Python-based dynamic scheduling assistant for atmospheric measurements by Bruker instruments using OPUS

Alexander Geddes, John Robinson, and Dan Smale

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 689-691 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Alignment of sensor arrays in optical instruments using a geometric approach

Travis W. Sawyer

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 794-801 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Practical splicing of poly-methyl-methacrylate plastic optical fibers

Michele C. Zanon, Vinicius N. H. Silva, Andrés P. L. Barbero, and Ricardo M. Ribeiro

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 812-816 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscatter signals in underwater lidars: temporal and frequency features

Alexander G. Luchinin, Mikhail Yu. Kirillin, and Lev S. Dolin

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 673-677 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Statistical and temporal irradiance fluctuations modeling for a ground-to-geostationary satellite optical link

A.-R. Camboulives, M.-T. Velluet, S. Poulenard, L. Saint-Antonin, and V. Michau

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 709-721 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering phase function depolarization parameter model and its application to water droplets sizing using off-axis lidar measurements at multiple angles

Gilles Roy, Gregoire Tremblay, and Xiaoying Cao

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 969-977 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Acceleration of diffraction calculations in cylindrically symmetrical optics

Jeremy S. Rubin, Eric L. Shirley, and Zachary H. Levine

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 788-793 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband self-collimating phenomenon in a low-loss hybrid plasmonic photonic crystal

Lingxuan Zhang, Wenfu Zhang, Guoxi Wang, Zhongyu Li, Shujian Du, Weiqiang Wang, Leiran Wang, Qibing Sun, and Wei Zhao

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 829-833 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency polarization-independent wideband multilayer dielectric reflective bullet-alike cross-section fused-silica beam combining grating

Hongchao Cao, Jun Wu, Junjie Yu, and Jianyong Ma

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 900-904 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multilayer graphene-based metasurfaces: robust design method for extremely broadband, wide-angle, and polarization-insensitive terahertz absorbers

Mahdi Rahmanzadeh, Hamid Rajabalipanah, and Ali Abdolali

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 959-968 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of the communication quality of free-space laser communication based on the power-in-the-bucket method

Xianghui Yin, Rui Wang, Shaoxin Wang, Yukun Wang, Chengbin Jin, Zhaoliang Cao, and Li Xuan

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 573-581 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-based simultaneous mode and wavelength demultiplexer

Amr M. Mahros and Islam Ashry

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 582-587 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Room temperature slow light in an optical fiber with dual-frequency laser pumping

Wei Qiu, Jianjun Liu, Yuda Wang, Yujing Yang, and Yuan Gao

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 602-606 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical approach of Brillouin amplification over threshold

Fikri Serdar Gökhan, Hasan Göktaş, and Volker J. Sorger

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 607-611 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Zeonex-based asymmetrical terahertz photonic crystal fiber for multichannel communication and polarization maintaining applications

Md. Saiful Islam, Jakeya Sultana, Alex Dinovitser, Mohammad Faisal, Mohammad Rakibul Islam, Brian W.-H. Ng, and Derek Abbott

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 666-672 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of a pressure-dependent refractive index of germanium film with an optical fiber film sensor

Dongxu Yuan, Hongyun Gao, Hao Chen, and Min Li

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 684-688 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity optical fiber relative humidity probe with temperature calibration ability

Lei Liang, Hao Sun, Nan Liu, Hao Luo, Tingting Gang, Qiangzhou Rong, Xueguang Qiao, and Manli Hu

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 872-876 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Finding trap stiffness of optical tweezers using digital filters

Pedro Almendarez-Rangel, Beatriz Morales-Cruzado, Erick Sarmiento-Gómez, and Francisco G. Pérez-Gutiérrez

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 652-658 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Image decomposition model Shearlet–Hilbert–L² with better performance for denoising in ESPI fringe patterns

Wenjun Xu, Chen Tang, Yonggang Su, Biyuan Li, and Zhenkun Lei

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 861-871 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Volumetric calibration of a plenoptic camera

Elise Munz Hall, Timothy W. Fahringer, Daniel R. Guildenbecher, and Brian S. Thurow

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 914-923 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-view-zone tabletop 3D display system based on integral imaging

Min-Yang He, Han-Le Zhang, Huan Deng, Xiao-Wei Li, Da-Hai Li, and Qiong-Hua Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 952-958 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

No-reference high-dynamic-range image quality assessment based on tensor decomposition and manifold learning

Feifan Guan, Gangyi Jiang, Yang Song, Mei Yu, Zongju Peng, and Fen Chen

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 839-848 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Influence of absorption on the refractive index determination accuracy by the minimum deviation method

Victor G. Plotnichenko and Vyacheslav O. Sokolov

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 639-647 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-accuracy vibration sensor based on a Fabry–Perot interferometer with active phase-tracking technology

Wei Xia, Chuncheng Li, Hui Hao, Yiping Wang, Xiaoqi Ni, Dongmei Guo, and Ming Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 659-665 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase unwrapping algorithm using polynomial phase approximation and linear Kalman filter

Rishikesh Kulkarni and Pramod Rastogi

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 702-708 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic microscopic 3D shape measurement based on marker-embedded Fourier transform profilometry

Yan Hu, Qian Chen, Yuzhen Zhang, Shijie Feng, Tianyang Tao, Hui Li, Wei Yin, and Chao Zuo

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 772-780 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Characterization of the pinhole diffraction based on the waveguide effect in a point diffraction interferometer

Chen Wang, Yongying Yang, Yao Li, Yuankai Chen, and Jian Bai

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 781-787 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and experimental verification of a photoacoustic flow sensor using computational fluid dynamics

Mikael Lassen, David Balslev-Harder, Anders Brusch, Nikola Pelevic, Stefan Persijn, and Jan C. Petersen

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 802-806 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Closed-loop laser polishing using in-process surface finish metrology

Oliver Faehnle, Rolf Rascher, Christian Vogt, and Dae Wook Kim

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 834-838 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimized digital speckle patterns for digital image correlation by consideration of both accuracy and efficiency

Zhenning Chen, Xinxing Shao, Xiangyang Xu, and Xiaoyuan He

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 884-893 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Exact surface profile measurement without subtracting dispersion phase through Fourier transform in a white-light scanning interferometer

Songjie Luo, Osami Sasaki, Ziyang Chen, Samuel Choi, and Jixiong Pu

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 894-899 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-independent directional coupler and polarization beam splitter based on asymmetric cross-slot waveguides

Li-Min Chang, Lei Liu, Yuan-Hao Gong, Man-Qing Tan, Yu-De Yu, and Zhi-Yong Li

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 678-683 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Research on the compensation of laser launch optics to improve the performance of the LGS spot

Jie Liu, Jianli Wang, Yuning Wang, Donghe Tian, Quan Zheng, Xudong Lin, Liang Wang, and Qingyun Yang

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 648-651 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Conventional soliton or stretched pulse delivered by nanotube-mode-locked fiber laser

Xiaoxiang Han

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 807-811 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic analysis and rotation experiment of an optical-trapped microsphere in air

Wenqiang Li, Nan Li, Yu Shen, Zhenhai Fu, Heming Su, and Huizhu Hu

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 823-828 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable plasmon-induced transparency in H-shaped Dirac semimetal metamaterial

Huan Chen, Huiyun Zhang, Xiaohan Guo, Shande Liu, and Yuping Zhang

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 752-756 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanofinishing of BK7 glass using a magnetorheological solid rotating core tool

Sumit Kumar and Anant Kumar Singh

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 942-951 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging by nonlinear fluorescence microscopy constructed of a pump-probe setup with two-wavelength laser pulses

Fumihiro Dake and Yusuke Taki

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 757-762 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Decomposition of group-velocity-locked-vector-dissipative solitons and formation of the high-order soliton structure by the product of their recombination

Xuan Wang, Lei Li, Ying Geng, Hanxiao Wang, Lei Su, and Luming Zhao

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 746-751 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Kinematic model for material removal distribution and surface figure in full-aperture polishing

Defeng Liao, Lele Ren, Feihu Zhang, Jian Wang, and Qiao Xu

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 588-593 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of focusing and correcting aberrations with binary amplitude and polarization modulation

Peter Fiala, Yunqi Li, and Christophe Dorrer

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 763-771 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity of diffraction efficiency to period width errors for multilayer diffractive optical elements

Hongfang Yang and Changxi Xue

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 855-860 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable mechanisms of quantum efficiencies in CdSe and TiO₂ quantum dot solar cells

Tahseen Dakhil, Samir M. Abdulalmuhsin, and Amin Habbeb AL-Khursan

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 612-619 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral optimization of phosphor-coated white LED for road lighting based on the mesopic limited luminous efficacy and IES color fidelity index

Licai Xiao, Chuanwen Zhang, Ping Zhong, and Guoxing He

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 931-936 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Lumen degradation analysis of LED lamps based on the subsystem isolation method

Hong-Liang Ke, Jian Hao, Jian-Hui Tu, Pei-Xian Miao, Chao-Quan Wang, Jing-Zhong Cui, Qiang Sun, and Ren-Tao Sun

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 849-854 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Slowing down light using terahertz semiconductor metamaterial for dual-band thermally tunable modulator applications

Zohreh Vafapour

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 722-729 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Light propagation in ordered and disordered optical waveguide arrays with a transverse loss gradient

Abbas Ghasempour Ardakani

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 625-631 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical and experimental evaluation of piezo-optic parameters and photoelastic constant in tetragonal PWO

Pier Paolo Natali, Luigi Montalto, Fabrizio Daví, Paolo Mengucci, Andrea Ciriaco, Nicola Paone, and Daniele Rinaldi

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 730-737 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid quantum receiver for quadrature amplitude modulation coherent-state discrimination beating the classical limit

Tian Chen, Ke Li, Yuan Zuo, and Bing Zhu

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 817-822 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Orthogonal vector algorithm to obtain the solar vector using the single-scattering Rayleigh model

Yinlong Wang, Jinkui Chu, Ran Zhang, and Chao Shi

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 594-601 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple scattering of polarized light in birefringent slab media: experimental verifications and simulations

Soichi Otsuki

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 692-701 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tracking moving targets behind a scattering medium via speckle correlation

Chengfei Guo, Jietao Liu, Tengfei Wu, Lei Zhu, and Xiaopeng Shao

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 905-913 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering under frequency comb excitation

Alexey Shchekin, Sergey Koptyaev, Maxim Ryabko, Anton Medvedev, Alexey Lantsov, Hong-Seok Lee, and Young-Geun Roh

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 632-638 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Full-field fabric stress mapping by micro Raman spectroscopy in a yarn push-out test

Z. K. Lei, F. Y. Qin, Q. C. Fang, R. X. Bai, W. Qiu, and X. Chen

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 924-930 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of a broadband monitoring system for the determination of the optical constants of a dielectric bilayer

Séverin L. Nadji, Michel Lequime, Thomas Begou, Cihan Koc, Catherine Grézes-Besset, and Julien Lumeau

Appl. Opt. 57(4), 877-883 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF