Editorial: Serving the Optics and Photonics Community for 40 Years

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(11), ED3-ED4 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Heart diffraction

Riccardo Borghi

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2070-2073 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing subwavelength grating coupler for mid-infrared suspended membrane germanium waveguides

Jian Kang, Zhenzhou Cheng, Wen Zhou, Ting-Hui Xiao, Kimmy-Laure Gopalakrisna, Mitsuru Takenaka, Hon Ki Tsang, and Keisuke Goda

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2094-2097 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

5.6 W monolithic fiber laser at 3.55 μm

Frédéric Maes, Vincent Fortin, Martin Bernier, and Réal Vallée

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2054-2057 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Higher-order mode suppression in twisted single-ring hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

N. N. Edavalath, M. C. Günendi, R. Beravat, G. K. L. Wong, M. H. Frosz, J.-M. Ménard, and P. St.J. Russell

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2074-2077 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of optical frequency transfer over 154 km of aerial fiber

David R. Gozzard, Sascha W. Schediwy, Bruce Wallace, Romeo Gamatham, and Keith Grainge

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2197-2200 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

BDK-doped core microstructured PMMA optical fiber for effective Bragg grating photo-inscription

Xuehao Hu, Getinet Woyessa, Damien Kinet, Jakob Janting, Kristian Nielsen, Ole Bang, and Christophe Caucheteur

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2209-2212 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study on the statistic characteristics of a 3x3 RF MIMO channel over a single conventional multimode fiber

Yi Lei, Jianqiang Li, Rui Wu, Yuting Fan, Songnian Fu, Feifei Yin, Yitang Dai, and Kun Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2217-2220 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Soliton-plasma nonlinear dynamics in mid-IR gas-filled hollow-core fibers

Md. Selim Habib, Christos Markos, Ole Bang, and Morten Bache

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2232-2235 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable time-resolved tick-tock pulsed digital holographic microscopy for ultrafast events

Yu-Chih Lin, Chau-Jern Cheng, and Li-Chien Lin

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2082-2085 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal Mueller matrix estimation in the presence of additive and Poisson noise for any number of illumination and analysis states

François Goudail

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2153-2156 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Combining phase images measured in the radio frequency and the optical frequency ranges

Quang Duc Pham and Yoshio Hayasaki

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2062-2065 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical path difference microscopy with a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor

Hai Gong, Temitope E. Agbana, Paolo Pozzi, Oleg Soloviev, Michel Verhaegen, and Gleb Vdovin

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2122-2125 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced self-mixing interferometry based on volume Bragg gratings and laser diodes emitting at 405-nm wavelengths

Victor Contreras, Juha Toivonen, and Horacio Martinez

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2221-2223 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid single-mode laser based on graphene Bragg gratings on silicon

Zhengliang Ren, Qiang Kan, Guangzhao Ran, Chaoyuan Jin, Lijun Yuan, Xingyuan Wang, Li Tao, Hongyan Yu, Lianxue Zhang, Weixi Chen, Ke He, Ren-Min Ma, Jiaoqing Pan, and Wei Wang

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2134-2137 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon waveguide polarization rotator sampled Bragg grating

Hideaki Okayama, Yosuke Onawa, Daisuke Shimura, Hiroki Yaegashi, and Hironori Sasaki

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2142-2144 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependence mitigation in stationary Fourier-transform on-chip spectrometers

Alaine Herrero-Bermello, Aitor V. Velasco, Hugh Podmore, Pavel Cheben, Jens H. Schmid, Siegfried Janz, María L. Calvo, Dan-Xia Xu, Alan Scott, and Pedro Corredera

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2239-2242 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-phase-matched multispectral Kerr frequency comb

Shu-Wei Huang, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Jinghui Yang, Mingbin Yu, Dim-Lee Kwong, and Chee Wei Wong

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2110-2113 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Vectorial extreme events in VCSEL polarization dynamics

Chi-Hak Uy, Damien Rontani, and Marc Sciamanna

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2177-2180 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy pulse stacking via regenerative pulse-burst amplification

Ignas Astrauskas, Edgar Kaksis, Tobias Flöry, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, John Ruppe, Siyun Chen, Almantas Galvanauskas, and Tadas Balčiūnas

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2201-2204 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact coupling scheme to achieve the synchronously dual self-mode-locked operation with a 35.2 THz optical beating

Hao Ping Cheng, Tzu Lin Huang, Cheng Lin Sung, Chun Yu Cho, Hsing Chih Liang, and Yung Fu Chen

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2224-2227 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Magnetic annihilation of the dark mode in a strongly coupled bright–dark terahertz metamaterial

Manukumara Manjappa, Shuvan Prashant Turaga, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Andrew Anthony Bettiol, and Ranjan Singh

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2106-2109 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optical effects of high aspect ratio P3HT nanofibers colloid in polymer micro-fluid cells

G. S. Lobov, A. Marinins, R. Zandi Shafagh, Y. Zhao, W. van der Wijngaart, L. Wosinski, L. Thylen, M. S. Toprak, T. Haraldsson, M. Östling, and S. Popov

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2157-2160 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-independent optical transition with sub-nanometer linewidth in thermally diffused Gadolinium in GaN

Pratim K. Saha, Shonal Chouksey, Swaroop Ganguly, and Dipankar Saha

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2161-2164 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical biopsy approach to basal cell carcinoma and melanoma based on all-optically integrated photoacoustic and optical coherence tomography

Wangting Zhou, Zhongjiang Chen, Sihua Yang, and Da Xing

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2145-2148 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable 7–12 μm picosecond optical parametric amplifier based on a LiInSe₂ mid-infrared crystal

Shanpeng Wang, Shibo Dai, Ning Jia, Nan Zong, Chunlong Li, Yu Shen, Tongtong Yu, Jie Qiao, Zeliang Gao, Qinjun Peng, Zuyan Xu, and Xutang Tao

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2098-2101 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Kerr frequency combs and triangular spectra

Zheng Liu, Saliya Coulibaly, Majid Taki, and Nail Akhmediev

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2126-2129 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanosecond difference-frequency generation in orientation-patterned gallium phosphide

Junxiong Wei, S. Chaitanya Kumar, Hanyu Ye, Kavita Devi, Peter G. Schunemann, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2193-2196 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro-sized tunable liquid crystal optical filters

Caleb Stoltzfus, Russell Barbour, David Atherton, and Zeb Barber

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2090-2093 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrowband terahertz generation with chirped-and-delayed laser pulses in periodically poled lithium niobate

Frederike Ahr, Spencer W. Jolly, Nicholas H. Matlis, Sergio Carbajo, Tobias Kroh, Koustuban Ravi, Damian N. Schimpf, Jan Schulte, Hideki Ishizuki, Takunori Taira, Andreas R. Maier, and Franz X. Kärtner

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2118-2121 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared sensing of molecular vibrational modes with tunable graphene plasmons

Tingting Wu, Yu Luo, and Lei Wei

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2066-2069 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphene-coated nanowires with a drop-shaped cross section for 10 nm confinement and 1 mm propagation

Yingxue Huang, Lei Zhang, Hui Yin, Min Zhang, Hong Su, Irene Ling Li, and Huawei Liang

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2078-2081 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of intradyne BPSK optical free-space transmission in representative atmospheric turbulence conditions for geostationary uplink channel

Janis Surof, Juraj Poliak, and Ramon Mata Calvo

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2173-2176 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization dynamics induced by parallel optical injection in a single-mode VCSEL

Florian Denis-le Coarer, Ana Quirce, Ángel Valle, Luis Pesquera, Marc Sciamanna, Hugo Thienpont, and Krassimir Panajotov

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2130-2133 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Transverse Anderson localization of surface plasmon polaritons

Z. Cherpakova, F. Bleckmann, T. Vogler, and S. Linden

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2165-2168 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon PAM-4 optical modulator driven by two binary electrical signals with different peak-to-peak voltages

Lingchen Zheng, Jianfeng Ding, Sizhu Shao, Lei Zhang, and Lin Yang

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2213-2216 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrow-linewidth carbon nanotube emission in silicon hollow-core photonic crystal cavity

Thi Hong Cam Hoang, Elena Durán-Valdeiglesias, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Samuel Serna, Weiwei Zhang, Matteo Balestrieri, Al-Saleh Keita, Niccolò Caselli, Francesco Biccari, Xavier Le Roux, Arianna Filoramo, Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Vivien, and Eric Cassan

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2228-2231 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Light-induced self-written waveguide fabrication using 1550 nm laser light

Hidetaka Terasawa, Freddy Tan, Okihiro Sugihara, Akari Kawasaki, Daisuke Inoue, Tatsuya Yamashita, Manabu Kagami, Olivier Maury, Yann Bretonnière, and Chantal Andraud

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2236-2238 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Polynomials of Gaussians and vortex-Gaussian beams as complete, transversely confined bases

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas and Miguel A. Alonso

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2205-2208 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporally versatile polarization entanglement from Bragg reflection waveguides

A. Schlager, B. Pressl, K. Laiho, H. Suchomel, M. Kamp, S. Höfling, C. Schneider, and G. Weihs

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2102-2105 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Fiber-ring laser-based intracavity photoacoustic spectroscopy for trace gas sensing

Qiang Wang, Zhen Wang, Jun Chang, and Wei Ren

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2114-2117 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute noninvasive measurement of CO₂ mole fraction emitted by E. coli and S. aureus using calibration-free 2f WMS applied to a 2004 nm VCSEL

A. S. Zarin, Arup Lal Chakraborty, and Abhishek Upadhyay

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2138-2141 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Contribution of angle-dependent light penetration to electric-field enhancement at nodules in optical coatings

Xinbin Cheng, Tao He, Jinlong Zhang, Hongfei Jiao, Bin Ma, and Zhanshan Wang

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2086-2089 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric time-domain ptychography for ultrafast pulse characterization

Janne Hyyti, Esmerando Escoto, Günter Steinmeyer, and Tobias Witting

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2185-2188 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of unipolar half-cycle pulses via unusual reflection of a single-cycle pulse from an optically thin metallic or dielectric layer

M. V. Arkhipov, R. M. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov, I. V. Babushkin, A. Demircan, U. Morgner, and N. N. Rosanov

Opt. Lett. 42(11), 2189-2192 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]