Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications 2020: introduction to the feature issue

Marija Strojnik, Mario D’Acunto, and Antoni Rogalski

Appl. Opt. 59(17), AIT1-AIT6 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Constraints and performance trade-offs in Auger-suppressed HgCdTe focal plane arrays

Marco Vallone, Michele Goano, Francesco Bertazzi, Giovanni Ghione, Stefan Hanna, Detlef Eich, Alexander Sieck, and Heinrich Figgemeier

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E1-E8 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of deep learning in quantitative analysis of the infrared spectrum of logging gas

Limei Song, Hao Wu, Yangang Yang, Qinghua Guo, and Jinyi Li

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E9-E16 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Cascaded single-mode fibers for higher-order soliton compression at 2 µm

Fumin Wang and Qian Li

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E17-E22 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of transfer learning of pre-trained CNNs applied to breast cancer detection on infrared images

Esdras Chaves, Caroline B. Gonçalves, Marcelo K. Albertini, Soojeong Lee, Gwanggil Jeon, and Henrique C. Fernandes

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E23-E28 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative inspection of coating thickness by flash-pulse thermography and time-power transformation evaluation

M. Švantner, L. Muzika, and Š. Houdková

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E29-E35 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Molecular identification of bio-fluids in gas phase using infrared spectroscopy

Alexander Apolonski, Susmita Roy, Renée Lampe, and Kiran Sankar Maiti

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E36-E41 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of GaAs and GaSb substrates on detection parameters of InAs/GaSb superlattice-based mid-infrared interband cascade photodetectors

Klaudia Hackiewicz, Małgorzata Kopytko, Jarosław Rutkowski, Piotr Martyniuk, and Łukasz Ciura

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E42-E47 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Visualization of defects in glass through pulsed thermography

Jacopo Melada, Nicola Ludwig, Francesca Micheletti, Jacopo Orsilli, Marco Gargano, Emanuela Grifoni, and Letizia Bonizzoni

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E57-E64 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphene-based multifunctional three-port THz and long-wave infrared components

Victor Dmitriev, Geraldo Melo, and Wagner Castro

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E65-E71 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple shots averaging in laser flash measurement

Giovanni Ferrarini, Alessandro Bortolin, Gianluca Cadelano, Lorenzo Finesso, and Paolo Bison

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E72-E79 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate infrared structured light sensing system for dynamic 3D acquisition

Yuping Ye, Hongguang Chang, Zhan Song, and Juan Zhao

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E80-E88 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Experimental investigation of a time-power transformation method for flash-pulse thermographic testing

L. Muzika, M. Švantner, and D. Moskal

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E89-E96 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Method of calculating porosity based on M44 element images of the Mueller matrix

Junjie Wen, Xiaopeng Li, Zhongbing Huang, and Yuanwen Zou

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E107-E111 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance enhancement due to a top dielectric coating on a metamaterial perfect absorber

Jitendra K. Pradhan, Venu Gopal Achanta, Amit K. Agarwal, and S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E118-E125 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

IR characterization of plant leaves, endemic to semi-tropical regions, in two senescent states

R. C. Barragán, J. Castrellon-Uribe, G. Garcia-Torales, and A. Rodríguez-Rivas

Appl. Opt. 59(17), E126-E133 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental evaluation of the self-shadow and its correction for on-water measurements of water-leaving radiance

Hua Lin, Zhongping Lee, Gong Lin, and Xiaolong Yu

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5325-5334 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Picometer-differential twice-exposed element for three-dimensional measurement with extremely long depth of field

Chao Li, Changhe Zhou, Yunkai Lu, Chaofeng Miao, Junjie Yu, Zhengkun Yin, and Jin Ye

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5234-5239 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Invariant correlated optical fields driven by multiplicative noise

M. Vargas Morales, E. Saldivia Gomez, J. C. Atenco Cuautle, G. Arenas Munoz, A. Garcia Guzman, P. Martinez Vara, and G. Martinez Niconoff

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5343-5347 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon resonance temperature sensor based on a photonic crystal fiber filled with silver nanowires

Tonglei Cheng, Xudong Li, Shuguang Li, Xin Yan, Xuenan Zhang, and Fang Wang

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5108-5113 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Sapphire Fabry–Perot interferometer for high-temperature pressure sensing

Z. Wang, J. Chen, H. Wei, H. Liu, Z. Ma, N. Chen, Z. Chen, T. Wang, and F. Pang

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5189-5196 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Blue-laser-diode–based high CRI lighting and high-speed visible light communication using narrowband green-/red-emitting composite phosphor film

Amjad Ali, Riffat Tehseen, K. M. Mithilesh, Chao Zhang, S. A. Hassnain, Xiao Chen, Xingqi Yang, Faizan Ur Rehman, Wenmin Ge, Ying Ye, and Jing Xu

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5197-5204 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Camera calibration based on the common pole-polar properties between two coplanar circles with various positions

Sixin Liang and Yue Zhao

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5167-5178 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the quality of full-color holographic three-dimensional displays using depth-related multiple wavefront recording planes with uniform active areas

Yan-Ling Piao, Munkh-Uchral Erdenebat, Yu Zhao, KI-Chul Kwon, Mei-Lan Piao, Hoonjong Kang, and Nam Kim

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5179-5188 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Aerial infrared target tracking method based on KCF for frequency-domain scale estimation

Kai Zhang, Gaole Wei, Xi Yang, Shaoyi Li, and Jie Yan

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5086-5097 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Full-polarization wavefront shaping for imaging through scattering media

Runze Li, Tong Peng, Meiling Zhou, Xianghua Yu, Junwei Min, Yanlong Yang, and Baoli Yao

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5131-5135 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiplanar full-field blur correction method for infrared microscopy imaging

Anselmo Jara, Sergio Torres, and Guillermo Machuca

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5142-5150 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Extension of time window into nanoseconds in single-shot ultrafast burst imaging by spectrally sweeping pulses

Hirofumi Nemoto, Takakazu Suzuki, and Fumihiko Kannari

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5210-5215 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Radial-shearing interferometric imaging with Theon-Kepler bifocal telescope

Yaocun Li, Huiya Liu, Jing Xie, and Junyong Zhang

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5265-5268 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-beam potassium Voigt filter for atomic line imaging

Michael W. Kudenov, Brett Pantalone, and Ruonan Yang

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5282-5289 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Variable precision depth encoding for 3D range geometry compression

Matthew G. Finley, Jacob Y. Nishimura, and Tyler Bell

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5290-5299 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Skeleton extraction and inpainting from poor, broken ESPI fringe with an M-net convolutional neural network

Chenxiu Liu, Chen Tang, Min Xu, Fugui Hao, and Zhenkun Lei

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5300-5308 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Flight model characterization of the wide-field off-axis telescope for the MATS satellite

Woojin Park, Arvid Hammar, Soojong Pak, Seunghyuk Chang, Jörg Gumbel, Linda Megner, Ole Martin Christensen, Jordan Rouse, and Dae Wook Kim

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5335-5342 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-shift laser range finder technique based on optical carrier phase modulation

Hongyu He, Jianfeng Sun, Zhiyong Lu, Mengmeng Xu, Chenzhe Lao, Ronglei Han, Xinyu Cai, and Yuexin Li

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5079-5085 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multichannel optomechanical switch and locking system for wavemeters

Moji Ghadimi, Elizabeth M. Bridge, Jordan Scarabel, Steven Connell, Kenji Shimizu, Erik Streed, and Mirko Lobino

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5136-5141 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized shift–rotation absolute measurement method for optical surface shapes with polygonal apertures based on migration recognition by Radon transform

Dong Yang, Zhongming Yang, Jiantai Dou, and Zhaojun Liu

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5158-5166 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Research on a quantitative method for three-dimensional computed tomography of chemiluminescence

Gongxi Zhou, Fei Li, Kuanliang Wang, Xin Lin, and Xilong Yu

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5310-5318 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon nitride waveguide devices based on gradient-index lenses implemented by subwavelength silicon grating metamaterials

S. Hadi Badri and M. M. Gilarlue

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5269-5275 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

640-nm Pr:YLF regenerative amplifier seeded by gain-switched laser diode pulses

Yusaku Hara, Shogo Fujita, Yuta Shioya, and Fumihiko Kannari

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5098-5101 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Trap stiffness modification of an optically trapped microsphere through directed motion of nanoparticles

Shruthi Subhash Iyengar, Praveen P., Sharath Ananthamurthy, and Sarbari Bhattacharya

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5114-5123 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Output characteristics of Pr:YAlO₃ and Pr:YAG lasers pumped by high-power GaN laser diodes

Shogo Fujita, Hiroki Tanaka, and Fumihiko Kannari

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5124-5130 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of laser pulse duration and fluence on DKDP crystal laser conditioning

Zhichao Liu, Feng Geng, Xiangyang Lei, Yaguo Li, Jian Cheng, Yi Zheng, Jian Wang, and Qiao Xu

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5240-5246 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoinduced hole dipoles’ mechanism of liquid crystal photoalignment

A. A. Muravsky, A. A. Murauski, and I. N. Kukhta

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5102-5107 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical method for micrometer-scale tracerless visualization of ultrafast laser induced gas flow at a water/air interface

Dashdeleg Baasanjav, Javier Hernandez-Rueda, Allard P. Mosk, and Dries van Oosten

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5205-5209 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband second-harmonic and sum-frequency generation with a long-wave infrared laser in AgGaGe₅Se₁₂

Yi Chen, Baoquan Yao, Haixin Wu, Youbao Ni, Gaoyou Liu, Tongyu Dai, Xiaoming Duan, and Youlun Ju

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5247-5251 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Explanation of the competition between O- and E-wave induced stimulated Raman and supercontinuum in calcite under ultrafast laser excitation

Shah Faisal B. Mazhar, Henry J. Meyer, Tyler Samuels, Mikhail Sharonov, Lingyan Shi, and Robert R. Alfano

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5252-5257 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring the topological charge of orbital angular momentum radiation in single-shot by means of the wavefront intrinsic curvature

B. Paroli, M. Siano, and M. A. C. Potenza

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5258-5264 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving carrier transport in AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes using a strip-in-a-barrier structure

Ravi Teja Velpula, Barsha Jain, Ha Quoc Thang Bui, Fatemeh Mohammadi Shakiba, Jeffrey Jude, Moses Tumuna, Hoang-Duy Nguyen, Trupti Ranjan Lenka, and Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5276-5281 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of non-common path aberrations in pyramid wavefront sensors to recover the optimal magnitude gain using a deformable lens

M. Quintavalla, M. Bergomi, D. Magrin, S. Bonora, and R. Ragazzoni

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5151-5157 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct estimation of NIR reflection spectra utilizing a snapshot-type spectrometer with photonic crystal multi-spectral filter arrays

Yasuo Ohtera, Nao Ikeda, Tomohisa Takaya, and Kazuma Shinoda

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5216-5225 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental characterization of a mode-separating photonic lantern for imaging applications

Mary Salit, Jeffrey Klein, and Lisa Lust

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5319-5324 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Compressed single-shot hyperspectral imaging for combustion diagnostics

Zichen He, Nathan Williamson, Cary D. Smith, Mark Gragston, and Zhili Zhang

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5226-5233 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

UWB quadruplet signal generation based on a DP–QPSK modulator and a delay-line filter: publisher’s note

Cong Du, Fangming Liu, Xiang Li, Zhenguo Zhang, and Wei Dong

Appl. Opt. 59(17), 5309-5309 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF