{"title":"Publishing “Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams”: guest editorial","authors":"A. Willner","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.00ED15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.00ED15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48203700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highlighting recent progress in long-range surface plasmon polaritons: guest editorial","authors":"P. Berini","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.00ED19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.00ED19","url":null,"abstract":"I discuss advances in the field of long-range surface plasmon polaritons in the ten years since publication of my review on the topic in the first volume of Advances in Optics and Photonics.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44418189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphene-based materials in the infrared and terahertz detector families: a tutorial","authors":"A. Rogalski","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000314","url":null,"abstract":"The extraordinary electronic and two-dimensional materials make them promising candidates to replace traditional photodetectors in infrared and terahertz spectral ranges. This paper reviews the latest achievements in graphene detectors in competition with traditional commercially dominated ones in different applications. It is shown that the performance of graphene-based infrared and terahertz detectors is lower in comparison with those detectors existing on the global market. The high sensitivity of hybrid photodetectors does not coincide with a fast response time, which limits real detector functions. The most effective single graphene detectors operated at room temperature are terahertz detectors, which utilize plasma rectification phenomena in field effect transistors. The challenges facing the development of focal-plane arrays in the future are also considered. Special attention is directed toward the main trends in the development of arrays in the near future—an increase in the pixel count to above 108 pixels, with pixel size decreasing to about 5 μm for both cooled and uncooled long-wavelength infrared arrays. To date, these questions have not been considered in literature devoted to graphene-based infrared and terahertz detectors.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47729148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delivering and nurturing a young journal: editorial","authors":"B. Saleh","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000ED4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000ED4","url":null,"abstract":"Founding Editor-in-Chief Bahaa Saleh reflects on the effort involved in launching the Advances in Optics and Photonics and its early evolution.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45208151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Advances in Optics and Photonics: editorial","authors":"G. Agrawal","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000ED1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000ED1","url":null,"abstract":"Editor-in-Chief Govind Agrawal introduces a collection of guest editorials to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Advances in Optics and Photonics.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44425107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polarization and hyperspectral imaging matter for newly emerging perspectives in optical image processing: guest editorial","authors":"J. Aval, A. Alfalou, C. Brosseau","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.00ED10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.00ED10","url":null,"abstract":"In this note, we briefly discuss the opportunities to use polarized light and hyperspectral imaging as additional degrees of freedom in optical polarimetric image processing. The additional polarization and spectral information in recognition technologies allow them to identify visually indistinguishable features in a scene within a large region of interest.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45876006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shulin Sun, Qiong He, J. Hao, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou
{"title":"Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications","authors":"Shulin Sun, Qiong He, J. Hao, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000380","url":null,"abstract":"Metasurfaces are ultrathin metamaterials consisting of planar electromagnetic (EM) microstructures (e.g., meta-atoms) with pre-determined EM responses arranged in specific sequences. Based on careful structural designs on both meta-atoms and global sequences, one can realize homogenous and inhomogeneous metasurfaces that can possess exceptional capabilities to manipulate EM waves, serving as ideal candidates to realize ultracompact and highly efficient EM devices for next-generation integration-optics applications. In this paper, we present an overview on the development of metasurfaces, including both homogeneous and inhomogeneous ones, focusing particularly on their working principles, the fascinating wave-manipulation effects achieved both statically and dynamically, and the representative applications so far realized. Finally, we also present our own perspectives on possible future directions of this fast-developing research field in the conclusion.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42488037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waves, modes, communications, and optics: a tutorial","authors":"D. Miller","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000679","url":null,"abstract":"Modes generally provide an economical description of waves, reducing complicated wave functions to finite numbers of mode amplitudes, as in propagating fiber modes and ideal laser beams. But finding a corresponding mode description for counting the best orthogonal channels for communicating between surfaces or volumes, or for optimally describing the inputs and outputs of a complicated optical system or wave scatterer, requires a different approach. The singular-value decomposition approach we describe here gives the necessary optimal source and receiver “communication modes” pairs and device or scatterer input and output “mode-converter basis function” pairs. These define the best communication or input/output channels, allowing precise counting and straightforward calculations. Here we introduce all the mathematics and physics of this approach, which works for acoustic, radio-frequency, and optical waves, including full vector electromagnetic behavior, and is valid from nanophotonic scales to large systems. We show several general behaviors of communications modes, including various heuristic results. We also establish a new “M-gauge” for electromagnetism that clarifies the number of vector wave channels and allows a simple and general quantization. This approach also gives a new modal “M-coefficient” version of Einstein’s A&B coefficient argument and revised versions of Kirchhoff’s radiation laws. The article is written in a tutorial style to introduce the approach and its consequences.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49214001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Toninelli, B. Ndagano, A. Vallés, B. Sephton, I. Nape, A. Ambrosio, F. Capasso, M. Padgett, A. Forbes
{"title":"Concepts in quantum state tomography and classical implementation with intense light: a tutorial","authors":"E. Toninelli, B. Ndagano, A. Vallés, B. Sephton, I. Nape, A. Ambrosio, F. Capasso, M. Padgett, A. Forbes","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000067","url":null,"abstract":"A tomographic measurement is a ubiquitous tool for estimating the properties of quantum states, and its application is known as quantum state tomography (QST). The process involves manipulating single photons in a sequence of projective measurements, often to construct a density matrix from which other information can be inferred, and is as laborious as it is complex. Here we unravel the steps of a QST and outline how it may be demonstrated in a fast and simple manner with intense (classical) light. We use scalar beams in a time reversal approach to simulate the outcome of a QST and exploit non-separability in classical vector beams as a means to treat the latter as a “classically entangled” state for illustrating QSTs directly. We provide a complete do-it-yourself resource for the practical implementation of this approach, complete with tutorial video, which we hope will facilitate the introduction of this core quantum tool into teaching and research laboratories alike. Our work highlights the value of using intense classical light as a means to study quantum systems and in the process provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of QSTs.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41252479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph Rosen, A. Vijayakumar, Manoj Kumar, M. Rai, R. Kelner, Y. Kashter, Angika Bulbul, Saswata Mukherjee
{"title":"Recent advances in self-interference incoherent digital holography","authors":"Joseph Rosen, A. Vijayakumar, Manoj Kumar, M. Rai, R. Kelner, Y. Kashter, Angika Bulbul, Saswata Mukherjee","doi":"10.1364/AOP.11.000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.11.000001","url":null,"abstract":"Self-interference holography is a common technique to record holograms of incoherently illuminated scenes. In this review, we survey the main milestones in the topic of self-interference incoherent digital holography from two main points of view. First, we review the prime architectures of optical hologram recorders over more than 50 years. Second, we discuss some of the key applications of these recorders in the field of imaging in general, and for 3D super-resolution imaging, fluorescence microscopy, partial aperture imaging, seeing through a scattering medium, and spectral imaging in particular. We summarize this overview with a general perspective on this research topic and its prospective directions.","PeriodicalId":48960,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Optics and Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":27.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46876746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}