A retrospective on the first five years: editorial

David J. Hagan

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 251-251 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Quiet revolutions in optical materials enable breakthrough technologies: editorial

Alexandra Boltasseva

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 288-289 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Microchip laser operation of Yb-doped gallium garnets

Josep Maria Serres, Venkatesan Jambunathan, Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, Junhai Liu, Antonio Lucianetti, Tomas Mocek, Konstantin Yumashev, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Magdalena Aguiló, and Francesc Díaz

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 46-57 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High Verdet constant of Ti-doped terbium aluminum garnet (TAG) ceramics

Hiroaki Furuse, Ryo Yasuhara, Keijiro Hiraga, and Shengming Zhou

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 191-196 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

SESAM mode-locked Tm:CALGO laser at 2 µm

Yicheng Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Xiaodong Xu, Juqing Di, Zhipeng Qin, Soile Suomalainen, Mircea Guina, Antti Härkönen, Antonio Agnesi, Uwe Griebner, Xavier Mateos, Pavel Loiko, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 131-136 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

SiO₂-Al₂O₃-La₂O₃ glass - a superior medium for optical Kerr gating at moderate pump intensity

Christian Karras, Wolfgang Paa, Doris Litzkendorf, Stephan Grimm, Kay Schuster, and Herbert Stafast

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 125-130 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Band engineering of ternary metal nitride system Ti_1-x Zr_xN for plasmonic applications

Mukesh Kumar, Satoshi Ishii, Naoto Umezawa, and Tadaaki Nagao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 29-38 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Intrinsic ionic screening of the ferroelectric polarization of KTP revealed by second-harmonic generation microscopy

Mario Maglione, Anand Theerthan, Vincent Rodriguez, Alexandra Peña, Carlota Canalias, Bertrand Ménaert, and Benoît Boulanger

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 137-145 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Single phase tunable warm white-light-emitting Sr₃La(PO₄)₃:Eu²⁺, Sm³⁺ phosphor for white LEDs

Zhijun Wang, Shuqin Lou, and Panlai Li

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 114-124 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Near ultraviolet excited Eu³⁺ doped Li₃Ba₂La₃(WO₄)₈ red phosphors for white light emitting diodes

Jie Hu, Xinghong Gong, Jianhua Huang, Yujin Chen, Yanfu Lin, Zundu Luo, and Yidong Huang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 181-190 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

New insight into two-step near-infrared quantum cutting in Pr³⁺ singly doped oxyfluoride glass-ceramics

D. C. Yu, Q. J. Chen, H. H. Lin, Y. Z. Wang, and Q. Y. Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 197-206 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Regrowth method for the enhancement in the photoluminescence, UV photoresponse, and electrical properties of n-ZnO:Sn films

Giwoong Nam, Min Su Kim, Jeongyong Kim, Sung-O Kim, and Jae-Young Leem

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 220-229 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable green to red upconversion fluorescence of water-soluble hexagonal-phase core-shell CaF₂@NaYF₄ nanocrystals

Daguang Li, Weiping Qin, Dan Zhao, Tuerxun Aidilibike, Huan Chen, Shihu Liu, Peng Zhang, and Lili Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 270-278 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

LED induced green luminescence in visually transparent PMMA films with CdS precursor

Anton A. Smirnov, Andrey Afanasiev, Nickolai Ermolaev, and Nikita Bityurin

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 290-295 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Role of iodine in the solubility of Tm³⁺ ions in As₂S₃ glasses

A. Galstyan, S.H. Messaddeq, I Skripachev, T. Galstian, and Y. Messaddeq

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 230-243 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively mode-locked Nd:LuAG laser at 1338 nm

T. Feng, K. Yang, G. Li, S. Zhao, D. Li, T. Li, W. Qiao, C. Liu, X. Chen, X. Xu, L. Zheng, J. Xu, and R. Lan

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 1-7 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Flux growth and physical properties characterizations of Y_1.866Eu_0.134O₃ and Lu_1.56Gd_0.41Eu_0.03O₃ single crystals

Philippe Veber, Matias Velazquez, Paul-Antoine Douissard, Thierry Martin, Olivier Plantevin, and Rekia Belhoucif

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 207-219 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High repetition rate femtosecond laser irradiation of fused silica studied by Raman spectroscopy

Nadezda Varkentina, Marc Dussauze, Arnaud Royon, Marc Ramme, Yannick Petit, and Lionel Canioni

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 79-90 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Interlaced cholesteric liquid crystal fingerprint textures via sequential UV-induced polymer-stabilization

Wen-Song Li, Ling-Ling Ma, Ling-Li Gong, Sen-Sen Li, Can Yang, Bin Luo, Wei Hu, and Lu-Jian Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 19-28 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving UV stability of tolane-liquid crystals in photonic applications by the ortho fluorine substitution

Ran Chen, Zhongwei An, Wenliang Wang, Xinbing Chen, and Pei Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 97-105 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Influence of dry-oxygen-annealing on the residual absorption of lithium niobate crystals in the spectral range from 500 to 2900 nanometers

Markus Leidinger, Karsten Buse, and Ingo Breunig

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 264-269 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Induced nanoscale changes with low temperature annealing inside composite optical fibres probed by strain-insensitive long period gratings

Wen Liu, John Canning, Kevin Cook, and Cicero Martelli

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 58-68 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectroscopic and laser properties of Al-P co-doped Yb silica fiber core-glass rod and large mode area fiber prepared by sol-gel method

Shikai Wang, Wenbin Xu, Fengguang Lou, Lei Zhang, Qinling Zhou, Danping Chen, Wei Chen, Suya Feng, Meng Wang, Chunlei Yu, and Lili Hu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 69-78 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Drawing tubular fibres: experiments versus mathematical modelling

Michael J. Chen, Yvonne M. Stokes, Peter Buchak, Darren G. Crowdy, Herbert T.C. Foo, Alastair Dowler, and Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 166-180 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral features of Trp-Trp dipeptides using PSSS-templated silver nanoparticles

Yufeng Yuan, Junle Qu, Jun Song, Maozhen Xiong, and Junxian Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 146-154 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Structural, luminescent properties and chemical state analysis of YAG:Ce nanoparticle-based films

Bin Wang, Hongji Qi, Hetong Han, Zhaohui Song, Jianyu Chen, and Jianda Shao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 155-165 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination and analysis of the linear and second order nonlinear optical properties of Na₂TeW₂O₉

Z. L. Gao, X. X. Tian, S. J. Zhang, and X. T. Tao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 106-113 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Third-order nonlinear optical responses of colloidal Ag nanoparticles dispersed in BMI.BF₄ ionic liquid

Nivea F. Corrêa, Cássio E. A. Santos, Daniela R. B. Valadão, Luciane F. de Oliveira, Jairton Dupont, Márcio A. R. C. Alencar, and Jandir M. Hickmann

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 244-250 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Photopolymeric films with highly tunable refractive index modulation for high precision diffractive optics

Alessio Zanutta, Enrico Orselli, Thomas Fäcke, and Andrea Bianco

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 252-263 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of melting temperature and composition on spectroscopic properties of Er³⁺-doped bismuth glasses

Yushi Chu, Jing Ren, Jianzhong Zhang, Lu Liu, Pengfei Wang, Jun Yang, Gangding Peng, and Libo Yuan

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 279-287 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Antireflection with graphene oxide

Liang-Chun Chen, Chun-Tien Yu, Yu-Chang Peng, Jing-Jie Hung, Hung-Ming Chang, Shien-Der Tzeng, Chih-Ming Wang, Chun-Chieh Lin, and Chu-Hsuan Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 8-18 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF