Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Approximate Fourier phase information in the phase retrieval problem: what it gives and how to use it
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(10) 2124-2131 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kaori Fukunaga

    • Terahertz tomographic imaging of XVIIIth Dynasty Egyptian sealed pottery
    • Appl. Opt. 50(20) 3604-3608 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Complete characterization of supercontinuum coherence
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(9) 2301-2309 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by James Churnside

    • Instrumentation to measure the backscattering coefficient bb for arbitrary phase functions
    • Appl. Opt. 50(21) 4134-4147 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Superresolution imaging via ptychography
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(4) 604-612 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Blackwell-Whitehead

    • Wavelengths of the 3d6(5D)4s a6D−3d5(6S)4s4p y6P multiplet of Fe II (UV 8)
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(4) 737-745 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • All-optical encrypted movie
    • Opt. Express 19(6) 5706-5712 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Clustering-driven residue filter for profile measurement system
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(2) 214-221 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Mikhail Belkin

    • Room temperature continuous wave milliwatt terahertz source
    • Opt. Express 18(26) 27112-27117 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Peter J. Collings

    • Electric-field controllable optical activity in the nano-segregated system composed of rod- and bent-core liquid crystals [Invited]
    • Opt. Mater. Express 1(1) 27-35 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Giovanni Piredda

    • Orbital angular momentum in noncollinear second-harmonic generation by off-axis vortex beams
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(11) 2806-2811 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • Lasing from Escherichia coli bacteria genetically programmed to express green fluorescent protein
    • Opt. Lett. 36(16) 3299-3301 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Laterally chromatically dispersed, spectrally encoded interferometer
    • Appl. Opt. 50(23) 4574-4580 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Temperature measurement and stabilization in a birefringent whispering gallery mode resonator
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14495-14501 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Katia Gallo

    • Ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystal: CsBe2BO3F2
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(9) 2186-2190 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Ultra-high-contrast few-cycle pulses for multipetawatt-class laser technology
    • Opt. Lett. 36(16) 3145-3147 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Silicon-based monolithic optical frequency comb source
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14233-14239 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Spectroscopic investigation of Nd3+-doped ZBLAN glass for solar-pumped lasers
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(8) 2001-2006 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Glenn R. Sellar

    • Schwarzschild spectrometer
    • Appl. Opt. 50(16) 2418-2424 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Giovanni Piredda

    • Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials
    • Opt. Mater. Express 1(1) 85-100 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Aliaksandr Kachynski

    • 465 nm laser sources by intracavity frequency doubling using a 49-edge-emitters laser bar
    • Opt. Lett. 36(3) 361-363 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alfred U'Ren

    • Direct generation of a multi-transverse mode non-classical state of light
    • Opt. Express 19(5) 4405-4410 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Thomas Udem

    • Spherical reference cavities for frequency stabilization of lasers in non-laboratory environments
    • Opt. Express 19(4) 3471-3482 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Two-dimensional point spread matrix of layered metal–dielectric imaging elements
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(2) 111-117 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alessandro Restelli

    • Thermal blinding of gated detectors in quantum cryptography
    • Opt. Express 18(26) 27938-27954 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Lensless vision system for in-plane positioning of a patterned plate with subpixel resolution
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(12) 2494-2500 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shakil Rehman

    • Laterally chromatically dispersed, spectrally encoded interferometer
    • Appl. Opt. 50(23) 4574-4580 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Eric Goodwin

    • Null test for a deeply aspheric lens
    • Appl. Opt. 50(25) 4977-4981 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Temperature measurement and stabilization in a birefringent whispering gallery mode resonator
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14495-14501 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Kedar Khare

    • Holographic video at 40 frames per second for 4-million object points
    • Opt. Express 19(16) 15205-15211 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Silicon-based monolithic optical frequency comb source
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14233-14239 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Shalin Mehta

    • Automated imaging, identification, and counting of similar cells from digital hologram reconstructions
    • Appl. Opt. 50(20) 3589-3597 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Evaluation of cuspoid and umbilic diffraction catastrophes of codimension four
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5) 887-896 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Glenn R. Sellar

    • Schwarzschild spectrometer
    • Appl. Opt. 50(16) 2418-2424 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Self-organized 2D periodic arrays of nanostructures in silicon by nanosecond laser irradiation
    • Appl. Opt. 50(16) 2349-2355 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Adam Mock

    • Slow-light and evanescent modes at interfaces in photonic crystal waveguides: optimal extraction from experimental near-field measurements
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(4) 955-963 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Francesco Morichetti

    • Ultrafast laser inscription of an integrated photonic lantern
    • Opt. Express 19(6) 5698-5705 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Mirkarimi

    • Influence of the substrate finish and thin film roughness on the optical performance of Mo/Si multilayers
    • Appl. Opt. 50(9) C148-C153 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Modeling of optical traps for aerosols
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(12) 2856-2864 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Richard Bowman

    • Waveguide trapping of hollow glass spheres
    • Opt. Lett. 36(17) 3347-3349 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Summer Gibbs-Strauss

    • Toward whole-body optical imaging of rats using single-photon counting fluorescence tomography
    • Opt. Lett. 36(19) 3723-3725 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Summer Gibbs-Strauss

    • In vivo fluorescence lifetime optical projection tomography
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 2(5) 1340-1350 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Jason Porter

    • Characterization of single-file flow through human retinal parafoveal capillaries using an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 2(4) 781-793 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Periklis Petropoulos

    • Nonlinear fiber optics: its history and recent progress [Invited]
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(12) A1-A10 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Gianluca Rotaris

    • Microporous phase-separated films of polymer blends for enhanced outcoupling of light from OLEDs
    • Opt. Express 19(S6) A1272-A1280 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Design of nanostructured plasmonic back contacts for thin-film silicon solar cells
    • Opt. Express 19(S6) A1219-A1230 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert J. Zawadzki

    • Lasing from Escherichia coli bacteria genetically programmed to express green fluorescent protein
    • Opt. Lett. 36(16) 3299-3301 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Piero Castoldi

    • Fast Exact ILP Decompositions for Ring RWA
    • J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 3(7) 577-586 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Taek Yong Hwang

    • Ultra-high-contrast few-cycle pulses for multipetawatt-class laser technology
    • Opt. Lett. 36(16) 3145-3147 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Sami Mumtaz

    • Optical Front-End for Soft-Decision LDPC Codes in Optical Communication Systems
    • J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 3(6) 533-541 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF