Performance of heterodyne differential phase-shift-keying underwater wireless optical communication systems in gamma-gamma-distributed turbulence

Yuqing Fu and Yongzhao Du

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2057-2063 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of anisotropy on bit error rate for an asymmetrical Gaussian beam in a turbulent ocean

Yalçın Ata and Yahya Baykal

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2258-2262 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiplanar imaging properties of Theon sieves

Shouying Xu, Junyong Zhang, Shenlei Zhou, YaYao Ma, Songxian Wang, Yanli Zhang, Jing Xie, and Jianqiang Zhu

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 1993-1997 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly directive switchable nanoantenna array based on dielectric omega particles at terahertz frequencies

Raana Sabri, Ali Pourziad, and Saeid Nikmehr

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2292-2298 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber birefringence measurement by an external applied strain method and a polarimetric fiber laser sensor

Xiujuan Yu, Yunxin Hu, Xuefeng Chen, Jintao Zhang, Shengchun Liu, and Yachen Gao

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2033-2039 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Mach–Zehnder interferometric magnetic field sensor based on a photonic crystal fiber and magnetic fluid

Xiang Zi Ding, Hang-Zhou Yang, Xue-Guang Qiao, Pan Zhang, Oin Tian, Qiang Zhou Rong, Nurul Asha Mohd Nazal, Kok-Sing Lim, and Harith Ahmad

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2050-2056 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the performance of underwater wireless optical communication links by channel coding

Ferdaouss Mattoussi, Mohammad Ali Khalighi, and Salah Bourennane

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2115-2120 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on vibration sensing performance of an equal strength cantilever beam based on an excessively tilted fiber grating

Binbin Luo, Wanmeng Yang, Xinyu Hu, Huafeng Lu, Shenghui Shi, Mingfu Zhao, Ye Lu, Lang Xie, Zhongyuan Sun, and Lin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2128-2134 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic waveguide heads-up display for longitudinal image magnification and pupil expansion

Colton M. Bigler, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, and Kalluri Sarma

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2007-2013 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical configuration with fixed transverse magnification for self-interference incoherent digital holography

Masatoshi Imbe

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2268-2276 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

One lens optical correlation: application to face recognition

Maher Jridi, Thibault Napoléon, and Ayman Alfalou

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2087-2095 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Using turbulence scintillation to assist object ranging from a single camera viewpoint

Chensheng Wu, Jonathan Ko, Joseph Coffaro, Daniel A. Paulson, John R. Rzasa, Larry C. Andrews, Ronald L. Phillips, Robert Crabbs, and Christopher C. Davis

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2177-2187 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Design of discrete and continuous super-resolving Toraldo pupils in the microwave range

Luca Olmi, Pietro Bolli, and Daniela Mugnai

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2215-2222 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection with polychromatic x-ray pencil beam illumination: information-theoretic bounds

Vicha Treeaporn and Mark A. Neifeld

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 1977-1992 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phaseless computational ghost imaging at microwave frequencies using a dynamic metasurface aperture

Aaron V. Diebold, Mohammadreza F. Imani, Timothy Sleasman, and David R. Smith

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2142-2149 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Airlight-imposed errors for space-object polarimetric observations from the ground

David W. Tyler and Casey Demars

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2235-2244 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Transparent surface orientation from polarization imaging using vector operation

Jing Liu, Xiaotian Lu, Weiqi Jin, Xia Wang, Su Qiu, and Renjie Wen

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2306-2313 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal bandwidth and systematic error of full-Stokes micropolarizer arrays

Andrey S. Alenin, Israel J. Vaughn, and J. Scott Tyo

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2327-2336 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical characterization of porcine articular cartilage using a polarimetry technique with differential Mueller matrix formulism

Ching-Min Chang, Yu-Lung Lo, Nghia-Khanh Tran, and Yu-Jen Chang

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2121-2127 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Methods based on 1D homography for camera calibration with 1D objects

Yaowen Lv, Wei Liu, and Xiping Xu

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2155-2164 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Switchable phase/intensity sensor made with ring-shaped and hexagonal ferroelectric domains

Joel Mávita, L. A. Ríos, Citlali E. Minor, and Roger S. Cudney

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2208-2214 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvement of the fringe analysis algorithm for wavelength scanning interferometry based on filter parameter optimization

Tao Zhang, Feng Gao, Hussam Muhamedsalih, Shan Lou, Haydn Martin, and Xiangqian Jiang

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2227-2234 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Extraction of interference phase in frequency-scanning interferometry based on empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert transform

Wen Deng, Zhigang Liu, Zhongwen Deng, Xingyu Jia, and Zhiyong Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2299-2305 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic bandpass filter characteristics of multimode SOI waveguides integrated with submicron gratings

Parimal Sah and Bijoy Krishna Das

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2277-2281 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity, phase, and polarization of a vector Bessel vortex beam through multilayered isotropic media

Haiying Li, Farideh Honary, Jiajie Wang, Jiawei Liu, Zhensen Wu, and Lu Bai

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 1967-1976 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched solid-state Tm:YAG laser using topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ as a saturable absorber

Pan Gao, Haizhou Huang, Xihu Wang, Huagang Liu, Jianhong Huang, Wen Weng, Shutao Dai, Jinhui Li, and Wenxiong Lin

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2020-2024 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of temperature on surface error and laser damage threshold for self-healing BK7 glass

Chu Wang, Hongxiang Wang, Lu Shen, Jing Hou, Qiao Xu, Jian Wang, Xianhua Chen, and Zhichao Liu

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2025-2032 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of impact and spreading of molten nanosized gold droplets on solid surfaces

Daozhi Shen, Guisheng Zou, Lei Liu, Aiping Wu, Walter W. Duley, and Y. Norman Zhou

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2080-2086 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser investigation of Yb:YLF crystals fabricated with the micro-pulling-down technique

Francesca Demetra Lelii, Shu Jun, Federico Pirzio, Giuliano Piccinno, Mauro Tonelli, and Antonio Agnesi

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2223-2226 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam quality improvement by controlling thermal lens spherical aberration in an end-pumped Nd:YVO₄ laser

Qiangqiang Yao, Yuan Dong, Qihan Wang, and Guangyong Jin

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2245-2249 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

12-W continuous-wave green output from a 200-μm fiber-coupled diode laser based on TO-Can packaged emitters

Pengfei Zhao, Zhining Wang, Haijuan Yu, and Xuechun Lin

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2263-2267 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Partially coherent noise-like pulse generation in amplified spontaneous Raman emission

Qing Zhao, Weiwei Pan, Xianglong Zeng, and Yan Feng

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2282-2286 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

14  GHz broadband and continuously frequency-tuned Nd:YVO₄ laser with an RTP etalon

Xinrui Xu, Rongwei Fan, Xudong Li, Yufei Ma, Renpeng Yan, Xing Wang, Zhadong Chen, Zhigang Zhou, and Deying Chen

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2287-2291 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase and amplitude beam shaping with two deformable mirrors implementing input plane and Fourier plane phase modifications

Chensheng Wu, Jonathan Ko, John R. Rzasa, Daniel A. Paulson, and Christopher C. Davis

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2337-2345 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Ultra-long magnetization needle induced by focusing azimuthally polarized beams with a spherical mirror

Li Hang, Kai Luo, Jian Fu, Yizhe Chang, Ying Wang, and Peifeng Chen

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2069-2072 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Cost-effective way to improve the optical properties of poly(methyl methacrylate)/poly(ethylene terephthalate) light scattering materials: drop coalescence

Xiao Liu, Ziru Zhao, Ying Xiong, Ping Yi, and Shaoyun Guo

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2107-2114 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiresonance response in hyperbolic metamaterials

Bartosz Janaszek, Marcin Kieliszczyk, Anna Tyszka-Zawadzka, and Paweł Szczepański

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2135-2141 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable Bragg defect mode in one-dimensional photonic crystal containing a graphene-embedded defect layer

H. Mahmoodzadeh and B. Rezaei

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2172-2176 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Manipulation of group-velocity-locked vector dissipative solitons and properties of the generated high-order vector soliton structure

S. N. Zhu, Z. C. Wu, S. N. Fu, and L. M. Zhao

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2064-2068 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of freeform mirror systems based on the decomposition of the total wave aberration into Zernike surface contributions

Mateusz Oleszko and Herbert Gross

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 1998-2006 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance analysis of triple asymmetrical optical multiple ring resonator with a 1 × 3 input-output waveguide for application as an optical filter

Suman Ranjan and Sanjoy Mandal

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2040-2049 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

GaN microring waveguide resonators bonded to silicon substrate by a two-step polymer process

Ryohei Hashida, Takashi Sasaki, and Kazuhiro Hane

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2073-2079 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-fast all-optical decoder based on nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators

Tina Daghooghi, Mohammad Soroosh, and Karim Ansari-Asl

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2250-2257 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Green’s function for a sharpened and metal-coated dielectric probe

Vineet Khullar, Gong Gu, Ali Passian, and Thomas L. Ferrell

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2150-2154 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Physical optics-based diffraction coefficient for a wedge with different face impedances

Yusuf Ziya Umul

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2014-2019 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing laser crater enhanced Raman spectroscopy

V. N. Lednev, P. A. Sdvizhenskii, M. Ya. Grishin, V. A. Filichkina, A. N. Shchegolikhin, and S. M. Pershin

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2096-2101 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute frequency measurement of molecular iodine hyperfine transitions at 647  nm

Yao-Chin Huang, Yu-Chan Guan, Te-Hwei Suen, Jow-Tsong Shy, and Li-Bang Wang

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2102-2106 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of composite/difference field scattering properties between a slightly rough optical surface and multi-body defects

Lei Gong, Zhensen Wu, Ming Gao, and Tan Qu

Appl. Opt. 57(9), 2165-2171 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF