New additions to the OMEx team: editorial

Alexandra Boltasseva

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1817-1818 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Multiphoton photoreduction for dual-wavelength-light-driven shrinkage and actuation in hydrogel

Kosuke Mizuguchi, Yo Nagano, Hiroaki Nishiyama, Hiroaki Onoe, and Mitsuhiro Terakawa

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1931-1940 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Chromium doped zinc selenide optical fiber lasers

Justin R. Sparks, Stephen C. Aro, Rongrui He, Melanie L. Goetz, James P. Krug, Sean A. McDaniel, Patrick A. Berry, Gary Cook, Kenneth L. Schepler, Pier J. Sazio, Venkatraman Gopalan, and John V. Badding

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1843-1852 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-contrast lead-free pair of soft glasses for large numerical aperture imaging bundles

Ryszard Stepien, Jaroslaw Cimek, Dariusz Pysz, Ireneusz Kujawa, Przemyslaw Golebiewski, Grzegorz Stepniewski, Krzysztof Orlinski, Ryszard Buczynski, and Rafal Kasztelanic

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1891-1910 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Crystal structure, photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence of Ba_1-xSr_xAl₂O₄ doped with Eu²⁺

Max Volhard, Liping Yu, Daniel den Engelsen, George R. Fern, Terry G. Ireland, and Jack Silver

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1951-1961 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence of BaAl₂O₄:Eu²⁺ and undoped BaAl₂O₄: evidence for F-centres

Daniel den Engelsen, George R. Fern, Terry G. Ireland, Fengli Yang, and Jack Silver

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1962-1980 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Ultraviolet laser damage properties of single-layer SiO₂ film grown by atomic layer deposition

Feng Geng, Haipeng Cheng, Qinghua Zhang, Mincai Liu, and And Yaguo Li

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1981-1990 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Transition-metal-doped saturable absorbers for passive Q-switching of visible lasers

Hiroki Tanaka, Christian Kränkel, and Fumihiko Kannari

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1827-1842 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Yb: CaYAl₃O₇ crystal: a promising candidate for an ultrashort pulse laser with a disordered structure

Yang Li, Hongkun Nie, Zhitai Jia, Yanru Yin, Xiuwei Fu, Wenxiang Mu, Jian Zhang, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, Jingliang He, and Xutang Tao

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1999-2010 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Three-dimensional structures fabricated after laser-induced free radical generation in azoaromatic compounds

A. J. G. Otuka, B. B. M. Torres, J. Dipold, D. T. Balogh, V. Tribuzi, L. De Boni, and C. R. Mendonça

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1792-1800 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Ablating nanoscale pores in crystalline quartz using laser-induced micro-plasmas in tri-layer structures

Jon Rodriguez, Hyun-Cheol Shin, Eric Stava, Paul V. Gwozdz, Minrui Yu, José R. Sánchez Pérez, Max G. Lagally, and Robert H. Blick

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1991-1998 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Submicrometer periodic poling of lithium niobate thin films with bipolar preconditioning pulses

Jonathan Tyler Nagy and Ronald M. Reano

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1911-1920 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Performance characteristics of phase-change integrated silicon nitride photonic devices in the O and C telecommunications bands

Joaquin Faneca, Santiago Garcia-Cuevas Carrillo, Emanuele Gemo, Carlota Ruiz de Galarreta, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Frederic Y. Gardes, Harish Bhaskaran, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright, and Anna Baldycheva

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1778-1791 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Systematical analysis of ideal absorptivity for passive radiative cooling

Yulian Li, Linzhi Li, Li Guo, and Bowen An

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1767-1777 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Dual-band terahertz polarization converter with high-efficiency asymmetric transmission

Jiu-Sheng Li and Feng-Qing Bai

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1853-1861 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Design of bi-tunable triple-band metamaterial absorber based on Dirac semimetal and vanadium dioxide

Zhaoxin Li, Tongling Wang, Lingfei Qu, Huiyun Zhang, Dehua Li, and Yuping Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1941-1950 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Vertical multilayer structures based on porous silicon layers for mid-infrared applications

Maxime Duris, Mohammed Guendouz, Nathalie Lorrain, Parastesh Pirasteh, Loïc Bodiou, Warda Raiah, Yannick Coffinier, Vincent Thomy, and Joël Charrier

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1921-1930 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Formfactor of a hologram on a chalcogenide glassy semiconductor and azopolymer

S. A. Shoydin, A. Yu. Meshalkin, and M. S. Kovalev

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1819-1825 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

50-µJ level, 20-picosecond, narrowband difference-frequency generation at 4.6, 5.4, 7.5, 9.2, and 10.8 µm in LiGaS₂ and LiGaSe₂ at Nd:YAG laser pumping and various crystalline Raman laser seedings

S. N. Smetanin, M. Jelínek, V. Kubeček, A. F. Kurus, V. N. Vedenyapin, S. I. Lobanov, and L. I. Isaenko

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1881-1890 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Visible emission studies of melt-grown Dy-doped CsPbCl₃ and KPb₂Cl₅ crystals

Uwe Hommerich, Samuel Uba, A. Kabir, Sudhir B. Trivedi, Clayton Yang, and Ei Ei Brown

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 2011-2018 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Air-stable perovskite photovoltaic cells with low temperature deposited NiOx as an efficient hole-transporting material

A. K. Mahmud Hasan, Itaru Raifuku, N. Amin, Yasuaki Ishikawa, D. K. Sarkar, K. Sobayel, Mohammad R. Karim, Anwar Ul-Hamid, H. Abdullah, Md. Shahiduzzaman, Yukiharu Uraoka, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, and Md. Akhtaruzzaman

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1801-1816 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Simple technique for determining the refractive index of phase-change materials using near-infrared reflectometry: publisher’s note

E. Gemo, S. V. Kesava, C. Ruiz De Galarreta, L. Trimby, S. García-Cuevas Carrillo, M. Riede, A. Baldycheva, A. Alexeev, and C. D. Wright

Opt. Mater. Express 10(8), 1826-1826 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB