Group IV mid-infrared photonics [Invited]

G. Z. Mashanovich, M. Nedeljkovic, J. Soler-Penades, Z. Qu, W. Cao, A. Osman, Y. Wu, C. J. Stirling, Y. Qi, Y.X. Cheng, L. Reid, C. G. Littlejohns, J. Kang, Z. Zhao, M. Takenaka, T. Li, Z. Zhou, F. Y. Gardes, D. J. Thomson, and G. T. Reed

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2276-2286 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization switching of thermal emissions based on plasmonic structures incorporating phase-changing material Ge₂Sb₂Te₅

Yurui Qu, Qiang Li, Lu Cai, and Min Qiu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2312-2320 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy surfaces based on thin VO₂ films

Gokhan Bakan, Sencer Ayas, and Aykutlu Dana

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2190-2196 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Selective IR response of highly textured phase change VO₂ nanostructures obtained via oxidation of electron beam deposited metallic V films

Merve Ertas Uslu, I. Burc Misirlioglu, and Kursat Sendur

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2035-2049 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic infrared thin-film absorbers with tunable absorption level based on VO₂ phase transition

Zizhuo Liu, Berker Banar, Serkan Butun, Hasan Kocer, Kevin Wang, Jacob Scheuer, Junqiao Wu, and Koray Aydin

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2151-2158 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Metal-insulator phase transition in Hf-doped VO₂(M) thin films: a study on the structural, electrical, optical and infrared radiation properties

Taixing Huang, Tongtong Kang, Yue Li, Jitao Li, Longjiang Deng, and Lei Bi

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2300-2311 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Waveguide magneto-optical devices for photonics integrated circuits [Invited]

Yuya Shoji and Tetsuya Mizumoto

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2387-2394 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband transparent and CMOS-compatible flat optics with silicon nitride metasurfaces [Invited]

Shane Colburn, Alan Zhan, Elyas Bayati, James Whitehead, Albert Ryou, Luocheng Huang, and Arka Majumdar

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2330-2344 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared emissions of Dy³⁺ doped Ga-As-S chalcogenide glasses and fibers and their potential for a 4.2 μm fiber laser

Jian Cui, Xusheng Xiao, Yantao Xu, Xiaoxia Cui, Meiling Chen, Junjiang Guo, Min Lu, Bo Peng, and Haitao Guo

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2089-2102 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-kW Yb-doped aluminophosphosilicate fiber

Shuang Liu, Huan Zhan, Kun Peng, Yuwei Li, Shihao Sun, Jiali Jiang, Li Ni, Xiaolong Wang, Juan Yu, Lei Jiang, Rihong Zhu, Jianjun Wang, Feng Jing, and Aoxiang Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2114-2124 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of NIR photoluminescence by impurity and polarization engineering in the optical composite containing ferroelectric nanoparticles

Yangjian Cai, Gongxun Bai, Shiqing Xu, and Junjie Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2140-2150 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing sensing sensitivity in Gd₂(MoO₄)₃: Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ upconversion phosphors by optimizing the calcination temperature

Weijiang Xu, Haoyue Hao, Dongyu Li, Xiaoyan Yan, Yinglin Song, Yuxiao Wang, and Xueru Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2355-2365 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparative study of the spectroscopic and laser properties of Tm³⁺, Na⁺(Li⁺)-codoped Ca₃Nb_1.5Ga_3.5O₁₂-type disordered garnet crystals for mode-locked lasers

Zhongben Pan, Josep Maria Serres, Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Hualei Yuan, Xiaojun Dai, Huaqiang Cai, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Yicheng Wang, Yongguang Zhao, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, and Xavier Mateos

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2287-2299 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-dependent absorption assessment of YAG ceramics as cladding material

Koichi Hamamoto, Shigeki Tokita, Hidetsugu Yoshida, Noriaki Miyanaga, and Junji Kawanaka

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2378-2386 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Switchable biphotonic holographic recording in an azobenzene liquid crystal film

Ziyao Lyu, Changshun Wang, Hongjing Li, Yujia Pan, and Renjie Xia

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2050-2059 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical polarization conversion based on guided-mode resonance through a silicon film perforated by L-shaped holes

Shan Wu, Jingxuan Wang, Jianqiang Liu, Hui Zhu, and Peng Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2395-2402 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Cylindrical-water-resonator-based ultra-broadband microwave absorber

Jian Ren and Jia Yuan Yin

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2060-2071 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of an ultra-broadband absorber based on plasma metamaterial and lumped resistors

Haifeng Zhang, Jing Yang, Hao Zhang, and Jiaxuan Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2103-2113 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-term efficiency preservation for gradient phase metasurface diffraction gratings in the visible

Daniel K. Nikolov, Fei Cheng, Necdet Basaran, Aaron Bauer, Jannick P. Rolland, and A. Nick Vamivakas

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2125-2130 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fano-like resonances in the binary elliptical nanoring resonator array

Lixia Li, Yuzhang Liang, Wei Peng, and Yufang Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2131-2139 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Analog of electromagnetically induced transparency in an E-shaped all-dielectric metasurface based on toroidal dipolar response

Bingxin Han, Xiangjun Li, Chuanshuai Sui, Jinyan Diao, Xufeng Jing, and Zhi Hong

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2197-2207 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Maximization of terahertz slow light by tuning the spoof localized surface plasmon induced transparency

Zhenyu Zhao, Yana Chen, Zhidong Gu, and Wangzhou Shi

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2345-2354 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband and high-efficiency transmissive-type nondispersive polarization conversion meta-device

Kun Song, Zhaoxian Su, Sinhara Silva, Clayton Fowler, Changlin Ding, Ruonan Ji, Yahong Liu, Xiaopeng Zhao, and Jiangfeng Zhou

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2430-2438 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Triple-broadband infrared metamaterial absorber with polarization-independent and wide-angle absorption

Chang Liu, Limei Qi, and Mingjing Wu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2439-2448 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical response of a Co:ZnO epitaxial thin film for large spectral range pulse modulation

Jinheng Du, Maoxiang Fu, Haohai Yu, Guolei Liu, Shishen Yan, and Huaijin Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2173-2181 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear characterization of fs-laser written Gorilla Glass waveguides

Franciele Renata Henrique, Gustavo Foresto Brito de Almeida, Renato Juliano Martins, Ramon Gabriel Teixeira Rosa, Jonathas de Paula Siqueira, Marcelo Barbosa de Andrade, and Cleber Renato Mendonça

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2222-2228 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Structure, morphology, and nonlinear optical properties of orthorhombic α-Ca(HCOO)₂ single crystals

Shunli Wang, Pengfei Kong, Zijie Zhang, Hanlin Sun, Peigang Li, Ruipin Chen, Bing Gu, Goran Ungar, Xiaoping Wu, Lin Cheng, Xiaoyun Li, Daoyou Guo, and Weihua Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2238-2245 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Opto-thermal characteristics of amorphous polyimides for optical applications

A. Rosenberg, Sang Ho Lee, James S. Shirk, and G. Beadie

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2159-2172 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of uracil for the preparation of low-index nanostructured layers

Ulrike Schulz, Heiko Knopf, Friedrich Rickelt, Tina Seifert, and Peter Munzert

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2182-2189 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Fabry-Pérot cavities based on photopolymerizable resins for sensing applications

Ricardo Oliveira, Lúcia Bilro, and Rogério Nogueira

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2208-2221 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Reversing the sign of the effective nonlinear coefficient of a nearly isotropic Kerr photonic crystal via the local-field effect

Yixuan Zeng, Zhixiang Tang, Xuejiao Wang, Xin Chen, Xiquan Fu, Shengye Huang, Yanhong Zou, and Runwu Peng

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2256-2263 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of refractory metal based thin films

Archan Banerjee, Robert M. Heath, Dmitry Morozov, Dilini Hemakumara, Umberto Nasti, Iain Thayne, and Robert H. Hadfield

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2072-2088 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Upconversion thermometer through novel PMMA fiber containing nanocrystals

Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, Yundong Zhang, Muhammad Usman Khan, Xiao Sun, Lu Liu, and Hanyang Li

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2321-2329 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared upconversion of Nd through Gd-mediated interfacial energy transfer in core-shell nanoparticles

Lili Tao, Xuelong Liu, Junshan He, Yajun Lou, Yonghui Li, Yu Zhao, and Bo Zhou

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2449-2454 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of annealing atmosphere on the performance of a β-Ga₂O₃ thin film and photodetector

Zhaoqing Feng, Lu Huang, Qian Feng, Xiang Li, Hui Zhang, Weihua Tang, Jincheng Zhang, and Yue Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2229-2237 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced photolithography with Al film insertion for large-scale patterning of CVD graphene

Zhangfu Chen, Yiru Li, Bo Wang, Bin Wei, and Lianqiao Yang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(8), 2403-2414 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF