Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Anne Hirsikko

    • Retrieval of temperature from a multiple-channel Rayleigh-scatter lidar using an optimal estimation method
    • Appl. Opt. 54(8) 1872-1889 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Passive coherent combining of CEP-stable few-cycle pulses from a temporally divided hollow fiber compressor
    • Opt. Lett. 40(5) 709-712 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Region specific enhancement of quantum dot emission using interleaved two-dimensional photonic crystals
    • Appl. Opt. 54(9) 2302-2308 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Thomas Udem

    • Direct 15-GHz mode-spacing optical frequency comb with a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Y2O3 ceramic laser
    • Opt. Express 23(2) 1276-1282 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jean-Baptiste Masson

    • Nonclassical correlations between terahertz-bandwidth photons mediated by rotational quanta in hydrogen molecules
    • Opt. Lett. 40(6) 922-925 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Daniel Poitras

    • Spectral design of temperature-invariant narrow bandpass filters for the mid-infrared
    • Opt. Express 23(1) 580-596 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Thomas Udem

    • Direct 15-GHz mode-spacing optical frequency comb with a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Y2O3 ceramic laser
    • Opt. Express 23(2) 1276-1282 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Optical diffraction properties of multimicrogratings
    • Appl. Opt. 54(7) 1808-1818 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Andreas Mandelis

    • Label-free imaging of melanoma with nonlinear photothermal microscopy
    • Opt. Lett. 40(7) 1141-1144 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Determining the rotational mobility of a single molecule from a single image: a numerical study
    • Opt. Express 23(4) 4255-4276 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Holger Wittel

    • Actuation profiles to form Zernike shapes with a thermal active mirror
    • Opt. Lett. 40(2) 205-208 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Vision and Color

  • Spotlight Summary by Kedar Khare

    • Thermal-to-visible face recognition using partial least squares
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 32(3) 431-442 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF