Laser applications to chemical, security, and environmental analysis: introduction to the feature issue

Thomas Seeger, Thomas Dreier, Weidong Chen, Sean Kearny, and Waruna Kulatilaka

Appl. Opt. 56(11), LAC1-LAC3 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Uncertainty quantification and design-of-experiment in absorption-based aqueous film parameter measurements using Bayesian inference

R. Pan, K. J. Daun, T. Dreier, and C. Schulz

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E1-E7 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of propagation of vortex beams in aerosol optical medium

Alexey P. Porfirev, Mikhail S. Kirilenko, Svetlana N. Khonina, Roman V. Skidanov, and Victor A. Soifer

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E8-E15 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of an incoherent broad-band cavity-enhanced aerosol extinction spectrometer and its application to measurement of aerosol optical hygroscopicity

Weixiong Zhao, Xuezhe Xu, Bo Fang, Qilei Zhang, Xiaodong Qian, Shuo Wang, Pan Liu, Weijun Zhang, Zhenzhu Wang, Dong Liu, Yinbo Huang, Dean S. Venables, and Weidong Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E16-E22 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Open-path spectroscopic methane detection using a broadband monolithic distributed feedback-quantum cascade laser array

Anna P. M. Michel, Jason Kapit, Mark F. Witinski, and Romain Blanchard

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E23-E29 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy measurement of ethylene in combustion

Andrew D. Cutler, Emanuela C. A. Gallo, and Luca M. L. Cantu

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E30-E36 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced atomic emission of silicon nanoparticles during laser-induced heating

Jan Menser, Kyle Daun, Thomas Dreier, and Christof Schulz

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E50-E57 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser induced thermal lens microscopy for highly sensitive determination of captopril

Nader Shokoufi, Atefeh Abbasi-Ahd, and Kazem Kargosha

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E58-E63 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of hydrocarbon molecular decomposition on palladium-assisted laser-induced plasma ablation

Alireza Moosakhani, Parviz Parvin, Seyedeh Zahra Mortazavi, Ali Reyhani, and Shariar Abachi

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E64-E71 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of thickness of highly inhomogeneous crude oil slicks

Surya Cheemalapati, Heather P. Forth, Hao Wang, Karthik Raj Konnaiyan, Jeffrey M. Morris, and Anna L. Pyayt

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E72-E76 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-color vibrational CARS thermometry of fuel-rich ethylene/air flames using a potassium gadolinium tungstate Raman-active crystal as a source of narrowband probe radiation

Christian Meißner, Johannes W. Tröger, Dimitrii N. Kozlov, Frank Beyrau, and Thomas Seeger

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E77-E83 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interband cascade laser-based optical transfer standard for atmospheric carbon monoxide measurements

Javis A. Nwaboh, Zhechao Qu, Olav Werhahn, and Volker Ebert

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E84-E93 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Mixture-fraction measurements with femtosecond-laser electronic-excitation tagging

Benjamin R. Halls, Naibo Jiang, James R. Gord, Paul M. Danehy, and Sukesh Roy

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E94-E98 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution Fourier transform measurements of line strengths in the 00⁰2-00⁰0 main isotopologue band of nitrous oxide

Viktor Werwein, Jens Brunzendorf, Gang Li, Anton Serdyukov, Olav Werhahn, and Volker Ebert

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E99-E105 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical ray tracing method for simulating beam-steering effects during laser diagnostics in turbulent media

Yejun Wang and Waruna D. Kulatilaka

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E106-E115 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared spectroscopy of secondary organic aerosol precursors and investigation of the hygroscopicity of SOA formed from the OH reaction with guaiacol and syringol

Waed Ahmad, Cecile Coeur, Alexandre Tomas, Thomas Fagniez, Jean-Blaise Brubach, and Arnaud Cuisset

Appl. Opt. 56(11), E116-E122 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Infrared Brewster-angle polarizing beam splitter using a high-index prism with a small wedge angle

R. M. A. Azzam

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3020-3021 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental analysis of stress fields of rotating structural elements by means of reflection photoelasticity

Peter Frankovský, Oskar Ostertag, Eva Ostertagová, František Trebuňa, Ján Kostka, and Marek Výrostek

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3064-3070 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear adiabatic optical isolator

Andon Rangelov and Stefano Longhi

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2991-2994 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Dielectric V-ridge gratings: transition from antireflection to retroreflection

Gaurav Bose, Ismo Vartiainen, Matthieu Roussey, Markku Kuittinen, Jani Tervo, and Jari Turunen

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3004-3009 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of femtosecond laser damage to gold pulse compression gratings fabricated by magnetron sputtering and e-beam evaporation

Leilei Wang, Fanyu Kong, Zhilin Xia, Yunxia Jin, Haopeng Huang, Linxin Li, Junming Chen, Yun Cui, and Jianda Shao

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3087-3095 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and simulation of reflect-array metasurfaces in the visible regime

Salma Alrasheed and Enzo Di Fabrizio

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3213-3218 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated refractive index sensor using silicon slot waveguides

Ka Li, Xue Feng, Kaiyu Cui, Wei Zhang, Fang Liu, and Yidong Huang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3096-3103 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-point temperature sensing using a linear-cavity lasing system

Hiroki Kishikawa, Mao Okada, Kazuto Takahashi, Po-Jung Chen, Nobuo Goto, Yi-Lin Yu, and Shien-Kuei Liaw

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3206-3212 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-based spatial filtering for directional and nondirectional edge enhancement using an S-waveplate

B. S. Bhargava Ram, Paramasivam Senthilkumaran, and Anurag Sharma

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3171-3178 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Common-path digital holographic microscopy for near-field phase imaging based on surface plasmon resonance

Jiwei Zhang, Siqing Dai, Chaojie Ma, Jianglei Di, and Jianlin Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3223-3228 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time polarization imaging algorithm for camera-based polarization navigation sensors

Hao Lu, Kaichun Zhao, Zheng You, and Kaoli Huang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3199-3205 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Semi-automated localization of dermal epidermal junction in optical coherence tomography images of skin

Adeleh Taghavikhalilbad, Saba Adabi, Anne Clayton, Hadi Soltanizadeh, Darius Mehregan, and Mohammad R. N. Avanaki

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3116-3121 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Superlensing microscope objective lens

Bing Yan, Zengbo Wang, Alan L. Parker, Yu-kun Lai, P. John Thomas, Liyang Yue, and James N. Monks

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3142-3147 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Practical dual-band terahertz imaging system

Deliang Zhou, Liwei Hou, Wei Xie, Yuanzhang Zang, Bin Lu, Jian Chen, and Peiheng Wu

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3148-3154 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Iterative reconstruction of scene depth with fidelity based on light field data

Chang Liu, Jun Qiu, and Songnian Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3185-3192 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Random phase-shifting algorithm by constructing orthogonal phase-shifting fringe patterns

Hubing Du, Jingjing Yan, and Jianhua Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3071-3076 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinearity characterization of array spectroradiometers for the solar UV measurements

Tomi Pulli, Saulius Nevas, Omar El Gawhary, Steven van den Berg, Janne Askola, Petri Kärhä, Farshid Manoocheri, and Erkki Ikonen

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3077-3086 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency comb calibrated frequency-sweeping interferometry for absolute group refractive index measurement of air

Lijun Yang, Xuejian Wu, Haoyun Wei, and Yan Li

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3109-3115 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Cr:ZnS saturable absorber passively Q-switched mode-locking Tm,Ho:LLF laser

Xinlu Zhang, Yong Luo, Tianhan Wang, Junfeng Dai, Jianxin Zhang, Jiang Li, Jinhui Cui, and Jinjer Huang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2973-2977 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interaction between a bubble and a metal target for underwater laser propulsion

Hao Qiang, Jun Chen, Bing Han, Yunxiang Pan, Hongchao Zhang, Zhonghua Shen, Jian Lu, and Xiaowu Ni

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3193-3198 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of temporal-spatial binary pattern projection for 3D shape acquisition

Pei Zhou, Jiangping Zhu, Xianyu Su, Zhisheng You, Hailong Jing, Chao Xiao, and Min Zhong

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2995-3003 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Flexible global calibration of multiple cameras with nonoverlapping fields of view using circular targets

Zheng Gong, Zhen Liu, and Guangjun Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3122-3131 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-matching properties of BaGa₄Se₇ for SHG and SFG in the 0.901–10.5910  μm range

Kiyoshi Kato, Kentaro Miyata, and Valentin Petrov

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2978-2981 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient acousto-optic crystal, TlInS₂: acoustic and elastic anisotropy

I. Martynyuk-Lototska, I. Trach, O. Kokhan, and R. Vlokh

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3179-3184 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the linear thermo-optical coefficient of Ga_0.51In_0.49P using photonic crystal nanocavities

Sergei Sokolov, Jin Lian, Sylvain Combrié, Alfredo De Rossi, and Allard P. Mosk

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3219-3222 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Second-harmonic generation of a dual-frequency laser in a MgO:PPLN crystal

Ying Kang, Suhui Yang, Marc Brunel, Lijun Cheng, Changming Zhao, and Haiyang Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2968-2972 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable femtosecond near-IR source by pumping an OPA directly with a 90  MHz Yb:fiber source

J. Mundry, J. Lohrenz, and M. Betz

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3104-3108 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonimaging polygonal mirrors achieving uniform irradiance distributions on concentrating photovoltaic cells

Max Schmitz, Fabian Dähler, François Elvinger, Andrea Pedretti, and Aldo Steinfeld

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3035-3052 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetic optimization of the integrated magnetorheological jet polishing tool and its application in millimeter-scale discontinuous structure processing

Hao Yang, Haobo Cheng, Hengyu Wu, and Tan Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3162-3170 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal restoration method for restraining the range walk error of Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode lidar in acquiring a merged three-dimensional image

Lu Xu, Yu Zhang, Yong Zhang, Long Wu, Chenghua Yang, Xu Yang, Zijing Zhang, and Yuan Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3059-3063 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Interference filter tilting to detect a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon at the second harmonic of wavelength modulation frequency

Dmitri Lanevski, Koit Mauring, and Eric Tkaczyk

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3155-3161 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Detecting phase transitions in a CaCl₂–H₂O system at low temperatures using a fiber-optic Fresnel reflection sensor

Mani Priyadarshini, Venkata Rajanikanth Machavaram, Akella Sivaramakrishna, and Pachiyappan Arulmozhivarman

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3229-3239 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared absorption spectrometer for the determination of temperature and species profiles in an entrained flow gasifier

Patrick Nau, Peter Kutne, Georg Eckel, Wolfgang Meier, Christian Hotz, and Sabine Fleck

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 2982-2990 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Visualizing spatiotemporal pulse propagation: first-order spatiotemporal couplings in laser pulses

Michelle Rhodes, Zhe Guang, Jerrold Pease, and Rick Trebino

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3024-3034 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (5)]

Optimizing spectral compositions of multichannel LED light sources by IES color fidelity index and luminous efficacy of radiation: publisher’s note

Fuzheng Zhang, Haisong Xu, and Zhehong Wang

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3022-3022 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical coherence tomography-integrated, wearable (backpack-type), compact diagnostic imaging modality for in situ leaf quality assessment: publisher’s note

Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe, Seung-Yeol Lee, Naresh Kumar Ravichandran, Sangyeop Han, Hyosang Jeong, Youngmin Han, Hee-Young Jung, Pilun Kim, Mansik Jeon, and Jeehyun Kim

Appl. Opt. 56(11), 3023-3023 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF