path measurement of CO₂ concentration in the urban atmosphere

Hayato Saito, Naohiro Manago, Kenji Kuriyama, and Hiroaki Kuze

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2568-2571 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Alternating series of cross-spectral densities

Zhangrong Mei and Olga Korotkova

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2473-2476 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Composite dielectric metasurfaces for phase control of vector field

Sung W. Kim, Ki Ju Yee, Maxim Abashin, Lin Pang, and Yeshaiahu Fainman

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2453-2456 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Square lattices of quasi-perfect optical vortices generated by two-dimensional encoding continuous-phase gratings

Junjie Yu, Changhe Zhou, Yancong Lu, Jun Wu, Linwei Zhu, and Wei Jia

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2513-2516 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Normal incidence narrowband transmission filtering capabilities using symmetry-protected modes of a subwavelength, dielectric grating

Justin M. Foley and Jamie D. Phillips

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2637-2640 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-order diffraction grating designed by trapezoidal transmission function

Quanping Fan, Yuwei Liu, Chuanke Wang, Zuhua Yang, Lai Wei, Xiaoli Zhu, Changqing Xie, Qiangqiang Zhang, Feng Qian, Zhuoyang Yan, Yuqiu Gu, Weimin Zhou, Gang Jiang, and Leifeng Cao

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2657-2660 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic gas pressure sensing with a laser-heated silicon-based Fabry–Perot interferometer

Guigen Liu and Ming Han

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2461-2464 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

W-band OFDM Radio-over-Fiber system with power detector for vector signal down-conversion

Chun-Ting Lin, Meng-Fan Wu, Chun-Hung Ho, Che-Hao Li, Chi-Hsiang Lin, and Hou-Tzu Huang

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2477-2480 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optic millimeter-wave harmonic downconversion and vector demodulation using cascaded phase modulation and optical filtering

Vincent R. Pagán and Thomas E. Murphy

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2481-2484 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-function photonic integrated circuit for frequency octo-tupling or single-side-band modulation

Mehedi Hasan, Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, and Trevor J. Hall

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2501-2504 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical stealth transmission based on super-continuum generation in highly nonlinear fiber over WDM network

Huatao Zhu, Rong Wang, Tao Pu, Tao Fang, Peng Xiang, Jilin Zheng, and Dalei Chen

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2561-2563 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient Er/Yb-codoped fiber amplifier with an Yb-band fiber Bragg grating

Qun Han, Yunzhi Yao, Yaofei Chen, Fangchao Liu, Tiegen Liu, and Hai Xiao

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2634-2636 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic radio-frequency dissemination via optical fiber with high-phase stability

Xiaocheng Wang, Zhangweiyi Liu, Siwei Wang, Dongning Sun, Yi Dong, and Weisheng Hu

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2618-2621 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive linearized microwave downconversion utilizing a single dual-electrode Mach–Zehnder modulator

Yan Pan, Lianshan Yan, Zhiyu Chen, Wei Pan, Bin Luo, Xihua Zou, Jia Ye, and Anlin Yi

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2649-2652 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Transformation-optics-inspired anti-reflective coating design for gradient index lenses

Kenneth L. Morgan, Donovan E. Brocker, Sawyer D. Campbell, Douglas H. Werner, and Pingjuan L. Werner

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2521-2524 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Singular-value demodulation of phase-shifted holograms

Fernando Lopes and Michael Atlan

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2541-2544 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Deep-UV microsphere projection lithography

Alireza Bonakdar, Mohsen Rezaei, Robert L. Brown, Vala Fathipour, Eric Dexheimer, Sung Jun Jang, and Hooman Mohseni

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2537-2540 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Scanning balanced-path homodyne I/Q-interferometer scheme and its applications

Seang Hor Eang, Seunghyun Yoon, Jun Gyu Park, and Kyuman Cho

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2457-2460 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust high-dynamic-range optical roll sensing

Steven R. Gillmer, Xiangzhi Yu, Chen Wang, and Jonathan D. Ellis

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2497-2500 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid single-beam reconstruction technique for slow and fast varying wave fields

Konstantinos Falaggis, Tomasz Kozacki, and Malgorzata Kujawinska

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2509-2512 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact rubidium-stabilized multi-frequency reference source in the 1.55-μm region

Renaud Matthey, Florian Gruet, Stéphane Schilt, and Gaetano Mileti

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2576-2579 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward athermal silicon-on-insulator (de)multiplexers in the O-band

Karim Hassan, Corrado Sciancalepore, Julie Harduin, Thomas Ferrotti, Sylvie Menezo, and Badhise Ben Bakir

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2641-2644 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power Yb:YAG single-crystal fiber amplifiers for femtosecond lasers in cylindrical polarization

Fabien Lesparre, Jean Thomas Gomes, Xavier Délen, Igor Martial, Julien Didierjean, Wolfgang Pallmann, Bojan Resan, Michael Eckerle, Thomas Graf, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Frederic Druon, François Balembois, and Patrick Georges

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2517-2520 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power synchronously pumped femtosecond Raman fiber laser

D. Churin, J. Olson, R. A. Norwood, N. Peyghambarian, and K. Kieu

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2529-2532 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended ultrahigh-Q-cavity diode laser

Zhenda Xie, Wei Liang, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Jinkang Lim, Jan Burkhart, Mickey McDonald, Tanya Zelevinsky, Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Andrey B. Matsko, Lute Maleki, and Chee Wei Wong

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2596-2599 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Evidence of lasing on the Balmer-α line of OVIII in an ablative capillary discharge

Željko Andreić, Hans-Joachim Kunze, and Inga Tolstikhina

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2600-2602 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Cryogenic Yb:YAG composite-thin-disk for high energy and average power amplifiers

Luis E. Zapata, Hua Lin, Anne-Laure Calendron, Huseyin Cankaya, Michael Hemmer, Fabian Reichert, W. Ronny Huang, Eduardo Granados, Kyung-Han Hong, and Franz X. Kärtner

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2610-2613 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-doubling characteristics of high-power, ultrafast vortex beams

N. Apurv Chaitanya, A. Aadhi, M. V. Jabir, and G. K. Samanta

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2614-2617 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-color three-dimensional STED microscopy with a single high-repetition-rate laser

Kyu Young Han and Taekjip Ha

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2653-2656 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Discrete-mode ZnO microparticle random laser

Toshihiro Nakamura, Shohei Sonoda, Taisei Yamamoto, and Sadao Adachi

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2661-2664 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Inherent photoluminescence Stokes shift in GaAs

Bruno Ullrich, Akhilesh K. Singh, Puspendu Barik, Haowen Xi, and Mithun Bhowmick

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2580-2583 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Broad spectral excitation of opsin for enhanced stimulation of cells

Sarmishtha Satpathy, Subrata Batabyal, Kamal R. Dhakal, John Lin, Young-tae Kim, and Samarendra K. Mohanty

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2465-2468 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Miniaturized fiber-coupled confocal fluorescence microscope with an electrowetting variable focus lens using no moving parts

Baris N. Ozbay, Justin T. Losacco, Robert Cormack, Richard Weir, Victor M. Bright, Juliet T. Gopinath, Diego Restrepo, and Emily A. Gibson

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2553-2556 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Fiber-based dual-focus time-demultiplexed second harmonic generation microscopy

Sandro Heuke, Fisseha Bekele Legesse, Adrian Lorenz, Torbjön Pascher, Denis Akimov, Matthias Jäger, Michael Schmitt, and Jürgen Popp

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2505-2508 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative polarized light microscopy using spectral multiplexing interferometry

Chengshuai Li and Yizheng Zhu

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2622-2625 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing the heralded single-photon rate from a silicon nanowire by time and wavelength division multiplexing pump pulses

X. Zhang, I. Jizan, J. He, A. S. Clark, D.-Y. Choi, C. J. Chae, B. J. Eggleton, and C. Xiong

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2489-2492 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Slow-light all-optical soliton diode based on tailored Bragg-grating structure

Hongji Li, Zhigui Deng, Jiasheng Huang, Shenhe Fu, and Yongyao Li

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2572-2575 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Modulation instability in a highly nonlinear fiber for discrete-time pulsed random bit generation

Xie Wang, Xiao-Zhou Li, Sze-Chun Chan, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2665-2667 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power mid-infrared high repetition-rate supercontinuum source based on a chalcogenide step-index fiber

Stefan Kedenburg, Tobias Steinle, Florian Mörz, Andy Steinmann, and Harald Giessen

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2668-2671 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography at 1.5 million A-Lines per second

Manmohan Singh, Chen Wu, Chih-Hao Liu, Jiasong Li, Alexander Schill, Achuth Nair, and Kirill V. Larin

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2588-2591 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Whispering gallery mode lasing in optically isolated III-nitride nanorings

K. H. Li, Y. F. Cheung, and H. W. Choi

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2564-2567 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable all-optical plasmonic diode based on Fano resonance in nonlinear waveguide coupled with cavities

Cairong Fan, Fenghua Shi, Hongxing Wu, and Yihang Chen

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2449-2452 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct comparison of kilohertz- and megahertz-repetition-rate femtosecond damage threshold

B. J. Nagy, L. Gallais, L. Vámos, D. Oszetzky, P. Rácz, and P. Dombi

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2525-2528 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Waveguide lasers in ytterbium-doped tantalum pentoxide on silicon

A. Aghajani, G. S. Murugan, N. P. Sessions, V. Apostolopoulos, and J. S. Wilkinson

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2549-2552 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized emission in nanorod arrays through quasi-aperiodic inverse design

P. Duke Anderson and Michelle L. Povinelli

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2672-2675 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Degenerate band edge resonances in periodic silicon ridge waveguides

Michael G. Wood, Justin R. Burr, and Ronald M. Reano

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2493-2496 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Magnetic field control of plasmon polaritons in graphene-covered gyrotropic planar waveguide

Dmitry A. Kuzmin, Igor V. Bychkov, and Vladimir G. Shavrov

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2557-2560 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Achromatization of waveplate for broadband polarimetric system

Tingkui Mu, Chunmin Zhang, Qiwei Li, and Rongguang Liang

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2485-2488 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

On a propagation-invariant, orthogonal modal expansion on the unit disk: going beyond Nijboer–Zernike theory of aberrations

Omar El Gawhary

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2626-2629 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Storage of orbital angular momenta of light via coherent population oscillation

A. J. F. de Almeida, S. Barreiro, W. S. Martins, R. A. de Oliveira, D. Felinto, L. Pruvost, and J. W. R. Tabosa

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2545-2548 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental analysis of bidirectional reflectance distribution function cross section conversion term in direction cosine space

Samuel D. Butler, Stephen E. Nauyoks, and Michael A. Marciniak

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2445-2448 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Raman gas sensing by backward UV lasing from a femtosecond filament

P. N. Malevich, R. Maurer, D. Kartashov, S. Ališauskas, A. A. Lanin, A. M. Zheltikov, M. Marangoni, G. Cerullo, A. Baltuška, and A. Pugžlys

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2469-2472 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable slow light via stimulated Brillouin scattering at 2  μm based on Tm-doped fiber amplifiers

Xiong Wang, Pu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Hu Xiao, and Zejin Liu

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2584-2587 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

A generalized Kerker condition for highly directive nanoantennas

R. Alaee, R. Filter, D. Lehr, F. Lederer, and C. Rockstuhl

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2645-2648 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-modulation setup for ultrafast infrared anisotropy experiments to study liquid dynamics

Martijn Tros and Sander Woutersen

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2607-2609 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Spoof surface plasmon-based stripe antennas with extreme field enhancement in the terahertz regime

Zhanghua Han, Yusheng Zhang, and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2533-2536 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmon enhanced near-infrared quantum cutting of KYF₄: Tb³⁺, Yb³⁺ doped with Ag nanoparticles

Biao Zheng, Senyuan Xu, Lin Lin, Zhezhe Wang, Zhuohong Feng, and Zhiqiang Zheng

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2630-2633 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband perfect absorber based on one ultrathin layer of refractory metal

Huixu Deng, Zhigang Li, Liliana Stan, Daniel Rosenmann, David Czaplewski, Jie Gao, and Xiaodong Yang

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2592-2595 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-performance infrared light trapping in nano-needle structured p⁺ SnO_x (x  ≤  1)/thin film n-Ge photodiodes on Si

Xiaoxin Wang, Andrew Wong, Stephanie Malek, Yan Cai, and Jifeng Liu

Opt. Lett. 40(11), 2603-2606 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF