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Physical Optics

Analogous optical coherent state sourced by a partially coherent beam

Jinqi Song, Fengqi Liu, Mingli Sun, Bingsong Cao, Zhifang Qiu, Naichen Zhang, Xiangyu Tong, Wenzhe Wang, Yuanxing Liu, Kaikai Huang, Xian Zhang, and Xuanhui Lu

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046009 (2025)

Dynamic terahertz multi-channel beam steering with dual-frequency multiplexing based on magneto-optical metasurfaces

Dan Zhao, Fei Fan, Hao Wang, Pengxuan Li, Zhen Xu, Jining Li, Yunyun Ji, and Shengjiang Chang

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036014 (2025)

Mapping ultrafast timing jitter in dispersion-managed 89 GHz frequency microcombs via self-heterodyne linear interferometryEditors' Pick

Wenting Wang, Wenzheng Liu, Hao Liu, Tristan Melton, Alwaleed Aldhafeeri, Dong-Il Lee, Jinghui Yang, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Jinkang Lim, Yoon-Soo Jang, Heng Zhou, Mingbin Yu, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Dim-Lee Kwong, Peter DeVore, Jason Chou, Ninghua Zhu, and Chee Wei Wong

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036011 (2025)

Terahertz vortices with tunable topological charges from a laser–plasma channel

Linzheng Wang, Yanping Chen, Chen Wang, Huanyu Song, Jinyu Hua, Rong Huang, Min Chen, Jie Zhang, and Zhengming Sheng

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036004 (2025)

On-chip high-energy photon radiation source based on near-field-dielectric undulatorEditors' Pick

Fu-Ming Jiang, Xin-Yu Xie, Chengpu Liu, and Ye Tian

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036002 (2025)

Surface plasmon resonance-based absorption across scales from superwavelength to subwavelength gratings

Zhisen Huang, Qian Zhang, Qiang Song, Shanwen Zhang, and Changhe Zhou

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036001 (2025)

Active manipulation of the optical spectral memory effect via scattering eigenchannels

Daixuan Wu, Jinye Du, Yuecheng Shen, Jiawei Luo, Zhengyang Wang, Jiaming Liang, Zhiling Zhang, Dalong Qi, Yunhua Yao, Lianzhong Deng, Meng Liu, Zhenrong Sun, Zhi-Chao Luo, and Shian Zhang

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 026013 (2025)

Highly efficient second-harmonic generation in a double-layer thin-film lithium niobate waveguide

Yuan Li, Xiuquan Zhang, Lutong Cai, and Lin Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 6, 066009 (2024)

Experimental determination of effective light transport properties in fully anisotropic media

Ernesto Pini, Peter Naglič, Miran Bürmen, Alexander Gatto, Henrik Schäfer, Diederik S. Wiersma, and Lorenzo Pattelli

Vol. 3, Issue 5, 056017 (2024)

Enhanced terahertz generation via plasma modulation on two bunches

Hanqi Feng, Fang Liu, Lixin Yan, Wenhui Huang, Kaiyu Cui, Xue Feng, Wei Zhang, and Yidong Huang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046014 (2024)

Multimode fiber speckle Stokes polarimeter

Yuxuan Xiong, Ting Jiang, Hao Wu, Zheng Gao, Shaojun Zhou, Zhao Ge, Siqi Yan, and Ming Tang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046010 (2024)

Extremely efficient terahertz second-harmonic generation from organic crystals

Hang Zhao, Yong Tan, Chen Wang, Ming Liu, Yongzheng Wen, Yuejin Zhao, and Ji Zhou

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046007 (2024)

Rapid and precise distance measurement with hybrid comb lasersOn the Cover

Zhichuang Wang, Jiawen Zhi, Hanzhong Wu, Brent E. Little, Sai T. Chu, Jie Zhang, Zehuang Lu, Chenggang Shao, Weiqiang Wang, and Wenfu Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046006 (2024)

Generation of tunable high-order Laguerre–Gaussian petal-like modes from a mid-infrared optical vortex parametric oscillator

Yuxia Zhou, Xining Yang, Jianqiang Ye, Yuanyuan Ma, Ying Wan, Jianxiang Wen, and Taximaiti Yusufu

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036013 (2024)

Random fiber laser using a cascaded fiber loop mirror

Ming Shen, Yanxin Li, Qianying Li, and Xuewen Shu

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036009 (2024)

Single-wavelength size focusing of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers with rotational hyperbolic mirrors

Zhaoyang Li, Yanqi Liu, Xiaoyang Guo, Yuxin Leng, and Ruxin Li

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036002 (2024)

High-power, narrow linewidth solid-state deep ultraviolet laser generation at 193 nm by frequency mixing in LBO crystals

Zhitao Zhang, Hanghang Yu, Sheng Chen, Zheng Li, Xiaobo Heng, and Hongwen Xuan

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026012 (2024)

Unveiling optical rogue wave behavior with temporally localized structures in Brillouin random fiber laser comb

Yuxi Pang, Qiang Ji, Shaonian Ma, Xian Zhao, Zengguang Qin, Zhaojun Liu, Ping Lu, Xiaoyi Bao, and Yanping Xu

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026008 (2024)

635 nm femtosecond fiber laser oscillator and amplifierEditors' Pick

Jinhai Zou, Qiujun Ruan, Tingting Chen, Hang Wang, Luming Song, Yikun Bu, and Zhengqian Luo

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026004 (2024)

Terahertz probe for real time in vivo skin hydration evaluation

Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Xuefei Ding, Jacob Young, Goncalo Costa, Anubhav Dogra, Joseph Hardwicke, and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016012 (2024)

Intense white laser of high spectral flatness via optical-damage-free water–lithium niobate module

Lihong Hong, Yuanyuan Liu, Haiyao Yang, Lingzhi Peng, Mingzhou Li, Yujie Peng, Ruxin Li, and Zhi-Yuan Li

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016008 (2024)

Coherently tiled Ti:sapphire laser amplification: a way to break the 10 petawatt limit on current ultraintense lasersOn the Cover

Yanqi Liu, Keyang Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Yuxin Leng, and Ruxin Li

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066009 (2023)

Dissipative soliton breathing dynamics driven by desynchronization of orthogonal polarization states

Zhiwei Huang, Sergey Sergeyev, Qing Wang, Hani Kbashi, Dmitrii Stoliarov, Qianqian Huang, Yuze Dai, Zhijun Yan, and Chengbo Mou

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066007 (2023)

Coordination engineering in Nd³⁺-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser

Yafei Wang, Yinggang Chen, Shikai Wang, Meng Wang, Lei Zhang, Suya Feng, Fei Yu, Guoping Dong, Lei Wen, Danping Chen, Chunlei Yu, and Lili Hu

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066002 (2023)

Operation of multiphonon-assisted laser in the nanosecond time scales

Huichen Si, Fei Liang, Dazhi Lu, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, and Yicheng Wu

Vol. 2, Issue 5, 056004 (2023)

Generation and control of extreme ultraviolet free-space optical skyrmions with high harmonic generation

Yiqi Fang, and Yunquan Liu

Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046009 (2023)

Thermal camera based on frequency upconversion and its noise-equivalent temperature difference characterization

Zheng Ge, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Jing-Xin Ceng, Li Chen, Yin-Hai Li, Yan Li, Su-Jian Niu, and Bao-Sen Shi

Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046002 (2023)

Reconfigurable structured light generation and its coupling to air–core fiber

Yize Liang, Hongya Wang, Xi Zhang, Jianzhou Ai, Zelin Ma, Siddharth Ramachandran, and Jian Wang

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036015 (2023)

Generation of high-efficiency, high-purity, and broadband Laguerre-Gaussian modes from a Janus optical parametric oscillator

Dunzhao Wei, Pengcheng Chen, Yipeng Zhang, Wenzhe Yao, Rui Ni, Xiaopeng Hu, Xinjie Lv, Shining Zhu, Min Xiao, and Yong Zhang

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036007 (2023)

Statistical dynamics of noise-like rectangle pulse fiber laser

Yujia Li, Dongmei Huang, Yihuan Shi, Chao Wang, and Feng Li

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036005 (2023)

High-repetition-rate seeded free-electron laser enhanced by self-modulationOn the Cover

Hanxiang Yang, Jiawei Yan, and Haixiao Deng

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036004 (2023)

Self-seeded free-electron lasers with orbital angular momentum

Jiawei Yan, and Gianluca Geloni

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036001 (2023)

Scattered light imaging beyond the memory effect using the dynamic properties of thick turbid media

Yuyang Shui, Ting Wang, Jianying Zhou, Xin Luo, Yikun Liu, and Haowen Liang

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026010 (2023)

Relative phase locking of a terahertz laser system configured with a frequency comb and a single-mode laserOn the Cover

Wen Guan, Ziping Li, Shumin Wu, Han Liu, Xuhong Ma, Yiran Zhao, Chenjie Wang, Binbin Liu, Zhenzhen Zhang, Juncheng Cao, and Hua Li

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026006 (2023)

Nondiffractive three-dimensional polarization features of optical vortex beams

Andrei Afanasev, Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, and Anatoly V. Zayats

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026001 (2023)

Evolution on spatial patterns of structured laser beams: from spontaneous organization to multiple transformationsAuthor Presentation

Xin Wang, Zilong Zhang, Xing Fu, Adnan Khan, Suyi Zhao, Yuan Gao, Yuchen Jie, Wei He, Xiaotian Li, Qiang Liu, and Changming Zhao

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 024001 (2023)

Detection of trace metals in water by filament- and plasma-grating-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Mengyun Hu, Fangfang Li, Shencheng Shi, Yu Qiao, Jinman Ge, Xiaojun Li, and Heping Zeng

Vol. 2, Issue 1, 016008 (2023)

Analogous optical coherent state sourced by a partially coherent beam

Jinqi Song, Fengqi Liu, Mingli Sun, Bingsong Cao, Zhifang Qiu, Naichen Zhang, Xiangyu Tong, Wenzhe Wang, Yuanxing Liu, Kaikai Huang, Xian Zhang, and Xuanhui Lu

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046009 (2025)

Dynamic terahertz multi-channel beam steering with dual-frequency multiplexing based on magneto-optical metasurfaces

Dan Zhao, Fei Fan, Hao Wang, Pengxuan Li, Zhen Xu, Jining Li, Yunyun Ji, and Shengjiang Chang

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036014 (2025)

Mapping ultrafast timing jitter in dispersion-managed 89 GHz frequency microcombs via self-heterodyne linear interferometryEditors' Pick

Wenting Wang, Wenzheng Liu, Hao Liu, Tristan Melton, Alwaleed Aldhafeeri, Dong-Il Lee, Jinghui Yang, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Jinkang Lim, Yoon-Soo Jang, Heng Zhou, Mingbin Yu, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Dim-Lee Kwong, Peter DeVore, Jason Chou, Ninghua Zhu, and Chee Wei Wong

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036011 (2025)

Terahertz vortices with tunable topological charges from a laser–plasma channel

Linzheng Wang, Yanping Chen, Chen Wang, Huanyu Song, Jinyu Hua, Rong Huang, Min Chen, Jie Zhang, and Zhengming Sheng

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036004 (2025)

On-chip high-energy photon radiation source based on near-field-dielectric undulatorEditors' Pick

Fu-Ming Jiang, Xin-Yu Xie, Chengpu Liu, and Ye Tian

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036002 (2025)

Surface plasmon resonance-based absorption across scales from superwavelength to subwavelength gratings

Zhisen Huang, Qian Zhang, Qiang Song, Shanwen Zhang, and Changhe Zhou

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036001 (2025)

Active manipulation of the optical spectral memory effect via scattering eigenchannels

Daixuan Wu, Jinye Du, Yuecheng Shen, Jiawei Luo, Zhengyang Wang, Jiaming Liang, Zhiling Zhang, Dalong Qi, Yunhua Yao, Lianzhong Deng, Meng Liu, Zhenrong Sun, Zhi-Chao Luo, and Shian Zhang

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 026013 (2025)

Highly efficient second-harmonic generation in a double-layer thin-film lithium niobate waveguide

Yuan Li, Xiuquan Zhang, Lutong Cai, and Lin Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 6, 066009 (2024)

Experimental determination of effective light transport properties in fully anisotropic media

Ernesto Pini, Peter Naglič, Miran Bürmen, Alexander Gatto, Henrik Schäfer, Diederik S. Wiersma, and Lorenzo Pattelli

Vol. 3, Issue 5, 056017 (2024)

Enhanced terahertz generation via plasma modulation on two bunches

Hanqi Feng, Fang Liu, Lixin Yan, Wenhui Huang, Kaiyu Cui, Xue Feng, Wei Zhang, and Yidong Huang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046014 (2024)

Multimode fiber speckle Stokes polarimeter

Yuxuan Xiong, Ting Jiang, Hao Wu, Zheng Gao, Shaojun Zhou, Zhao Ge, Siqi Yan, and Ming Tang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046010 (2024)

Extremely efficient terahertz second-harmonic generation from organic crystals

Hang Zhao, Yong Tan, Chen Wang, Ming Liu, Yongzheng Wen, Yuejin Zhao, and Ji Zhou

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046007 (2024)

Rapid and precise distance measurement with hybrid comb lasersOn the Cover

Zhichuang Wang, Jiawen Zhi, Hanzhong Wu, Brent E. Little, Sai T. Chu, Jie Zhang, Zehuang Lu, Chenggang Shao, Weiqiang Wang, and Wenfu Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 4, 046006 (2024)

Generation of tunable high-order Laguerre–Gaussian petal-like modes from a mid-infrared optical vortex parametric oscillator

Yuxia Zhou, Xining Yang, Jianqiang Ye, Yuanyuan Ma, Ying Wan, Jianxiang Wen, and Taximaiti Yusufu

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036013 (2024)

Random fiber laser using a cascaded fiber loop mirror

Ming Shen, Yanxin Li, Qianying Li, and Xuewen Shu

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036009 (2024)

Single-wavelength size focusing of ultra-intense ultrashort lasers with rotational hyperbolic mirrors

Zhaoyang Li, Yanqi Liu, Xiaoyang Guo, Yuxin Leng, and Ruxin Li

Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036002 (2024)

High-power, narrow linewidth solid-state deep ultraviolet laser generation at 193 nm by frequency mixing in LBO crystals

Zhitao Zhang, Hanghang Yu, Sheng Chen, Zheng Li, Xiaobo Heng, and Hongwen Xuan

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026012 (2024)

Unveiling optical rogue wave behavior with temporally localized structures in Brillouin random fiber laser comb

Yuxi Pang, Qiang Ji, Shaonian Ma, Xian Zhao, Zengguang Qin, Zhaojun Liu, Ping Lu, Xiaoyi Bao, and Yanping Xu

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026008 (2024)

635 nm femtosecond fiber laser oscillator and amplifierEditors' Pick

Jinhai Zou, Qiujun Ruan, Tingting Chen, Hang Wang, Luming Song, Yikun Bu, and Zhengqian Luo

Vol. 3, Issue 2, 026004 (2024)

Terahertz probe for real time in vivo skin hydration evaluation

Arturo I. Hernandez-Serrano, Xuefei Ding, Jacob Young, Goncalo Costa, Anubhav Dogra, Joseph Hardwicke, and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016012 (2024)

Intense white laser of high spectral flatness via optical-damage-free water–lithium niobate module

Lihong Hong, Yuanyuan Liu, Haiyao Yang, Lingzhi Peng, Mingzhou Li, Yujie Peng, Ruxin Li, and Zhi-Yuan Li

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016008 (2024)

Coherently tiled Ti:sapphire laser amplification: a way to break the 10 petawatt limit on current ultraintense lasersOn the Cover

Yanqi Liu, Keyang Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Yuxin Leng, and Ruxin Li

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066009 (2023)

Dissipative soliton breathing dynamics driven by desynchronization of orthogonal polarization states

Zhiwei Huang, Sergey Sergeyev, Qing Wang, Hani Kbashi, Dmitrii Stoliarov, Qianqian Huang, Yuze Dai, Zhijun Yan, and Chengbo Mou

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066007 (2023)

Coordination engineering in Nd3+-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser

Yafei Wang, Yinggang Chen, Shikai Wang, Meng Wang, Lei Zhang, Suya Feng, Fei Yu, Guoping Dong, Lei Wen, Danping Chen, Chunlei Yu, and Lili Hu

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066002 (2023)

Operation of multiphonon-assisted laser in the nanosecond time scales

Huichen Si, Fei Liang, Dazhi Lu, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, and Yicheng Wu

Vol. 2, Issue 5, 056004 (2023)

Generation and control of extreme ultraviolet free-space optical skyrmions with high harmonic generation

Yiqi Fang, and Yunquan Liu

Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046009 (2023)

Thermal camera based on frequency upconversion and its noise-equivalent temperature difference characterization

Zheng Ge, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Jing-Xin Ceng, Li Chen, Yin-Hai Li, Yan Li, Su-Jian Niu, and Bao-Sen Shi

Coordination engineering in Nd³⁺-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser