December 2020

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by David Paganin

    • Fresnel zone plate development for x-ray radiography of hydrodynamic instabilities at the National Ignition Facility
    • The transition to turbulence is surely one of the most fascinating phenomena known to science. From a fundamental perspective, new experimental means for studying this transition may open the way to a deeper...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(34) 10777-10785 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • All-fiber single-cavity dual-comb for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy based on spectral focusing
    • Coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is one of the most effective tools for biomolecular imaging, which finds more and more biomedical applications. In the case of broadband CARS, where a...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(1) 146-149 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nils Johan Engelsen

    • Free-standing silicon nitride nanobeams with an efficient fiber-chip interface for cavity QED
    • Quantum emitters can be near-ideal single-photon sources. However, a single-photon source is only as good as its output efficiency, and collection of single photons can be as challenging as their generation. Optical...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 10(12) 3192-3201 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Novoa

    • Mid-infrared 10-µJ-level sub-picosecond pulse generation via stimulated Raman scattering in a gas-filled revolver fiber
    • Efficient laser sources of mid-infrared (MIR, λ > 2 μm) radiation are of paramount importance in a plethora of different scientific fields such as biomedicine, spectroscopy, materials science or...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 10(12) 3081-3089 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Romolo Savo

    • Strong second-harmonic generation in dielectric optical nanoantennas resulting from the hybridization of magnetic dipoles and lattice resonances
    • Arranging high-index dielectric nanoparticles in a periodic array boost their second-harmonic generation when local and collective resonances play together. In this article, H. Jiang and coauthors present numerical...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(11) 3146-3151 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Frank Wise

    • Sub-40 fs pulses at 1.8 µm and MHz repetition rates by chirp-assisted Raman scattering in hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber
    • High-power pulses that are shorter than 100 fs in the mid-IR region (wavelengths ~2-5 microns) will be extremely valuable for time-resolved spectroscopy and generation of soft x-rays, among other things. However,...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(12) 3550-3556 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kamel Merghem

    • Quantum dot mode-locked frequency comb with ultra-stable 25.5  GHz spacing between 20°C and 120°C
    • Using a quantum dot (QD) mode-locked laser as a comb source is an attractive solution for not only DWDM networks, but also spectroscopy, sensing, and many other emerging applications due to its compactness, low power...
    • Photon. Res. 8(12) 1937-1942 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Karen Hampson

    • Impact of receiver architecture on small satellite optical link in the presence of pointing jitter
    • This paper presents a model to facilitate selection of the optimal receiver design parameters to minimize the impact of jitter in satellite communication. The inter-satellite optical link is adversely affected by random...
    • Appl. Opt. 59(32) 10177-10184 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Dual-view oblique plane microscopy (dOPM)
    • Optical microscopy by illuminating a specimen with a thin sheet of light offers advantages like no other microscopic technique. Oblique plane microscopy (OPM) is an innovative form of light sheet microscopy utilizing a...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 11(12) 7204-7220 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • All-fiber single-cavity dual-comb for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy based on spectral focusing
    • Coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is one of the most effective tools for biomolecular imaging, which finds more and more biomedical applications. In the case of broadband CARS, where a...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(1) 146-149 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Compact and broadband multimode waveguide bend by shape-optimizing with transformation optics
    • Transformation optics is a powerful technique that simplifies the modelling of optical devices by suitably modifying the coordinate system. Thanks to the form-invariance of Maxwell equations, the transformed device in...
    • Photon. Res. 8(12) 1843-1849 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Al:ZnO as a platform for near-zero-index photonics: enhancing the doping efficiency of atomic layer deposition
    • Fabrication of materials with predefined physical properties is in demand in many areas of physics. In this work, researchers from the US have explored the multi-dimensional fabrication space and produced thin films of...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 10(12) 3060-3072 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary by Boon S. Ooi

    • High performance of a semipolar InGaN laser with a phase-shifted embedded hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) grating
    • Distributed feedback (DFB) single frequency InGaN/GaN laser diodes at visible wavelengths can find many important emerging applications in optical communication, sensing, etc. Unlike GaAs- and InP-based DFB lasers, a...
    • Opt. Lett. 45(20) 5844-5847 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nathan R. Gemmell

    • Detecting single infrared photons toward optimal system detection efficiency
    • Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are fast becoming the detectors of choice for photon counting applications due to their increasingly remarkable characteristics. Recent efforts to achieve...
    • Opt. Express 28(24) 36884-36891 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kamel Merghem

    • Quantum dot mode-locked frequency comb with ultra-stable 25.5  GHz spacing between 20°C and 120°C
    • Using a quantum dot (QD) mode-locked laser as a comb source is an attractive solution for not only DWDM networks, but also spectroscopy, sensing, and many other emerging applications due to its compactness, low power...
    • Photon. Res. 8(12) 1937-1942 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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