Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Photographic observation of a natural fifth-order rainbow
    • Appl. Opt. 54(4) B26-B34 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Takeyoshi Goto

    • Extinction properties of ultrapure water down to deep ultraviolet wavelengths
    • Opt. Mater. Express 4(9) 1932-1942 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Bicephalous transformed media: concentrator versus rotator and cloak versus superscatterer
    • Opt. Express 22(19) 23614-23619 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Hadfield

    • Quantum key distribution over a 72  dB channel loss using ultralow dark count superconducting single-photon detectors
    • Opt. Lett. 39(17) 5078-5081 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by John Koshel

    • Design a light pattern of multiple concentric circles for LED fishing lamps using Fourier series and an energy mapping method
    • Opt. Express 22(11) 13460-13471 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by John Ballato

    • X-ray tomography for structural analysis of microstructured and multimaterial optical fibers and preforms
    • Opt. Express 22(21) 26181-26192 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Brillouin scattering properties of lanthano–aluminosilicate optical fiber
    • Appl. Opt. 53(25) 5660-5671 (2014) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF