Model for the polarization dependence of the saturable absorption in Cr⁴⁺:YAG

Yoichi Sato and Takunori Taira

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 577-586 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Feature issue introduction: colloidal systems

Wei Lee, Cid B. de Araújo, Garo Khanarian, and Victor Zyryanov

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 654-657 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-induced shift of the exciton absorption band in InP/ZnS quantum dots

S. S. Savchenko, A. S. Vokhmintsev, and I. A. Weinstein

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 354-359 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical characterization of carbon quantum dots in colloidal suspensions

Hemerson P. S. Castro, Magnus K. Pereira, Vinícius C. Ferreira, Jandir M. Hickmann, and Ricardo R. B. Correia

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 401-408 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling hyperbolic metamaterials with a core-shell nanowire array [Invited]

V. Yu. Reshetnyak, I. P. Pinkevych, A. M. Urbas, and D. R. Evans

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 542-554 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of cotton and nylon fabrics coated with silica photonic crystals

Weihong Gao, Muriel Rigout, and Huw Owens

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 341-353 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Surface-plasmon-enhanced band-edge emission and lasing behaviors of Au-decorated ZnO microstructures

Tsai-Ching Chiang, Cing-Yu Chiu, Tsen-Fang Dai, Yu-Ju Hung, and Hsu-Cheng Hsu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 313-319 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal effects in systems of colloidal plasmonic nanoparticles in high-intensity pulsed laser fields [Invited]

V. S. Gerasimov, A. E. Ershov, S. V. Karpov, A. P. Gavrilyuk, V. I. Zakomirnyi, I. L. Rasskazov, H. Ågren, and S. P. Polyutov

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 555-568 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Feature issue introduction: material platforms and experimental approaches for quantum nanophotonics

Chen-Lung Hung, A. Mark Fox, Alexandra Boltasseva, and Robert W. Boyd

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 651-653 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Superconducting detector for visible and near-infrared quantum emitters [Invited]

Vadim V. Vorobyov, Alexander Yu. Kazakov, Vladimir V. Soshenko, Alexander A. Korneev, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Stepan V. Bolshedvorskii, Vadim N. Sorokin, Alexander V. Divochiy, Yury B. Vakhtomin, Konstantin V. Smirnov, Boris M. Voronov, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexey V. Akimov, and Gregory N. Goltsman

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 513-526 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High order diffraction suppression by quasi-periodic two-dimensional gratings

Jiebin Niu, Lina Shi, Ziwei Liu, Tanchao Pu, Hailiang Li, Guanya Wang, and Changqing Xie

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 366-375 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanostructure analysis of InGaN/GaN quantum wells based on semi-polar-faced GaN nanorods

Yu-Sheng Huang, Shih-Wei Feng, Yu-Hsin Weng, Yung-Sheng Chen, Chie-Tong Kuo, Ming-Yen Lu, Yung-Chen Cheng, Ya-Ping Hsieh, and Hsiang-Chen Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 320-328 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the electro-optic coefficient of a BaMgF₄ single crystal

Zhuo Wang, Hailang Dai, Yuanlin Zheng, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 360-365 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Viscous behavior of synthetic silica glass tubes during collapsing

Johannes Kirchhof and Sonja Unger

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 386-400 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Energy transfer properties and enhanced color rendering index of chromaticity tunable green-yellow-red-emitting Y₃Al₅O₁₂: Ce³⁺, Cr³⁺ phosphors for white light-emitting diodes

Ran Ma, Chaoyang Ma, Jiantao Zhang, Jiaqi Long, Zicheng Wen, Xuanyi Yuan, and Yongge Cao

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 454-467 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped continuous-wave and Q-switched Tm:Y₂O₃ ceramic laser around 2050 nm

Hui Wang, Haitao Huang, Pian Liu, Lin Jin, Deyuan Shen, Jian Zhang, and Dingyuan Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 296-303 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Methylene blue-loaded gold nanobipyramids @SiO₂ enhanced singlet oxygen generation for phototherapy of cancer cells

Junliang Lv, Gongqing Wu, Yang He, Lijuan Zhang, and Yunhong Yi

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 409-414 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterisation of adhesive-free bonded crystalline Yb:YAG for high energy laser applications

Mariastefania De Vido, David Meissner, Stephanie Meissner, Klaus Ertel, P. Jonathan Phillips, Paul D. Mason, Saumyabrata Banerjee, Thomas J. Butcher, Jodie M. Smith, Chris Edwards, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, and John L. Collier

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 425-432 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Cryogenic Yb:YGAG ceramic laser pumped at 940 nm and zero-phonon-line: a comparative study

Venkatesan Jambunathan, Petr Navratil, Taisuke Miura, Fangxin Yue, Akira Endo, Antonio Lucianetti, and Tomas Mocek

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 477-483 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Disordered Tm:Ca₉La(VO₄)₇: a novel crystal with potential for broadband tunable lasing

