United States Air Force Research Laboratory: introduction to the focus issue

Daniel LeMaster, Jeffery Allen, Michael Fanto, Shekhar Guha, Curt Grigsby, Wellesley Pereira, and Mark Spencer

Appl. Opt. 60(25), AFRL1-AFRL1 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Visualizing bleb mass dynamics in single cells using quantitative phase microscopy

Zachary A. Steelman, Anna Sedelnikova, Zachary N. Coker, Allen Kiester, Gary Noojin, Bennett L. Ibey, and Joel N. Bixler

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G10-G18 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Simulation of anisoplanatic lucky look imaging and statistics through optical turbulence using numerical wave propagation

Michael A. Rucci, Russell C. Hardie, and Richard K. Martin

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G19-G29 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Subaperture sampling for digital-holography applications involving atmospheric turbulence

Douglas E. Thornton, Matthias T. Banet, and Mark F. Spencer

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G30-G39 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Joint object classification and turbulence strength estimation using convolutional neural networks

Daniel A. LeMaster, Steven Leung, and Olga L. Mendoza-Schrock

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G40-G48 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Cartesian blind spot correction using two non-equal Risley elements

Joshua K. Lentz and Alec W. Letsinger

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G49-G54 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent sensing performance comparison of framed and asynchronous GMAPD arrays

Maureen E. Szymanski, Edward A. Watson, and David J. Rabb

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G55-G63 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Wave-optics simulation of dynamic speckle: II. In an image plane

Derek J. Burrell, Mark F. Spencer, Noah R. Van Zandt, and Ronald G. Driggers

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G77-G90 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Scene motion detection in imagery with anisoplanatic optical turbulence using a tilt-variance-based Gaussian mixture model

Richard L. Van Hook and Russell C. Hardie

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G91-G106 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

500 W peak power cavity dumped 2 µm GaSb-based VECSEL

Jacob Hoehler, Ricky Gibson, Jennifer M. Reed, and Robert Bedford

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G107-G112 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum generation in single-crystal YAG fibers pumped around the zero-dispersion wavelength

Michael Tripepi, Andrew Barrette, Manuel Ferdinandus, Ben Eshel, Kent L. Averett, Enam A. Chowdhury, and Carl M. Liebig

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G126-G131 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Silicon-nitride microring resonators for nonlinear optical and biosensing applications

Sarath C. Samudrala, Subrata Das, Kyu J. Lee, Mohammad G. Abdallah, Brett R. Wenner, Jeffery W. Allen, Monica S. Allen, Robert Magnusson, and Michael Vasilyev

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G132-G138 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser inscribed waveguide optical isolators in iron-doped lithium niobate

Michael G. Coco, Sean A. McDaniel, and Gary Cook

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G139-G143 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Commercial-off-the-shelf event-based cameras for space surveillance applications

Peter N. McMahon-Crabtree and David G. Monet

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G144-G153 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Size, weight, and power breakthrough in nonmechanical beam and line-of-sight steering with geo-phase optics

Nelson V. Tabirian, David Roberts, Zhi Liao, Elena Ouskova, Justin Sigley, Anna Tabirian, Jonathan Slagle, Michael McConney, and Timothy J. Bunning

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G154-G161 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Approaches to low-cost infrared sensing

Charles J. Reyner, Gamini Ariyawansa, Bruce Claflin, Joshua M. Duran, and Gordon J. Grzybowski

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G162-G169 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic mode decomposition based predictive model performance on supersonic and transonic aero-optical wavefront measurements

Benjamin D. Shaffer, Austin J. McDaniel, Christopher C. Wilcox, and Edwin S. Ahn

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G170-G180 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of tilt correlation statistics to anisoplanatic optical turbulence modeling and mitigation

Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Santasri Bose-Pillai, and Richard Van Hook

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G181-G198 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon absorption characterization and comparison of Au(I) fluorenyl benzothiazole complexes in the visible wavelength regime

Trenton R. Ensley, Ryan M. O’Donnell, Joseph J. Mihaly, Joy E. Haley, Tod A. Grusenmeyer, and Thomas G. Gray

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G199-G206 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Fringe visibility errors resulting from dual object imaging for stellar interferometers

Joshua Snyder, Christopher Bailey, Walter Schmoll, Steven Zuraski, and Elizabeth Beecher

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G207-G216 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

General neural network approach to compressive feature extraction

Anthony Giljum, Weidi Liu, Le Li, Reed Weber, and Kevin F. Kelly

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G217-G223 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared object classification with a hybrid optical convolution neural network

Jianbo Chen, Jennifer Talley, and Kevin F. Kelly

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G224-G231 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional MoS₂ 2H, 1T, and 1T^′ crystalline phases with incorporated adatoms: theoretical investigation of electronic and optical properties

Faisal Mehmood, Ruth Pachter, Tyson C. Back, John J. Boeckl, Robert T. Busch, and Peter R. Stevenson

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G232-G242 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

3D multi-plane sharpness metric maximization with variable corrective phase screens

Matthias T. Banet, James R. Fienup, Jason D. Schmidt, and Mark F. Spencer

Appl. Opt. 60(25), G243-G252 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Considerations concerning backscattering in the scattering order formulation of the discrete dipole approximation as applied to non-absorbing scatterers

Carynelisa Haspel and Maor Sela

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7664-7670 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Raman lidar for remote sensing of oil in water

Toshihiro Somekawa, Jun Izawa, Masayuki Fujita, Junji Kawanaka, and Hiroaki Kuze

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7772-7774 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-detecting-path high-resolution displacement sensor based onself-interference effect of a single submicrometer grating

Jie Qi, Meimei Gong, Kunyang Xie, Bin Cao, Liming Jin, Weiping Tang, Rui Zhang, Li Jin, Yanru Zhou, Mengwei Li, and Chenguang Xin

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7518-7522 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Reflection analysis of absorbing film with diffractive structures for incoherent light by rigorous coupled-wave analysis

Tetsuya Hoshino, Saswatee Banerjee, Sadao Aoki, and Masahide Itoh

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7765-7771 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Compact multifunction digital OFDR system without using an auxiliary interferometer

Zheyi Yao, Thomas Mauldin, Zhenyu Xu, Gerald Hefferman, and Tao Wei

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7523-7529 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of a thin-film metal-coated fiber optical phase modulator based on thermal effect with a nonlinear control interferometer

Gabriel F. S. Nunes, Vinicius B. Palma, Roberta I. Martin, Luiz H. V. Felão, Marcelo C. M. Teixeira, Cláudio Kitano, Rogério M. Cazo, and João M. S. Sakamoto

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7611-7618 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Zero drift suppression method of a distributed feedback fiber laser hydrophone

Chen Zhao, Baichao Zheng, Junpeng Zhao, Yong Yang, and Xuefeng Wang

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7628-7633 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical OAM tweezer based on graded-index multimode fibers

Wenxu Ren, Yandong Gong, Zhuo Zhang, and Ke Li

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7634-7639 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable liquid crystal asymmetric dual-core photonic crystal fiber mode converter

Mohamed Mohsen H. Mahmoud, B. M. Younis, Nihal F. F. Areed, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, and S. S. A. Obayya

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7671-7677 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance study of a serial relay CC-OGSM-SD free space optical system based on an M distribution model

Yi Wang, Wenqi Du, and Rui Zhou

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7696-7705 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Heterogeneous-frequency-dual-pulse chain and weak FBG array for quasi-distributed acoustic sensing with improved response bandwidth

Guanhua Liang, Panpan Niu, Junfeng Jiang, Shuang Wang, Yixuan Wang, Jing Xia, Tong Wang, Zhenyang Ding, Tianhua Xu, and Tiegen Liu

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7740-7744 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-step acceleration calculation method to generate curved holograms using the intermediate plane in a three-dimensional holographic display

Dapu Pi, Juan Liu, and Shuang Yu

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7640-7647 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Speckleless color dynamic three-dimensional holographic display based on complex amplitude modulation

Dapu Pi, Juan Liu, and Shuang Yu

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7844-7848 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

De-noising imaging through diffusers with autocorrelation

Qianqian Cheng, Enlai Guo, Jie Gu, Lianfa Bai, Jing Han, and Dongliang Zheng

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7686-7695 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing sample illumination scanning for reflection and 4Pi tomographic diffractive microscopy

Asemare Mengistie Taddese, Nicolas Verrier, Matthieu Debailleul, Jean-Baptiste Courbot, and Olivier Haeberlé

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7745-7753 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Electromagnetic and imaging properties of chiral dispersive spherical interfaces under bimodal propagation using ABCD matrices

Salaheddeen G. Bugoffa and Monish R. Chatterjee

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7804-7814 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact scanning confocal chromatic sensor enabling precision 3-D measurements

Daniel Wertjanz, Thomas Kern, Ernst Csencsics, Gerhard Stadler, and Georg Schitter

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7511-7517 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration of the pixel crosstalk in spatial light modulators for 4f pulse shaping

Mariem Guesmi and Karel Žídek

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7648-7652 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Material survey for a millimeter-wave absorber using a 3D-printed mold

T. Otsuka, S. Adachi, M. Hattori, Y. Sakurai, and O. Tajima

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7678-7685 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging of bee honey sugar crystals by second-harmonic generation microscopy

J. M. Flores-Moreno, Manuel H. De La Torre, C. Frausto-Reyes, and Rafael Casillas

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7706-7713 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Planar light-wave circuit-based switchable LP_11a–LP_11b mode rotator

Areez Khalil Memon, Qianqian Song, Jieyun Wu, Kaixin Chen, and Mahnoor Shahzadi

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7653-7657 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid plasmonic slot waveguide with a metallic grating for on-chip biosensing applications

S. Hadi Badri, Sanam SaeidNahaei, and Jong Su Kim

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7828-7833 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of microstructures on temperature and stress distributions of an irradiated alumina surface

Bo Dong, Tianlu Wei, Shuo Hu, Jianbo Qin, and Jiaxuan Chen

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7574-7580 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanopatterning of silicon via the near-field enhancement effect upon double-pulse femtosecond laser exposure

Quan Hong, Jin Zhang, Sumei Wang, Zhuyuan Chu, Mengmeng Wang, Jiaxin Sun, and Qitong Guo

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7790-7797 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

One-thousandth-level laser power stabilization based on optical feedback from a well-designed high-split-ratio and nonpolarized beam splitter

Wang Jie, Huang Guangyao, Wang Guochao, Wang Yaning, Hu Mei, Li Qixue, Zhu Lingxiao, Li Xinghui, Yan Shuhua, and Yang Jun

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7798-7803 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Multistate transformations of a femtosecond fiber laser based on a pure fiber saturable absorber

Qianchao Wu, Lifang Chen, Zheng Wu, and Yong Yao

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7821-7827 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of thickness uniformity of multilayer fluoride coatings on steep spherical substrates using shadowing mask combinations in planetary rotation systems

Shuang Gong, Baoxi Yang, and Huijie Huang

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7581-7588 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency smooth pseudo-random path planning for restraining the path ripple of robotic polishing

Hanjie Li, Xuyu Li, Songlin Wan, Chaoyang Wei, and Jianda Shao

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7732-7739 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and fabrication of a downlight luminaire with a dual frusto-conical reflector

Shang-Yu Hsin, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Nien-Po Chen, Chen-Yu Ye, Guan-Yu Ji, Ke-Cheng Huang, Hung-Chih Hsieh, Chyan-Chyi Wu, and Ching-Liang Dai

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7775-7783 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiscale optimization of the geometric wavefront sensor

Saloni Pal, Richard Clare, Andrew Lambert, and Stephen Weddell

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7536-7544 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Design analysis and test verification of a rigid–flexible, dual-mode coupling support structure for space-based rectangular curved prisms

Xin-Yin Jia, Fei-Cheng Wang, Li-Bo Li, Zhao-Hui Zhang, Jia Liu, and Bing-Liang Hu

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7563-7573 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of highly sensitive refractive index sensors in the visible region utilizing metal layer assisted guided modes

Vipul Pandey and Suchandan Pal

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7589-7595 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable hybrid plasmonic directional coupler based on an embedded silver nanostructure waveguide

Jeeban Kumar Nayak, Partha Roy Chaudhuri, and Pankaj K. Sahoo

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7603-7610 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of lateral diffusion of photoelectrons in the reflection-mode varied-doping AlGaN photocathode on resolution

Honggang Wang, Junju Zhang, Dianli Hou, Jinguang Hao, Lili Wang, and Yaozhang Sai

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7658-7663 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity transverse-load and high-temperature sensor based on the cascaded Vernier effect

Yang Han, Bo Liu, Yongfeng Wu, Yaya Mao, Jing Wu, Lilong Zhao, Tong Nan, Jin Wang, Rong Tang, and Yulan Zhang

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7714-7720 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Photon detection probability enhancement using an anti-reflection coating in CMOS-based SPADs

Seyed Saman Kohneh Poushi, Hiwa Mahmoudi, Michael Hofbauer, Bernhard Steindl, and Horst Zimmermann

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7815-7820 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated nanophotonic optical diodes designed by genetic algorithms

Xiaodong Zhu, Mingda Zhang, Xuemei Li, Yibiao Yang, Hongming Fei, Binzhao Cao, Xin Liu, and Xiaodan Zhao

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7619-7627 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Polarization-independent and angle-insensitive tunable electromagnetically induced transparency in terahertz metamaterials

Xiaoyu Shi, Yuanwei Tong, and Yaqiong Ding

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7784-7789 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for evaluating spectral resolution based on a single-lens spectrometer

Peidong He, Yan Yuan, Qunbo Lv, and Bin Xiangli

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7834-7843 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-IR reconfigurable 1D Ag grating Fabry–Perot absorber hybridized with phase-change material GSST

Naser Zamani, Ali Hatef, and Hamid Nadgaran

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7596-7602 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrically tunable terahertz switch based on superconducting subwavelength hole arrays

Chun Li, Ling Jiang, Qingxiao Ma, Yan Teng, Borui Bian, Mei Yu, Min Hua, Xiaoming Liu, Jingjing He, Runfeng Su, and Chengtao Jiang

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7530-7535 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

FL-QKD based on optical-THz biphotons generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion in inter-satellite wireless communication: publisher’s note

Cheng-Ji Liu, Chang-Hua Zhu, Min Nie, Hong Yang, and Chang-Xing Pei

Appl. Opt. 60(25), 7731-7731 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF