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Source: Andreas Rottler, Stephan Schwaiger, Aune Koitmäe, Detlef Heitmann, Stefan Mendach, "Transmission enhancement in three-dimensional rolled-up plasmonic metamaterials containing optically active quantum wells," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(10) 2402-2407 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-28-10-2402 Caption: Sketch of a microroll that can be fabricated by rolling up strained layers. The tube wall represents a three- dimensional metamaterial consisting of a metal–semiconductor superlattice containing quantum wells and metal gratings.	Source: C. R. Phillips, M. M. Fejer, "Stability of the singly resonant optical parametric oscillator," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(12) 2687-2699 (2010); https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-27-12-2687 Caption: Normalized net round-trip gain G s p as a function of pump-signal and idler-signal phase mismatches δ ν p s Ω L and δ ν i s Ω L , respectively, for N = ( π / 2 ) 2 . GVD is neglected, so the AM and PM eigenmodes are decoupled. (a) Gain for AM eigenmodes, (b) gain for PM eigenmodes.	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: François Blanchard, Koichiro Tanaka, "Improving time and space resolution in electro-optic sampling for near-field terahertz imaging," Opt. Lett. 41(20) 4645-4648 (2016); https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-41-20-4645 Caption: THz near-field images in the frequency domain. (a) and (b) Amplitude frequency maps at 300 GHz normalized to reference maps using 10- and 1-μm-thick X -cut LN crystals, respectively (visible image of the sample on the right hand side). (c)–(e) Expanded view for the conditions without probe filtering, with probe filtering using the 10-μm-thick sensor, and with probe filtering using the 1-μm-thick sensor, respectively (i.e., zones identified by the doted lines in the visible images).
Source: Aurelien Bourquard, Francois Aguet, Michael Unser, "Optical imaging using binary sensors," Opt. Express 18(5) 4876-4888 (2010); https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-5-4876 Caption: Peppers image. (a) Original object (b) Conventional solution with minimum-error threshold (Lloyd-Max): SNR = 13.72 dB (c) Binary acquisition using our method (d) Reconstruction using our method: SNR = 19.10 dB	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.	$7 Photograph of two large-area 1780 lines/mm diffraction gratings ( 420 mm × 450 mm ) used at high incidence in a pulse compressor for the high-energy PETAL laser [79]. The diffraction gratings are made of dielectrics; see Section 6.1b.$ 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: Jolly Xavier, Joby Joseph, "Tunable complex photonic chiral lattices by reconfigurable optical phase engineering," Opt. Lett. 36(3) 403-405 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-3-403 Caption: Computer simulation of the light- intensity distribution of the interference pattern for hexagonal right-handed (RH) as well as left-handed (LH) photonic chiral structures using 6 + 1 beam geometry. (a) 3D interference intensity distribution for RH structures. (c) Intensity profile in x − z plane. (b) and (d) correspond to (a) and (c) for LH photonic chiral structures.
Source: Jason Geng, "Structured-light 3D surface imaging: a tutorial," Adv. Opt. Photon. 3(2) 128-160 (2011); https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=aop-3-2-128 Caption: Example of 2D array of color-coded dots.	$10 Phase distribution of the diffraction pattern observed at z ∕ L = 2.0 , caused by a finite-radius SPP with fractional topological charge α = 2.5 . We can see the chain of unit strength vortices on the + x axis.$ Source: Hipolito Garcia-Gracia, Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega, "Diffraction of plane waves by finite-radius spiral phase plates of integer and fractional topological charge," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26(4) 794-803 (2009); https://www.osapublishing.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-26-4-794 Caption: Phase distribution of the diffraction pattern observed at z ∕ L = 2.0 , caused by a finite-radius SPP with fractional topological charge α = 2.5 . We can see the chain of unit strength vortices on the + x axis.	$11 (a)–(d) x–z cross sections of the beam intensity are shown as a function of focal depth, zf, for a focused Gaussian beam propagating through in silico fractal medium 2. For each panel, the result for a single simulation is displayed on top, with the corresponding averaged result over N=100 randomly generated fractal media displayed on the bottom. For visualization, all images are self-normalized to a maximum value of 1.$ Source: Adam K. Glaser, Ye Chen, Jonathan T. C. Liu, "Fractal propagation method enables realistic optical microscopy simulations in biological tissues," Optica 3(8) 861-869 (2016); https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-3-8-861 Caption: (a)–(d) x–z cross sections of the beam intensity are shown as a function of focal depth, zf, for a focused Gaussian beam propagating through in silico fractal medium 2. For each panel, the result for a single simulation is displayed on top, with the corresponding averaged result over N=100 randomly generated fractal media displayed on the bottom. For visualization, all images are self-normalized to a maximum value of 1.	Source: T. J. Eichelkraut, G. A. Siviloglou, I. M. Besieris, D. N. Christodoulides, "Oblique Airy wave packets in bidispersive optical media," Opt. Lett. 35(21) 3655-3657 (2010); https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-21-3655 Caption: Isointensity plot of an oblique spatiotemporal Bessel–Airy wave packet.