Feature Issue Introduction: Light, Energy and the Environment, 2014

Thomas P. White, Gerard Wysocki, César Domínguez, and Seunghyup Yoo

Opt. Express 23(11), A764-A766 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Energy transfer efficiency from Cr³⁺ to Nd³⁺ in solar-pumped laser using transparent Nd/Cr:Y₃Al₅O₁₂ ceramics

Kazuo Hasegawa, Tadashi Ichikawa, Shintaro Mizuno, Yasuhiko Takeda, Hiroshi Ito, Akio Ikesue, Tomoyoshi Motohiro, and Mitsuo Yamaga

Opt. Express 23(11), A519-A524 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Luminescence from oriented emitting dipoles in a birefringent medium

Chang-Ki Moon, Sei-Yong Kim, Jeong-Hwan Lee, and Jang-Joo Kim

Opt. Express 23(7), A279-A291 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimising light source spectrum for object reflectance

Dorukalp Durmus and Wendy Davis

Opt. Express 23(11), A456-A464 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Color discrimination metric based on cone cell sensitivity

Liting Jiang, Peng Jin, and Peng Lei

Opt. Express 23(11), A741-A751 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient amplified spontaneous emission from oligofluorene-pyrene starbursts with improved electron affinity property

Qi Zhang, Yan Zhang, Weidong Xu, Xiangchun Li, Jingguan Liu, Xiangru Guo, Ruidong Xia, and Wei Huang

Opt. Express 23(11), A465-A470 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable and wavelength-locked Q-switched narrow-linewidth Er:YAG laser at 1645 nm

Pinghua Tang, Jun Liu, Bin Huang, Changwen Xu, Chujun Zhao, and Shuangchun Wen

Opt. Express 23(9), 11037-11042 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Emission behavior of dual-side emissive transparent white organic light-emitting diodes

Wing Hong Choi, Hoi Lam Tam, Dongge Ma, and Furong Zhu

Opt. Express 23(11), A471-A479 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Enabling a blue-hazard free general lighting based on candle light-style OLED

Jwo-Huei Jou, Sudhir Kumar, Chih-Chia An, Meenu Singh, Huei-Huan Yu, Chun-Yu Hsieh, You-Xing Lin, Chao-Feng Sung, and Ching-Wu Wang

Opt. Express 23(11), A576-A581 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

The realistic energy yield potential of GaAs-on-Si tandem solar cells: a theoretical case study

Haohui Liu, Zekun Ren, Zhe Liu, Armin G. Aberle, Tonio Buonassisi, and Ian Marius Peters

Opt. Express 23(7), A382-A390 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Near- to far-field coherent thermal emission by surfaces coated by nanoparticles and the evaluation of effective medium theory

Azadeh Didari and M. Pinar Mengüç

Opt. Express 23(11), A547-A552 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensing the earth crustal deformation with nano-strain resolution fiber-optic sensors

Qingwen Liu, Zuyuan He, and Tomochika Tokunaga

Opt. Express 23(11), A428-A436 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Integration of Monte-Carlo ray tracing with a stochastic optimisation method: application to the design of solar receiver geometry

Charles-Alexis Asselineau, Jose Zapata, and John Pye

Opt. Express 23(11), A437-A443 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling reflection loss from an evacuated tube inside a compound parabolic concentrator with a cylindrical receiver

M. Gajic, N. Karwa, A. Mojiri, and G. Rosengarten

Opt. Express 23(11), A493-A501 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency thin and compact concentrator photovoltaics with micro-solar cells directly attached to a lens array

Nobuhiko Hayashi, Daijiro Inoue, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Akio Matsushita, Hiroshi Higuchi, Youichirou Aya, and Tohru Nakagawa

Opt. Express 23(11), A594-A603 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband behavior of transmission volume holographic optical elements for solar concentration

Paula Bañares-Palacios, Samuel Álvarez-Álvarez, Julia Marín-Sáez, María-Victoria Collados, Daniel Chemisana, and Jesús Atencia

Opt. Express 23(11), A671-A681 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance optimization of dense-array concentrator photovoltaic system considering effects of circumsolar radiation and slope error

Chee-Woon Wong, Kok-Keong Chong, and Ming-Hui Tan

Opt. Express 23(15), A841-A857 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of surface radiative properties of a CO₂ sorbent particle on its interactions with high-flux solar irradiation

Lindsey Yue and Wojciech Lipiński

Opt. Express 23(11), A752-A763 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF