Feature issue introduction: Optical Phase Change Materials

Richard Haglund, Daniel Hewak, Shriram Ramanathan, and Juejun Hu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2967-2969 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Refractive index patterning of infrared glass ceramics through laser-induced vitrification [Invited]

Myungkoo Kang, Laura Sisken, Justin Cook, Cesar Blanco, Martin C. Richardson, Ilya Mingareev, and Kathleen Richardson

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2722-2733 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Light intensity-induced phase transitions in graphene oxide doped polyvinylidene fluoride

Yuri A. Barnakov, Omari Paul, Akinwunmi Joaquim, April Falconer, Richard Mu, Vadim Y. Barnakov, Dmitriy Dikin, Vitalii P. Petranovskii, Andre Zavalin, Akira Ueda, and Frances Williams

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2579-2585 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Interstitial O₂ and Si-H defects produced in fused silica during laser-induced damage

Chunyan Yan, Bao’an Liu, Xiangcao Li, Chang Liu, Yuan Li, and Xin Ju

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2863-2869 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Towards heterogeneous integration of optical isolators and circulators with lasers on silicon [Invited]

Duanni Huang, Paolo Pintus, and John E. Bowers

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2471-2483 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties, magnetooptical properties and terahertz time-domain spectrum of Tb₃Sc₂Al₃O₁₂ crystals grown by optical floating zone methods

Jingxin Ding, Weizhao Jin, Qingmin Chen, Chunhe Hou, Yang Yu, Liangbi Su, Chun Li, Fanming Zeng, and Anhua Wu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2880-2886 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparative analysis of transparent conductive oxide electro-absorption modulators [Invited]

Qian Gao, Erwen Li, and Alan X. Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2850-2862 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of two-terminal devices using solution-synthesized Cu-doped ZnO nanorods and their photosensing properties

A. Kathalingam and Hyun-Seok Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2832-2842 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Solar blind deep ultraviolet β-Ga₂O₃ photodetectors grown on sapphire by the Mist-CVD method

Yu Xu, Zhiyuan An, Lixin Zhang, Qian Feng, Jincheng Zhang, Chunfu Zhang, and Yue Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2941-2947 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

In-plane gap plasmon induced strong circular dichroism in double-layer Archimedean planar metamaterials

Shuang Liang, Wei Zhang, Jing Yuan, Jianli Jiang, Jisong Qian, Jing Shu, and Liyong Jiang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2870-2879 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of electron irradiation on the optical properties of bismuth doped hafnia-yttria-alumina-silicate fiber

A. V. Kir’yanov, Y. O. Barmenkov, V. Minkovich, S. Das, D. Dutta, A. Dhar, M. C. Paul, S. I. Didenko, S. A. Legotin, and K. I. Tapero

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2550-2558 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Viscosity of fluorine-doped silica glasses

Johannes Kirchhof, Sonja Unger, and Jan Dellith

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2559-2569 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tb³⁺ doped Ga₅Ge₂₀Sb₁₀Se_65-xTe_x (x = 0-37.5) chalcogenide glasses and fibers for MWIR and LWIR emissions

N. Abdellaoui, F. Starecki, C. Boussard-Pledel, Y. Shpotyuk, J.-L. Doualan, A. Braud, E. Baudet, P. Nemec, F. Cheviré, M. Dussauze, B. Bureau, P. Camy, and V. Nazabal

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2887-2900 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of the replacement of Zn²⁺ with Mg²⁺ in Ca₁₄Zn₆Ga₁₀O_35:Mn⁴⁺

Zhicong Liu, Guangzhan Shao, Wei Chen, Guangcai Hu, Linli Shen, Yinzi Cheng, Xiaojuan Liang, and Weidong Xiang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2532-2541 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced up-conversion red light emission from rare earth titanium oxide nanocrystals with pyrochlore phase

Yangyi Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Yang Ji, Dongke Li, Jun Xu, Ling Xu, and Kunji Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2643-2653 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Facile solution synthesis of tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) gallium crystalline nanostructures and their optical properties

Enlin Cai, Suzhen Wang, Bin Wang, Shuying Wang, Erjing Zhao, Jinyang Cheng, Zongtao Chi, and Wanfeng Xie

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2670-2676 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Light emission from localised point defects induced in GaN crystal by a femtosecond-pulsed laser

Umar Saleem, Muhammad Danang Birowosuto, Songyan Hou, Ange Maurice, Tay Beng Kang, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, Maria Tchernycheva, Noelle Gogneau, and Hong Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2703-2712 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High luminous fluorescence generation using Ce:YAG transparent ceramic excited by blue laser diode

Yuan Yuan, Dongzhou Wang, Bojian Zhou, Shaowei Feng, Minyuan Sun, Shuo Zhang, Weinan Gao, Yong Bi, and Haiming Qin

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2760-2767 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Using CaF₂:Eu³⁺ powder as a luminescent probe to detect Cr₂O₇ ^2- ions: a new application on the environmental conservation of an old optical material

Jianfu Pan, Kailing Zhong, Zhen Zhang, Wenting Chen, Yanping Lin, Guoqiang Wang, Lingyun Li, and Yan Yu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2782-2794 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Linearly polarized surface warm-yellow LED based on orientated organic dyes in rod-like metal-organic framework crystal arrays

Jin Wang, Feihong Ye, Zhenjiang Huang, Yunchao Zhang, Xinhui Zhou, and Yunqing Lu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2901-2909 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

High-gain Yb:LuPO₄ microchip laser passively Q-switched by MoS₂ or WS₂ deposited on a sapphire etalon output coupler

Xiaodan Dou, Jingnan Yang, Min Zhu, Wenjuan Han, Honghao Xu, Degao Zhong, Bing Teng, and Junhai Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2542-2549 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-pass Co:CdTe mid-infrared laser amplifier

Eric J. Turner, Jonathan W. Evans, Thomas R. Harris, and Sean A. McDaniel

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2948-2953 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrically controllable random lasing from dye-doped nematic liquid crystals within a capillary fiber

Ja-Hon Lin, Jun-Wei Huang, Jin-Jei Wu, Shwu-Yun Tsay, and Yao-Hui Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2910-2917 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitive measurement of the magneto-optic effect in the near infrared wavelength region with weak alternating magnetic fields

Jae Young Jo, Yudeuk Kim, Chang Kwon Hwangbo, and Kyong Hon Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2636-2642 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Supercritical fluid-enhanced IFVD quantum well intermixing for the regrowth-free photonic integration of EAM and SOA

Yang-Jeng Chen, Rih-You Chen, Chih-Cheng Shiu, Wen-Kuan Hsu, Wei-Chen Lin, Yu-Hung Lin, Ting-Chang Chang, and Yi-Jen Chiu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2592-2599 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide-angle broadband absorber based on uniform-sized hyperbolic metamaterial

Yan-Lin Liao, Yan Zhao, Shan Wu, and Sujuan Feng

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2484-2493 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide-angle perfect metamaterial absorbers based on cave-rings and the complementary patterns

Xiutao Huang, Conghui Lu, Cancan Rong, and Minghai Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2520-2531 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Bifunctional arbitrarily-shaped cloak for thermal and electric manipulations

Lin Zhang and Yan Shi

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2600-2613 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Splitting an asymmetric transmission peak by introducing magnetic-dipole oscillation on gold film

Yu Bai, Yuyan Chen, Tiankun Wang, Yu Qu, Yongkai Wang, Zhimin Jing, and Zhongyue Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2743-2750 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced-bandwidth perfect absorption based on a hybrid metamaterial

D. H. Tiep, B. X. Khuyen, B. S. Tung, Y. J. Kim, J. S. Hwang, V. D. Lam, and Y. P. Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2751-2759 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Method to tune a high-order resonance of metamaterials for broadband

Cheng Gong, Zijie Dai, Mingzhou Zhan, and Weiwei Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2768-2773 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-band terahertz absorber exploiting graphene metamaterial

Qihui Zhou, Peiguo Liu, Li-an Bian, Xin Cai, and Hanqing Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2928-2940 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) using the Z-scan technique

Masoud Babaeian, Liliana Ruiz Diaz, Soha Namnabat, Tristan S. Kleine, Ali Azarm, Jeffrey Pyun, N. Peyghambarian, and Robert A. Norwood

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2510-2519 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical characteristics of an ADP crystal grown in a defined direction

Yafei Lian, Jibin Wen, Fang Wang, Tingting Sui, Jin Huang, Xun Sun, and Xiaodong Jiang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2614-2624 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Mitigation of subsurface damage in potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals with a novel abrasive-free jet process

Wei Gao, Jianwei Ji, Chao Wang, Lili Wang, Qichao Fan, Kaihua Sun, Fang Ji, and Min Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2625-2635 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Shaping the fundamental and second harmonic beams using patterned facets in lithium triborate

Danveer Singh, Roy Shiloh, and Ady Arie

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2654-2661 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear transmission and pseudospin in two-dimensional octagon and dodecagon photonic lattices

Jing Lyu, Zenrun Wen, Kun Han, Xinyuan Qi, and Yuanmei Gao

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2713-2721 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Inkjet-printing of graphene saturable absorbers for ~2 μm bulk and waveguide lasers

Pavel Loiko, Josep Maria Serres, Szymon Sollami Delekta, Esrom Kifle, Jakub Bogusławski, Maciej Kowalczyk, Jarosław Sotor, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Sergei Popov, Jiantong Li, Xavier Mateos, and Mikael Östling

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2803-2814 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional printing of hybrid organic/inorganic composites with long persistence luminescence

Rongping Ni, Bin Qian, Chang Liu, Xiaofeng Liu, and Jianrong Qiu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2823-2831 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of dimensional variation of metal-insulator-metal stack in spectral response

Ujwol Palanchoke, Salim Boutami, Stéphane Pocas, Névine Rochat, Valérie Goudon, and Wilfried Rabaud

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2494-2509 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface bound waves and optical interactions in excitonic thin films

Eunsongyi Lee, Byung Hoon Woo, In Cheol Seo, Soo-Chan An, and Young Chul Jun

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2687-2701 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Blue shift of the plasmon resonance in fluoride photo-thermo-refractive glass

Ivanov Sergei, Stolyarchuk Maxim, Kozlova Darya, Nikonorov Nikolay, Kirilenko Demid, and Alexey Nashchekin

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2734-2742 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Tamm plasmon-polaritons in a metal coated porous silicon photonic crystal

Alexandre Juneau-Fecteau and Luc G. Fréchette

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2774-2781 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Rainbow trapping and releasing in InSb graded subwavelength grooves by thermal tuning at the terahertz range

Ruoying Kanyang, Fan Zhang, Genquan Han, Yan Liu, Yao Shao, Jincheng Zhang, and Yue Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2954-2966 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Epitaxial growth and optical properties of Er-doped CeO₂ on Si(111)

Tomohiro Inaba, Takehiko Tawara, Hiroo Omi, Hideki Yamamoto, and Hideki Gotoh

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2843-2849 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved optical and structural properties of nonpolar a-plane AlGaN epi-layers after Cp₂Mg and NH₃ treatments

Jianguo Zhao, Xiong Zhang, Jiaqi He, Aijie Fan, Shuai Chen, Zili Wu, Youhua Zhu, Meiyu Wang, Zhe Chuan Feng, and Yiping Cui

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2586-2591 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Full color display fabricated by CdSe bi-color quantum dots-based white light-emitting diodes

Shu-Ru Chung, Cyuan-Bin Siao, and Kuan-Wen Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2677-2686 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Biaxial strain effects on photoluminescence of Ge/strained GeSn/Ge quantum well

Chung-Yi Lin, Hung-Yu Ye, Fang-Liang Lu, H. S. Lan, and C. W. Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2795-2802 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on the optical properties of Mn-Co-Ni-O thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering

Fei Zhang and Zhiming Huang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2815-2822 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing the performance of a β-Ga₂O₃ solar-blind UV photodetector by compromising between photoabsorption and electric field distribution

Xia Wang, Zhenwei Chen, Daoyou Guo, Xiao Zhang, Zhenping Wu, Peigang Li, and Weihua Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2918-2927 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of Bi on morphology and optical properties of InAs QDs: publisher’s note

Lijuan Wang, Wenwu Pan, Xiren Chen, Xiaoyan Wu, Jun Shao, and Shumin Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 8(9), 2702-2702 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF