2016 review and institutional feature issues: editorial

Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 56(8), ED3-ED3 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Using Arago’s spot to monitor optical axis shift in a Petzval refractor

Donald G. Bruns

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2074-2077 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Error compensation in a pointing system based on Risley prisms

Beethoven Bravo-Medina, Marija Strojnik, Guillermo Garcia-Torales, Hector Torres-Ortega, Ruben Estrada-Marmolejo, Anuar Beltrán-González, and Jorge L. Flores

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2209-2216 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric wavefront sensing with a single diode using spatial light modulation

D. Tarquin Ralph, Paul A. Altin, David S. Rabeling, David E. McClelland, and Daniel A. Shaddock

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2353-2358 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-temperature sensor instrumentation with a thin-film-based sapphire fiber

Yuqing Guo, Wei Xia, Zhangzhong Hu, and Ming Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2068-2073 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavefront correction by a low-cost deformable mirror group in a small-aperture-beam fiber laser

Lei Huang, Chenlu Zhou, Xingkun Ma, Meng Yan, and Junbiao Fan

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2176-2182 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency echelle gratings for MIGHTI, the spatial heterodyne interferometers for the ICON mission

Christoph R. Englert, Charles M. Brown, Bernhard Bach, Erich Bach, Kirk Bach, John M. Harlander, John F. Seely, Kenneth D. Marr, and Ian Miller

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2090-2098 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic recording of volume phase Fresnel lenses in ZnSe semiconductor material

Sergei G. Krivoshlykov

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2314-2320 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Stress homogenization effect in multicore fiber optic bending sensors

G. Capilla-Gonzalez, D. A. May-Arrioja, D. Lopez-Cortes, and J. R. Guzman-Sepulveda

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2273-2279 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Specifics of spectral loss measurement in infrared fibers

Victor G. Plotnichenko, Vyacheslav O. Sokolov, Elena B. Kryukova, Gennady E. Snopatin, Igor V. Skripachev, and Mikhail F. Churbanov

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2112-2118 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared transmitter and receiver modules for free-space optical communication

Qiang Hao, Guoshen Zhu, Song Yang, Kangwen Yang, Tao Duan, Xiaoping Xie, Kun Huang, and Heping Zeng

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2260-2264 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of fiber optic gyroscope vibration error based on improved local mean decomposition and kernel principal component analysis

Rui Song and Xiyuan Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2265-2272 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-loss polarization-maintaining THz photonic crystal fiber with a triple-hole core

Zhiqing Wu, Xiaoyan Zhou, Handing Xia, Zhaohua Shi, Jin Huang, Xiaodong Jiang, and Weidong Wu

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2288-2293 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic Doppler frequency shift measurement based on a dual-polarization modulator

Xiaoyan Li, Aijun Wen, Wei Chen, Yongsheng Gao, Shuiying Xiang, Huixing Zhang, and Xiaoming Ma

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2084-2089 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Strehl ratio and amplitude-weighted generalized orthonormal Zernike-based polynomials

Cosmas Mafusire and Tjaart P. J. Krüger

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2336-2345 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of diffraction patterns exposed by pulsed and CW lasers on positive-tone photoresist

Ramūnas Bakanas, Virginija Jankauskaitė, Andrejs Bulanovs, Stanislovas Zacharovas, and Andrius Vilkauskas

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2241-2249 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of elemental images’ quantity on three-dimensional segmentation using computational integral imaging

Doron Aloni and Yitzhak Yitzhaky

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2132-2140 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration of a paracatadioptric camera by projection imaging of a single sphere

Yuanzhen Li and Yue Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2230-2240 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Background noise removal in x-ray ptychography

Chunpeng Wang, Zijian Xu, Haigang Liu, Yong Wang, Jian Wang, and Renzhong Tai

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2099-2111 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the timing jitter of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detection system

Junjie Wu, Lixing You, Sijing Chen, Hao Li, Yuhao He, Chaolin Lv, Zhen Wang, and Xiaoming Xie

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2195-2200 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing wavefront estimation accuracy by using higher-order iterative compensations in the Southwell configuration

Hui Guang, Yajun Wang, Lianxin Zhang, Lulu Li, Ming Li, and Linhong Ji

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2060-2067 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Large-aperture space optical system testing based on the scanning Hartmann

Haisong Wei, Feng Yan, Xindong Chen, Hao Zhang, Qiang Cheng, Donglin Xue, Xuefeng Zeng, and Xuejun Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2078-2083 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote photonic sensor to detect crude and refined oil

Óscar Sampedro and José R. Salgueiro

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2150-2156 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

BRDF-dependent accuracy of array-projection-based 3D sensors

Stefan Heist, Peter Kühmstedt, Andreas Tünnermann, and Gunther Notni

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2162-2170 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Collimation testing using deflectometry in conjunction with windowed Fourier transform analysis

Jitendra Dhanotia, Vimal Bhatia, and Shashi Prakash

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2346-2352 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Programmable light source based on an echellogram of a supercontinuum laser

Ding Luo, Miro Taphanel, Thomas Längle, and Jürgen Beyerer

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2359-2367 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust silicon-on-insulator adiabatic splitter optimized by metamodeling

Karim Hassan, Cédric Durantin, Vincent Hugues, Bertrand Szelag, and Alain Glière

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2047-2052 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of plasmonic phase modulator with furan–thiophene chromatophore electro-optic polymer

Naoya Hojo, Tomohiro Amemiya, Kazuto Itoh, Zhichen Gu, Chiyumi Yamada, Toshiki Yamada, Junichi Suzuki, Yusuke Hayashi, Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Akira Otomo, and Shigehisa Arai

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2053-2059 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact and fabrication-tolerant polarization splitter based on horizontal triple-slot waveguide

Weifeng Jiang, Xiaohan Sun, and B. M. Azizur Rahman

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2119-2126 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of micro structure through hybrid interference and phase determination in broadband light interferometry

Yi Zhou, Yan Tang, Jiangping Zhu, Qinyuan Deng, Yong Yang, Lixin Zhao, and Song Hu

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2301-2306 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon three-dimensional structures fabricated by femtosecond laser modification with dry etching

Xue-Qing Liu, Lei Yu, Zhuo-Chen Ma, and Qi-Dai Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2157-2161 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Passive Q-switching of an Er, Yb:glass laser with Co:Mg(Al,Ga)₂O₄-based glass-ceramics

V. Vitkin, P. Loiko, O. Dymshits, A. Zhilin, I. Alekseeva, D. Sabitova, A. Polishchuk, A. Malyarevich, X. Mateos, and K. Yumashev

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2142-2149 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Deep modulation of second-harmonic light by wavelength detuning of a laser diode

Mathias Christensen, Anders K. Hansen, Danny Noordegraaf, Ole B. Jensen, and Peter M. W. Skovgaard

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2250-2254 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-precision method of binocular camera calibration with a distortion model

Weimin Li, Siyu Shan, and Hui Liu

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2368-2377 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Scalable process for mitigation of laser-damaged potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal optic surfaces with removal of damaged antireflective coating

S. Elhadj, W. A. Steele, D. S. VanBlarcom, R. A. Hawley, K. I. Schaffers, and P. Geraghty

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2217-2225 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of ultrashort pulses by time–frequency conversion and temporal magnification based on four-wave mixing at 1  μm

Zhi Qiao, Xue Pan, Xiaochao Wang, Tingrui Huang, Peng Zhang, Wei Fan, Xuechun Li, and Zunqi Lin

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2294-2300 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-range surface plasmon-induced tunable ultralow threshold optical bistability using graphene sheets at terahertz frequency

Aparupa Kar, Nabamita Goswami, and Ardhendu Saha

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2321-2329 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Secure fingerprint identification based on structural and microangiographic optical coherence tomography

Xuan Liu, Farzana Zaki, Yahui Wang, Qiongdan Huang, Xin Mei, and Jiangjun Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2255-2259 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Benchmark evaluation of inversion algorithms for tomographic absorption spectroscopy

Tao Yu and Weiwei Cai

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2183-2194 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid generation and analysis of vector vortex beams

Sandra Mamani, Ethan Bendau, Jeff Secor, Solyman Ashrafi, Jiufeng J. Tu, and Robert R. Alfano

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2171-2175 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Goos–Hänchen shifts due to spin-orbit coupling in the carbon nanotube quantum dot nanostructures

Seyyed Hossein Asadpour

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2201-2208 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

GPS-aided method for platform attitude determination based on target images

Teng Xu, Lijun Xu, Xiangrui Tian, and Xiaolu Li

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2378-2387 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Engineering polyshell spherical microcapsules for optimal localized light absorption

Yuri E. Geints, Alexander A. Zemlyanov, and Ekaterina K. Panina

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2127-2131 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Univariate and multivariate analyses of rare earth elements by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Chet R. Bhatt, Fang Y. Yueh, and Jagdish P. Singh

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2280-2287 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of deep-level defects in CuGaSe₂ thin-film solar cells using photocapacitance methods

Xiaobo Hu, Juanjuan Xue, Jiao Tian, Guoen Weng, and Shaoqiang Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2330-2335 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced light absorption in perpendicular elliptical silicon nanocone array for solar cells

Xuefei Qin, Zihuan Xia, Yonggang Wu, Jian Zhou, and Zongyi Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2307-2313 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple, picojoule-sensitive ultraviolet autocorrelator based on two-photon conductivity in sapphire

Kenneth J. Leedle, Karel E. Urbanek, and Robert L. Byer

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2226-2229 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ion–photon entanglement and quantum frequency conversion with trapped Ba+ ions: publisher’s note

J. D. Siverns, X. Li, and Q. Quraishi

Appl. Opt. 56(8), 2141-2141 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF