Celebrating Optical Glass – the International Year of Glass (2022): feature issue introduction

John Ballato, Ulrich Fotheringham, Mathieu Hubert, Stefan Nolte, Laeticia Petit, and Kathleen A. Richardson

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4660-4664 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Controlling localized states in a two-leg ladder lattice with diagonal edges via gain/loss [Invited]

Rui Ye, Guangzhen Li, Luojia Wang, Xiaoxiong Wu, Luqi Yuan, and Xianfeng Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4755-4767 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Temperature dependence of the fluorescence lifetime and emission cross section of Tm:YLF in the 78–300 K range

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

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4712-4732 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Graphene metasurfaces for terahertz wavefront shaping and light emission [Invited]

Yuyu Li, Mathan Ramaswamy Krisshnamurthi, Weijun Luo, Anna K. Swan, Xi Ling, and Roberto Paiella

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4528-4546 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Efficient mid-infrared linear-to-circular polarization conversion using a nanorod-based metasurface

Huanling Zou and Geoffrey R. Nash

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4565-4573 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Humidity-induced direct modification of the optical response of plasmonic nanorod metamaterials

Yunlu Jiang, Alexey V. Krasavin, Mazhar E. Nasir, Pan Wang, and Anatoly V. Zayats

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4574-4581 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Solar energy harvesting mechanisms of the frustules of Nitzschia filiformis diatoms

Yannick D’Mello, Santiago Bernal, Dan Petrescu, James Skoric, Mark Andrews, and David V. Plant

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4665-4681 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Effect of ambient temperature on optical performances of Eu²⁺/Ho³⁺ co-doped Ba₂SiO₄ phosphors

Yi Zhong, Mingliang Pan, Shaoqi Huang, Hui Lin, Dechao Yu, Bo Dai, Songlin Zhuang, and Dawei Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4691-4701 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Study on the surface modification of Ta₂O₅ bombarded by argon ions

Tan Shu, Yun Cui, Chunxian Tao, Dianfu Feng, Yuanan Zhao, and Jianda Shao

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4547-4555 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Crystal growth and spectral properties of Ho:Sc₂O₃

Jianda Li, Jianshu Dong, Xiaodong Xu, Qingguo Wang, Yanyan Xue, Huili Tang, and Jun Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4556-4564 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Enhanced throughput and clean laser drilling with a sacrificial polymer layer

John Linden, Ariel Hoch, Asaf Levy, Igor Sakaev, Gil Bernstein Toker, Ofer Fogel, Manuela Hod, and Zeev Zalevsky

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4682-4690 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Non-volatile compact optical phase shifter based on Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ operating at 2.3 µm

Yuto Miyatake, Chong Pei Ho, Prakash Pitchappa, Ranjan Singh, Kotaro Makino, Junji Tominaga, Noriyuki Miyata, Takashi Nakano, Kasidit Toprasertpong, Shinichi Takagi, and Mitsuru Takenaka

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4582-4593 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Fabrication and transfer printing based integration of free-standing GaN membrane micro-lenses onto semiconductor chips

Nils Kolja Wessling, Saptarsi Ghosh, Benoit Guilhabert, Menno Kappers, Alexander M. Hinz, Miles Toon, Rachel A. Oliver, Martin D. Dawson, and Michael J. Strain

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4606-4618 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Electrically tunable dual-layer twisted nematic liquid crystal THz phase shifters with intermediate composite polymer thin film

Anup Kumar Sahoo, Yi-Hsin Lin, Chan-Shan Yang, Osamu Wada, Chun-Ling Yen, and Ci-Ling Pan

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4733-4754 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Surface plasmon resonance voltage sensor based on a liquid crystal-infiltrated hollow fiber

Md. Shofiqul Islam, Md. Aslam Mollah, Abdulhameed Fouad Alkhateeb, Wassim Zouch, and Sami Alghamdi

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4630-4642 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Laser-induced assembly of Au nano-polyhedron clusters as stable 3D superstructures with ultrabroadband plasmonic resonance for promoting multi-band SERS

Shuang Li, Qingqiang Cui, Chang Wang, Mengya Zhang, Linqi Zheng, and Ming Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4643-4659 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Compressive and tensile strain effects on the ultrafast carrier dynamics and transport of gallium arsenide thin films on silicon and magnesium oxide substrates

Gerald Angelo R. Catindig, Hannah R. Bardolaza, John Daniel E. Vasquez, Rommel J. Jagus, Kerphy Liandro M. Patrocenio, Karl Cedric P. Gonzales, Elizabeth Ann P. Prieto, Armando S. Somintac, Elmer S. Estacio, Alexander E. De Los Reyes, and Arnel A. Salvador

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4702-4711 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Study on the mechanically exfoliated graphene saturable absorption dependence on the number of layers and its influence on passive mode-locking erbium-doped fiber laser dynamics

F. P. R. de Freitas, D. Steinberg, H. G. Rosa, and E. A. Thoroh de Souza

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4506-4517 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Excitation-dependent spatially resolved photoluminescence in InGaN/GaN LEDs with air-cavity arrays grown on patterned sapphire substrates

Aixing Li, Yufeng Li, Haifeng Yang, Minyan Zhang, Zhenhuan Tian, Qiang Li, and Feng Yun

Opt. Mater. Express 12(12), 4518-4527 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]