OSA | VJBO Virtual Issue Vol. 6 Iss. 6

Diffuse Imaging, Tissue Optics, and Scattering

Extinction coefficient imaging of turbid media using dual structured laser illumination planar imaging

Elias Kristensson, Edouard Berrocal, and Marcus Aldén

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1656-1658 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Circular polarization intrinsic optical signal recording of stimulus-evoked neural activity

Rong-Wen Lu, Qiu-Xiang Zhang, and Xin-Cheng Yao

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1866-1868 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz scattering by subwavelength cylindrical arrays

Gretel M. Png, Christophe Fumeaux, Mark R. Stringer, Robert E. Miles, and Derek Abbott

Opt. Express 19(11), 10138-10152 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Engineering photonic nanojets

Myun-Sik Kim, Toralf Scharf, Stefan Mühlig, Carsten Rockstuhl, and Hans Peter Herzig

Opt. Express 19(11), 10206-10220 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Path-length resolved reflectance in tendon and muscle: erratum

Chuanmao Fan, Ali Shuaib, and Gang Yao

Opt. Express 19(11), 10895-10895 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Field demonstration of a scanning lidar and detection algorithm for spatially mapping honeybees for biological detection of land mines

Erik S. Carlsten, Geoffrey R. Wicks, Kevin S. Repasky, John L. Carlsten, Jerry J. Bromenshenk, and Colin B. Henderson

Appl. Opt. 50(14), 2112-2123 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optimal concentration of light in turbid materials

E. G. van Putten, A. Lagendijk, and A. P. Mosk

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(5), 1200-1203 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Broadband electromagnetic transparency by graded metamaterials: scattering cancellation scheme

L. Sun and K. W. Yu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(5), 994-1001 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Light Transmission Model for Determination of the Refractive Index of Solid Particles in Suspensions: An Immersion Study

Jukka Räty, Ilpo Niskanen, Risto Myllylä, and Kai-Erik Peiponen

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 557-560 (2011) View: PDF

Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography

Elastic properties of soft tissue-mimicking phantoms assessed by combined use of laser ultrasonics and low coherence interferometry

Chunhui Li, Zhihong Huang, and Ruikang K. Wang

Opt. Express 19(11), 10153-10163 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Birefringence measurement of the retinal nerve fiber layer by swept source polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Badr Elmaanaoui, Bingqing Wang, Jordan C. Dwelle, Austin B. McElroy, Shuang S. Liu, Henry G. Rylander, and Thomas E. Milner

Opt. Express 19(11), 10252-10268 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optical Pockels scattering from a single nanocrystal

Bassam Hajj, Sandrine Perruchas, Joseph Lautru, Géraldine Dantelle, Thierry Gacoin, Joseph Zyss, and Dominique Chauvat

Opt. Express 19(10), 9000-9007 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Linearly polarized second harmonic generation microscopy reveals chirality: erratum

V. K. Valev, A. V. Silhanek, N. Smisdom, B. De Clercq, W. Gillijns, O. A. Aktsipetrov, M. Ameloot, V. V. Moshchalkov, and T. Verbiest

Opt. Express 19(10), 9242-9244 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units

Jian Li, Pavel Bloch, Jing Xu, Marinko V. Sarunic, and Lesley Shannon

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1832-1838 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Implementation of vibrational phase contrast coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

Martin Jurna, Jennifer L. Herek, and Herman L. Offerhaus

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1839-1842 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Effect of polarization on a solid immersion lens of arbitrary thickness

Kenneth M. Lim, Gary C. F. Lee, Colin J. R. Sheppard, Jacob C. H. Phang, Chee Leong Wong, and Xudong Chen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 903-911 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Spectroscopies, Probes and Contrast Agents

Laser-induced fluorescence detection of hydroxyl (OH) radical by femtosecond excitation

Hans U. Stauffer, Waruna D. Kulatilaka, James R. Gord, and Sukesh Roy

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1776-1778 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Dark-field scanning in situ spectroscopy platform for broadband imaging of resected tissue

Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy, Ashley M. Laughney, Keith D. Paulsen, and Brian W. Pogue

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1911-1913 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous illumination method: application in a two-channel emission fluorometer with multi-wavelength excitation

Hiroki Ebata, Akihiko Tanaka, Yohei Takahashi, Shintaro Yano, Hiroyuki Tan, Roland Doerffer, and Tomohiko Oishi

Opt. Express 19(11), 10063-10072 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Fast-gated single-photon counting technique widens dynamic range and speeds up acquisition time in time-resolved measurements

Alberto Tosi, Alberto Dalla Mora, Franco Zappa, Angelo Gulinatti, Davide Contini, Antonio Pifferi, Lorenzo Spinelli, Alessandro Torricelli, and Rinaldo Cubeddu

Opt. Express 19(11), 10735-10746 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Pulse train fluorescence technique for measuring triplet state dynamics

Leonardo De Boni, Paulo L. Franzen, Pablo J. Gonçalves, Iouri E. Borissevitch, Lino Misoguti, Cleber R. Mendonça, and Sergio C. Zilio

Opt. Express 19(11), 10813-10823 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Suspended core subwavelength fibers: towards practical designs for low-loss terahertz guidance

Mathieu Rozé, Bora Ung, Anna Mazhorova, Markus Walther, and Maksim Skorobogatiy

Opt. Express 19(10), 9127-9138 (2011) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Extremely sensitive detection of NO₂ employing off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy coupled with multiple-line integrated absorption spectroscopy

Gottipaty N. Rao and Andreas Karpf

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1915-1924 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

1064 nm Deep Near-Infrared (NIR) Excited Raman Microspectroscopy for Studying Photolabile Organisms

Masahiro Ando, Miwa Sugiura, Hidenori Hayashi, and Hiro-o Hamaguchi

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 488-492 (2011) View: PDF

On the Difference Between Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Spectra of Cell Growth Media and Whole Bacterial Cells

W. Ranjith Premasiri, Yoseph Gebregziabher, and Lawrence D. Ziegler

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 493-499 (2011) View: PDF

On Sample Preparation for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Bacteria and the Source of Spectral Features of the Spectra

Mehmet Kahraman, Kemal Keseroğlu, and Mustafa Çulha

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 500-506 (2011) View: PDF

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Detection of Low Concentrations of Tryptophan Amino Acid in Silver Colloid

Archana Kandakkathara, Ilya Utkin, and Robert Fedosejevs

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 507-513 (2011) View: PDF

Surface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of the Catalytic Behavior of Silver Nanoparticles on a Germanium Substrate

Yen-Chen Maggie Liou, Jyisy Yang, Ayuba Fasasi, and Peter R. Griffiths

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 528-534 (2011) View: PDF

Implementation of Time-Resolved Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy Using a kHz Repetition Rate Pump Laser

Donny Magana, Dzmitry Parul, R. Brian Dyer, and Andrew P. Shreve

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 535-542 (2011) View: PDF

Raman Spectroscopy Using 1550 nm (Retina-Safe) Laser Excitation

Carl Brouillette, Hermes Huang, Wayne Smith, and Stuart Farquharson

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 561-563 (2011) View: PDF

Image Reconstruction, Data Processing, and Modeling

Numerical simulation of partially coherent broadband optical imaging using the finite-difference time-domain method

İlker R. Çapoğlu, Craig A. White, Jeremy D. Rogers, Hariharan Subramanian, Allen Taflove, and Vadim Backman

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1596-1598 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Automated phase retrieval of a single-material object using a single out-of-focus image

Samuel A. Eastwood, David M. Paganin, and Amelia C. Y. Liu

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1878-1880 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Image quality enhancement of computational integral imaging reconstruction for partially occluded objects using binary weighting mask on occlusion areas

Joon-Jae Lee, Byung-Gook Lee, and Hoon Yoo

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1889-1893 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative phase retrieval of complex-valued specimens based on noninterferometric imaging

Wen Chen and Xudong Chen

Appl. Opt. 50(14), 2008-2015 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Vertical profiles of microphysical particle properties derived from inversion with two-dimensional regularization of multiwavelength Raman lidar data: experiment

Detlef Müller, Alexei Kolgotin, Ina Mattis, Andreas Petzold, and Andreas Stohl

Appl. Opt. 50(14), 2069-2079 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Application of sampling criterion on numerical diffraction from bacterial colonies

Euiwon Bae, Nan Bai, and E. Daniel Hirleman

Appl. Opt. 50(15), 2228-2238 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Stereoscopic system for inexpensive hazardous area three-dimensional robot localization applications based on incoherent optical fiber bundle calibrated for high-resolution image transmission

Olivier Demuynck and José Manuel Menéndez

Appl. Opt. 50(15), 2274-2282 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Projection-slice theorem: a compact notation

Daissy H. Garces, William T. Rhodes, and Nestor M. Peña

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 766-769 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Noise Reduction Methods Applied to Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy (2D-COS) Reveal Complementary Benefits of Pre- and Post-treatment

Rod B. Foist, H. Georg Schulze, Andre Ivanov, and Robin F. B. Turner

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 474-487 (2011) View: PDF

Kernel Analysis of Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression Models

Hideyuki Shinzawa, Pitiporn Ritthiruangdej, and Yukihiro Ozaki

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 549-556 (2011) View: PDF

Biosensors, Molecular Diagnostics, and Biometrics

High-sensitivity compact ultrasonic detector based on a pi-phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating

Amir Rosenthal, Daniel Razansky, and Vasilis Ntziachristos

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1833-1835 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Highly sensitive and simple method for refractive index sensing of liquids in microstructured optical fibers using four-wave mixing

Michael H. Frosz, Alessio Stefani, and Ole Bang

Opt. Express 19(11), 10471-10484 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Integrated silicon-based nanoplasmonic sensor

L. Guyot, A-P Blanchard-Dionne, S. Patskovsky, and M. Meunier

Opt. Express 19(10), 9962-9967 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Surface-plasmon-resonance-based fiber-optic refractive index sensor: sensitivity enhancement

Priya Bhatia and Banshi D. Gupta

Appl. Opt. 50(14), 2032-2036 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Instrumentation, Endoscopy, and MEMS

Adaptive phase compensation for ultracompact laser scanning endomicroscopy

Alex J. Thompson, Carl Paterson, Mark A. A. Neil, Chris Dunsby, and Paul M. W. French

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1707-1709 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Tunable optofluidic aperture configured by a liquid-core/liquid-cladding structure

Chaolong Song, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Anand Krishna Asundi, and Cassandra Lee-Ngo Low

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1767-1769 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optical design and imaging performance testing of a 9.6-mm diameter femtosecond laser microsurgery probe

Christopher L. Hoy, Onur Ferhanoğlu, Murat Yildirim, Wibool Piyawattanametha, Hyejun Ra, Olav Solgaard, and Adela Ben-Yakar

Opt. Express 19(11), 10536-10552 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Multi-modality optical neural imaging using coherence control of VCSELs

Elizabeth A. Munro, Hart Levy, Dene Ringuette, Thomas D. O’Sullivan, and Ofer Levi

Opt. Express 19(11), 10747-10761 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Single-camera motion measurement and monitoring for magnetic resonance applications

Chester Wildey, Duncan L. MacFarlane, Aman Goyal, Kaundinya Gopinath, Sergey Cheshkov, and Richard Briggs

Appl. Opt. 50(14), 2088-2097 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Traps, Manipulation, and Tracking

Single-cell isolation using a DVD optical pickup

A. Kasukurti, M. Potcoava, S.A. Desai, C. Eggleton, and D. W. M. Marr

Opt. Express 19(11), 10377-10386 (2011) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Laser-induced thermophoresis of individual particles in a viscous liquid

Ross T. Schermer, Colin C. Olson, J. Patrick Coleman, and Frank Bucholtz

Opt. Express 19(11), 10571-10586 (2011) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Radiation force of highly focused Lorentz-Gauss beams on a Rayleigh particle

Yunfeng Jiang, Kaikai Huang, and Xuanhui Lu

Opt. Express 19(10), 9708-9713 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Position clamping in a holographic counterpropagating optical trap

Richard Bowman, Alexander Jesacher, Gregor Thalhammer, Graham Gibson, Monika Ritsch-Marte, and Miles Padgett

Opt. Express 19(10), 9908-9914 (2011) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Long-distance optical guiding of colloidal particles using holographic axilens

Sunita Ahlawat, Ravi Shanker Verma, Raktim Dasgupta, and Pradeep Kumar Gupta

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1933-1940 (2011) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical trapping of microrods: variation with size and refractive index

Stephen H. Simpson and Simon Hanna

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 850-858 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Indirect optical gripping with triplet traps

Brian Koss, Sagar Chowdhury, Thomas Aabo, S. K. Gupta, and Wolfgang Losert

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(5), 982-985 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

X-ray Microscopy and Imaging

Phase retrieval in quantitative x-ray microtomography with a single sample-to-detector distance

R. C. Chen, H. L. Xie, L. Rigon, R. Longo, E. Castelli, and T. Q. Xiao

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1719-1721 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Phase retrieval in X-ray phase-contrast imaging suitable for tomography

Anna Burvall, Ulf Lundström, Per A. C. Takman, Daniel H. Larsson, and Hans M. Hertz

Opt. Express 19(11), 10359-10376 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

A 50nm spatial resolution EUV imaging–resolution dependence on object thickness and illumination bandwidth

Przemyslaw W. Wachulak, Andrzej Bartnik, Henryk Fiedorowicz, and Jerzy Kostecki

Opt. Express 19(10), 9541-9550 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Biomaterials, Biomimetics, and Biomechanics

Fabrication and characterization of three-dimensional biomimetic chiral composites

Mark D. Turner, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, and Min Gu

Opt. Express 19(10), 10001-10008 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Mysterious coloring: structural origin of color mixing for two breeds of Papilio butterflies

Ying-Ying Diao and Xiang-Yang Liu

Opt. Express 19(10), 9232-9241 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Novel Light Sources, Optics, and Detectors

Spectral amplitude and phase measurement of ultrafast pulses using all-optical differential tomography

Pablo Londero, Onur Kuzucu, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1686-1688 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

High-power direct green laser oscillation of 598 mW in Pr³⁺-doped waterproof fluoroaluminate glass fiber excited by two-polarization-combined GaN laser diodes

Jun Nakanishi, Yuya Horiuchi, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Osamu Ishii, Masaaki Yamazaki, Minoru Yoshida, and Yasushi Fujimoto

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1836-1838 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Focusing a TM₀₁ beam with a slightly tilted parabolic mirror

Alexandre April, Pierrick Bilodeau, and Michel Piché

Opt. Express 19(10), 9201-9212 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Effective random laser action in Rhodamine 6G solution with Al nanoparticles

Liling Yang, Guoying Feng, Jiayu Yi, Ke Yao, Guoliang Deng, and Shouhuan Zhou

Appl. Opt. 50(13), 1816-1821 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Power and tuning characteristics of a broadly tunable femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate

Joseph D. Rowley, Shan Yang, and Feruz Ganikhanov

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(5), 1026-1036 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Dependence of random laser emission on silver nanoparticle density in PMMA films containing rhodamine 6G

Christian Tolentino Dominguez, Rogério L. Maltez, Roberto M. S. dos Reis, Luciana S. A. de Melo, Cid B. de Araújo, and Anderson S. L. Gomes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(5), 1118-1123 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

In Vivo Imaging

Moiré pattern movement compensation and quadrature averaging phase retrieval from time series of speckled arbitrary phase shift interferograms for automatic computation of fundus pulsation curve of the human eye

André Malz, Ilos Eix, Wilhelm Stork, and Klaus-Dieter Müller-Glaser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 934-939 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Noninvasive Optical Diagnostics

Vision and Color

Simple method to measure the visual axis of the human eye

Kodikullam V. Avudainayagam and Chitralekha S. Avudainayagam

Opt. Lett. 36(10), 1803-1805 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Type-2 fuzzy thresholding using GLSC histogram of human visual nonlinearity characteristics

Yang Xiao, Zhiguo Cao, and Wen Zhuo

Opt. Express 19(11), 10656-10672 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

On the relation between power and astigmatism near an umbilic line

Jacob Rubinstein

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 734-737 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Illumination estimation via thin-plate spline interpolation

Lilong Shi, Weihua Xiong, and Brian Funt

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 940-948 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Notes on the application of the standardized residual sum of squares index for the assessment of intra- and inter-observer variability in color-difference experiments

Manuel Melgosa, Pedro A. García, Luis Gómez-Robledo, Renzo Shamey, David Hinks, Guihua Cui, and M. Ronnier Luo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5), 949-953 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Optics in Neuroscience

Optics in Therapies, Photomodification, and Phototoxicity

Photodegradation of melanin by an interferometric technique

C. W. Farley, A. Kassu, and A. Sharma

Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1734-1736 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Dentistry

Texturing of titanium (Ti6Al4V) medical implant surfaces with MHz-repetition-rate femtosecond and picosecond Yb-doped fiber lasers

Mutlu Erdoǧan, Bülent Öktem, Hamit Kalaycıoǧlu, Seydi Yavaş, Pranab K. Mukhopadhyay, Koray Eken, Kıvanç Özgören, Yaşar Aykaç, Uygar H. Tazebay, and F. Ömer Ilday

Opt. Express 19(11), 10986-10996 (2011) View: HTML | PDF

Food and Drugs

Detection of Trace Melamine in Raw Materials Used for Protein Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) with Gold Nanoparticles

Zai-Qing Wen, Guiyang Li, and Da Ren

Appl. Spectrosc. 65(5), 514-521 (2011) View: PDF

Ocean and Plant Science