International Year of Light: editorial

Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 54(8), ED3-ED3 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Compressive Sensing Focus Issue: introduction

Joseph N. Mait, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Mark A. Neifeld, and Ravindra A. Athale

Appl. Opt. 54(8), CS1-CS3 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Pitfalls and possibilities of radar compressive sensing

Nathan A. Goodman and Lee C. Potter

Appl. Opt. 54(8), C1-C13 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Compressive sensing in the EO/IR

M. E. Gehm and D. J. Brady

Appl. Opt. 54(8), C14-C22 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Compressive sensing in medical imaging

Christian G. Graff and Emil Y. Sidky

Appl. Opt. 54(8), C23-C44 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional graphic physically based simulator of rainbows together with the background scene

Moon-Ryul Jung

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1926-1935 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-term comparisons of UV index values derived from a NILU-UV instrument, NWS, and OMI in the New York area

L. Fan, W. Li, A. Dahlback, J. J. Stamnes, S. Stamnes, and K. Stamnes

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1945-1951 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropic non-Kolmogorov turbulence phase screens with variable orientation

Jeremy P. Bos, Michael C. Roggemann, and V. S. Rao Gudimetla

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2039-2045 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Features for instantaneous emissions of low-level infrared signals of glucokinase enzyme from pyrococcus furiosus

Sergio Torres, Héctor Mella, Claudio Reyes, Pablo Meza, Maria J. Gallardo, and Juan P. Staforelli

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2057-2065 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependence of a refractive index sensor based on a macrobending micro-plastic optical fiber

Ning Jing, Chuanxin Teng, Xiaowei Zhao, and Jie Zheng

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1890-1893 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of ghost coupling points on distributed polarization crosstalk measurements in high birefringence fiber and its solution

Dianyou Song, Zhiyong Wang, Xinwei Chen, Hongxia Zhang, and Tiegen Liu

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1918-1925 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Widely tunable LP₁₁ cladding-mode resonance in a twisted mechanically induced long-period fiber grating

Anitha S. Nair, V. P. Sudeep Kumar, and Hubert Joe

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2007-2010 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical and experimental study of suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering and phase noise in interferometric fiber sensing systems with phase modulation

Xiaoyang Hu, Wei Chen, Xiaobo Tu, Zhou Meng, and Mo Chen

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2018-2022 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Demodulation algorithm used in single-beam system immune to light power drift

Fupeng Wang, Jun Chang, Cunguang Zhu, Zongliang Wang, Yongning Liu, Wei Wei, Chuanwu Jia, Yubin Wei, and Hao Jiang

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2032-2038 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Midinfrared supercontinuum generation via As₂Se₃ chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Hamed Saghaei, Majid Ebnali-Heidari, and Mohammad Kazem Moravvej-Farshi

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2072-2079 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (6)]

Amplitude and phase retrieval in simultaneous π/2 phase-shifting heterodyne interferometry using the synchrosqueezing transform

Arturo Bianchetti, Francisco E. Veiras, Pablo Etchepareborda, Ana Laura Vadnjal, Alejandro Federico, and Guillermo H. Kaufmann

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2132-2140 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Pixel size adjustment in coherent diffractive imaging within the Rayleigh–Sommerfeld regime

Daniel Claus and John Marius Rodenburg

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1936-1944 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Using Doppler shift induced by Galvanometric mirror scanning to reach shot noise limit with laser optical feedback imaging setup

O. Jacquin, E. Lacot, O. Hugon, and H. Guillet de Chatelus

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1978-1983 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration optimization of laser-induced deflection signal for measuring absorptance of laser components

Xiaorong Zhang and Bincheng Li

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1861-1869 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase topography-based characterization of thermal effects on materials and joining techniques

Hagen Lorenz, Erik Beckert, and René Schödel

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2046-2056 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

3 × 3 coupler based interferometric magnetic field sensor using a TbDyFe rod

Feifei Chen, Yi Jiang, and Lan Jiang

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2085-2090 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Precise measurement of three-dimensional positions of transparent ellipsoidal particles using digital holographic microscopy

Hyeok Jun Byeon, Kyung Won Seo, and Sang Joon Lee

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2106-2112 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Semi-analytical model of arrayed waveguide grating in SOI using Gaussian beam approximation

R. Sidharth and B. K. Das

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2158-2163 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of high-power diode-end-pumped Tm:YLF laser in slab geometry

Yingjie Shen, Xiaoming Duan, Jinhe Yuan, Tongyu Dai, Baoquan Yao, and Yuezhu Wang

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1958-1962 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient end-side-pumped Nd:YAG solar laser by a heliostat–parabolic mirror system

J. Almeida, D. Liang, C. R. Vistas, and E. Guillot

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1970-1977 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of actively Q-switched laser performance of disordered Yb:Ca₃La₂(BO₃)₄ crystals cut along the crystallographic axes

Yeqing Wang, Aixi Chen, and Chaoyang Tu

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2066-2071 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power passively mode-locked laser at 1062.4  nm based on Nd:LaGGG disordered crystal

Xiancui Su, Ruwei Zhao, Baitao Zhang, Zhitai Jia, Jia Hou, and Jingliang He

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2118-2122 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of carcinogenic metals in kidney stones using ultraviolet laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Ahmed Asaad I. Khalil, Mohammed A. Gondal, Mohamed Shemis, and Irfan S. Khan

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2123-2131 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Novel analytical solution for the radiance in an anisotropically scattering medium

André Liemert and Alwin Kienle

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1963-1969 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of three-mirror illumination system with free-form fly’s eye for extreme ultraviolet lithography

Qiuli Mei and Yanqiu Li

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2091-2097 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode fiber variable optical attenuator based on a ferrofluid shutter

Anna Duduś, Robert Blue, and Deepak Uttamchandani

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1952-1957 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon-based dual ARROW power splitters with remote coupling

Hsin-Feng Hsu, Ming-Shun Hsu, Ming-Feng Lu, and Yang-Tung Huang

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2098-2105 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct measurement of the parameters of a femtosecond pulse train with a THz repetition rate generated by the interference of two phase-modulated femtosecond pulses

Anton N. Tsypkin, Yulia A. Komarova, Sergey E. Putilin, Andrey V. Okishev, and Sergey A. Kozlov

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2113-2117 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of compressive sensing with optical mixing using a spatial light modulator

Zhijing Zhu, Hao Chi, Shilie Zheng, Tao Jin, Xiaofeng Jin, and Xianmin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1894-1899 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

On-orbit calibration of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite for ocean color applications

Robert E. Eplee, Kevin R. Turpie, Gerhard Meister, Frederick S. Patt, Bryan A. Franz, and Sean W. Bailey

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1984-2006 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of the smoke-plume heights and their dynamics with ground-based scanning lidar

V. Kovalev, A. Petkov, C. Wold, S. Urbanski, and W. M. Hao

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2011-2017 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical beam distortions induced by a shock wave

V. A. Banakh, A. A. Sukharev, and A. V. Falits

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2023-2031 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition and surface statistics of VO₂ monitored by elastic light scattering

Sergiy Lysenko, Felix Fernández, Armando Rúa, Nelson Sepúlveda, and Joaquin Aparicio

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2141-2150 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Vacuum ultraviolet spectropolarimeter design for precise polarization measurements

Noriyuki Narukage, Frédéric Auchère, Ryohko Ishikawa, Ryouhei Kano, Saku Tsuneta, Amy R. Winebarger, and Ken Kobayashi

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2080-2084 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-range surface plasmons supported by a bilayer metallic structure for sensing applications

M. Zekriti, Dmitry V. Nesterenko, and Z. Sekkat

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 2151-2157 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated construction of monochromatic monitoring strategies

M. Trubetskov, T. Amotchkina, and A. Tikhonravov

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1900-1909 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmittance and optical constants of Ca films in the 4–1000  eV spectral range

Luis Rodríguez-de Marcos, Juan I. Larruquert, Manuela Vidal-Dasilva, José A. Aznárez, Sergio García-Cortés, José A. Méndez, Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto, A. Marco Malvezzi, Daniele Bajoni, Angelo Giglia, Nicola Mahne, and Stefano Nannarone

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1910-1917 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Modal processing of Hartmann and Shack–Hartmann patterns by means of a least squares fitting of the transverse aberrations: erratum

Geovanni Hernández-Gómez, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández

Appl. Opt. 54(8), 1870-1871 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF