Optics Letters

Miguel Alonso, Editor-in-Chief

Optics Letters

Xi-Cheng Zhang, Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

1 September 2017, Volume 42, Issue 17, pp. 3251-3513
67 articles

Editorial

Editorial: Optics Letters Has Changed with the Times While Keeping Its Identity

Anthony J. Campillo

Opt. Lett. 42(17), ED6-ED8 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Letters

Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

Variability of adjacency effects in sky reflectance measurements

Philipp M. M. Groetsch, Peter Gege, Stefan G. H. Simis, Marieke A. Eleveld, and Steef W. M. Peters

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3359-3362 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Detectors

High-performance MoS₂/Si heterojunction broadband photodetectors from deep ultraviolet to near infrared

Zhenhua Lou, Longhui Zeng, Yuange Wang, Di Wu, Tingting Xu, Zhifeng Shi, Yongtao Tian, Xinjian Li, and Yuen Hong Tsang

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3335-3338 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction and Gratings

Role of nanoparticles generation in the formation of femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures on silicon

Hongyan Xue, Guoliang Deng, Guoying Feng, Lin Chen, Jiaqi Li, Chao Yang, and Shouhuan Zhou

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3315-3318 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Effect of stray fields on Rydberg states in hollow-core PCF probed by higher-order modes

G. Epple, N. Y. Joly, T. G. Euser, P. St.J. Russell, and R. Löw

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3271-3274 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

High-input dynamic range and selectivity stimulated Brillouin scattering-based microwave photonic filter utilizing a dual-stage scheme

Ke Zhang, Yibo Zhong, Changjian Ke, and Deming Liu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3287-3290 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Editors' Pick

Photonic microwave time delay using slow- and fast-light effects in optically injected semiconductor lasers

Kun-Lin Hsieh, Sheng-Kwang Hwang, and Chin-Lung Yang

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3307-3310 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Bending effect characterization of individual higher-order modes in few-mode fibers

Yao Xu, Guobin Ren, Youchao Jiang, Yixiao Gao, Haisu Li, Wenxing Jin, Yue Wu, Ya Shen, and Shuisheng Jian

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3343-3346 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Modeling of nonlinearity-compensated optical communication systems considering second-order signal-noise interactions

Nikita A. Shevchenko, Tianhua Xu, Domaniç Lavery, Gabriele Liga, David J. Ives, Robert I. Killey, and Polina Bayvel

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3351-3354 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Gas mixture for deep-UV plasma emission in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

F. Amrani, F. Delahaye, B. Debord, L. L. Alves, F. Gerome, and F. Benabid

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3363-3366 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Versatile hybrid plasmonic microfiber knot resonator

Jin-Hong Li, Jin-Hui Chen, Shao-Cheng Yan, Ya-Ping Ruan, Fei Xu, and Yan-Qing Lu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3395-3398 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Laser-based optoelectronic generation of narrowband microwave chaos for radars and radio-communication scrambling

Yanne K. Chembo

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3431-3434 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Chirped fiber tip Fabry–Perot interferometer

Xinpu Zhang, Liyang Shao, Xihua Zou, Bin Luo, Wei Pan, and Lianshan Yan

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3474-3477 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Self-starting optical–electrical–optical homodyne clock recovery for phase-modulated signals

Ehsan Sooudi, Andrew D. Ellis, and Robert J. Manning

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3486-3489 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Holography

Compact surface plasmon holographic microscopy for near-field film mapping

Jiwei Zhang, Siqing Dai, Chaojie Ma, Jianglei Di, and Jianlin Zhao

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3462-3465 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Imaging Systems

Thermo-elastic optical coherence tomography

Tianshi Wang, Tom Pfeiffer, Min Wu, Wolfgang Wieser, Gaetano Amenta, Wolfgang Draxinger, Antonius F. W. van der Steen, Robert Huber, and Gijs van Soest

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3466-3469 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology

Measurements of Pancharatnam–Berry phase in mode transformations on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere

Yuanyuan Liu, Zhenxing Liu, Junxiao Zhou, Xiaohui Ling, Weixing Shu, Hailu Luo, and Shuangchun Wen

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3447-3450 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Moiré deflectometry-based position detection for optical tweezers

Ali Akbar Khorshad, S. Nader S. Reihani, and Mohammad Taghi Tavassoly

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3506-3509 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Integrated Optics

Fast response of photorefraction in lithium niobate microresonators

Haowei Jiang, Rui Luo, Hanxiao Liang, Xianfeng Chen, Yuping Chen, and Qiang Lin

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3267-3270 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Photonic linear chirped microwave signal generation based on the ultra-compact spectral shaper using the slow light effect

Siqi Yan, Shengqian Gao, Feng Zhou, Yunhong Ding, Jianji Dong, Xinlun Cai, and Xinliang Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3299-3302 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

1.54 μm photoluminescence from Er:O_x centers at extremely low concentration in silicon at 300 K

Michele Celebrano, Lavinia Ghirardini, Marco Finazzi, Yasuo Shimizu, Yuan Tu, Koji Inoue, Yasuyoshi Nagai, Takahiro Shinada, Yuki Chiba, Ayman Abdelghafar, Maasa Yano, Takashi Tanii, and Enrico Prati

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3311-3314 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Loss reduction of silicon-on-insulator waveguides for deep mid-infrared applications

Liuqing He, Yuhao Guo, Zhaohong Han, Kazumi Wada, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Guifang Li, and Lin Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3454-3457 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-wideband Ge-rich silicon germanium integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer for mid-infrared spectroscopy

Vladyslav Vakarin, Joan Manel Ramírez, Jacopo Frigerio, Andrea Ballabio, Xavier Le Roux, Qiankun Liu, David Bouville, Laurent Vivien, Giovanni Isella, and Delphine Marris-Morini

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3482-3485 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Integrated optical phased arrays for quasi-Bessel-beam generation

Jelena Notaros, Christopher V. Poulton, Matthew J. Byrd, Manan Raval, and Michael R. Watts

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3510-3513 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Lasers and Laser Optics

Passive compensation of the misalignment instability caused by air convection in thin-disk lasers

Tom Dietrich, Stefan Piehler, Christoph Röcker, Martin Rumpel, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, and Thomas Graf

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3263-3266 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Levitation and propulsion of a Mie-resonance particle by a surface plasmon

A. V. Maslov

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3327-3330 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Discretely selectable multiwavelength operation of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked Nd:YVO₄ laser

Tanant Waritanant and Arkady Major

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3331-3334 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Visible laser emission from a praseodymium-doped fluorozirconate guided-wave chip

C. Khurmi, S. Thoday, T. M. Monro, G. Chen, and D. G. Lancaster

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3339-3342 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

More than 400 W random fiber laser with excellent beam quality

Hanwei Zhang, Long Huang, Pu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Jiangming Xu, and Xiaojun Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3347-3350 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Observation of fiber fuse propagation speed with high temporal resolution using heterodyne detection and time–frequency analysis

Shoulin Jiang, Lin Ma, Xinyu Fan, Shuai Wang, and Zuyuan He

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3355-3358 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Ultrabroadband tunable OPA design using a spectrally broadened pump source

Seyed Ali Rezvani, Zuofei Hong, Xiaoxiao Pang, Shun Wu, Qingbin Zhang, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3367-3370 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Editors' Pick

Real-time measurement of temperature distribution inside a gain medium of a diode-pumped Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ 1.55 μm laser

Chenchen Xu, Yidong Huang, Yanfu Lin, Jianhua Huang, Xingxong Gong, Zundu Luo, and Yujin Chen

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3383-3386 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Parametric control of thermal self-pulsation in micro-cavities

Luigi Di Lauro, Jin Li, David J. Moss, Roberto Morandotti, Sai T. Chu, Marco Peccianti, and Alessia Pasquazi

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3407-3410 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Low-concentrated solar-pumped laser via transverse excitation fiber-laser geometry

Taizo Masuda, Mitsuhiro Iyoda, Yuta Yasumatsu, and Masamori Endo

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3427-3430 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Holmium thin-disk laser based on Ho:KY(WO₄)₂/KY(WO₄)₂ epitaxy with 60% slope efficiency and simplified pump geometry

Xavier Mateos, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Sergei Vatnik, Pavel Loiko, Ivan Vedin, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3490-3493 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Materials

Ultrafast photoinduced anisotropy in GeSe₂thin film

A. R. Barik and K. V. Adarsh

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3291-3294 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Thickness-dependent nonlinear optical properties of CsPbBr₃ perovskite nanosheets

Jun Zhang, Tian Jiang, Xin Zheng, Chao Shen, and Xiang’ai Cheng

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3371-3374 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Few-layered ReS₂ as saturable absorber for 2.8 μm solid state laser

Xiancui Su, Hongkun Nie, Yiran Wang, Guoru Li, Bingzheng Yan, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, and Jingliang He

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3502-3505 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Medical Optics and Biotechnology

Rapid focus map surveying for whole slide imaging with continuous sample motion

Jun Liao, Yutong Jiang, Zichao Bian, Bahareh Mahrou, Aparna Nambiar, Alexander W. Magsam, Kaikai Guo, Shiyao Wang, Yong ku Cho, and Guoan Zheng

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3379-3382 (2017) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Nonlinear Optics

600 W green and 300 W UV light generated from an eight-beam, sub-nanosecond fiber laser system

Koji Tsubakimoto, Hidetsugu Yoshida, and Noriaki Miyanaga

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3255-3258 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-ideal dynamics of vortex solitons embedded in flattop nonlinear Bessel beams

Miguel A. Porras and Francisco Ramos

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3275-3278 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Intermodal modulational instability in graded-index multimode optical fibers

R. Dupiol, A. Bendahmane, K. Krupa, J. Fatome, A. Tonello, M. Fabert, V. Couderc, S. Wabnitz, and G. Millot

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3419-3422 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Editors' Pick

Ultra-short pulse fiber optical parametric oscillator

Thomas Gottschall, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3423-3426 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

1.4–7.2 μm broadband supercontinuum generation in an As-S chalcogenide tapered fiber pumped in the normal dispersion regime

Yingying Wang, Shixun Dai, Guangtao Li, Dong Xu, Chenyang You, Xin Han, Peiqing Zhang, Xunsi Wang, and Peipeng Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3458-3461 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Instant and efficient second-harmonic generation and downconversion in unprepared graded-index multimode fibers

M. A. Eftekhar, Z. Sanjabi-Eznaveh, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, F. W. Wise, D. N. Christodoulides, and R. Amezcua-Correa

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3478-3481 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Secure communication systems based on chaos in optically pumped spin-VCSELs

Nianqiang Li, H. Susanto, B. Cemlyn, I. D. Henning, and M. J. Adams

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3494-3497 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Fabrication

Facile fabrication of flexible graphene FETs by sunlight reduction of graphene oxide

Jia-Nan Ma, Yan He, Yan Liu, Dong-Dong Han, Yu-Qing Liu, Jiang-Wei Mao, Hao-Bo Jiang, and Yong-Lai Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3403-3406 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

2D–3D switchable display based on a passive polymeric lenticular lens array and electrically suppressed ferroelectric liquid crystal

Liangyu Shi, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Alwin Ming Wai Tam, Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov, and Hoi Sing Kwok

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3435-3438 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Devices

Giant spin splitting induced by orbital angular momentum in an epsilon-near-zero metamaterial slab

Mengjiang Jiang, Wenguo Zhu, Heyuan Guan, Jianhui Yu, Huihui Lu, Jieyuan Tan, Jun Zhang, and Zhe Chen

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3259-3262 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Silicon nanobeam cavity for ultra-localized light-matter interaction

Weiwei Zhang, Samuel Serna, Xavier Le Roux, Laurent Vivien, and Eric Cassan

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3323-3326 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

L-shaped fiber-chip grating couplers with high directionality and low reflectivity fabricated with deep-UV lithography

Daniel Benedikovic, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Diego Pérez-Galacho, Sylvain Guerber, Vladyslav Vakarin, Guillaume Marcaud, Xavier Le Roux, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Pavel Cheben, Frédéric Boeuf, Charles Baudot, and Laurent Vivien

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3439-3442 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser inscription of Bragg grating waveguides in bulk diamond

V. Bharadwaj, A. Courvoisier, T. T. Fernandez, R. Ramponi, G. Galzerano, J. Nunn, M. J. Booth, R. Osellame, S. M. Eaton, and P. S. Salter

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3451-3453 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Optics at Surfaces

Enhanced photoluminescence intensity by modifying the surface nanostructure of Nd³⁺-doped (Pb, La)(Zr, Ti)O₃ ceramics

Long Xu, Jingwen Zhang, Hua Zhao, Haibin Sun, and Caixia Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3303-3306 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Designer surface plasmon dispersion on a one-dimensional periodic slot metasurface with glide symmetry

Miguel Camacho, Rhiannon C. Mitchell-Thomas, Alastair P. Hibbins, J. Roy Sambles, and Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3375-3378 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

Guided surface-volume plasmon modes in an ultrathin film at Drude damping limit

Pu Zhang, Xuejiang Xie, and Xue-Wen Chen

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3295-3298 (2017) View: HTML | PDF

Heat-sink free CW operation of injection microdisk lasers grown on Si substrate with emission wavelength beyond 1.3 μm

Natalia Kryzhanovskaya, Eduard Moiseev, Yulia Polubavkina, Mikhail Maximov, Marina Kulagina, Sergey Troshkov, Yury Zadiranov, Yulia Guseva, Andrey Lipovskii, Mingchu Tang, Mengya Liao, Jiang Wu, Siming Chen, Huiyun Liu, and Alexey Zhukov

Opt. Lett. 42(17), 3319-3322 (2017) View: HTML | PDF