Optics Letters

Miguel Alonso, Editor-in-Chief

Optics Letters

Miguel Alonso, Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

15 March 2021, Volume 46, Issue 6, pp. 1193-1485
74 articles

Letters

Diffraction and Gratings

Micro-electromechanical-system-tuned resonant filters spanning the 8–12 µm band

Y. H. Ko, K. J. Lee, S. Das, N. Gupta, and R. Magnusson

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1329-1332 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Lithographic pattern quality enhancement of DMD lithography with spatiotemporal modulated technology

Shuping Guo, Zifeng Lu, Zheng Xiong, Long Huang, Hua Liu, and Jinhuan Li

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1377-1380 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Simultaneous refractive index and temperature sensing based on a fiber surface waveguide and fiber Bragg gratings

Qi Chen, D. N. Wang, and Feng Gao

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1209-1212 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

800 Gb/s/200 m FSO link with a WDM-PAM4 scheme and SLM-based beam tracking technology

Hai-Han Lu, Xu-Hong Huang, Wen-Shing Tsai, Chao-Yu Feng, Cing-Ru Chou, Yi-Hao Chen, Yu-Ting Huang, and Agustina Nainggolan

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1269-1272 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Tunable optical second-order Volterra nonlinear filter using wave mixing and delays to equalize a 10–20 Gbaud 4-APSK channel

Kaiheng Zou, Peicheng Liao, Huibin Zhou, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amir Minoofar, Ahmed Almaiman, Fatemeh Alishahi, Moshe Tur, and Alan E. Willner

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1325-1328 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Phase noise of electro-optic dual frequency combs

Callum Deakin, Zichuan Zhou, and Zhixin Liu

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1345-1348 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum generation of 314.7 W ranging from 390 to 2400 nm by tapered photonic crystal fiber

Haoyu Zhang, Fengyun Li, Ruoyu Liao, Kegong Dong, Yue Li, Honghuan Lin, Jianjun Wang, and Feng Jing

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1429-1432 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Autoencoder based underwater wireless optical communication with high data rate

Cong Zou and Fang Yang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1446-1449 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Use of machine learning to efficiently predict the confinement loss in anti-resonant hollow-core fiber

Fanchao Meng, Xiaoting Zhao, Jinmin Ding, Yingli Niu, Xinghua Zhang, Mateusz Smietana, Ryszard Buczyński, Bo Lin, Guangming Tao, Lvyun Yang, Xin Wang, Shuqin Lou, Xinzhi Sheng, and Sheng Liang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1454-1457 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Spectral filtering in single-mode fibers using resonant coupling with absorbing rods

Svetlana Aleshkina, Tatiana Kashaykina, Mikhail Yashkov, Mikhail Salganskii, Vladimir Velmiskin, Mikhail Bubnov, and Mikhail Likhachev

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1458-1461 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Fourier Optics, Image and Signal Processing

Accelerating ptychographic reconstructions using spectral initializations

Lorenzo Valzania, Jonathan Dong, and Sylvain Gigan

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1357-1360 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Fundamental Optics

Editors' Pick

Label-free plasmonic assisted optical trapping of single DNA molecules

Lei Chen, Wei Liu, Dongyi Shen, Zhihao Zhou, Yuehan Liu, and Wenjie Wan

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1482-1485 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Holography

Shear deformation response of a holographic sensor based on elastic poly(MMA-co-LMA) photopolymer

Hongpeng Liu, Mingzhao Wei, Li Li, Baohua Wang, Dan Yu, and Weibo Wang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1249-1252 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency holographic metacoder for optical masquerade

Dong Zhao, Zhaogang Dong, and Kun Huang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1462-1465 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Angular spectrum matching for digital holographic microscopy under extremely low light conditions

Kotaro Inoue, Arun Anand, and Myungjin Cho

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1470-1473 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Imaging Systems

Passive polarimetric imaging of millimeter and terahertz waves for personnel security screening

Yayun Cheng, Lingbo Qiao, Dong Zhu, Yingxin Wang, and Ziran Zhao

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1233-1236 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Resolution improvement of dark-field microscopy via microparticle near-field illumination

Jinzhong Ling, Yucheng Wang, Xin Liu, and Xiaorui Wang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1265-1268 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Integrated Optics

High-performance all-silicon polarizer with 415 nm bandwidth

Weixi Liu, Daoxin Dai, and Yaocheng Shi

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1321-1324 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Silicon photonic on-chip spatial heterodyne Fourier transform spectrometer exploiting the Jacquinot’s advantage

Thi Thuy Duong Dinh, David González-Andrade, Miguel Montesinos-Ballester, Lucas Deniel, Bertrand Szelag, Xavier Le Roux, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Laurent Vivien, Pavel Cheben, Aitor V. Velasco, and Carlos Alonso-Ramos

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1341-1344 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

On-chip optical true time delay lines based on subwavelength grating waveguides

Yue Wang, Hao Sun, Mostafa Khalil, Wei Dong, Ivana Gasulla, José Capmany, and Lawrence R. Chen

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1405-1408 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-dependent tuning of Bragg reflection enabled through tilted subwavelength grating waveguide Bragg gratings

Hao Sun and Lawrence R. Chen

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1450-1453 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Low-loss edge-coupling thin-film lithium niobate modulator with an efficient phase shifter

Pan Ying, Heyun Tan, Junwei Zhang, Mingbo He, Mengyue Xu, Xiaoyue Liu, Renyou Ge, Yuntao Zhu, Chuan Liu, and Xinlun Cai

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1478-1481 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Lasers and Laser Optics

Editors' Pick

Optical frequency generation using fiber Bragg grating filters for applications in portable quantum sensing

Calum D. Macrae, Kai Bongs, and Michael Holynski

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1257-1260 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Direct generation of sub-picosecond pulse via multi-section gain switching

Takahiro Nakamura, Takashi Ito, Hidekazu Nakamae, Changsu Kim, Yuji Hazama, Yohei Kobayashi, Ryunosuke Kuroda, and Hidefumi Akiyama

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1277-1280 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Optimum design of NOLM-driven mode-locked fiber lasers

A. Malfondet, A. Parriaux, K. Krupa, G. Millot, and P. Tchofo-Dinda

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1289-1292 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

10-W-scale Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CALYO laser with sub-100-fs pulses

Wenlong Tian, Rui Xu, Li Zheng, Xuan Tian, Dacheng Zhang, Xiaodong Xu, Jiangfeng Zhu, Jun Xu, and Zhiyi Wei

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1297-1300 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-coherent noise-like pulses in a mode-locked fiber laser with a 3D rotatable polarization beam splitter

Renlai Zhou, Qian Li, H. Y. Fu, and K. Nakkeeran

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1305-1308 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Modulation of MXene Nb₂CT_x saturable absorber for passively Q-switched 2.85 µm Er:Lu₂O₃laser

Chenyang Feng, Wenchao Qiao, Yizhou Liu, Jiacheng Huang, Yangyang Liang, Yuefeng Zhao, Yuzhi Song, and Tao Li

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1385-1388 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

5 kW monolithic fiber amplifier employing homemade spindle-shaped ytterbium-doped fiber

Lingfa Zeng, Zhiyong Pan, Xiaoming Xi, Huan Yang, Yun Ye, Liangjin Huang, Hanwei Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Zefeng Wang, Pu Zhou, Xiaojun Xu, and Jinbao Chen

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1393-1396 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Narrow-linewidth self-injection locked diode laser with a high-Q fiber Fabry–Perot resonator

Liyun Hao, Xiaohan Wang, Dongjie Guo, Kunpeng Jia, Pengfei Fan, Jian Guo, Xin Ni, Gang Zhao, Zhenda Xie, and Shi-ning Zhu

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1397-1400 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Materials and Metamaterials

Constructing an achromatic polarization-dependent bifocal metalens with height-gradient metastructures

Xiang Xiong, Xi Wang, Zhenghan Wang, Yajun Gao, Ruwen Peng, and Mu Wang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1193-1196 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Maskless fabrication of plasmonic metasurfaces in polymer film using a spatial light modulator

Mohammad H. Bitarafan, Shambhavee Annurakshita, Juha Toivonen, and Godofredo Bautista

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1197-1200 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical coupling of overlapping nanopillars

Alexey A. Dmitriev and Mikhail V. Rybin

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1221-1224 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Dynamically reversible and strong circular dichroism based on Babinet-invertible chiral metasurfaces

Xiaoqing Luo, Fangrong Hu, and Guangyuan Li

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1309-1312 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Origami-based microwave absorber with a reconfigurable bandwidth

Xiqiao Chen, Wei Li, Zhuang Wu, Zilong Zhang, and Yanhong Zou

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1349-1352 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous control of intensity, phase, and polarization in real time under a weak oscillation theory

Runzhang Xie, Peng Wang, Fang Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, Wei Lu, and Weida Hu

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1361-1364 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Magnetic wire: transverse magnetism in a one-dimensional plasmonic system

Subhajit Karmakar, Deepak Kumar, Bishnu P. Pal, Ravendra K. Varshney, and Dibakar Roy Chowdhury

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1365-1368 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Complete polarization conversion using anisotropic temporal slabs

Jingwei Xu, Wending Mai, and Douglas H. Werner

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1373-1376 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Light scattering from stationary PT-symmetric collections of particles

Olga Korotkova and Paulo A. Brandão

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1417-1420 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Asymmetry of the group velocity of light in monoclinic crystals

Pengqian Wang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1425-1428 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Editors' Pick

Experimental demonstration of second-harmonic generation in high χ² metasurfaces

Léna Soun, Baptiste Fix, Hasnaa El Ouazzani, Sébastien Héron, Nathalie Bardou, Christophe Dupuis, Sophie Derelle, Julien Jaeck, Riad Haïdar, and Patrick Bouchon

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1466-1469 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Microscopy

Singlet oxygen phosphorescence imaging by superconducting single-photon detector and time-correlated single-photon counting

Pavel Morozov, Maria Lukina, Marina Shirmanova, Alexander Divochiy, Varvara Dudenkova, Gregory N. Gol’tsman, Wolfgang Becker, and Vladislav I. Shcheslavskiy

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1217-1220 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Ptychographic optical coherence tomography

Mengqi Du, Lars Loetgering, Kjeld S. E. Eikema, and Stefan Witte

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1337-1340 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Multispectral compressive fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy with a SPAD array detector

Alberto Ghezzi, Andrea Farina, Andrea Bassi, Gianluca Valentini, Ivan Labanca, Giulia Acconcia, Ivan Rech, and Cosimo D’Andrea

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1353-1356 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Multimode fiber enables control of spatial coherence in Fourier-domain full-field optical coherence tomography for in vivo corneal imaging

Egidijus Auksorius, Dawid Borycki, and Maciej Wojtkowski

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1413-1416 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Beyond intensity modulation: new approaches to pump-probe microscopy

Jun Jiang, David Grass, Yue Zhou, Warren S. Warren, and Martin C. Fischer

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1474-1477 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Nonlinear Optics

Supercontinuum generation from zinc borate glasses: bandgap versus rare-earth doping

M. M. Neethish, V. V. Ravi Kanth Kumar, Samuel Anurag Nalam, S. Sree Harsha, and P. Prem Kiran

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1201-1204 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Transformation of spin and orbital angular momentum in second-harmonic generation process at oblique incidence of light from the surface of an isotropic medium with spatial dispersion of quadratic nonlinearity

K. S. Grigoriev, V. A. Diukov, and V. A. Makarov

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1245-1248 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Time-resolved study of laser emission in nitrogen gas pumped by two near IR femtosecond laser pulses

Rostyslav Danylo, Guillaume Lambert, Yi Liu, Vladimir Tikhonchuk, Aurélien Houard, and André Mysyrowicz

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1253-1256 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Dynamic manipulation of nonlinear Talbot effect with structured light

Lin Li, Haigang Liu, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1281-1284 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Open-aperture Z-scan study for absorption saturation: accurate measurement of saturation intensity in YLF:Yb for optical refrigeration

Azzurra Volpi, Jackson Kock, Alexander R. Albrecht, Markus P. Hehlen, Richard I. Epstein, and Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1421-1424 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Devices

Diffraction-limited broadband optical meta-power-limiter

Liyi Hsu and Abdoulaye Ndao

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1293-1296 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

MCVD-based GRIN-axicon for the generation of scalable Bessel–Gauss beams

Mireille Quémener, Nicolas Grégoire, Steeve Morency, Daniel Côté, and Simon Thibault

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1333-1336 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical Sensors, Measurements, and Metrology

Coherent laser detection of the femtowatt-level frequency-shifted optical feedback based on a DFB fiber laser

Yuanyang Zhao, Desheng Zhu, Yourui Tu, Lingling Pi, Hongtao Li, Lin Xu, Zhijia Hu, Yuecheng Shen, Benli Yu, and Liang Lu

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1229-1232 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Design of opposite thermal behaviors in Tm³⁺/Eu³⁺ co-doped YVO₄ for high-sensitivity optical thermometry

Shaoshuai Zhou, Xiaoman Li, and Shoubao Zhang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1301-1304 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic hollow fibers with distributed inner-wall hotspots for direct SERS detection of flowing liquids

Yunyun Mu, Miao Liu, Jiajun Li, and Xinping Zhang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1369-1372 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

All-passive multiple-place optical phase noise cancellation

Liang Hu, Ruimin Xue, Xueyang Tian, Guiling Wu, and Jianping Chen

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1381-1384 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot interferometric measurement of cavitation bubble dynamics

Bryce G. Wilson, Zhenkun Fan, Rahul Sreedasyam, Elliot L. Botvinick, and Vasan Venugopalan

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1409-1412 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Discrete probabilistic detection model for a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode array with crosstalk

Chengzhi Qu, Yan Zhang, Yang Yang, and Shuang Wang

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1442-1445 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

Enhancing the efficiency of solution-processed inverted quantum dot light-emitting diodes via ligand modification with 6-mercaptohexanol

Woosuk Lee, Changmin Lee, Boram Kim, Yonghyeok Choi, and Heeyeop Chae

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1434-1437 (2021) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Broadband and fine-structured luminescence in diamond facilitated by femtosecond laser driven electron impact and injection of “vacancy-interstitial” pairs

S. I. Kudryashov, R. A. Khmelnitskii, P. A. Danilov, N. A. Smirnov, A. O. Levchenko, O. E. Kovalchuk, M. V. Uspenskaya, E. A. Oleynichuk, and M. S. Kovalev

Opt. Lett. 46(6), 1438-1441 (2021) View: HTML | PDF