Updates from Optics Letters: editorial

Miguel Alonso

Opt. Lett. 48(18), ED1-ED2 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Endogenous BOTDA in the self-homodyne coherent detection transmission system for communication-integrated datacenter temperature monitoring

Mingming Zhang, Weilun Wei, Weihao Li, Huan He, Yizhao Chen, Hao Wu, Can Zhao, Zhiyong Zhao, and Ming Tang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4749-4752 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct detection system for independent triplet-sideband signals based on a single photodiode

Dongyan Wu, Leilei Wang, Zheng Hu, Yilin Chen, Chenlei Lu, Tianrong Guo, Gen Miao, Li Zhao, and Jiangnan Xiao

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4877-4880 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Pol2Pol: self-supervised polarimetric image denoising

Hedong Liu, Xiaobo Li, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, and Haofeng Hu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4821-4824 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Non-line-of-sight reconstruction via structure sparsity regularization

Duolan Huang, Quan Chen, Zhun Wei, and Rui Chen

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4881-4884 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Surface topography detection based on an optical differential metasurface

Qiuying Li, Hua Yang, Yan Wang, Yichang Shou, Shuoqing Liu, and Hailu Luo

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4801-4804 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Full-resolution and full-dynamic-range coded aperture compressive temporal imaging

Ping Wang, Lishun Wang, Mu Qiao, and Xin Yuan

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4813-4816 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Single-shot image restoration via a model-enhanced network with unpaired supervision in an optical sparse aperture system

Ju Tang, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenbo Ren, Jianglei Di, Xiaoyan Wu, and Jianlin Zhao

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4849-4852 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Power-efficient polarization-insensitive tunable microring filter on a multi-layer Si₃N₄-on-SOI platform

Xin Li, Liangjun Lu, Jianping Chen, and Linjie Zhou

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4861-4864 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Short, broadband, and polarization-insensitive adiabatic Y-junction power splitters

Can Ozcan, Mo Mojahedi, and J. Stewart Aitchison

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4901-4904 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Red Sm:KGd(WO₄)₂ laser at 649 nm

Amandine Baillard, Pavel Loiko, Daniel Rytz, Sebastian Schwung, Michaël Fromager, Alain Braud, and Patrice Camy

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4721-4724 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Watt-level and near diffraction-limited Pr³⁺-doped single-crystal fiber lasers

Mengyuan Xiong, Yuquan Zhao, Dong Wang, Zhong Chen, Bin Xu, Alexey Nizamutdinov, Vadim Semashko, and Stella Korableva

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4725-4728 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

L-band mode-locked fiber laser using all polarization-maintaining nonlinear polarization rotation

Guanyu Ye, Kin Kee Chow, Bowen Liu, Maolin Dai, Yifan Ma, Takuma Shirahata, Shinji Yamashita, and Sze Yun Set

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4729-4732 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser adaptive processing technology for multilayer dissimilar materials

Guiyang Yang, Hangrui Yan, Le Liu, Quanji Wang, Qiaodan Chen, Wei Xiong, Leimin Deng, and Lei Liu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4733-4736 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Periodical properties of the ray transfer matrix and generation of sideband modes in a stable laser resonator

Vitaly Kubarev

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4785-4788 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Yb:CALYO oscillator with more than 20-W average power

Wenlong Tian, Xuan Tian, Qian Li, Geyang Wang, Chuan Bai, Yang Yu, Xiaodong Xu, Jun Xu, Zhiyi Wei, and Jiangfeng Zhu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4789-4792 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz beam characterization by temporal-spatial mapping with a reflecting echelon

Tana Gegen, Kai Zhong, Hongzhan Qiao, Lina Yi, Yuxin Liu, Fuchen Yan, Jining Li, Degang Xu, and Jian-Quan Yao

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4805-4808 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast vortex arrays generated from a mode-locked oscillator with dispersion management

Pan Guo, Yongjie Pu, Jie Zhu, Huinan Li, Minyu Fan, and Sha Wang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4865-4868 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of the effect of pump pulse duration on liquid crystal laser performance

Calum M. Brown, Ieva Pakamoryte, and Philip J. W. Hands

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4873-4876 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Machine-learning iterative optimization for all polarization-maintaining linear cavity Er:fiber laser

Minghe Zhao, Xuanyi Liu, H. Y. Fu, and Qian Li

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4893-4896 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Helico-conical vector beams

Edgar Medina-Segura, Leonardo Miranda-Culin, Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo, Benjamin Perez-Garcia, and Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4897-4900 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Monolithic 591-nm laser with cooperative multiphonon-coupling and nonlinear frequency-doubling

Huichen Si, Fei Liang, Ya Zhou, Dazhi Lu, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, and Yicheng Wu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4913-4916 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of the bound states in the continuum supported by mode coupling in a terahertz metasurface

Zijian Cui, Yue Wang, Guangcheng Sun, Wenshuo Chen, Kuang Zhang, and Xinmei Wang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4809-4812 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Chiral metasurface zone plate for transmission-reflection focusing of circularly polarized terahertz waves

Jie Li, Xiao Liu, Yuting Wang, Hang Xu, Hui Li, Zhen Yue, Yue Yang, Yu He, Xiao Liang, Li Luo, Tingting Tang, and Jianquan Yao

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4833-4836 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Gradient-assisted metasurface absorber with dual-band chiral switching and quasi-linearly tunable circular dichroism

Jiafei Chen, Shu Zong, Xiaoshan Liu, Guiqiang Liu, Xuefeng Zhan, and Zhengqi Liu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4917-4920 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Imaging human macular pigments with visible light optical coherence tomography and superluminescent diodes

Alok K. Gupta, Ruoyu Meng, Yasha S. Modi, and Vivek J. Srinivasan

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4737-4740 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity synchronous angio-lymphography based on a speckle spectrum contrast OCT

Yudan Hu, Xin Zhao, Zhuangzhuang Zhang, Yanshan Chen, Tingfeng Li, Zhilie Tang, and Peijun Tang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4757-4760 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Computational refocusing in phase-unstable polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Sebastián Ruiz-Lopera, René Restrepo, Taylor M. Cannon, Martin Villiger, Brett E. Bouma, and Néstor Uribe-Patarroyo

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4765-4768 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (6)]

Development of an intraoral handheld optical coherence tomography-based angiography probe for multi-site oral imaging

Tianyu Zhang, Simon Shepherd, Zhihong Huang, Michaelina Macluskey, and Chunhui Li

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4857-4860 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a two-beveled-fiber polarized fiber-optic Raman probe coupled with a ball lens for in vivo superficial epithelial Raman measurements in endoscopy

Jianfeng Wang, Shuyu Chen, Ruoyu Zhang, Kan Lin, Tao Wang, Wenxiang Liu, and AiJun Zhang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4885-4888 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Wave-scattering processes: path-integrals designed for the numerical handling of complex geometries

Jérémi Dauchet, Julien Charon, Stéphane Blanco, Laurent Brunel, Jean-François Cornet, Christophe Coustet, Mouna El Hafi, Vincent Eymet, Vincent Forest, Richard Fournier, Fabrice Gros, Benjamin Piaud, Guillaume Terrée, and Thomas Vourc’h

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4909-4912 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-temperature wave thermalization spoils beam self-cleaning in nonlinear multimode GRIN fibers

Fabio Mangini, Mario Ferraro, Alessandro Tonello, Vincent Couderc, and Stefan Wabnitz

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4741-4744 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Post-compression of multi-millijoule picosecond pulses to few-cycles approaching the terawatt regime

Supriya Rajhans, Esmerando Escoto, Nikita Khodakovskiy, Praveen K. Velpula, Bonaventura Farace, Uwe Grosse-Wortmann, Rob J. Shalloo, Cord L. Arnold, Kristjan Põder, Jens Osterhoff, Wim P. Leemans, Ingmar Hartl, and Christoph M. Heyl

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4753-4756 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Continuous families of non-Hermitian surface solitons

Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4773-4776 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Adding a second AgGaS₂ stage to Ti:sapphire/BBO/AgGaS₂ setups increases mid-infrared power twofold

Whitney Harmon, Kevin Robben, and Christopher M. Cheatum

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4797-4800 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable higher-charge vortex solitons in the cubic–quintic medium with a ring potential

Liangwei Dong, Mingjing Fan, and Boris A. Malomed

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4817-4820 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Background-reduced spectral peak generation using a nonlinear loop mirror with a gas cell

Norihiko Nishizawa, Kwangyun Jung, and Shotaro Kitajima

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4869-4872 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Predicting nonlinear multi-pulse propagation in optical fibers via a lightweight convolutional neural network

Hao Sui, Hongna Zhu, Huanyu Jia, Qi Li, Mingyu Ou, Bin Luo, Xihua Zou, and Lianshan Yan

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4889-4892 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Increasing bandwidth of Cherenkov-type terahertz emitters by free carrier generation

N. A. Abramovsky, S. B. Bodrov, E. S. Efimenko, Y. Avetisyan, and M. I. Bakunov

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4921-4924 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable slow light device based on a graphene metasurface

Yumin Gong, Baogang Quan, Fangrong Hu, Mingzhu Jiang, Longhui Zhang, Yongjie Zhang, and Xingpeng Liu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4781-4784 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Silicon metaoptics for the compact generation of perfect vector beams in the telecom infrared

Andrea Vogliardi, Gianluca Ruffato, Daniele Bonaldo, Simone Dal Zilio, and Filippo Romanato

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4925-4928 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Slide-type waveflex biosensor based on signal enhancement technology for alpha-fetoprotein detection

Guoru Li, Xiangshan Li, Ragini Singh, Guiwei Zhang, Bingyuan Zhang, and Santosh Kumar

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4745-4748 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Light-narrowed parametric resonance magnetometer with the fundamental sensitivity beyond the spin-exchange limit

Guiying Zhang, Hongjian Zeng, Ruihan Guo, Qing Zhang, Wenyue Yu, and Qiang Lin

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4793-4796 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-range distributed vibration sensing using phase-sensitive forward optical transmission

George Y. Chen, Kuan Liu, Xing Rao, Yuhang Wang, Mamoona Khalid, Jun He, and Yiping Wang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4825-4828 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-powered MSM solar-blind AlGaN photodetector realized by in-plane polarization modulation

Chenyu Guo, Jiaxin Zhang, Shihong Xia, Liqiong Deng, Kunzi Liu, Zhenhai Yang, Bin Cheng, Biplab Sarkar, Wei Guo, and Jichun Ye

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4769-4772 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Size-dependent sidewall defect effect of GaN blue micro-LEDs by photoluminescence and fluorescence lifetime imaging

Zhou Wang, Xinyi Shan, Shijie Zhu, Xugao Cui, Zhilai Fang, Gengzhao Xu, Zhenghui Liu, Wentao Song, Ke Xu, and Pengfei Tian

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4845-4848 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

High quality factor unidirectional guided resonances of a silicon-on-lithium niobate photonic crystal slab for a tunable Gires–Tournois interferometer

Wei Xu, Qilin Hong, Ping Liu, Jialong Peng, Biao Yang, Jianfa Zhang, and Zhihong Zhu

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4761-4764 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Polarization-independent bound state in the continuum without the help of rotational symmetry

Jixin Feng, Xianghui Wang, Jierong Cheng, and Ming Zeng

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4829-4832 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Experimental realization of free-space continuous-variable quantum key distribution based on fiber Sagnac interferometer

Xue-Tao Zheng, Qi-Fa Zhang, Jing-yu Han, Jie Ling, Guang-can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4837-4840 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Coexistence of 1 Tbps classical optical communication and quantum key distribution over a 100.96 km few-mode fiber

Tianqi Dou, Song Gao, Chengliang Zhang, Jiangang Tong, Rende Liu, Lei Shen, Juhao Li, Zhengjun Pan, Min Liao, Jianjun Tang, and Shibiao Tang

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4905-4908 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of antireflection Si coatings on the damage threshold of fused silica upon irradiation with mid-IR femtosecond laser pulses

George D. Tsibidis and Emmanuel Stratakis

Opt. Lett. 48(18), 4841-4844 (2023)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]