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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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Plasmonic quarter-wave plate
Here we present a strategy for designing wave plates utilizing resonances of subwavelength apertures in... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1820-1822 (2012)

A spectrally constrained dual-band normalization technique for protoporphyrin IX quantification in fluorescence-guided surgery
We report a dual-band normalization technique for in vivo quantification of the metabolic biomarker,... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1817-1819 (2012)

Bipolar resistance effect observed in CdSe quantum-dots dominated structure of Zn/CdSe/Si
In this study, we report our new finding of bipolar resistance effect (BRE) in quantum dots (QDs)-embedded... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1814-1816 (2012)

Improved measurement of polarization state in terahertz polarization spectroscopy
A calibration scheme is presented for improved polarization state measurement of terahertz pulses. In this... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1811-1813 (2012)

Optimized annular phase masks to extend depth of field
A radially symmetric phase mask composed of several annular zones with equal area (called APM) was designed... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1808-1810 (2012)

Quantitative pupil analysis in stimulated emission depletion microscopy using phase retrieval
The resolution attainable with stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy greatly depends on the quality... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1805-1807 (2012)

Polarization-dependent refractometer for discrimination of temperature and ambient refractive index
Transmission characteristics of polarization-dependent refractometer based on a surface long-period grating... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1802-1804 (2012)

Stable bright and vortex solitons in photonic crystal fibers with inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinearity
We predict that a photonic crystal fiber whose strands are filled with a defocusing nonlinear medium can... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1799-1801 (2012)

Highly flexible and efficient top-emitting organic light-emitting devices with ultrasmooth Ag anode
We demonstrate highly flexible and efficient top-emitting organic light-emitting devices (TOLEDs) by using an... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1796-1798 (2012)

Pulse propagation of photon-added coherent states in waveguides with side-coupled nonlinear cavities
We present a theoretical analysis of pulse propagation in a waveguide with a side-coupled Kerr nonlinear... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1793-1795 (2012)

Young’s two-slit interference of vector light fields
We explore the peculiar interference behaviors of the vector fields in the Young’s two-slit configuration.... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1790-1792 (2012)

Generation of tunable octave-spanning mid-infrared pulses by filamentation in gas media
The continued development of femtosecond mid-infrared (IR) sources with ultrabroad spectral width is critical... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1787-1789 (2012)

Fourier transform-based iterative method for differential phase-contrast computed tomography
In this Letter, a novel Fourier transform-based iterative method is proposed to reconstruct a refractive... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1784-1786 (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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