Fiber Optics and Photonics: Emerging Applications—introduction to the feature issue

Satoshi Kawata, Sunil K. Khijwania, Bishnu P. Pal, and H. Y. Tam

Appl. Opt. 50(25), FOP1-FOP1 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of air-clad fibers for near-IR laser application

Debashri Ghosh, Arindam Halder, Mrinmay Pal, Mukul C. Paul, Henry Bookey, Shyamal K. Bhadra, and Ajoy K. Kar

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E1-E6 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of common path phase sensitive spectral domain optical coherence tomography for refractive index measurements

Yogesh Verma, Purnananda Nandi, K. Divakar Rao, Mrinalini Sharma, and Pradeep Kumar Gupta

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E7-E12 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

On the coherent modes of ultranarrowband random lasers with nonresonant feedback

Ravitej Uppu and Sushil Mujumdar

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E13-E19 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched ytterbium- and chromium-doped all-fiber laser

Bernard Dussardier, Jérôme Maria, and Pavel Peterka

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E20-E23 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Adjustable noiselike pulses from a figure-eight fiber laser

Olivier Pottiez, Rubén Grajales-Coutiño, Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Evgeny A. Kuzin, and Juan Carlos Hernández-García

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E24-E31 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of a time-frequency domain interferometer for simultaneous group-velocity dispersion measurements in multimode photonic crystal fibers

Pascal Böswetter, Tobias Baselt, Frank Ebert, Fabiola Basan, and Peter Hartmann

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E32-E37 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Brillouin scattering slow light in optical fibers [Invited]

Avi Zadok, Avishay Eyal, and Moshe Tur

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E38-E49 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode-field expansion in photonic crystal fibers

Xiaoming Xi, Zilun Chen, Guilin Sun, and Jing Hou

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E50-E54 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Bragg gratings in standard nonhydrogenated fibers for high-temperature sensing

Valmir de Oliveira, Marcia Muller, and Hypolito José Kalinowski

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E55-E58 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-loss optical channel drop filters based on high-contrast Si–air photonic crystals by wet anisotropic etching

M. Renilkumar and Prita Nair

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E59-E64 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed electrical switching in optical fibers [Invited]

Walter Margulis, Zhangwei Yu, Mikael Malmström, Patrik Rugeland, Harald Knape, and Oleksandr Tarasenko

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E65-E75 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous-wave broadband generation using specialty fibers in fiber laser cavity

Aditi Ghosh and R. Vijaya

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E76-E79 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of the performance of high phosphorous with germanium codoped multimode optical fiber for use as a radiation sensor at low dose rates

Sudipta Ghosh, Shyamal Das, Mukul C. Paul, Kamal Dasgupta, Dinesh Bohra, Himat S. Chaudhary, Lalit Panwar, Pradeep K. Bhatnagar, and Shyam Govind Vaijapurkar

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E80-E85 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Emission studies in double-layered and triple-layered photonic crystal microcavities

Sunita Kedia, Ramarao Vijaya, Alok K. Ray, and Sucharita Sinha

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E86-E91 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband optical chaos for stimulated Brillouin scattering suppression in power over fiber

Xuelei Fu, Sze-Chun Chan, Qing Liu, and Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E92-E96 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized design of trenched optical fiber for ultralow bending loss at 5 mm of bending diameter

Pramod R. Watekar, Seongmin Ju, and Won-Taek Han

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E97-E101 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion and nonlinearity properties of a chalcogenide As₂Se₃suspended core fiber

K. M. Mohsin, M. Shah Alam, Dihan Md. Nuruddin Hasan, and Muhammad Nazmul Hossain

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E102-E107 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrabroadband flattop wavelength conversion based on cascaded sum frequency generation and difference frequency generation using pump detuning in quasi-phase-matched lithium niobate waveguides

Meenu Ahlawat, Amirhossein Tehranchi, Chang Qing Xu, and Raman Kashyap

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E108-E111 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength modulation spectroscopy with a pulsed quantum cascade laser for the sensitive detection of acrylonitrile

Jagadeeshwari Manne, Alan Lim, Wolfgang Jäger, and John Tulip

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E112-E118 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and analysis of dual-shape-core large-mode-area optical fiber

Ajeet Kumar and Vipul Rastogi

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E119-E124 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and optimization of high-birefringence low-loss crystal fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths for nonlinear effects

Ya-Ni Zhang

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E125-E130 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization singularities in the two-mode optical fiber output

Y. V. Jayasurya, V. V. G. Krishna Inavalli, and Nirmal K. Viswanathan

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E131-E137 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of localized surface-plasmon-resonance-based optical fiber sensor

Rani Dutta, Reshma Bharadwaj, Soumyo Mukherji, and Tapanendu Kundu

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E138-E144 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical oxygen sensing properties of Ru(II) complex and porous silica nanoparticles embedded in solgel matrix

Cheng-Shane Chu

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E145-E151 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic gyroscopes: from design to production [Invited]

Jagannath Nayak

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E152-E161 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Statistical analysis of stimulated Raman crosstalk in distributed Raman amplifier

Anamika and Vishnu Priye

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E162-E171 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple temperature insensitive fiber Bragg grating based tilt sensor with enhanced tunability

R. Aneesh, Meeth Maharana, Pathi Munendhar, H. Y. Tam, and Sunil K. Khijwania

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E172-E176 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of modal properties in gold nanowire with ZnO cladding by using the finite element method

Kejalakshmy Namassivayane, Huda Tanvir, Anita Quadir, B. M. Azizur Rahman, and Kenneth T. V. Grattan

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E177-E183 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical fiber refractometry based on multimode interference

Orlando Frazão, Susana O. Silva, Jaime Viegas, Luís A. Ferreira, Francisco M. Araújo, and José L. Santos

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E184-E188 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on a method of evaluating the alignment of pixels between fiber-optic image bundles and detector arrays

Xu He and Yang Xiang

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E189-E192 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Tooth-shaped grating-assisted structure for compact multimode interference coupler

Bidyut Deka and Partha Pratim Sahu

Appl. Opt. 50(25), E193-E199 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of image quality of mirror via solar flux distribution measurement using a high speed optical scanner

K. K. Chong, T. K. Yew, C. W. Wong, and S. L. Lau

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4927-4935 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Correlation analysis between plasmon field distribution and sensitivity enhancement in reflection- and transmission-type localized surface plasmon resonance biosensors

Nak-Hyeon Kim, Woo Kyung Jung, and Kyung Min Byun

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4982-4988 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Specular holography

Matthew Brand

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 5042-5046 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing finite element-based photoacoustic tomography using total variation minimization

Lei Yao and Huabei Jiang

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 5031-5041 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploiting chromatic aberration for image-based microscope autofocus

Derek N. Fuller, Albert L. Kellner, and Jeffrey H. Price

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4967-4976 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive frequency comb illumination for interferometry in the case of nested two-beam cavities

Irina Harder, Gerd Leuchs, Klaus Mantel, and Johannes Schwider

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4942-4956 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple way of pinpointing the three-dimensional position of biomarkers in fluorescence microscopy using a through-focus exposure method

Koichiro Kishima

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4989-4997 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Compound prism design principles, I

Nathan Hagen and Tomasz S. Tkaczyk

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4998-5011 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Compound prism design principles, II: triplet and Janssen prisms

Nathan Hagen and Tomasz S. Tkaczyk

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 5012-5022 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Compound prism design principles, III: linear-in-wavenumber and optical coherence tomography prisms

Nathan Hagen and Tomasz S. Tkaczyk

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 5023-5030 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of the photoacoustic resonant cell remodified from Helmholtz cavity

Junjuan Zhao, Zhan Zhao, Lidong Du, and Shaohua Wu

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4936-4941 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Acousto-optic computing environment for stream data processing

Alexander Lipinskii and Anna Rudiakova

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4917-4921 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimating particle composition and size distribution from polarized water-leaving radiance

Alberto Tonizzo, Alex Gilerson, Tristan Harmel, Amir Ibrahim, Jacek Chowdhary, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, and Sam Ahmed

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 5047-5058 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable microwave generation based on a dual-wavelength fiber laser with an inverse-Gaussian apodized fiber Bragg grating

Bo Lin, Swee Chuan Tjin, Meng Jiang, and Ping Shum

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4912-4916 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Modified technique for processing multiangle lidar data measured in clear and moderately polluted atmospheres

Vladimir Kovalev, Cyle Wold, Alexander Petkov, and Wei Min Hao

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4957-4966 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerically investigating the enhanced Raman scattering performance of individual Ag nanowire tips

ChaoLing Du, ChaoJun Du, YuMeng You, Yan Zhu, SongLin Jin, CongJun He, and DaNing Shi

Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4922-4926 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF