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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 3.316, 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
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 3.318

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Simultaneous swept source optical coherence tomography of the anterior segment and retina using coherence revival
We report on an implementation of coherence revival-based heterodyne swept source optical coherence... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1883-1885 (2012)

Coherent synthesis of ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers
We report on coherent synthesis of two ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers, each compressed by... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1880-1882 (2012)

Enhancement of ultrafast nonlinear optical response of silicon nanocrystals by boron-doping
Nonlinear optical responses of boron (B)-doped silicon nanocrystals (Si-ncs) embedded in borosilicate glass... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1877-1879 (2012)

Linear and nonlinear waves in surface and wedge index potentials
We study optical beams that are supported at the surface of a medium with a linear index potential and by a... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1874-1876 (2012)

Evolution of Airy beams in a chiral medium
We study the evolution of Airy beams in chiral media. We numerically demonstrate that the circularly... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1871-1873 (2012)

Derivative method for phase retrieval in off-axis quantitative phase imaging
We present a method for phase retrieval in off-axis interferometric systems. By numerically calculating the... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1868-1870 (2012)

Nonlinear localized modes in Glauber–Fock photonic lattices
We study a nonlinear Glauber–Fock lattice and the conditions for the excitation of localized structures. We... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1865-1867 (2012)

Toward higher-order passive harmonic mode-locking of a soliton fiber laser
We report >13  MHz/mW pump power efficiency in increasing the repetition rate of passive harmonic... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1862-1864 (2012)

6.1 W single frequency laser output at 1645 nm from a resonantly pumped Er:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator
A monolithic 1645 nm Er:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) resonantly pumped by a 1532 nm fiber laser is... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1859-1861 (2012)

Z-scan measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of graphene
Under strong laser illumination, few-layer graphene exhibits both a transmittance increase due to saturable... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1856-1858 (2012)

Poly(styrene)-based graded-index plastic optical fiber for home networks
We investigated poly(styrene) (PSt)-based graded-index plastic optical fiber (GI-POF) with low loss and high... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1853-1855 (2012)

Single-frequency, Q-switched Ho:YAG laser at room temperature injection-seeded by two F–P etalons-restricted Tm, Ho:YAG laser
We demonstrated a 1.91 μm pumped, injection-seeded Q-switched Ho:YAG laser operating at room temperature. By... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1850-1852 (2012)

Infrared cylindrical cloak in nanosphere dispersed liquid crystal metamaterial
We present a design of an infrared cylindrical cloak using nanosphere dispersed nematic liquid crystal (NLC)... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1847-1849 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 37, Iss. 10 — May. 15, 2012  pp: 1598–1780

	Diffraction and Gratings (4)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (5)
	Holography (2)
	Image Processing (1)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (3)
	Integrated Optics (2)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (6)
	Materials (3)
	Medical Optics and Biotechnology (5)
	Microscopy (2)
	Nonlinear Optics (12)
	Optical Devices (3)
	Optics at Surfaces (2)
	Optoelectronics (1)
	Quantum Optics (2)
	Scattering (1)
	Spectroscopy (1)
	Ultrafast Optics (4)
	X-ray Optics (2)

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