Focus issue introduction: persistent phosphors

Philippe F. Smet, Dirk Poelman, and Markus P. Hehlen

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 452-454 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Persistent luminescence mechanisms: human imagination at work

Hermi F. Brito, Jorma Hölsä, Taneli Laamanen, Mika Lastusaari, Marja Malkamäki, and Lucas C. V. Rodrigues

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 371-381 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Persistent luminescence behavior of materials doped with Eu²⁺ and Tb³⁺

Lucas C. V. Rodrigues, Hermi F. Brito, Jorma Hölsä, and Mika Lastusaari

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 382-390 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

The influence of defects formed by Ca excess and thermal post-treatments on the persistent luminescence of CaTiO₃:Pr

Eugenio H. Otal, Alexandra E. Maegli, Nina Vogel-Schäuble, Bernhard Walfort, Hans Hagemann, Songhak Yoon, Albert Zeller, and Anke Weidenkaff

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 405-412 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Persistent phosphorescence in Ce-doped Lu₂SiO₅

Mitsuo Yamaga, Yusuke Ohsumi, Tomomi Nakayama, and Thomas P. J. Han

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 413-419 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

DFT and synchrotron radiation study of Eu²⁺ doped BaAl₂O₄

Hermi F. Brito, Maria C. F. C. Felinto, Jorma Hölsä, Taneli Laamanen, Mika Lastusaari, Marja Malkamäki, Pavel Novák, Lucas C. V. Rodrigues, and Roberval Stefani

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 420-431 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable photoluminescence properties of Eu(II)- and Sm(III)-coactivated Ca₉Y(PO₄)₇ and energy transfer between Eu(II) and Sm(III)

Huaiyong Li, Hyun Kyoung Yang, Byung Kee Moon, Byung Chun Choi, Jung Hyun Jeong, Kiwan Jang, Ho Sueb Lee, and Soung Soo Yi

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 443-451 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Growth of highly concentrated silver nanoparticles and nanoholes in silver-exchanged glass by ultraviolet continuous wave laser exposure

F. Goutaland, M. Sow, N. Ollier, and F. Vocanson

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 350-357 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Acoustic coefficients of P₂O₅-doped silica fiber: the strain-optic and strain-acoustic coefficients

Pi-Cheng Law, André Croteau, and Peter D. Dragic

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 391-404 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Extruded tellurite glass and fibers with low OH content for mid-infrared applications

Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Kevin Kuan, Michael R. Oermann, Kenton Knight, and Tanya M. Monro

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 432-442 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths

Gururaj V. Naik, Jeremy L. Schroeder, Xingjie Ni, Alexander V. Kildishev, Timothy D. Sands, and Alexandra Boltasseva

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 478-489 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical and compositional properties of amorphous silicon-germanium films by plasma processing for integrated photonics

William W. Hernández-Montero, Ignacio E. Zaldívar-Huerta, Carlos Zúñiga-Islas, Alfonso Torres-Jácome, Claudia Reyes-Betanzo, and Adrián Itzmoyotl-Toxqui

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 358-370 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical channel waveguides in ZnSe single crystal produced by proton implantation

Yuechen Jia and Feng Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 455-460 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ge₂Sb_1.5Bi_0.5Te₅ thin film as inorganic photoresist

Hongzhu Xi, Qian Liu, Ye Tian, Yongsheng Wang, Shengming Guo, and Maoyou Chu

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 461-468 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of Mn in regrown GaN-based epitaxial layers

Feng-Wen Huang, Jinn-Kong Sheu, Shang-Ju Tu, Po-Cheng Chen, Yu-Hsiang Yeh, Ming-Lun Lee, Wei-Chih Lai, Wen-Che Tsai, and Wen-Hao Chang

Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 469-477 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF