October 2009

Information Acquisition, Processing, Display and Perception

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Recent progress in three-dimensional information processing based on integral imaging
    • Integral imaging is an interesting alternative to holography. It has the features of full parallax and color images, just like holography, but it also has quasi-continuous view points. The authors discuss recent...
    • Appl. Opt. 48(34) H77-H94 (2009) View: HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Efficient estimation of ideal-observer performance in classification tasks involving high-dimensional complex backgrounds
    • The use of the Bayesian ideal observer approach to image quality assessment can be highly advantageous but has been hampered by computational complexity for real-life statistics. The current procedure develops a fast...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26(11) B59-B71 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Strong 1.53 μm to NIR-VIS-UV upconversion in Er-doped fluoride glass for high-efficiency solar cells
    • This manuscript describes measurements of the absolute efficiency of 1.5 μm to near-IR upconversion in Er3+ doped fluoride glasses, with possible application to enhancing silicon solar cell...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26(10) 1930-1938 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Nonlocal Dispersion Cancellation using Entangled Photons
    • A theoretical prediction that dates back to 1992 is demonstrated experimentally for the first time in this work: for a pair of entangled photons traveling through two dispersive media, the dispersion experienced by one...
    • Opt. Express 17(21) 19241-19252 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Review of three-dimensional holographic imaging by multiple-viewpoint-projection based methods
    • A relatively new incoherent holographic technique, called multiple viewpoint projection (MVP) holography, for generating digital holograms of 3-D objects is reviewed in this paper. The goal of the novel method is to...
    • Appl. Opt. 48(34) H120-H136 (2009) View: HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Dirichlet-to-Neumann map method for analyzing crossed arrays of circular cylinders
    • The authors report an extension to 3-D photonic crystal structures of a very efficient and accurate computational method used previously for analyzing 2-D structures.
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26(11) 1984-1993 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Fast scanning photoretinoscope for measuring peripheral refraction as a function of accommodation
    • There has been an increasing interest in understanding how the refraction of the eye varies across the retina, in part because some evidence suggests this variation may be important in the development of myopia. The...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26(10) 2206-2210 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

Quantum

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Strong 1.53 μm to NIR-VIS-UV upconversion in Er-doped fluoride glass for high-efficiency solar cells
    • This manuscript describes measurements of the absolute efficiency of 1.5 μm to near-IR upconversion in Er3+ doped fluoride glasses, with possible application to enhancing silicon solar cell...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26(10) 1930-1938 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary

    • Nonlocal Dispersion Cancellation using Entangled Photons
    • A theoretical prediction that dates back to 1992 is demonstrated experimentally for the first time in this work: for a pair of entangled photons traveling through two dispersive media, the dispersion experienced by one...
    • Opt. Express 17(21) 19241-19252 (2009) View: HTML | PDF

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