Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Microgenetic optimization algorithm for optimal wavefront shaping
    • Appl. Opt. 54(6) 1485-1491 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Anders Tegtmeier Pedersen

    • High-efficiency receiver architecture for resonance-fluorescence and Doppler lidars
    • Appl. Opt. 54(11) 3173-3184 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Full vector-field control of ultrashort laser pulses utilizing a single dual-layer spatial light modulator in a common-path setup
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5) 933-945 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Modeling and experiments of self-reflectivity under femtosecond ablation conditions
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(4) 606-616 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Georgi T. Georgiev

    • Establishment and application of the 0/45 reflectance factor scale over the shortwave infrared
    • Appl. Opt. 54(10) 3064-3071 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Shape-memory polymers as flexible resonator substrates for continuously tunable organic DFB lasers
    • Opt. Mater. Express 5(3) 576-584 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Georgi T. Georgiev

    • Establishment and application of the 0/45 reflectance factor scale over the shortwave infrared
    • Appl. Opt. 54(10) 3064-3071 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Nadav Gutman

    • Optimal design of one-dimensional photonic crystal filters using minimax optimization approach
    • Appl. Opt. 54(6) 1399-1409 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Stephen Madden

    • Experimental demonstration of propagation characteristics of mid-infrared photonic crystal waveguides in silicon-on-sapphire
    • Opt. Express 23(5) 6965-6975 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Matrix formalism for light propagation and absorption in thick textured optical sheets
    • Opt. Express 23(11) A502-A518 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF