Controllable photonic crystal with periodic Raman gain in a coherent atomic medium

Zhaoyang Zhang, Jingliang Feng, Xing Liu, Jiteng Sheng, Yiqi Zhang, Yanpeng Zhang, and Min Xiao

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 919-922 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic hook: a new curved light beam

Liyang Yue, Oleg V. Minin, Zengbo Wang, James N. Monks, Alexander S. Shalin, and Igor V. Minin

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 771-774 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Reducing Rowland ghosts in diffraction gratings by dynamic exposure near-field holography

Dakui Lin, Huoyao Chen, Zhengkun Liu, Kay Dietrich, Stefanie Kroker, Thomas Kaesebier, Ying Liu, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, and Yilin Hong

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 811-814 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the topological charge and index of vortex vector optical fields with a space-variant half-wave plate

Gui-Geng Liu, Ke Wang, Yun-Han Lee, Dan Wang, Ping-Ping Li, Fangwang Gou, Yongnan Li, Chenghou Tu, Shin-Tson Wu, and Hui-Tian Wang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 823-826 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of a thermo-optic phase shifter by utilizing high-Q resonance in high-index-contrast grating

Jiaxin Lv, Xuefan Yin, Jicheng Jin, Haiyang Zhang, Che Zhao, Chao Peng, and Weiwei Hu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 827-830 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Subwavelength-grating contradirectional couplers for large stopband filters

Dominique Charron, Jonathan St-Yves, Omid Jafari, Sophie LaRochelle, and Wei Shi

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 895-898 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity statistics in a long random fiber Raman laser

L. L. Ogorodnikov and S. S. Vergeles

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 651-654 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Few-period helically twisted all-solid photonic bandgap fibers

Jie Li, Pengcheng Fan, Li-Peng Sun, Chuang Wu, and Bai-Ou Guan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 655-658 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Bioresorbable optical fiber Bragg gratings

Diego Pugliese, Maria Konstantaki, Ioannis Konidakis, Edoardo Ceci-Ginistrelli, Nadia G. Boetti, Daniel Milanese, and Stavros Pissadakis

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 671-674 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasensitive measurement of gas refractive index using an optical nanofiber coupler

Kaiwei Li, Nan Zhang, Nancy Meng Ying Zhang, Guigen Liu, Ting Zhang, and Lei Wei

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 679-682 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

40 Gb/s indoor optical wireless system enabled by a cyclically arranged optical beamsteering receiver

Xuebing Zhang, Yu Liu, Zizheng Cao, Fan Li, Zhaohui Li, R. Ismaeel, G. Brambilla, Y. Chen, and A. M. J. Koonen

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 723-726 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical spectral sweep comb liquid flow rate sensor

Changyu Shen, Xiaokang Lian, Vishnu Kavungal, Chuan Zhong, Dejun Liu, Yuliya Semenova, Gerald Farrell, Jacques Albert, and John F. Donegan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 751-754 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Evanescent field refractometry in planar optical fiber

Christopher Holmes, Alexander Jantzen, Alan C. Gray, Paul C. Gow, Lewis G. Carpenter, Rex H. S. Bannerman, James C. Gates, and Peter G. R. Smith

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 791-794 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Effective suppression of residual coherent phase error in a dual-polarization fiber optic gyroscope

Rongya Luo, Yulin Li, Sheng Deng, Chao Peng, and Zhengbin Li

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 815-818 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiation hardness of Ce-doped sol-gel silica fibers for high energy physics applications

Francesca Cova, Federico Moretti, Mauro Fasoli, Norberto Chiodini, Kristof Pauwels, Etiennette Auffray, Marco Toliman Lucchini, Stefania Baccaro, Alessia Cemmi, Hana Bártová, and Anna Vedda

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 903-906 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Power scalable 10 W 976 nm single-frequency linearly polarized laser source

Jingwei Wu, Xiushan Zhu, Hua Wei, Kort Wiersma, Michael Li, Jie Zong, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, Valery Temyanko, L. J. LaComb, R. A. Norwood, and N. Peyghambarian

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 951-954 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Large-area rainbow holographic diffraction gratings on a curved surface using transferred photopolymer films

Wen-gao Lu, Ru Xiao, Juan Liu, Lei Wang, Haizheng Zhong, and Yongtian Wang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 675-678 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized random phase only holograms

Alejandro Velez Zea, John Fredy Barrera Ramirez, and Roberto Torroba

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 731-734 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength digital holographic phase and fluorescence microscopy for an optical thickness encoded suspension array

Zhiyuan Shen, Yonghong He, Gong Zhang, Qinghua He, Dongmei Li, and Yanhong Ji

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 739-742 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase conjugate digital inline holography (PCDIH)

Daniel R. Guildenbecher, Kathryn N. Gabet Hoffmeister, W. Marley Kunzler, Daniel R. Richardson, and Sean P. Kearney

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 803-806 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution multiphoton microscopy with a low-power continuous wave laser pump

Xiang-Dong Chen, Shen Li, Bo Du, Yang Dong, Ze-Hao Wang, Guang-Can Guo, and Fang-Wen Sun

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 699-702 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-order super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging based on low-pass denoising

Limin Zou, Su Zhang, Baokai Wang, and Jiubin Tan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 707-710 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative imaging of anisotropic material properties with vectorial ptychography

Patrick Ferrand, Arthur Baroni, Marc Allain, and Virginie Chamard

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 763-766 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional inverse synthetic aperture lidar imaging for long-range spinning targets

Di Mo, Ran Wang, Ning Wang, Tian Lv, Ke-Shu Zhang, and Yi-Rong Wu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 839-842 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-distance diffuse optical spectroscopy with a single optode via hypotrochoidal scanning

Matthew B. Applegate and Darren Roblyer

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 747-750 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Long-distance thermal temporal ghost imaging over optical fibers

Xin Yao, Wei Zhang, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, and Yidong Huang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 759-762 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrahigh-resolution and wideband optical vector analysis for arbitrary responses

Shifeng Liu, Min Xue, Jianbin Fu, Lugang Wu, and Shilong Pan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 727-730 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitive measurement of stress birefringence of fused silica substrates with cavity ring-down technique

Shilei Xiao, Bincheng Li, Hao Cui, and Jing Wang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 843-846 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission out-of-plane interferometer to study thermal distributions in liquids

Manuel H. De la Torre I., Fernando Mendoza Santoyo, and M. del Socorro Hernandez-M.

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 871-874 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Group refractive index quantification using a Fourier domain short coherence Sagnac interferometer

Risto Montonen, Ivan Kassamakov, Peter Lehmann, Kenneth Österberg, and Edward Hæggström

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 887-890 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-performance on-chip autocorrelator using a rib waveguide loaded with two-photon absorption diodes

Keisuke Kondo and Toshihiko Baba

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 719-722 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Suspended silicon waveguides for long-wave infrared wavelengths

J. Soler Penadés, A. Sánchez-Postigo, M. Nedeljkovic, A. Ortega-Moñux, J. G. Wangüemert-Pérez, Y. Xu, R. Halir, Z. Qu, A. Z. Khokhar, A. Osman, W. Cao, C. G. Littlejohns, P. Cheben, I. Molina-Fernández, and G. Z. Mashanovich

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 795-798 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode ultraviolet whispering gallery mode lasing from a floating GaN microdisk

Gangyi Zhu, Jiaping Li, Jitao Li, Jiyuan Guo, Jun Dai, Chunxiang Xu, and Yongjin Wang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 647-650 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Intense broadband mid-infrared pulses of 280 MV/cm for supercontinuum generation in gaseous medium

Ya Bai, Changjie Cheng, Xiaolu Li, Peng Liu, Ru-Xin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 667-670 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamically stable Nd:YAG resonators with beam quality beyond the birefringence limit and pumping of a singly resonant optical parametric oscillator

Allan Bereczki, Márcio André Prieto Aparício Lopez, and Niklaus Ursus Wetter

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 695-698 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

250 W clad pumped Raman all-fiber laser with brightness enhancement

Yariv Shamir, Yaakov Glick, Matitya Aviel, Avital Attias, and Shaul Pearl

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 711-714 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact burst-mode Nd:YAG laser for kHz–MHz bandwidth velocity and species measurements

Michael E. Smyser, K. Arafat Rahman, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Sukesh Roy, and Terrence R. Meyer

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 735-738 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficiency all-fiber cylindrical vector beam laser using a long-period fiber grating

Ruishan Chen, Jinghao Wang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Anting Wang, Hai Ming, Feng Li, Dick Chung, and Qiwen Zhan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 755-758 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive pumping for spectral control of broadband second-harmonic generation

Yanqi Qiao, Yajun Peng, Yuanlin Zheng, Fangwei Ye, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 787-790 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-low-threshold InGaN/GaN quantum dot micro-ring lasers

Danqing Wang, Tongtong Zhu, Rachel A. Oliver, and Evelyn L. Hu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 799-802 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical model of waveform-controlled single-cycle light pulses from an undulator

Georgii Shamuilov, Alan Mak, Peter Salén, and Vitaliy Goryashko

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 819-822 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultralow-threshold continuous-wave lasing assisted by a metallic optofluidic cavity exploiting continuous pump

Hailang Dai, Bei Jiang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 847-850 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity noise behavior of an InAs/InGaAs quantum dot laser emitting on ground states and excited states

R. Pawlus, L. L. Columbo, P. Bardella, S. Breuer, and M. Gioannini

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 867-870 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Kerr lens mode-locked Yb:CALGO thin-disk laser

Norbert Modsching, Clément Paradis, François Labaye, Maxim Gaponenko, Ivan J. Graumann, Andreas Diebold, Florian Emaury, Valentin J. Wittwer, and Thomas Südmeyer

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 879-882 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

87 fs mode-locked Tm,Ho:CaYAlO₄ laser at ∼2043 nm

Yongguang Zhao, Yicheng Wang, Xuzhao Zhang, Xavier Mateos, Zhongben Pan, Pavel Loiko, Wei Zhou, Xiaodong Xu, Ju Xu, Deyuan Shen, Soile Suomalainen, Antti Härkönen, Mircea Guina, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 915-918 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phosphor-in-glass with Nd-doped glass for a white LED with a wide color gamut

Hansol Lee, Seonghyeon Kim, Jong Heo, and Woon Jin Chung

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 627-630 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Highly uniform and monodisperse β-NaYF₄ : Sm³⁺ nanoparticles for a nanoscale optical thermometer

Zhangmei Zhao, Fangfang Hu, Zhongmin Cao, Fengfeng Chi, Xiantao Wei, Yonghu Chen, Chang-kui Duan, and Min Yin

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 835-838 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

All-dielectric reflective half-wave plate metasurface based on the anisotropic excitation of electric and magnetic dipole resonances

Zhijie Ma, Stephen M. Hanham, Yandong Gong, and Minghui Hong

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 911-914 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasound detection at fiber end-facets with surface plasmon resonance cavities

Xin Zhou, De Cai, Xiaolong He, Sung-Liang Chen, Xueding Wang, and Tian Yang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 775-778 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free cell nuclear imaging by Grüneisen relaxation photoacoustic microscopy

Xiaowei Liu, Terence T. W. Wong, Junhui Shi, Jun Ma, Qing Yang, and Lihong V. Wang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 947-950 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Homographically generated light sheets for the microscopy of large specimens

Craig T. Russell, Eric J. Rees, and Clemens F. Kaminski

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 663-666 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Atom-resonant squeezed light from a tunable monolithic ppRKTP parametric amplifier

Joanna A. Zielińska and Morgan W. Mitchell

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 643-646 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Engineering spectrally unentangled photon pairs from nonlinear microring resonators by pump manipulation

J. B. Christensen, J. G. Koefoed, K. Rottwitt, and C. J. McKinstrie

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 859-862 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tomography of asymmetric molecular orbitals with a one-color inhomogeneous field

Hua Yuan, Lixin He, Feng Wang, Baoning Wang, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 931-934 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Watt-level widely tunable femtosecond mid-infrared KTiOAsO₄ optical parametric oscillator pumped by a 1.03 μm Yb:KGW laser

Xianghao Meng, Zhaohua Wang, Wenlong Tian, Huijun He, Shaobo Fang, and Zhiyi Wei

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 943-946 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

3-bit writing of information in nanoporous glass by a single sub-microsecond burst of femtosecond pulses

S. S. Fedotov, A. G. Okhrimchuk, A. S. Lipatiev, A. A. Stepko, K. I. Piyanzina, G. Yu. Shakhgildyan, M. Yu. Presniakov, I. S. Glebov, S. V. Lotarev, and V. N. Sigaev

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 851-854 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-pulse writing of a concave microlens array

Xiao-Wen Cao, Qi-Dai Chen, Lei Zhang, Zhen-Nan Tian, Qian-Kun Li, Lei Wang, Saulius Juodkazis, and Hong-Bo Sun

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 831-834 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz nonreciprocal isolator based on a magneto-optical microstructure at room temperature

Fei Fan, Chuan-Zhong Xiong, Jie-Rong Chen, and Sheng Jiang Chang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 687-690 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Metallic gyroids with broadband circular dichroism

Benjamin P. Cumming, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, and Min Gu

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 863-866 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical rewritable liquid crystal displays without a front polarizer

Cuiling Meng, Manchun Tseng, Shutuen Tang, and Hoising Kwok

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 899-902 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse carving using nanocavity-enhanced nonlinear effects in photonic crystal Fano structures

Dagmawi A. Bekele, Yi Yu, Hao Hu, Pengyu Guan, Luisa Ottaviano, Michael Galili, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Kresten Yvind, and Jesper Mork

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 955-958 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-assembled monolayers of bimetallic Au/Ag nanospheres with superior surface-enhanced Raman scattering activity for ultra-sensitive triphenylmethane dyes detection

Yue Tian, Hua Zhang, Linlin Xu, Ming Chen, and Feng Chen

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 635-638 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

3D thickness map reconstruction of dielectric thin films using scattering of surface plasmon polaritons

Cesar E. Garcia-Ortiz, Rodolfo Cortes, Robin Orejel, Raul Hernandez-Aranda, Israel Martínez-López, Félix Aguilar, and Victor Coello

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 691-694 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the surface susceptibility and the surface conductivity of atomically thin MoS₂ by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Gaurav Jayaswal, Zhenyu Dai, Xixiang Zhang, Mirko Bagnarol, Alessandro Martucci, and Michele Merano

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 703-706 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly sensitive selectively coated photonic crystal fiber-based plasmonic sensor

Ahmmed A. Rifat, Firoz Haider, Rajib Ahmed, Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji, F. R. Mahamd Adikan, and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 891-894 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Doughnut-shaped emission from vertical organic nanowire coupled to thin plasmonic film

Adarsh B. Vasista, Ravi P. N. Tripathi, Shailendra K. Chaubey, Sunny Tiwari, and G. V. Pavan Kumar

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 923-926 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization- and wavelength-resolved near-field imaging of complex plasmonic modes in Archimedean nanospirals

Jordan A. Hachtel, Roderick B. Davidson, Elena R. Kovalik, Scott T. Retterer, Andrew R. Lupini, Richard F. Haglund, Benjamin J. Lawrie, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 927-930 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Programmable quantum random number generator without postprocessing

Lac Nguyen, Patrick Rehain, Yong Meng Sua, and Yu-Ping Huang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 631-634 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Arbitrary shaping of biphoton correlations using near-field frequency-to-time mapping

Hsuan-Hao Lu, Ogaga D. Odele, Daniel E. Leaird, and Andrew M. Weiner

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 743-746 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral asymmetries in the resonance fluorescence of two-level systems under pulsed excitation

Chris Gustin, Ross Manson, and Stephen Hughes

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 779-782 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor compatible source of single photons at near-visible wavelengths

Robert Cernansky, Francesco Martini, and Alberto Politi

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 855-858 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Recovering a hidden polarization by ghost polarimetry

Patrick Janassek, Sébastien Blumenstein, and Wolfgang Elsäßer

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 883-886 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time spectral characterization of a photon pair source using a chirped supercontinuum seed

Jennifer Erskine, Duncan England, Connor Kupchak, and Benjamin Sussman

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 907-910 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Refractive index sensor based on graphene-coated photonic surface-wave resonance

Qianru Yang, Linling Qin, Guoyang Cao, Cheng Zhang, and Xiaofeng Li

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 639-642 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute distance measurement by multi-heterodyne interferometry using an electro-optic triple comb

Xianyu Zhao, Xinghua Qu, Fumin Zhang, Yuhang Zhao, and Guoqing Tang

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 807-810 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple scattering of light in discrete random media using incoherent interactions

Karri Muinonen, Johannes Markkanen, Timo Väisänen, Jouni Peltoniemi, and Antti Penttilä

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 683-686 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical vector network analysis of ultranarrow transitions in ¹⁶⁶Er³⁺ : ⁷LiYF₄ crystal

N. Kukharchyk, D. Sholokhov, O. Morozov, S. L. Korableva, J. H. Cole, A. A. Kalachev, and P. A. Bushev

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 935-938 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz-based retrieval of the spectral phase and amplitude of ultrashort laser pulses

A. Curcio, V. Dolci, S. Lupi, and M. Petrarca

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 783-786 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional electronic-Raman spectroscopy

Zhengyang Zhang, Adriana Huerta-Viga, and Howe-Siang Tan

Opt. Lett. 43(4), 939-942 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF