Editorial: Farewell Message from the Outgoing Editor

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), ED1-ED2 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct detection of pilot-assisted PAM-4 signals with large phase noise tolerance

Xiang Li, Ming Luo, Cai Li, Chao Yang, Haibo Li, and Shaohua Yu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5457-5460 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

1.2–15.2 μm supercontinuum generation in a low-loss chalcohalide fiber pumped at a deep anomalous-dispersion region

Kai Jiao, Jinmei Yao, Xian-ge Wang, Xunsi Wang, Zheming Zhao, Bin Zhang, Nian Si, Jia Liu, Xiang Shen, Peiqing Zhang, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie, and Rongping Wang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5545-5548 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

All-solid mid-infrared chalcogenide photonic crystal fiber with ultralarge mode area

He Ren, Sisheng Qi, Yongsheng Hu, Feng Han, Jindan Shi, Xian Feng, and Zhiyong Yang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5553-5556 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Convolutional demosaicing network for joint chromatic and polarimetric imagery

Sijia Wen, Yinqiang Zheng, Feng Lu, and Qinping Zhao

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5646-5649 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Precision of retardance autocalibration in full-Stokes division-of-focal-plane imaging polarimeters

François Goudail, Xiaobo Li, Matthieu Boffety, Stéphane Roussel, Tiegen Liu, and Haofeng Hu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5410-5413 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasound-modulated laser feedback tomography in the reflective mode

Kaiyi Zhu, Borui Zhou, Yueyue Lu, Puxiang Lai, Shulian Zhang, and Yidong Tan

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5414-5417 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-thin near infrared camera enabled by a flat multi-level diffractive lens

Sourangsu Banerji, Monjurul Meem, Apratim Majumder, Fernando Guevara Vasquez, Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez, and Rajesh Menon

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5450-5452 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-power traveling-wave photodetector based on an aperiodically loaded open-circuit electrode

Zhilei Fu, Hui Yu, Qiang Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Penghui Xia, and Jianyi Yang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5582-5585 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of flat wideband chaos based on mutual injection of semiconductor lasers

Lijun Qiao, Tianshuang Lv, Yong Xu, Mingjiang Zhang, Jianzhong Zhang, Tao Wang, Rikai Zhou, Qin Wang, and Hongchun Xu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5394-5397 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast pulse train control using filled-aperture coherent beam combining for high-average-power laser systems

Koji Tsubakimoto, Hayaki Higuchi, Kou Fukuishi, Hidetsugu Yoshida, and Noriaki Miyanaga

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5434-5437 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High speed data transmission using directly modulated microdisk lasers based on InGaAs/GaAs quantum well-dots

Fedor Zubov, Mikhail Maximov, Natalia Kryzhanovskaya, Eduard Moiseev, Maria Muretova, Alexey Mozharov, Nikolay Kaluzhnyy, Sergey Mintairov, Marina Kulagina, Nikolay Ledentsov, Lukasz Chorchos, Nikolay Ledentsov, and Alexey Zhukov

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5442-5445 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

2 mJ room temperature Fe:CdTe laser tunable from 5.1 to 6.3 μm

M. P. Frolov, Yu. V. Korostelin, V. I. Kozlovsky, and Ya. K. Skasyrsky

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5453-5456 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Dissipative soliton resonance in a mode-locked Nd-fiber laser operating at 927 nm

Rezki Becheker, Mincheng Tang, Mohamed Touil, Thierry Robin, Benoît Cadier, Mathieu Laroche, Thomas Godin, and Ammar Hideur

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5497-5500 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

23 mJ high-power fiber CPA system using electro-optically controlled divided-pulse amplification

Henning Stark, Joachim Buldt, Michael Müller, Arno Klenke, Andreas Tünnermann, and Jens Limpert

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5529-5532 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Directly diode-pumped mid-infrared dysprosium fiber laser

Matthew R. Majewski, Md Ziaul Amin, Thibaud Berthelot, and Stuart D. Jackson

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5549-5552 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct generation of orthogonally polarized dual-wavelength continuous-wave and passively Q-switched vortex beam in diode-pumped Pr:YLF lasers

Qingyu Tian, Bin Xu, Nan Li, Zhengqian Luo, Huiying Xu, and Zhiping Cai

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5586-5589 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Programmable deep-UV laser platform for inspection and metrology

Kentaro Miyata, Mizuki Mohara, Kei Shimura, Akihiro Tanabashi, Louis Desbiens, Vincent Roy, Yves Taillon, Shinichi Nakayama, and Satoshi Wada

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5618-5621 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Light confining effect in a zero-index waveguide with unenclosed sidewalls and a design scheme of a reflectionless polarization converter

Wang Yongxing and Xu Ping

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5578-5581 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced luminescence of CsPbBr₃ perovskite quantum-dot-doped borosilicate glasses with Ag nanoparticles

Zhousu Xu, Xiaofeng Liu, Jianrong Qiu, and Cheng Cheng

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5626-5629 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Metamaterial polarizer providing principally unlimited extinction

Hafez Hemmati, Pawarat Bootpakdeetam, and Robert Magnusson

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5630-5633 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafine intravascular photoacoustic endoscope with a 0.7 mm diameter probe

Peng Lei, Xue Wen, Lei Wang, Pengfei Zhang, and Sihua Yang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5406-5409 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface modifications of optical fiber ferrule for diffusive optical-thermal transport

Steven Peng, Mike O’Brien, Thomas Hasenberg, and Hyun Wook Kang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5461-5464 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

General framework for the analysis of imperfections in nonlinear systems

Matteo Santandrea, Michael Stefszky, and Christine Silberhorn

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5398-5401 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental characterization of recurrences and separatrix crossing in modulational instability

Corentin Naveau, Pascal Szriftgiser, Alexandre Kudlinski, Matteo Conforti, Stefano Trillo, and Arnaud Mussot

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5426-5429 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Bloch oscillations in photonic spectral lattices through phase-mismatched four-wave mixing

Wenwan Li, Chengzhi Qin, Tianwen Han, Hao Chen, Bing Wang, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5430-5433 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Dissipative surface solitons in a nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation

Changming Huang and Liangwei Dong

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5438-5441 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Polariton surface solitons under a resonant pump

Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5469-5472 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Second-harmonic generation in gold crescent- and comma-like nanostructures

I. A. Kolmychek, E. A. Mamonov, V. E. Bochenkov, and T. V. Murzina

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5473-5476 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of laser-ionized liquid nonlinear characteristics on the efficiency of terahertz wave generation

Evgenia A. Ponomareva, Sviatoslav A. Stumpf, Anton N. Tcypkin, and Sergei A. Kozlov

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5485-5488 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoimprinting and tapering of chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers for cascaded supercontinuum generation

Christian R. Petersen, Mikkel B. Lotz, Getinet Woyessa, Amar N. Ghosh, Thibaut Sylvestre, Laurent Brilland, Johann Troles, Mogens H. Jakobsen, Rafael Taboryski, and Ole Bang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5505-5508 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient deep UV generation by four-wave mixing in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

Federico Belli, Amir Abdolvand, John C. Travers, and Philip St. J. Russell

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5509-5512 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ionization-induced adiabatic soliton compression in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

Z. Y. Huang, Y. F. Chen, F. Yu, D. K. Wu, Y. Zhao, D. Wang, and Y. X. Leng

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5562-5565 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Scalable terahertz generation by large-area optical rectification at 80 TW laser power

Dogeun Jang, Chul Kang, Seong Ku Lee, Jae Hee Sung, Chul-Sik Kee, Seung Woo Kang, and Ki-Yong Kim

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5634-5637 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced electro-optic beam deflection of relaxor ferroelectric KTN crystals by electric-field-induced high permittivity

Chang-Jiang Chen, Ju-Hung Chao, Yun Goo Lee, Annan Shang, Ruijia Liu, Shizhuo Yin, and Robert C. Hoffman

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5557-5560 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-compact low-loss 1 × 4 optical power splitter with splitting ratio of 1∶2∶4∶8 based on two-stage cascaded MMI couplers

Zezheng Li, Yang Liu, Huan Guan, Weihua Han, and Zhiyong Li

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5622-5625 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Quadrature phase-stabilized three-wavelength interrogation of a fiber-optic Fabry–Perot acoustic sensor

Qiang Liu, Zhenguo Jing, Yueying Liu, Ang Li, Yang Zhang, Zhiyuan Huang, Ming Han, and Wei Peng

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5402-5405 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Instantaneous thickness measurement of multilayer films by single-shot angle-resolved spectral reflectometry

Young-Sik Ghim and Hyug-Gyo Rhee

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5418-5421 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-loop Sagnac interferometer with a geometric phase shifter for quadrature phase bias locking

Jingtao Dong and Rongsheng Lu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5422-5425 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasensitive ultrasound detection using an intracavity phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating in a self-injection-locked diode laser

Yupeng Zhu, Lingling Hu, Zigeng Liu, and Ming Han

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5525-5528 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-insensitive optical tilt sensor based on a single eccentric-core fiber Bragg grating

Di Zheng, Zhuyang Cai, Ignazio Floris, Javier Madrigal, Wei Pan, Xihua Zou, and Salvador Sales

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5570-5573 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of an Er:Yb:glass laser via a feed-forward technique

Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Irene Fernandez de Fuentes, Stefan Droste, Günter Steinmeyer, Charles G. Durfee, and Sergio Carbajo

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5610-5613 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonics-enabled simultaneous self-interference cancellation and image-reject mixing

Dan Zhu, Xiaopeng Hu, Wenjuan Chen, De Ben, and Shilong Pan

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5541-5544 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometry-free noncontact photoacoustic detection method based on speckle correlation change

Huanhao Li, Fei Cao, Yingying zhou, Zhipeng yu, and Puxiang Lai

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5481-5484 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-insensitive wavefront shaping using the Pancharatnam–Berry phase

Chandroth P. Jisha, Stefan Nolte, and Alessandro Alberucci

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5517-5520 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Creation of an ultralong non-diffracting magnetization light beam with multiple energy oscillations using the inverse Faraday effect

Xiaoyu Weng, Wei Yan, Zhigang Yang, and Junle Qu

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5537-5540 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable degree of polarization of an unpolarized, partially coherent beam with circular coherence in a high numerical aperture system

Xinying Zhao, Xiaoyan Pang, and Guobin Wan

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5574-5577 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

How perfect are perfect vortex beams?

Jonathan Pinnell, Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo, and Andrew Forbes

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5614-5617 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Full Poincaré beam with all the Stokes vortices

Gauri Arora, Ruchi, and P. Senthilkumaran

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5638-5641 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrahigh-sensitive plasmonic sensing of gas using a two-dimensional dielectric grating

Petr Hlubina, Petra Urbancova, Dusan Pudis, Matej Goraus, Daniel Jandura, and Dalibor Ciprian

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5602-5605 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Strong coupling of optical interface modes in a 1D topological photonic crystal heterostructure/Ag hybrid system

Jigang Hu, Wei Liu, Weiqiang Xie, Wei Zhang, Enxu Yao, Yan Zhang, and Qiwen Zhan

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5642-5645 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Stereographic geometry of coherence and which-path information

Yusef Maleki

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5513-5516 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Parallel real-time quantum random number generator

Xiaomin Guo, Chen Cheng, Mingchuan Wu, Qinzhong Gao, Pu Li, and Yanqiang Guo

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5566-5569 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides on Ag nanorod arrays

Liqin Su, Layne Bradley, Yiling Yu, Yifei Yu, Linyou Cao, Yiping Zhao, and Yong Zhang

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5493-5496 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High relative-phase precision beam duplicator for mid-infrared femtosecond pulses

Antoine Camper, Hyunwook Park, Stephen J. Hageman, Greg Smith, Thierry Auguste, Pierre Agostini, and Louis F. DiMauro

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5465-5468 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of atomic oxygen in a plasma-assisted flame via a backward lasing technique

Pengji Ding, Maria Ruchkina, Davide Del Cont-Bernard, Andreas Ehn, Deanna A. Lacoste, and Joakim Bood

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5477-5480 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-low-noise carrier-envelope phase stabilization of a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser frequency comb with a feed-forward method

Ziyue Zhang, Hainian Han, Huibo Wang, Xiaodong Shao, Shaobo Fang, and Zhiyi Wei

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5489-5492 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Multibranch pulse synthesis and electro-optic detection of subcycle multi-terahertz electric fields

Philipp Merkl, Matthias Knorr, Christian Meineke, Lukas Kastner, Dominik Peller, and Rupert Huber

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5521-5524 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust contrast-transfer-function phase retrieval via flexible deep learning networks: publisher’s note

Chen Bai, Meiling Zhou, Junwei Min, Shipei Dang, Xianghua Yu, Peng Zhang, Tong Peng, and Baoli Yao

Opt. Lett. 44(22), 5561-5561 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF