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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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Non-steady-state photoelectromotive force effect under linear and periodical phase modulation: application to detection of Doppler frequency shift
Non-steady-state photoelectromotive force effect in the presence of periodical and linear phase shift was... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.383-385 (2012)

Numerical and experimental investigation of long-period gratings in photonic crystal fiber for refractive index sensing of gas media
We have used the finite-difference frequency-domain (FDFD) method to simulate the core mode to cladding mode... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.380-382 (2012)

26 nJ picosecond solitons from thulium-doped single-mode master oscillator power fiber amplifier
We report on an all single-mode master oscillator power fiber amplifier delivering high energy picosecond... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.377-379 (2012)

Single-mode whispering gallery lasing from metal-clad GaN nanopillars
An ordered hexagonal closed-packed nanopillar array is fabricated on GaN. A metal coating is then applied to... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.374-376 (2012)

Wideband perfect light absorber at midwave infrared using multiplexed metal structures
We experimentally demonstrate a wideband near-perfect light absorber in the midwave IR region using a... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.371-373 (2012)

Enhanced downconversion of UV light by resonant scattering of aluminum nanoparticles
Metallic nanoparticles are known to enhance nonlinear optical processes due to a local enhancement of the... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.368-370 (2012)

Ultracompact polarization converter with a dual subwavelength trench built in a silicon-on-insulator waveguide
The design and fabrication of an ultracompact silicon-on-insulator polarization converter is reported. The... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.365-367 (2012)

Integrated multimodal endomicroscopy platform for simultaneous en face optical coherence and two-photon fluorescence imaging
We report an all-fiber-optic scanning, multimodal endomicroscope capable of simultaneous optical coherence... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.362-364 (2012)

Enhance the resolution of photonic crystal negative refraction imaging by metal grating
The resolution of imaging is limited by the missing of high-frequencies information. The superlens employing... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.359-361 (2012)

Efficient thin-disk Tm-laser operation based on Tm:KLu(WO₄)₂/KLu(WO₄)₂ epitaxies
A diode-pumped thin-disk laser based on Tm:KLu(WO₄)₂/KLu(WO₄)₂... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.356-358 (2012)

All-fiber polarization interference filters based on 45°-tilted fiber gratings
We report all-fiber polarization interference filters, known as Lyot and Lyot-Őhman filters, based on... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.353-355 (2012)

Single-shot profilometry of rough surfaces using hyperspectral interferometry
The combination of white light interferometry with hyperspectral imaging (“hyperspectral interferometry”) is... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.350-352 (2012)

Time-domain multimode dispersion measurement in a higher-order-mode fiber
We present a new multimode dispersion measurement technique based on the time-of-flight method. The modal... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.347-349 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 37, Iss. 2 — Jan. 15, 2012  pp: 121–285

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
	Atomic and Molecular Physics (1)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
	Diffraction and Gratings (4)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (6)
	Geometric Optics (1)
	Holography (1)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
	Integrated Optics (1)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (6)
	Materials (5)
	Microscopy (1)
	Nonlinear Optics (3)
	Optical Devices (5)
	Optics at Surfaces (5)
	Optoelectronics (1)
	Physical Optics (1)
	Quantum Optics (1)
	Scattering (2)
	Spectroscopy (2)
	Ultrafast Optics (4)
	X-ray Optics (1)

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