Ethics, plagiarism, and Crosscheck: editorial

Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 56(16), ED5-ED5 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of wafer-bonded structures for near room temperature Geiger-mode operation of germanium on silicon single-photon avalanche photodiode

Shaoying Ke, Shaoming Lin, Danfeng Mao, Yujie Ye, Xiaoli Ji, Wei Huang, Cheng Li, and Songyan Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4646-4653 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Detecting the topological charge of optical vortex beams using a sectorial screen

Ruishan Chen, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Yong Zhou, Hai Ming, Anting Wang, and Qiwen Zhan

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4868-4872 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Range extension of the optical delay line in white light interferometry

Yonggui Yuan, Dongchuan Lu, Jun Yang, Jianguo Wang, Hanyang Li, Zhangjun Yu, Haoliang Zhang, Feng Peng, Zhihai Liu, and Libo Yuan

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4598-4605 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature sensing using CdSe quantum dot doped poly(methyl methacrylate) microfiber

Ninik Irawati, Sulaiman W. Harun, Husna A. Rahman, Su Sin Chong, Nur Aliya Hamizi, and Harith Ahmad

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4675-4679 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance improvement of coherent free-space optical communication with quadrature phase-shift keying modulation using digital phase estimation

Xueliang Li, Tianwen Geng, Shuang Ma, Yatian Li, Shijie Gao, and Zhiyong Wu

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4695-4701 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Chiral long-period gratings: fabrication, highly sensitive torsion sensing, and tunable single-band filtering

Xudong Kong, Kaili Ren, Liyong Ren, Jian Liang, and Haijuan Ju

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4702-4707 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Correcting aero-optical wavefront aberration of the supersonic mixing layer based on periodic pulse forcing

Guangming Guo and Hong Liu

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4613-4621 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Calculation of the overlap factor for scanning LiDAR based on the tridimensional ray-tracing method

Ruiqiang Chen, Yuesong Jiang, Luhong Wen, and Donghai Wen

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4636-4645 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Neighborhood binary speckle pattern for deformation measurements insensitive to local illumination variation by digital image correlation

Jian Zhao, Ping Yang, and Yue Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4708-4719 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hyperspectral remote sensing image retrieval system using spectral and texture features

Jing Zhang, Wenhao Geng, Xi Liang, Jiafeng Li, Li Zhuo, and Qianlan Zhou

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4785-4796 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

General filtering method for electronic speckle pattern interferometry fringe images with various densities based on variational image decomposition

Biyuan Li, Chen Tang, Guannan Gao, Mingming Chen, Shuwei Tang, and Zhenkun Lei

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4843-4853 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Lensless complex amplitude image retrieval through a visually opaque scattering medium

Bhargab Das, Nandan S. Bisht, R. V. Vinu, and Rakesh Kumar Singh

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4591-4597 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of a metamaterial slab lens and an imaging system based on an ellipsoidal cavity

Mahdi Kordi and Mir Mojtaba Mirsalehi

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4772-4778 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam-steering efficiency optimization method based on a rapid-search algorithm for liquid crystal optical phased array

Feng Xiao, Lingjiang Kong, and Jian Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4585-4590 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of a variable Rayleigh scattering-loss coefficient on the light backscattering in multimode optical fibers

M. A. Bisyarin, O. I. Kotov, A. H. Hartog, L. B. Liokumovich, and N. A. Ushakov

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4629-4635 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interfacial surface roughness determination by coherence scanning interferometry using noise compensation

Hirokazu Yoshino, John Michael Walls, and Roger Smith

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4757-4765 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple lock-in detection technique utilizing multiple harmonics for digital PGC demodulators

Fajie Duan, Tingting Huang, Jiajia Jiang, Xiao Fu, and Ling Ma

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4807-4813 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended shift-rotation method for absolute interferometric testing of a spherical surface with pixel-level spatial resolution

Yu Liu, Liang Miao, Wenlong Zhang, Chunshui Jin, and Haitao Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4886-4891 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Aluminum oxide nanoparticles as saturable absorber for C-band passively Q-switched fiber laser

Sarah Kadhim Mohsin Al-Hayali, Dunya Zeki Mohammed, Wurood Abdulkhaleq Khaleel, and Abdul Hadi Al-Janabi

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4720-4726 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Structural evolution of axial intensity distribution during hot image formation

Kewei You, Yanli Zhang, Xuejie Zhang, Mingying Sun, and Jianqiang Zhu

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4835-4842 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal parameter retrieval for metamaterial absorbers using the least-square method for wide incidence angle insensitivity

Dongju Lee, Nguyen Toan Trung, Un-Chul Moon, and Sungjoon Lim

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4670-4674 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Picosecond nonlinear optical properties of SrTiO₃ composite films doped with gold and nickel nanoparticles

Huiwen Lu and Weitian Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4690-4694 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of the local dispersion change in anomalous dispersion microcavity and quantitative analysis of the phase-matching in Kerr comb generation

Xun Lei, Zenghui Gu, Jianbin Ma, Guanshi Qin, Zhanguo Chen, and Shaowu Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4828-4834 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal micro-mirror tilt angle and sync mark design for digital micro-mirror device based collinear holographic data storage system

Jinpeng Liu, Hideyoshi Horimai, Xiao Lin, Jinyan Liu, Yong Huang, and Xiaodi Tan

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4779-4784 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast all-optical flip-flop based on passive micro Sagnac waveguide ring with photonic crystal fiber

Ming Xu, Wan Yang, Tao Hong, TangZhen Kang, JianHua Ji, and Ke Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4577-4584 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Evanescent coupling between refillable ring resonators and laser-inscribed optical waveguides

Hengky Chandrahalim, Stephen C. Rand, and Xudong Fan

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4750-4756 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tolerance of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal memory for gamma-ray irradiation

Akifumi Ogiwara, Minoru Watanabe, and Yoshizumi Ito

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4854-4860 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode properties in metallic and non-metallic plasmonic waveguides

Wanwan Liu, Yifu Chen, Xin Hu, Long Wen, Lin Jin, Qiang Su, and Qin Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4861-4867 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and implementation of the modified signed digit multiplication routine on a ternary optical computer

Qun Xu, Xianchao Wang, and Chao Xu

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4661-4669 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interfaces with fractional optical constants and linear reflectance versus angle of incidence for incident unpolarized or circularly polarized light

R. M. A. Azzam

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4882-4885 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Noise level estimation of BOTDA for optimal non-local means denoising

Xianyang Qian, Xinhong Jia, Zinan Wang, Bin Zhang, Naitian Xue, Wei Sun, Qiheng He, and Han Wu

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4727-4734 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide-band supercontinuum generation in mid-IR using polarization maintaining chalcogenide photonic quasi-crystal fiber

M. Valliammai and S. Sivabalan

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4797-4806 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantifying the polarization properties of non-depolarizing optical elements with virtual distorting elements: publisher’s note

Xiao Wang, Feng Yang, Jianhua Yin, Patrick Ferrand, and Sophie Brasselet

Appl. Opt. 56(16), 4827-4827 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF