JOSAB Tutorials

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  • Illustrated tutorial on global optimization in nanophotonics

    Bennet, Pauline; Langevin, Denis; Essoual, Chaymae; Khaireh-Walieh, Abdourahman; Teytaud, Olivier; Wiecha, Peter; Moreau, Antoine
    • 2024
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 41(2) A126-A145  View: HTML | PDF

    Numerical optimization for the inverse design of photonic structures is a tool that is providing increasingly convincing results—even though the wave nature of problems in photonics makes them particu...

  • PyMoosh: a comprehensive numerical toolkit for computing the optical properties of multilayered structures

    Langevin, Denis; Bennet, Pauline; Khaireh-Walieh, Abdourahman; Wiecha, Peter; Teytaud, Olivier; Moreau, Antoine
    • 2024
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 41(2) A67-A78  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 1

    We present PyMoosh, a Python-based simulation library designed to provide a comprehensive set of numerical tools allowing the computation of essentially all optical characteristics of multilayered str...

  • All-digital quantum ghost imaging: tutorial

    Moodley, Chané; Forbes, Andrew
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(12) 3073-3095  View: HTML | PDF

    Quantum ghost imaging offers many advantages over classical imaging, including the ability to probe an object with one wavelength and record the image with another, while low photon fluxes offer the a...

  • Etchless photonic integrated circuits enabled by bound states in the continuum: tutorial

    Yu, Yue; Sun, Xiankai
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(11) 2801-2808  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

    We provide a detailed tutorial demonstrating how the principle of “bound states in the continuum” (BICs) enables ultralow-loss guiding and routing of photons in photonic integrated circuits fabricated...

  • Non-Hermitian photonic lattices: tutorial

    Wang, Qiang; Chong, Y. D.
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(6) 1443-1466  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 10

    Non-Hermitian photonic lattices combine the peculiar consequences of energy non-conservation with the physics of bandstructures, giving rise to a variety of exotic properties not found in conventional...

  • Near-zero-index platform in photonics: tutorial

    Vertchenko, Larissa; Nikitin, Maxim; Lavrinenko, Andrei
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(6) 1467-1482  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 2

    The need for miniaturization and faster communications resulted in the rise of photonics, with the big promise of light circuits with high speed and low heating. Near-zero-index materials have gained ...

  • Evaluation of univariate and multivariate calibration strategies for the direct determination of total carbon in soils by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: tutorial

    Nascimento Guedes, Wesley; Babos, Diego Victor; Câmara Costa, Vinícius; De Morais, Carla Pereira; Freitas, Vitor da Silveira; Stenio, Kleydson; Xavier, Alfredo Augusto Pereira; Leva Borduchi, Luís Carlos; Villas-Boas, Paulino Ribeiro; Milori, Débora Marcondes Bastos Pereira
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(5) 1319-1330  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 1

    The correct choice of the calibration strategy method is a step that can ensure the accuracy of carbon determination in soils by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. In this paper, we evaluate and di...

  • Optimization and characterization of toroidal foci for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: tutorial

    Lopez, Lucía F.; Masullo, Luciano A.; Szalai, Alan M.; Edorna, Florencia; Choque, Florencia D.; Caprile, Fernando; Stefani, Fernando D.
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(4) C103-C110  View: HTML | PDF

    Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has become an essential tool to investigate phenomena at the nanoscale. Among the different SMLM approaches, methods that interrogate the molecular posit...

  • Optical Bloch modeling of magnetic dipole transitions in a four-state system and its application in ion trapping: tutorial

    Bester, S.; Steenkamp, C. M.
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(4) 830-848  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 1

    This tutorial covers the derivation of the optical Bloch equations for a four-state atomic system interacting with an electromagnetic field via magnetic dipole transitions. The derivation of the equat...

  • Influence of structural disorder on plasmonic metasurfaces and their colors—a coupled point dipole approach: tutorial

    Herkert, Ediz; Sterl, Florian; Both, Steffen; Tikhodeev, Sergei G.; Weiss, Thomas; Giessen, Harald
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(3) B59-B99  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 1

    The optical properties of plasmonic metasurfaces are determined not only by the shape and size of the constituting nanostructures, but also by their spatial arrangement. The fast progress in nanofabri...

  • Fiber-based photon-pair generation: tutorial

    Garay-Palmett, Karina; Kim, Dong Beom; Zhang, Yujie; Domínguez-Serna, Francisco A.; Lorenz, Virginia O.; U’Ren, Alfred B.
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(3) 469-490  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 8

    The purpose of this tutorial paper is to present a broad overview of photon-pair generation through the spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) process in optical fibers. Progress in optical fiber technol...

  • Compressed sensing in photonics: tutorial

    Kilic, Velat; Tran, Trac D.; Foster, Mark A.
    • 2023
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40(1) 28-52  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 2

    Traditional optical imaging and sensing methods capture signals of interest by direct sampling in the domain of interest such as by forming images on pixelated camera sensors or by regular temporal sa...

  • Quantum imaging and metrology with undetected photons: tutorial

    Barreto Lemos, Gabriela; Lahiri, Mayukh; Ramelow, Sven; Lapkiewicz, Radek; Plick, William N.
    • 2022
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39(8) 2200-2228  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 10

    We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear c...

  • Surface electromagnetic waves in lossy conductive media: tutorial

    Smolyaninov, Igor I.
    • 2022
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39(7) 1894-1901  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 2

    It is commonly believed that electromagnetic waves cannot propagate in lossy conductive media and that they quickly decay inside such media over short length scales of the order of so-called skin dept...

  • Femtosecond multidimensional spectroscopy with multiple repetition-frequency-stabilized lasers: tutorial

    Kim, JunWoo; Jeon, Jonggu; Yoon, Tai Hyun; Cho, Minhaeng
    • 2022
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39(4) 934-951  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 2

    Time-resolved multidimensional spectroscopy is an advanced spectroscopic technique that can be used to study the molecular structure and dynamics of chromophores in condensed phases by probing multipl...

  • Introduction to theory of high-harmonic generation in solids: tutorial

    Yue, Lun; Gaarde, Mette B.
    • 2022
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39(2) 535-555  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 59

    High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged in recent years as a rapidly expanding and interdisciplinary field, attracting attention from both the condensed-matter and the atomic, m...

  • Stochastic systems: tutorial

    McKinstrie, C. J.; Stirling, T. J.; Helmy, A. S.
    • 2021
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38(12) 3818-3836  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 2

    In this tutorial, three examples of stochastic systems are considered: a strongly damped oscillator, a weakly damped oscillator and an undamped oscillator (integrator) driven by noise. The evolution o...

  • Laser linewidths: tutorial

    McKinstrie, C. J.; Stirling, T. J.; Helmy, A. S.
    • 2021
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38(12) 3837-3848  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 10

    In this tutorial, the physical origins and mathematical analyses of laser linewidths are reviewed. The semi-classical model is based on an equation for the light-mode amplitude that includes random so...

  • Mode coupling at avoided crossings in slab waveguides with comparison to optical fibers: tutorial

    Young, J. T.; Wei, C.; Menyuk, C. R.; Hu, J.
    • 2021
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38(12) F104-F114  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 6

    Avoided crossings are important in many waveguides and resonators. That is particularly the case in modern-day solid-core and air-core optical fibers that often have a complex geometry. The ...

  • Double copy—from optics to quantum gravity: tutorial

    White, Chris D.
    • 2021
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38(11) 3319-3330  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 3

    Recently, an intriguing relationship (the double copy) has been discovered between theories like electromagnetism and gravity. This potentially gives us a new way to think about gravity, and there are...