Editors' Picks Collection: Spectroscopy

To honor its 40th Anniversary, the editors of Optics Letters selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over the journal's history. Below is a collection of articles in the area of Spectroscopy.

Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in this area.


  1. Coherent trapping of atomic populations

    H. R. Gray, R. M. Whitley, and C. R. Stroud

    Opt. Letters 3(6) 218-220 (1978)

  2. Frequency-modulation spectroscopy: a new method for measuring weak absorptions and dispersions

    Gary C. Bjorklund

    Opt. Letters 5(1) 15-17 (1980)

  3. Sensitive photothermal deflection technique for measuring absorption in optically thin media

    A. C. Boccara, D. Fournier, Warren Jackson, and Nabil M. Amer

    Opt. Letters 5(9) 377-379 (1980)

  4. Folded BOXCARS for rotational Raman studies

    John A. Shirley, Robert J. Hall, and Alan C. Eckbreth

    Opt. Letters 5(9) 380-382 (1980)

  5. Stimulated Raman scattering from individual water and ethanol droplets at morphology-dependent resonances

    Judith B. Snow, Shi-Xiong Qian, and Richard K. Chang

    Opt. Letters 10(1) 37-39 (1985)

  6. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of water vapor

    Martin van Exter, Ch. Fattinger, and D. Grischkowsky

    Opt. Letters 14(20) 1128-1130 (1989)

  7. In vivo retinal imaging by optical coherence tomography

    E. A. Swanson, J. A. Izatt, M. R. Hee, D. Huang, C. P. Lin, J. S. Schuman, C. A. Puliafito, and J. G. Fujimoto

    Opt. Letters 18(21) 1864-1866 (1993)

  8. Enhanced reverse saturable absorption and optical limiting in heavy-atom-substituted phthalocyanines

    Joseph W. Perry, Kamjou Mansour, Seth R. Marder, Kelly J. Perry, Daniel Alvarez, and Ingrid Choong

    Opt. Letters 19(9) 625-627 (1994)

  9. Determination of the refractive index of highly scattering human tissue by optical coherence tomography

    G. J. Tearney, M. E. Brezinski, J. F. Southern, B. E. Bouma, M. R. Hee, and J. G. Fujimoto

    Opt. Letters 20(21) 2258-2260 (1995)

  10. Sensitive absorption spectroscopy with a room-temperature distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser

    K. Namjou, S. Cai, E. A. Whittaker, J. Faist, C. Gmachl, F. Capasso, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho

    Opt. Letters 23(3) 219-221 (1998)

  11. Spectroscopic optical coherence tomography

    U. Morgner, W. Drexler, F. X. Kärtner, X. D. Li, C. Pitris, E. P. Ippen, and J. G. Fujimoto

    Opt. Letters 25(2) 111-113 (2000)

  12. Polarization coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

    Ji-Xin Cheng, Lewis D. Book, and X. Sunney Xie

    Opt. Letters 26(17) 1341-1343 (2001)

  13. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy

    A. A. Kosterev, Yu. A. Bakhirkin, R. F. Curl, and F. K. Tittel

    Opt. Letters 27(21) 1902-1904 (2002)

  14. Dynamic range in terahertz time-domain transmission and reflection spectroscopy

    Peter Uhd Jepsen and Bernd M. Fischer

    Opt. Letters 30(1) 29-31 (2005)

  15. In vivo dark-field reflection-mode photoacoustic microscopy

    Konstantin Maslov, Gheorghe Stoica, and Lihong V. Wang

    Opt. Letters 30(6) 625-627 (2005)

  16. High-sensitivity vibrational imaging with frequency modulation coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FM CARS) microscopy

    Feruz Ganikhanov, Conor L. Evans, Brian G. Saar, and X. Sunney Xie

    Opt. Letters 31(12) 1872-1874 (2006)