November 2021

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Taco D. Visser

    • Generating non-uniformly correlated twisted sources
    • Optical beams that carry Optical Angular Momentum, or OAM, are showing huge potential in several applications. For example, in optical communication the superposition of beams with different amounts of OAM can be used...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(20) 5100-5103 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Thulium-doped tellurium oxide microring lasers integrated on a low-loss silicon nitride platform
    • Less than one month ago, we spotlighted the development of a high-performance visible-range tuneable laser integrated in Si3N4 platform...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 11(11) 3656-3665 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Juejun Hu

    • Templated dewetting for self-assembled ultra-low-loss chalcogenide integrated photonics
    • Jean et al. leveraged templated dewetting to create ultra-low-loss chalcogenide glass (ChG) micro-resonators with a record quality factor of 4.7 million, opening up their exciting applications in nonlinear frequency...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 11(11) 3717-3735 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Novoa

    • Inner shell excitation by strong field laser rescattering: optimal laser conditions for high energy recollision
    • The nonlinear process of laser-driven electron rescattering has enabled major breakthroughs such as the direct imaging and online tracking of ultrafast atomic and molecular processes. It is also at the heart of the...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(12) 3646-3651 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Salvatore Girardo

    • Droplet microfluidic generation of a million optical microparticle barcodes
    • The identification and tracking of products in today’s globalized economy might be impossible without barcodes. In the same fashion, following the advances in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems, new tools are...
    • Opt. Express 29(23) 38109-38118 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Zawadzki

    • Sensorless astigmatism correction using a variable cross-cylinder for high lateral resolution optical coherence tomography in a human retina
    • A simple yet elegant solution that removes one of the major barriers for translation of Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography (AO-OCT) to clinical retinal imaging has been proposed and validated in the latest...
    • Appl. Opt. 60(30) 9553-9559 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Vincent Billault

    • Coherent self-control of free-space optical beams with integrated silicon photonic meshes
    • Programmable photonic circuits are enabling technologies for the processing of free space optical beams. The arbitrary manipulation of light beams is crucial for free space optical systems, especially in imaging and...
    • Photon. Res. 9(11) 2196-2204 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Bernhard Schmauss

    • Kilowatt power scaling of an intrinsically low Brillouin and thermo-optic Yb-doped silica fiber [Invited]
    • How can you significantly improve the performance of fibers for high power fiber lasers by modifying the glass composition of the fibers?

      T.W. Hawkins and coauthors address this question in this Journal of...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(12) F38-F49 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Harald Haas

    • Ultrafast 2 × 2 green micro-LED array for optical wireless communication beyond 5  Gbit/s
    • Multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) data rates delivered by high bandwidth, spectrally stable micro LEDs in the visible light spectrum will unlock new applications. For instance, the raw data rate required for augmented...
    • Photon. Res. 9(10) 2077-2087 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Paganin

    • Gain in time-dependent media—a new mechanism
    • Compression of Faraday lines of force is a way of adding energy to electromagnetic waves. This statement seems natural, when you stop to think about it. Pendry, Galiffi and Huidobro briefly summarise such...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(11) 3360-3366 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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