A simple approach for estimating the refractive index structure parameter (Cn2) profile in the atmosphere

Sukanta Basu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4130-4133 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot speckle reduction in numerical reconstruction of digitally recorded holograms: comment

Jonathan Maycock, Bryan Hennelly, and John McDonald

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3953-3953 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-independent nonuniform grating couplers on silicon-on-insulator

Jeong Hwan Song, Fuad E. Doany, Ashenafi K. Medhin, Nicolas Dupuis, Benjamin G. Lee, and Frank R. Libsch

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3941-3944 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Creating order with the help of randomness: generating transversely random, longitudinally invariant vector optical fields

Svetlana N. Khonina and Ilya Golub

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4070-4073 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-color control and inhibition of direct laser writing in silver-containing phosphate glasses

Yannick Petit, Konstantin Mishchik, Nadezda Varkentina, Nicolas Marquestaut, Arnaud Royon, Inka Manek-Hönninger, Thierry Cardinal, and Lionel Canioni

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4134-4137 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Air-structured optical fiber drawn from a 3D-printed preform

Kevin Cook, John Canning, Sergio Leon-Saval, Zane Reid, Md Arafat Hossain, Jade-Edouard Comatti, Yanhua Luo, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3966-3969 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of the sensitivity of a temperature sensor based on fiber Bragg gratings via weak value amplification

L. J. Salazar-Serrano, D. Barrera, W. Amaya, S. Sales, V. Pruneri, J. Capmany, and J. P. Torres

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3962-3965 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-DMD few-mode fiber with distributed long-period grating

Jian Fang, An Li, and William Shieh

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3937-3940 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphene-coated tilted fiber-Bragg grating for enhanced sensing in low-refractive-index region

Biqiang Jiang, Xin Lu, Xuetao Gan, Mei Qi, Yadong Wang, Lei Han, Dong Mao, Wending Zhang, Zhaoyu Ren, and Jianlin Zhao

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3994-3997 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Flexible generation/conversion/exchange of fiber-guided orbital angular momentum modes using helical gratings

Liang Fang and Jian Wang

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4010-4013 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-peak-to-average power ratio and low-complexity asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing uplink transmission scheme for long-reach passive optical network

Ji Zhou and Yaojun Qiao

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4034-4037 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing the sensitivity of poly(methyl methacrylate) based optical fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors

Wei Zhang, David J. Webb, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4046-4049 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Widely tunable mid-infrared fiber laser source based on soliton self-frequency shift in microstructured tellurite fiber

M. Yu. Koptev, E. A. Anashkina, A. V. Andrianov, V. V. Dorofeev, A. F. Kosolapov, S. V. Muravyev, and A. V Kim

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4094-4097 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High power, compact, picosecond MOPA based on single trench fiber with single polarized diffraction-limited output

D. Jain, S. Alam, C. Codemard, Y. Jung, M. N. Zervas, and J. K. Sahu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4150-4153 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High sensitivity refractive index sensor based on a tapered small core single-mode fiber structure

Dejun Liu, Arun Kumar Mallik, Jinhui Yuan, Chongxiu Yu, Gerald Farrell, Yuliya Semenova, and Qiang Wu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4166-4169 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Composite modified Luneburg model of human eye lens

J. E. Gómez-Correa, S. E. Balderas-Mata, B. K. Pierscionek, and S. Chávez-Cerda

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3990-3993 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral-temporal compressive imaging

Tsung-Han Tsai, Patrick Llull, Xin Yuan, Lawrence Carin, and David J. Brady

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4054-4057 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Defocus noise suppression with combined frame difference and connected component methods in optical scanning holography

Haiyan Ou, Huiyu Pan, Edmund Y. Lam, and Bing-Zhong Wang

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4146-4149 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of a dual Fabry–Perot cavity refractometer

Patrick F. Egan, Jack A. Stone, Jay H. Hendricks, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace, and Gregory F. Strouse

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3945-3948 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-grating Talbot bands spectral-domain interferometer

Manuel J. Marques, Adrian Bradu, and Adrian Podoleanu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4014-4017 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Pressure measurements using hybrid femtosecond/picosecond rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Sean P. Kearney and Paul M. Danehy

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4082-4085 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Facet-rotated echelle grating for cyclic wavelength router with uniform loss and flat passband

Ge Mu, Pingli Huang, Lin Wu, and Jian-Jun He

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3978-3981 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin-film filter, wavelength-locked, multi-laser cavity for dense wavelength beam combining of broad-area laser diode bars

M. Haas, A. Killi, C. Tillkorn, S. Ried, M. Ginter, and H. Zimer

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3949-3952 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode selection in InAs quantum dot microdisk lasers using focused ion beam technique

A. A. Bogdanov, I. S. Mukhin, N. V. Kryzhanovskaya, M. V. Maximov, Z. F. Sadrieva, M. M. Kulagina, Yu. M. Zadiranov, A. A. Lipovskii, E. I. Moiseev, Yu. V. Kudashova, and A. E. Zhukov

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4022-4025 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Evanescent wave optical binding forces on spherical microparticles

Xiang Han and Philip H. Jones

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4042-4045 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Linearly polarized random fiber laser with ultimate efficiency

E. A. Zlobina, S. I. Kablukov, and S. A. Babin

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4074-4077 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration-free 2f WMS with in situ real-time laser characterization and 2f RAM nulling

Abhishek Upadhyay and Arup Lal Chakraborty

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4086-4089 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended tunability of Nd-doped fiber lasers operating at 872–936  nm

B. Leconte, B. Cadier, H. Gilles, S. Girard, T. Robin, and M. Laroche

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4098-4101 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphene mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser at 850  nm

Ferda Canbaz, Nurbek Kakenov, Coskun Kocabas, Umit Demirbas, and Alphan Sennaroglu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4110-4113 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-broad gain quantum cascade lasers tunable from 6.5 to 10.4  μm

Feng Xie, C. Caneau, H. Leblanc, M.-T. Ho, and C. Zah

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4158-4161 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable type II intracavity difference frequency generation at 5.4  μm in a two chip vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

Michal Lukowski, Chris Hessenius, Robert Bedford, and Mahmoud Fallahi

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4174-4177 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Degree of polarization (uniformity) and depolarization index: unambiguous depolarization contrast for optical coherence tomography

Norman Lippok, Martin Villiger, and Brett E. Bouma

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3954-3957 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct reconstruction method for time-domain fluorescence molecular lifetime tomography

Chuangjian Cai, Lin Zhang, Jiulou Zhang, Jing Bai, and Jianwen Luo

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4038-4041 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of dyes to increase phase contrast for biological holographic microscopy

Jay L. Nadeau, Yong Bin Cho, and Christian A. Lindensmith

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4114-4117 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (5)]

Nonlinear Raman–Nath diffraction of femtosecond laser pulses in a 2D nonlinear photonic crystal

A. M. Vyunishev, V. G. Arkhipkin, V. V. Slabko, I. S. Baturin, A. R. Akhmatkhanov, V. Ya. Shur, and A. S. Chirkin

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4002-4005 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Triply resonant coherent four-wave mixing in silicon nitride microresonators

Attila Fülöp, Clemens J. Krückel, David Castelló-Lurbe, Enrique Silvestre, and Victor Torres-Company

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4006-4009 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Strong Raman-induced noninstantaneous soliton interactions in gas-filled photonic crystal fibers

Mohammed F. Saleh, Andrea Armaroli, Andrea Marini, and Fabio Biancalana

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4058-4061 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

110  nm versatile fiber optical parametric amplifier at 1.0  μm

Xiaoming Wei, Sisi Tan, Arnaud Mussot, Alexandre Kudlinski, Kevin K. Tsia, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4090-4093 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dark solitons in dual-core waveguides with dispersive coupling

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Boris A. Malomed

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4126-4129 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical nonlinearities in high-confinement silicon carbide waveguides

Jaime Cardenas, Mengjie Yu, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Carl B. Poitras, Ryan K. W. Lau, Avik Dutt, Alexander L. Gaeta, and Michal Lipson

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4138-4141 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared 333  MHz frequency comb continuously tunable from 1.95 to 4.0  μm

Karolis Balskus, Zhaowei Zhang, Richard A. McCracken, and Derryck T. Reid

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4178-4181 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-level integration of three-dimensional microcoils array in fused silica

Chao Shan, Feng Chen, Qing Yang, Yanyang Li, Hao Bian, Jiale Yong, and Xun Hou

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4050-4053 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

On-chip silicon waveguide Bragg grating photonic temperature sensor

Nikolai N. Klimov, Sunil Mittal, Michaela Berger, and Zeeshan Ahmed

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3934-3936 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz radiation from high-order guided mode excited by a train of electron bunches

Weihao Liu

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3974-3977 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser pulse shaping at megahertz rate via a digital micromirror device

Chenglin Gu, Yina Chang, Dapeng Zhang, Jiyi Cheng, and Shih-Chi Chen

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4018-4021 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

On-chip integrated differential optical microring refractive index sensing platform based on a laminar flow scheme

Dongwan Kim, Paula Popescu, Mark Harfouche, Jacob Sendowski, Maria-Eleni Dimotsantou, Richard C. Flagan, and Amnon Yariv

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4106-4109 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic random nanostructures on fiber tip for trapping live cells and colloidal particles

Jiajie Chen, Zhiwen Kang, Siu Kai Kong, and Ho-Pui Ho

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3926-3929 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotation of large asymmetrical absorbing objects by Laguerre–Gauss beams

Catherine M. Herne, Kristina M. Capuzzi, Emily Sobel, and Ryan T. Kropas

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4026-4029 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated remotely tunable optical delay line for millimeter-wave beam steering fabricated in an InP generic foundry

Z. Cao, N. Tessema, S. Latkowski, X. Zhao, Z. Chen, V. Moskalenko, K. A. Williams, H. P. A. van der Boom, E. Tangdiongga, and A. M. J. Koonen

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3930-3933 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency analysis for an extended photoacoustic transport model

V. M. Moock, B. Reyes-Ramírez, C. García-Segundo, A. García-Valenzuela, F. Arámbula-Cosio, and E. Garduño

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4030-4033 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Diameter measurement of optical nanofibers using a composite photonic crystal cavity

Jameesh Keloth, Mark Sadgrove, Ramachandrarao Yalla, and Kohzo Hakuta

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4122-4125 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics of laser-induced radial birefringence in silver-doped glasses

Ali Akbar Ahangary, Frédéric Bouchard, Enrico Santamato, Ebrahim Karimi, and Hamid Reza Khalesifard

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4062-4065 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Mid-infrared multi-mode absorption spectroscopy using interband cascade lasers for multi-species sensing

J. H. Northern, S. O’Hagan, B. Fletcher, B. Gras, P. Ewart, C. S. Kim, M. Kim, C. D. Merritt, W. W. Bewley, C. L. Canedy, J. Abell, I. Vurgaftman, and J. R. Meyer

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4186-4189 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable narrowband microwave photonic filter created by stimulated Brillouin scattering from a silicon nanowire

Alvaro Casas-Bedoya, Blair Morrison, Mattia Pagani, David Marpaung, and Benjamin J. Eggleton

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4154-4157 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Topological effects in anisotropy-induced nano-fano resonance of a cylinder

Dongliang Gao, Lei Gao, Andrey Novitsky, Hongli Chen, and Boris Luk’yanchuk

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4162-4165 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Random bit generation at tunable rates using a chaotic semiconductor laser under distributed feedback

Xiao-Zhou Li, Song-Sui Li, Jun-Ping Zhuang, and Sze-Chun Chan

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3970-3973 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband telecom to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a dispersion-engineered silicon germanium waveguide

Mohamed A. Ettabib, Lin Xu, Adonis Bogris, Alexandros Kapsalis, Mohammad Belal, Emerick Lorent, Pierre Labeye, Sergio Nicoletti, Kamal Hammani, Dimitris Syvridis, David P. Shepherd, Jonathan H. V. Price, David J. Richardson, and Periklis Petropoulos

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4118-4121 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon excitation at near-infrared wavelengths in polymer optical fibers

Xuehao Hu, Patrice Mégret, and Christophe Caucheteur

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3998-4001 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband interferometric characterization of divergence and spatial chirp

Amanda K. Meier, Marin Iliev, Jeff A. Squier, and Charles G. Durfee

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4066-4069 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Modulated coupled nanowires for ultrashort pulses

Alexander S. Solntsev and Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4078-4081 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid measurement of individual cone photoreceptor pointing using focus diversity

Hugh J. Morris, Johanan L. Codona, Leonardo Blanco, and Nathan Doble

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3982-3985 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Control of lateral thickness gradients of Mo–Si multilayer on curved substrates using genetic algorithm

Bo Yu, Chunshui Jin, Shun Yao, Chun Li, Hui Wang, Feng Zhou, Benyin Guo, Yao Xie, Yu Liu, and Liping Wang

Opt. Lett. 40(17), 3958-3961 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF