Editors' Picks Collection: Optoelectronics

Since 1997, Optics Express has been a respected journal emphasizing scientific and technological innovations in optics and photonics. To honor its 20th anniversary year, the editors of Optics Express selected articles from a variety of topic areas that have been key to the Journal's success.

Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in these areas.


  1. Velocity matching by pulse front tilting for large-area THz-pulse generation
    János Hebling, Gábor Almási, Ida Z. Kozma, and Jürgen Kuhl
    Opt. Express 10(21) 1161-1166 (2002)
  2. Fabrication of high-aspect ratio, micro-fluidic channels and tunnels using femtosecond laser pulses and chemical etching
    Yves Bellouard, Ali Said, Mark Dugan, and Philippe Bado
    Opt. Express 12(10) 2120-2129 (2004)
  3. Fabrication of woodpile structures by two-photon polymerization and investigation of their optical properties
    Jesper Serbin, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, and Boris Chichkov
    Opt. Express 12(21) 5221-5228 (2004)
  4. Near infrared broadband emission of bismuth-doped aluminophosphate glass
    Xian-geng Meng, Jian-rong Qiu, Ming-ying Peng, Dan-ping Chen, Quan-zhong Zhao, Xiong-wei Jiang, and Cong-shan Zhu
    Opt. Express 13(5) 1628-1634 (2005)
  5. Operation of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers at 164 K in pulsed mode and at 117 K in continuous-wave mode
    Benjamin S. Williams, Sushil Kumar, Qing Hu, and John L. Reno
    Opt. Express 13(9) 3331-3339 (2005)
  6. Heat accumulation effects in femtosecond laser-written waveguides with variable repetition rate
    Shane M. Eaton, Haibin Zhang, Peter R. Herman, Fumiyo Yoshino, Lawrence Shah, James Bovatsek, and Alan Y. Arai
    Opt. Express 13(2) 4708-4716 (2005)
  7. Nanowire Single-photon detector with an integrated optical cavity and anti-reflection coating
    Kristine M. Rosfjord, Joel K. W. Yang, Eric A. Dauler, Andrew J. Kerman, Vikas Anant, Boris M. Voronov, Gregory N. Gol'tsman, and Karl K. Berggren
    Opt. Express 14(2) 527-534 (2006)
  8. Counting near-infrared single-photons with 95% efficiency
    Adriana E. Lita, Aaron J. Miller, and Sae Woo Nam
    Opt. Express 16(5) 3032-3040 (2008)
  9. Photoluminescence emission and Raman response of monolayer MoS2, MoSe2, and WSe2
    Philipp Tonndorf, Robert Schmidt, Philipp Böttger, Xiao Zhang, Janna Börner, Andreas Liebig, Manfred Albrecht, Christian Kloc, Ovidiu Gordan, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, and Rudolf Bratschitsch
    Opt. Express 21(4) 4908-4916 (2013)
  10. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) as a broadband saturable absorber for ultra-fast photonics
    H. Zhang, S. B. Lu, J. Zheng, J. Du, S. C. Wen, D. Y. Tang, and K. P. Loh
    Opt. Express 22(6) 7249-7260 (2014)