OPTICA Mini-reviews

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  • Parallel cameras

    Brady, David J.; Pang, Wubin; Li, Han; Ma, Zhan; Tao, Yue; Cao, Xun
    • 2018
    • Optica 5(2) 127-137  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (3)]
    Cited by: 37

    Parallel lens systems and parallel image signal processing enable cost efficient and compact cameras to capture gigapixel scale images. This paper reviews the context of such cameras in the developing...

  • All-dielectric nanophotonics: the quest for better materials and fabrication techniques

    Baranov, Denis G.; Zuev, Dmitry A.; Lepeshov, Sergey I.; Kotov, Oleg V.; Krasnok, Alexander E.; Evlyukhin, Andrey B.; Chichkov, Boris N.
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(7) 814-825  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 321

    All-dielectric nanophotonics is an exciting and rapidly developing area of nano-optics that utilizes the resonant behavior of high-index low-loss dielectric nanoparticles to enhance light–matter inter...

  • Nonlinear Fourier transform for optical data processing and transmission: advances and perspectives

    Turitsyn, Sergei K.; Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E.; Le, Son Thai; Wahls, Sander; Frumin, Leonid L.; Kamalian, Morteza; Derevyanko, Stanislav A.
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(3) 307-322  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 321

    Fiber-optic communication systems are nowadays facing serious challenges due to the fast growing demand on capacity from various new applications and services. It is now well recognized that nonlinear...

  • Recent advances in planar optics: from plasmonic to dielectric metasurfaces

    Genevet, Patrice; Capasso, Federico; Aieta, Francesco; Khorasaninejad, Mohammadreza; Devlin, Robert
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(1) 139-152  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 840

    This article reviews recent progress leading to the realization of planar optical components made of a single layer of phase shifting nanostructures. After introducing the principles of plan...

  • Multilayer coatings for femto- and attosecond technology

    Razskazovskaya, O.; Krausz, F.; Pervak, V.
    • 2017
    • Optica 4(1) 129-138  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 24

    Chirped multilayer mirrors have permitted mode-locked lasers to routinely generate pulses in the sub-10 fs regime. Continuous progress in the design, manufacturing, and characterization of m...

  • Multipolar nonlinear nanophotonics

    Smirnova, Daria; Kivshar, Yuri S.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(11) 1241-1255  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 278

    Nonlinear nanophotonics is a rapidly developing field of research with many potential applications for the design of nonlinear nanoantennas, light sources, nanolasers, and ultrafast miniature metadevi...

  • Frontiers in structured illumination microscopy

    Ströhl, Florian; Kaminski, Clemens F.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(6) 667-677  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 105

    At the start of this millennium, the principles of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) had been established and the concept of resolution doubling demonstrated experimentally in two dim...

  • Dual-comb spectroscopy

    Coddington, Ian; Newbury, Nathan; Swann, William
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(4) 414-426  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 1225

    Dual-comb spectroscopy is an emerging new spectroscopic tool that exploits the frequency resolution, frequency accuracy, broad bandwidth, and brightness of frequency combs for ultrahigh-reso...

  • High-power, high-linearity photodiodes

    Beling, Andreas; Xie, Xiaojun; Campbell, Joe C.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(3) 328-338  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 108

    Microwave photonics and optics-based analog links are technologies that are being developed for a growing number of applications. Photodetectors that operate at ...

  • Laser-driven nonadiabatic electron dynamics in molecules

    Miller, M. R.; Xia, Y.; Becker, A.; Jaroń-Becker, A.
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(3) 259-269  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 18

    In this review, we briefly summarize more than a decade of experimental and theoretical investigations regarding the nonadiabatic electron response to intense f...

  • Ultrabroadband time-resolved spectroscopy in novel types of condensed matter

    Luo, Chih-Wei; Wang, Yu-Ting; Yabushita, Atsushi; Kobayashi, Takayoshi
    • 2016
    • Optica 3(1) 82-92  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 17

    In condensed matter physics, quasi-particle correlations are crucial to understanding a material’s properties. For example, strong interaction between electrons with metal-like electron configuration ...

  • Realization of narrowband thermal emission with optical nanostructures

    Inoue, Takuya; De Zoysa, Menaka; Asano, Takashi; Noda, Susumu
    • 2015
    • Optica 2(1) 27-35  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 94

    The control of thermal emission spectra using optical resonances has been attracting increased attention both with respect to fundamental science and for various applications, including infrared sensi...

  • Designing advanced very-large-mode-area fibers for power scaling of fiber-laser systems

    Stutzki, Fabian; Jansen, Florian; Otto, Hans-Jürgen; Jauregui, Cesar; Limpert, Jens; Tünnermann, Andreas
    • 2014
    • Optica 1(4) 233-242  View: HTML | PDF
    Cited by: 114

    Fiber lasers are a highly regarded solid-state laser concept due to their high efficiency, beam quality, and easy thermal management. Unfortunately, the performance of high-power fiber-laser systems i...

  • Third-generation femtosecond technology

    Fattahi, Hanieh; Barros, Helena G.; Gorjan, Martin; Nubbemeyer, Thomas; Alsaif, Bidoor; Teisset, Catherine Y.; Schultze, Marcel; Prinz, Stephan; Haefner, Matthias; Ueffing, Moritz; Alismail, Ayman; Vámos, Lénárd; Schwarz, Alexander; Pronin, Oleg; Brons, Jonathan; Geng, Xiao Tao; Arisholm, Gunnar; Ciappina, Marcelo; Yakovlev, Vladislav S.; Kim, Dong-Eon; Azzeer, Abdallah M.; Karpowicz, Nicholas; Sutter, Dirk; Major, Zsuzsanna; Metzger, Thomas; Krausz, Ferenc
    • 2014
    • Optica 1(1) 45-63  View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]
    Cited by: 310

    Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced with titanium-doped sapphi...