Focus issue introduction: synergy of structured light and structured materials

Takashige Omatsu, Natalia M. Litchinitser, Etienne Brasselet, Ryuji Morita, and Jian Wang

Opt. Express 25(14), 16681-16685 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays

Akshit Peer, Rana Biswas, Joong-Mok Park, Ruth Shinar, and Joseph Shinar

Opt. Express 25(9), 10704-10709 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High speed cleaving of crystals with ultrafast Bessel beams

L. Rapp, R. Meyer, L. Furfaro, C. Billet, R. Giust, and F. Courvoisier

Opt. Express 25(8), 9312-9317 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct laser printing of chiral plasmonic nanojets by vortex beams

S. Syubaev, A. Zhizhchenko, A. Kuchmizhak, A. Porfirev, E. Pustovalov, O. Vitrik, Yu. Kulchin, S. Khonina, and S. Kudryashov

Opt. Express 25(9), 10214-10223 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Inner structure of ZnO microspheres fabricated via laser ablation in superfluid helium

Yosuke Minowa, Yuya Oguni, and Masaaki Ashida

Opt. Express 25(9), 10449-10455 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Azo-polymer film twisted to form a helical surface relief by illumination with a circularly polarized Gaussian beam

Keigo Masuda, Shogo Nakano, Daisuke Barada, Mitsutaka Kumakura, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, and Takashige Omatsu

Opt. Express 25(11), 12499-12507 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Autofocusing Airy beams generated by all-dielectric metasurface for visible light

Qingbin Fan, Daopeng Wang, Pengcheng Huo, Zijie Zhang, Yuzhang Liang, and Ting Xu

Opt. Express 25(8), 9285-9294 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Manipulating surface plasmon polaritons with infinitely anisotropic metamaterials

Zheping Shao, Yihao Yang, Zuojia Wang, Muhiddeen Yahaya, Bin Zheng, Shahram Dehdashti, Huaping Wang, and Hongsheng Chen

Opt. Express 25(9), 10515-10526 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear imaging of nanostructures using beams with binary phase modulation

Léo Turquet, Joona-Pekko Kakko, Hua Jiang, Tero J. Isotalo, Teppo Huhtio, Tapio Niemi, Esko Kauppinen, Harri Lipsanen, Martti Kauranen, and Godofredo Bautista

Opt. Express 25(9), 10441-10448 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced fluorescence microscopy with the Bull’s eye-plasmonic chip

Keiko Tawa, Shota Izumi, Chisato Sasakawa, Chie Hosokawa, and Mana Toma

Opt. Express 25(9), 10622-10631 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Determining elliptical polarization of light from rotation of calcite crystals

Catherine M. Herne, Natalie A. Cartwright, and Matthew T. Cattani

Opt. Express 25(9), 10044-10050 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic optical trapping of nanometer-sized J- /H- dye aggregates as explored by fluorescence microspectroscopy

Ayaka Mototsuji, Tatsuya Shoji, Yumi Wakisaka, Kei Murakoshi, Hiroshi Yao, and Yasuyuki Tsuboi

Opt. Express 25(12), 13617-13625 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Solitons supported by singular modulation of the cubic nonlinearity

Vitaly Lutsky and Boris A. Malomed

Opt. Express 25(11), 12967-12983 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanostructured graded-index core chalcogenide fiber with all-normal dispersion–design and nonlinear simulations

Bartłomiej Siwicki, Adam Filipkowski, Rafał Kasztelanic, Mariusz Klimczak, and Ryszard Buczyński

Opt. Express 25(11), 12984-12998 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Birefringent masks that are optimal for generating bottle fields

Anthony Vella, Hippolyte Dourdent, Lukas Novotny, and Miguel A. Alonso

Opt. Express 25(8), 9318-9332 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Structuring light under different polarization states within micrometer domains: exact analysis from the Maxwell equations

Michel Zamboni-Rached, Leonardo André Ambrosio, Ahmed H. Dorrah, and Mo Mojahedi

Opt. Express 25(9), 10051-10056 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction of V-point singularities through triangular apertures

B S Bhargava Ram, Anurag Sharma, and P. Senthilkumaran

Opt. Express 25(9), 10270-10275 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple generations of high-order orbital angular momentum modes through cascaded third-harmonic generation in a 2D nonlinear photonic crystal

Dan Wei, Jiale Guo, Xinyuan Fang, Dunzhao Wei, Rui Ni, Peng Chen, Xiaopeng Hu, Yong Zhang, Wei Hu, Y. Q. Lu, S. N. Zhu, and Min Xiao

Opt. Express 25(10), 11556-11563 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Geometric phase Doppler effect: when structured light meets rotating structured materials

Zhenxing Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yougang Ke, Junxiao Zhou, Yachao Liu, Hailu Luo, and Shuangchun Wen

Opt. Express 25(10), 11564-11573 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Vector optical field generation based on birefringent phase plate

Jiazhou Wang, Axiu Cao, Hui Pang, Man Zhang, Guangyi Wang, Jian Chen, Lifang Shi, Qiling Deng, and Song Hu

Opt. Express 25(11), 12531-12540 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Scalar and electromagnetic nonparaxial bases composed as superpositions of simple vortex fields with complex foci

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas and Miguel A. Alonso

Opt. Express 25(13), 14856-14870 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Tailored intensity landscapes by tight focusing of singular vector beams

Eileen Otte, Kemal Tekce, and Cornelia Denz

Opt. Express 25(17), 20194-20201 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of anisotropic turbulence on the orbital angular momentum modes of Hermite-Gaussian vortex beam in the ocean

Ye Li, Lin Yu, and Yixin Zhang

Opt. Express 25(11), 12203-12215 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing light with orbital angular momentum by circular array antenna

Takashi Arikawa, Shohei Morimoto, and Koichiro Tanaka

Opt. Express 25(12), 13728-13735 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Switchable metamaterial for enhancing and localizing electromagnetic field at terahertz band

Junxing Liu, Kailin Zhang, Xiankuan Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Zuanming Jin, Xiaoyong He, and Guohong Ma

Opt. Express 25(13), 13944-13952 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF