Optics in Ireland: introduction to the feature issue

A. Louise Bradley, Martin Leahy, Nabeel A. Riza, and John T. Sheridan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), IRE1-IRE1 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High power narrow linewidth discrete mode laser diode integrated with a curved semiconductor optical amplifier emitting at 2051  nm

Richard Phelan, Michael Gleeson, Diarmuid Byrne, John O’Carroll, Marta Nawrocka, Kevin Carney, Rob Lennox, Lina Maigyte, Phil Long, Chris Herbert, Jim Somers, and Brian Kelly

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E1-E5 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase randomization for spatiotemporal averaging of unwanted interference effects arising from coherence

Fergal Shevlin

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E6-E10 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Advancing Raman microspectroscopy for cellular and subcellular analysis: towards in vitro high-content spectralomic analysis

Hugh J. Byrne, Franck Bonnier, Alan Casey, Marcus Maher, Jennifer McIntyre, Esen Efeoglu, and Zeineb Farhane

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E11-E19 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser beam imaging via multiple mode operations of the extreme dynamic range CAOS camera

Nabeel A. Riza and Mohsin A. Mazhar

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E20-E31 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free multimodal coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering analysis of microparticles in unconstrained microfluidics

K. O’Dwyer, R. Mouras, A. A. Mani, D. Rice, M. Gleeson, N. Liu, S. A. M. Tofail, and C. Silien

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E32-E36 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics of two identical mutually delay-coupled semiconductor lasers in photonic integrated circuits

Masoud Seifikar, Andreas Amann, and Frank H. Peters

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E37-E44 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Stabilization of self-mode-locked QDash lasers subject to simultaneous continuous-wave optical injection and optical feedback

Haroon Asghar, Ehsan Sooudi, and John G. McInerney

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E45-E49 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon propagation enhancement via bowtie antenna incorporation in Au–mica block waveguides

Isabel A. Pita, Mahendar Kumbham, Michael Schmidt, Matthew Gleeson, Kevin M. Ryan, Christophe Silien, and Ning Liu

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E50-E56 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonpupil adaptive optics for visual simulation of a customized contact lens

Mark F. Coughlan and Alexander V. Goncharov

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E57-E63 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Key enabling technologies for optical communications at 2000 nm

F. C. Garcia Gunning, N. Kavanagh, E. Russell, R. Sheehan, J. O’Callaghan, and B. Corbett

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E64-E70 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable thermally induced gradient index for extended depth of field

Conor J. Sheil

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E71-E79 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-written waveguides in photopolymer

Ra’ed Malallah, Derek Cassidy, Inbarasan Muniraj, James P. Ryle, John J. Healy, and John T. Sheridan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E80-E88 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical investigation of a feed-forward linewidth reduction scheme using a mode-locked laser model of reduced complexity

Sean O’Duill, M. Omar Sahni, Stéphane Trebaol, Pascal Landais, L. Bramerie, Stuart G. Murdoch, Pascal Besnard, and Liam P. Barry

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E89-E100 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a prototype active optics system for future space telescopes

Nicholas Devaney, Fiona Kenny, Alexander V. Goncharov, Matthias Goy, and Claudia Reinlein

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E101-E106 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic characterization of diffraction grating modulation in photopolymers

Haoyu Li, Yue Qi, Changliang Guo, Ra’ed Malallah, and John T. Sheridan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E107-E117 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multicomponent analysis using a confocal Raman microscope

Zhengyuan Tang, Sinead J. Barton, Tomas E. Ward, John P. Lowry, Michelle M. Doran, Hugh J. Byrne, and Bryan M. Hennelly

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E118-E130 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Serialized holography for brand protection and authentication

Dinesh Vather, Izabela Naydenova, Dervil Cody, Monika Zawadzka, Suzanne Martin, Emilia Mihaylova, Stephen Curran, Paul Duffy, Josune Portillo, Daniel Connell, Stephen McDonnell, and Vincent Toal

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E131-E137 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimating axial resolution with diffraction theory

Timothée E. Cognard, Chris Dainty, and Nicholas Devaney

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E138-E141 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of an amplified piezoelectric actuator for multiple-reference optical coherence tomography

Sean O’Gorman, Kai Neuhaus, Sergey Alexandrov, Josh Hogan, Carol Wilson, Paul McNamara, and Martin Leahy

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E142-E146 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity-dependent nonlinear refraction of antimonene dispersions in the visible and near-infrared region

Gaozhong Wang, Sean Higgins, Kangpeng Wang, Daniel Bennett, Nina Milosavljevic, John James Magan, Saifeng Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang, and Werner J. Blau

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E147-E153 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling mutually coupled non-identical semiconductor lasers on photonic integrated circuits

Fabien M. Dubois, Masoud Seifikar, Alison H. Perrott, and Frank H. Peters

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E154-E162 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a photopolymer holographic lens for collimation of light from a green light-emitting diode

Sanjay Keshri, Kevin Murphy, Vincent Toal, Izabela Naydenova, and Suzanne Martin

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E163-E172 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-processing photopolymer materials for versatile design and fabrication of holographic sensors and interactive holograms

Dervil Cody, Sabad-e Gul, Tatsiana Mikulchyk, Muhammad Irfan, Anastasia Kharchenko, Kamila Goldyn, Suzanne Martin, Svetlana Mintova, John Cassidy, and Izabela Naydenova

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E173-E183 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering for rapid hematopoietic stem cell differentiation analysis

Nebras Alattar, Hasbullah Daud, Rasoul Al-Majmaie, Domonic Zeulla, Mohameed Al-Rubeai, and James H. Rice

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E184-E189 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Hartmann–Shack wavefront sensing without a lenslet array using a digital micromirror device

Brian Vohnsen, Alessandra Carmichael Martins, Salihah Qaysi, and Najnin Sharmin

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E199-E204 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring refractive index of glass by using speckle

Changliang Guo, Dayan Li, Damien P. Kelly, Haoyu Li, James P. Ryle, and John T. Sheridan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E205-E217 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermally stable hybrid cavity laser based on silicon nitride gratings

S. Iadanza, A. P. Bakoz, P. K. J. Singaravelu, D. Panettieri, S. A. Schulz, G. C. R. Devarapu, S. Guerber, C. Baudot, F. Boeuf, S. Hegarty, and L. O’Faolain

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E218-E223 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Feasibility of correlation mapping optical coherence tomography angiographic technique using a 200  kHz vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser source for in vivo microcirculation imaging applications

Cerine Lal, Hrebesh M. Subhash, Sergey Alexandrov, and Martin J. Leahy

Appl. Opt. 57(22), E224-E231 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Top-of-atmosphere reflectance over homogeneous Lambertian and non-Lambertian surfaces

Tatiana Russkova and Tatiana Zhuravleva

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6345-6357 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Sky brightness and color measurements during the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse: comment

Russell D. Sampson

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6559-6560 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous achievement of highly birefringent and nonlinear photonic crystal fibers with an elliptical tellurite core

Min Liu, Hongtao Yuan, Ping Shum, Cong Shao, Haonan Han, and Lihua Chu

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6383-6387 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Electric-arc-induced strength-controllable weak polarization mode coupling in polarization maintaining fiber

Yanshuang Zhao, Sheng Huang, Zhiru Cui, Quan Chai, Yanlei Liu, Jing Ren, Jianzhong Zhang, Elfed Lewis, Zhihai Liu, Jun Yang, and Libo Yuan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6446-6450 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-coupled vapor cell for a portable Rydberg atom-based radio frequency electric field sensor

Matt T. Simons, Joshua A. Gordon, and Christopher L. Holloway

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6456-6460 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-induced distortion effects on the information rate in single-mode fibers

Mahdi Zamani

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6572-6581 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Wrapping-free numerical refocusing of scalar electromagnetic fields

Pascal Berto, Marc Guillon, and Pierre Bon

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6582-6586 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-wedge prism scanner for application in thermal imaging systems

Shian-Fu Lai and Cheng-Chung Lee

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6290-6299 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the throughput of automated holographic optical tweezers

Lucas A. Shaw, Samira Chizari, and Jonathan B. Hopkins

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6396-6402 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Multiple-view polarimetric camera

Philip Birch, Rupert Young, and Chris Chatwin

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6329-6337 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear mapping method for the generation of an elemental image array in a photorealistic pseudoscopic free 3D display

Jun Wen, Xingpeng Yan, Xiaoyu Jiang, Zhiqiang Yan, Yifei Wang, and Junfu Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6375-6382 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Noiseless optical encryption based on a complex secret key and a joint Fresnel transform correlator with a Billet split lens

Shaozu Li, Xueju Shen, Bing Zhou, and Long Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6503-6509 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatially correlated coherent diffractive imaging method

Xulei Tao, Zijian Xu, Haigang Liu, Chunpeng Wang, Zhenjiang Xing, Yong Wang, and Renzhong Tai

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6527-6533 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Regularized slanted-edge method for measuring the modulation transfer function of imaging systems

Xufen Xie, Hongda Fan, Anding Wang, Nianyu Zou, and Yuncui Zhang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6552-6558 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitive absorption measurement in transparent isotropic dielectrics with time-resolved photothermal common-path interferometry

K. V. Vlasova, A. I. Makarov, N. F. Andreev, and A. Yu. Konstantinov

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6318-6328 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultracompact reference ultralow expansion glass cavity

Alexandre Didier, Jacques Millo, Baptiste Marechal, Cyrus Rocher, Enrico Rubiola, Roméo Lecomte, Morvan Ouisse, Jérôme Delporte, Clément Lacroûte, and Yann Kersalé

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6470-6473 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of sample surface height for evaluation of peak extraction algorithms in confocal microscopy

Cheng Chen, Jian Wang, Xiaojun Liu, Wenlong Lu, Hong Zhu, and Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6516-6526 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Rayleigh backscattered radiation produced by an arbitrary incident mode in multimode optical fibers

M. A. Bisyarin, O. I. Kotov, A. H. Hartog, L. B. Liokumovich, and N. A. Ushakov

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6534-6544 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact portable laser system for mobile cold atom gravimeters

Xiaowei Zhang, Jiaqi Zhong, Biao Tang, Xi Chen, Lei Zhu, Panwei Huang, Jin Wang, and Mingsheng Zhan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6545-6551 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Photothermal determination of the angular dependence of emissivity

Yaqi Zhang and Gerald Diebold

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6561-6564 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of an atom source collimator for a compact frequency-stabilized laser

Hao Shi, Jie Ma, Xiaofeng Li, Jie Liu, and Shougang Zhang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6620-6625 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon-wire optical demultiplexers based on multistage delayed Mach–Zehnder interferometers for higher production yield

Seok-Hwan Jeong and Yu Tanaka

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6474-6480 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of multiple laser shock peening on the mechanical property and corrosion resistance of shipbuilding 5083Al alloy under a simulated seawater environment

Hao Wang, Yihui Huang, Wenwu Zhang, and Andreas Ostendorf

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6300-6308 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Semicylindrical microresonator: excitation, modal structure, and Q-factor

H. Haroyan, H. Parsamyan, T. Yezekyan, and Kh. Nerkararyan

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6309-6313 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-delay-signature-suppressed broadband chaos generated by scattering feedback and optical injection

Jianzhong Zhang, Mengwen Li, Anbang Wang, Mingjiang Zhang, Yongning Ji, and Yuncai Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6314-6317 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Bendable large-mode-area fiber with a non-circular core

Junhua Ji, Huaiqin Lin, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Daryl Ho, Yanyan Zhou, Johan Nilsson, and Seongwoo Yoo

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6388-6395 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Behavior of tiled-aperture arrays fed by vector partially coherent sources

Milo W. Hyde and Mark F. Spencer

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6403-6409 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Tunable and passively Q-switched laser operation of Nd,Lu:CaF₂ disordered crystal

Qianqian Hao, Siyuan Pang, Jie Liu, and Liangbi Su

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6491-6495 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber laser via a thulium-doped fiber saturable absorber

Mohd F. A. Rahman, Anas A. Latiff, Muhammad F. M. Rusdi, Kaharudin Dimyati, and Sulaiman W. Harun

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6510-6515 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental characterization and modeling of optical tweezer particle handling dynamics

Michael D. Porter, Brian Giera, Robert M. Panas, Lucas A. Shaw, Maxim Shusteff, and Jonathan B. Hopkins

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6565-6571 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optofluidic adaptive optics

Kaustubh Banerjee, Pouya Rajaeipour, Çağlar Ataman, and Hans Zappe

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6338-6344 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of thermoforming mechanism and optical properties’ change of chalcogenide glass in precision glass molding

Lin Zhang, Wenchen Zhou, and Allen Y. Yi

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6358-6368 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection and identification of transformer winding strain based on distributed optical fiber sensing

Yunpeng Liu, Yuan Tian, Xiaozhou Fan, Yanan Bu, and Bowen Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6430-6438 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dependence of the imaging properties of the liquid lens with variable focal length on membrane thickness

Antonín Mikš and Filip Šmejkal

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6439-6445 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic fabrication of graded photonic super-quasi-crystals with multiple-level gradients

David Lowell, Safaa Hassan, Oliver Sale, Murthada Adewole, Noah Hurley, Usha Philipose, Banglin Chen, and Yuankun Lin

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6598-6604 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Vibration phases estimation based on multi-channel interferometry for ISAL

Xuan Hu and Daojing Li

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6481-6490 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous determination of aerosol optical depth and exponent of the Junge power law from MODIS shortwave infrared bands over Qinghai Lake

Lin Zhu, Qingshan Xu, Chen Cheng, Xiongwei Sun, Pengfei Wu, and Lei Yang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6497-6502 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

On-orbit characterization of the VIIRS solar diffuser and attenuation screens for NOAA-20 using yaw measurements

Junqiang Sun, Mike Chu, and Menghua Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6605-6619 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Jones matrix physical parameters for media in inhomogeneous fields

Zhizhong Guo, Caiyun Mo, Zhihong Xiao, Guoqing Zhang, Wenbin Yu, and Guizhong Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6283-6289 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Chiral sculptured thin films for circular polarization of mid-wavelength infrared light

Vikas Vepachedu and Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6410-6416 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of potassium in ceramic raw materials using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with profile fitting

Yun Tang, Lianbo Guo, Shisong Tang, Yanwu Chu, Qingdong Zeng, Xiaoyan Zeng, Jun Duan, and Yongfeng Lu

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6451-6455 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlocal low-rank-based blind deconvolution of Raman spectroscopy for automatic target recognition

Tingting Liu, Hai Liu, Zhaoli Zhang, and Sanya Liu

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6461-6469 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-angle reflectance spectroscopy to determine the optical constants n and k: considerations in the far-infrared domain

Brent M. DeVetter, Nicole K. Scharko, Bret D. Cannon, Tanya L. Myers, and Timothy J. Johnson

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6587-6597 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic filter and sensor based on a subwavelength end-coupled hexagonal resonator

Wenhui Lai, Kunhua Wen, Jiyan Lin, Zicong Guo, Qinyang Hu, and Yihong Fang

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6369-6374 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse propagation in hollow-core fiber at high-pressure regime: application to compression of tens of μJ pulses and determination of nonlinear refractive index of xenon at 1.03  μm: publisher’s note

Shu-Zee Alencious Lo, Lin Wang, and Zhi-Heng Loh

Appl. Opt. 57(22), 6496-6496 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF