Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Bert A. Pasquale and Edward J. Wollack

    • Mapping the aberrations of a wide-field spectrograph using a photonic comb
    • Opt. Express 25(14) 15614-15623 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Mid-infrared nanospectroscopy of Berreman mode and epsilon-near-zero local field confinement in thin films
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(10) 3706-3714 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Luca Sapienza

    • Optimizing single-mode collection from pointlike sources of single photons with adaptive optics
    • Opt. Express 25(16) 18629-18642 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow [Invited]
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(6) 1820-1847 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter J. Mosley

    • Pulsed single-photon spectrometer by frequency-to-time mapping using chirped fiber Bragg gratings
    • Opt. Express 25(11) 12804-12811 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhimin Shi

    • Straightforward retrieval of dispersion in a dense atomic vapor helped by buffer gas-assisted radiation channeling
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(4) 877-883 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Multi-focus image fusion based on dictionary learning with rolling guidance filter
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(3) 432-440 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jason Porter

    • Registration of eye reflection and scene images using an aspherical eye model
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33(11) 2264-2276 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Julien Réhault

    • Dual-comb coherent Raman spectroscopy with lasers of 1-GHz pulse repetition frequency
    • Opt. Lett. 42(2) 318-321 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Analysis and magnetic modulation of chiro-optical properties in anisotropic chiral and magneto-chiral plasmonic systems
    • Opt. Express 25(25) 31045-31055 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Low-loss reciprocal optical terminals for two-way time-frequency transfer
    • Appl. Opt. 56(34) 9406-9413 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Shaping the spectrum of a down-converted mid-infrared frequency comb
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(11) 2287-2294 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by James R. Taylor

    • Photonic lantern kW-class fiber amplifier
    • Opt. Express 25(22) 27543-27550 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Improving emission uniformity and linearizing band dispersion in nanowire arrays using quasi-aperiodicity
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(10) 3634-3642 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paolo Facchi

    • Particle–wave dichotomy in quantum Monte Carlo: unlocking the quantum correlations
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(9) 1817-1823 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Orges Furxhi

    • 360-degree screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal ball using a spatially imaged iris and rotational multiview DFD technologies
    • Appl. Opt. 56(22) 6156-6167 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Continuous-wave optically pumped green perovskite vertical-cavity surface-emitter
    • Opt. Lett. 42(18) 3618-3621 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Israel De Leon

    • Tunability of indium tin oxide materials for mid-infrared plasmonics applications
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(8) 2727-2739 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrea Crespi

    • Large optical phase shifts in hydrogels written with femtosecond laser pulses: elucidating the role of localized water concentration changes
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(9) 3162-3180 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Multiple surface-plasmon-polariton waves guided by a chiral sculptured thin film grown on a metallic grating
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(9) 1937-1945 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Qing Gu

    • Thresholdless quantum dot nanolaser
    • Opt. Express 25(17) 19981-19994 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter Mosley

    • Generation of 300 nm bandwidth 0.5 mJ pulses near 1 μm in a single stage gas filled hollow core fiber
    • Opt. Express 25(18) 21171-21179 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Schnaiter

    • Simultaneous observation of a glory and in-situ microphysical cloud properties
    • Appl. Opt. 56(19) G5-G8 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Analytical qualitative modeling of passive and active metamaterials [Invited]
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(8) 1597-1623 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • Experimental nonlocal steering of Bohmian trajectories
    • Opt. Express 25(13) 14463-14472 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Highly efficient mirrorless optical parametric oscillator pumped by nanosecond pulses
    • Opt. Lett. 42(13) 2435-2438 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • 4.2 PW, 20 fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1 Hz
    • Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • Multi-petawatt laser facility fully based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
    • Opt. Lett. 42(10) 2014-2017 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Christos Grivas 

    • Giant photoluminescence enhancement in monolayer WS2 by energy transfer from CsPbBr3 quantum dots
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(4) 1327-1334 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Igor Aharonovich

    • Scalable fabrication of coupled NV center - photonic crystal cavity systems by self-aligned N ion implantation
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(5) 1514-1524 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anton Zeilinger

    • Generation and applications of an ultrahigh-fidelity four-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state
    • Opt. Express 24(24) 27059-27069 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Filippo Miatto

    • All-order dispersion cancellation and energy-time entangled state
    • Opt. Express 25(2) 1360-1380 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Generating high-contrast, near single-cycle waveforms with third-order dispersion compensation
    • Opt. Lett. 42(4) 811-814 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Relative change measurement of physical quantities using dual-wavelength coherent OTDR
    • Opt. Express 25(2) 720-729 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Lattice modes and plasmonic linewidth engineering in gold and aluminum nanoparticle arrays
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(3) 691-700 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Photonic-crystal hydrogels with a rapidly tunable stop band and high reflectivity across the visible
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 253-263 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Hybrid metal-dielectric nanocavity for enhanced light-matter interactions
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 231-239 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey A. Sukhorukov

    • Engineering chiral light–matter interaction in photonic crystal waveguides with slow light
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 43-51 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Esa Saarinen

    • Pulse interactions in a colliding pulse mode-locked vertical external cavity surface emitting laser
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(2) 329-337 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Luca Tartara

    • Comparative study of multioctave supercontinuum generation in fused silica, YAG, and LiF in the range of anomalous group velocity dispersion
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(1) 88-94 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Gabriel Popescu

    • Refractive index measurement of suspended cells using opposed-view digital holographic microscopy
    • Appl. Opt. 56(32) 9000-9005 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Juan P. Torres

    • Using a complex optical orbital-angular-momentum spectrum to measure object parameters
    • Opt. Lett. 42(21) 4482-4485 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Fritz Riehle

    • Low-loss reciprocal optical terminals for two-way time-frequency transfer
    • Appl. Opt. 56(34) 9406-9413 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Maria Losurdo

    • Laser-induced photochemical synthesis of fibrous-shaped CuO@CuS nanoporous structures for enhanced electrostatic adsorption of negatively charged contaminants from wastewater
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(11) 3863-3874 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Johann Toudert

    • Determination of refractive index and layer thickness of nm-thin films via ellipsometry
    • Opt. Express 25(22) 27077-27085 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Orges Furxhi

    • 360-degree screen-free floating 3D image in a crystal ball using a spatially imaged iris and rotational multiview DFD technologies
    • Appl. Opt. 56(22) 6156-6167 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Pascal Picart

    • Color-image reconstruction for two-wavelength digital holography using a generalized phase-shifting approach
    • Appl. Opt. 56(23) 6554-6563 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David A. Powell

    • Green’s functions, including scatterers, for photonic crystals and metamaterials
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(7) 1450-1458 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Mark Dennis

    • On the behavior of degree of polarization surfaces at the limit of Poincaré sphere walls
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(6) 1147-1155 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Ray-mapping approach in double freeform surface design for collimated beam shaping beyond the paraxial approximation
    • Appl. Opt. 56(13) 3679-3688 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF