3D printing enabled by light and enabling the manipulation of light: feature issue introduction

Eva Blasco, Shoji Maruo, Xianfan Xu, and Martin Wegener

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3414-3416 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Aspherical microlenses enabled by two-photon direct laser writing for fiber-optical microendoscopy

Baokai Wang, Qiming Zhang, and Min Gu

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3174-3184 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Widely tunable Er:Yb fiber laser using a fiber Bragg grating embedded in a 3D printed beam

Chunxin Liu, Xiong Yang, Fredrik Laurell, and Michael Fokine

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3353-3358 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Influence of liquid nitrogen cooling on the spectral performance of BAC-P in bismuth-doped phosphosilicate fibers under liquid nitrogen temperature

Qiancheng Zhao, Qun Hao, Changyuan Yu, Fengze Tan, Yanhua Luo, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3235-3244 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Fluorescence properties of hybridized thin films consisting of organic dye J-aggregates and titanium oxide nanoparticles

Takuya Yanagita, Tsunenobu Onodera, Rodrigo Sato, Yoshihiko Takeda, and Hidetoshi Oikawa

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3268-3276 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Fabrication of highly efficient pure blue-emitting electroluminescent devices using ZnSe/ZnSe_xS_1-x/ZnS QDs

Woon Ho Jung, Jeong-Yeol Yoo, Hyun jun Kim, Jong-Gyu Kim, Byung Doo Chin, and Jang Sub Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3372-3383 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

2 µm passively Q-switched all-solid-state laser based on a Ta₂NiSe₅ saturable absorber

Huiyun Zhang, Shuanghu Xu, Qiangguo Wang, Lihua Meng, Shande Liu, and Yuping Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3090-3096 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Spectroscopic properties of Er:BZMT ceramics for laser emission

Weichao Yao, Hengjun Chen, Hiyori Uehara, and Ryo Yasuhara

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3226-3234 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Investigation of localized state emissions in quaternary InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb multiple quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Huimin Jia, Lin Shen, Xiang Li, Yubin Kang, Xuan Fang, Dan Fang, Fengyuan Lin, Jilong Tang, Dengkui Wang, Xiaohui Ma, and Zhipeng Wei

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3384-3392 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Comparison of different in situ optical temperature probing techniques for cryogenic Yb:YLF

Umit Demirbas, Jelto Thesinga, Martin Kellert, Franz X. Kärtner, and Mikhail Pergament

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3403-3413 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Energy deposition parameters revealed in the transition from 3D to 1D femtosecond laser ablation of fluorite at high-NA focusing

Sergey Kudryashov, Pavel Danilov, Alexey Rupasov, Svetlana Khonina, Anton Nalimov, Andrey Ionin, George Krasin, and Michael Kovalev

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3291-3305 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Polymer dispersed liquid crystals with electrically controlled light scattering in the visible and near-infrared ranges

E. P. Pozhidaev, A. V. Kaznacheev, S. I. Torgova, V. V. Kesaev, and V. A. Barbashov

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3030-3040 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Effects of rapid thermal annealing on aluminum nitride waveguides

Xinyao Wu, Jijun Feng, Xiaoteng Liu, and Heping Zeng

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3073-3080 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Synthesis and characterization of tetragonal and orthorhombic Sn_1-xBa_xO₂ nanostructures via the spray pyrolysis method

Ariful Islam, Jannatul Robaiat Mou, Faruk Hossain, Abdul Hadi Shah, Abdul Kader Zilani, and Sazzad Hossain

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3245-3256 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Design of a wideband terahertz metamaterial absorber based on Pythagorean-tree fractal geometry

R. M. H. Bilal, M. A. Naveed, M. A. Baqir, M. M. Ali, and A. A. Rahim

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3007-3020 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Robust inverse design of all-dielectric metasurface transmission-mode color filters

Soumyashree S. Panda, Hardik S. Vyas, and Ravi S. Hegde

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3145-3159 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Breaking planar symmetries by a single layered metasurface for realizing unique on-chip chiroptical effects

Taimoor Naeem, Ahsan Sarwar Rana, Muhammad Zubair, Tauseef Tauqeer, and Muhammad Qasim Mehmood

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3342-3352 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical properties of silver nanowire/polymer composite films: absorption, scattering, and color difference

Takeo Tomiyama, Ikuo Mukai, Hiroshi Yamazaki, and Yoshihiko Takeda

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3202-3214 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Numerical and experimental investigation of highly flexible, transparent, and conductive WO₃/Ag/PEI/CuSCN multilayered electrodes

Jianchun Yang, Can Wang, Peixin Yan, Xiaobing Li, Zining Zhao, and Xueming Li

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3257-3267 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Thickness-dependent optical properties of yttrium fluoride ultrathin films in the visible band

Yao Shan, Pian Liu, Yao Chen, Huatian Tu, Haotian Zhang, Yuxiang Zheng, Rongjun Zhang, Songyou Wang, and Liangyao Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3306-3314 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Application of a ZnO nanorod layer to display retarder: dependence of the optical property on synthesis conditions

Van Chuc Nguyen, Jongyoon Kim, Phuc Toan Dang, Munkhsaikhan Zumuukhorol, Tran Viet Cuong, Chang-Hee Hong, and Ji-Hoon Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3315-3327 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Wafer-scale silver nanoislands with ∼5 nm interstitial gaps for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Hefu Li, Nan Zhao, Yangzhi Wang, Ruibin Zou, Zhenshan Yang, Changqing Zhu, Minghong Wang, and Huishan Yu

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3359-3371 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Experimental dispersion of the third-order optical susceptibility of graphene oxide

Luhao Kang, Rodrigo Sato, Boyi Zhang, Yoshihiko Takeda, and Jie Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3041-3050 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

MnO₂ nanosheets as saturable absorbers for a Q-switched fiber laser

Heng Jia, Nan Li, Siqing Li, Jiaxing Liu, Yanhui Dong, Zhixu Jia, Weihua Di, Guanshi Qin, and Weiping Qin

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3097-3106 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Strain sensitivity of dielectric polarization to doping in a host: guest medium

Kanak Datta and Parag B Deotare

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3021-3029 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Strong visible-light emission in annealed poly(acrylic acid)

Abebe T. Tarekegne, Jakob Janting, and Haiyan Ou

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3424-3434 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Giant electric field enhancement for plasmonic imaging via graphene based nanoslit optical superlens

Guangqing Du, Yu Lu, Noor Uddin, Dayantha Lankanath, Xun Hou, and Feng Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3051-3059 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Hybrid magneto photonic material structure for plasmon assisted magnetic switching

Alan Hwader Chu, Bradlee Beauchamp, Deesha Shah, Aveek dutta, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Ernesto E. Marinero

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3107-3118 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Study on the mechanism of a femtosecond laser-induced breakdown of the deposited substrate mediated by aluminum nanoparticles in a vacuum

Qing Lin, Naifei Ren, and Yang Da

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3160-3173 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Lithographically-prepared gold nanobowls to detect mesoscale target analytes

Jung-Sub Wi, Jin Gyeong Son, and Tae Geol Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3185-3191 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Raman enhancement properties of a high uniformity PS microsphere-Ag nanoparticle substrate

Chen Junfan, Li Tao, and Zhang Jie

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3215-3225 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

AgNPs decorated volcano-like Ag arrays for ultra-sensitive Raman detection

Wang Zhengkun, Sun Ning, Zhu Yong, and Zhang Jie

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3393-3402 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Study on 2.86 µm emission properties of Ho³⁺-doped low-hydroxyl ZnF₂ based fluoride glasses for mid-infrared laser applications

Zhipeng Zhao, Shijie Jia, Huiyu He, Zhixu Jia, Weiping Qin, and Guanshi Qin

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3137-3144 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Principle study of the europium vacancy color center in a diamond

Xin Tan, Zhixin Liu, Zhiyu Liu, Yuan Ren, Shiyang Sun, and Huiling JIa

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3277-3290 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Efficient light extraction from an apex quantum dot coupled to a single-mode optical fiber

Sejeong Kim, Chungheon Baek, Minho Choi, Jong-Hoi Cho, and Yong-Hoon Cho

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3119-3124 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Post-processing ZnSe optical fibers with a micro-chemical vapor transport technique

Alex T. Hendrickson, Stephen C. Aro, Justin R. Sparks, Michael G. Coco, James P. Krug, Carly J. Mathewson, Sean A. McDaniel, Pier J. Sazio, Gary Cook, Venkatraman Gopalan, and John V. Badding

Opt. Mater. Express 10(12), 3125-3136 (2020)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB