Micro-pulse polarization lidar at 1.5  μm using a single superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

Jiawei Qiu, Haiyun Xia, Mingjia Shangguan, Xiankang Dou, Manyi Li, Chong Wang, Xiang Shang, Shengfu Lin, and Jianjiang Liu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4454-4457 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Dipole force free optical control and cooling of nanofiber trapped atoms

Christoffer Østfeldt, Jean-Baptiste S. Béguin, Freja T. Pedersen, Eugene S. Polzik, Jörg H. Müller, and Jürgen Appel

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4315-4318 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlled modulation of depolarization in laser speckle

Abhijit Roy, Rakesh K. Singh, and Maruthi M. Brundavanam

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4343-4346 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Common-path spectral interferometry for single-shot terahertz electro-optics detection

Shuiqin Zheng, Xinjian Pan, Yi Cai, Qinggang Lin, Ying Li, Shixiang Xu, Jingzhen Li, and Dianyuan Fan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4263-4266 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bias-selectable three-color short-, extended-short-, and mid-wavelength infrared photodetectors based on type-II InAs/GaSb/AlSb superlattices

Abbas Haddadi and Manijeh Razeghi

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4275-4278 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid photonic-plasmonic near-field probe for efficient light conversion into the nanoscale hot spot

Alexander Koshelev, Keiko Munechika, and Stefano Cabrini

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4339-4342 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Examining second-harmonic generation of high-order Laguerre–Gaussian modes through a single cylindrical lens

Xinyuan Fang, Zeyu Kuang, Peng Chen, Haocheng Yang, Qian Li, Wei Hu, Yanqing Lu, Yong Zhang, and Min Xiao

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4387-4390 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring thermal load in fiber amplifiers in the presence of transversal mode instabilities

Franz Beier, Marco Plötner, Bettina Sattler, Fabian Stutzki, Till Walbaum, Andreas Liem, Nicoletta Haarlammert, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, and Andreas Tünnermann

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4311-4314 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of elliptical-core mode-selective photonic lanterns with six modes for MIMO-free mode division multiplexing systems

Xiaowei Sai, Yan Li, Chen Yang, Wei Li, Jifang Qiu, Xiaobin Hong, Yong Zuo, Hongxiang Guo, Weijun Tong, and Jian Wu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4355-4358 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic nanoparticle-functionalized exposed-core fiber—an optofluidic refractive index sensing platform

Brenda Doherty, Matthias Thiele, Stephen Warren-Smith, Erik Schartner, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Wolfgang Fritzsche, and Markus A. Schmidt

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4395-4398 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization dynamics in twisted fiber amplifiers: a non-Hermitian nonlinear dimer model

J. D. Huerta Morales, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara, and B. A. Malomed

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4402-4405 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasensitive fiber tilt sensor based on a mobile inscribed microbubble along the arc-shaped inwall of the microcavity

Kunjian Cao, Yi Liu, and Shiliang Qu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4418-4421 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber inline Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on femtosecond laser inscribed waveguides

W. W. Li, W. P. Chen, D. N. Wang, Z. K. Wang, and Ben Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4438-4441 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple-frequency-spaced flat optical comb generation using a multiple-parallel phase modulator

Takahide Sakamoto and Akito Chiba

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4462-4465 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

In-fiber refractive index sensor based on single eccentric hole-assisted dual-core fiber

Jing Yang, Chunying Guan, Peixuan Tian, Tingting Yuan, Zheng Zhu, Ping Li, Jinhui Shi, Jun Yang, and Libo Yuan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4470-4473 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Lumped Rayleigh reflectors

Haniel Gabai, Itai Shpatz, and Avishay Eyal

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4529-4532 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical digital-to-analog converter based on cross-phase modulation with temporal integration

Deming Kong, Zihan Geng, Benjamin Foo, Valery Rozental, Bill Corcoran, and Arthur James Lowery

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4549-4552 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous dual-wavelength off-axis flipping digital holography

Lei Liu, Mingguang Shan, Zhi Zhong, Bin Liu, Gunagyu Luan, Ming Diao, and Yabin Zhang

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4331-4334 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Type-II superlattice-based extended short-wavelength infrared focal plane array with an AlAsSb/GaSb superlattice etch-stop layer to allow near-visible light detection

Romain Chevallier, Arash Dehzangi, Abbas Haddadii, and Manijeh Razeghi

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4299-4302 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual modality reflection mode optical coherence and photoacoustic microscopy using an akinetic sensor

Richard Haindl, Stefan Preisser, Marco Andreana, Wolfgang Rohringer, Caterina Sturtzel, Martin Distel, Zhe Chen, Elisabet Rank, Balthasar Fischer, Wolfgang Drexler, and Mengyang Liu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4319-4322 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Overcoming the acoustic diffraction limit in photoacoustic imaging by the localization of flowing absorbers

Sergey Vilov, Bastien Arnal, and Emmanuel Bossy

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4379-4382 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Morphological-adaptive photoacoustic tomography with flexible transducer and flexible orientation light

Xin Wang, Zhong Ji, Sihua Yang, and Da Xing

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4486-4489 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Photon ensemble correlation spectroscopy enables decorrelation-rate-limited ultrafast measurement of diffusive particle dynamics

Pei Li, Shanshan Yang, Zhihua Ding, and Peng Li

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4525-4528 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength alteration measurement using the Moiré technique

Reza Eyni Chenar, Amin Babazadeh, and Rahman Nouroozi

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4267-4270 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact broadband spectrometer based on upconversion and downconversion luminescence

Tao Yang, Jing-xiao Peng, Xing-ao Li, Xiao Shen, Xin-hui Zhou, Xiao-li Huang, Wei Huang, and Ho-pui Ho

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4375-4378 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical vector network analyzer based on double-sideband modulation

Wen Jun, Ling Wang, Chengwu Yang, Ming Li, Ning Hua Zhu, Jinjin Guo, Liangming Xiong, and Wei Li

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4426-4429 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetically induced transparency in vacuum and buffer gas potassium cells probed via electro-optic frequency combs

D. A. Long, A. J. Fleisher, D. F. Plusquellic, and J. T. Hodges

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4430-4433 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Purified frequency modulation of a quantum cascade laser with an all-optical approach

Chen Peng, Haijun Zhou, Liguo Zhu, Tao Chen, Qiao Liu, Detian Wang, Jiang Li, Qixian Peng, Gang Chen, and Zeren Li

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4506-4509 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced photoluminescence from ring resonators in hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films at telecommunications wavelengths

Ryan J. Patton, Michael G. Wood, and Ronald M. Reano

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4239-4242 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact polarization beam splitter for silicon photonic integrated circuits with a 340-nm-thick silicon core layer

Chenlei Li and Daoxin Dai

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4243-4246 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Directionally induced quasi-phase matching in homogeneous AlGaAs waveguides

N. Morais, I. Roland, M. Ravaro, W. Hease, A. Lemaître, C. Gomez, S. Wabnitz, M. De Rosa, I. Favero, and G. Leo

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4287-4290 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical forces through the effective refractive index

Janderson R. Rodrigues and Vilson R. Almeida

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4371-4374 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-short beam expander with segmented curvature control: the emergence of a semi-lens

Siamak Abbaslou, Robert Gatdula, Ming Lu, Aaron Stein, and Wei Jiang

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4383-4386 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband silicon polarization beam splitter with a high extinction ratio using a triple-bent-waveguide directional coupler

Jun Rong Ong, Thomas Y. L. Ang, Ezgi Sahin, Bryan Pawlina, G. F. R. Chen, D. T. H. Tan, Soon Thor Lim, and Ching Eng Png

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4450-4453 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bound states in the continuum on periodic structures: perturbation theory and robustness

Lijun Yuan and Ya Yan Lu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4490-4493 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient and broadband mid-infrared metamaterial thermal emitter for optical gas sensing

Yongkang Gong, Zuobin Wang, Kang Li, Leshan Uggalla, Jungang Huang, Nigel Copner, Yang Zhou, Dun Qiao, and Jiuyuan Zhu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4537-4540 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact narrow-linewidth integrated laser based on a low-loss silicon nitride ring resonator

Brian Stern, Xingchen Ji, Avik Dutt, and Michal Lipson

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4541-4544 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrow-linewidth microwave generation by an optoelectronic oscillator with a directly modulated microsquare laser

Ming-Long Liao, Yong-Zhen Huang, Hai-Zhong Weng, Jun-Yuan Han, Zhi-Xiong Xiao, Jin-Long Xiao, and Yue-De Yang

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4251-4254 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Relative intensity noise reduction in a dual-state quantum-dot laser by optical feedback

Robert Pawlus, Stefan Breuer, and Martin Virte

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4259-4262 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Transition-metal dichalcogenides heterostructure saturable absorbers for ultrafast photonics

Hao Chen, Jinde Yin, Jingwei Yang, Xuejun Zhang, Mengli Liu, Zike Jiang, Jinzhang Wang, Zhipei Sun, Tuan Guo, Wenjun Liu, and Peiguang Yan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4279-4282 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Sodium guide star laser pulsed at Larmor frequency

Xuezong Yang, Lei Zhang, Shuzhen Cui, Tingwei Fan, Jinyan Dong, and Yan Feng

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4351-4354 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse-to-pulse wavelength switching of a nanosecond fiber laser by four-wave mixing seeded stimulated Raman amplification

Matthias Eibl, Sebastian Karpf, Hubertus Hakert, Torben Blömker, Jan Philip Kolb, Christian Jirauschek, and Robert Huber

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4406-4409 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent combination of ultrashort pulse beams using two diffractive optics

Tong Zhou, Tyler Sano, and Russell Wilcox

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4422-4425 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nano-ablation of silica by plasmonic surface wave at low fluence

Lei Wang, Xiao-Wen Cao, Muhammad Irfan Abid, Qian-Kun Li, Wen-Jing Tian, Qi-Dai Chen, Saulius Juodkazis, and Hong-Bo Sun

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4446-4449 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Switchable generation of rectangular noise-like pulse and dissipative soliton resonance in a fiber laser

Zhuo-Shuang Deng, Guan-Kai Zhao, Jia-Qi Yuan, Jin-Ping Lin, Hong-Jie Chen, Hong-Zhan Liu, Ai-Ping Luo, Hu Cui, Zhi-Chao Luo, and Wen-Cheng Xu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4517-4520 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Watt-level single-frequency tunable neodymium MOPA fiber laser operating at 915–937  nm

S. Rota-Rodrigo, B. Gouhier, M. Laroche, J. Zhao, B. Canuel, A. Bertoldi, P. Bouyer, N. Traynor, B. Cadier, T. Robin, and G. Santarelli

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4557-4560 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Growth, spectroscopy, and laser characterization of Er:KGd_xYb_yY_1−x−y(WO₄)₂ epitaxial layers

Sergey Kurilchik, Olga Dernovich, Konstantin Gorbachenya, Viktor Kisel, Irina Kolesova, Andrey Kravtsov, Sergey Guretsky, and Nikolay Kuleshov

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4565-4568 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-matching properties of LiGaS₂ in the 1.025–10.5910  μm spectral range

Kiyoshi Kato, Kentaro Miyata, Ludmila Isaenko, Sergei Lobanov, Vitaliy Vedenyapin, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4363-4366 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Physical mechanism of order between electric and magnetic dipoles in spoof plasmonic structures

Hong-Wei Wu, Yi-Zeng Han, Hua-Jun Chen, Yu Zhou, Xue-Chao Li, Juan Gao, and Zong-Qiang Sheng

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4521-4524 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bi-hyperbolic isofrequency surface in a magnetic-semiconductor superlattice

Vladimir R. Tuz, Illia V. Fedorin, and Volodymyr I. Fesenko

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4561-4564 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-contrast wide-field evanescent wave illuminated subdiffraction imaging

Chenlei Pang, Xiaowei Liu, Minghua Zhuge, Xu Liu, Michael Geoffrey Somekh, Yiying Zhao, Di Jin, Weidong Shen, Haifeng Li, Lan Wu, Changhua Wang, Cuifang Kuang, and Qing Yang

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4569-4572 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free brainwide visualization of senile plaque using cryo-micro-optical sectioning tomography

Yilin Luo, Anle Wang, Mengmeng Liu, Tian Lei, Xiaochuan Zhang, Zhaobing Gao, Hualiang Jiang, Hui Gong, and Jing Yuan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4247-4250 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Superresolution 4π Raman microscopy

Alejandro Diaz Tormo, Dmitry Khalenkow, Kumar Saurav, Andre G. Skirtach, and Nicolas Le Thomas

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4410-4413 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multichannel phase-sensitive amplification in a low-loss CMOS-compatible spiral waveguide

Yanbing Zhang, Christian Reimer, Jenny Wu, Piotr Roztocki, Benjamin Wetzel, Brent E. Little, Sai T. Chu, David J. Moss, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Michael Kues, and Roberto Morandotti

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4391-4394 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable 30  fs light pulses at 1  W power level from a Yb-pumped optical parametric oscillator

Nicola Coluccelli, Daniele Viola, Vikas Kumar, Antonio Perri, Marco Marangoni, Giulio Cerullo, and Dario Polli

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4545-4548 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmissive terahertz metalens with full phase control based on a dielectric metasurface

Delin Jia, Yuan Tian, Wei Ma, Xiaofeng Gong, Jiayi Yu, Guozhong Zhao, and Xiaomei Yu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4494-4497 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Orbital angular momentum beam excitation using an all-fiber weakly fused mode selective coupler

S. Pidishety, S. Pachava, P. Gregg, S. Ramachandran, G. Brambilla, and B. Srinivasan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4347-4350 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Polycrystalline (Tb_XY_1-X)₂O₃ Faraday rotator

Akio Ikesue, Yan Lin Aung, Shinji Makikawa, and Akira Yahagi

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4399-4401 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Critical phenomenon in tapered dielectric structures

Adi Hanuka and Levi Schächter

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4458-4461 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

UVA light-emitting diode grown on Si substrate with enhanced electron and hole injections

Zi-Hui Zhang, Chunshuang Chu, Ching Hsueh Chiu, Tien Chang Lu, Luping Li, Yonghui Zhang, Kangkai Tian, Mengqian Fang, Qian Sun, Hao-Chung Kuo, and Wengang Bi

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4533-4536 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable switching between stable and periodic states in a semiconductor laser with feedback

Jia-Xin Dong, Jun-Ping Zhuang, and Sze-Chun Chan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4291-4294 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Precursor propagation in inhomogeneous broadened media: experimental and numerical simulation

Federico Tommasi, Emilio Ignesti, Lorenzo Fini, and Stefano Cavalieri

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4498-4501 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared persistent luminescence of Yb³⁺ in perovskite phosphor

Zehua Zou, Chen Wu, Xiaodong Li, Jiachi Zhang, Huihui Li, Deyin Wang, and Yuhua Wang

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4510-4512 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Asymmetric light diffraction of an atomic grating with PT symmetry

Yi-Mou Liu, Feng Gao, Chu-Hui Fan, and Jin-Hui Wu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4283-4286 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Inversion of a two-level atom by quantum superoscillations

I. V. Doronin, A. A. Pukhov, E. S. Andrianov, A. P. Vinogradov, and A. A. Lisyansky

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4303-4306 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical memory based on quantized atomic center-of-mass motion

J. P. Lopez, A. J. F. de Almeida, D. Felinto, and J. W. R. Tabosa

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4474-4477 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of stably bright squeezed light with the quantum noise reduction of 12.6  dB by mutually compensating the phase fluctuations

Wenhai Yang, Shaoping Shi, Yajun Wang, Weiguang Ma, Yaohui Zheng, and Kunchi Peng

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4553-4556 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

SBS-enhanced FWM for polarization division multiplexed signals in coherent communication systems

Chaoran Huang, Ning Zhang, and Chester Shu

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4271-4274 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Asymmetry parameter for anomalous scattering of light in nanostructured glasses

Michael P. Shepilov

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4513-4516 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

On the importance of electron impact processes in excimer-pumped alkali laser-induced plasmas

Aram H. Markosyan

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4295-4298 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-cost 3D printed 1  nm resolution smartphone sensor-based spectrometer: instrument design and application in ultraviolet spectroscopy

Thomas C. Wilkes, Andrew J. S. McGonigle, Jon R. Willmott, Tom D. Pering, and Joseph M. Cook

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4323-4326 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid-scan Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy with heterodyne detection

Kotaro Hiramatsu, Yizhi Luo, Takuro Ideguchi, and Keisuke Goda

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4335-4338 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Strongly enhanced molecular fluorescence with ultra-thin optical magnetic mirror metasurfaces

Jian Qin, Ding Zhao, Si Luo, Wei Wang, Jun Lu, Min Qiu, and Qiang Li

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4478-4481 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable optical properties of amorphous Tantala layers in a quantizing structure

Thomas Willemsen, Marco Jupé, Laurent Gallais, Dominic Tetzlaff, and Detlev Ristau

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4502-4505 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot ultrafast laser processing of high-aspect-ratio nanochannels using elliptical Bessel beams

R. Meyer, M. Jacquot, R. Giust, J. Safioui, L. Rapp, L. Furfaro, P.-A. Lacourt, J. M. Dudley, and F. Courvoisier

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4307-4310 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-locked multi-terahertz electric fields exceeding 13  MV/cm at a 190  kHz repetition rate

Matthias Knorr, Jürgen Raab, Maximilian Tauer, Philipp Merkl, Dominik Peller, Emanuel Wittmann, Eberhard Riedle, Christoph Lange, and Rupert Huber

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4367-4370 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot optical recorder with sub-picosecond resolution and scalable record length on a semiconductor wafer

R. Muir and J. Heebner

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4414-4417 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent, directional supercontinuum generation

Yoshitomo Okawachi, Mengjie Yu, Jaime Cardenas, Xingchen Ji, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4466-4469 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable kinoform x-ray beam splitter

M. Lebugle, G. Seniutinas, F. Marschall, V. A. Guzenko, D. Grolimund, and C. David

Opt. Lett. 42(21), 4327-4330 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF