Recent breakthroughs in digital holography, 2D/3D imaging, and holographic optical elements: introduction

Pietro Ferraro, Tatiana Alieva, Pasquale Memmolo, George Nehmetallah, and Yaping Zhang

Appl. Opt. 64(7), DH1-DH2 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid-crystal-based diffractive optical elements with high Pancharatnam-Berry phase accuracy for holographic displays fabricated using an optimized liquid crystal on silicon device

Weijie Wu, Chongkai Wang, Mike Pivnenko, Xin Chang, and Daping Chu

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B13-B19 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Simplified single-shot geometries for quantitative phase imaging using the transport of intensity equation

Ram Kumar and Naveen K. Nishchal

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B125-B133 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Fast calculation method for CCGHs applicable to various planar computer-generated hologram computation methods

Akifumi Kashiwagi, Kodai Ono, and Yuji Sakamoto

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B38-B48 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration for the magnification of a submersible digital holographic camera during the study of particles in natural conditions

Victor Dyomin, Igor Polovtsev, and Alexandra Davydova

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B49-B57 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact inverted digital holographic microscope based on common-path configuration

Isma Javed, Muhammad Bilal Hassan, Ramna Khalid, Masoomeh Dashtdar, Luis Guillermo Garcia, Carlo Fonda, Maria L. Crespo, Miltcho Danailov, Dan Cojoc, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, and Humberto Cabrera

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B65-B71 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive contrast enhancement and effect of non-linear exponential merit function on computer-generated holograms

Jiaqi Liu, Mike Pivnenko, Xiaomeng Sui, and Daping Chu

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B72-B81 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital holographic illumination using a single phase-only computer-generated hologram

Phoebe Xin Gao, Yuanbo Deng, and Daping Chu

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B82-B89 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast deep coherence holography for 3D object reconstruction

Quang Trieu and George Nehmetallah

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B90-B101 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

In-situ holographic characterization of thin liquid film thickness evolution during boundary-constrained motion

Zhe Wang, Vincenzo Ferraro, Pier Luca Maffettone, and Sara Coppola

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B109-B117 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (5)]

Digital holographic characterization of multilayered structures by thermal scanning

Subhash Utadiya, Vismay Trivedi, Vidhi Singh, Gyanendra Sheoran, Humberto Cabrera, Atul Srivastava, Bahram Javidi, and Arun Anand

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B134-B142 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Low-cost, high-volume, manufacturable 0.88 NA multi-wavelength diffractive lens array for optical document security

Apratim Majumder, Tina M. Hayward, Robert Stewart, and Rajesh Menon

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B1-B5 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (7)]

Efficient super-resolution of phase images encoded with random phase mask by machine learning techniques

Yu Yamada, Atsushi Okamoto, and Akihisa Tomita

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B6-B12 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-scale digital holographic reconstruction with deep learning

Huaying Wang, Qiwen Li, Shuo Wang, and Gaofu Men

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B31-B37 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-field luminous intensity distribution measurement with ex situ error correction [Invited]

Hongyuan Wang, Zehao He, Rui Min, Jiangen Pan, and Liangcai Cao

Appl. Opt. 64(7), B118-B124 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensing characteristics of integrated fiber Bragg grating sensors for high-temperature strain measurement

Chen Wang, Yumin Zhang, Qisheng Huang, Zhiwei Luo, and Yi Gao

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1731-1737 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution Fourier lens utilizing transformation materials

Yunyun Lai, Wenxiu Dong, and Jin Hu

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1633-1638 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast lithographic thick-mask model using overlapped patch matching

Sheng Liu and Xu Ma

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1723-1730 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of a two-element optical system composed of membrane fluidic lenses with variable focal length

Antonín Mikš and Jiří Novák

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1646-1652 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot digital image-correlation-assisted digital holography for simultaneous 3D shape and displacement measurement

Haiyu Zhang, Bing Pan, Bo Qian, Peng Huang, Kaizhi Wang, and Hao Yan

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1582-1590 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Weak texture 3D reconstruction method based on laser-assisted scanning and moving platforms

Zhijie Tang and Qiankun Tang

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1604-1612 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study on high-precision phase diversity wavefront sensing using a distorted grating

Xianfa Pan, Boqian Xu, Xiaoquan Bai, Yan Gao, Jihong Dong, and Guohao Ju

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1613-1624 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-stage phase unwrapping algorithm based on a phase correlation technique

Weirong Gan, Zhiyang Wu, Dangpeng Jin, and Shuang Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1701-1706 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute interferometric shift-flip method for measuring X-ray mirrors

Jiezhuo Wang, Guang Zhou, Weizheng Lei, Xiaohao Dong, and Jie Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1591-1597 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam quality improvement for small-channel coherent beam combining with laser beams arranged along non-uniform Fermat spiral

Yang Gao, Zhanrong Zhou, Yingying Wang, Yi Geng, Yutian Li, Shasha Chen, Jiali Liao, and Wei Zhang

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1598-1603 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Cost-effective pulsed laser diode transmitter for efficient laser power transfer

Hayri Yigit and Ali Rifat Boynuegri

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1693-1700 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

1 kHz, 70 mJ, high-energy hundred-picosecond fiber–solid-state hybrid laser amplification

Guangdao Yang, Xianghao Meng, Tianmeng Jiao, Dun Mao, Zhaoqing Gong, Xianglong Zhao, Haiyang Liu, Jie Yang, Xin Shao, and Pingxue Li

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1707-1714 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Indium tin oxide combined with anti-reflective coatings with high transmittance for wavelengths <400 nm

Erik Jansson, Volker Scheuer, Elena Jordan, Konstantina Kostourou, and Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1715-1722 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Transformer-based self-supervised learning of pixel- and frequency-domain features for DMI grading on OCTA images

Zailiang Chen, Wenyan Zhong, Feiyang Yu, Hailan Shen, Yongan Meng, Wanqing Xiong, and Jing Luo

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1668-1676 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Fundamentals and theories for the design of an arbitrary fractional-order all-optical differentiator based on a microring resonator

Yanan Liu, Hao Fang, Yuan Fan, Liuge Du, Xiao Xu, and Jia Zhao

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1625-1632 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance comparison of two telescope configurations for backscattered light in space gravitational wave detection

Yiping Wang, Zizheng Li, Jinhang Zhou, Jie Song, Zhenning Luo, Xinxin Liu, Hongchao Zhao, Lei Fan, and Yong Yan

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1639-1645 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of an athermal zoom optical system for space station applications

Xiangdong Kong, Chao Mei, Rui Qu, and Xinyu Guo

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1653-1659 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Double chiral resonances in a quasi-BIC metasurface with both strong circular dichroism and high quality factor

Shichen Cao, Peiyu Sun, Jiachen Yu, Qiqige Wulan, Li Xing, Yue Liu, and Zhijun Liu

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1660-1667 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz nonreciprocal characteristics based on a grating metasurface

Ya-Li Liu, Jiu-Sheng Li, and Ri-Hui Xiong

Appl. Opt. 64(7), 1738-1744 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF