Light, Energy and the Environment, 2018: introduction to the joint feature issue

Adam J. Fleisher, Peter Bermel, Frans J. Harren, Akihiko Kuze, and Qihua Xiong

Appl. Opt. 58(15), LEE1-LEE3 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Solar energy-actuated back and forth optical mechanism

Lihui Wang, Hongjin Xu, and Masatoshi Ishikawa

Appl. Opt. 58(15), E7-E11 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Technical aspects for counting and timing photons with a digital oscilloscope

Jorge Arturo Rojas-Santana and Dorilian Lopez-Mago

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4047-4051 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a subwavelength all-metal grating for generating azimuthally polarized beams based on modified particle swarm optimization

Chunlin Zhu, Qingbin Jiao, Xin Tan, Wei Wang, and Bayanheshig

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4052-4058 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid crystal-optical phased arrays (LC-OPA)-based optical beam steering with microradian resolution enabled by double gratings

Siyi Qin, Chen Liu, Jinyao Wang, Kexin Chen, Jingquan Xu, Songnian Fu, Deming Liu, and Yanli Ran

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4091-4098 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Cost-effective mid-infrared micropolarizer fabricated on common silicon by soft nanoimprint lithography

Xiangwei Zeng, Jinkui Chu, Weidong Kang, Qinming Wu, and Ran Zhan

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4139-4142 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on auto bias control of a silicon optical modulator in a four-level pulse amplitude modulation format

Honggang Chen, Bo Zhang, Weidong Ma, Yi Hu, Xi Xiao, Xuerui Liang, Leilei Hu, Feng Li, and Lan Ding

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 3986-3994 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature with high sensitivity based on a multipath fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Yajun Jiang, Tao Wang, Chi Liu, Dingyi Feng, Biqiang Jiang, Dexing Yang, and Jianlin Zhao

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4085-4090 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering in few-mode fibers

Weicheng Chen, Guijun Hu, Feng Liu, Feng Wang, Congcong Song, Xueqing Li, and Yong Yu

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4105-4110 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental studies on the sensitivity of the propagating and localized surface plasmon resonance-based tapered fiber optic refractive index sensors

Vivek Semwal and Banshi D. Gupta

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4149-4156 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Paraxial design of a four-component zoom lens with zero separation of principal planes and fixed position of an image focal point composed of members with constant focal length

Antonín Mikš and Pavel Novák

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 3957-3961 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Image processing for GEO object with 3D rotation based on ground-based InISAL with orthogonal baselines

Xuan Hu, Daojing Li, and Jianbo Du

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 3974-3985 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

In-line wavefront aberration adjustment of a projection lens for a lithographic tool using the dominant mode method

Zhiyong Yang, Xiuguo Chen, Hao Jiang, and Shiyuan Liu

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4176-4184 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital image correlation with reduced bias error based on digital signal upsampling theory

Wei Heng, Buwei Huo, Xinxing Shao, and Xiaoyuan He

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 3962-3973 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

3D push–pull heterodyne interferometer for SPM metrology

T. V. Kazieva, K. L. Gubskiy, A. P. Kuznetsov, and V. N. Reshetov

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4000-4006 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast estimation of optical properties of pear using a single snapshot technique combined with a least-squares support vector regression model based on spatial frequency domain imaging

Xueming He, Tingwei Li, Xiaping Fu, Xu Jiang, Yingwang Gao, and Xiuqin Rao

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4075-4084 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase measurement of nonuniform phase-shifted interferograms using the frequency transfer function

Ivan Choque, Manuel Servin, Moises Padilla, Miguel Asmad, and Sotero Ordones

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4157-4162 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power supercontinuum generation by noise-like pulse amplification in Yb-doped fiber amplifier operating in a nonlinear regime

E. Aghayari and K. Jamshidi Ghaleh

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4020-4024 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Tungsten-disulphide-based heterojunction photodetector

Harith Ahmad, Haroon Rashid, Mohammad Faizal Ismail, and Kavintheran Thambiratnam

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4014-4019 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermally stable lead-free phosphor in glass enhancement performance of light emitting diodes application

Liang Yang, Qin Zhang, Feng Li, An Xie, Long Mao, and Jidong Ma

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4099-4104 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Microdeformation of RBCs under oxidative stress measured by digital holographic microscopy and optical tweezers

Jiaqi Liu, Lianqing Zhu, Fan Zhang, Mingli Dong, and Xinghua Qu

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4042-4046 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of mid-infrared ZnGeP₂ rectangle ring optical parametric oscillators of three types of resonant regimes

Yi Chen, Gaoyou Liu, Baoquan Yao, Ruixue Wang, Chao Yang, Xiaoming Duan, Tongyu Dai, and Yuezhu Wang

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4163-4169 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-angle-view monocular camera using a polarization image sensor

Hiroshi Ohno

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4036-4041 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical design of the High Resolution Imaging Channel of SIMBIO-SYS

Michele Zusi, Riccardo Paolinetti, Vincenzo Della Corte, Gabriella Marra, Marco Baroni, Pasquale Palumbo, and Gabriele Cremonese

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4059-4069 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a transmissive optical system of a laser metal deposition three-dimensional printer with metal powder

Hiroshi Ohno, Yasutomo Shiomi, Satoshi Tsuno, and Mitsuo Sasaki

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4127-4138 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz beam focusing through designed oblique metal-slit array

Takehito Suzuki, Masashi Sekiya, and Hideaki Kitahara

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4007-4013 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple target information fusion matching algorithm based on a line laser and a single plane array camera

Hanshan Li, Xiaoqian Zhang, and Wang Miao

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4025-4035 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact polarization splitter based on a silicon angled multimode interferometer structure

Haibo Liang, Richard Soref, and Jianwei Mu

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4070-4074 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient optoelectronic reservoir computing with three-route input based on optical delay lines

Xiurong Bao, Qingchun Zhao, and Hongxi Yin

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4111-4117 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Off-resonant photoacoustic spectroscopy for analysis of multicomponent gas mixtures at high concentrations using broadband vibrational overtones of individual gas species

Ramya Selvaraj, Nilesh J. Vasa, and S. M. Shiva Nagendra

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4118-4126 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Geometrically invariant watermarking for medical images based on digital holography and three-level DWT-SVD

Weixia Chen, Jihua Gu, Qin Li, Xiaoyan Tang, and Daqing Chen

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4185-4191 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

P₃ solution for the total steady-state and time-resolved reflectance and transmittance from a turbid slab

André Liemert, Fabrizio Martelli, Tiziano Binzoni, and Alwin Kienle

Appl. Opt. 58(15), 4143-4148 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF