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Optics Letters (OL) provides rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics and photonics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications. The articles often describe research-in-progress, thus reflecting the leading edge in the "science of light." With an ISI Impact Factor of 3.399, OL is among the top-ranked journals in the Optics category.

Editor-in-Chief: Alan Willner, University of Southern California
ISSN: 0146-9592 | eISSN: 1539-4794
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication, issues twice monthly
2011 ISI Impact Factor: 3.399

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Background-free imaging of luminescent nanodiamonds using external magnetic field for contrast enhancement
We demonstrate a way of contrast increasing in wide-field optical images of diamond nanocrystals containing... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1847-1849 (2013)

Invariance of waveguide grating mirrors to lateral displacement phase shifts
We present a method to analyze the coupling of lateral displacements in nanoscale structures, in particular... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1844-1846 (2013)

Overlap time-gating approach for improving time-domain diffuse fluorescence tomography based on the IRF-calibrated Born normalization
Diffuse fluorescence tomography (DFT) methods using the full time-resolved (TR) data have been demonstrated... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1841-1843 (2013)

Highly efficient pulse cleaner via nonlinear ellipse rotation in liquid CS₂ for ultrashort pulses
A highly efficient pulse cleaner based on nonlinear ellipse rotation (NER) in a liquid medium of... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1838-1840 (2013)

Wave-optical analysis of parallax-image generation based on multiple diffraction gratings
We propose an approach to generate as many parallax images (PIs) having different viewpoints of a 3-D object... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1835-1837 (2013)

On temporal dynamics of Sn₂P₂S₆ oscillation in semi-linear cavity
Experimental measurements and calculations revealed an unusual type of oscillation dynamics of... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1832-1834 (2013)

Experimental far-field imaging properties of a ~5-μm diameter spherical lens
Microscale lenses are mostly used as near-sighted lenses. The far-field imaging properties of a microscale... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1829-1831 (2013)

Metal single-nanowire plasmonic sensors
We demonstrated a general approach for plasmonic sensing using metal single nanowires based on an evanescent... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1826-1828 (2013)

Nonlocal effect on vortex-induced pattern dynamics
We show experimentally and theoretically that the interplay between a vortex-induced pattern rotation and an... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1823-1825 (2013)

High average power, widely tunable femtosecond laser source from red to mid-infrared based on an Yb-fiber-laser-pumped optical parametric oscillator
We report on the highly efficient generation of widely tunable femtosecond pulses based on intracavity second... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1820-1822 (2013)

Chip-scale fluorescence microscope based on a silo-filter complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensor
We demonstrate a silo-filter (SF) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor for a... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1817-1819 (2013)

Experimental generation of partially coherent beams with different complex degrees of coherence
We established an experimental setup for generating partially coherent beams with different complex degrees... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1814-1816 (2013)

Measurement method for light transmittance of layered metamaterials
We propose a method to measure light transmittance of layered metamaterials by placing the metamaterials... Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1811-1813 (2013)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 38, Iss. 10 — May. 15, 2013  pp: 1591–1756

	Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
	Detectors (1)
	Diffraction and Gratings (3)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (3)
	Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (3)
	Holography (1)
	Image Processing (1)
	Integrated Optics (1)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (8)
	Materials (2)
	Medical Optics and Biotechnology (1)
	Microscopy (2)
	Nonlinear Optics (5)
	Optical Design and Fabrication (1)
	Optical Devices (5)
	Optics in Computing (1)
	Optoelectronics (5)
	Physical Optics (1)
	Quantum Optics (2)
	Remote Sensing and Sensors (2)
	Scattering (1)
	Spectroscopy (3)
	Ultrafast Optics (2)
	Vision, Color, and Visual Optics (1)

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