Simulation papers must show significant, accurate results to be considered by Applied Optics: editorial

Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 55(28), ED10-ED10 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical tweezer calibration by using a part of the intensity distribution of a trapped particle

Harun Yücel and Nazmi Turan Okumuşoğlu

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7861-7865 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving wavefront sensing with a Shack–Hartmann device

Martin Rais, Jean-Michel Morel, Carole Thiebaut, Jean-Marc Delvit, and Gabriele Facciolo

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7836-7846 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Simplified Phase Diversity algorithm based on a first-order Taylor expansion

Dong Zhang, Xiaobin Zhang, Shuyan Xu, Nannan Liu, and Luoxin Zhao

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7872-7877 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Design, fabrication, and testing of a Shack–Hartmann sensor with an automatic registration feature

Wenchen Zhou, Thomas W. Raasch, and Allen Y. Yi

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7892-7899 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Retrieval of the particle size distribution function from the data of lidar sensing under the assumption of known refractive index

S. V. Samoilova, M. A. Sviridenkov, and I. E. Penner

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8022-8029 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Harnessing diffraction grating in an in-plane switching cell submitted to zigzag lattice

Vincent Odent, Ernesto Berrios-Caro, and Marcel G. Clerc

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7803-7809 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Removal of all mosaic grating errors in a single-interferometer system by a phase-difference reference window

Yuxian Lu, Xiangdong Qi, Xiaotian Li, Haili Yu, Shan Jiang, Heshig Bayan, and Lu Yin

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7997-8002 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Refraction index sensor based on phase resonances in a subwavelength structure with double period

Diana C. Skigin and Marcelo Lester

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8131-8137 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative measurement of dynamic nanostrain based on a phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer

Yongkang Dong, Xi Chen, Erhu Liu, Cheng Fu, Hongying Zhang, and Zhiwei Lu

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7810-7815 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High-repetition-rate ultrashort pulsed fiber ring laser using hybrid mode locking

Xiang Zhang, Hongyu Hu, Wenbo Li, and Niloy K. Dutta

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7885-7891 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Tilt performance of the ground settlement sensor configured in a fiber-optic low-coherent interferometer

Pinglei Zhang, Heming Wei, Jingjing Guo, and Changsen Sun

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7917-7921 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Revealing the radial modes in vortex beams

Bereneice Sephton, Angela Dudley, and Andrew Forbes

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7830-7835 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple calculation of a computer-generated hologram for lensless holographic 3D projection using a nonuniform sampled wavefront recording plane

Chenliang Chang, Jun Wu, Yijun Qi, Caojin Yuan, Shouping Nie, and Jun Xia

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7988-7996 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Space debris detection in optical image sequences

Jiangbo Xi, Desheng Wen, Okan K. Ersoy, Hongwei Yi, Dalei Yao, Zongxi Song, and Shaobo Xi

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7929-7940 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiscale target extraction using a spectral saliency map for a hyperspectral image

Jing Zhang, Wenhao Geng, Li Zhuo, Qi Tian, and Yan Cao

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8089-8100 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Notch filtering using a multiple passband AOTF in the SWIR region

Neelam Gupta and Dennis R. Suhre

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7855-7860 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristic properties of the spatial correlations and visibility in mixed light ghost imaging

Sébastien Hartmann, Simone Kuhn, and Wolfgang Elsässer

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7972-7979 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirp evaluation of semiconductor DFB lasers through a simple Interferometry-Based (IB) technique

Jacopo Nanni, Marina Barbiroli, Franco Fuschini, Diego Masotti, Jean-Luc Polleux, Catherine Algani, and Giovanni Tartarini

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7788-7795 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Directional view method for a time-sequential autostereoscopic display with full resolution

Zhenfeng Zhuang, Lei Zhang, Phil Surman, Song Guo, Bin Cao, Yuanjin Zheng, and Xiao Wei Sun

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7847-7854 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Ion beam figuring approach for thermally sensitive space optics

Xiaolin Yin, Weijie Deng, Wa Tang, Binzhi Zhang, Donglin Xue, Feng Zhang, and Xuejun Zhang

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8049-8055 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Exact recovery of wavefront from multishearing interferograms in spatial domain

Dede Zhai, Shanyong Chen, Shuai Xue, and Ziqiang Yin

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8063-8069 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonintrusive measurement of the liquid refractive index by using properties of the cuvette wall

Ming Xu, Junpeng Ren, Runcai Miao, and Zongquan Zhang

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8101-8106 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nondestructive measurement of the refractive index distribution of a glass molded lens by two-wavelength wavefronts

Tomohiro Sugimoto

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8116-8125 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Minimization of temperature for laser cooling of Yb-ion-doped crystals

Andrei Ivanov, Yuriy Rozhdestvensky, and Evgeniy Perlin

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7764-7770 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Pr³⁺:YLF mode-locked laser at 640 nm directly pumped by InGaN-diode lasers

Kodai Iijima, Ryosuke Kariyama, Hiroki Tanaka, and Fumihiko Kannari

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7782-7787 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Implementation of a SVWP-based laser beam shaping technique for generation of 100-mJ-level picosecond pulses

J. Adamonis, A. Aleknavičius, K. Michailovas, S. Balickas, V. Petrauskienė, T. Gertus, and A. Michailovas

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8007-8015 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Strong electric field enhancements in asymmetric metallic nanostructures and high-order harmonic generation

H. Ebadian and M. Mohebbi

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8035-8041 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode-locked all-fiber dumbbell-shaped laser based on a nonlinear amplifying optical loop mirror

Bing-Ke Yang, Sheng-Ping Chen, He Chen, Xue Qi, and Jing Hou

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8126-8130 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate feature detection for out-of-focus camera calibration

Yuwei Wang, Xiangcheng Chen, Jiayuan Tao, Keyi Wang, and Mengchao Ma

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7964-7971 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropy of an acousto-optic figure of merit for NaBi(MoO₄)₂ crystals

Oksana Mys, Oleh Krupych, and Rostyslav Vlokh

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7941-7955 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Statistical precision in super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging

Xuehua Wang, Danni Chen, Bin Yu, and Hanben Niu

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7911-7916 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and optimization of the seed pulse generation scheme for precise beam synchronization in the Xingguang-III laser

Song Zhou, Xiaoming Zeng, Kainan Zhou, Xiaojun Huang, Xiaodong Wang, Xiao Wang, Na Xie, Dongbin Jiang, Zhaohui Wu, Lei Zhao, Jing Wen, Ying Zhang, Zheng Huang, Li Sun, Yi Guo, Qing Li, Qihua Zhu, Jingqin Su, and Feng Jing

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8003-8006 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Proposal for a compact design for real-time optical bistability switching via a semiconductor cavity containing quantum wells

Mostafa Sahrai, Solmaz Ebadollahi-Bakhtevar, and Hamed Sattari

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8107-8115 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Gravity-immune liquid-filled tunable lens with reduced spherical aberration

Pengpeng Zhao, Çağlar Ataman, and Hans Zappe

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7816-7823 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Preliminary study of disc hydrodynamic polishing

Yan Li, Bin Lin, XiaoFeng Zhang, and PengFei Liu

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7866-7871 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the convergence rules of full-range PSD surface error of magnetorheological figuring KDP crystal

Shaoshan Chen, Deyu He, Yi Wu, Huangfei Chen, Zaijing Zhang, and Yunlei Chen

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8056-8062 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ruling of echelles and gratings with a diamond tool by the torque equilibrium method

Jirigalantu, Xiaotian Li, Shanwen Zhang, Xiaotao Mi, Jianxiang Gao, Bayanheshig, Xiangdong Qi, and Yuguo Tang

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8082-8088 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved method to fully compensate the spatial phase nonuniformity of LCoS devices with a Fizeau interferometer

Qiang Lu, Lei Sheng, Fei Zeng, Shijie Gao, and Yanfeng Qiao

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7796-7802 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Large-aperture transparent beam steering screen based on LCMPA

Hongjuan Wang, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhuang, Phil Surman, Xiao Wei Sun, and Yuanjin Zheng

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7824-7829 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Multi-user 3D film on a time-multiplexed side-emission backlight system

Chih-Hung Ting, Yu-Cheng Chang, Chun-Ho Chen, Yi-Pai Huang, and Han-Wen Tsai

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7922-7928 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Affordable dispersion mitigation with an analog electrical filter

Er’el Granot, Shalom Bloch, and Shmuel Sternklar

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7956-7963 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-polarization multiplexing for increased output power of semiconductor optical amplifiers in the pulsed regime

Gustavo C. Amaral, Luis E. Y. Herrera, Marcelo M. Resende, Guilherme P. Temporão, Patryk J. Urban, and Jean Pierre von der Weid

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7878-7884 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency domain phase noise analysis of dual injection-locked optoelectronic oscillators

Sajad Jahanbakht

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7900-7910 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction analysis for DMD-based scene projectors in the long-wave infrared

Qing Han, Jianzhong Zhang, Jian Wang, and Qiang Sun

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8016-8021 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient compressed imaging method for a microsatellite optical camera

Jin Li and Zilong Liu

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8070-8081 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Methane detection using scattering material as the gas cell

Hongze Lin, Fei Gao, Yujian Ding, Chunsheng Yan, and Sailing He

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8030-8034 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity, stability, and precision of quantitative Ns-LIBS-based fuel-air-ratio measurements for methane-air flames at 1–11 bar

Paul S. Hsu, Mark Gragston, Yue Wu, Zhili Zhang, Anil K. Patnaik, Johannes Kiefer, Sukesh Roy, and James R. Gord

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 8042-8048 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-type particle layer improved light trapping for photovoltaic applications

Christin David

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7980-7986 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral design methods for multi-channel LED light sources based on differential evolution

Fuzheng Zhang, Haisong Xu, and Zhehong Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7771-7781 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Grating design for interlayer optical interconnection of in-plane waveguides: erratum

Congshan Wan, Thomas K. Gaylord, and Muhannad S. Bakir

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7987-7987 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized phase-shifting algorithms: error analysis and minimization of noise propagation: erratum

Gastón A. Ayubi, César D. Perciante, J. Matías Di Martino, Jorge L. Flores, and José A. Ferrari

Appl. Opt. 55(28), 7763-7763 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF