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Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Bert A. Pasquale and Edward J. Wollack

    • Mapping the aberrations of a wide-field spectrograph using a photonic comb
    • The current generation of astronomical instrumentation requires new levels of precision to achieve their scientific...
    • Opt. Express 25(14) 15614-15623 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Mid-infrared nanospectroscopy of Berreman mode and epsilon-near-zero local field confinement in thin films
    • Atomic force infrared spectroscopy reveals the nature of vibrational epsilon-near-zero polariton modes in thin films....
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(10) 3706-3714 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Luca Sapienza

    • Optimizing single-mode collection from pointlike sources of single photons with adaptive optics
    • By controlling a deformable mirror with a genetic algorithm, adaptive optics allows an increase in the amount of...
    • Opt. Express 25(16) 18629-18642 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow [Invited]
    • Starting their review from observations recorded 2,000 years ago, the authors look at the development of one of the...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(6) 1820-1847 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter J. Mosley

    • Pulsed single-photon spectrometer by frequency-to-time mapping using chirped fiber Bragg gratings
    • Precise and rapid measurement of single-photon spectra is critical to photonic quantum-enhanced technologies....
    • Opt. Express 25(11) 12804-12811 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhimin Shi

    • Straightforward retrieval of dispersion in a dense atomic vapor helped by buffer gas-assisted radiation channeling
    • Atomic vapors are convenient and powerful physical systems for many fundamental studies and practical applications....
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(4) 877-883 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Multi-focus image fusion based on dictionary learning with rolling guidance filter
    • I think we all have taken a blurry picture before. When we’re in a rush to pull out our camera or cell phone, or...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(3) 432-440 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jason Porter

    • Registration of eye reflection and scene images using an aspherical eye model
    • Nakazawa et al. introduce an exciting new technique that takes advantage of an aspherical model of the eye's corneal...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33(11) 2264-2276 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Julien Réhault

    • Dual-comb coherent Raman spectroscopy with lasers of 1-GHz pulse repetition frequency
    • The quest for faster hyper-spectral imaging with Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS) is triggering much new...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(2) 318-321 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Analysis and magnetic modulation of chiro-optical properties in anisotropic chiral and magneto-chiral plasmonic systems
    • Plasmonic structures enable sensing with optical readout, thanks to their environmental sensitivity and their strong...
    • Opt. Express 25(25) 31045-31055 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Low-loss reciprocal optical terminals for two-way time-frequency transfer
    • Linking optical clocks through the turbulent air without losing a single cycle of the optical frequency allows for a...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(34) 9406-9413 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Shaping the spectrum of a down-converted mid-infrared frequency comb
    • Campo et al. address an evergreen problem in laser spectroscopy: how to generate light with the appropriate spectrum...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(11) 2287-2294 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by James R. Taylor

    • Photonic lantern kW-class fiber amplifier
    • Limitations in the power scaling of both solid state and fiber lasers are characterized by severe transverse mode...
    • Opt. Express 25(22) 27543-27550 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Improving emission uniformity and linearizing band dispersion in nanowire arrays using quasi-aperiodicity
    • Arrays of nanopillars can act as efficient lasers; however, one of the obstacles for the use of such structures is that...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(10) 3634-3642 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paolo Facchi

    • Particle–wave dichotomy in quantum Monte Carlo: unlocking the quantum correlations
    • The advent of quantum technologies has opened the possibility of using quantum systems for technological applications...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(9) 1817-1823 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Orges Furxhi

    • 360-degree screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal ball using a spatially imaged iris and rotational multiview DFD technologies
    • The authors describe and demonstrate a method of displaying a 360-degree, screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(22) 6156-6167 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Continuous-wave optically pumped green perovskite vertical-cavity surface-emitter
    • Solution-processed semiconductors have come to rival traditional laser materials at visible wavelengths. While most...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(18) 3618-3621 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Israel De Leon

    • Tunability of indium tin oxide materials for mid-infrared plasmonics applications
    • Two exciting fields in modern optics are plasmonics and the optics of low permittivity materials, also known as...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(8) 2727-2739 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrea Crespi

    • Large optical phase shifts in hydrogels written with femtosecond laser pulses: elucidating the role of localized water concentration changes
    • Femtosecond laser micromachining exploits the nonlinear absorption of focused ultrashort laser pulses to induce...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(9) 3162-3180 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Multiple surface-plasmon-polariton waves guided by a chiral sculptured thin film grown on a metallic grating
    • With fields confined to the metal/dielectric interface, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be very sensitive to...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(9) 1937-1945 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Qing Gu

    • Thresholdless quantum dot nanolaser
    • Lasers without threshold have been a pursuit for decades in the search for the ultimate energy-efficient coherent light...
    • Opt. Express 25(17) 19981-19994 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter Mosley

    • Generation of 300 nm bandwidth 0.5 mJ pulses near 1 μm in a single stage gas filled hollow core fiber
    • High-power lasers have unlocked new regimes of strong-field physics and continue to push the boundaries of science and...
    • Opt. Express 25(18) 21171-21179 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Schnaiter

    • Simultaneous observation of a glory and in-situ microphysical cloud properties
    • Although the glory phenomenon is common to all frequent flyers, its formation is still the subject of scientific...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(19) G5-G8 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Analytical qualitative modeling of passive and active metamaterials [Invited]
    • Interaction of light with matter has been studied for centuries. With the advances in fabrication of artificial...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(8) 1597-1623 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Experimental nonlocal steering of Bohmian trajectories
    • According to Bell's theorem, any realistic theory that wants to reproduce the statistics of Quantum Mechanics (QM)...
    • Opt. Express 25(13) 14463-14472 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Highly efficient mirrorless optical parametric oscillator pumped by nanosecond pulses
    • A 50-year-old idea is finally flourishing into compact eye-safe LIDARs. The mirrorless optical parametric oscillator...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(13) 2435-2438 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • 4.2  PW, 20  fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1  Hz
    • The introduction of the chirped pulse amplification technique revolutionized ultra-intense laser physics and led to the...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • Multi-petawatt laser facility fully based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
    • The introduction of the chirped pulse amplification technique revolutionized ultra-intense laser physics and led to the...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(10) 2014-2017 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Christos Grivas 

    • Giant photoluminescence enhancement in monolayer WS2 by energy transfer from CsPbBr3 quantum dots
    • The experimental observation of strong photoluminescence enhancement in a tungsten diselenide (WS2)...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(4) 1327-1334 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Igor Aharonovich

    • Scalable fabrication of coupled NV center - photonic crystal cavity systems by self-aligned N ion implantation
    • A major milestone is achieved towards the realization of diamond quantum computing. The main challenge in developing...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(5) 1514-1524 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anton Zeilinger

    • Generation and applications of an ultrahigh-fidelity four-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state
    • Today, quantum-technology is an emergent field where big flagship programs are established by several countries to...
    • Opt. Express 24(24) 27059-27069 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • All-order dispersion cancellation and energy-time entangled state
    • An energy-time entangled photon pair is a state where the timing of the photons is correlated and the frequency...
    • Opt. Express 25(2) 1360-1380 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Generating high-contrast, near single-cycle waveforms with third-order dispersion compensation
    • Generation of ultrashort laser pulses demands two prerequisites: a broad spectral bandwidth due to the Heisenberg...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(4) 811-814 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Relative change measurement of physical quantities using dual-wavelength coherent OTDR
    • A simplified implementation of coherent optical time domain reflectometry (C-OTDR) enables distributed sensing of...
    • Opt. Express 25(2) 720-729 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Lattice modes and plasmonic linewidth engineering in gold and aluminum nanoparticle arrays
    • Surface lattice plasmons are formed by the coupling of localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonances of individual...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(3) 691-700 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Photonic-crystal hydrogels with a rapidly tunable stop band and high reflectivity across the visible
    • Hydrogels have an extremely wide spectrum of applications, from soft contact lenses to selective drug delivery and from...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 253-263 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Hybrid metal-dielectric nanocavity for enhanced light-matter interactions
    • Hybrid metal-dielectric nanocavities: in medio stat virtus

      Strong confinement of the light in a very small...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 231-239 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey A. Sukhorukov

    • Engineering chiral light–matter interaction in photonic crystal waveguides with slow light
    • Light-matter interactions define the fundamental phenomena of photon emission and scattering. By harnessing these...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 43-51 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Pulse interactions in a colliding pulse mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser
    • Laser light that circulates in two counter-propagating beams helps form robust and short pulses at very high pulse...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(2) 329-337 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Luca Tartara

    • Comparative study of multioctave supercontinuum generation in fused silica, YAG, and LiF in the range of anomalous group velocity dispersion
    • Recent experimental work on supercontinuum generation in bulk media has shown exciting new opportunities for obtaining...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(1) 88-94 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Gabriel Popescu

    • Refractive index measurement of suspended cells using opposed-view digital holographic microscopy
    • The refractive index of cells can be used as an intrinsic contrast marker, thus revealing internal structure without...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(32) 9000-9005 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Juan P. Torres

    • Using a complex optical orbital-angular-momentum spectrum to measure object parameters
    • In a proof of concept experiment, Xie et al. demonstrate the advantage of using spatial modes in their case modes that...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(21) 4482-4485 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Low-loss reciprocal optical terminals for two-way time-frequency transfer
    • Linking optical clocks through the turbulent air without losing a single cycle of the optical frequency allows for a...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(34) 9406-9413 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Maria Losurdo

    • Laser-induced photochemical synthesis of fibrous-shaped CuO@CuS nanoporous structures for enhanced electrostatic adsorption of negatively charged contaminants from wastewater
    • Clean water! It is perhaps the big environmental challenge common to both underdeveloped and extremely...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(11) 3863-3874 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Determination of refractive index and layer thickness of nm-thin films via ellipsometry
    • Determining both the refractive index and thickness of few-nm films by ellipsometry is no longer impossible. Measuring...
    • Opt. Express 25(22) 27077-27085 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Orges Furxhi

    • 360-degree screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal ball using a spatially imaged iris and rotational multiview DFD technologies
    • The authors describe and demonstrate a method of displaying a 360-degree, screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(22) 6156-6167 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Pascal Picart

    • Color-image reconstruction for two-wavelength digital holography using a generalized phase-shifting approach
    • Digital color holography exhibits a high potential to record and image 3D object scenes. Although the recording process...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(23) 6554-6563 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David A. Powell

    • Green’s functions, including scatterers, for photonic crystals and metamaterials
    • Green's functions are an important computational tool for solving a wide range of classical and quantum...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(7) 1450-1458 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Mark Dennis

    • On the behavior of degree of polarization surfaces at the limit of Poincaré sphere walls
    • The geometric algebra of optical polarization continues to be a source of new insights and connections with...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(6) 1147-1155 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Ray-mapping approach in double freeform surface design for collimated beam shaping beyond the paraxial approximation
    • Advanced manufacturing has expanded our capability to fabricate new and unfamiliar lens surfaces. But what do we...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(13) 3679-3688 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Diffuse back-illumination setup for high temporally resolved extinction imaging
    • How clean is your car engine? You might not expect this type of question to come up in an optics paper very often, but...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(17) 5028-5038 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter J. Mosley

    • On-chip splicer for coupling light between photonic crystal and solid-core fibers
    • Connecting different types of optical fiber with low loss is not a straightforward operation. Fusion splicers that...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(16) 4680-4684 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Diffractive waveplate arrays [Invited]
    • Manipulation of light beams traditionally has been performed by using lenses, prisms, waveplates, and other discrete...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(5) B56-B63 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Large real-time holographic 3D displays: enabling components and results
    • Viewing a 3D hologram gives you a sense of the real scene created in front of you and a feeling of “being...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(13) F45-F52 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Detlev Ristau

    • Determination of the optical constants of a dielectric layer by processing in situ spectral transmittance measurements along the time dimension
    • Alongside the ever-increasing demands imposed on optical coating technology, in-situ spectral broadband monitoring has...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(4) C181-C187 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Relative change measurement of physical quantities using dual-wavelength coherent OTDR
    • A simplified implementation of coherent optical time domain reflectometry (C-OTDR) enables distributed sensing of...
    • Opt. Express 25(2) 720-729 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Rosalia Serna

    • Time-resolved light-induced insulator-metal transition in niobium dioxide and vanadium dioxide thin films
    • A promising material for ultrafast optical switching
      Manipulation of optical signals for data...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 213-223 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Jonathan T. Elliott

    • Orthotropic elastic moduli of biological tissues from ultrasound-assisted diffusing-wave spectroscopy
    • To characterize the anisotropic elasticity of tissue, the authors apply diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) to detect the...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(11) 1945-1956 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Hervé Rigneault

    • Imaging properties of surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy on thin gold films
    • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is a powerful technique that enables chemical imaging based on...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(10) 2104-2114 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Emmi Kantola

    • Multiphoton in vivo imaging with a femtosecond semiconductor disk laser
    • Multiphoton microscopy is an important tool for developmental biology and neuroscience, but the cost of such...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 8(7) 3213-3231 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Light localization properties of weakly disordered optical media using confocal microscopy: application to cancer detection
    • Light can be trapped in localized modes in some dielectric microstructures that are similar to the localized wave...
    • Opt. Express 25(13) 15428-15440 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Graphene-based near-field optical microscopy: high-resolution imaging using reconfigurable gratings
    • A longstanding rule of thumb with standard microscopes suggests that it is not possible to resolve things that are much...
    • Appl. Opt. 56(11) 3132-3141 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Single-beam phase-modulated stimulated Raman scattering microscopy with spectrally focused detection
    • How do you image at the molecular level without disturbing the natural state of a system? Try stimulated Raman...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(5) 1004-1015 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • The ecosystem that powered the translation of OCT from fundamental research to clinical and commercial impact [Invited]
    • This invited review by Eric A. Swanson and James G. Fujimoto, two of the original inventors of optical coherence...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 8(3) 1638-1664 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Electrifying catheters with light
    • While the simple and cost-effective metal wire is now the primary thread that connects us together with all of our...
    • Opt. Express 25(8) 8534-8549 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kimberley S. Samkoe

    • Measuring sickle cell morphology during blood flow
    • High resolution imaging of the morphology differences between normal and sickle red blood cells has been achieved in a...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 8(3) 1996-2003 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Paganin

    • Ultracompact x-ray dosimeter based on scintillators coupled to a nano-optical antenna
    • Building upon a theoretical proposal by Grosjean and colleagues published in 2013, the present paper by Xie and...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(7) 1361-1364 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Zawadzki

    • Dynamic imaging and quantitative analysis of cranial neural tube closure in the mouse embryo using optical coherence tomography
    • Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows insight into the fascinating dynamics of neural tube closure during embryonic...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 8(1) 407-419 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Femius Koenderink

    • Side-lobe level reduction in bio-inspired optical phased-array antennas
    • Wireless communication between integrated optics nodes requires efficient photonic antennas to send and receive...
    • Opt. Express 25(24) 30105-30114 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by James R. Taylor

    • Photonic lantern kW-class fiber amplifier
    • Limitations in the power scaling of both solid state and fiber lasers are characterized by severe transverse mode...
    • Opt. Express 25(22) 27543-27550 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Graphene metamaterial spatial light modulator for infrared single pixel imaging
    • We are used to cameras with multi-megapixel resolution, however such imaging capabilities are not available in all...
    • Opt. Express 25(21) 25318-25325 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Radan Slavik

    • Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators
    • The key property of optical frequency combs is a stable frequency relation among the comb tones. An ideal optical comb...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(19) 3765-3768 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Continuous-wave optically pumped green perovskite vertical-cavity surface-emitter
    • Solution-processed semiconductors have come to rival traditional laser materials at visible wavelengths. While most...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(18) 3618-3621 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • HgCdTe avalanche photodiode detectors for airborne and spaceborne lidar at infrared wavelengths
    • On-a-chip HgCdTe avalanche photodiode detectors bring the near-to-mid infrared region into reach of air and space...
    • Opt. Express 25(14) 16589-16602 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Qing Gu

    • Thresholdless quantum dot nanolaser
    • Lasers without threshold have been a pursuit for decades in the search for the ultimate energy-efficient coherent light...
    • Opt. Express 25(17) 19981-19994 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Experimental demonstration of interferometric imaging using photonic integrated circuits
    • Optical interferometry might open the way to a new generation of space optical telescopes. Future devices must be more...
    • Opt. Express 25(11) 12653-12665 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Withawat Withayachumnankul

    • Low-cost metamaterial-on-paper chemical sensor
    • Could common materials, tools, and DIY skills be useful to create sensitive liquid sensors? Over decades, researchers...
    • Opt. Express 25(14) 16092-16100 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • 4.2  PW, 20  fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1  Hz
    • The introduction of the chirped pulse amplification technique revolutionized ultra-intense laser physics and led to the...
    • Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Werner Weiershausen

    • Highly Available SDN Control of Flexi-Grid Networks With Network Function Virtualization-Enabled Replication
    • Highly automated telecommunication networks are one of the major future targets for network operators in order to...
    • J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 9(2) A207-A215 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Pulse interactions in a colliding pulse mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser
    • Laser light that circulates in two counter-propagating beams helps form robust and short pulses at very high pulse...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(2) 329-337 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Prospects and limitations of bottom-up fabricated hollow-core waveguides
    • The conventional operation of optical waveguides based on total internal reflection requires that light is guided...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 148-157 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Vision and Color

  • Spotlight Summary by Hannah Smithson

    • Color opponency: tutorial
    • Human color vision provides a rich testing ground for psychophysical (system-level) and physiological (cell-based)...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(7) 1099-1108 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jason Porter

    • Interaction of aberrations, diffraction, and quantal fluctuations determine the impact of pupil size on visual quality
    • Based on simulations performed using an innovative model eye, Xu et al. detail interesting relationships between...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(4) 481-492 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Hannah Smithson

    • Perifoveal S-cone and rod-driven temporal contrast sensitivities at different retinal illuminances
    • How practical is it to use spectral stimuli for non-invasive dissection of the human visual system in health and...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(2) 171-183 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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