Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Raman probes based on optically-poled double-clad fiber and coupler
    • Opt. Express 20(27) 28563-28572 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Multispectral integral imaging acquisition and processing using a monochrome camera and a liquid crystal tunable filter
    • Opt. Express 20(23) 25960-25969 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jeffery J. Puschell

    • Dynamic range and sensitivity requirements of satellite ocean color sensors: learning from the past
    • Appl. Opt. 51(25) 6045-6062 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Emishaw Iffa and Wolfgang Heidrich

    • Laser-absorption tomography beam arrangement optimization using resolution matrices
    • Appl. Opt. 51(29) 7059-7068 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Understanding the twin-image problem in phase retrieval
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29(11) 2367-2375 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Development of a scalable image formation pipeline for multiscale gigapixel photography
    • Opt. Express 20(20) 22048-22062 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Prof. Zhi-shen Liu

    • Remote sensing of seawater and drifting ice in Svalbard fjords by compact Raman lidar
    • Appl. Opt. 51(22) 5477-5485 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Lorenzo Scalise

    • Measurement of wide frequency range structural microvibrations with a pocket digital camera and sub-pixel techniques
    • Appl. Opt. 51(14) 2664-2671 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Edge enhancement of color images using a digital micromirror device
    • Appl. Opt. 51(16) 3439-3444 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Face recognition performance with superresolution
    • Appl. Opt. 51(18) 4250-4259 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Edward Fry

    • Measurement of light absorption by aquatic particles: improvement of the quantitative filter technique by use of an integrating sphere approach
    • Appl. Opt. 51(9) 1336-1351 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Experimental compressive phase space tomography
    • Opt. Express 20(8) 8296-8308 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Using phase diversity for the measurement of the complete spatiotemporal electric field of ultrashort laser pulses
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(2) 244-248 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shalin Mehta

    • Super deep 3D images from a 3D omnifocus video camera
    • Appl. Opt. 51(6) 763-770 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kedar Khare

    • Tracking of multiple objects in unknown background using Bayesian estimation in 3D space
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(9) 1935-1940 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • High-speed scattering medium characterization with application to focusing light through turbid media
    • Opt. Express 20(2) 1733-1740 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • High temperature epsilon-near-zero and epsilon-near-pole metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaics
    • Opt. Express 21(S1) A96-A110 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Orbital angular momentum generation and mode transformation with high efficiency using forked polarization gratings
    • Appl. Opt. 51(34) 8236-8245 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kirankumar Hiremath

    • Analysis of bistable memory in silica toroid microcavity
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(12) 3335-3343 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • High-finesse cavity external optical feedback DFB laser with hertz relative linewidth
    • Opt. Lett. 37(22) 4729-4731 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by John Ballato

    • Silica exposed-core microstructured optical fibers
    • Opt. Mater. Express 2(11) 1538-1547 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in tapered chalcogenide fiber for producing octave-spanning frequency comb around 3 μm
    • Opt. Express 20(22) 24218-24225 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Broadband mid-infrared frequency upconversion and spectroscopy with an aperiodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide
    • Opt. Lett. 37(20) 4332-4334 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Silvia Vignolini

    • Disordered packings of core-shell particles with angle-independent structural colors
    • Opt. Mater. Express 2(10) 1343-1352 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ossi Kimmelma

    • Blue-pumped whispering gallery optical parametric oscillator
    • Opt. Lett. 37(20) 4224-4226 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jesper Lægsgaard

    • New approach to pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive optical media
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(10) 2958-2963 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Giovanni Cirmi

    • Generation of 30 fs pulses tunable from 189 to 240 nm with an all-solid-state setup
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(10) 2765-2769 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alan Heins

    • Tailoring a 67 attosecond pulse through advantageous phase-mismatch
    • Opt. Lett. 37(18) 3891-3893 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alan Bristow

    • Ultrafast field-resolved semiconductor spectroscopy utilizing quantum interference control of currents
    • Opt. Lett. 37(18) 3879-3881 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Matthew Evans

    • Multicolor cavity metrology
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29(10) 2092-2103 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Design of ultrahigh brightness solar-pumped disk laser
    • Appl. Opt. 51(26) 6382-6388 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Pulse synthesis in the single-cycle regime from independent mode-locked lasers using attosecond-precision feedback
    • Opt. Lett. 37(17) 3579-3581 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Liang Pan

    • Integrated head design using a nanobeak antenna for thermally assisted magnetic recording
    • Opt. Express 20(17) 18946-18954 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Xuan Yang and Claire Gu

    • Surface enhanced Raman scattering in the presence of multilayer dielectric structures
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(8) 1863-1874 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Dispersion-dominated nonlinear fiber-optic channel
    • Opt. Lett. 37(14) 2931-2933 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Unified theoretical model for calculating laser-induced wavefront distortion in optical materials
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(7) 1772-1777 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Generalized laws of refraction that can lead to wave-optically forbidden light-ray fields
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29(7) 1407-1411 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Hostutler

    • Gain and lasing of optically pumped metastable rare gas atoms
    • Opt. Lett. 37(11) 2157-2159 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Electron acceleration driven by ultrashort and nonparaxial radially polarized laser pulses
    • Opt. Lett. 37(13) 2442-2444 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shalin Mehta

    • Polarization-resolved four-wave mixing microscopy for structural imaging in thick tissues
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(6) 1541-1550 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tuennermann

    • Origin of thermal modal instabilities in large mode area fiber amplifiers
    • Opt. Express 20(10) 11407-11422 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Willie Padilla

    • THz near-field Faraday imaging in hybrid metamaterials
    • Opt. Express 20(10) 11277-11287 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Aaron E. Leanhardt

    • Hyperfine Paschen–Back regime realized in Rb nanocell
    • Opt. Lett. 37(8) 1379-1381 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhipei Sun and Andrea C. Ferrari

    • Observation of white-light amplified spontaneous emission from carbon nanodots under laser excitation
    • Opt. Mater. Express 2(4) 490-495 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Low-loss plasmonic metamaterial based on epitaxial gold monocrystal film
    • Opt. Express 20(9) 9545-9550 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Chih-Hao Li and Ronald Walsworth

    • Demonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb
    • Opt. Express 20(6) 6631-6643 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Cross-phase modulation imaging
    • Opt. Lett. 37(5) 800-802 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Continuous-wave interband cascade lasers operating above room temperature at λ = 4.7-5.6 μm
    • Opt. Express 20(3) 3235-3240 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by S. Mark Ammons

    • Piston and tilt cophasing of segmented laser array using Shack-Hartmann sensor
    • Opt. Express 20(4) 4663-4674 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Goery Genty

    • Supercontinuum generation in ZBLAN fibers—detailed comparison between measurement and simulation
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(4) 635-645 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF