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Optical System and Instrumentation

Active learning–augmented end-to-end modeling toward fast inverse design in chirped pulse amplification

Helin Jiang, Guoqing Pu, Xinyi Ma, Weisheng Hu, and Lilin Yi

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046016 (2025)

Single-sideband modulation for dynamically reconfigurable multiwavelength interferometry

Leonard Voßgrag, Annelie Schiller, Tobias Seyler, Markus Fratz, Alexander Bertz, Daniel Carl, and Ingo Breunig

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046013 (2025)

Remote picometric acoustic sensing via ultrastable laser homodyne interferometry

Yoon-Soo Jang, Dong Il Lee, Jaime Flor Flores, Wenting Wang, and Chee Wei Wong

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046006 (2025)

Noise-limited real-time orthogonal polarization spectral interferometry by suppressing phase noise

Tianchang Lu, Jiarun Zhang, Yudong Cui, Yueshu Xu, Yusheng Zhang, Youjian Song, Longhua Tang, Zhihua Ding, Cuifang Kuang, Minglie Hu, and Xu Liu

Vol. 4, Issue 4, 046002 (2025)

Characterizing thermal emission polarization with a mid-wave infrared broadband polarization state analyzer between 2.5 and 5 μmEditors' Pick

Anne Nguyen, Enrique Garcia-Caurel, and Benjamin Vest

Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036015 (2025)

Ultrafast and precise distance measurement via real-time chirped pulse interferometry

Jiawen Zhi, Mingyang Xu, Yang Liu, Mengyu Wang, Chenggang Shao, and Hanzhong Wu

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 026012 (2025)

Microwave photonic prototype for concurrent radar detection and spectrum sensing over an 8 to 40 GHz bandwidthEditors' Pick

Taixia Shi, Dingding Liang, Lu Wang, Lin Li, Shaogang Guo, Jiawei Gao, Xiaowei Li, Chulun Lin, Lei Shi, Baogang Ding, Shiyang Liu, Fangyi Yang, Chi Jiang, and Yang Chen

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 026008 (2025)

All-liquid-crystal and full-visible-band tunable polarimetry

Guang-Yao Wang, Han Cao, Zheng-Hao Guo, Chun-Ting Xu, Quan-Ming Chen, and Wei Hu

Vol. 4, Issue 2, 025001 (2025)

Scalable plasmonic physical unclonable functions empowered by a multi-dimensional expanding strategy

Juntao Duan, Guoqun Li, Yizhe Xiong, Xiangnan Zhu, Yan Chen, Wei Liu, Xiaochuan Xu, Perry Ping Shum, Qi Hao, and Jiawei Wang

Vol. 4, Issue 1, 016003 (2025)

Ultrahigh rejection microring resonator assisted by an all-pass filter

Ming Chen, Yifan Liu, Kaixiang Cao, Yuan Yu, Fangzheng Zhang, and Xinliang Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 6, 066011 (2024)

High precision and sensitivity anti-interference 3D coherent ranging based on dual reversely chirped self-mixing lasers

Chenxiao Lin, Yifan Wang, and Yidong Tan

Vol. 3, Issue 6, 066003 (2024)

Conjugate adaptive optics extension for commercial microscopes

Alex Dorn, Hans Zappe, and Çağlar Ataman

Vol. 3, Issue 5, 056018 (2024)

Relative timing jitter compression in a Fabry–Pérot cavity-assisted free-running dual-comb interferometry

Chen Liu, Liang Xu, Lei Zhang, Chi Zhang, and Xinliang Zhang

Vol. 3, Issue 5, 056014 (2024)

Electromagnetic modeling of interference, confocal, and focus variation microscopy

Tobias Pahl, Felix Rosenthal, Johannes Breidenbach, Corvin Danzglock, Sebastian Hagemeier, Xin Xu, Marco Künne, and Peter Lehmann

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016013 (2024)

Spectrum shuttle for producing spatially shapable GHz burst pulsesOn the Cover

Keitaro Shimada, Ayumu Ishijima, Takao Saiki, Ichiro Sakuma, Yuki Inada, and Keiichi Nakagawa

Vol. 3, Issue 1, 016002 (2024)

Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers for hybrid mode-/wavelength-division-multiplexing systems

Xiaolin Yi, Weike Zhao, Chenlei Li, Long Zhang, Yuluan Xiang, Chaoyue Liu, Yaocheng Shi, Liu Liu, and Daoxin Dai

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066004 (2023)

Miniaturized short-wavelength infrared spectrometer for diffuse light applications

Tyler Westover, Zach Westhoff, Sharisse Poff, Nick Morrill, David Miller, Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, Richard Vanfleet, and Robert Davis

Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066003 (2023)

High repetition rate ultrafast laser-structured nickel electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction

Zaiwei Cai, Zihao Li, Yingtao Zhang, Chiyi Wei, Hao Tian, Molei Hao, Xiaoming Wei, and Zhongmin Yang

Vol. 2, Issue 5, 056009 (2023)

Compact microring resonator based on ultralow-loss multimode silicon nitride waveguide

Shuai Cui, Kaixiang Cao, Zhao Pan, Xiaoyan Gao, Yuan Yu, and Xinliang Zhang

Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046007 (2023)

Characteristics of a Gaussian focus embedded within spiral patterns in common-path interferometry with phase apertures

Yizhou Tan, and Ying Gu

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036008 (2023)

Direct laser-written aperiodic photonic volume elements for complex light shaping with high efficiency: inverse design and fabrication

Nicolas Barré, Ravi Shivaraman, Simon Moser, Patrick Salter, Michael Schmidt, Martin J. Booth, and Alexander Jesacher

Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036006 (2023)

Realization of advanced passive silicon photonic devices with subwavelength grating structures developed by efficient inverse design

Jingshu Guo, Laiwen Yu, Hengtai Xiang, Yuqi Zhao, Chaoyue Liu, and Daoxin Dai

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026005 (2023)

Large-scale single-crystal blue phase through holography lithography

Xiaowan Xu, Jiawei Wang, Yanjun Liu, and Dan Luo

Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026004 (2023)

Nanochannels with a 18-nm feature size and ultrahigh aspect ratio on silica through surface assisting material ejectionArticle Video

Yu Lu, Lin Kai, Caiyi Chen, Qing Yang, Yizhao Meng, Yi Liu, Yang Cheng, Xun Hou, and Feng Chen

Vol. 1, Issue 2, 026004 (2022)

Ultra-broadband and low-loss edge coupler for highly efficient second harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobateArticle Video

Xiaoyue Liu, Shengqian Gao, Chi Zhang, Ying Pan, Rui Ma, Xian Zhang, Lin Liu, Zhenda Xie, Shining Zhu, Siyuan Yu, and Xinlun Cai

Vol. 1, Issue 1, 016001 (2022)