Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Liang Pan

    • Integrated head design using a nanobeak antenna for thermally assisted magnetic recording
    • Opt. Express 20(17) 18946-18954 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Xuan Yang and Claire Gu

    • Surface enhanced Raman scattering in the presence of multilayer dielectric structures
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(8) 1863-1874 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Dispersion-dominated nonlinear fiber-optic channel
    • Opt. Lett. 37(14) 2931-2933 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Kedar Khare

    • Complete polarization and phase control for focus-shaping in high-NA microscopy
    • Opt. Express 20(13) 14015-14029 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Dynamical hologram generation for high speed optical trapping of smart droplet microtools
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 3(7) 1609-1619 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Linbo Liu, Joseph Gardecki, and Gary Tearney

    • Ultrathin fiber probes with extended depth of focus for optical coherence tomography
    • Opt. Lett. 37(10) 1616-1618 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Effectively single-mode all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with large effective area and low bending loss for compact high-power all-fiber lasers
    • Opt. Express 20(14) 15061-15070 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Vision and Color

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Spectral imaging by synchronizing capture and illumination
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29(9) 1764-1775 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF