Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Michael Fokine

    • Optical glass and glass ceramic historical aspects and recent developments: a Schott view
    • Appl. Opt. 49(16) D157-D176 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • Multi-Megahertz OCT: High quality 3D imaging at 20 million A-scans and 4.5 GVoxels per second
    • Opt. Express 18(14) 14685-14704 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Bloch surface waves in ultrathin waveguides: near-field investigation of mode polarization and propagation
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(8) 1617-1625 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Tian Yang

    • Planar photonic crystal cavities with far-field optimization for high coupling efficiency and quality factor
    • Opt. Express 18(15) 16064-16073 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Giovanni Piredda

    • Absolute instability in backward wave four-wave mixing: spatial effects
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(7) 1481-1486 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Refractive index engineering with subwavelength gratings for efficient microphotonic couplers and planar waveguide multiplexers
    • Opt. Lett. 35(15) 2526-2528 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF