Virtual Feature Issue

Joint Feature Issue with Applied Optics and JOSA B:
LASER INTERACTION WITH MATERIALS (INVITED ONLY) (LIM)

Claude R. Phipps, Feature editor
Willy Bohn, Feature editor
Pavel Polynkin, Feature editor
Thierry Sarnet, Feature editor
Leonid Zhigilei, Feature editor
Thomas Baumert, Feature editor
Nadezhda Bulgakova, Feature editor
Juergen Reif, Feature editor

Laser interaction with materials: introduction

Claude R. Phipps, Leonid Zhigilei, Pavel Polynkin, Thomas Baumert, Thierry Sarnet, Nadezhda Bulgakova, Willy Bohn, and Juergen Reif

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), LIM1-LIM3 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Dichroic colored luster of laser-induced silver nanoparticle gratings buried in dense inorganic films

Nathalie Destouches, Juan Martínez-García, Mathieu Hébert, Nicolas Crespo-Monteiro, Guy Vitrant, Zeming Liu, Alain Trémeau, Francis Vocanson, Florent Pigeon, Stéphanie Reynaud, and Yaya Lefkir

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C1-C7 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Pulsed laser modification of transparent dielectrics: what can be foreseen and predicted by numerical simulations?

Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Vladimir P. Zhukov, Yuri P. Meshcheryakov, Laura Gemini, Jan Brajer, Danijela Rostohar, and Tomas Mocek

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C8-C14 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced transfer of nanoparticles for gas-phase analysis

Alexander V. Bulgakov, Nathan Goodfriend, Oleg Nerushev, Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Sergei V. Starinskiy, Yuri G. Shukhov, and Eleanor E. B. Campbell

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C15-C21 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast structural phenomena: theory of phonon frequency changes and simulations with code for highly excited valence electron systems

Naira S. Grigoryan, Tobias Zier, Martin E. Garcia, and Eeuwe S. Zijlstra

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C22-C27 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Excitation and relaxation dynamics in dielectrics irradiated by an intense ultrashort laser pulse

Nils Brouwer and Bärbel Rethfeld

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C28-C35 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Transient optical properties of dielectrics and semiconductors excited by an ultrashort laser pulse

E. G. Gamaly and A. V. Rode

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C36-C43 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Effect of laser polarization and crystalline orientation on ZnO surface nanostructuring in the regime of high-density electronic excitation

Luc Museur, Alexandra Manousaki, Demetrios Anglos, Thierry Chauveau, and Andrei Kanaev

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C44-C47 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Micromachining of borosilicate glass surfaces using femtosecond higher-order Bessel beams

Weibo Cheng and Pavel Polynkin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11), C48-C52 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Rocking motion of an optical wing: theory

Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Daniel G. Schuster, Mario W. Gomes, and Grover A. Swartzlander

Appl. Opt. 53(31), I1-I9 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Genesis of femtosecond-induced nanostructures on solid surfaces

Olga Varlamova, Christian Martens, Markus Ratzke, and Juergen Reif

Appl. Opt. 53(31), I10-I15 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Replacement of chemical rocket launchers by beamed energy propulsion

Masafumi Fukunari, Anthony Arnault, Toshikazu Yamaguchi, and Kimiya Komurasaki

Appl. Opt. 53(31), I16-I22 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Asymptotic theory of a large fiber-laser array passive phase locking

Anatoly P. Napartovich, Nikolay N. Elkin, and Dmitry V. Vysotsky

Appl. Opt. 53(31), I23-I30 (2014) View: HTML | PDF

Directed transfer of microwave radiation in sliding-mode plasma waveguides produced by ultraviolet laser in atmospheric air

Vladimir D. Zvorykin, Andrei A. Ionin, Alexei O. Levchenko, Leonid V. Seleznev, Dmitrii V. Sinitsyn, Igor’ V. Smetanin, Nikolai N. Ustinovskii, and Alexei V. Shutov

Appl. Opt. 53(31), I31-I40 (2014) View: HTML | PDF