Unclassified

  • Spotlight Summary by Bernhard Schmauss

    • Coherent pulse interrogation system for fiber Bragg grating sensing of strain and pressure in dynamic extremes of materials
    • Opt. Express 23(11) 14219-14233 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Jean-Baptiste Masson

    • Generation of arbitrary order Bessel beams via 3D printed axicons at the terahertz frequency range
    • Appl. Opt. 54(36) 10641-10649 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Gianluca Galzerano

    • Sub-Doppler resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy using a difference-frequency-generation source spectrally narrowed by laser linewidth transfer
    • Opt. Lett. 40(23) 5467-5470 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Avner Fleischer

    • Combined high-harmonic interferometries for vectorial spectroscopy
    • Opt. Lett. 40(22) 5387-5390 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Spectral edge: gradient-preserving spectral mapping for image fusion
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 32(12) 2384-2396 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco D'Amato

    • Development of a compact multipass oxygen sensor used for gas diffusion studies in opaque media
    • Appl. Opt. 54(33) 9772-9778 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Lei Tian

    • Three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging via tomographic deconvolution phase microscopy
    • Appl. Opt. 54(31) 9213-9227 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alexander Baev

    • Raman optical activity spectroscopy by visible-excited coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
    • Opt. Lett. 40(17) 4170-4173 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Bodo Wilts

    • Quantitative reflectance spectra of solid powders as a function of particle size
    • Appl. Opt. 54(15) 4863-4875 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kedar Khare

    • Inline digital holographic movie based on a double-sideband filter
    • Opt. Lett. 40(17) 4142-4145 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Miro Erkintalo

    • Yb:fiber laser-based, spectrally coherent and efficient generation of femtosecond 1.3-μm pulses from a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths
    • Opt. Lett. 40(15) 3631-3634 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Bernhard Schmauss

    • Two-fold transmission reach enhancement enabled by transmitter-side digital backpropagation and optical frequency comb-derived information carriers
    • Opt. Express 23(16) 20774-20783 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Lycurgus Cup: inverse problem using photographs for characterization of matter
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 32(8) 1544-1555 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anne Hirsikko

    • Transparent material thickness measurements by Raman scattering
    • Appl. Opt. 54(19) 5943-5948 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Arel Weisberg

    • Determination of carcinogenic fluorine in cigarettes using pulsed UV laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
    • Appl. Opt. 54(17) 5560-5567 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Optical trap for both transparent and absorbing particles in air using a single shaped laser beam
    • Opt. Lett. 40(12) 2798-2801 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Finite sampling corrected 3D noise with confidence intervals
    • Appl. Opt. 54(15) 4907-4915 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Hieronymi

    • Polarized reflectance and transmittance properties of windblown sea surfaces
    • Appl. Opt. 54(15) 4828-4849 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Microgenetic optimization algorithm for optimal wavefront shaping
    • Appl. Opt. 54(6) 1485-1491 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anders Tegtmeier Pedersen

    • High-efficiency receiver architecture for resonance-fluorescence and Doppler lidars
    • Appl. Opt. 54(11) 3173-3184 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anne Hirsikko

    • Retrieval of temperature from a multiple-channel Rayleigh-scatter lidar using an optimal estimation method
    • Appl. Opt. 54(8) 1872-1889 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Digital holography super-resolution for accurate three-dimensional reconstruction of particle holograms
    • Opt. Lett. 40(2) 217-220 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jonathan J. Makela

    • Advanced mesospheric temperature mapper for high-latitude airglow studies
    • Appl. Opt. 53(26) 5934-5943 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrea Reale e Alessio Gagliardi

    • Low-power communication with a photonic heat pump
    • Opt. Express 22(S7) A1650-A1658 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • An 11.5 W Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser fabricated via pulsed laser deposition
    • Opt. Mater. Express 6(1) 91-96 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • 140-fs duration and 60-W peak power blue-violet optical pulses generated by a dispersion-compensated GaInN mode-locked semiconductor laser diode using a nonlinear pulse compressor
    • Opt. Express 23(25) 31766-31771 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrew Sarangan

    • In situ probing of mode-locked vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting lasers
    • Opt. Lett. 40(23) 5459-5462 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by László Pálfalvi

    • Scanning nonlinear absorption in lithium niobate over the time regime of small polaron formation
    • Opt. Mater. Express 5(12) 2729-2741 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Optical side scattering radiometry for high resolution, wide dynamic range longitudinal assessment of optical fibers
    • Opt. Express 23(21) 27960-27974 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Large-area fabrication of TiN nanoantenna arrays for refractory plasmonics in the mid-infrared by femtosecond direct laser writing and interference lithography [Invited]
    • Opt. Mater. Express 5(11) 2625-2633 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Michael Frosz

    • Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in a silicon nitride waveguide
    • Opt. Lett. 40(21) 5117-5120 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anton K. Vershovskii

    • Highly stable atomic vector magnetometer based on free spin precession
    • Opt. Express 23(17) 22108-22115 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Göery Genty

    • Writing and erasing of temporal cavity solitons by direct phase modulation of the cavity driving field
    • Opt. Lett. 40(20) 4755-4758 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Two-mode squeezed states as Schrödinger cat-like states
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(10) 2190-2197 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • High-energy large-aperture Ti:sapphire amplifier for 5 PW laser pulses
    • Opt. Lett. 40(21) 5011-5014 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Cristian Manzoni

    • Few-cycle near-infrared pulses from a degenerate 1 GHz optical parametric oscillator
    • Opt. Lett. 40(17) 4102-4105 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Broadband mid-infrared frequency comb generation in a Si3N4 microresonator
    • Opt. Lett. 40(21) 4823-4826 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nickolas Vamivakas

    • Ultra hybrid plasmonics: strong coupling of plexcitons with plasmon polaritons
    • Opt. Lett. 40(14) 3424-3427 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Yaroslav V. Kartashov

    • Observation of stable-vector vortex solitons
    • Opt. Lett. 40(17) 4182-4185 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Apratim Majumder and Rajesh Menon

    • Gold triple-helix mid-infrared metamaterial by STED-inspired laser lithography
    • Opt. Lett. 40(17) 3986-3989 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Uwe Brauch

    • Two-dimensional pseudo-random optical phased array based on tandem optical injection locking of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
    • Opt. Express 23(15) 19405-19416 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Juejun Hu

    • Silicon hybrid plasmonic microring resonator for sensing applications
    • Appl. Opt. 54(23) 7131-7134 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Ultrastable measurement platform: sub-nm drift over hours in 3D at room temperature
    • Opt. Express 23(13) 16554-16564 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Patricia Segonds

    • Enhanced Kerr electro-optic nonlinearity and its application in controlling second-harmonic generation
    • Photon. Res. 3(4) 168-172 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Curtis Broadbent

    • Preservation of transverse spatial coherence in the storage of double light pulses
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(7) 1318-1322 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Bounds to precision for quantum interferometry with Gaussian states and operations
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(7) 1354-1359 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David R. Busch

    • Fast silicon photomultiplier improves signal harvesting and reduces complexity in time-domain diffuse optics
    • Opt. Express 23(11) 13937-13946 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Katia Gallo

    • Tunable optical nonlinearity of silicon nanoparticles in solid state organic matrix
    • Opt. Mater. Express 5(7) 1606-1612 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Steffen Hädrich

    • High average power coherent vuv generation at 10 MHz repetition frequency by intracavity high harmonic generation
    • Opt. Express 23(12) 15107-15118 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Second-harmonic generation of light at 245 nm in a lithium tetraborate whispering gallery resonator
    • Opt. Lett. 40(9) 1932-1935 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF