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Ron Driggers

Appl. Opt. 56(12), ED4-ED4 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tolerancing the alignment of large-core optical fibers, fiber bundles and light guides using a Fourier approach

Travis W. Sawyer, Ryan Petersburg, and Sarah E. Bohndiek

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3303-3310 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Phase shifting by wavelength modulation in a cube beam splitter interferometer

Uriel Rivera-Ortega

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3543-3546 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Precise calibration of pupil images in pyramid wavefront sensor

Yong Liu, Quanquan Mu, Zhaoliang Cao, Lifa Hu, Chengliang Yang, and Li Xuan

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3281-3286 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity tests on the convergence tendency of the scattering order formulation of the discrete dipole approximation

Carynelisa Haspel and Masada Tzabari

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3547-3555 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of propagation properties of vortex beams in oceanic turbulence

Zhenglin Liu, Jialin Chen, and Daomu Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3577-3582 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Research on intelligent algorithms for amplitude optimization of wavefront shaping

Qi Feng, Bin Zhang, Zhipeng Liu, Chengyou Lin, and Yingchun Ding

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3240-3244 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate determination of dielectric permittivity of polymers from 75  GHz to 1.6  THz using both S-parameters and transmission spectroscopy

Tianying Chang, Xiansheng Zhang, Xiaoxuan Zhang, and Hong-Liang Cui

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3287-3292 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compound eye and retina-like combination sensor with a large field of view based on a space-variant curved micro lens array

Yang Cheng, Jie Cao, Qun Hao, Fanghua Zhang, Shaopu Wang, Wenze Xia, Lingtong Meng, Yangkun Zhang, and Haoyong Yu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3502-3509 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Dimensional properties of Laguerre–Gaussian vortex beams

Jie Zhang, Su-Juan Huang, Fu-Quan Zhu, Wei Shao, and Mu-Sheng Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3556-3561 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Widely tunable 2  μm continuous-wave and mode-locked fiber laser

Wanzhuo Ma, Tianshu Wang, Yan Zhang, Peng Liu, Yuwei Su, Qingsong Jia, Mingzhe Bi, Peng Zhang, and Huilin Jiang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3342-3346 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

All-fiber-optic acoustic sensor array for real-time sound source localization

Jian Wang, Hongyan Wu, and Bo Jia

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3347-3353 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of excitation of fiber Fabry–Perot tunable filters used in swept lasers using a phase-correction method

Mohammad R. N. Avanaki, Adrian Bradu, and Adrian Podoleanu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3378-3382 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Machine learning approach to OAM beam demultiplexing via convolutional neural networks

Timothy Doster and Abbie T. Watnik

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3386-3396 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Illumination, data transmission, and energy harvesting: the threefold advantage of VLC

Harilaos G. Sandalidis, Alexander Vavoulas, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, and Nicholas Vaiopoulos

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3421-3427 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical simulation on the performance analysis of a graphene-coated optical fiber plasmonic sensor at anti-crossing

Jeeban Kumar Nayak and Rajan Jha

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3510-3517 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber Bragg grating interrogation using wavelength modulated tunable distributed feedback lasers and a fiber-optic Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Anirban Roy, Arup Lal Chakraborty, and Chandan Kumar Jha

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3562-3569 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Stable nanosecond passively Q-switched all-fiber erbium-doped laser with a 45° tilted fiber grating

Tianxing Wang, Zhijun Yan, Chengbo Mou, Kaiming Zhou, and Lin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3583-3588 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Trajectory variations of optical Bloch oscillations for Airy beams in transversely and longitudinally modulated photonic lattices

Zheng Cao, Xiaojun Li, Qinggui Tan, Wei Jiang, Dong Liang, and Jinfang Dou

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3484-3490 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Data processing error analysis based on Doppler asymmetric spatial heterodyne measurement

Jing Shen, Wei Xiong, Hai-Liang Shi, Hai-Yan Luo, Zhi-Wei Li, Guang-Xiao Hu, and Xue-Jing Fang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3531-3537 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Method of calculation of internal parameters of liquid lens

Antonín Mikš and Jiří Novák

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3277-3280 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase retrieval for attacking fractional Fourier transform encryption

Dezhao Kong, Xueju Shen, Liangcai Cao, and Guofan Jin

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3449-3456 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Lensless wide-field single-shot imaging through turbid media based on object-modulated speckles

Pengfei Wu, Zi Liang, Xing Zhao, Lei Su, and Lipei Song

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3335-3341 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Folded monocentric imager with deformable mirror focus

Glenn M. Schuster, William M. Mellette, and Joseph E. Ford

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3435-3444 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Relationship of the drying process of a corn grain with the thermal emissivity and optical interference in the mid infrared range

Carlos Villaseñor-Mora, Francisco J. Gantes-Nunez, Arturo Gonzalez-Vega, and Victor H. Hernandez-Gonzalez

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3470-3476 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of partial coherence on the apparent optical transfer function derived from the response to amplitude edges

S. Mojtaba Shakeri, Lucas J. van Vliet, and Sjoerd Stallinga

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3518-3530 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral characterization and discrimination of synthetic fibers with near-infrared hyperspectral imaging system

Xiaoke Jin, Hafeezullah Memon, Wei Tian, Qinli Yin, Xiaofang Zhan, and Chengyan Zhu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3570-3576 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Transparency measurement of thin films with one-sided optical access using fluorescence imaging

A. F. Forughi, B. Stoeber, and S. I. Green

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3359-3364 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for measuring the area of radiometric apertures using the ratio of Gaussian beams

Thiago Ferreira da Silva

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3497-3501 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Collimation technique and testing applied to finite size polychromatic sources

Francisco Jose Torcal-Milla and Luis Miguel Sanchez-Brea

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3628-3633 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of assisting atmospheric pressure plasma on the formation of micro- and nanoparticles during picosecond-laser ablation of titanium

Stefan Grottker, Wolfgang Viöl, and Christoph Gerhard

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3365-3371 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

1.5  kW radially polarized beam irradiated from a FAF CO₂ laser based on an intracavity triple-axicon retroreflector and quarter wave phase retarders

Bo Li, Youyou Hu, Yi Hu, and Jiang Zhao

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3383-3385 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High peak power hybrid MOPA laser with tunable pulse repetition frequency and pulse duration

Mingming Nie, Qiang Liu, Encai Ji, Xuezhe Cao, Fu Xing, and Mali Gong

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3457-3461 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral shaping for suppressing stimulated-Raman-scattering in a fiber laser

Haiyang Xu, Man Jiang, Chen Shi, Pu Zhou, Guomin Zhao, and Xijia Gu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3538-3542 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase locking of a mode-locked titanium–sapphire laser-based optical frequency comb to a reference laser using a fast piezoelectric actuator

Shuhei Hatanaka, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Masatoshi Mitaki, Masatoshi Misono, Sergey N. Slyusarev, and Masao Kitano

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3615-3621 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Globally optimal camera-and-rotation-sensor calibration with a branch-and-bound algorithm

Yongmoon Park, Youngju Choi, and Yongduek Seo

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3462-3469 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical optimization platform for precision glass molding by the simplex algorithm

Weidong Liu and Liangchi Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3245-3250 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Probing the germination kinetics of ethanol-treated Bacillus thuringiensis spores

Guiwen Wang, Huanjun Chen, Xiaochun Wang, Lixin Peng, Yuan Peng, and Yong-qing Li

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3263-3269 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering from normal and cervical cancer cells

Xiaogang Lin, Nan Wan, Lingdong Weng, and Yong Zhou

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3608-3614 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of a reflection grating used in Littrow mount

D. M. Capps

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3293-3302 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Operation of Ho:YAG ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide lasers

Sean McDaniel, Fiona Thorburn, Adam Lancaster, Ronald Stites, Gary Cook, and Ajoy Kar

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3251-3256 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermally stable WLEDs with excellent luminous properties by screen-printing a patterned phosphor glass layer on a microstructured glass plate

Yang Peng, Xing Guo, Ruixin Li, Hao Cheng, and Mingxiang Chen

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3270-3276 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical pressure and numerical simulation of optical forces

Olav Gaute Hellesø

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3354-3358 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical performance enhancement of chip-on-board light-emitting diodes through ionic wind patterning

Jiading Wu, Jingcao Chu, Zefeng Zhang, Jiahui Huang, Huai Zheng, and Sheng Liu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3397-3401 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wideband spectrum analysis of ultra-high frequency radio-wave signals due to advanced one-phonon non-collinear anomalous light scattering

Alexandre S. Shcherbakov and Adan Omar Arellanes

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3402-3410 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact, high-power, high-beam-quality quasi-CW microsecond five-pass zigzag slab 1319  nm amplifier

Chuan Guo, Junwei Zuo, Qi Bian, Chang Xu, Qinshuang Zong, Yong Bo, Yu Shen, Nan Zong, Hongwei Gao, Yanyong Lin, Lei Yuan, Yang Liu, Dafu Cui, Qinjun Peng, and Zuyan Xu

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3445-3448 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoscale Schottky contact surface plasmon “point detectors” for optical beam scanning applications

Naema Othman and Pierre Berini

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3329-3334 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier: role of second excited state on ultrahigh bit-rate signal processing

Seyed Mohsen Izadyar, Mohammad Razaghi, and Abdollah Hassanzadeh

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3599-3607 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Singular skeleton of a Laguerre–Gaussian beam transformed by the double-phase-ramp converter

Anna Khoroshun, Aleksey Chernykh, Julia Kirichenko, Oleksandr Ryazantsev, and Aleksandr Bekshaev

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3428-3434 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrahigh birefringence, ultralow material loss porous core single-mode fiber for terahertz wave guidance

Kawsar Ahmed, Sawrab Chowdhury, Bikash Kumar Paul, Md. Shadidul Islam, Shuvo Sen, Md. Ibadul Islam, and Sayed Asaduzzaman

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3477-3483 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear frequency-modulated continuous-wave ladar system for synthetic aperture imaging

Guangzuo Li, Ran Wang, Ziqi Song, Keshu Zhang, Yirong Wu, and Jie Pan

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3257-3262 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Microsensors based on a whispering gallery mode in AlGaN microdisks undercut by hydrogen-environment thermal etching

Tetsuya Kouno, Masaru Sakai, Hoshi Takeshima, Sho Suzuki, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino, and Kazuhiko Hara

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3589-3593 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering of one-dimensional Airy beam light sheet with finite energy by a sphere

Zhaolou Cao and Chunjie Zhai

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3491-3496 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Energetic materials identification by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with artificial neural network

Amir Hossein Farhadian, Masoud Kavosh Tehrani, Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz, and Seyyed Mohammad Reza Darbani

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3372-3377 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact multichannel high-resolution micro-electro-mechanical systems-based interrogator for Fiber Bragg grating sensing

D. Ganziy, B. Rose, and O. Bang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3622-3627 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring spatiotemporal ultrafast field structures of pulses from multimode optical fibers

Zhe Guang, Michelle Rhodes, and Rick Trebino

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3319-3324 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (10)]

3D cost aggregation with multiple minimum spanning trees for stereo matching

Lincheng Li, Xin Yu, Shunli Zhang, Xiaolin Zhao, and Li Zhang

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3411-3420 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of an x-ray eight-image Kirkpatrick–Baez diagnostic system for China’s laser fusion facility

Yaran Li, Baozhong Mu, Qing Xie, Yanan He, Zhiqiang Chen, Zhanshan Wang, Zhurong Cao, Jianjun Dong, Shenye Liu, and Yongkun Ding

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3311-3318 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Amplitude versus phase effects in extreme ultraviolet lithography mask scattering and imaging

Patrick P. Naulleau, Markus Benk, Kenneth A. Goldberg, Eric M. Gullikson, Antoine Wojdyla, Yow-Gwo Wang, and Andy Neureuther

Appl. Opt. 56(12), 3325-3328 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF