Optics in South America: introduction

Gustavo S. Wiederhecker, S. B. Cavalcanti, Adriana Fontes, Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia, Dario Perez, Esteban Vera, Andrea Bragas, Christiano de Matos, Alejandro Fainstein, Daniel Felinto, Debora M. B. P. Milori, and Stephen P. Walborn

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), OSA1-OSA2 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Point-of-care real-time DNA detection device for SARS-CoV-2 from clinical samples

Damián Presti, Julián Bergier, Lucas Ripoll, Cristina Borio, Gustavo A. Torchia, and Marcos Bilen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C1-C7 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Robust and unbiased estimation of the background distribution for automated quantitative imaging

Mauro Silberberg and Hernán E. Grecco

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C8-C15 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Long-range frequency domain low-coherence interferometry detector for industrial applications

Santiago Cerrotta, Jorge R. Torga, and Eneas N. Morel

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C16-C21 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Wave–particle duality in tripartite systems

J. P. Marrou, C. Montenegro La Torre, M. Jara, and F. De Zela

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C22-C29 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Stigmatic aspherical refracting surfaces from Cartesian ovoids

Alberto Silva-Lora and Rafael Torres

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C30-C36 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized Hough transform for 3D object recognition and visualization in integral imaging

Ariel Fernández, Julieta Umpiérrez, and Julia R. Alonso

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C37-C45 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance evaluation of a simplified power-domain NOMA for visible light communications

Jair A. Lima Silva, João P. Lebarck Pizzaia, Wesley da Silva Costa, Higor A. Fim Camporez, Maria J. Pontes, Helder R. de Oliveira Rocha, and Marcelo E. Vieira Segatto

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C46-C52 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Definition of a second-order degree of polarization in terms of the complex degree of coherence

Cristian Hernandez-Cely, Karol Salazar-Ariza, and Rafael Torres

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C53-C62 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid crystal on silicon-based real time phase stepping interferometry by spatial multiplexing

Quimey Pears Stefano, Martin Vergara, and Claudio Iemmi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C63-C67 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Electromagnetic response of corrugated multilayer systems inspired by the Dione vanillae butterfly scales

Candela Szischik, Marina Inchaussandague, and Diana Skigin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C68-C73 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical-cryptographic scheme based on an image self-disordering algorithm

Edward Mosso

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C74-C86 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (5)]

Arterial pulsation modulates the optical attenuation coefficient of skin

C. Tolentino Dominguez, M. Bigatão Martinelli, Luciano Bachmann, and George C. Cardoso

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C87-C92 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Periodontal disease in chronic kidney disease patients: salivomics by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

Gabrielle Teodoro Nepomuceno, Raquel Silva Neres dos Santos, Larissa Avance Pavese, Graziele Parize, Debora Pallos, Marcela Sorelli Carneiro-Ramos, and Herculano da Silva Martinho

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C93-C100 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Statistical modeling of atmospheric turbulence based on a low-cost experimental setup for measuring C n2 over water

Tamara S. Carvalho, Claisso P. Azzolin, Airton F. Gurgel, Vítor G. A. Carneiro, and Maria Thereza M. R. Giraldi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C101-C107 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of the photoelastic dispersion coefficient using polarized digital holography

Sidney Leal da Silva, Felipe Maia Prado, Daniel José Toffoli, and Niklaus Ursus Wetter

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C108-C114 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Reconstruction of light absorption changes in the human head using analytically computed photon partial pathlengths in layered media

Demián A. Vera, Héctor A. García, M. Victoria Waks-Serra, Nicolás A. Carbone, Daniela I. Iriarte, and Juan A. Pomarico

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C126-C137 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Objective method for visual performance prediction

Walter Torres-Sepúlveda, Alejandro Mira-Agudelo, John Fredy Barrera-Ramírez, and Andrzej Kolodziejczyk

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C138-C149 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Image enhancement and field of view enlargement in digital lensless holographic microscopy by multi-shot imaging

Samuel I. Zapata-Valencia, Heberley Tobon-Maya, and Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C150-C156 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Review on infrared nanospectroscopy of natural 2D phyllosilicates

Raphaela de Oliveira, Alisson R. Cadore, Raul O. Freitas, and Ingrid D. Barcelos

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(4), C157-C168 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical attenuation coefficient of skin under low compression

Raquel Pantojo de Souza Bachour, Christian Tolentino Dominguez, and George C. Cardoso

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(5), 955-960 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Photodynamic therapy mediated by a red LED and methylene blue inactivates resistant Leishmania amazonensis

Fernanda V. Cabral, Tania M. Yoshimura, Daniela de Fátima Teixeira da Silva, Mauro Cortez, and Martha S. Ribeiro

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(5), 996-1005 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of non-Gaussian multispectral shortwave infrared filters assessed by surface spectral reflectances on the ECOSTRESS library

Germano S. Fonseca, Leonardo B. de Sá, and José Gabriel R. C. Gomes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(5), 1006-1015 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Increasing the power and spectral efficiencies of an OFDM-based VLC system through multi-objective optimization

Wesley Costa, Higor Camporez, Maria Pontes, Marcelo Segatto, Helder Rocha, Jair Silva, Malte Hinrichs, Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos, Volker Jungnickel, and Ronald Freund

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(6), 1268-1275 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

τ-algorithm for gathering spectroscopic information by modeling emission line shapes: application to laser-induced plasmas

D. M. Díaz Pace and J. Molina M.

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C1-C7 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Water salinity measurement using a long-period grating and optical time-domain reflectometry

Marco Aurélio Jucá, Isabela Victória C. Pereira, Pedro C. G. Spelta, and Alexandre Bessa dos Santos

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C8-C14 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical transmitter for time-bin encoding quantum key distribution

Julián Morales, M. Guadalupe Aparicio, Carlos F. Longo, Cristian L. Arrieta, and Miguel A. Larotonda

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C15-C20 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical sensor based on an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber for simultaneous detection of methane, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen monoxide: proposal and simulation

Artur de Araujo Silva, Luis Alberto Mijam Barea, and Carlos Alberto De Francisco

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C21-C27 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Testing a hypothetical transient deviation from quantum mechanics: preliminary results

M. Agüero, A. Hnilo, M. Kovalsky, and M. Nonaka

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C28-C34 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a fast speckle wavemeter with optical processing

Lucas R. Mendicino and Christian T. Schmiegelow

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C35-C39 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Selecting plasmonic nanoshells for colorimetric sensors

Raphael M. S. M. Baltar, Sajid Farooq, and Renato E. de Araujo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C40-C47 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Transient fluorescence with a single trapped ion

Nicolás A. Nuñez Barreto, Lucas T. Giardino, Carla J. Crucianelli, Muriel Bonetto, Martín Drechsler, and Christian T. Schmiegelow

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C48-C53 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of a correlation phase recovery method to be used in temporal speckle pattern interferometry with noise contaminated specklegrams

Lucas Pedro Tendela and Gustavo Ernesto Galizzi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C54-C59 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Discrimination of thermal, molecular orientation, and pure electronic refractive nonlinearities using the polarization-resolved Z-scan technique

R. M. Moysés, E. C. Barbano, and L. Misoguti

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C60-C66 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous quantum estimation of phase and indistinguishability in a two-photon interferometer

Laura T. Knoll and Gustavo M. Bosyk

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C67-C72 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

On the importance of the longitudinal component of paraxial optical vortices in the interaction with atoms

Guillermo F. Quinteiro Rosen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C73-C77 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Does the chemical contribution have a secondary role in SERS?

Luis A. Guerra Hernández, Andrés A. Reynoso, and Alejandro Fainstein

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C78-C85 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Theoretical and computational study of the effects of the complex chirality parameter in chiral-coated planar waveguides

Jim A. Enriquez and Pedro Torres

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C86-C95 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulations of layer effects in confocal photothermal microscopy

Facundo Zaldivar Escola

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C96-C102 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization and characterization of toroidal foci for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: tutorial

Lucía F. Lopez, Luciano A. Masullo, Alan M. Szalai, Florencia Edorna, Florencia D. Choque, Fernando Caprile, and Fernando D. Stefani

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C103-C110 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optics in 2D materials: focus on the contributions from Latin America

Christiano J. S. de Matos, Henrique G. Rosa, Juan D. Zapata, David Steinberg, Melissa Maldonado, E. A. Thoroh de Souza, Ana M. de Paula, Leandro M. Malard, and Anderson S. L. Gomes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C111-C132 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Analytical investigation of GeO₂-doped optical fibers to build Brillouin lasers at 1300  nm

Luís C. B. Silva and Marcelo E. V. Segatto

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C133-C140 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of He+N₂ concentration on self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration driven by pulses of a few TW

Edison Puig Maldonado, Ricardo Elgul Samad, Armando Valter Felicio Zuffi, Jhonatha Ricardo dos Santos, and Nilson Dias Vieira

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C141-C147 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrashort pulse generation in erbium-doped fiber lasers in South America: a historical review

E. A. Thoroh de Souza, David Steinberg, Lucia A. M. Saito, Henrique G. Rosa, Juan D. Zapata, Christiano J. S. de Matos, Hugo L. Fragnito, and Carlos H. Brito Cruz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(4), C148-C176 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Heterogeneously integrated III–V-on-Si laser with embedded photonic molecule mirrors

Guilherme F. M. de Rezende, Newton C. Frateschi, and Gunther Roelkens

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 999-1004 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupled mode theory revisited: the role of the network topology and ordered directionality

Guilherme F. M. de Rezende, Cauê M. Kersul, Luís A. M. Barea, Gabriel R. Ascenção, Pierre-Louis de Assis, and Newton C. Frateschi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1005-1016 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Effect of TeO₂ on optical and 1.06 µm emission in Nd³⁺-doped phosphate glass for high-power lasers

Radha Mada, Seshadri Meruva, Maria José V. Bell, and Virgilio Anjos

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1148-1155 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of a Gaussian beam passing through a photorefractive crystal Bi₁₂GeO₂₀

Angie Solano Navarro, Y. Torres Moreno, Juan D. S. Fontecha, Marco Florez, and Vladimir Jerez

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1156-1161 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanomechanics with plasmonic nanoantennas: ultrafast and local exchange between electromagnetic and mechanical energy

Andrea V. Bragas, Stefan A. Maier, Hilario D. Boggiano, Gustavo Grinblat, Rodrigo Berté, Leonardo de S. Menezes, and Emiliano Cortés

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1196-1211 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

From spectral matrix to sideband structure: exploring stereo multimodes

Marcelo Martinelli

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1277-1291 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear autoregressive with external input neural network for predicting the nonlinear dynamics of supercontinuum generation in optical fibers

Luís C. B. Silva and Marcelo E. V. Segatto

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1292-1298 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of univariate and multivariate calibration strategies for the direct determination of total carbon in soils by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: tutorial

Wesley Nascimento Guedes, Diego Victor Babos, Vinícius Câmara Costa, Carla Pereira De Morais, Vitor da Silveira Freitas, Kleydson Stenio, Alfredo Augusto Pereira Xavier, Luís Carlos Leva Borduchi, Paulino Ribeiro Villas-Boas, and Débora Marcondes Bastos Pereira Milori

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1319-1330 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Constant envelope OFDM transmission over metro-regional optical links

Caio M. Santos, Pablo R. N. Marciano, Maria J. Pontes, Marcello E. V. Segatto, and Jair A. Lima Silva

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(5), 1331-1339 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Third-harmonic generation in silica wedge resonators

Jorge H. Soares, Laís Fujii dos Santos, Felipe G. S. Santos, Marvyn Inga, Yovanny A. V. Espinel, Gustavo S. Wiederhecker, and Thiago P. Mayer Alegre

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(6), 1407-1412 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-beam technique for ultrashort pulse characterization based on the nonlinear ellipse rotation signal

R. M. Moysés, E. C. Barbano, and L. Misoguti

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(6), 1518-1524 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF