Improving the spectral resolution of flat-field concave grating miniature spectrometers by dividing a wide spectral band into two narrow ones

Qian Zhou, Jinchao Pang, Xinghui Li, Kai Ni, and Rui Tian

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9450-9455 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tolerance analysis of multilayer diffractive optics based on polychromatic integral diffraction efficiency

Shan Mao, Qingfeng Cui, and Mingxu Piao

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9528-9532 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic crystal fiber modal interferometer based on thin-core-fiber mode exciter

Yinping Miao, Xixi Ma, Jixuan Wu, Binbin Song, Hao Zhang, Bo Liu, and Jianquan Yao

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9415-9418 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Filterless frequency 12-tupling optical millimeter-wave generation using two cascaded dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators

Zihang Zhu, Shanghong Zhao, Wanze Zheng, Wei Wang, and Baoqin Lin

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9432-9440 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tellurite glass defect-core spiral photonic crystal fiber with low loss and large negative flattened dispersion over S + C + L + U wavelength bands

Md. Rabiul Hasan, Md. Imran Hasan, and Md. Shamim Anower

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9456-9461 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Silver/cyclic olefin copolymer hollow glass waveguides for infrared laser delivery

Jeffrey E. Melzer and James A. Harrington

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9548-9553 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection and correction of wavefront errors caused by slight reference tilt in two-step phase-shifting digital holography

Xianfeng Xu, Luzhong Cai, Fei Gao, Yulei Jia, and Hui Zhang

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9591-9596 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Massive parallel processing of image reconstruction from bispectrum through turbulence

Solmaz Hajmohammadi, Saeid Nooshabadi, and Jeremy P. Bos

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9370-9378 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction-limited step-zoom telescope by image restoration

José A. Araiza-Durán, Esteban Luna, Alejandro Cornejo-Rodríguez, and Erika Sohn

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9462-9468 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis and characterization of high-resolution and high-aspect-ratio imaging fiber bundles

Nojan Motamedi, Salman Karbasi, Joseph E. Ford, and Vitaliy Lomakin

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9422-9431 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Fringe order error in multifrequency fringe projection phase unwrapping: reason and correction

Chunwei Zhang, Hong Zhao, and Lu Zhang

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9390-9399 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Empirical mode decomposition profilometry: small-scale capabilities and comparison to Fourier transform profilometry

Guillaume Lagubeau, Pablo Cobelli, Tomasz Bobinski, Agnès Maurel, Vincent Pagneux, and Philippe Petitjeans

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9409-9414 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency stability of a wavelength meter and applications to laser frequency stabilization

Khaldoun Saleh, Jacques Millo, Alexandre Didier, Yann Kersalé, and Clément Lacroûte

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9446-9449 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

3D mouse shape reconstruction based on phase-shifting algorithm for fluorescence molecular tomography imaging system

Yue Zhao, Dianwen Zhu, Reheman Baikejiang, and Changqing Li

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9573-9582 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Parallel-quadrature on-axis phase-shifting common-path interferometer using a polarizing beam splitter

Hongyi Bai, Mingguang Shan, Zhi Zhong, Lili Guo, and Yabin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9513-9517 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Compact noise-like pulse fiber laser and its application for supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear fiber

Handing Xia, Heping Li, Guanglei Deng, Jianfeng Li, Shangjian Zhang, and Yong Liu

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9379-9384 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High brightness laser-diode device emitting 160 watts from a 100  μm/NA  0.22 fiber

Junhong Yu, Linui Guo, Hualing Wu, Zhao Wang, Hao Tan, Songxin Gao, Deyong Wu, and Kai Zhang

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9385-9389 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin-disk laser pump schemes for large number of passes and moderate pump source quality

Karsten Schuhmann, Theodor W. Hänsch, Klaus Kirch, Andreas Knecht, Franz Kottmann, Francois Nez, Randolf Pohl, David Taqqu, and Aldo Antognini

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9400-9408 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

2  kW narrow spectral width monolithic continuous wave in a near-diffraction-limited fiber laser

Yang Xu, Qiang Fang, Yuguo Qin, Xiangjie Meng, and Wei Shi

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9419-9421 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Interband cascade lasers with long lifetimes

I. E. Trofimov, C. L. Canedy, C. S. Kim, M. Kim, W. W. Bewley, C. L. Merritt, I. Vurgaftman, J. R. Meyer, and L. T. Le

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9441-9445 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-end-pumped single-longitudinal-mode Er:LuAG laser with intracavity etalons at 1.6  μm

Tongyu Dai, Jing Wu, Zhenguo Zhang, Youlun Ju, Baoquan Yao, and Yuezhu Wang

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9500-9503 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped tri-wavelength synchronously mode-locked Yb,Y:CaF₂ laser

Chun Li, Jie Liu, Liangbi Su, Dapeng Jiang, Xiaobo Qian, and Jun Xu

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9509-9512 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical analysis on the rotation-induced frequency difference in ring lasers with coupled cavities

Zhiguo Wang, Baolun Yuan, Xiang Han, Guangzong Xiao, Zhenfang Fan, and Jie Yuan

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9568-9572 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 1.5  W average power, 18  kHz repetition rate coherent mid-ultraviolet radiation at 271.2  nm

Ramakanta Biswal, Praveen K. Agrawal, Sudhir K. Dixit, and Shankar V. Nakhe

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9613-9621 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Retrieving mesopause temperature and line-of-sight wind from full-diurnal-cycle Na lidar observations

David A. Krueger, Chiao-Yao She, and Tao Yuan

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9469-9489 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High numerical aperture holographic microscopy reconstruction with extended z range

N. Verrier, D. Donnarumma, G. Tessier, and M. Gross

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9540-9547 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization dependence of the nonlinear interaction between sinusoidally modulated optical signals in a randomly birefringent optical fiber

Yang Lu, Chams Baker, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9563-9567 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive defect and pattern detection in amplitude and phase structures via photorefractive four-wave mixing

George Nehmetallah, Partha Banerjee, and Jed Khoury

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9622-9629 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Alignment analyses of a galvanometer-based scanner in free-space Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Qun Yuan, Dan Zhu, and Zhishan Gao

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9554-9562 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous zoom antenna for mobile visible light communication

Xuebin Zhang, Yi Tang, Lu Cui, and Tingzhu Bai

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9606-9612 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Wink-controlled polarization-switched telescopic contact lenses

Glenn M. Schuster, Ashkan Arianpour, Scott Cookson, Arthur Zhang, Lee Hendrik, Tyrone O’Brien, Agusto Alvarez, and Joseph E. Ford

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9597-9605 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Developing a video tracking method to study interactions between close pairs of optically trapped particles in three dimensions

Allan Raudsepp, Marjorie Griffiths, Andrew J. Sutherland-Smith, and Martin A. K. Williams

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9518-9527 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of a segmented q-plate tunable retarder for the generation of first-order vector beams

Jeffrey A. Davis, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Makoto Kurihara, Enrique Hurtado, Melanie Pierce, María M. Sánchez-López, Katherine Badham, and Ignacio Moreno

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9583-9590 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral density response functions for modulated polarimeters

Charles F. LaCasse, Oscar G. Rodríguez-Herrera, Russell A. Chipman, and J. Scott Tyo

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9490-9499 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a design tool for closed-loop digital vibrometer

Dario Melchionni, Alessandro Magnani, Alessandro Pesatori, and Michele Norgia

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9637-9643 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative analysis of essential oils of Thymus daenensis using laser-induced fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy

H. Khoshroo, H. Khadem, M. Bahreini, S. H. Tavassoli, and J. Hadian

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9533-9539 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Binocular open-view system to perform estimations of aberrations and scattering in the human eye

Carlos E. García-Guerra, Mikel Aldaba, Montserrat Arjona, and Jaume Pujol

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9504-9508 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation and experimental study of aspect ratio limitation in Fresnel zone plates for hard-x-ray optics

Jianpeng Liu, Jinhai Shao, Sichao Zhang, Yaqi Ma, Nit Taksatorn, Chengwen Mao, Yifang Chen, Biao Deng, and Tiqiao Xiao

Appl. Opt. 54(32), 9630-9636 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF