AOP Tutorials

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  • Nonimaging optics: a tutorial

    Winston, Roland; Jiang, Lun; Ricketts, Melissa
    • 2018
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 10(2) 484-511  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 14

    Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics. Historically, nonimaging optics that work as ideal concentrators have ...

  • Shaping light with nonlinear metasurfaces

    Keren-Zur, Shay; Michaeli, Lior; Suchowski, Haim; Ellenbogen, Tal
    • 2018
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 10(1) 309-353  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 64

    This tutorial aims to provide an extensive overview of methods of generating and shaping light at new frequencies by using nonlinear metasurfaces. We first review methods of manipulating light by usin...

  • Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial

    Olarte, Omar E.; Andilla, Jordi; Gualda, Emilio J.; Loza-Alvarez, Pablo
    • 2018
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 10(1) 111-179  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 168

    This paper is intended to give a comprehensive review of light-sheet (LS) microscopy from an optics perspective. As such, emphasis is placed on the advantages that LS microscope configurations present...

  • Picturing stimulated Raman adiabatic passage: a STIRAP tutorial

    Shore, Bruce W.
    • 2017
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 9(3) 563-719  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 50

    The procedure of stimulated-Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), one of many well-established techniques for quantum-state manipulation, finds widespread application in chemistry, physics, and informatio...

  • Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity

    Ellis, A. D.; McCarthy, M. E.; Al Khateeb, M. A. Z.; Sorokina, M.; Doran, N. J.
    • 2017
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 9(3) 429-503  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 145

    In this paper, we review the historical evolution of predictions of the performance of optical communication systems. We will describe how such predictions were made from the outset of research in las...

  • Optical security and authentication using nanoscale and thin-film structures

    Carnicer, Artur; Javidi, Bahram
    • 2017
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 9(2) 218-256  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 40

    Authentication of encoded information is a popular current trend in optical security. Recent research has proposed the production of secure unclonable ID tags and devices with the use of nanoscale enc...

  • New perspectives in face correlation research: a tutorial

    Wang, Q.; Alfalou, A.; Brosseau, C.
    • 2017
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 9(1) 1-78  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 37

    In recent years, correlation-filter (CF)-based face recognition algorithms have attracted increasing interest in the field of pattern recognition and have achieved impressive results in discrimination...

  • Photoacoustics: a historical review

    Manohar, Srirang; Razansky, Daniel
    • 2016
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 8(4) 586-617  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 186

    We review the history of photoacoustics from the discovery in 1880 that modulated light produces acoustic waves to the current time, when the pulsed variant of the discovery is fast developing into a ...

  • Laser feedback interferometry: a tutorial on the self-mixing effect for coherent sensing

    Taimre, Thomas; Nikolić, Milan; Bertling, Karl; Lim, Yah Leng; Bosch, Thierry; Rakić, Aleksandar D.
    • 2015
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 7(3) 570-631  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (4)]
    Cited by: 292

    This tutorial presents a guided tour of laser feedback interferometry, from its origin and early development through its implementation to a slew of sensing applications, including displacement, dista...

  • Transverse Anderson localization of light: a tutorial

    Mafi, Arash
    • 2015
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 7(3) 459-515  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 74

    This tutorial gives an overview of the transverse Anderson localization of light in one and two transverse dimensions. A pedagogical approach is followed throughout the presentation, where many aspect...

  • Optics of the eye and its impact in vision: a tutorial

    Artal, Pablo
    • 2014
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 6(3) 340-367  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 76

    The human eye is a relatively simple optical instrument. This limits the quality of the retinal image affecting vision. However, the neural circuitry seems to be exquisitely designed to match the othe...

  • Three-dimensional display technologies

    Geng, Jason
    • 2013
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 5(4) 456-535  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 507

    The physical world around us is three-dimensional (3D), yet traditional display devices can show only two-dimensional (2D) flat images that lack depth (i.e., the third dimension) information. This fun...

  • Terahertz dielectric waveguides

    Atakaramians, Shaghik; Afshar V., Shahraam; Monro, Tanya M.; Abbott, Derek
    • 2013
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 5(2) 169-215  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 281

    Several classes of non-planar metallic and dielectric waveguides have been proposed in the literature for guidance of terahertz (THz) or T-ray radiation. In thi...

  • Optical methods for distance and displacement measurements

    Berkovic, Garry; Shafir, Ehud
    • 2012
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 4(4) 441-471  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 309

    This tutorial reviews various noncontact optical sensing techniques that can be used to measure distances to objects, and related parameters such as displacements, surface profiles, velocities and vib...

  • High-contrast gratings for integrated optoelectronics

    Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.; Yang, Weijian
    • 2012
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 4(3) 379-440  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 430

    A new class of planar optics has emerged using subwavelength gratings with a large refractive index contrast, herein referred to as high-contrast gratings (HCGs). This seemingly simple structure lends...

  • Wigner functions in optics: describing beams as ray bundles and pulses as particle ensembles

    Alonso, Miguel A.
    • 2011
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 3(4) 272-365  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (30)]
    Cited by: 121

    This tutorial gives an overview of the use of the Wigner function as a tool for modeling optical field propagation. Particular emphasis is placed on the spatial propagati...

  • Polarization-resolved nonlinear microscopy: application to structural molecular and biological imaging

    Brasselet, Sophie
    • 2011
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 3(3) 205-  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 149

    In this tutorial I analyze the polarization-dependent properties of different optical contrasts widely used today in imaging, applied to biology and biomedical diagnostics. I derive the essential prop...

  • Structured-light 3D surface imaging: a tutorial

    Geng, Jason
    • 2011
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 3(2) 128-160  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 1105

    We provide a review of recent advances in 3D surface imaging technologies. We focus particularly on noncontact 3D surface measurement techniques based on structured illum...

  • Angular dispersion: an enabling tool in nonlinear and quantum optics

    Torres, Juan P.; Hendrych, Martin; Valencia, Alejandra
    • 2010
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 2(3) 319-369  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 45

    The dispersive properties of materials, i.e., their frequency-dependent response to the interaction with light, in most situations determines whether an optical process c...

  • Slow light in various media: a tutorial

    Khurgin, Jacob B.
    • 2010
    • Advances in Optics and Photonics 2(3) 287-318  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 138

    I consider the physical basics of slow light propagation in atomic media, photonic structures, and optical fibers. I show similarities and differences between all of the ...