Message from the Editor

David J. Hagan

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 1-1 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-organizing second-order nonlinear susceptibility in NLO-chromophore-doped amorphous ferroelectric poly-(cyano phenylene sulfide) polymers [Invited]

Atsushi Sugita, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Nobuyuki Mase, Yoshimasa Kawata, and Shigeru Tasaka

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 2-10 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiation dosimetry using optically stimulated luminescence in fluoride phosphate optical fibres

Christopher A. G. Kalnins, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Nigel A. Spooner, and Tanya M. Monro

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 62-70 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvement in photostability of solid state dye by oxygen removal

Jennifer Krause, Mirco Imlau, Theo Woike, and Dominik Schaniel

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 71-77 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence of Er³⁺:AlN polycrystalline ceramic

Larry D. Merkle, Anthony C. Sutorik, Tigran Sanamyan, Lindsay K. Hussey, Gary Gilde, Christopher Cooper, and Mark Dubinskii

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 78-91 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Structure and photoluminescence properties of KSr₄(BO₃)₃:Eu³⁺ red-emitting phosphor

Yi Zhang, Li Wu, Minyuan Ji, Biao Wang, Yongfa Kong, and Jingjun Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 92-102 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Second order DFB lasing using reusable grating inscribed in azobenzene-containing material

Leonid M. Goldenberg, Victor Lisinetskii, Yuri Gritsai, Joachim Stumpe, and Sigurd Schrader

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 11-19 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Yb³⁺:YAG crystal growth with controlled doping distribution

M. Azrakantsyan, D. Albach, N. Ananyan, V. Gevorgyan, and J.-C. Chanteloup

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 20-30 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

An active hybrid plasmonic metamaterial

Jianqiang Gu, Ranjan Singh, Abul. K. Azad, Jiaguang Han, Antoinette J. Taylor, John F. O’Hara, and Weili Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 31-37 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Photosensitivity and second harmonic generation in chalcogenide arsenic sulfide poled glasses

Marc Dussauze, Xiaolin Zheng, Vincent Rodriguez, Evelyne Fargin, Thierry Cardinal, and Frédéric Smektala

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 45-54 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Co₃O₄ nanoparticle-doped polyvinyl-alcohol thin films

Xiushan Zhu, Jiafu Wang, Dan Nguyen, Jayan Thomas, Robert A. Norwood, and N. Peyghambarian

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 103-110 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Azo-dye-doped absorbing photonic crystals with purely imaginary refractive index contrast and all-optically switchable diffraction properties

Y. J. Liu, H. T. Dai, Eunice S. P. Leong, J. H. Teng, and X. W. Sun

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 55-61 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Dominant UV emission from p-MgZnO/n-GaN light emitting diodes

Xiaochuan Xia, Rensheng Shen, Yuanda Liu, Dechao Yang, Shiwei Song, Long Zhao, Zhifeng Shi, Xiangping Li, Hongwei Liang, Baolin Zhang, and Guotong Du

Opt. Mater. Express 2(1), 38-44 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF