Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow [Invited]
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(6) 1820-1847 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter J. Mosley

    • Pulsed single-photon spectrometer by frequency-to-time mapping using chirped fiber Bragg gratings
    • Opt. Express 25(11) 12804-12811 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Zhimin Shi

    • Straightforward retrieval of dispersion in a dense atomic vapor helped by buffer gas-assisted radiation channeling
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(4) 877-883 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • 4.2 PW, 20 fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1 Hz
    • Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • Multi-petawatt laser facility fully based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
    • Opt. Lett. 42(10) 2014-2017 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Christos Grivas 

    • Giant photoluminescence enhancement in monolayer WS2 by energy transfer from CsPbBr3 quantum dots
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(4) 1327-1334 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Igor Aharonovich

    • Scalable fabrication of coupled NV center - photonic crystal cavity systems by self-aligned N ion implantation
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(5) 1514-1524 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Large real-time holographic 3D displays: enabling components and results
    • Appl. Opt. 56(13) F45-F52 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Roarke Horstmeyer

    • Electrifying catheters with light
    • Opt. Express 25(8) 8534-8549 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by J. Roy Taylor

    • 4.2 PW, 20 fs Ti:sapphire laser at 0.1 Hz
    • Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2058-2061 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF