Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Jean-Baptiste Masson

    • Generation of arbitrary order Bessel beams via 3D printed axicons at the terahertz frequency range
    • Appl. Opt. 54(36) 10641-10649 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Gianluca Galzerano

    • Sub-Doppler resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy using a difference-frequency-generation source spectrally narrowed by laser linewidth transfer
    • Opt. Lett. 40(23) 5467-5470 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Avner Fleischer

    • Combined high-harmonic interferometries for vectorial spectroscopy
    • Opt. Lett. 40(22) 5387-5390 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • An 11.5 W Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser fabricated via pulsed laser deposition
    • Opt. Mater. Express 6(1) 91-96 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • 140-fs duration and 60-W peak power blue-violet optical pulses generated by a dispersion-compensated GaInN mode-locked semiconductor laser diode using a nonlinear pulse compressor
    • Opt. Express 23(25) 31766-31771 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrew Sarangan

    • In situ probing of mode-locked vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting lasers
    • Opt. Lett. 40(23) 5459-5462 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Multilayer four-flux matrix model accounting for directional-diffuse light transfers
    • Appl. Opt. 55(1) 27-37 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jennifer D. T. Kruschwitz

    • TRACK – A new method for the evaluation of low-level extinction coefficient in optical films
    • Opt. Express 23(22) 28501-28521 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Justin Baba

    • Optical detection of glucose concentration in samples with scattering particles
    • Appl. Opt. 54(35) 10425-10431 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul F. McManamon

    • Monostatic all-fiber scanning LADAR system
    • Appl. Opt. 54(33) 9752-9757 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Development of integrated mode reformatting components for diffraction-limited spectroscopy
    • Opt. Lett. 41(1) 76-79 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • 140-fs duration and 60-W peak power blue-violet optical pulses generated by a dispersion-compensated GaInN mode-locked semiconductor laser diode using a nonlinear pulse compressor
    • Opt. Express 23(25) 31766-31771 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrew Sarangan

    • In situ probing of mode-locked vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting lasers
    • Opt. Lett. 40(23) 5459-5462 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Vision and Color

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Human skin detection in the visible and near infrared
    • Appl. Opt. 54(35) 10559-10570 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF