February 2024

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Serge Berthier

    • Co-modulation of structural and pigmentary coloration in Lyropteryx apollonia butterfly
    • When physics and chemistry combine for non-spectral colors.

      The pigment/photonic structure combination to generate complex colors is usual in nature. The most common case is green, which can be created by a...
    • Opt. Express 31(26) 43712-43721 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ángela Barreda

    • Switchable multiple quasibound states in the continuum based on the phase transition of vanadium dioxide
    • The recently introduced concept of quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BIC) enables the observation of high Q-factor resonances, which is crucial to enhance the intensity of light-matter interaction. However, the...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41(2) 432-441 (2024) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by George Gordon

    • Real-timing processing of fiber bundle endomicroscopy images in Python using PyFibreBundle
    • Hughes introduces an open-source Python toolkit designed to enhance image quality from optical fiber bundle imaging systems, which are increasingly employed as ultra-thin endomicroscopic imaging probes in medical and...
    • Appl. Opt. 62(34) 9041-9050 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Lars Loetgering

    • Lensless polarimetric coded ptychography for high-resolution, high-throughput gigapixel birefringence imaging on a chip
    • Enabling polarization-resolved microscopy at high resolution, high throughput, and at low cost: this challenge was recently taken up by Yang and coauthors, who propose a compact imaging platform with unique...
    • Photon. Res. 11(12) 2242-2255 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Daniele Faccio

    • Non-line-of-sight imaging at infrared wavelengths using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
    • Feng et al. report on the use of a large area “fractal” superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) to reconstruct 3D images of a scene behind a wall at wavelengths between 1500 and 1900 nm. In this...
    • Opt. Express 31(25) 42240-42254 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Stuart Love and Ho Wai Howard Lee

    • Tunable all-fiber polarization filter based on graphene-assisted metal gratings for the O- and C-bands
    • Controlling polarization is crucial for manipulating light in various applications such as optical communications, laser generation, and optical sensing. However, integrating polarization components with fiber optics...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(11) 2868-2874 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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