Editorial: Optics Letters—40 Years and Beyond

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(24), ED9-ED11 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

1.25  GHz sine wave gating InGaAs/InP single-photon detector with a monolithically integrated readout circuit

Wen-Hao Jiang, Jian-Hong Liu, Yin Liu, Ge Jin, Jun Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5090-5093 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-performance Ge-on-Si photodetector with optimized DBR location

Jishi Cui and Zhiping Zhou

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5141-5144 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-quality-factor double Fabry–Perot plasmonic nanoresonator

Baptiste Fix, Julien Jaeck, Patrick Bouchon, Sébastien Héron, Benjamin Vest, and Riad Haïdar

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5062-5065 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of nanowire-induced nanocavities in photonic crystal disks

Sylvain Sergent, Hideaki Taniyama, and Masaya Notomi

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5121-5124 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hilbert’s Hotel in polarization singularities

Yangyundou Wang and Greg Gbur

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5154-5157 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction symmetry of binary Fourier elements with feature sizes on the order of the illumination wavelength and effects of fabrication errors

Giang-Nam Nguyen, Kevin Heggarty, Julien Le Meur, Andreas Bacher, and Patrick Meyrueis

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5178-5181 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Partially coherent diffraction-free vortex beams with a Bessel-mode structure

Andrey S. Ostrovsky, Joaquín García-García, Carolina Rickenstorff-Parrao, and Miguel A. Olvera-Santamaría

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5182-5185 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All-fiber second-order optical vortex generation based on strong modulated long-period grating in a four-mode fiber

Hang Wu, Shecheng Gao, Bingsen Huang, Yuanhua Feng, Xincheng Huang, Weiping Liu, and Zhaohui Li

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5210-5213 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Schottky graphene/Si photodetector based on metal-dielectric hybrid hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

Mitra Hosseinifar, Vahid Ahmadi, and Majid Ebnali-Heidari

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5066-5069 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bismuth-doped all-fiber mode-locked laser operating at 1340  nm

N. K. Thipparapu, C. Guo, A. A. Umnikov, P. Barua, A. Taranta, and J. K. Sahu

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5102-5105 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct write micro/nano optical fibers by near-field melt electrospinning

Qinnan Chen, Xuecui Mei, Zhe Shen, Dezhi Wu, Yang Zhao, Lingyun Wang, Xiaojun Chen, Gonghan He, Zhe Yu, Ke Fang, and Daoheng Sun

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5106-5109 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Detuned Brillouin amplification of OTDR signals with an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio

Egor Liokumovitch, Daniel Gotliv, and Shmuel Sternklar

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5166-5169 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct writing of plane-by-plane tilted fiber Bragg gratings using a femtosecond laser

Andreas Ioannou, Antreas Theodosiou, Christophe Caucheteur, and Kyriacos Kalli

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5198-5201 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Photo-bleaching mechanism of the BAC-Si in bismuth/erbium co-doped optical fibers

Mingjie Ding, Jie Fang, Yanhua Luo, Wenyu Wang, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5222-5225 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirped-pulse-based broadband RF channelization implemented by a mode-locked laser and dispersion

Wenhui Hao, Yitang Dai, Feifei Yin, Yue Zhou, Jianqiang Li, Jian Dai, Wangzhe Li, and Kun Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5234-5237 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental generation of linearly chirped 350  GHz band pulses with a bandwidth beyond 60  GHz

Hangkai Zhang, Shiwei Wang, Shi Jia, Xianbin Yu, Xiaofeng Jin, Shilie Zheng, Hao Chi, and Xianmin Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5242-5245 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength digital holography with a low-coherence light source based on a quantum dot film

Jae-Yong Lee, Sungbin Jeon, Jin-Sang Lim, Se-Hwan Jang, No-Cheol Park, and Young-Joo Kim

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5082-5085 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Off-axis tilt compensation in common-path digital holographic microscopy based on hologram rotation

Dingnan Deng, Weijuan Qu, Wenqi He, Yu Wu, Xiaoli Liu, and Xiang Peng

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5282-5285 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Chromatic aberration compensation in numerical reconstruction of digital holograms by Fresnel–Bluestein propagation

Diego Hincapie, Daniel Velasquez, and Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5294-5297 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Sub-Rayleigh resolution ghost imaging by spatial low-pass filtering

Xi-Hao Chen, Fan-Hui Kong, Qiang Fu, Shao-Ying Meng, and Ling-An Wu

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5290-5293 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Jones matrix microscopy from a single-shot intensity measurement

M. M. Sreelal, R. V. Vinu, and Rakesh Kumar Singh

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5194-5197 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Flexible design method for freeform lenses with an arbitrary lens contour

Karel Desnijder, Peter Hanselaer, and Youri Meuret

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5238-5241 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of defocus and other quadratic errors on OTF

Kevin Liang and Miguel A. Alonso

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5254-5257 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Modeling the sensitivity dependence of silicon-photonics-based ultrasound detectors

Shai Tsesses, Daniel Aronovich, Assaf Grinberg, Evgeny Hahamovich, and Amir Rosenthal

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5262-5265 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavefront sensing with a thin diffuser

Pascal Berto, Hervé Rigneault, and Marc Guillon

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5117-5120 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of pulse asymmetry and nonlinear chirp on the accuracy of ultrafast pulsed laser interferometry

Lei Shao, John R. Lawall, and Jason J. Gorman

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5125-5128 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Refractionless propagation of discretized light

S. Longhi

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5086-5089 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid unidirectional meta-coupler for vertical incidence to a high-refractive-index waveguide in telecom wavelength

Chensheng Gong, Jianhao Zhang, and Sailing He

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5098-5101 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Full C-band Si photonic crystal waveguide modulator

Yosuke Terada, Keisuke Kondo, Ryotaro Abe, and Toshihiko Baba

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5110-5112 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Traveling wave-like Fabry–Perot resonator-based add-drop filters

Qingzhong Huang, Qiang Liu, and Jinsong Xia

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5158-5161 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-compact polarization-independent directional couplers utilizing a subwavelength structure

Hongnan Xu and Yaocheng Shi

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5202-5205 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase transition through the splitting of self-dual spectral singularity in optical potentials

Vladimir V. Konotop and Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5206-5209 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantification of laser-induced damage growth using fractal analysis

Matthieu Veinhard, Odile Bonville, Roger Courchinoux, Romain Parreault, Jean-Yves Natoli, and Laurent Lamaignère

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5078-5081 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Steering optical comb frequencies by rotating the polarization state

Yanyan Zhang, Xiaofei Zhang, Lulu Yan, Pan Zhang, Bingjie Rao, Wei Han, Wenge Guo, Shougang Zhang, and Haifeng Jiang

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5145-5148 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Raman dissipative soliton fiber laser pumped by an ASE source

Weiwei Pan, Lei Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou, Xuezong Yang, and Yan Feng

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5162-5165 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Topological cascade laser for frequency comb generation in PT-symmetric structures

Laura Pilozzi and Claudio Conti

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5174-5177 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All-fiber interferometer-based repetition-rate stabilization of mode-locked lasers to 10⁻¹⁴-level frequency instability and 1-fs-level jitter over 1  s

Dohyeon Kwon and Jungwon Kim

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5186-5189 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploring the self-mode locking of the 2  μm Tm:YAG laser with suppression of the self-pulsing dynamic

Chun Yu Cho, Yung Fu Chen, Ge Zhang, Wei Dong Chen, and Hsing Chih Liang

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5226-5229 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of the mode instability onset threshold in high-power FA-LPF lasers

Marie-Alicia Malleville, Romain Dauliat, Aurélien Benoît, Baptiste Leconte, Dia Darwich, Rémi du Jeu, Raphaël Jamier, Kay Schuster, and Philippe Roy

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5230-5233 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity noise coupling in soliton fiber oscillators

Chenchen Wan, Thomas R. Schibli, Peng Li, Carlo Bevilacqua, Axel Ruehl, and Ingmar Hartl

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5266-5269 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Modal instability induced by stimulated Raman scattering in high-power Yb-doped fiber amplifiers

K. Hejaz, M. Shayganmanesh, R. Rezaei-Nasirabad, A. Roohforouz, S. Azizi, A. Abedinajafi, and V. Vatani

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5274-5277 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Tens of hertz narrow-linewidth laser based on stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering

Shihong Huang, Tao Zhu, Guolu Yin, Tianyi Lan, Ligang Huang, Fuhui Li, Yongzhong Bai, Dingrong Qu, Xianbin Huang, and Feng Qiu

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5286-5289 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro-scale roughening of glass substrates using carbon nanotube-driven templates for enhancements in white luminescence characteristics

Jin Woo Jang, Oh Hyeon Kwon, Jun Sik Kim, Yuri Kim, and Yong Soo Cho

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5094-5097 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Widely tunable optical parametric oscillation in a Kerr microresonator

Noel Lito B. Sayson, Karen E. Webb, Stéphane Coen, Miro Erkintalo, and Stuart G. Murdoch

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5190-5193 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient optical parametric amplifier tunable from near- to mid-IR for driving extreme nonlinear optics in solids

E. A. Migal, F. V. Potemkin, and V. M. Gordienko

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5218-5221 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of two ultrashort laser pulses using interferometric imaging of self-diffraction

Christoph Leithold, Jan Reislöhner, Holger Gies, and Adrian N. Pfeiffer

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5246-5249 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-tuning optical resonator

Joanna A. Zielińska and Morgan W. Mitchell

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5298-5301 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical control of ultrahigh-Q silica microcavities with iron oxide nanoparticles

Song Zhu, Lei Shi, Shixing Yuan, Xinbiao Xu, and Xinliang Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5133-5136 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Great photoluminescence enhancement in Al-sputtered Zn_0.78Mg_0.22O films

Yonghui Zhou, Shanshan Chen, Xinhua Pan, and Zhizhen Ye

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5129-5132 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of critical coupling of whispering gallery mode cavities on a Bloch surface wave platform

B. Vosoughi Lahijani, H. Badri Ghavifekr, R. Dubey, M.-S. Kim, I. Vartiainen, M. Roussey, and H. P. Herzig

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5137-5140 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multilayered analog optical differentiating device: performance analysis on structural parameters

Wenhui Wu, Wei Jiang, Jiang Yang, Shaoxiang Gong, and Yungui Ma

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5270-5273 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Radiation-induced birefringence variations in polarization-maintaining fibers

Yuanhong Yang, Hui Li, Lin Lu, Fuling Yang, and Wei Jin

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5214-5217 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

On-chip Brillouin purification for frequency comb-based coherent optical communications

Amol Choudhary, Mark Pelusi, David Marpaung, Takashi Inoue, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Duk-Yong Choi, Stephen Madden, Shu Namiki, and Benjamin J. Eggleton

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5074-5077 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Perfect broadband invisibility in isotropic media with gain and loss

Farhang Loran and Ali Mostafazadeh

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5250-5253 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Position-resolved Raman spectra from a laser-trapped single airborne chemical droplet

Aimable Kalume, Eric Zhu, Chuji Wang, Joshua Santarpia, and Yong-Le Pan

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5113-5116 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength-modulated planar laser-induced fluorescence for imaging gases

Garrett C. Mathews and Christopher S. Goldenstein

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5278-5281 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-reflection Mo/Be/Si multilayers for EUV lithography

Nikolai I. Chkhalo, Sergei A. Gusev, Andrey N. Nechay, Dmitry E. Pariev, Vladimir N. Polkovnikov, Nikolai N. Salashchenko, Franz Schäfers, Mewael G. Sertsu, Andrey Sokolov, Mikhail V. Svechnikov, and Dmitry A. Tatarsky

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5070-5073 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Variable Stripe Length method: influence of stripe length choice on measured optical gain

Luis Cerdán

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5258-5261 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bit-rate-transparent optical return-to-zero-to-nonreturn-to-zero format conversion based on linear spectral phase filtering of the RZ signal

Reza Maram and José Azaña

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5058-5061 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot, real-time carrier-envelope phase measurement and tagging based on stereographic above-threshold ionization at short-wave infrared wavelengths

Yinyu Zhang, Philipp Kellner, Daniel Adolph, Danilo Zille, Philipp Wustelt, Daniel Würzler, Slawomir Skruszewicz, Max Möller, A. Max Sayler, and Gerhard G. Paulus

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5150-5153 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Extreme ultraviolet light source at a megahertz repetition rate based on high-harmonic generation inside a mode-locked thin-disk laser oscillator

F. Labaye, M. Gaponenko, V. J. Wittwer, A. Diebold, C. Paradis, N. Modsching, L. Merceron, F. Emaury, I. J. Graumann, C. R. Phillips, C. J. Saraceno, C. Kränkel, U. Keller, and T. Südmeyer

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5170-5173 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Sodium guide star laser pulsed at Larmor frequency: erratum

Xuezong Yang, Lei Zhang, Shuzhen Cui, Tingwei Fan, Jinyan Dong, and Yan Feng

Opt. Lett. 42(24), 5149-5149 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF