Editorial: Message from the Incoming Editor

Miguel Alonso

Opt. Lett. 45(2), ED1-ED1 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Cross-stacking of guided-mode resonance gratings for polarization-independent flat-top filtering

Keisuke Kawanishi, Akira Shimatani, Kyu Jin Lee, Junichi Inoue, Shogo Ura, and Robert Magnusson

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 312-314 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental observation of engineering photonic jet array by core–shell phase diffraction grating

Cheng-Yang Liu and Yu-Lun Cheng

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 323-326 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Angled fiber-based Fabry–Perot interferometer

Xinpu Zhang, Lixia Li, Xihua Zou, Bin Luo, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan, and Qiang Wu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 292-295 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization and modal analysis of a large-area, polarization-maintaining higher-order-modes fiber via a Bragg grating

Raja Ahmad, Paul S. Westbrook, Kazi S. Abedin, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Man F. Yan, and David J. DiGiovanni

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 403-406 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal feedback-interferometric fiber laser microphones

Shaolin Liao, Thomas Wong, and Lu Ou

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 423-426 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics study of thermal activation of BAC-Si in bismuth/erbium-codoped optical fiber

Bowen Zhang, Shuen Wei, Muhammad Talal Ali Khan, Yanhua Luo, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 571-574 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Tight-focusing properties of linearly polarized circular Airy Gaussian vortex beam

Jingli Zhuang, Liping Zhang, and Dongmei Deng

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 296-299 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering mechanism for quadratic evolution of depolarization

Thomas A. Germer

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 483-486 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterizing the bending deformation of polymer utilizing the diffraction spectrum of a holographic grating on a flexible substrate

Dan Yu, Yuhang He, Hongpeng Liu, Baohua Wang, Li Li, Rui Wang, and Suhua Luo

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 579-582 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional nanoscale localization of point-like objects using self-interference digital holography

Abhijit Marar and Peter Kner

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 591-594 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Method to eliminate pseudoscopic issue in an integral imaging 3D display by using a transmissive mirror device and light filter

Han-Le Zhang, Huan Deng, Hui Ren, Xin Yang, Yan Xing, Da-Hai Li, and Qiong-Hua Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 351-354 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Resolving absolute depth in circular-ranging optical coherence tomography by using a degenerate frequency comb

Norman Lippok and Benjamin J. Vakoc

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 371-374 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Intelligently optimized digital optical phase conjugation with particle swarm optimization

Zhongtao Cheng, Jiamiao Yang, and Lihong V. Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 431-434 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-throughput dark-field full-field optical coherence tomography

Egidijus Auksorius and A. Claude Boccara

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 455-458 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of an electrowetting liquid microlens array for a focus tunable integral imaging system

Cheoljoong Kim, Dooseub Shin, Gyohyun Koo, and Yong Hyub Won

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 511-514 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Mapping a quantum walk by tuning the coupling coefficient

Kian Fong Ng, Manuel J. L. F. Rodrigues, José Viana-Gomes, Alexander Ling, and James A. Grieve

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 288-291 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband optical modulation in a zinc-oxide-based heterojunction via optical lifting

Vishal Kaushik, Swati Rajput, and Mukesh Kumar

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 363-366 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of the interplay between dynamic localization and Anderson localization

Diego Guzman-Silva, Matthias Heinrich, Tobias Biesenthal, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Alexander Szameit

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 415-418 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Sum-frequency generation in lithium-niobate-on-insulator microdisk via modal phase matching

Xiaona Ye, Shijie Liu, Yuping Chen, Yuanlin Zheng, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 523-526 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-wideband dual-polarization silicon nitride power splitter based on modal engineered slot waveguides

David González-Andrade, Sylvain Guerber, Elena Durán-Valdeiglesias, Diego Pérez-Galacho, Xavier Le Roux, Nathalie Vulliet, Sébastien Cremer, Stephane Monfray, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Frédéric Boeuf, Pavel Cheben, Laurent Vivien, Aitor V. Velasco, and Carlos Alonso-Ramos

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 527-530 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

17.9 W continuous-wave self-frequency-doubled Nd:GdCOB laser

Jinheng Du, Jiyang Wang, Haohai Yu, and Huaijin Zhang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 327-330 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power mid-infrared picosecond pulse bunch generation through difference frequency generation

Wenjie Yue, Yichen Ding, Bo Wu, and Yonghang Shen

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 383-386 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Phased-array assisted time-delay signature suppression in the optical chaos generated by an external-cavity semiconductor laser

Pei Zhou, Qi Fang, and Nianqiang Li

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 399-402 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Repetition frequency modulated fiber laser for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Tao Wu, Kun Chen, Haoyun Wei, and Yan Li

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 407-410 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical injection dynamics of frequency combs

Yaya Doumbia, Tushar Malica, Delphine Wolfersberger, Krassimir Panajotov, and Marc Sciamanna

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 435-438 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

SWCNT-SA mode-locked Tm:LuYO₃ ceramic laser delivering 8-optical-cycle pulses at 2.05 µm

Yongguang Zhao, Li Wang, Yicheng Wang, Jian Zhang, Peng Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Liu, Deyuan Shen, Ji Eun Bae, Tae Gwan Park, Fabian Rotermund, Xavier Mateos, Pavel Loiko, Zhengping Wang, Xingguang Xu, Jun Xu, Mark Mero, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, and Weidong Chen

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 459-462 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient, watt-level, tunable 1.7 µm fiber Raman laser in H₂-filled hollow-core fibers

Wei Huang, Zhixian Li, Yulong Cui, Zhiyue Zhou, and Zefeng Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 475-478 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of gain efficiency in quasi-distributed amplification systems

O. V. Shtyrina, A. Y. Kokhanovskiy, I. A. Yarutkina, A. S. Skidin, A. V. Ivanenko, S. A. Efremov, B. N. Nyushkov, S. V. Smirnov, and M. P. Fedoruk

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 499-502 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploding soliton in an anomalous-dispersion fiber laser

Zhi-Wei Wei, Meng Liu, Shu-Xian Ming, Hu Cui, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, and Zhi-Chao Luo

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 531-534 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser emitting at 1640 nm

Bartosz Jeżewski, Artur Broda, Iwona Sankowska, Aleksandr Kuźmicz, Krystyna Gołaszewska-Malec, Krzysztof Czuba, and Jan Muszalski

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 539-542 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Power scaling and thermal lensing in 825 nm emitting membrane external-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Hoy-My Phung, Hermann Kahle, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, Patrik Rajala, Sanna Ranta, and Mircea Guina

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 547-550 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz dual phase gradient metasurfaces: high-efficiency binary-channel spoof surface plasmon excitation

Li-Zheng Yin, Tie-Jun Huang, Di Wang, Jiang-Yu Liu, Yan Sun, and Pu-Kun Liu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 411-414 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multipurpose thermoresponsive hydrogel: a platform for dynamic holographic display

Ata Ur Rahman Khalid, Juan Liu, Yu Han, Naeem Ullah, ShiQi Jia, and Yongtian Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 479-482 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Microwave scattering-absorption properties of a lightweight all-dielectric coding metamaterial based on TiO₂/CNTs

Zhuang Wu, Zilong Zhang, Xiqiao Chen, Fan Feng, Lei Zhang, Yangyang Lv, Yaoyi He, and Yanhong Zou

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 555-558 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

pO₂-weighted imaging in vivo by delayed fluorescence of intracellular Protoporphyrin IX

Marek Scholz, Xu Cao, Jason R. Gunn, Petr Brůža, and Brian Pogue

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 284-287 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical rotary junction incorporating a hollow shaft DC motor for high-speed catheter-based optical coherence tomography

Abdullah Durrani, Ammar Javaid, Seungwan Lee, and Jinyong Ha

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 487-490 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time monitoring of adaptive lenses with high tuning range and multiple degrees of freedom

Wenjie Wang, Katrin Philipp, Nektarios Koukourakis, and Jürgen W. Czarske

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 272-275 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot achromatic imaging for broadband soft x-ray pulses

Satoru Egawa, Hiroto Motoyama, Atsushi Iwasaki, Gota Yamaguchi, Takehiro Kume, Kaoru Yamanouchi, and Hidekazu Mimura

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 515-518 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Reflective objective-based ultraviolet photoacoustic remote sensing virtual histopathology

Nathaniel J. M. Haven, Pradyumna Kedarisetti, Brendon S. Restall, and Roger J. Zemp

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 535-538 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Bond additivity model for anisotropic second-harmonic generation from two-dimensional honeycomb lattices

Fanjin Lu, Zeyuan Sun, Shiwei Wu, and Wei-Tao Liu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 268-271 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Interconversion of orbital and spin angular momenta of light beams in the sum-frequency generation process from the surface of the isotropic chiral medium

K. S. Grigoriev, V. A. Diukov, and V. A. Makarov

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 276-279 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 14.0 W of single-frequency light at 770 nm by intracavity frequency doubling

Minho Kwon, Peiyu Yang, Preston Huft, Christopher Young, Matthew Ebert, and Mark Saffman

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 339-342 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor double quantum wires coupled to a quantum-sized metal nanoparticle

Ying Su, Kangxian Guo, Guanghui Liu, Tao Yang, Qiucheng Yu, Meilin Hu, and Yanlian Yang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 379-382 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

SnSSe as a saturable absorber for an ultrafast laser with superior stability

Wenjun Liu, Mengli Liu, Ximei Liu, Ming Lei, and Zhiyi Wei

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 419-422 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonant radiation from Peregrine solitons

Fabio Baronio, Shihua Chen, and Stefano Trillo

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 427-430 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Adiabatic nonlinear optical frequency conversion based on the electro-optic effect

Xun Liu, Xueju Shen, Ting Rui, Lei He, Bing Zhou, and Nan Zheng

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 467-470 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive electrofluid-actuated liquid lens

Xiang Huang, Hang Jin, Siying Lin, Zhenxiang Bu, Zhihong Lin, WenChang Tu, and Lingyun Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 331-334 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical scrambling system for document authentication by image decryption

M. Dejean, V. Nourrit, and J.-L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 347-350 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Non-metallic and angular-insensitive metasurface transmissive long-pass filter in the visible and near-infrared regions

Qinyu Qian, Li Fan, Liang Zhao, and Chinhua Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 359-362 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Beyond 53% internal quantum efficiency in a AlGaN quantum well at 326 nm UVA emission and single-peak operation of UVA LED

M. Ajmal Khan, Ryohei Takeda, Yoichi Yamada, Noritoshi Maeda, Masafumi Jo, and Hideki Hirayama

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 495-498 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Extending time-domain ptychography to generalized phase-only transfer functions

Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg, Erich Rohwer, Michael Brügmann, and Thomas Feurer

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 300-303 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Burst-mode femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging for kHz–MHz seedless velocimetry

Jordan M. Fisher, Michael E. Smyser, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Sukesh Roy, and Terrence R. Meyer

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 335-338 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity X-ray imaging of a lead halide perovskite single-crystal scintillator

Qiang Xu, Wenyi Shao, Yang Li, Zhichao Zhu, Bo Liu, Xiaoping Ouyang, and Jun Liu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 355-358 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Autofocusing method for high-resolution three-dimensional profilometry

Xiaowei Hu, Guijin Wang, Jae-Sang Hyun, Yujin Zhang, Huazhong Yang, and Song Zhang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 375-378 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Anti-interference single-photon LiDAR using stochastic pulse position modulation

Chia-Ming Tsai and Yung-Chien Liu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 439-442 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast peak-tracking method for FBG reflection spectrum and nonlinear error compensation

Jindong Wang, Tingting Huang, Fajie Duan, Qinrui Cheng, Fumin Zhang, and Xinghua Qu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 451-454 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating modulated by a hollow cavity for measuring gas pressure

Junxian Luo, Shen Liu, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yanping Chen, Kaiming Yang, Kuikui Guo, Jun He, Changrui Liao, and Yiping Wang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 507-510 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-spatial-resolution fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensor based on Φ-OFDR with enhanced crosstalk suppression

He Li, Qingwen Liu, Dian Chen, Yuanpeng Deng, and Zuyuan He

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 563-566 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast laser-absorption spectroscopy for single-shot, mid-infrared measurements of temperature, CO, and CH₄ in flames

Ryan J. Tancin, Ziqiao Chang, Mingming Gu, Vishnu Radhakrishna, Robert P. Lucht, and Christopher S. Goldenstein

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 583-586 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced p-CuI/n-ZnO photodetector based on thermal evaporated CuI and pulsed laser deposited ZnO nanowires

Songren Niu, Fengzhou Zhao, Yu Hang, Cheng Wang, Lianjie Xin, Menglong Zhang, Man Xu, Dengying Zhang, Xinbo Chu, and Lichun Zhang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 559-562 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Tornado waves

Apostolos Brimis, Konstantinos G. Makris, and Dimitris G. Papazoglou

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 280-283 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Vortex γ rays from scattering laser bullets off ultrarelativistic electrons

Yang-Yang Liu, Yousef I. Salamin, Zhen-Ke Dou, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 395-398 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Helicity multiplexed terahertz multi-foci metalens

Tao Zhou, Juan Du, Yongsheng Liu, and Xiaofei Zang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 463-466 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact generation of arbitrarily accelerating double caustic beams with orthogonal polarizations using a dielectric metasurface

Rui Chen, Rui-Pin Chen, Yi Zhou, Wenjie Chen, and Yungui Ma

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 551-554 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Tightly autofocusing beams: an effective enhancement of longitudinally polarized fields

Sheng Liu, Zhaojin Guo, Peng Li, Bingyan Wei, and Jianlin Zhao

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 575-578 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency couplers for graphene surface plasmon polaritons in the mid-infrared region

Longfang Ye, Kehan Sui, and Hao Feng

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 264-267 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Circular polarization of Cherenkov radiation assisted by a metasurface on waveguides

Wenjia Li, Jianlong Liu, Yang Gao, Keya Zhou, and Shutian Liu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 315-318 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a highly selective radiative cooling structure accelerated by materials informatics

Jiang Guo, Shenghong Ju, and Junichiro Shiomi

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 343-346 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-entropy-source quantum random number generation based on spontaneous emission

Qiang Zhang, Dehuan Kong, Yebing Wang, Hongxin Zou, and Hong Chang

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 304-307 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Fractal superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetector at 1550 nm with 60% system detection efficiency and 1.05 polarization sensitivity

Yun Meng, Kai Zou, Nan Hu, Xiaojian Lan, Liang Xu, Julien Zichi, Stephan Steinhauer, Val Zwiller, and Xiaolong Hu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 471-474 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous temporally and spectrally resolved Raman coherences with single-shot fs/ns rotational CARS

Ali Hosseinnia, Maria Ruchkina, Pengji Ding, Per-Erik Bengtsson, and Joakim Bood

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 308-311 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiplex volatile organic compound Raman sensing with nanophotonic slot waveguides functionalized with a mesoporous enrichment layer

Haolan Zhao, Bettina Baumgartner, Ali Raza, Andre Skirtach, Bernhard Lendl, and Roel Baets

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 447-450 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator for dynamic high-temperature multi-species measurements in reacting systems

Zachary E. Loparo, Erik Ninnemann, Qitian Ru, Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, and Subith S. Vasu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 491-494 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface treatments of dielectric laser accelerators for increased laser-induced damage threshold

Yu Miao, Dylan S. Black, Kenneth J. Leedle, Zhexin Zhao, Huiyang Deng, Andrew Ceballos, Robert L. Byer, James S. Harris, and Olav Solgaard

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 391-394 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication process for small aspherical lenses

Angelina Müller, Matthias C. Wapler, Binal P. Bruno, and Ulrike Wallrabe

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 587-590 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-contrast, intense single-cycle pulses from an all thin-solid-plate setup

Meenkyo Seo, Khurelbaatar Tsendsuren, Sambit Mitra, Matthias Kling, and Dongeon Kim

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 367-370 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

High-temperature stable fiber Bragg gratings with ultrastrong cladding modes written using the phase mask technique and an infrared femtosecond laser

Nurmemet Abdukerim, Dan Grobnic, Cyril Hnatovsky, and Stephen J. Mihailov

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 443-446 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-only pulse shaper for multi-octave light sources

Vittorio Maria di Pietro, Simone Bux, Nicolas Forget, and Aurélie Jullien

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 543-546 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical frequency-resolved optical gating for isolated attosecond pulse reconstruction

Zhen Yang, Wei Cao, Xi Chen, Jie Zhang, Yunlong Mo, Huiyao Xu, Kang Mi, Qingbin Zhang, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Lett. 45(2), 567-570 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF