Despite the ongoing pandemic, OSA staff, topical editors, and reviewers maintain JOSA B’s high standards: editorial

Kurt Busch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), ED1-ED2 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterizing ultrashort laser pulses with second harmonic dispersion scans

Ivan Sytcevich, Chen Guo, Sara Mikaelsson, Jan Vogelsang, Anne-Lise Viotti, Benjamín Alonso, Rosa Romero, Paulo T. Guerreiro, Íñigo J. Sola, Anne L’Huillier, Helder Crespo, Miguel Miranda, and Cord L. Arnold

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1546-1555 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of a wavelength-tunable D-shaped photonic crystal fiber filter with broad bandwidth

Xiaojian Meng, Jianshe Li, Ying Guo, Huijing Du, Yundong Liu, Shuguang Li, Haitao Guo, and Weihong Bi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1525-1531 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantifying the impact of pump noise on fiber-optic nonlinear processes

Jesper Lægsgaard

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1538-1545 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturable absorber based on the broadband composite-liquid-filled dual-core photonic crystal fiber coupler

Jing Li, Chuncan Wang, and Peng Wang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1729-1741 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic solution to phase sensing and control for light-based interstellar propulsion

Chathura P. Bandutunga, Paul G. Sibley, Michael J. Ireland, and Robert L. Ward

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1477-1486 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Excitability in an all-fiber laser with a saturable absorber section

Robert Otupiri, Bruno Garbin, Neil G. R. Broderick, and Bernd Krauskopf

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1695-1701 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser back-writing of steel for fabrication of micro-channels on a quartz substrate

Shabnam Abbasi, Mohammad Reza Jafarfard, Davood Razaghi, Mohsen Montazerolghaem, and Hedieh Pazokian

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1684-1688 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory of light reflection and transmission by a plasmonic nanocomposite slab: emergence of broadband perfect absorption

V. G. Bordo

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1442-1451 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical topological transition and refraction control in crystal quartz by tilting the optical axis

Feng Wu and Xiaohu Wu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1452-1456 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Vibrational strong coupling between Tamm phonon polaritons and organic molecules

Chenran Xu, Han Cai, and Da-Wei Wang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1505-1509 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermally tunable terahertz vortex beam generator based on an InSb metasurface

Bin He, Junpeng Fan, Yonghzi Cheng, Fu Chen, Hui Luo, and Rongzhou Gong

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1518-1524 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable electromagnetically induced transparency metamaterial based on solid-state plasma: from a narrow band to a broad one

Quanfang Chen, Fenying Li, Dan Zhang, and Haifeng Zhang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1571-1578 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Multilayered L-shaped nanoantenna arrays with an increased electric field enhancement

Vahid Khoshdel and Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1604-1612 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable terahertz slow light of a cavity-integrated guided-mode resonance grating

Chen Chen, Fei Yan, Ziyi Liu, Rui Gong, Ruoxing Wang, and Li Li

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1710-1716 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable broadband cross polarization converter based on a graphene sheet with a T-shaped carved-hollow array

Qi Qiao, Yongqi Liu, Xiaojie Yang, Yu Fu, Xinwei Zhou, Runjia Li, Mengjia Lu, and Yueke Wang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1748-1755 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Evolution of four-wave mixing by controlling Raman coherence in a multi-dressed atomic system

Li-Ya Pei, Jin-Yan Niu, Ru-Quan Wang, and Ling-An Wu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1564-1570 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Z-scan investigation to evaluate the third-order nonlinear optical properties of cauliflower-like VS₂ structures

Marziyeh Parishani, Marzieh Nadafan, and Rasoul Malekfar

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1586-1592 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarized vector optical compact bright pulse in a weakly anisotropic nonlocal Kerr-like waveguide

Hatou-Yvelin Donkeng, Fabien Kenmogne, Chancelor Pokam Nguewawe, and David Yemélé

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1634-1652 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Daylight window based on the nano-disorder inspired by Morpho butterflies’ coloration

Akira Saito, Kazuma Yamashita, Takuto Shibuya, and Yuji Kuwahara

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1532-1537 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Frozen mode in coupled silicon ridge waveguides for optical true time delay applications

Banaful Paul, Niru K. Nahar, and Kubilay Sertel

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1435-1441 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity and independently tunable perfect absorber using a nanohole and a cross-shaped graphene

Zahra Mahdavikia, Yaser Hajati, Mohammad Sabaeian, and Zeinab Zanbouri

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1487-1496 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrawide FSR microring racetrack resonator with an integrated Fabry–Perot cavity for refractive index sensing

Saawan Kumar Bag and Shailendra K. Varshney

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1669-1675 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Circular intensity differential scattering of light to characterize the coronavirus particles

Muhammad Waseem Ashraf, Rajeev Ranjan, and Alberto Diaspro

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1702-1709 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation characteristics of a ring Airy vortex beam in slant atmospheric turbulence

Kangle Yong, Shanfa Tang, Xiaomin Yang, and Rongzhu Zhang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1510-1517 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Construction of a high-precision vector vortex field

Yu Miao, Guanxue Wang, Dahai Yu, Ji Guo, Ziyan Li, and Xiumin Gao

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1689-1694 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement-feedback control of the chiral photon emission from an atom chain into a nanofiber

G. Buonaiuto, I. Lesanovsky, and B. Olmos

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1470-1476 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Can orthogonalization enhance the EPR correlation and the teleportation fidelity of a two-mode squeezed vacuum?

Cun-Jin Liu, Min-Xiang Li, Hong-Chun Yuan, and Xue-Xiang Xu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1497-1504 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics of nonclassical properties of a SU(3) system interacting with two open parametric amplifier modes

A.-B. A. Mohamed, H. A. Hessian, A.-S. F. Obada, and H. Eleuch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1556-1563 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Deterministic CNOT gate and complete Bell-state analyzer on quantum-dot-confined electron spins based on faithful quantum nondemolition parity detection

Ling Fan and Cong Cao

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1593-1603 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-sensitive nonclassical properties in quantum metrology with a displaced squeezed vacuum state

Zhiwei Tao, Yichong Ren, Azezigul Abdukirim, Shiwei Liu, and Ruizhong Rao

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1662-1668 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent population trapping in optically thin ¹³³Cs atomic vapor in a finite-size cell

K. A. Barantsev, S. V. Bozhokin, A. S. Kuraptsev, A. N. Litvinov, and I. M. Sokolov

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1613-1624 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization asymmetry of the dark-resonance frequency dependence on the magnetic field

Eugene A. Tsygankov, Maria I. Vaskovskaya, Dmitry S. Chuchelov, Sergei A. Zibrov, Vitali V. Vassiliev, Vladimir L. Velichansky, and Valery P. Yakovlev

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1742-1747 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal coherence of surface plasmons in silver waveguides

Soutik Sur, Ambarish Ghosh, and V. Venkataraman

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1457-1461 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Goos–Hänchen shift enhancement based on an improved differential evolution algorithm

Lei Han, Chaoyu Xu, Tianye Huang, Xueyan Dang, and Chengying Li

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1462-1469 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Converting the guided modes of Bloch surface waves with the surface pattern

Xi Tang, Haoqi Luo, Junxue Chen, Ramachandram Badugu, Pei Wang, Joseph R. Lakowicz, and Douguo Zhang

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1579-1585 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

General method based on WKB approximation and digital holography to characterize planar waveguides

Mohamed Nawareg and Mamdouh A. Shams El-Din

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1653-1661 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonant evanescent excitation of guided waves with high-order optical angular momentum

Manfred Hammer, Lena Ebers, and Jens Förstner

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(5), 1717-1728 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF