Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Photographic observation of a natural fifth-order rainbow
    • Appl. Opt. 54(4) B26-B34 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Snell’s window in wavy water
    • Appl. Opt. 54(4) B8-B11 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nadav Gutman

    • Custom-modified three-dimensional periodic microstructures by pattern-integrated interference lithography
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31(7) 1515-1519 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Joachim Wagner

    • Active hyperspectral imaging using a quantum cascade laser (QCL) array and digital-pixel focal plane array (DFPA) camera
    • Opt. Express 22(12) 14392-14401 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Katrianne Lehtipalo

    • UV polarization lidar for remote sensing new particles formation in the atmosphere
    • Opt. Express 22(S3) A1009-A1022 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhishen Liu

    • Ice thickness measurements by Raman scattering
    • Opt. Lett. 39(9) 2573-2575 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Remy Avila

    • First on-sky results of the CO-SLIDAR Cn2 profiler
    • Opt. Express 22(9) 10948-10967 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Fast, compact, autonomous holographic adaptive optics
    • Opt. Express 22(8) 9432-9441 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alfred U’Ren

    • Third-order antibunching from an imperfect single-photon source
    • Opt. Express 22(3) 3244-3260 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by James Schwab

    • Atmospheric CH4 and N2O measurements near Greater Houston area landfills using a QCL-based QEPAS sensor system during DISCOVER-AQ 2013
    • Opt. Lett. 39(4) 957-960 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Silvia Vignolini

    • Hierarchical structural control of visual properties in self-assembled photonic-plasmonic pigments
    • Opt. Express 22(23) 27750-27768 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Generation of broadband 17-μJ mid-infrared femtosecond pulses at 3.75  μm by silicon carbide crystal
    • Opt. Lett. 39(21) 6249-6252 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alfred U’Ren

    • Efficient Bell state analyzer for time-bin qubits with fast-recovery WSi superconducting single photon detectors
    • Opt. Express 22(20) 24497-24506 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Takeyoshi Goto

    • Extinction properties of ultrapure water down to deep ultraviolet wavelengths
    • Opt. Mater. Express 4(9) 1932-1942 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Bicephalous transformed media: concentrator versus rotator and cloak versus superscatterer
    • Opt. Express 22(19) 23614-23619 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Hadfield

    • Quantum key distribution over a 72  dB channel loss using ultralow dark count superconducting single-photon detectors
    • Opt. Lett. 39(17) 5078-5081 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Victor Torres-Company

    • Frequency comb formation and transition to chaos in microresonators with near-zero dispersion
    • Opt. Lett. 39(15) 4305-4308 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Observation of strongly enhanced ultrashort pulses in 3-D metallic funnel-waveguide
    • Opt. Express 22(14) 17360-17369 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrea Ferrari and Zhipei Sun

    • Large-energy, wavelength-tunable, all-fiber passively Q-switched Er:Yb-codoped double-clad fiber laser with mono-layer chemical vapor deposition graphene
    • Appl. Opt. 53(19) 4089-4093 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nathan Newbury

    • Range-resolved vibrometry using a frequency comb in the OSCAT configuration
    • Opt. Express 22(7) 8101-8113 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Nanoscale surface tracking of laser material processing using phase shifting diffraction interferometry
    • Opt. Express 22(12) 14493-14504 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary by Giorgos Demetriou and A K Kar

    • Systematic z-scan measurements of the third order nonlinearity of chalcogenide glasses
    • Opt. Mater. Express 4(5) 1011-1022 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Divided-pulse lasers
    • Opt. Lett. 39(9) 2775-2777 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Compression of ultrashort laser pulses via gated multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scans
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(5) 1118-1125 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhi-gang Zheng and Dong Shen

    • Stable electro-optic response in wide-temperature blue phases realized in chiral asymmetric bent dimers [Invited]
    • Opt. Mater. Express 4(4) 662-671 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fiona J. Beck

    • Broadband absorption enhancement of thin SOI photodiode with high-density gold nanoparticles
    • Opt. Mater. Express 4(4) 725-732 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Attribution of Fano resonant features to plasmonic particle size, lattice constant, and dielectric wavenumber in square nanoparticle lattices
    • Photon. Res. 2(1) 15-23 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Charles Schmuttenmaer

    • Optimized terahertz generation via optical rectification in ZnTe crystals
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(1) 149-153 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jens Levenhagen

    • An implementation method based on ERS imaging mode for sun sensor with 1 kHz update rate and 1″ precision level
    • Opt. Express 21(26) 32524-32533 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Experimental observations of thermo-optical bistability and self-pulsation in silicon microring resonators
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(2) 201-206 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Supercontinuum generation in an on-chip silica waveguide
    • Opt. Lett. 39(4) 1046-1048 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Benjamin Eggleton

    • Nonlinear characterization of robust multimaterial chalcogenide nanotapers for infrared supercontinuum generation
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(3) 450-457 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Goery Genty

    • Raman rogue waves in a partially mode-locked fiber laser
    • Opt. Lett. 39(2) 319-322 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ksenia Dolgaleva

    • Controllable color display induced by excitation-intensity-dependent competition between second and third harmonic generation in ZnO nanorods
    • Appl. Opt. 53(2) 189-194 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Pablo Bianucci

    • Structure of whispering gallery mode spectrum of microspheres coated with fluorescent silicon quantum dots
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30(11) 3079-3085 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • Interferometric velocity measurements through a fluctuating gas-liquid interface employing adaptive optics
    • Opt. Express 21(25) 30653-30663 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Design and evaluation of a large-scale autostereoscopic multi-view laser display for outdoor applications
    • Opt. Express 22(22) 27063-27068 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by John Koshel

    • Design a light pattern of multiple concentric circles for LED fishing lamps using Fourier series and an energy mapping method
    • Opt. Express 22(11) 13460-13471 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nathan Newbury

    • Range-resolved vibrometry using a frequency comb in the OSCAT configuration
    • Opt. Express 22(7) 8101-8113 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Large aperture adaptive doublet polymer lens for imaging applications
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31(8) 1842-1846 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Inverse analysis of the rainbow for the case of low-coherent incident light to determine the diameter of a glass fiber
    • Appl. Opt. 53(19) 4239-4247 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Nanoscale surface tracking of laser material processing using phase shifting diffraction interferometry
    • Opt. Express 22(12) 14493-14504 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Schrader

    • Visual space assessment of two all-reflective, freeform, optical see-through head-worn displays
    • Opt. Express 22(11) 13155-13163 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Real-time 3D particle manipulation visualized using volume holographic gratings
    • Opt. Lett. 39(10) 3078-3081 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Ottaway

    • Low scatter and ultra-low reflectivity measured in a fused silica window
    • Appl. Opt. 53(7) 1315-1321 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jean-Baptiste Masson

    • Achromatic prism-type wave plate for broadband terahertz pulses
    • Opt. Lett. 39(9) 2794-2797 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jens Levenhagen

    • An implementation method based on ERS imaging mode for sun sensor with 1 kHz update rate and 1″ precision level
    • Opt. Express 21(26) 32524-32533 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Vladimir Berdnik

    • Miniaturized sensor for particles in air using Fresnel ring lenses and an enhanced intensity ratio technique
    • Appl. Opt. 53(4) 625-633 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • Interferometric velocity measurements through a fluctuating gas-liquid interface employing adaptive optics
    • Opt. Express 21(25) 30653-30663 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Designing dielectric resonators on substrates: Combining magnetic and electric resonances
    • Opt. Express 21(22) 26285-26302 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF