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Advances in Optics and Photonics encompasses comprehensive review articles and multimedia tutorials appropriate for students, researchers, faculty, business professionals and engineers. Authoritative content covers advances in optics and photonics from fundamental studies to engineering applications. Submissions of long reviews and tutorials are invited only.

Editor-in-Chief: Bahaa E. A. Saleh, University of Central Florida
eISSN: 1943-8206
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publishing; Quarterly issues

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Self-rolled-up microtube ring resonators: a review of geometrical and resonant properties
Strain-induced self-rolled-up microtubes, a category of recently discovered tubular structure with ultrathin... Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 3 Issue 4, pp.366-387 (2011)

Wigner functions in optics: describing beams as ray bundles and pulses as particle ensembles
This tutorial gives an overview of the use of the Wigner function as a tool for modeling optical field... Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 3 Issue 4, pp.272-365 (2011)

Selected Review Articles from OSA Journals

Three-dimensional display technologies of recent interest: principles, status, and issues [Invited]
Recent trends in three-dimensional (3D) display technologies are very interesting in that both old-fashioned... Applied Optics, Vol. 50 Issue 34, pp.H87-H115 (2011)

Polymer microstructured optical fibers for terahertz wave guiding
We outline the most recent technological advancements in the design, fabrication and characterization of... Optics Express, Vol. 19 Issue 26, pp.B848-B861 (2011)

Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals: a tutorial [Invited]
Blue phase liquid crystals exhibit several attractive features, such as self-assembled three-dimensional... Optical Materials Express, Vol. 1 Issue 8, pp.1527-1535 (2011)

Overcoming phase mismatch in nonlinear metamaterials [Invited]
Nonlinear metamaterials have potentially interesting applications in highly efficient wave-mixing and... Optical Materials Express, Vol. 1 Issue 7, pp.1232-1243 (2011)

Nonlinear fiber optics: its history and recent progress [Invited]
This review begins with an historical introduction to the field of nonlinear fiber optics and then focuses on... JOSA B, Vol. 28 Issue 12, pp.A1-A10 (2011)

Ultrafast nonlinear optics in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers [Invited]
We review the use of hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) in the field of ultrafast... JOSA B, Vol. 28 Issue 12, pp.A11-A26 (2011)

Nanoplasmonics: past, present, and glimpse into future
A review of nanoplasmonics is given. This includes fundamentals, nanolocalization of optical energy and hot... Optics Express, Vol. 19 Issue 22, pp.22029-22106 (2011)

Light bullets in waveguide arrays: spacetime-coupling, spectral symmetry breaking and superluminal decay [Invited]
We investigate the effects of the space-time coupling (STC) on the nonlinear formation and propagation of... Optics Express, Vol. 19 Issue 23, pp.23171-23187 (2011)