Feature issue introduction: biophotonic materials and applications

Kwang-Sup Lee, Chantal Andraud, Kaoru Tamada, Konstantin Sokolov, Kenneth T. Kotz, and Gang Zheng

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1747-1750 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Biometamaterial: dark ultrathin gold film fabricated on taro leaf

Yuusuke Ebihara, Yuta Sugimachi, Takahiro Noriki, Masayuki Shimojo, and Kotaro Kajikawa

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1429-1435 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Chemical and optical characterization of Psammodictyon panduriforme (Gregory) Mann comb. nov. (Bacillariophyta) frustules

Ed Camargo, Perez Coca John Jaime, Chia-Feng Lin, Ming-Shiou Lin, Tzu-Yun Yu, Meng-Chuan Wu, Su-Yuan Lai, and Min-Ying Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1436-1443 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly biocompatible amphiphilic perylenediimide derivative for bioimaging

Jin-Kyung Park, Ran Hee Kim, Prem Prabhakaran, Sehoon Kim, and Kwang-Sup Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1420-1428 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon fabrication of three-dimensional silver microstructures in microfluidic channels for volumetric surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection

Monica Focsan, Ana Maria Craciun, Simion Astilean, and Patrice L. Baldeck

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1587-1593 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon uncaging, from neuroscience to materials

Sebastien Piant, Frederic Bolze, and Alexandre Specht

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1679-1691 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Hole-size tuning and sensing performance of hexagonal plasmonic nanohole arrays

Takazumi Ohno, Carl Wadell, Satoshi Inagaki, Ji Shi, Yoshio Nakamura, Sachiko Matsushita, and Takumi Sannomiya

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1594-1603 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Persistent luminescence properties of Cr³⁺-Sm³⁺ activated LaAlO₃ perovskite

Yumiko Katayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Jumpei Ueda, Bruno Viana, and Setsuhisa Tanabe

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1500-1505 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Probing phonon and electrical anisotropy in black phosphorus for device alignment

Michael Snure, Shivashankar Vangala, and Dennis Walker

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1751-1756 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficiency and stability gratings recorded in GeAsS thin films

K. Palanjyan, Y. Ledemi, Y. Messaddeq, R. Vallée, and T. Galstian

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1604-1612 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced photorefractivity of a perylene bisimide-sensitized poly(4-(diphenylamino) benzyl acrylate) composite

Tam Van Nguyen, Kenji Kinashi, Wataru Sakai, and Naoto Tsutsumi

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1714-1723 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Artificially anisotropic core fiber with ultra-flat high birefringence profile

Grzegorz Stępniewski, Ireneusz Kujawa, Mariusz Klimczak, Tadeusz Martynkien, Rafał Kasztelanic, Krzysztof Borzycki, Dariusz Pysz, Andrew Waddie, Bartłomiej Salski, Ryszard Stępień, Mohammad R. Taghizadeh, and Ryszard Buczyński

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1464-1479 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal stress analysis and supercontinuum generation in germanate-tellurite composite fibers

Mathieu Boivin, Mohammed El-Amraoui, Yannick Ledemi, Fabrice Célarié, Réal Vallée, and Younès Messaddeq

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1653-1662 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Activation and deactivation effects to Ho³⁺ at ~2.8 μm MIR emission by Yb³⁺ and Pr³⁺ ions in YAG crystal

J. Q. Hong, L. H. Zhang, M. Xu, and Y. Hang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1444-1450 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable emission from silico-carnotite type double silicates doped with Tb³⁺ and Eu³⁺

I. Carrasco, F. Piccinelli, and M. Bettinelli

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1738-1746 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

As₄S₄ role on the photoinduced birefringence of silver-doped chalcogenide thin films

Sandra Helena Messaddeq, Olivier Boily, Silvia Helena Santagneli, Mohammed El-Amraoui, and Younès Messaddeq

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1451-1463 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide glasses in Ge-Sn-Se ternary system by thermal treatment

Yicong Huang, Feifei Chen, Beijing Qiao, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie, and Xianghua Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1644-1652 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Chloride photo-thermo-refractive glasses

Victor D. Dubrovin, Alexander I. Ignatiev, and Nikolay V. Nikonorov

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1701-1713 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength mode-locked operation on a novel Nd³⁺,Gd³⁺:SrF₂ crystal laser

Feng Zhang, Xiuwei Fan, Jie Liu, Fengkai Ma, Dapeng Jiang, Siyuan Pang, Liangbi Su, and Jun Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1513-1519 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

2.8 μm passively Q-switched Er:CaF₂ diode-pumped laser

Chun Li, Jie Liu, Shouzhen Jiang, Shicai Xu, Weiwei Ma, Jingya Wang, Xiaodong Xu, and Liangbi Su

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1570-1575 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of growth, optical properties, and laser performance of monoclinic Yb:MgWO₄ crystal

Lizhen Zhang, Weidong Chen, Jieling Lu, Haifeng Lin, Lingyun Li, Guofu Wang, Ge Zhang, and Zhoubin Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1627-1634 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on the partial self-recovery process in Fe-doped lithium niobate crystals

Jianli Jing, Bolin Fan, Meng Wu, Wenbo Yan, Lihong Shi, Donghui Wang, Shaobei Li, Xuliang Wang, and Hongjian Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1545-1551 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Electric and magnetic resonances in optical metamaterial for efficient absorption enhancement in ultrathin CdTe-based photovoltaic cells

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

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1480-1487 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Versatile specimen-grating fabrication technique for moiré method based on solute-solvent separation soft lithography

Xianglu Dai and Huimin Xie

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1530-1544 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthesis and cytotoxic effects of SrAl₂O₄ persistent luminescence nanoparticles co-doped with Eu²⁺/Dy³⁺ ions

J. B. Montes-Frausto, K. Juarez-Moreno, B. Can-Uc, and G. A. Hirata-Flores

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1488-1499 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoporous gold films prepared by sputtering-dealloying combination for total internal reflection SERS measurement

Chen Chen and Zhi-Mei Qi

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1561-1569 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical second harmonic generation from nanostructure-covered micro-cubes on nickel

Y. Ogata

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1520-1529 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Non-critical phase-matched second-harmonic-generation and third-harmonic-generation of 1053 nm lasers in Gd_xY_1-xCOB crystal

Hongwei Qi, Zhengping Wang, Fang Wang, Xiangxu Chai, Fapeng Yu, Yanqing Liu, Xun Sun, Xinguang Xu, and Xian Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1576-1586 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Heteroepitaxial growth of OPGaP on OPGaAs for frequency conversion in the IR and THz

Vladimir L. Tassev, Shivashankar R. Vangala, Rita D. Peterson, Martin M. Kimani, Michael Snure, Ronald W. Stites, Shekhar Guha, Jonathan E. Slagle, Trenton R. Ensley, Akbar A. Syed, and Ivan V. Markov

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1724-1737 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Advances in luminescence of lanthanide doped Y₂O₃: case of S₆ sites

Daniel Avram, Bogdan Cojocaru, Mihaela Florea, and Carmen Tiseanu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1635-1643 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of TiO₂ host crystallinity on Er³⁺ light emission

S. R. Johannsen, S. Roesgaard, B. Julsgaard, R. A. S. Ferreira, J. Chevallier, P. Balling, S. K. Ram, and A. Nylandsted Larsen

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1664-1678 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Cathodoluminescence properties of Pr, Tm co-implanted GaN thin films

XiaoDan Wang, YaJuan Mo, MingMing Yang, XiongHui Zeng, JianFeng Wang, and Ke Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1692-1700 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Holmium acetylacetonate, a compatibilizer between ZnO quantum dots and epoxy resin

Lixi Wang, Weimin Yang, Xiaojuan Yang, Wenhao Ding, Qitu Zhang, Mingxun Yu, and Chingping Wong

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1757-1767 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of annealing temperature on the structure and properties of vanadium oxide films

Yueyan Liu, Juncheng Liu, Yuanbao Li, Danping Wang, Lin Ren, and Kaishun Zou

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1552-1560 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Aluminum oxyfluoride films for deep ultraviolet optics deposited by a combined HIPIMS/CFUBMS deposition technique

Bo-Huei Liao, Chien-Nan Hsiao, and Cheng-Chung Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1506-1512 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthesis and cytotoxic effects of SrAl2O4 persistent luminescence nanoparticles co-doped with Eu2+/Dy3+ ions: publisher’s note

J. B. Montes-Frausto, K. Juarez-Moreno, B. Can-Uc, and G. A. Hirata-Flores

Opt. Mater. Express 6(5), 1663-1663 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF