Ultra-short pulses UV lasing in multifunctional Ce:LiY_0.3Lu_0.7F₄ active medium

I. I. Farukhshin, A. S. Nizamutdinov, S. L. Korableva, and V. V. Semashko

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1131-1137 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a rapid bacterial counting method based on photothermal assembling

Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Emi Shimizu, Yushi Nishimura, Takuya Iida, and Shiho Tokonami

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1280-1285 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling the excitation of upconverting luminescence for biomedical theranostics: neodymium sensitizing

Qiuqiang Zhan, Baoju Wang, Xuanyuan Wen, and Sailing He

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1011-1023 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Diagnosis of immediate-type allergy using surface plasmon resonance

Yuhki Yanase, Kenji Sakamoto, Koichiro Kobayashi, and Michihiro Hide

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1339-1348 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Yb³⁺-enhanced UCNP@SiO₂ nanocomposites for consecutive imaging, photothermal-controlled drug delivery and cancer therapy

Nana Li, Xuanyuan Wen, Jing Liu, Baoju Wang, Qiuqiang Zhan, and Sailing He

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1161-1171 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoprobes for optical bioimaging

Keunsoo Jeong, Youngsun Kim, Chi Soo Kang, Hong-Jun Cho, Yong-Deok Lee, Ick Chan Kwon, and Sehoon Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1262-1279 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon absorption dye based on 2,5-bis(phenylacrylonitrile)thiophene with aggregration enhanced fluorescence

Tobias Johann, Kerstin Schmidt, Prem Prabhakaran, Rudolf Zentel, and Kwang-Sup Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1296-1305 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

CuS nanoplates for LSPR sensing in the second biological optical window

Hiroyasu Nishi, Keisuke Asami, and Tetsu Tatsuma

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1043-1048 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Photothermal inactivation of heat-resistant bacteria on nanoporous gold disk arrays

Greggy M. Santos, Felipe Ibañez de Santi Ferrara, Fusheng Zhao, Debora F. Rodrigues, and Wei-Chuan Shih

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1217-1229 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

New diffusion reflection imaging system using gold nanorods coated with poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

Rui Pang, Shuyun Zhou, Xiujie Hu, Zheng Xie, Xiaojing Liu, Hamootal Duadi, and Dror Fixler

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1238-1246 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Assemblies of gold nanorods for efficient SALDI mass spectrometry

Masanori Fujii, Naotoshi Nakashima, and Yasuro Niidome

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1376-1383 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Structure characteristics and afterglow of BaZr₄(PO₄)₆ phosphor

Ruijin Yu, Maosen Yuan, Yonghua Xiong, Junbo Li, and Jinyi Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1049-1055 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthesis and up-conversion luminescence of Lu₃Al₅O₁₂:Yb³⁺,Er³⁺

Wonsik Ahn and Young Jin Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1099-1105 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced persistent luminescence and photocatalytic properties of Ga₂O₃:Cr³⁺ by In³⁺ doping

Lei Li, Ke Xu, Yinhai Wang, Zhengfa Hu, and Hui Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1122-1130 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical method to select appropriate codopants as efficient foreign electron traps for Lu₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂:Tb³⁺/Ln³⁺ persistent phosphor

Zhenbin Wang, Wenxiang Wang, Jiachi Zhang, Xin Ji, Jianpeng Li, Jian Liang, Shanglong Peng, Zhipeng Ci, and Yuhua Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1186-1197 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

La₃GaGe₅O₁₆:Cr³⁺ phosphor: the near-infrared persistent luminescence

Shaoan Zhang, Yihua Hu, Li Chen, Yinrong Fu, and Guifang Ju

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1247-1255 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of co-doping Si ions on persistent luminescence of ZnGa₂O₄: Cr³⁺ red phosphors

Zhengfa Hu, Dinghua Ye, Xiujuan Lan, Wei Zhang, Li Luo, and Yinhai Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1329-1338 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength shifting of chemiluminescence using quantum dots to enhance tissue light penetration

Erica A. Mason, Ramona Lopez, and Ralph P. Mason

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1384-1392 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Photostimulation induced persistent luminescence in Y₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂:Cr³⁺

Yumiko Katayama, Bruno Viana, Didier Gourier, Jian Xu, and Setsuhisa Tanabe

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1405-1413 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Feature issue introduction: persistent and photostimulable phosphors – an established research field with clear challenges ahead

Philippe F. Smet, Bruno Viana, Setsuhisa Tanabe, Mingying Peng, Jorma Hölsä, and Wei Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1414-1419 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Natural silk protein as a new broadband nonlinear optical material

Byungjic Lee, Hyunsoo Kwon, Sunghwan Kim, and Fabian Rotermund

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 993-1002 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Telluride glass single mode fiber for mid and far infrared filtering

Shuo Cui, Catherine Boussard-Plédel, Johann Troles, and Bruno Bureau

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 971-978 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ytterbium-doped double-cladding fiber with 3.5 kW output power, fabricated by chelate gas phase deposition technique

Chaoqi Hou, Yonggang Zhu, Jinkun Zheng, Gang Li, Chao Li, Song Gao, Qi Gao, Lihua Zhang, Chang Chang, Wei Zhao, Weinan Li, and Baoyin Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 979-985 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Advances in methods of purification and dispersion measurement applicable to tellurite-based glasses

Mathieu Boivin, Mohammed El-Amraoui, Simon Poliquin, Réal Vallée, and Younès Messaddeq

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1079-1086 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Heavily Ho³⁺-doped lead silicate glass fiber for ~2 μm fiber lasers

Xueqiang Liu, Peiwen Kuan, Dahai Li, Song Gao, Xin Wang, Lei Zhang, Lili Hu, and Danping Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1093-1098 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of TiO₂ on optical properties of glasses in the soda-lime-silicate system

Stefan Karlsson, Lina Grund Bäck, Pinit Kidkhunthod, Karin Lundstedt, and Lothar Wondraczek

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1198-1216 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Waveguides in polycrystalline diamond for mid-IR sensing

Mikael Malmström, Mikael Karlsson, Pontus Forsberg, Yixiao Cai, Fredrik Nikolajeff, and Fredrik Laurell

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1286-1295 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Excited-state absorption spectra of Pr³⁺ ions doped into LiY_0.3Lu_0.7F₄ mixed crystal

Viktoria Gorieva, Stella Korableva, and Vadim Semashko

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1146-1150 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively mode-locked Nd³⁺:YVO₄ laser using a molybdenum disulfide as saturable absorber

Chao Feng, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhaojun Liu, Zhenhua Cong, Han Rao, Qingpu Wang, and Jiaxiong Fang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1358-1366 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-ablation-induced synthesis of porous ZnS/Zn nano-cages and their visible-light-driven photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr(VI)

Dameng Wang, Hua Zhang, Lijuan Li, Ming Chen, and Xiangdong Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1306-1312 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance comparison of p-side-up thin-film AlGaInP light emitting diodes with aluminum-doped zinc oxide and indium tin oxide transparent conductive layers

Ming-Chun Tseng, Dong-Sing Wuu, Chi-Lu Chen, Hsin-Ying Lee, Yu-Chang Lin, and Ray-Hua Horng

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1349-1357 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of alignment layers on crystal growth of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals

Po-Ju Chen, Michael Chen, Shih-Ya Ni, Hung-Shan Chen, and Yi-Hsin Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1003-1010 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid crystal-doped liquid electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Chi-Yen Huang, Chang-Feng You, Cheng-En Cheng, Bi-Cheng Lei, Jia-Cih Jhang, Fang-Cheng Yu, Chen-Shiung Chang, and Forest Shih Sen Chien

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1024-1031 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical array generator based on blue phase liquid crystal Dammann grating

Shi-Jun Ge, Peng Chen, Ling-Ling Ma, Zhen Liu, Zhi-Gang Zheng, Dong Shen, Wei Hu, and Yan-Qing Lu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1087-1092 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Helical pitch dependence of the electro-optic characteristics in polymer/cholesteric liquid crystal nanocomposites

Hoekyung Kim, Junji Kobashi, Yasutaka Maeda, Hiroyuki Yoshida, and Masanori Ozaki

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1138-1145 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Lasing of self-organized helical cholesteric liquid crystal micro-droplets based on emulsification

Pei-zhi Sun, Zhen Liu, Wei Wang, Xiaoqian Wang, Hui-min Zhang, Yun-xing Lu, Wei Hu, Yanqing Lu, Dong Shen, and Zhi-gang Zheng

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1256-1261 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Lasing properties from dye-doped holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal confined in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry

Jie Zhang, Haitao Dai, Chao Yan, Degang Xu, Yanjun Liu, Dan Luo, and Xiaowei Sun

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1367-1375 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of magnetic dipole emission at yellow light with polarization-independent hexagonally arrayed nanorods optical metamaterials

Lin Cui, Ming-Yuan Huang, Yu-Meng You, Gao-Min Li, Yu-Jun Zhang, Chuan-Kun Liu, and Shi-Lin Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1151-1160 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Realization of broadband reflective polarization converter using asymmetric cross-shaped resonator

Linbo Zhang, Peiheng Zhou, Haipeng Lu, Li Zhang, Jianliang Xie, and Longjiang Deng

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1393-1404 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced saturable absorption of the graphene oxide film via photonic nanojets

Y. J. Jin, L. W. Chen, M. X. Wu, X. Z. Lu, R. Zhou, and M. H. Hong

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1114-1121 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploring the critical thickness for maximum reflectance of optical reflectors based on polymer-filler composites

Yue Shao and Frank G. Shi

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1106-1113 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Photon induced separation of bio-nano hybrid complex based on carbon nanotubes and optically active bacteriorhodopsin

Astha Sharma, E.Senthil Prasad, and Harsh Chaturvedi

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 986-992 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-functional β-NaYF₄: Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ nanoparticles for bioimaging and temperature sensing

Lili Huo, Jiajia Zhou, Ruozhen Wu, Junfei Ren, Shengjun Zhang, Junjie Zhang, and Shiqing Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1056-1064 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of the near-infrared emission in novel quantum cutting SiO₂:Tb³⁺, Yb³⁺ thin films by Ag species

Siqin Wang, Jianbei Qiu, Xuhui Xu, Qi Wang, Dacheng Zhou, Zhengwen Yang, and Zhiguo Song

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1065-1078 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Energy transfer between Ce³⁺ and Tb³⁺ and the enhanced luminescence of a green phosphor SrB₂O₄:Ce³⁺, Tb³⁺, Na⁺

Shaojun Sun, Li Wu, Huan Yi, Liwei Wu, Jingyuan Ji, Chunling Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yongfa Kong, and Jingjun Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1172-1185 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of EDTA on the formation and upconversion of NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/ Er³⁺

Ruisen Zhou and Xia Li

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1313-1320 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving crystallinity of femtosecond-laser hyperdoped silicon via co-doping with nitrogen

Haibin Sun, Cong Liang, Guojin Feng, Zhen Zhu, Jun Zhuang, and Li Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1321-1328 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced near-infrared absorption and photo-thermal generation in black iron doped indium tin oxide

Qi Shao, Fei Hu, and Antonio Ruotolo

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1230-1237 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Zeroth order Fabry-Perot resonance enabled ultra-thin perfect light absorber using percolation aluminum and silicon nanofilms

Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan, Ting S. Luk, and Junpeng Guo

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1032-1042 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF