Panelist: Davis

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  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Advances in the fabrication of disordered transverse Anderson localizing optical fibers [Invited]
    • This article gives an entry point into an intriguing new research area in optical waveguides—transverse Anderson localizing (TAL) optical fibers. TAL fibers promise the high capacity of traditional multi-mode...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 9(7) 2769-2774 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Face recognition performance with superresolution
    • Automated facial recognition from imagery is a valuable tool, particularly in law enforcement where it allows screening against criminal databases in situations where that may not otherwise be possible. Due to the...
    • Appl. Opt. 51(18) 4250-4259 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Using phase diversity for the measurement of the complete spatiotemporal electric field of ultrashort laser pulses
    • Ultrafast laser sources offer extremely brief bursts of energy and correspondingly high peak optical powers. For example, commercially available sources can exceed a megawatt of peak power and produce pulses of...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(2) 244-248 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Complete characterization of supercontinuum coherence
    • The femtosecond or attosecond timescales exhibited in ultrafast pulses pose a challenge for robust pulse characterization, as the response time of optical detectors is significantly longer than the required measurement...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(9) 2301-2309 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Wave theory of virtual image [Invited]
    • While ball lenses have been used for centuries, it is only in the last decade that microspheres have been recognized as a tool for imaging beyond the diffraction limit.  Features smaller than a half-wavelength can...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 11(11) 3646-3655 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Compact, self-aligned focusing schlieren system
    • Bathel and Weisberger describe an elegant method for greatly simplifying focusing schlieren imaging. Standard schlieren systems use a knife edge to selectively diminish or enhance refracted light, giving a visualization...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(14) 3328-3331 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Controlling optical field collapse by elliptical symmetry hybrid polarization structure
    • This article demonstrates how to control the behavior of one of the more interesting phenomena in high-power nonlinear optics. Optical filamentation is the collapse of a relatively large optical beam into thin tendrils...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35(10) 2373-2381 (2018) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Two-dimensional point spread matrix of layered metal–dielectric imaging elements
    • Linear shift-invariant (LSI) models are an indispensable tool in the design of imaging systems. Microscopy in particular makes extensive use of LSI models, with physical design considerations often described and...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(2) 111-117 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Surface waves and atomic force microscope probe-particle near-field coupling: discrete dipole approximation with surface interaction
    • The diffraction-induced lower bounds on optical resolution (quantified by Abbe in 1873) are a major obstacle in technological and scientific endeavors as varied as bioimaging, astronomy, semiconductor manufacture, and...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27(10) 2293-2303 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Compact, self-aligned focusing schlieren system
    • Bathel and Weisberger describe an elegant method for greatly simplifying focusing schlieren imaging. Standard schlieren systems use a knife edge to selectively diminish or enhance refracted light, giving a visualization...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(14) 3328-3331 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Propagation characteristics of Gaussian–Schell model beams through optical systems in Kerr media
    • This paper brings together two phenomena that can each produce surprising optical focusing effects - partial coherence and the Kerr effect - and explores their interaction.  Nonlinear materials exhibiting the Kerr...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(8) 1282-1287 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • The non-diffracting nature of truncated Hermite–Gaussian beams
    • Established families of standard beam profiles are extremely useful when characterizing the propagation of light; and this paper makes a new and useful connection between two widely used beam classes....
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37(11) C1-C6 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Ray-mapping approach in double freeform surface design for collimated beam shaping beyond the paraxial approximation
    • Advanced manufacturing has expanded our capability to fabricate new and unfamiliar lens surfaces. But what do we actually want to make? This paper answers that question for an important class of applications....
    • Appl. Opt. 56(13) 3679-3688 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Optical magnetic field mapping using a subwavelength aperture
    • Most optical measurements rely on the optical electric-field inducing a response in a detector material. In many simple cases, this knowledge of the electric field is sufficient to infer the properties of the optical...
    • Opt. Express 21(5) 5625-5633 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Evaluation of cuspoid and umbilic diffraction catastrophes of codimension four
    • As any lens maker can attest, it requires precise and deliberate design to produce the multiray intersection associated with a geometrical focal point. Further, the focus is not stable with respect to perturbations of...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28(5) 887-896 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Comprehensive microscopic model of the extraordinary optical transmission
    • Optical science has been greatly influenced by experiments measuring the behavior of light transmitted through apertures. Famous examples include Grimaldi’s description of diffraction by a circular aperture and Young’s...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27(12) 2542-2550 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Image scanning microscopy with a doughnut beam: signal strength and integrated intensity
    • Image scanning microscopy (ISM) aims to improve on confocal scanning microscopy by replacing the traditional detection pinhole with a detector array. A confocal pinhole offers improved image resolution and depth...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(8) 1612-1619 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • X-ray phase imaging with a laboratory source using selective reflection from a mirror
    • Due to their universal use in diagnostic medicine, X-ray radiographs are perhaps the most widely recognized images formed at non-visible wavelengths. In this context, "x-ray imaging" is really a shorthand for "x-ray...
    • Opt. Express 21(8) 9308-9314 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Brynmor Davis

    • Photonic nanojet generation under converging and diverging beams
    • Photonic nanojets (PNJs) are the optical phenomenon responsible for a freshly watered plant getting burned in the sun. The foliage is damaged when small water droplets refract sunlight to produce very tight, very...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(2) 317-326 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

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