Z. Zhang, P. Loiko, H. Wu, X. Mateos, J. M. Serres, H. F. Lin, W. D. Chen, G. Zhang, L. Z. Zhang, F. Díaz, M. Aguiló, V. Petrov, U. Griebner, Y. C. Wang, E. Vilejshikova, K. Yumashev, and Z. B. Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 484-493 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantification of non-stoichiometry in YAG ceramics using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

S. J. Pandey, M. Martinez, F. Pelascini, V. Motto-Ros, M. Baudelet, and R. M. Gaume

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 627-632 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized blue-phase liquid crystal for field-sequential-color displays

Yuge Huang, Haiwei Chen, Guanjun Tan, Hitoshi Tobata, Shin-ichi Yamamoto, Eiji Okabe, Yi-Fen Lan, Cheng-Yeh Tsai, and Shin-Tson Wu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 641-650 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Index of refraction changes under magnetic field observed in La_0.66Sr_0.33MnO₃ correlated to the magnetorefractive effect

Scott M. Strutner, Adam Garcia, Sabina Ula, Carolina Adamo, W. Lance Richards, Kang Wang, Darrell G. Schlom, and Greg P. Carman

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 468-476 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tungsten based anisotropic metamaterial as an ultra-broadband absorber

Yinyue Lin, Yanxia Cui, Fei Ding, Kin Hung Fung, Ting Ji, Dongdong Li, and Yuying Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 606-617 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Perfect infrared absorber and emitter based on a large-area metasurface

Yuki Matsuno and Atsushi Sakurai

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 618-626 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phosphorus doping effect on linear and nonlinear optical properties of Si/SiO₂ multilayers

Pei Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Shuo Xu, Peng Lu, Dameng Tan, Jun Xu, Fengqiu Wang, Liying Jiang, and Kunji Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 304-312 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Large optical third-order nonlinearities in a switchable Prussian blue analogue

Amine Ould-Hamouda, Antonio Iazzolino, Hiroko Tokoro, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, and Eric Freysz

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 444-453 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of nonlinear optical absorption and refraction for KDP and DKDP crystals

Duanliang Wang, Tingbin Li, Shenglai Wang, Jiyang Wang, Chuanying Shen, Jianxu Ding, Weidong Li, Pingping Huang, and Chengwei Lu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 533-541 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Gate-tunable optoelectronic properties of a nano-layered GaSe photodetector

Abdelkader Abderrahmane, Pan-Gum Jung, Nam-Hoon Kim, Pil Ju Ko, and Adarsh Sandhu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 587-592 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic-induced absorption in an end-coupled metal-insulator-metal resonator structure

Kunhua Wen, Yihua Hu, Jinyun Zhou, Liang Lei, Jianfeng Li, and Yanjie Wu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 433-443 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode-matched multi-resonant 2.5-D plasmonic nano-terrace array for surface-enhanced spectroscopy

Shuang Zhou, Jie Bian, Wen-Di Li, and Weihua Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 503-512 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable unidirectional surface plasmon polariton launcher utilizing a graphene-based single asymmetric nanoantenna

Lei Huang, Shan Wu, Yulin Wang, Xiangjun Ma, Hongmei Deng, Shuming Wang, Ye Lu, Chuanqi Li, and Tao Li

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 569-576 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct fabrication and characterization of high-aspect-ratio plasmonic nanogratings using tapered-sidewall molds

Shinpei Ogawa and Masafumi Kimata

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 633-640 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient luminescence enhancement of Gd₂O₃:Ln³⁺ (Ln = Yb/Er, Eu) NCs by codoping Zn²⁺ and Li⁺ inert ions

Daguang Li, Weiping Qin, Peng Zhang, Lili Wang, Min Lan, and Pengbo Shi

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 329-340 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct confocal lifetime measurements on rare-earth-doped media exhibiting radiation trapping

Yean-Sheng Yong, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Sergio A. Vázquez-Córdova, Joan J. Carvajal, Francesc Díaz, Jennifer L. Herek, Sonia M. García-Blanco, and Markus Pollnau

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 527-532 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mask effect in nano-selective- area-growth by MOCVD on thickness enhancement, indium incorporation, and emission of InGaN nanostructures on AlN-buffered Si(111) substrates

Y. El Gmili, P. L. Bonanno, S. Sundaram, X. Li, R. Puybaret, G. Patriarche, C. Pradalier, J. Decobert, P. L. Voss, J-P. Salvestrini, and A. Ougazzaden

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 376-385 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effective control over near band-edge emission in ZnO/CuO multilayered films

Bunyod Allabergenov, Ulugbek Shaislamov, Hyunseok Shim, Myeong-Jae Lee, Anvar Matnazarov, and Byeongdae Choi

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 494-502 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal evolution of zinc interstitial related donors in high-quality NH₃-doped ZnO films

Kun Tang, Ran Gu, Shunming Zhu, Zhonghua Xu, Jiandong Ye, and Shulin Gu

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 593-605 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF