Virtual Feature Issue

Optics in Africa: introduction

Andrew Forbes, Rim Cherif, Angela Dudley, and Alain M. Dikande

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), OIA1-OIA3 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Cosine beam: diffraction-free propagation and self-healing

Abdelhalim Bencheikh, Saoussene Chabou, Ouis Chouaib Boumeddine, Hocine Bekkis, Abdeldjallil Benstiti, Laarfa Beddiaf, and Widad Moussaoui

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C7-C14 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized temporal synthesis method for a birefringent laser pulse shaper

Abderezzaq Halassi, Youcef Driouche, Rachid Hamdi, and Badr-Eddine Benkelfat

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C15-C19 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Far-field modeling of obstructed Laguerre–Gauss beams

Abdelhalim Bencheikh, Saoussene Chabou, and Ouis Chouaib Boumeddine

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C20-C26 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced autofluorescence assisted by multivariate techniques discriminates a cataractous lens from healthy lens tissues of Sprague–Dawley rats

Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming, Moses Jojo Eghan, Benjamin Anderson, Samuel Kyei, Jerry Opoku-Ansah, Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah, Charles Darko Takyi, and Paul Kingsley Buah-Bassuah

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C27-C32 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital Stokes polarimetry and its application to structured light: tutorial

Keshaan Singh, Najmeh Tabebordbar, Andrew Forbes, and Angela Dudley

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C33-C44 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

VO₂-based active tunable emittance thermochromic flexible coatings

N. Numan, B. Mabakachaba, A. Simo, Z. Nuru, and M. Maaza

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C45-C49 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical model of an Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ co-doped seven-core fiber amplifier for a space division multiplexing system

Ali Nassiri, Abdelkader Boulezhar, and H. Idrissi Saba

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C50-C56 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of ultrastable fiber-optic time and frequency reference networks in Africa

Shukree Wassin, Kagiso Leburu, George Isoe, and Tim Gibbon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C57-C66 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Onset times of long-lived rogue waves in an optical waveguide array

C. D. Pelwan, A. Quandt, and R. Warmbier

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C67-C72 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of biosynthesized nanoscaled Eu₂O₃ for red luminescence applications

H. E. A. Mohamed, K. Hkiri, M. Khenfouch, S. Dhlamini, M. Henini, and M. Maaza

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C73-C79 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Lossless reshaping of structured light

Stirling Scholes, Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo, and Andrew Forbes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C80-C85 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical approach for hydrodynamic behavior in the kerf with a quasi-complete model of the laser cutting process

T. Tamsaout, E. H. Amara, and A. Bouabdallah

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C86-C94 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency stability characterization: DFB laser and Raman pump performance on a distributed clock signal over 24.69 km fiber

D. M. Osiemo, D. W. Waswa, K. M. Muguro, G. M. Isoe, T. B. Gibbon, and A. W. R. Leitch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C95-C102 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced fluorescence combined with multivariate techniques identifies the geographical origin of antimalarial herbal plants

Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah, Moses Jojo Eghan, Benjamin Anderson, Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming, Jerry Opoku-Ansah, and Paul Kingsley Buah-Bassuah

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C103-C110 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Anderson localization of IR light in 1D nanosystems

M. Maaza and C. N. R. Rao

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C111-C117 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient video-based breathing pattern and respiration rate monitoring for remote health monitoring

Ali I. Siam, Nirmeen A. El-Bahnasawy, Ghada M. El Banby, Atef Abou Elazm, and Fathi E. Abd El-Samie

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C118-C124 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Surface Brillouin scattering study of tantalum nitride (TaN) thin films

Jonah Kuria, Daniel Wamwangi, Darrell Comins, Arthur Every, and Dave Billing

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C125-C131 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Minimum lattice thermal conductivity of In₃SbTe₂ by surface Brillouin scattering

Keshaan Singh, Daniel Wamwangi, Bhekumusa Mathe, Dave Billing, and Morgan Madhuku

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C132-C137 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance analysis of different intensity modulation techniques over atmospheric turbulent free-space optical channels

Sara S. Abdelhak, Ahmed E. Morra, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, and Abdulaziz E. Elfiqi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C138-C145 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Modal analysis of structured light with spatial light modulators: a practical tutorial

Jonathan Pinnell, Isaac Nape, Bereneice Sephton, Mitchell A. Cox, Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo, and Andrew Forbes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11), C146-C160 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Cobalt enhanced nonlinear optical properties and optical limiting of zinc oxide irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses

Abdullah Shehata, Wael Z. Tawfik, and Tarek Mohamed

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A1-A8 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear dynamics in a dipolariton cavity with a squeezed vacuum

H. Jabri and H. Eleuch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A9-A17 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Luminescence in Africa: a brief overview [Invited]

Samvit G. Menon and Hendrik C. Swart

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A18-A35 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multistability, staircases, and optical high-order sideband combs in optomechanics

P. Djorwe, J. Y. Effa, and S. G. Nana Engo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A36-A44 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of a variety of Airy beams using a dynamic diffractive optical phase element

Abdeldjalil Benstiti, Kouider Ferria, and Abdelhalim Bencheikh

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A45-A53 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Interplay of three-body and higher-order interactions on the modulational instability of Bose–Einstein condensate

Sabari Subramaniyan, Olivier Tiokeng Lekeufack, Ramaswamy Radha, and Timoleon Crepin Kofane

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A54-A61 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Employment of Fizeau fringe disintegration to magnify small phase variations

Hamdy H. Wahba, Wael A. Ramadan, and Ahmed S. El-Tawargy

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A62-A68 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Coexistence of bright and dark cavity solitons in microresonators with zero, normal, and anomalous group-velocity dispersion: a switching wave approach

Jimmi Hervé Talla Mbé and Yanne K. Chembo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A69-A74 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Routes to chaos and characterization of limit-cycle oscillations in wideband time-delayed optoelectronic oscillators with nonlinear filters

Juliette Stevia Deumi Kamaha, Jimmi Herve Talla Mbé, and Paul Woafo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A75-A82 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser research on the African continent

Hubertus von Bergmann

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A83-A95 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-lived quantum coherence and nonlinear properties of a two-dimensional semiconductor quantum well

D. A. M. Abo-Kahla

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A96-A109 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploiting FTIR microspectroscopy and chemometric analysis in the discrimination between Egyptian ancient bones: a case study

A. El-Hussein, I. Yousef, and M. A. Kasem

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A110-A120 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirp-dispersion management inducing regeneration of truncated Airy pulses in fiber optics links

Crépin Heuteu, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, and Clément Tchawoua

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A121-A129 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Improving the visible light communication localization system using Kalman filtering with averaging

Eman Shawky, Mohamed El-Shimy, Amr Mokhtar, El-Sayed A. El-Badawy, and Hossam M. H. Shalaby

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A130-A138 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring the nonlinear optical properties of indium tin oxide thin film using femtosecond laser pulses

Mona Ali, Abdullah Shehata, Mohamed Ashour, Wael Z. Tawfik, Reinhold Schuch, and Tarek Mohamed

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A139-A146 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-based optical fiber acoustic sensor for geological applications

J. Jena, S. Wassin, L. Bezuidenhout, M. Doucouré, and T. Gibbon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A147-A153 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically pumped HBr master oscillator power amplifier operating in the mid-infrared region

Wayne Koen, Cobus Jacobs, M. J. Daniel Esser, and Hencharl J. Strauss

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A154-A162 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

On modeling of plasmonic devices: overview

Afaf Said, Khaled S. R. Atia, and S. S. A. Obayya

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A163-A174 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous-wave stability and multipulse structures in a universal complex Ginzburg–Landau model for passively mode-locked lasers with a saturable absorber

Défi Jr. Fandio Jubgang, Alain M. Dikandé, and A. Sunda-Meya

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A175-A183 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Roadmap to free space optics

Abderrahmen Trichili, Mitchell A. Cox, Boon S. Ooi, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A184-A201 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

All-photonic 20-MHz clock for latency monitoring in a 5G network at 10 Gbps over optical fiber

Ketshabile Nfanyana, Shukree Wassin, Reinhard Karembera, James Jena, and Tim Gibbon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A202-A206 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory and numerical aspects of fundamental light–matter interactions

Alexander Quandt and Robert Warmbier

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A207-A213 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Modulational instability in nonlinear doped optical fiber induced by the cubic–quintic–septic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with higher-order dispersions

Karabo Kefilwe Ndebele, Conrad Bertrand Tabi, and Timoléon Crépin Kofané

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A214-A227 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Counter-intuitive strength of electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) signals at the rear side of thin silicon membranes

Wilfrid I. Ndebeka, Pieter H. Neethling, Erich G. Rohwer, Christine M. Steenkamp, and Herbert Stafast

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A228-A236 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantum correlations under the effect of a thermal environment in a triangular optomechanical cavity

Oumayma El Bir and Morad El Baz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A237-A244 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of the bipartite entanglement and correlations in an optomechanical array

Tesfay Gebremariam Tesfahannes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A245-A252 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Cladless optical fiber sensor based on evanescent wave absorption for monitoring methylene blue induced water pollution

Kenza Azil, Kouider Ferria, and Said Bouzid

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A253-A258 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Implementation of temporal ptychography algorithm, i²PIE, for improved single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering measurements

Ruan Viljoen, Pieter Neethling, Dirk Spangenberg, Alexander Heidt, Hans-Martin Frey, Thomas Feurer, and Erich Rohwer

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A259-A265 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of Ho³⁺ doping on the structural and optical characteristics of ZnO–ZrO₂ nanocomposites synthesized by the solution combustion method

M. K. Musembi, F. B. Dejene, I. Ahemen, and K. G. Tshabalala

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A266-A276 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity spectroscopic gas sensor using optimized H1 photonic crystal microcavities

Lazhar Kassa-Baghdouche

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A277-A284 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized spectral phase-only time-domain ptychographic phase reconstruction applied in nonlinear microscopy

George Dwapanyin, Dirk Spangenberg, Alexander Heidt, Thomas Feurer, Gurthwin Bosman, Pieter Neethling, and Erich Rohwer

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A285-A292 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of a nanoegg–nanorod heterodimer: a quasi-static analysis

Luke C. Ugwuoke, Tomáš Mančal, and Tjaart P. J. Krüger

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A293-A303 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of simultaneous multicolor coherent light generation in a single MgO:PPLN bulk crystal

Dismas K. Choge, David W. Waswa, Kennedy M. Muguro, and Wan-Guo Liang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A304-A308 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-dimensional cryptography with spatial modes of light: tutorial

Eileen Otte, Isaac Nape, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Cornelia Denz, Andrew Forbes, and Bienvenu Ndagano

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A309-A323 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical flexible 5G signal generation and transmission for spectrum resource optimization

Reinhard Karembera, Shukree Wassin, George Isoe, Ketshabile Nfanyana, and Tim Gibbon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A324-A330 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Few-cycle optical pulses in negative index materials with dispersive permittivity and permeability

Marianne Abémgnigni Njifon, Conrad Bertrand Tabi, and Timoléon Crépin Kofané

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A331-A345 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

From African “tam-tam” to nonlinear optics [Invited]

Timoléon C. Kofané, Conrad B. Tabi, Alain B. Moubissi, and Clément Tchawoua

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A346-A355 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Probing ultrafast reaction mechanisms of photo-excited dithizone through transient absorption spectroscopy and computational CASSCF studies

Adebayo A. Adeniyi, Paul-Franzl X. von Stein, Gurthwin W. Bosman, Christine M. Steenkamp, Trevor Chiweshe, Karel G. von Eschwege, and Jeanet Conradie

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11), A356-A366 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (10)]