Happy New Year: editorial

Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 55(2), ED1-ED1 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Invalid phase values removal method for absolute phase recovery

Jin Lu, Rong Mo, Huibin Sun, Zhiyong Chang, and Xiaxia Zhao

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 387-394 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system

Lisa A. Poyneer, David W. Palmer, Bruce Macintosh, Dmitry Savransky, Naru Sadakuni, Sandrine Thomas, Jean-Pierre Véran, Katherine B. Follette, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, S. Mark Ammons, Vanessa P. Bailey, Brian Bauman, Andrew Cardwell, Daren Dillon, Donald Gavel, Markus Hartung, Pascale Hibon, Marshall D. Perrin, Fredrik T. Rantakyrö, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, and Jason J. Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 323-340 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of spectral distribution of sky radiance using a commercial digital camera

Masanori Saito, Hironobu Iwabuchi, and Isao Murata

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 415-424 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Differential time domain method improves performance of pulsed laser ranging and three-dimensional imaging

Jie Cao, Qun Hao, Yang Cheng, Yuxin Peng, Kaiyu Zhang, Jiaxing Mu, and Peng Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 360-367 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Underwater gas pipeline leakage source localization by distributed fiber-optic sensing based on particle swarm optimization tuning of the support vector machine

Yue Huang, Qiang Wang, Lilian Shi, and Qihua Yang

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 242-247 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral broadening in high-power Yb-doped fiber lasers employing narrow-linewidth multilongitudinal-mode oscillators

Zhihua Huang, Xiaobao Liang, Chengyu Li, Honghuan Lin, Qi Li, Jianjun Wang, and Feng Jing

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 297-302 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Alignment tolerant expanded beam connector based on a gapless fiber–lens interface

Yong-Geon Lee, Chang-Hyun Park, Seon-Woo Back, Haeng-Jeong Kim, and Sang-Shin Lee

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 341-344 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-noise and high-gain Brillouin optical amplifier for narrowband active optical filtering based on a pump-to-signal optoelectronic tracking

Yahia Souidi, Fethallah Taleb, Junbo Zheng, Min Won Lee, Frédéric Du Burck, and Vincent Roncin

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 248-253 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Starting configuration design method of freeform imaging and afocal systems with a real exit pupil

Tong Yang, Jun Zhu, and Guofan Jin

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 345-353 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Support-domain constrained phase retrieval algorithms in terahertz in-line digital holography reconstruction of a nonisolated amplitude object

Jiaqi Hu, Qi Li, and Yi Zhou

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 379-386 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication and application of heterogeneous printed mouse phantoms for whole animal optical imaging

Brian Z. Bentz, Anmol V. Chavan, Dergan Lin, Esther H. R. Tsai, and Kevin J. Webb

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 280-287 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative two-dimensional measurement of oil-film thickness by laser-induced fluorescence in a piston-ring model experiment

Stefan Wigger, Hans-Jürgen Füßer, Daniel Fuhrmann, Christof Schulz, and Sebastian A. Kaiser

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 269-279 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the surface form error of large aperture plane optical surfaces with a polarization phase-shifting liquid reference reflection Fizeau interferometer

Sanjib Chatterjee, Y. Pavan Kumar, Rishipal Singh, and Sarvendra Singh

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 310-316 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Alignment-free characterization of 2D gratings

Morten Hannibal Madsen, Pierre Boher, Poul-Erik Hansen, and Jan Friis Jørgensen

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 317-322 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonbulk motion system for simultaneously measuring the refractive index and thickness of a sample using tunable optics and spatial signal processing-based Gaussian beam imaging

Syed Azer Reza and Muhammad Qasim

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 368-378 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Box-like filter response using multimode single-ring microresonators

Salwa El-Sabban, Amr Wageeh, and Diaa Khalil

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 408-414 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of more than 40  W of average output power from a passively Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser

Usha Chakravarty, Antony Kuruvilla, Ravindra Singh, B. N. Upadhyaya, K. S. Bindra, and S. M. Oak

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 288-296 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphite saturable absorber based on the pencil-sketching method for Q-switching of an erbium fiber laser

Jinho Lee, Junsu Lee, Joonhoi Koo, and Ju Han Lee

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 303-309 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Weak two-photon absorption applied to the rapid prototyping of cell scaffolds

Bibi Safia Haq, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Khan Alam, Shahnaz Attaullah, and Mamoona Sultan

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 228-235 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical tweezing by photomigration

Zouheir Sekkat

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 259-268 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Period-chirped gratings fabricated by laser interference lithography with a concave Lloyd’s mirror

Hanbit Kim, Hyunho Jung, Dong-Hyun Lee, Kyu Back Lee, and Heonsu Jeon

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 354-359 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Packaged optofluidic microbubble resonators for optical sensing

Ting Tang, Xiang Wu, Liying Liu, and Lei Xu

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 395-399 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-mixing interferometry for rotational speed measurement of servo drives

Hui Sun, Ji-Gou Liu, Quan Zhang, and Ralph Kennel

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 236-241 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of plasmonic Au/TiO₂ nanofiber films with enhanced photocatalytic activities

Hua Li, Enzhou Liu, Jun Fan, Xiaoyun Hu, Jun Wan, Lin Sun, and Yang Hu

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 221-227 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy determination of toxic metals in fresh fish

L. V. Ponce, T. Flores, M. Sosa-Saldaña, F. C. Alvira, and G. M. Bilmes

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 254-258 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of citrus canker and Huanglongbing using fluorescence imaging spectroscopy and support vector machine technique

Caio Bruno Wetterich, Ruan Felipe de Oliveira Neves, José Belasque, and Luis Gustavo Marcassa

Appl. Opt. 55(2), 400-407 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF