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  • Spotlight Summary by Picart Pascal

    • Performance evaluation of a digital holographic camera under variable source power and exposure time
    • Digital holography has been demonstrated as a very versatile imaging method with significant impact in several...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(4) A120-A130 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Zawadzki

    • Template free eye motion correction for scanning systems
    • Reference frame free correction of retinal motion artifacts present during in vivo retinal imaging. Yes, it is now...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(4) 753-756 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Tomasz Tkaczyk

    • Development of a compact imaging spectrometer form for the solar reflective spectral region
    • A new compact imaging spectrometer is poised to break many barriers in remote sensing applications. Current...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(32) 10007-10017 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Controllable continuous variable quantum state distributor
    • Quantum optical networks will soon need protocols for distributing quantum states from a source to multiple destination...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(8) 1844-1847 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ugaitz Elu, Luke Maidment and Jens Biegert

    • Continuous wavelength tuning from 3.9–12 µm from an optical parametric oscillator based on orientation-patterned GaP grown on GaAs
    • Compact and widely tuneable coherent mid-infrared sources give access to manifold applications across the molecular...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 11(3) 654-663 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Ultrafast 3.5  µm fiber laser
    • Ultrafast mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser sources have drawn attention due to irreplaceable applications in molecular...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(7) 1636-1639 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Maciek Trusiak

    • Wide-view and accurate deformation measurement at microscales by phase extraction of scanning moiré pattern with a spatial phase-shifting technique
    • Full-field optical measurement techniques play a pivotal role in experimental mechanics providing accurate and...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(6) 1637-1645 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nathan Newbury

    • FOKUS II—Space flight of a compact and vacuum compatible dual frequency comb system
    • Menlo successfully operated dual self-referenced frequency combs in sub-orbital flight on a sounding rocket, as...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3) 932-939 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Mariia Kramarenko

    • 19.34  cm2 large-area quaternary organic photovoltaic module with 12.36% certified efficiency
    • Donor-acceptor organic solar cells have taken their place among the best photovoltaic devices due to their promising...
    • Photon. Res. 9(3) 324-330 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Sergey Kruk

    • Coupled cavity-waveguide based on topological corner state and edge state
    • Topological states of light represent counter-intuitive effects at boundaries of optical systems that originate from...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(5) 1089-1092 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Tailor-made unitary operations using dielectric metasurfaces
    • Photons are great in many ways for quantum computing (they are cheap to produce, easy to detect, they don’t need a...
    • Opt. Express 29(4) 5677-5686 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Broadband terahertz absorber with gradient ring resonators based on a discrete spiral topological distribution
    • Artificial absorbers of electromagnetic energy often use resonant effects to achieve efficient absorption, therefore...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3) 850-857 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Konstantinos Falaggis

    • Self-registration shape measurement based on fringe projection and structure from motion
    • Marker-free self-registration of 3D point clouds is a challenging undertaking. The authors propose a technique that...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 10986-10994 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alessandro Tuniz and Markus A. Schmidt

    • Interfacing photonic crystal fiber with a metallic nanoantenna for enhanced light nanofocusing
    • Merging the convenience of optical fibers with the extreme confinement of nano-plasmonics, would enable a number of...
    • Photon. Res. 9(2) 252-258 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Omri Gat

    • Starting dynamics of a linear-cavity femtosecond Mamyshev oscillator
    • How can a laser make the most intense ultrashort light pulse? For thirty years, the workhorse of ultrafast optics has...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3) 743-748 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Laser stabilization to a cryogenic fiber ring resonator
    • Ultra-stable frequency stabilized lasers are the prerequisites for numerous challenging applications such as optical...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(2) 444-447 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kevin Dupraz

    • XUV frequency comb production with an astigmatism-compensated enhancement cavity
    • High Harmonics Generation (HHG) yield is directly related to the laser beam intensity and focal volume. In order to...
    • Opt. Express 29(2) 2624-2636 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nils Bartels

    • Mitigation of laser-induced contamination in vacuum in high-repetition-rate high-peak-power laser systems
    • Preventing laser-induced contamination (LIC) is key for achieving a reliable long-term operation of high-power laser...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(3) 533-538 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Daniel Leykam

    • Digital quantum simulation of Floquet topological phases with a solid-state quantum simulator
    • Quantum simulation of complex materials is a key application of near-term quantum computers, based on programming...
    • Photon. Res. 9(1) 81-87 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Abbie Watnik

    • Long-wave infrared multi-wavelength IPDA lidar for standoff detection of chemical warfare agents: theoretical study
    • A theoretical evaluation for detection and quantification of chemical warfare agents using a long-wave tunable lidar...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 11167-11179 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Abbie Watnik

    • Long-wave infrared multi-wavelength optical source for standoff detection of chemical warfare agents
    • A novel lidar emitter is experimentally tested to measure sarin, sulfur mustard and SF using differential absorption...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 11156-11166 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Stefan Richter

    • Experimental free-space quantum secure direct communication and its security analysis
    • Quantum communication (QC) offers secure and future-proof tools for performing sensitive communication tasks. Quantum...
    • Photon. Res. 8(9) 1522-1531 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Maciek Trusiak

    • Wide-view and accurate deformation measurement at microscales by phase extraction of scanning moiré pattern with a spatial phase-shifting technique
    • Full-field optical measurement techniques play a pivotal role in experimental mechanics providing accurate and...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(6) 1637-1645 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Thierry Lépine

    • The Simons Observatory: modeling optical systematics in the Large Aperture Telescope
    • The Simons observatory will be used to detect and analyze the cosmic microwave background, which is a microwave...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(4) 823-837 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Romain Peretti

    • Maximum-likelihood parameter estimation in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
    • Spectroscopy unravels physicochemical information from samples. This information lies in models fitting a transfer...
    • Opt. Express 29(4) 4912-4926 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Konstantinos Falaggis

    • Self-registration shape measurement based on fringe projection and structure from motion
    • Marker-free self-registration of 3D point clouds is a challenging undertaking. The authors propose a technique that...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 10986-10994 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Propagating-order scattering matrix of conically mounted and crossed gratings
    • Gratings are basic structures for a variety of photonic components. Depending on the size, characteristics, or...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 38(3) 426-436 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Laser stabilization to a cryogenic fiber ring resonator
    • Ultra-stable frequency stabilized lasers are the prerequisites for numerous challenging applications such as optical...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(2) 444-447 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Pierre-Alexandre Blanche

    • Iterative multiplane hologram generation with mixed constraint
    • Computing the diffraction pattern (hologram) that generates a given image at a precise location does not have a unique,...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(2) 224-231 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Abbie Watnik

    • Long-wave infrared multi-wavelength IPDA lidar for standoff detection of chemical warfare agents: theoretical study
    • A theoretical evaluation for detection and quantification of chemical warfare agents using a long-wave tunable lidar...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 11167-11179 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Kenneth Tichauer

    • Towards in-vivo label-free detection of brain tumor margins with epi-illumination tomographic quantitative phase imaging
    • Cancer surgeries, in general, aim for complete tumor resection while minimizing patient morbidity. This balance is...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 12(3) 1621-1634 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Silvina L. Ferradal

    • Variability in atlas registration of optical intrinsic signal imaging and its effect on functional connectivity analysis
    • The emergence of functional MRI (fMRI) techniques did not only revolutionize neuroscience research but also initiated...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 38(2) 245-252 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Herriott cell spot imaging increases the performance of tunable laser spectrometers
    • Multi-pass infrared tunable laser spectrometers are compact devices enabling a highly sensitive gas detection. In...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(7) 1958-1965 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Ultrafast 3.5  µm fiber laser
    • Ultrafast mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser sources have drawn attention due to irreplaceable applications in molecular...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(7) 1636-1639 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Noise-like pulses with an extremely broadband spectrum in passively mode-locked fiber lasers
    • The emission bandwidth from a laser is typically limited by the gain bandwidth of its active medium. Spectral...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3) 961-967 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Bernhard Schmauss

    • Low-power and high-speed 2 × 2 thermo-optic MMI-MZI switch with suspended phase arms and heater-on-slab structure
    • In many applications of waveguide and fiber optics, switching is a crucial point, as switches have to be fast and have...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(2) 234-237 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nils Bartels

    • Mitigation of laser-induced contamination in vacuum in high-repetition-rate high-peak-power laser systems
    • Preventing laser-induced contamination (LIC) is key for achieving a reliable long-term operation of high-power laser...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(3) 533-538 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Abbie Watnik

    • Long-wave infrared multi-wavelength optical source for standoff detection of chemical warfare agents
    • A novel lidar emitter is experimentally tested to measure sarin, sulfur mustard and SF using differential absorption...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(35) 11156-11166 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Photonic nanojet generation under converging and diverging beams
    • Photonic nanojets (PNJs) are the optical phenomenon responsible for a freshly watered plant getting burned in the sun....
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(2) 317-326 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Koch

    • Logic gates for terahertz frequencies fabricated by three-dimensional printing
    • In this article, Castro-Camus and coauthors use three-dimensional printing to demonstrate the first waveguide-based...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(12) 3660-3664 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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