Homography estimation by two PClines Hough transforms and a square-radial checkerboard pattern

Rigoberto Juarez-Salazar and Victor H. Diaz-Ramirez

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3316-3322 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral Monte Carlo simulation of collimated solar irradiation transfer in a water-filled prismatic louver

Yaomin Cai and Zhixiong Guo

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3021-3030 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Inverse Gaussian gamma distribution model for turbulence-induced fading in free-space optical communication

Mingjian Cheng, Ya Guo, Jiangting Li, Xiaotong Zheng, and Lixin Guo

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3031-3037 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Twin scanning lidars for accurate measurement of lower tropospheric aerosols by numerical approximation

Fei Gao, Hengshuai Nan, Wanwan Li, Qingsong Zhu, Rui Zhang, Qing Yan, Shichun Li, Li Wang, and Dengxin Hua

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3065-3071 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of sea-surface photosynthetically available radiation algorithms under various sky conditions and solar elevations

Srikanth Ayyala Somayajula, Emmanuel Devred, Simon Bélanger, David Antoine, V. Vellucci, and Marcel Babin

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3088-3105 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Substrate aberration and correction for meta-lens imaging: an analytical approach

Benedikt Groever, Charles Roques-Carmes, Steven J. Byrnes, and Federico Capasso

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 2973-2980 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Performance analysis of waveguide-mode resonant optical filters with stochastic design parameters

Aristeidis D. Papadopoulos, Theodoros T. Zygiridis, Elias N. Glytsis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, and Theodoros D. Tsiboukis

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3106-3114 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization modulation by means of tunable polarization gratings in an azobenzene side-chain liquid-crystalline polymer film

Ziyao Lyu, Changshun Wang, Yujia Pan, Yifei Yang, and Renjie Xia

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3146-3153 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the spatial resolution of volume Bragg grating two-dimensional monochromatic images

Jiazhu Duan, Xiangjie Zhao, Yongquan Luo, and Dayong Zhang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3159-3165 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Producing an efficient, collimated, and thin annular beam with a binary axicon

Oz Livneh, Gadi Afek, and Nir Davidson

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3205-3208 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon waveguide grating coupler based on a segmented grating structure

Jianxun Hong, Feng Qiu, Andrew M. Spring, and Shiyoshi Yokoyama

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3301-3305 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin-film-based optical fiber Fabry–Perot interferometer used for humidity sensing

Jiankun Peng, Yapeng Qu, Weijia Wang, Tengpeng Sun, and Minghong Yang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 2967-2972 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Talbot effect with partially coherent interfering Bessel beams

José S. Rodrigues, Eduardo J. S. Fonseca, and Alcenísio J. Jesus-Silva

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3186-3190 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Compensating additional optical power in the central zone of a multifocal contact lens forminimization of the shrinkage error of the shell mold in the injection molding process

Lien T. Vu, Chao-Chang A. Chen, Chia-Cheng Lee, and Chia-Wei Yu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 2981-2991 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Decomposition method for fast computation of gigapixel-sized Fresnel holograms on a graphics processing unit cluster

Boaz Jessie Jackin, Shinpei Watanabe, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takeshi Ohkawa, Takashi Yokota, Yoshio Hayasaki, Toyohiko Yatagai, and Takanobu Baba

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3134-3145 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Off-axis digital holography with multiplexed volume Bragg gratings

Leo Puyo, Jean-Pierre Huignard, and Michael Atlan

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3281-3287 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic formation and diffractive properties of hybrid periodic structures

N. D. Vorzobova, P. P. Sokolov, V. O. Veselov, and I. J. Schelkanova

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3323-3328 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of an inverse distance weighted active infrared stealth scheme using the repulsive particle swarm optimization algorithm

Kuk-Il Han, Do-Hwi Kim, Jun-Hyuk Choi, and Tae-Kuk Kim

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3072-3077 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast quality-guided phase unwrapping algorithm through a pruning strategy: applications in dynamic interferometry

Lourdes López-García, Anmi García-Arellano, and William Cruz-Santos

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3126-3133 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (6)]

Bifocal dual reflector system for active terahertz imaging

Deliang Zhou, Liwei Hou, Yi Yuan, Yuanzhang Zang, Xuecou Tu, Jian Chen, and Peiheng Wu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3224-3230 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Completely blind image quality assessment via image gray-scale fluctuations and fractal dimension analysis

Xichen Yang, Quansen Sun, and Tianshu Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3268-3280 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength-dependent excess permittivity as indicator of kerosene in diesel oil

Boniphace Kanyathare and Kai-Erik Peiponen

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 2997-3002 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-dependent optical constants of liquid isopropanol, n-butanol, and n-decane

C. C. Wang, J. Y. Tan, C. Y. Jing, and L. H. Liu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3003-3011 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for determination of xenobiotic silver in monosodium glutamate and its verification using ICP-AES

I. Rehan, M. A. Gondal, and K. Rehan

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3191-3197 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Algorithm for pose estimation based on objective function with uncertainty-weighted measuring error of feature point cling to the curved surface

Ju Huo, Guiyang Zhang, and Ming Yang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3306-3315 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a graphene-based dual-slot hybrid plasmonic electro-absorption modulator with high-modulation efficiency and broad optical bandwidth for on-chip communication

Zhongwei Wu and Yin Xu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3260-3267 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the influence of installation tilt error on the tool setting accuracy by laser diffraction

GuangFeng Shi, YuShi Zhang, Hua Zhang, JinYu Wang, and GuoQuan Shi

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3012-3020 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

10.3-W actively Q-switched Nd:YVO₄/YVO₄ folded coupled-cavity Raman laser at 1176  nm

Jian Liu, Xin Ding, Pengbo Jiang, Quan Sheng, Xuanyi Yu, Bing Sun, Jingbo Wang, Rui Shi, Lei Zhao, Yuntao Bai, Guizhong Zhang, Liang Wu, and Jianquan Yao

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3154-3158 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Morphology and growth properties of nano- and submicrometer-scale initial damage sites under 355  nm wavelength pulsed laser irradiation

Li Zhang, Bin Ma, Ke Wang, Hongfei Jiao, Xinbin Cheng, and Zhanshan Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3166-3171 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

1164.4  nm and 1174.7  nm dual-wavelength Nd : GdVO₄/Cr⁴⁺ : YAG/YVO₄ passively Q-switched Raman microchip laser

Xiaojie Wang, Xiaolei Wang, Zhifen Zheng, Xihao Qiao, and Jun Dong

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3198-3204 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Confined-doped fiber for effective mode control fabricated by MCVD process

Lei Liao, Fangfang Zhang, Xinglong He, Yisha Chen, Yibo Wang, Haiqing Li, Jinggang Peng, Luyun Yang, Nengli Dai, and Jinyan Li

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3244-3249 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for real-time detection of contamination particles during the manufacturing process

Haebum Lee, Hyunok Maeng, Kyoungtae Kim, Gibaek Kim, and Kihong Park

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3288-3292 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical manipulation of nematic colloids at the interfaces in azo-dye-doped liquid crystals

Andy Ying Guey Fuh, Ming-Hsien Li, Te-Wei Chang, Yu-I Lee, and Shing Trong Wu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3180-3185 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Stable passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser incorporating a PbS quantum dots polystyrene composite film based saturable absorber

Xiaolan Sun, Bin Zhou, Chuanhang Zou, Wei Zhao, Qianqian Huang, Nana Li, Tianxing Wang, Chengbo Mou, Tingyun Wang, and Alan R. Kost

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3231-3236 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid method to estimate two-layered superficial tissue optical properties from simulated data of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

Hong-Po Hsieh, Fan-Hua Ko, and Kung-Bin Sung

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3038-3046 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Double Donut Schmidt Camera, a wide-field, large-aperture, and lightweight space telescope for the detection of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Paolo Sandri, Piero Mazzinghi, and Vania Da Deppo

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3078-3087 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of one-way absorption properties in an asymmetric photonic crystal containing a semiconductor defect

Tzu-Chyang King, Zih-Hao Huang, Chien-Hsun Hung, and Chien-Jang Wu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3115-3118 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Omnidirectional narrow optical filters for circularly polarized light in a nanocomposite structurally chiral medium

Carlos G. Avendaño and Laura O. Palomares

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3119-3125 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical device for the precision control of the electric field in the focus of a beam

James Strohaber

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3209-3213 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

DERS substrate based on NERS-SERS interaction in integrated microfluidic detection

Cheng Xiao, Zhibin Chen, Mengze Qin, Dongxiao Zhang, and Lei Fan

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3172-3179 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Focus shaping by tailoring arbitrary hybrid polarization states that have a combination of orthogonal linear polarization bases

Zhongsheng Man, Zhidong Bai, Jinjian Li, Shuoshuo Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaolu Ge, and Shenggui Fu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3047-3055 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Discrete vector frozen waves in generalized Lorenz–Mie theory: linear, azimuthal, and radial polarizations

Leonardo André Ambrosio, Michel Zamboni Rached, and Gérard Gouesbet

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3293-3300 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency stability of a pulsed optically pumped atomic clock with narrow Ramsey linewidth

Haixiao Lin, Jianliao Deng, Jinda Lin, Song Zhang, and Yuzhu Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3056-3060 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Film thickness measurement based on nonlinear phase analysis using a Linnik microscopic white-light spectral interferometer

Tong Guo, Zhuo Chen, Minghui Li, Juhong Wu, Xing Fu, and Xiaotang Hu

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 2955-2961 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-dependent LITT effect in c axis inclined BiCuSeO thin films

Lingyun Wang, Guoying Yan, Shuaihang Hou, Shuang Guo, Jianglong Wang, Nian Fu, and Shufang Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(12), 3061-3064 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF