Tentative detection of clear-air turbulence using a ground-based Rayleigh lidar

Alain Hauchecorne, Charles Cot, Francis Dalaudier, Jacques Porteneuve, Thierry Gaudo, Richard Wilson, Claire Cénac, Christian Laqui, Philippe Keckhut, Jean-Marie Perrin, Agnès Dolfi, Nicolas Cézard, Laurent Lombard, and Claudine Besson

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3420-3428 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Flatness parameter influence on scintillation reduction for multi-Gaussian Schell-model beams propagating in turbulent air

S. Avramov-Zamurovic, C. Nelson, S. Guth, and O. Korotkova

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3442-3446 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional atom localization via electromagnetically induced transparency in a three-level atomic system

Zhiping Wang, Dewei Cao, and Benli Yu

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3582-3588 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High diffraction efficiency of three-layer diffractive optics designed for wide temperature range and large incident angle

Shan Mao, Qingfeng Cui, Mingxu Piao, and Lidong Zhao

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3549-3554 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Computation of astigmatic and trefoil figure errors and misalignments for two-mirror telescopes using nodal-aberration theory

Guohao Ju, Changxiang Yan, Zhiyuan Gu, and Hongcai Ma

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3373-3386 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

SWaP reduction regimes in achromatic GRIN singlets

Sawyer D. Campbell, Donovan E. Brocker, Jogender Nagar, and Douglas H. Werner

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3594-3598 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray tracing method in phase space for two-dimensional optical systems

C. Filosa, J. H. M. ten Thije Boonkkamp, and W. L. IJzerman

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3599-3606 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvements to the modal holographic wavefront sensor

Fanpeng Kong and Andrew Lambert

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3615-3625 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast generation of a high-quality computer-generated hologram using a scalable and flexible PC cluster

Joongseok Song, Changseob Kim, Hanhoon Park, and Jong-Il Park

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3681-3688 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of noise-reducing phase retrieval

David C. Hyland

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3493-3501 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Image segmentation by nonlinear filtering of optical Hough transform

Ariel Fernández, Jorge L. Flores, Julia R. Alonso, and José A. Ferrari

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3632-3638 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Single pixel imaging with tunable terahertz parametric oscillator

Pan Duan, Yuye Wang, Degang Xu, Chao Yan, Zhen Yang, Wentao Xu, Wei Shi, and Jianquan Yao

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3670-3675 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Watermarking scheme for microlens-array-based four-dimensional light field imaging

Yucheng Lu, Suping You, Wei Zhang, Bo Yang, Runling Peng, and Songlin Zhuang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3397-3404 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Reflected-light-source-based three-dimensional display with high brightness

Guo-Jiao Lv, Fei Wu, Wu-Xiang Zhao, Jun Fan, Bai-Chuan Zhao, and Qiong-Hua Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3452-3455 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz imaging and tomography as efficient instruments for testing polymer additive manufacturing objects

J. B. Perraud, A. F. Obaton, J. Bou-Sleiman, B. Recur, H. Balacey, F. Darracq, J. P. Guillet, and P. Mounaix

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3462-3467 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Robust sky light polarization detection with an S-wave plate in a light field camera

Wenjing Zhang, Xuanzhe Zhang, Yu Cao, Haibo Liu, and Zejin Liu

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3518-3525 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvement of depth resolution in depth-resolved wavenumber-scanning interferometry using wavenumber-domain least-squares algorithm: comparison and experiment

Yulei Bai, Quanjie Jia, Yun Zhang, Qiquan Huang, Qiyu Yang, Shuangli Ye, Zhaoshui He, Yanzhou Zhou, and Shengli Xie

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3413-3419 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Weighted pose estimation method from lines intersecting at a point

Meng Li, Derong Chen, Jiulu Gong, and Changyuan Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3435-3441 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Eliminating the effect of phase shift between injection current and amplitude modulation in DFB-LD WMS for high-precision measurement

Wei Wei, Jun Chang, Yuanyuan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhaojun Liu, Zengguang Qin, and Qiang Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3526-3530 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High-accuracy spectral reduction algorithm for the échelle spectrometer

Lu Yin, Bayanheshig, Jin Yang, Yuxian Lu, Rui Zhang, Ci Sun, and Jicheng Cui

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3574-3581 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly reliable optical system for a rubidium space cold atom clock

Wei Ren, Yanguang Sun, Bin Wang, Wenbing Xia, Qiuzhi Qu, Jingfeng Xiang, Zuoren Dong, Desheng Lü, and Liang Liu

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3607-3614 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature using a dual polarization ring

Penghao Liu and Yaocheng Shi

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3537-3541 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of all-polymer asymmetric Mach–Zehnder interferometer sensors

Yanfen Xiao, Meike Hofmann, Ziyu Wang, Stanislav Sherman, and Hans Zappe

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3566-3573 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Microring resonator composed of vertical slot waveguides with minimum polarization mode dispersion over a wide spectral range

Po-Han Fu, Tsung-Yu Chiang, Nai-Chia Cheng, Yao-Feng Ma, and Ding-Wei Huang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3626-3631 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy passively Q-switched laser operation of Yb:Ca₃La₂(BO₃)₄ disordered crystal

Lisha Wang, Wenjuan Han, Zhongben Pan, Honghao Xu, Xiaowen Chen, Junhai Liu, Haohai Yu, and Huaijin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3447-3451 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Scheme for improving laser stability via feedback control of intracavity nonlinear loss

Pixian Jin, Huadong Lu, Jing Su, and Kunchi Peng

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3478-3482 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Radially and azimuthally polarized laser beams by thin-disk laser

Reza Aghbolaghi and Habib Sahebghoran Charehjolo

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3510-3517 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength synchronous mode-locked Yb:LSO laser using a double-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Chao Feng, Wei Hou, Jimin Yang, Jie Liu, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu, and Yonggang Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3639-3644 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal of microstrip scanning near-field optical microscope in far- and near-field zones

Yevhenii M. Morozov and Anatoliy S. Lapchuk

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3468-3477 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Focus variation microscope: linear theory and surface tilt sensitivity

Nikolay Nikolaev, Jon Petzing, and Jeremy Coupland

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3555-3565 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Gain-saturated one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers in presence of longitudinal dispersion fluctuations

M. Bagheri, H. Pakarzadeh, and A. Keshavarz

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3368-3372 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated spoof-detection for fingerprints using optical coherence tomography

Luke Nicholas Darlow, Leandra Webb, and Natasha Botha

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3387-3396 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Nondestructive analysis of automotive paints with spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Yue Dong, Samuel Lawman, Yalin Zheng, Dominic Williams, Jinke Zhang, and Yao-Chun Shen

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3695-3700 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Millimeter-wave broadband antireflection coatings using laser ablation of subwavelength structures

Tomotake Matsumura, Karl Young, Qi Wen, Shaul Hanany, Hirokazu Ishino, Yuki Inoue, Masashi Hazumi, Jürgen Koch, Oliver Suttman, and Viktor Schütz

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3502-3509 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Hamiltonian-based ray-tracing method with triangular-mesh representation for a large-scale cloaking device with an arbitrary shape

Tatsuo Tanaka and Osamu Matoba

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3456-3461 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultracompact silicon-on-insulator-based reflective arrayed waveguide gratings for spectroscopic applications

Jun Zou, Tingting Lang, Zichun Le, and Jian-Jun He

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3531-3536 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Visible-range hollow waveguides by guided buckling of Ta₂O₅/SiO₂ multilayers

A. Melnyk, C. A. Potts, T. W. Allen, and R. G. DeCorby

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3645-3649 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Space target optical characteristic calculation model and method in the photoelectric detection target

Hanshan Li

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3689-3694 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional photonic-crystal-based double switch-divider

Victor Dmitriev and Leno Martins

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3676-3680 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Wave propagation through photonic waveguide lattices in the presence of optical gain and loss

Abbas Ghasempour Ardakani

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3589-3593 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Raman scattering holography for time-resolved imaging of methane gas

Eynas Amer, Per Gren, Stefan Edenharder, and Mikael Sjödahl

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3429-3434 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast bistable intensive light scattering in helix-free ferroelectric liquid crystals

Alexander Andreev, Tatiana Andreeva, Igor Kompanets, Nikolay Zalyapin, Huan Xu, Mike Pivnenko, and Daping Chu

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3483-3492 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory of plasmonic quantum-dot-based intermediate band solar cells

Sina Foroutan and Hamed Baghban

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3405-3412 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Parabolic cell for low-background Raman analysis of gas samples

Anlan Yu, Duluo Zuo, Bin Li, Jun Gao, and Xinbing Wang

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3650-3655 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Naphthalene laser-induced fluorescence measurements at low temperature and pressure

Christopher S. Combs and Noel T. Clemens

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3656-3669 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

PDMS-coated fiber volatile organic compounds sensors

Xiangping Ning, Jingyi Yang, Chun Liu Zhao, and Chi Chiu Chan

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3543-3548 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple-wavelength double random phase encoding with CCD-plane sparse-phase multiplexing for optical information verification: erratum

Wen Chen

Appl. Opt. 55(13), 3542-3542 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF