OPTICA Mini-reviews

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  • Freeform optics for imaging

    Rolland, Jannick P.; Davies, Matthew A.; Suleski, Thomas J.; Evans, Chris; Bauer, Aaron; Lambropoulos, John C.; Falaggis, Konstantinos
    • 2021
    • Optica 8(2) 161-176  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 179

    In the last 10 years, freeform optics has enabled compact and high-performance imaging systems. This article begins with a brief history of freeform optics, focusing on imaging systems, incl...

  • Toward the next-generation VR/AR optics: a review of holographic near-eye displays from a human-centric perspective

    Chang, Chenliang; Bang, Kiseung; Wetzstein, Gordon; Lee, Byoungho; Gao, Liang
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(11) 1563-1578  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 219

    Wearable near-eye displays for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) have seen enormous growth in recent years. While researchers are exploiting a plethora of techniques to create life-like ...

  • Cavity quantum electrodynamics with color centers in diamond

    Janitz, Erika; Bhaskar, Mihir K.; Childress, Lilian
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(10) 1232-1252  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 68

    Coherent interfaces between optical photons and long-lived matter qubits form a key resource for a broad range of quantum technologies. Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) offers a route t...

  • Three-photon neuronal imaging in deep mouse brain

    Wang, Tianyu; Xu, Chris
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(8) 947-960  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 77

    Three-photon microscopy has been increasingly adopted for probing neural activities beyond the typical two-photon imaging depth. In this review, we outline the unique properties that differe...

  • Laboratory water-window x-ray microscopy

    Kördel, Mikael; Dehlinger, Aurélie; Seim, Christian; Vogt, Ulrich; Fogelqvist, Emelie; Sellberg, Jonas A.; Stiel, Holger; Hertz, Hans M.
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(6) 658-674  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (4)]
    Cited by: 37

    Soft x-ray microscopy in the water window $({\sim}{285 {-} 535}\;{\rm eV}$ ( ∼ 285 − 535 e V ) is an emerging and unique tool for 2D and 3D i...

  • Towards on-chip photonic-assisted radio-frequency spectral measurement and monitoring

    Romero Cortés, Luis; Onori, Daniel; Guillet de Chatellus, Hugues; Burla, Maurizio; Azaña, José
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(5) 434-447  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 32

    Precise detection and monitoring of the frequency spectrum of microwave signals are essential to myriad scientific and technological disciplines, including both civil and defense areas, such as teleco...

  • Hybrid integration methods for on-chip quantum photonics

    Kim, Je-Hyung; Aghaeimeibodi, Shahriar; Carolan, Jacques; Englund, Dirk; Waks, Edo
    • 2020
    • Optica 7(4) 291-308  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 159

    The goal of integrated quantum photonics is to combine components for the generation, manipulation, and detection of nonclassical light in a phase-stable and efficient platform. Solid-state ...

  • High performance metalenses: numerical aperture, aberrations, chromaticity, and trade-offs

    Liang, Haowen; Martins, Augusto; Borges, Ben-Hur V.; Zhou, Jianying; Martins, Emiliano R.; Li, Juntao; Krauss, Thomas F.
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(12) 1461-1470  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 113

    Metalenses consist of nanostructures that locally control the optical phase. They offer many degrees of freedom for manipulating a wavefront, which gives a number of advantages over bulk lenses, such ...

  • Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope

    Mertz, Jerome
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(10) 1261-1268  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 51

    Three-dimensional fluorescence imaging has been a longstanding goal for microscopists, made all the more challenging when aiming for a trifecta of resolution, speed, and field of view. The p...

  • On the use of deep learning for computational imaging

    Barbastathis, George; Ozcan, Aydogan; Situ, Guohai
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(8) 921-943  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 474

    Since their inception in the 1930–1960s, the research disciplines of computational imaging and machine learning have followed parallel tracks and, during the last two decades, experienced explosive gr...

  • Advanced fluorescence microscopy for in vivo imaging of neuronal activity

    Sancataldo, Giuseppe; Silvestri, Ludovico; Allegra Mascaro, Anna Letizia; Sacconi, Leonardo; Pavone, Francesco Saverio
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(6) 758-765  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 30

    Brain function emerges from the coordinated activity, over time, of large neuronal populations placed in different brain regions. Understanding the relationships of these specific areas and disentangl...

  • Airy beams and accelerating waves: an overview of recent advances

    Efremidis, Nikolaos K.; Chen, Zhigang; Segev, Mordechai; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(5) 686-701  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 328

    Over the last dozen years, the area of accelerating waves has made considerable advances not only in terms of fundamentals and experimental demonstrations, but also in connection to a wide r...

  • Light-scattering methods for tissue diagnosis

    Steelman, Zachary A.; Ho, Derek S.; Chu, Kengyeh K.; Wax, Adam
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(4) 479-489  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 35

    Light scattering has become a common biomedical research tool, enabling diagnostic sensitivity to myriad tissue alterations associated with disease. Light–tissue interactions are particularly attracti...

  • Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

    Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.; Van Thourhout, Dries; Baets, Roel; Van Laer, Raphaël
    • 2019
    • Optica 6(2) 213-232  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 126

    Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk- and surface-acoustic-wave devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These devices have greatl...

  • Linear programmable nanophotonic processors

    Harris, Nicholas C.; Carolan, Jacques; Bunandar, Darius; Prabhu, Mihika; Hochberg, Michael; Baehr-Jones, Tom; Fanto, Michael L.; Smith, A. Matthew; Tison, Christopher C.; Alsing, Paul M.; Englund, Dirk
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(12) 1623-1631  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 243

    Advances in photonic integrated circuits have recently enabled electrically reconfigurable optical systems that can implement universal linear optics transformations on spatial mode sets. Th...

  • Ultra-precise timing and synchronization for large-scale scientific instruments

    Xin, Ming; Şafak, Kemal; Kärtner, Franz X.
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(12) 1564-1578  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 47

    Ultra-precise timing has become a prerequisite for many modern large-scale scientific instruments, and timing precision is a crucial enabling factor to achieve the ultimate goals of those instruments....

  • Synthetic dimension in photonics

    Yuan, Luqi; Lin, Qian; Xiao, Meng; Fan, Shanhui
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(11) 1396-1405  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 277

    The physics of a photonic structure is commonly described in terms of its apparent geometric dimensionality. On the other hand, with the concept of synthetic dimension, it is in fact possible to explo...

  • Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

    Cheng, Qixiang; Bahadori, Meisam; Glick, Madeleine; Rumley, Sébastien; Bergman, Keren
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(11) 1354-1370  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 374

    Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation resources. Data center interconnects turned t...

  • Single-shot ultrafast optical imaging

    Liang, Jinyang; Wang, Lihong V.
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(9) 1113-1127  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 132

    Single-shot ultrafast optical imaging can capture two-dimensional transient scenes in the optical spectral range at ≥ 100 million frames per second. This rapidly e...

  • Tailoring nonlinear processes for quantum optics with pulsed temporal-mode encodings

    Ansari, Vahid; Donohue, John M.; Brecht, Benjamin; Silberhorn, Christine
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(5) 534-550  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 91

    The time-frequency degree of freedom is a powerful resource for implementing high-dimensional quantum information processing. In particular, field-orthogonal pulsed temporal modes offer a flexible fra...