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Source: Chan M. Lim, G. Hugh Song, "Design of superperiodic photonic-crystal light-emitting plates with highly directive luminance characteristics," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B () 328-336 (2000); https://www.osapublishing.org//abstract.cfm?URI=---328 Caption:	Source: Alison M. Yao, Miles J. Padgett, "Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications," Adv. Opt. Photon. 3(2) 161-204 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=aop-3-2-161 Caption: Transfer of angular momentum in optical tweezers. A trapped object can be rotated either by the transfer of SAM from a circularly polarized beam (left) or by the transfer of OAM from a high-order Laguerre–Gaussian beam.	Source: X. F. Meng, X. Peng, L. Z. Cai, A. M. Li, J. P. Guo, Y. R. Wang, "Wavefront reconstruction and three-dimensional shape measurement by two-step dc-term-suppressed phase-shifted intensities," Opt. Lett. 34(8) 1210-1212 (2009); https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-8-1210 Caption: Experimental results using the proposed method: some typical 3-D geometries of the human face mask in wireframe mode.	Source: Nils J. Krichel, Aongus McCarthy, Gerald S. Buller, "Resolving range ambiguity in a photon counting depth imager operating at kilometer distances," Opt. Express 18(9) 9192-9206 (2010); https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-9-9192 Caption: 20 × 24 pixel scan of a life-size mannequin at 324 m distance. fSample = 2 GHz, 7 × 106 pulses s−1, 16 ps histogram binning size, pattern length b = 16384 bits, 2 s per-pixel dwell time. Measurement acquired using a shallow-junction SPAD. (a) Close-up photograph of the scene. (b) Segmented surface plot of the scan, including several pixels locking onto background objects.
Source: H. Subramanian, P. Viswanathan, L. Cherkezyan, R. Iyengar, S. Rozhok, M. Verleye, J. Derbas, J. Czarnecki, H. K. Roy, V. Backman, "Procedures for risk-stratification of lung cancer using buccal nanocytology," Biomed. Opt. Express 7(9) 3795-3810 (2016); https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?URI=boe-7-9-3795 Caption: Examples of buccal squamous epithelial cells found on prepared specimen slides. (a) Representative transmission image of two overlapping cells and (d) the corresponding spatially resolved map Σ(x, y) calculated by PWS. (b) Example of a folded isolated cell and (e) the corresponding map of Σ. (c) Isolated, non-folded cell classified as “suitable” for our study and (f) the corresponding Σ(x, y).	Source: Vikrant Chauhan, Pamela Bowlan, Jacob Cohen, Rick Trebino, "Single-diffraction-grating and grism pulse compressors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(4) 619-624 (2010); https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-27-4-619 Caption: Schematic diagram of single-prism pulse compressor.	Source: Christian Kränkel, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Pascal Loiseau, Gerard Aka, Günter Huber, "Efficient continuous-wave thin disk laser operation of $Yb : {Ca}_{4} YO {({BO}_{3})}_{3}$ in $E ∥ Z$ and $E ∥ X$ orientations with 26 W output power," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26(7) 1310-1314 (2009); https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-26-7-1310 Caption: Schematic setup of the thin disk laser resonator and the pump module.	Source: Genta Sato, Takeshi Kondoh, Hidenosuke Itoh, Soichiro Handa, Kimiaki Yamaguchi, Takashi Nakamura, Kentaro Nagai, Chidane Ouchi, Takayuki Teshima, Yutaka Setomoto, Toru Den, "Two-dimensional gratings-based phase-contrast imaging using a conventional x-ray tube," Opt. Lett. 36(18) 3551-3553 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-18-3551 Caption: Comparison of x-ray images of (a) cartilage on a chicken’s bone and (e) a tomato. The cartilage is shown clearly in (c) the differential phase image compared to (b) the absorption and (d) the scattering images. The inner structure of the tomato can be seen in (h) the scattering image, whereas (f) the absorption and (g) the differential phase images do not show any profiles.
Source: Alison M. Yao, Miles J. Padgett, "Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications," Adv. Opt. Photon. 3(2) 161-204 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=aop-3-2-161 Caption: Ghost imaging: coincidence measurements of two beams of entangled photons—one of which interacts with an object and one of which doesn’t—can be used to reconstruct a “ghost” image of the object.	$10 Photograph of two large-area 1780 lines/mm diffraction gratings ( 420 mm × 450 mm ) used at high incidence in a pulse compressor for the high-energy PETAL laser [79]. The diffraction gratings are made of dielectrics; see Section 6.1b.$ Source: Nicolas Bonod, Jérôme Neauport, "Diffraction gratings: from principles to applications in high-intensity lasers," Adv. Opt. Photon. 8(1) 156-199 (2016); https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=aop-8-1-156 Caption: Photograph of two large-area 1780 lines/mm diffraction gratings ( 420 mm × 450 mm ) used at high incidence in a pulse compressor for the high-energy PETAL laser [79]. The diffraction gratings are made of dielectrics; see Section 6.1b.	Source: Xin Gai, Duk-Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Barry Luther-Davies, "Interplay between Raman scattering and four-wave mixing in ${As}_{2} S_{3}$ chalcogenide glass waveguides," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(11) 2777-2784 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-28-11-2777 Caption: Numerical simulations of amplification of white noise by FWM and SRS as a function of propagation length.	Source: V. K. Valev, X. Zheng, C.G. Biris, A.V. Silhanek, V. Volskiy, B. De Clercq, O. A. Aktsipetrov, M. Ameloot, N. C. Panoiu, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, V. V. Moshchalkov, "The origin of second harmonic generation hotspots in chiral optical metamaterials [Invited]," Opt. Mater. Express 1(1) 36-45 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?URI=ome-1-1-36 Caption: Second harmonic generation methods for studying chirality were developed in organic molecules before being applied to metamaterials. In (a), illustration of SHG from supramolecularly ordered chiral helicenes molecules. In (b), illustration of SHG from G-shaped nanostructures, arranged in a chiral unit cell. The incoming light is at 800 nm (near red color) and the detected signal is at 400 nm (near blue color).