Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Lorenzo Scalise

    • Measurement of wide frequency range structural microvibrations with a pocket digital camera and sub-pixel techniques
    • Appl. Opt. 51(14) 2664-2671 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Unified theoretical model for calculating laser-induced wavefront distortion in optical materials
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(7) 1772-1777 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David M. Paganin

    • Generalized laws of refraction that can lead to wave-optically forbidden light-ray fields
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29(7) 1407-1411 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Hostutler

    • Gain and lasing of optically pumped metastable rare gas atoms
    • Opt. Lett. 37(11) 2157-2159 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by B. Hyle Park

    • Forward imaging OCT endoscopic catheter based on MEMS lens scanning
    • Opt. Lett. 37(13) 2673-2675 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Nicolai Granzow

    • Chalcogenide glass layers in silica photonic crystal fibers
    • Opt. Express 20(14) 14814-14824 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by David Hostutler

    • Gain and lasing of optically pumped metastable rare gas atoms
    • Opt. Lett. 37(11) 2157-2159 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Vision and Color

  • Spotlight Summary by Jessica Ramella-Roman

    • Reflectance confocal microscopy of optical phantoms
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 3(6) 1162-1172 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brendan Kennedy

    • Microfluidics based phantoms of superficial vascular network
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 3(6) 1350-1364 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF