Editorial: Optics Express — Reaching Maturity

C. Martijn de Sterke

Opt. Express 25(23), 29010-29012 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Habitable exoplanets detection: overview of challenges and current state-of-the-art [Invited]

Olivier Guyon

Opt. Express 25(23), 28825-28837 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the joint impact of atmospheric turbulence and refractivity on laser beam propagation

Victor A. Kulikov and Mikhail A. Vorontsov

Opt. Express 25(23), 28524-28535 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne demonstration of atmospheric oxygen optical depth measurements with an integrated path differential absorption lidar

Haris Riris, Michael Rodriguez, Jianping Mao, Graham Allan, and James Abshire

Opt. Express 25(23), 29307-29327 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Overcoming the classical Rayleigh diffraction limit by controlling two-point correlations of partially coherent light sources

Chunhao Liang, Gaofeng Wu, Fei Wang, Wei Li, Yangjian Cai, and Sergey A. Ponomarenko

Opt. Express 25(23), 28352-28362 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bragg gratings inscribed in selectively inflated photonic crystal fibers

Chao Wang, Jun He, Jingchuan Zhang, Changrui Liao, Ying Wang, Wei Jin, Yiping Wang, and Junhua Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28442-28450 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband guided-mode resonant reflectors with quasi-equilateral triangle grating profiles

Shanwen Zhang, Yeong Hwan Ko, and Robert Magnusson

Opt. Express 25(23), 28451-28458 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hollow-core air-gap anti-resonant fiber couplers

Xiaosheng Huang, Jie Ma, Dingyuan Tang, and Seongwoo Yoo

Opt. Express 25(23), 29296-29306 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Reproducible optical noise-like signal generation subjected by digital sequences

Xingxing Jiang, Mengfan Cheng, Chenkun Luo, Fengguang Luo, Lei Deng, Songnian Fu, Changjian Ke, Minming Zhang, Ming Tang, Ping Shum, and Deming Liu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29189-29198 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

A personalized design for progressive addition lenses

Yunhai Tang, Quanying Wu, Xiaoyi Chen, and Hao Zhang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28100-28111 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Lensing effects in a random inhomogeneous medium

Austin McDaniel and Alex Mahalov

Opt. Express 25(23), 28157-28166 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable and robust frequency domain position compensation strategy for Fourier ptychographic microscopy

Jian Liu, Yong Li, Weibo Wang, He Zhang, Yuhang Wang, Jiubin Tan, and Chenguang Liu

Opt. Express 25(23), 28053-28067 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Non-convex sparse regularization approach framework for high multiple-source resolution in Cerenkov luminescence tomography

Hongbo Guo, Zhenhua Hu, Xiaowei He, Xiaojun Zhang, Muhan Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Xiaojing Shi, Sheng Zheng, and Jie Tian

Opt. Express 25(23), 28068-28085 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

From modeling to hardware: an experimental evaluation of image plane and Fourier plane coded compressive optical imaging

John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Waheed U. Bajwa, and Mark C. Pierce

Opt. Express 25(23), 29472-29491 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of retinal projection displays enabling vision correction

Chao Ping Chen, Lei Zhou, Jiahao Ge, Yuhang Wu, Lantian Mi, Yishi Wu, Bing Yu, and Yang Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 28223-28235 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Information theoretical aspects in coherent optical lithography systems

Xu Ma, Hao Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Yanqiu Li, Gonzalo R. Arce, Javier Garcia-Frias, and Lu Zhang

Opt. Express 25(23), 29043-29057 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced image quality of OLED transparent display by cholesteric liquid crystal back-panel

Cheng-Chang Li, Heng-Yi Tseng, Hung-Chia Liao, Han-Ming Chen, Ting Hsieh, Sin-An Lin, Hung-Chang Jau, Yu-Ching Wu, Ya-Ling Hsu, Wen-Hao Hsu, and Tsung-Hsien Lin

Opt. Express 25(23), 29199-29206 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time robust direct and indirect photon separation with polarization imaging

Yitian Ding, Amit Ashok, and Stanley Pau

Opt. Express 25(23), 29432-29453 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Optimized method for spectral reflectance reconstruction from camera responses

Jinxing Liang and Xiaoxia Wan

Opt. Express 25(23), 28273-28287 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature using cascaded side-coupled photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

Penghao Liu and Yaocheng Shi

Opt. Express 25(23), 28398-28406 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Automatic real-time focus control system for laser processing using dynamic focusing optical system

Binh Xuan Cao, Phuong Hoang Le, Sanghoon Ahn, Heeshin Kang, Jengo Kim, and Jiwhan Noh

Opt. Express 25(23), 28427-28441 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Complete dispersion characterization of microstructured optical fibers from a single interferogram using the windowed Fourier-ridges algorithm

Tímea Grósz, Mercédesz Horváth, and Attila P. Kovács

Opt. Express 25(23), 28459-28468 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser differential confocal inner-surface profile measurement method for an ICF capsule

Longxiao Wang, Lirong Qiu, Weiqian Zhao, Xianxian Ma, Shaobai Li, Dangzhong Gao, Jie Meng, and Qi Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28510-28523 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Broad wavelength range infrared lens refractive index measurement using confocal tomography

Yun Wang, Lirong Qiu, Weiqian Zhao, Miaomiao Song, and Zhigang Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 28674-28683 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance characteristics of 4-port in-plane and out-of-plane in-line metasurface polarimeters

Michael Juhl, Carlos Mendoza, J. P. Balthasar Mueller, Federico Capasso, and Kristjan Leosson

Opt. Express 25(23), 28697-28709 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and flow rate using graphene-coated optofluidic anti-resonant reflecting guidance

Ran Gao, Danfeng Lu, Jin Cheng, and Zhi-mei Qi

Opt. Express 25(23), 28731-28742 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot planar temperature imaging of radiatively heated fluidized particles

Kimberley C.Y. Kueh, Timothy C.W. Lau, Graham J. Nathan, and Zeyad T. Alwahabi

Opt. Express 25(23), 28764-28775 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative estimation of crazing in sol-gel layers by automated optical microscopy analysis.

J. Avice, C. Boscher, P. Voarino, G. Brotons, and H. Piombini

Opt. Express 25(23), 28851-28869 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Slewing mirror telescope of the UFFO-pathfinder: first report on performance in space

G. Gaikov, S. Jeong, V. G. Agaradahalli, I. H. Park, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A. J. Castro-Tirado, P. Chen, H. M. Jeong, J. E. Kim, M. B. Kim, S. W. Kim, J. Lee, V. Leonov, J. W. Nam, M. I. Panasyuk, V. Petrov, V. Reglero, J. Ripa, S. I. Svertilov, M. Tumarina, and I. Yashin

Opt. Express 25(23), 29143-29154 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous fluorescence and surface charge measurements on organic semiconductor-coated silica microspheres in (non)polar liquids

R. Grollman, G. Founds, R. Wallace, and O. Ostroverkhova

Opt. Express 25(23), 29161-29171 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Depth recovering method immune to projector errors in fringe projection profilometry by use of cross-ratio invariance

Ruihua Zhang and Hongwei Guo

Opt. Express 25(23), 29272-29286 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Hyper ellipse fitting in subspace method for phase-shifting interferometry: practical implementation with automatic pixel selection

Kohei Yatabe, Kenji Ishikawa, and Yasuhiro Oikawa

Opt. Express 25(23), 29401-29416 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Parallel light configuration that increases the radiation tolerance of integrated circuits

Takumi Fujimori and Minoru Watanabe

Opt. Express 25(23), 28136-28145 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient topology optimization of optical waveguide devices utilizing semi-vectorial finite-difference beam propagation method

Akito Iguchi, Yasuhide Tsuji, Takashi Yasui, and Koichi Hirayama

Opt. Express 25(23), 28210-28222 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries

Roel Burgwal, William R. Clements, Devin H. Smith, James C. Gates, W. Steven Kolthammer, Jelmer J. Renema, and Ian A. Walmsley

Opt. Express 25(23), 28236-28245 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Intra-chip optical interconnection based on polarization division multiplexing photonic integrated circuit

Yu Yu, Guanyu Chen, Chaotan Sima, and Xinliang Zhang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28330-28336 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Complex coupled mode theory electromagnetic mode solver

Timothy DeWolf and Reuven Gordon

Opt. Express 25(23), 28337-28351 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact and low loss 90° optical hybrid on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Hang Guan, Yangjin Ma, Ruizhi Shi, Xiaoliang Zhu, Rick Younce, Yaojia Chen, Jose Roman, Noam Ophir, Yang Liu, Ran Ding, Thomas Baehr-Jones, Keren Bergman, and Michael Hochberg

Opt. Express 25(23), 28957-28968 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Setting up meshes of interferometers – reversed local light interference method

David A. B. Miller

Opt. Express 25(23), 29233-29248 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro and nano dual-scale structures fabricated by amplitude modulation in multi-beam laser interference lithography

Ziang Zhang, Litong Dong, Yunfeng Ding, Li Li, Zhankun Weng, and Zuobin Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 29135-29142 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Molecular and vectorial properties of the vector soliton molecules in anomalous-dispersion fiber lasers

Yueqing Du and Xuewen Shu

Opt. Express 25(23), 28035-28052 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-injection locking of a laser diode to a high-Q WGM microresonator

N. M. Kondratiev, V. E. Lobanov, A. V. Cherenkov, A. S. Voloshin, N. G. Pavlov, S. Koptyaev, and M. L. Gorodetsky

Opt. Express 25(23), 28167-28178 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental spatio-temporal analysis on the shot-to-shot coherence and wave-packet formation in quasi-mode-locked regimes in an anomalous dispersion fiber ring cavity

Seungjong Lee, Luis Alonso Vazquez-Zuniga, Hyuntai Kim, Youngchul Kwon, Kyoungyoon Park, Hansol Kim, and Yoonchan Jeong

Opt. Express 25(23), 28385-28397 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Ultrafast optical parametric oscillator pumped by a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)

Nayara Jornod, Valentin J. Wittwer, Maxim Gaponenko, Martin Hoffmann, Nils Hempler, Graeme P. A. Malcolm, Gareth T. Maker, and Thomas Südmeyer

Opt. Express 25(23), 28983-28989 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploiting birefringent thermal lensing effect to manipulate polarization states of an Nd:YVO₄ self-mode-locked laser

P. H. Tuan, M. C. Tsai, and Y. F. Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 29000-29009 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode discrimination criterion for effective differential amplification in Yb-doped fiber design for high power operation

C. Molardi, F. Poli, L. Rosa, S. Selleri, and A. Cucinotta

Opt. Express 25(23), 29013-29025 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient 1.6 μm linearly-polarized single-frequency phosphate glass fiber laser

Changsheng Yang, Xianchao Guan, Wei Lin, Qilai Zhao, Guowu Tang, Jiulin Gan, Qi Qian, Zhouming Feng, Zhongmin Yang, and Shanhui Xu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29078-29085 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

1 W solid-state 193 nm coherent light by sum-frequency generation

Hongwen Xuan, Chen Qu, Zhigang Zhao, Shinji Ito, and Yohei Kobayashi

Opt. Express 25(23), 29172-29179 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient ridge waveguide amplifiers and lasers in Er-doped lithium niobate by optical grade dicing and three-side Er and Ti in-diffusion

Dominik Brüske, Sergiy Suntsov, Christian E. Rüter, and Detlef Kip

Opt. Express 25(23), 29374-29379 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Cd-free quantum dot pellets for efficient white light generation

Yemliha Altintas, Mohammad Younis Talpur, and Evren Mutlugün

Opt. Express 25(23), 28371-28384 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ co-doped lead silicate glasses and their optical temperature sensing ability

Wojciech A. Pisarski, Joanna Pisarska, Radosław Lisiecki, and Witold Ryba-Romanowski

Opt. Express 25(23), 28501-28509 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All light-control-light properties of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe₂)-coated-microfiber

Dao Zhang, Heyuan Guan, Wenguo Zhu, Jianhui Yu, Huihui Lu, Wentao Qiu, Jiangli Dong, Jun Zhang, Yunhan Luo, and Zhe Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 28536-28546 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of laser-induced damage threshold improvement mechanism during ion beam sputtering of fused silica

Mingjin Xu, Feng Shi, Lin Zhou, Yifan Dai, Xiaoqiang Peng, and Wenlin Liao

Opt. Express 25(23), 29260-29271 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlled synthesis of hollow Ag@Au nano-urchins with unique synergistic effects for ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Hua Zhang, Linlin Xu, Yue Tian, Ming Chen, Xiangdong Liu, and Feng Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 29389-29400 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of broadband mid-infrared emission and quantitative analysis of Dy-Er energy transfer in tellurite glasses under different excitations

Caizhi Wang, Ying Tian, Xinyu Gao, Qunhuo Liu, Feifei Huang, Bingpeng Li, Junjie Zhang, and Shiqing Xu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29512-29525 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Automatic classification of acute and chronic myeloid leukemic cells with wide-angle label-free static cytometry

Linyan Xie, Qiao Liu, Changshun Shao, and Xuantao Su

Opt. Express 25(23), 29365-29373 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband infrared absorbers with stacked double chromium ring resonators

Huixu Deng, Liliana Stan, David A. Czaplewski, Jie Gao, and Xiaodong Yang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28295-28304 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-mode resonance properties of two-dimensional metal-dielectric-metal fishnet metasurface at visible wavelengths

Yuan Ren, Yonghua Lu, Tianyang Zang, Yong Wang, Yanqiu Dai, and Pei Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28417-28426 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Flexible all-dielectric metamaterials in terahertz range based on ceramic microsphere/ PDMS composite

Chuwen Lan, Ke Bi, Baiwei Li, Yanjiao Zhao, and Zhaowei Qu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29155-29160 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multifocus optical-resolution photoacoustic microscope using ultrafast axial scanning of single laser pulse

Xiaoquan Yang, Xianlin Song, Bowen Jiang, and Qingming Luo

Opt. Express 25(23), 28192-28200 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherently-enhanced lock-in-free chirped-CARS microscopy by notch filtering

Liqing Ren, Hadas Frostig, Sunil Kumar, Ilan Hurwitz, and Yaron Silberberg

Opt. Express 25(23), 28201-28209 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

In-situ microscopy of front and rear side ablation processes in alkali aluminosilicate glass using ultra short pulsed laser radiation

Daniel Grossmann, Martin Reininghaus, Christian Kalupka, Michael Jenne, and Malte Kumkar

Opt. Express 25(23), 28478-28488 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Simultaneous two-color imaging in digital holographic microscopy

Nicola E. Farthing, Rachel C. Findlay, Jan F. Jikeli, Pegine B. Walrad, Martin A. Bees, and Laurence G. Wilson

Opt. Express 25(23), 28489-28500 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing three-dimensional point spread function in lensless holographic microscopy

Jaromír Běhal and Zdeněk Bouchal

Opt. Express 25(23), 29026-29042 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Edge contrast enhancement of Fresnel incoherent correlation holography (FINCH) microscopy by spatial light modulator aided spiral phase modulation

Tianxu Xu, Jiuru He, Hong Ren, Zhongchao Zhao, Guoqing Ma, Qiaoxia Gong, Shuangning Yang, Lin Dong, and Fengying Ma

Opt. Express 25(23), 29207-29215 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Third-order-nonlinear effects in single crystals with arbitrary orientation and in ceramics

E. A. Khazanov, O. V. Maslennikov, V. N. Ginzburg, A. A. Kochetkov, and V. I. Nekorkin

Opt. Express 25(23), 27968-27980 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient method for evaluation of second-harmonic generation by surface integral equation

Lei Zhang, Shifei Tao, Zhenhong Fan, and Rushan Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 28010-28021 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Rogue wave generation by inelastic quasi-soliton collisions in optical fibres

M. Eberhard, A. Savojardo, A. Maruta, and R. A. Römer

Opt. Express 25(23), 28086-28099 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Active control of adiabatic soliton fission by external dispersive wave at optical event horizon

Zhixiang Deng, Jun Liu, Xianwei Huang, Chujun Zhao, and Xinlin Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28556-28566 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear vortex beam array generation by spatially modulated fundamental wave

Hui Li, Haigang Liu, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 28668-28673 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect on Kerr comb generation in a clockwise and counter-clockwise mode coupled microcavity

Shun Fujii, Atsuhiro Hori, Takumi Kato, Ryo Suzuki, Yusuke Okabe, Wataru Yoshiki, Akitoshi-Chen Jinnai, and Takasumi Tanabe

Opt. Express 25(23), 28969-28982 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Lasing on nonlinear localized waves in curved geometry

Kou-Bin Hong, Chun-Yan Lin, Tsu-Chi Chang, Wei-Hsuan Liang, Ying-Yu Lai, Chien-Ming Wu, You-Lin Chuang, Tien-Chang Lu, Claudio Conti, and Ray-Kuang Lee

Opt. Express 25(23), 29068-29077 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength scaling of the cutoff energy in the solid high harmonic generation

Xi Liu, Xiaosong Zhu, Xiaofan Zhang, Dian Wang, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29216-29224 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High power continuous wave second harmonic generation in a phase matching insensitive MgO doped LiNbO₃ waveguide

Guohui Li and Yanxia Cui

Opt. Express 25(23), 29225-29232 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical analysis of the angle-of-arrival fluctuations for optical wavext propagation through solar corona turbulence

Guanjun Xu and Zhaohui Song

Opt. Express 25(23), 28022-28034 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity directed equalizer for the mitigation of DML chirp induced distortion in dispersion-unmanaged C-band PAM transmission

Kuo Zhang, Qunbi Zhuge, Haiyun Xin, Mohamed Morsy-Osman, Eslam El-Fiky, Lilin Yi, Weisheng Hu, and David V. Plant

Opt. Express 25(23), 28123-28135 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Satellite-to-ground optical communications using small optical transponder (SOTA) – received-power fluctuations

Dimitar R. Kolev and Morio Toyoshima

Opt. Express 25(23), 28319-28329 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Research on channel-related polar code with an optimum code length for wireless ultraviolet communications

Wenxiu Hu, Min Zhang, Dahai Han, Qingbo Chen, Lin Ai, Qing Li, and Zabih Ghassemlooy

Opt. Express 25(23), 28630-28642 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of data-carrying orbital angular momentum-based underwater wireless optical multicasting link

Yifan Zhao, Jing Xu, Andong Wang, Weichao Lv, Long Zhu, Shuhui Li, and Jian Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28743-28751 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study on SPAD-based VLC systems with an LED status indicator

Chao Wang, Hong-Yi Yu, Yi-Jun Zhu, Tao Wang, and Ya-Wei Ji

Opt. Express 25(23), 28783-28793 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact and mitigation of XT-induced time-synchronization errors in MDM transmission systems through a minimized residual inter-block-interference (MRI) algorithm

Yu Tian, Juhao Li, Yingchao Xin, Zhongying Wu, Paikun Zhu, Yongqi He, and Zhangyuan Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 28794-28805 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Low loss QKD optical scheme for fast polarization encoding

A. Duplinskiy, V. Ustimchik, A. Kanapin, V. Kurochkin, and Y. Kurochkin

Opt. Express 25(23), 28886-28897 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Encoding and decoding by the states of vector modes for vortex beams propagating in air-core fiber

Xiaohui Wang and Yingxiong Song

Opt. Express 25(23), 29342-29355 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Intercore crosstalk in direct-detection homogeneous multicore fiber systems impaired by laser phase noise

Tiago M. F. Alves, Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo, Ruben S. Luís, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Yoshinari Awaji, and Naoya Wada

Opt. Express 25(23), 29417-29431 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical and electro-optic properties of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal cells with photoalignment layers

Shun-An Jiang, Wei-Jie Sun, Shih-Hung Lin, Jia-De Lin, and Chia-yi Huang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28179-28191 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Bistable switching between homeotropic and focal-conic states in an ion-doped chiral nematic liquid crystal cell

Jin-Hun Kim, Jae-Won Huh, Seung-Won Oh, Seong-Min Ji, Young-Seo Jo, Byeong-Hun Yu, and Tae-Hoon Yoon

Opt. Express 25(23), 29180-29188 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Manufacturing with light - micro-assembly of opto-electronic microstructures

Shuailong Zhang, Yongpeng Liu, Yang Qian, Weizhen Li, Joan Juvert, Pengfei Tian, Jean-Claude Navarro, Alasdair W Clark, Erdan Gu, Martin D. Dawson, Jonathan M. Cooper, and Steven L. Neale

Opt. Express 25(23), 28838-28850 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Optical properties and resonant cavity modes in axial InGaN/GaN nanotube microcavities

P. -M. Coulon, J. R. Pugh, M. Athanasiou, G. Kusch, E. D. Le Boulbar, A. Sarua, R. Smith, R. W. Martin, T. Wang, M. Cryan, D. W. E. Allsopp, and P. A. Shields

Opt. Express 25(23), 28246-28257 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier with segmented electrodes for high-speed self-seeded colorless transmitter

Peng Zhou, Wenhui Zhan, Masaru Mukaikubo, Yoshiaki Nakano, and Takuo Tanemura

Opt. Express 25(23), 28547-28555 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High thermal stability 40 GHz electro-optic polymer modulators

Hiroki Miura, Feng Qiu, Andrew M. Spring, Tsubasa Kashino, Takamasa Kikuchi, Masaaki Ozawa, Hideyuki Nawata, Keisuke Odoi, and Shiyoshi Yokoyama

Opt. Express 25(23), 28643-28649 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Explicit computational model of dielectric elastomeric lenses

Yanjie Cao, Yanan Wang, Yang Liu, and Yu-Xin Xie

Opt. Express 25(23), 28710-28717 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Electric-field control of the ferro-paraelectric phase transition in Cu:KTN crystals

Xin Zhang, Hongliang Liu, Zhuan Zhao, Xuping Wang, and Pengfei Wu

Opt. Express 25(23), 28776-28782 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of optomechanical parametric oscillation in a toroid microcavity assisted by a Kerr comb

Ryo Suzuki, Takumi Kato, Tomoya Kobatake, and Takasumi Tanabe

Opt. Express 25(23), 28806-28816 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Relative intensity noise of InAs quantum dot lasers epitaxially grown on Ge

Yue-Guang Zhou, Cheng Zhou, Chun-Fang Cao, Jiang-Bing Du, Qian Gong, and Cheng Wang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28817-28824 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Non-traditional whispering gallery modes inside microspheres visualized with Fourier analysis

Lantian Chang, Frank Timmermans, and Cees Otto

Opt. Express 25(23), 28946-28956 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Stabilizing CCT in pcW-LEDs by self-compensation between excitation efficiency and conversion efficiency of phosphors

Tsung-Hsun Yang, Shin-Mei Wu, Ching-Cherng Sun, Benoit Glorieux, Ching-Yi Chen, Yu-Yu Chang, Xuan-Hao Lee, Yeh-Wei Yu, Te-Yuan Chung, and Kun-Yu Lai

Opt. Express 25(23), 29287-29295 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Full optical confinement in 1D mesoscopic photonic crystal-based microcavities: an experimental demonstration

A. Monmayrant, M. Grande, B. Ferrara, G. Calò, O. Gauthier-Lafaye, A. D’Orazio, B. Dagens, V. Petruzzelli, and G. Magno

Opt. Express 25(23), 28288-28294 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation losses in photonic crystal waveguides: effects of band tail absorption and waveguide dispersion

B. Rigal, K. Joanesarson, A. Lyasota, C. Jarlov, B. Dwir, A. Rudra, I. Kulkova, and E. Kapon

Opt. Express 25(23), 28908-28913 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Finite-size analysis of unidimensional continuous-variable quantum key distribution under realistic conditions

Pu Wang, Xuyang Wang, Junqi Li, and Yongmin Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 27995-28009 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Preparation of entangled states of microwave photons in a hybrid system via the electro-optic effect

Dao-Quan Zhu and Peng-Bo Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 28305-28318 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral band adjustments for remote sensing reflectance spectra in coastal/inland waters

N. Pahlevan, B. Smith, C. Binding, and D. M. O’Donnell

Opt. Express 25(23), 28650-28667 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Heterodyne-based hybrid controller for wide dynamic range optoelectronic frequency synthesis

Aaron Bluestone, Akshar Jain, Nicolas Volet, Daryl T. Spencer, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams, John E. Bowers, and Luke Theogarajan

Opt. Express 25(23), 29086-29097 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Electronically synthesized Nyquist pulses for photonic sampling of microwave signals

Valeria Vercesi, Daniel Onori, John Davies, Alwyn Seeds, and Chin-Pang Liu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29249-29259 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Exact localization length for s-polarized electromagnetic waves incident at the critical angle on a randomly-stratified dielectric medium

Kihong Kim

Opt. Express 25(23), 28752-28763 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Toroidal dipole-induced absorption and scattering dip in (dielectric core)@(plasmonic shell) nanostructures

Jing Wang, Nan Wang, Jinhui Hu, and Ruibin Jiang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28935-28945 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Distributed sensing technology of high-spatial resolution based on dense ultra-short FBG array with large multiplexing capacity

Gui Xin, Li Zhengying, Wang Fan, Wang Yiming, Wang Changjia, Zeng Siyue, and Yu Haihu

Opt. Express 25(23), 28112-28122 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Molybdenum disulfide nanosheets deposited on polished optical fiber for humidity sensing and human breath monitoring

Dongquan Li, Huihui Lu, Wentao Qiu, Jiangli Dong, Heyuan Guan, Wenguo Zhu, Jianhui Yu, Yunhan Luo, Jun Zhang, and Zhe Chen

Opt. Express 25(23), 28407-28416 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity optical sensors based on cascaded reflective MZIs and microring resonators

H. H. Zhu, Y. H. Yue, Y. J. Wang, M. Zhang, L. Y. Shao, J. J. He, and M. Y. Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 28612-28618 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-quality hybrid TDM/DWDM-based fiber optic sensor array with extremely low crosstalk based on wavelength-cross-combination method

Zhongjie Ren, Ke Cui, Jianxin Li, Rihong Zhu, Qing He, Hailing Wang, Shaokun Deng, and Wenjun Peng

Opt. Express 25(23), 28870-28885 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ppb-level detection of ammonia based on QEPAS using a power amplified laser and a low resonance frequency quartz tuning fork

Yufei Ma, Ying He, Yao Tong, Xin Yu, and Frank K. Tittel

Opt. Express 25(23), 29356-29364 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Refractive index sensing using disk-hole coupling plasmonic structures fabricated on fiber facet

Shijie Li and Wen-Di Li

Opt. Express 25(23), 29380-29388 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (iNIRS): performance tradeoffs and optimization

Oybek Kholiqov, Dawid Borycki, and Vivek J. Srinivasan

Opt. Express 25(23), 28567-28589 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Artifact free time resolved near-field spectroscopy

A. J. Sternbach, J. Hinton, T. Slusar, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, A. Frenzel, M. Wagner, R. Iraheta, F. Keilmann, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Fogler, H.-T. Kim, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov

Opt. Express 25(23), 28589-28611 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral characterization of single photon sources with ultra-high resolution, accuracy and sensitivity

Lijun Ma, Oliver Slattery, and Xiao Tang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28898-28907 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Laboratory fabrication of monolithic interferometers for one and two-dimensional spatial heterodyne spectrometers

Yang Yi, Shaodong Zhang, Fuchao Liu, Yunpeng Zhang, and Fan Yi

Opt. Express 25(23), 29121-29134 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Differential noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy for improvement of the detection sensitivity by reduction of drifts from background signals

Gang Zhao, Thomas Hausmaninger, Weiguang Ma, and Ove Axner

Opt. Express 25(23), 29454-29471 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High resolution X-ray spectra of stainless steel foils irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses with ultra-relativistic intensities

M. A. Alkhimova, A. Ya. Faenov, I. Yu. Skobelev, T. A. Pikuz, M. Nishiuchi, H. Sakaki, A. S. Pirozhkov, A. Sagisaka, N. P. Dover, Ko. Kondo, K. Ogura, Y. Fukuda, H. Kiriyama, K. Nishitani, T. Miyahara, Y. Watanabe, S. A. Pikuz, M. Kando, R. Kodama, and K. Kondo

Opt. Express 25(23), 29501-29511 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoscale electromagnetic confinement in THz circuit resonators

Alireza Mottaghizadeh, Yanko Todorov, Mathis Cameau, Djamal Gacemi, Angela Vasanelli, and Carlo Sirtori

Opt. Express 25(23), 28718-28730 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous-wave 1550 nm operated terahertz system using ErAs:In(Al)GaAs photo-conductors with 52 dB dynamic range at 1 THz

A.D.J. Fernandez Olvera, H. Lu, A. C. Gossard, and S. Preu

Opt. Express 25(23), 29492-29500 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro/nanolithography of transparent thin films through laser-induced release of phase-transition latent-heat

Tao Wei, Kui Zhang, Jingsong Wei, Yang Wang, and Long Zhang

Opt. Express 25(23), 28146-28156 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Angle-dependent optical perfect absorption and enhanced photoluminescence in excitonic thin films

Byung Hoon Woo, In Cheol Seo, Eunsongyi Lee, Soo-Chan An, Hoon Yeub Jeong, and Young Chul Jun

Opt. Express 25(23), 28619-28629 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Periodically intensity-modulated pulses by optical parametric amplification for multicycle tunable terahertz pulse generation

György Tóth, József A. Fülöp, and János Hebling

Opt. Express 25(23), 28258-28272 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of microscopic and macroscopic effects on attosecond pulse generation using two-color laser fields

C. Chen, C. Hernández-García, Z. Tao, W. You, Y. Zhang, D. Zusin, C. Gentry, P. Tengdin, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, H. Kapteyn, and M. Murnane

Opt. Express 25(23), 28684-28696 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Approximate fields of an ultra-short, tightly-focused, radially-polarized laser pulse in an under-dense plasma: a Bessel-Bessel light bullet

Yousef I. Salamin

Opt. Express 25(23), 28990-28999 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Intense attosecond pulses from laser-irradiated near-critical-density plasmas

Yuxue Zhang, Bin Qiao, Xinrong Xu, Hengxin Chang, Haiyang Lu, Cangtao Zhou, Hua Zhang, Shaoping Zhu, Matthew Zepf, and Xiantu He

Opt. Express 25(23), 29058-29067 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Unveiling multi-scale laser dynamics through time-stretch and time-lens spectroscopies

Xiaoming Wei, Bowen Li, Ying Yu, Chi Zhang, Kevin K. Tsia, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong

Opt. Express 25(23), 29098-29120 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Chromaticity and characterization of whiteness for surface colors

Minchen Wei, Yuzhao Wang, Shining Ma, and Ming Ronnier Luo

Opt. Express 25(23), 27981-27994 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

X-ray refractive parabolic axicon lens

D. Zverev, A. Barannikov, I. Snigireva, and A. Snigirev

Opt. Express 25(23), 28469-28477 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Soft-tissue differentiation and bone densitometry via energy-discriminating X-ray microCT

Viona S. K. Yokhana, Benedicta D. Arhatari, Timur E. Gureyev, and Brian Abbey

Opt. Express 25(23), 29328-29341 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF