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20 July 2020, Volume 59, Issue 21, pp. 6237-6430; Feat. pp: LCN1–F104  
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Light and Color in Nature 2020: introduction to the feature issue

Charles L. Adler, Laura Bagge, and Alexander Haussmann

open access Appl. Opt. 59(21), LCN1-LCN2 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Subsuns and rainbows during solar eclipses

Gunther P. Können, Glenn Schneider, Evan H. Zucker, and Panu Lahtinen

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F1-F10 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Spotlight on Optics

Below the horizon—the physics of extreme visual ranges

Michael Vollmer

open access Appl. Opt. 59(21), F11-F19 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Dislocated spots and triple splittings of natural rainbows generated by large drop distortions, oscillations, and tilts

Alexander Haußmann

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F20-F31 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital all-sky polarization imaging of the total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017 in Rexburg, Idaho, USA

Laura M. Eshelman, Martin Jan Tauc, Taiga Hashimoto, Kendra Gillis, William Weiss, Bryan Stanley, Preston Hooser, Glenn E. Shaw, and Joseph A. Shaw

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F41-F52 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Analyzing colors and spectra of natural rainbows with hyperspectral imaging

Raymond L. Lee, Jr.

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F63-F70 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of polarization neutral points in observations of the combined corona and sky during the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse

Frans Snik, Steven P. Bos, Stefanie A. Brackenhoff, David S. Doelman, Emiel H. Por, Felix Bettonvil, Michiel Rodenhuis, Dmitry Vorobiev, Laura M. Eshelman, and Joseph A. Shaw

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F71-F77 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Solar eclipse skies and limb reddening

Stanley David Gedzelman

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F78-F84 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Clear sky blinks

David K. Lynch and Steven C. Richtsmeier

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F98-F104 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-zone transmission caustic of a hanging water drop

James A. Lock

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F32-F40 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging through a homogeneous circular cylinder: the role of virtual caustics, rainbow glare points, and image fragmentation

James A. Lock

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F53-F62 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Was Dürer 500 years ahead of science?

David Pye

Appl. Opt. 59(21), F94-F97 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

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Mueller matrix characterizations of circularly polarized reflections from golden scarab beetles

Laura E. Bagge, Arthur C. Kenton, Bridget A. Lyons, Martin F. Wehling, and Dennis H. Goldstein

open access Appl. Opt. 59(21), F85-F93 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

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Machine learning informed predictor importance measures of environmental parameters in maritime optical turbulence

Christopher Jellen, John Burkhardt, Cody Brownell, and Charles Nelson

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6379-6389 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical DC electric field sensing based on the Pockels effect using bismuth germanate crystals

Yansong Li, Li Gao, Jun Wan, and Jun Liu

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6237-6244 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

SNR dependence of measurement stability of heterodyne phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

Yang Lu, Zhijie Yu, Zewu Ju, Xiaoyang Hu, Mo Chen, and Zhou Meng

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6333-6339 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable narrowband shortwave-infrared absorber made of a nanodisk-based metasurface and a phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 layer

Shihao Zhang, Kun Zhou, Qiang Cheng, Lu Lu, Bowen Li, Jinlin Song, and Zixue Luo

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6309-6314 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Replacing a thin lens by a thick lens

Antonín Mikš and Pavel Novák

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6327-6332 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Approximate multi-object filter with known SNR information for an optical sensor system

Weijian Si, Hongfan Zhu, and Zhiyu Qu

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6279-6290 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

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Stimulated emission assisted time-gated detection of a solid-state spin

Bo-Wen Zhao, Xiang-Dong Chen, En-Hui Wang, Yu Zheng, Bo Du, Shen Li, Yang Dong, Guang-Can Guo, and Fang-Wen Sun

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6291-6295 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficiently enhancing co-occurring details while avoiding artifacts for light field display

Jian Wei, Shigang Wang, Yan Zhao, Meilan Piao, and Chenxi Song

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6315-6326 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time infrared image detail enhancement based on fast guided image filter and plateau equalization

Yaohong Chen, Jin U. Kang, Gaopeng Zhang, Jianzhong Cao, Qingsheng Xie, and Chiman Kwan

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6407-6416 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot multispectral angle-resolved ellipsometry

Garam Choi, Seung Woo Lee, Sin Yong Lee, and Heui Jae Pahk

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6296-6303 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonnull interferometric testing of spherical gratings under Littrow conditions with opposite diffraction orders

Weijian Liu, Qun Yuan, Ruoyan Wang, Wen Ji, YingZe Xue, Jun Ma, Lingjie Wang, and Zhishan Gao

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6360-6367 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Error analysis and compensation for a discrete dual rotating retarder Mueller matrix polarimeter

Emanuel Chironi and Claudio Iemmi

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6368-6378 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Attitude computation algorithm for star camera based on combining calibration and attitude determination processes

Mi Wang, Jianping Zhao, Shuying Jin, and Yufeng Cheng

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6399-6406 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Using femtosecond laser pulses for electronic distance meter calibration

Haitham M. Hussein, Osama Terra, Hatem Hussein, and Mohamed Medhat

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6417-6423 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

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On-demand inkjet-printed microdisk laser with air cladding by liquid flow microetching

Taku Takagishi, Hiroaki Yoshioka, Yuya Mikami, and Yuji Oki

open access Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6340-6346 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Steady-state stimulated Raman generation and filamentation using complex vector vortex beams

Henry J. Meyer, Sandra Mamani, and Robert R. Alfano

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6245-6251 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin-film InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell with planar and pyramidal back reflectors

Timo Aho, Farid Elsehrawy, Antti Tukiainen, Sanna Ranta, Marianna Raappana, Riku Isoaho, Arto Aho, Arttu Hietalahti, Federica Cappelluti, and Mircea Guina

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6304-6308 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Model of a tunable hybrid Tamm mode–liquid crystal device

Maxim V. Pyatnov, Rashid G. Bikbaev, Ivan V. Timofeev, and Stepan Ya. Vetrov

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6347-6351 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Raman mediated ultrafast all-optical NOR gate

Tanmoy Datta and Mrinal Sen

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6352-6359 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Fano resonance based on D-shaped waveguide structure and its application for human hemoglobin detection

Xing Liu, Jina Li, Jianfeng Chen, Siti Rohimah, He Tian, and Jinfang Wang

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6424-6430 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of photonic jets generated by a dielectric sphere illuminated by a Gaussian beam

Jianqiang Huang, Yiming Zhao, Hanlin Yang, Jiajie Wang, Paul Briard, and Yiping Han

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6390-6398 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging Fourier spectrometer in visible domain: design concept

V. Protopopov

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6252-6264 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable broadband all-silicon terahertz absorber based on a simple metamaterial structure

Tingting Lang, Tingting Shen, Gangqi Wang, and Changyu Shen

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6265-6270 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized circuit model for analysis of extraordinary transmission in multilevel slits

Seyyed Pouriya Kashfi and Zahra Ghattan Kashani

Appl. Opt. 59(21), 6271-6278 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

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This feature issue on Light and Color in Nature focuses on the interplay of light with the landscape and other naked-eye phenomena and describes a wide range of natural optical phenomena that can be seen in our natural environment. For details, see the section beginning on p. LCN1.

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