Hidden-phase compensation in extended-beacon adaptive optics

Matthew Kalensky, Derek J. Burrell, Matthias T. Banet, and Mark F. Spencer

Appl. Opt. 64(18), E1-E10 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Aero-optical imaging deviation-based study of exposure times for a typical blunt-ended air vehicle

Xuelong Li, Liang Xu, Qilong Wang, and Xiangjun Zhang

Appl. Opt. 64(16), D25-D34 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Applications of single-beam 100 kHz krypton tagging velocimetry in high-pressure N₂ flows

Jincheng Wang, Naibo Jiang, Paul S. Hsu, Neil Rodrigues, Paul M. Danehy, Sukesh Roy, and Hui Hu

Appl. Opt. 64(16), D16-D24 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Switchable multiwavelength fiber laser based on parallel Sagnac loop interferometer

Xiaotong Xu, Xuefang Zhou, Mingquan Lai, and Miao Hu

Appl. Opt. 64(16), D11-D15 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Identification and quantitative analysis for atmospheric bioaerosols based on mixed fluorescence spectra

Xiaojiao Jian, Tingyao He, and Jiaojiao Li

Appl. Opt. 64(16), D1-D10 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-mode averaging for turbulence resilience

Alice V. Drozdov and Mitchell A. Cox

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C22-C32 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous vibration and soil moisture sensing using a single mode fiber for structural health monitoring applications

James Jena, Francois Swanepoel, Gaathier Mahed, and David Waswa

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C74-C78 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

240 Gbps SI-FMF/FSO communication system based on LP modes and PV code with the impact of foggy weather in Alexandria and Setif

Somia A. Abd El-Mottaleb, Abdelhalim Bencheikh, and Mehtab Singh

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C79-C87 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Image encryption based on a hyperchaotic hyperbolic optoelectronic oscillator and the Tetris game

William Nodem Atchoffo, Jimmi Hervé Talla Mbé, Robert Tchitnga, and Paul Woafo

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C88-C100 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal lens focal length statistics for end-pumped solid-state lasers excited with different beam shapes

Sofiane Haddadi, Abdelhalim Bencheikh, and Kamel Aït Ameur

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C33-C40 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-energy generation of arbitrary cylindrical vector vortex beams using a modified Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Justin Harrison, Nokwazi Mphuthi, Chemist Mabena, and Darryl Naidoo

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C60-C68 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Using femtosecond laser pulses to investigate the thickness-dependent nonlinear optical properties of nickel oxide thin films and their potential use as optical limiters

Mona Mustafa, Mona Ali, Mohamed Sh. Abdel-Wahab, Wael Z. Tawfik, M. F. Eissa, M. A. K. Elfayoumi, Hany Hamdy, and Tarek Mohamed

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C1-C10 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental exploration of the second order nonlinear optical properties of hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets utilizing femtosecond laser pulses

G. Omar, Mohamed Ashour, Dina. M. Atwa, and Tarek Mohamed

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C53-C59 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental implementation of chaos-based video encryption using visible light communication technology

Sorel Bagio Nono Fotso, Jimmi Hervé Talla Mbé, Jean Ernest Takotue, Armand Cyrille Nzeukou Takougang, and Alain Richard Ndjiongue

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C101-C118 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF | Compressed PDF

Entangled multidirectional corrugated core lightweight mirror designs for space-based telescopes

Mahdi Rahmani and Mohamed Bouafia

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C127-C136 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Gratings for enhanced sensitivity: advancing D-shaped optical fiber surface plasmon resonance sensors with Ag-Fe₂O₃ structures

Yomna Seliem and Sameh O. Abdellatif

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C11-C21 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design considerations of highly sensitive dual resonance metasurface grating biosensor

Amira Shafaay, Abdelrahman M. Ghanim, and Mohamed A. Swillam

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C137-C147 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct detection and classification of E. coli and fecal streptococci using an optical water droplet method and convolutional neural networks

Lizette Nange Chia, Jimmi Hervé Talla Mbé, and Thomas Tamo Tatietse

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C69-C73 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Verification of single-photon path entanglement using a nitrogen vacancy center

A. I. Smith, C. M. Steenkamp, and M. S. Tame

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C41-C52 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-based selective photoionization of ⁶⁷Zn in a weak external magnetic field

Frederick J. Waso and Christine M. Steenkamp

Appl. Opt. 64(9), C119-C126 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Snapshot hyperspectral imaging method based on a transformer and auxiliary learning tasks

Shuting Ma, Zhuang Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Han, Lianfa Bai, Lei Gan, Yong Peng, and Jun Lu

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2169-2180 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration and measurement method of PMD based on the optimization algorithm of swarm intelligent body

Xingnan Xu, Zihang Yuan, Jiaxin Zhu, Hong Zhou, and Wenqing Sun

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2102-2111 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Temperature sensing properties and color tunability of 12CaO·7Al₂O₃:Tm³⁺/Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ polycrystals

Yunfei Qu

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2117-2124 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable nonlinear optical responses in defective DNA-capped polyoxometalate ([α-SiW₁₂O₄₀]^4-) one-dimensional silica/DNA/ZnO ternary photonic crystal systems

Bhagyasree G. S., Nithyaja B., Reena V. N., Dhanusha A., and T. C. Sabari Girisun

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2125-2138 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-layer IR reflectors with wideband spectra

Fairooz Abdullah Simlan, Yeong Hwan Ko, Pawarat Bootpakdeetam, Renjie Chen, and Robert Magnusson

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2112-2116 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a dual-band co-aperture synchronous zoom security optical system

Lihong Lu, Yuze Wang, Xiangzhou Luo, and Liwei Yao

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2144-2151 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Variable-ratio radial-shearing interferometry with bifocal zone-plate twins

Yuni Zheng, Jian Lin, Junyong Zhang, and Xingqiang Lu

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2139-2143 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Dead-time effect on SPAD detection efficiency

Yishai Albeck, Eran Greenberg, and Talya Arusi-Parpar

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2163-2168 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

High-precision 3D reconstruction of multiple objects based on an adaptive phase error correction method

Shikai Ming, Keming Zhang, and Jun Yao

Appl. Opt. 64(9), 2152-2162 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Knife-edge measurement of a camera system’s entrance pupil

Derek J. Burrell, Allen J. Parker, David P. Haefner, and Stephen D. Burks

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1912-1917 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Modeling of optical scattering from topographic surface measurements of high-quality mirrors

Tomotada Akutsu and Hiroaki Yamamoto

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1995-2001 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam spreading scaling law of a focused Laguerre-Gaussian beam propagating through oceanic turbulence

Hanyin Hu, Qing Zhang, Hong Yu, Zheqiang Zhong, and Bin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1766-1774 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Resource allocation and path planning for RSMA-enabled UAV-VLC networks considering UAV jitter

Renhai Feng, Yiheng Liu, Liping Luo, Sai Zhao, Muhammad Zain Yousaf, and Baseem Khan

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1809-1820 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance analysis of fully generalized spatial modulation based on FSO–MIMO system

Yuanyuan Gan, Minghong Wu, Yongkang Xiong, Jiaxin Zhou, and Yishi Han

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1883-1891 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of distortion in a ground-based Doppler asymmetric spatial heterodyne interferometer

Zhenqing Wen, Di Fu, Weiguo Zong, Zheng Sheng, YunGang Wang, Jing Li, and Yutao Feng

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2015-2027 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization state detection based on an active liquid crystal polarization grating

Xiaoran Guan, Yitong Li, Jieyu Li, Hao Cheng, Jiaxuan Wang, Hongyu Xing, and Wenjiang Ye

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2092-2101 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Performance analysis of a differential chaos-based hybrid FSO/RF satellite–terrestrial uplink

Jiamin Wu, Shan Tu, Dexian Yan, and Yi Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1821-1830 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Dissolved oxygen sensing characteristics in blood by hydrogel optical fiber

Jianglin Fan, Zhenglan Bian, Fenghong Chu, Wu Zhu, and Bin Zhou

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1892-1900 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable THz multi-beam antenna sensor using graphene sheets

Paria Nasiri Shehni and Mehdi Mehranpour

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2002-2008 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis and optimization of MEMS-based Michelson interferometers featuring curved mirrors under partially coherent light conditions

Karim D. Khalil, Yasser M. Sabry, and Ahmed Hisham E. Morshed

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2063-2072 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple spherical aberration control in the direct laser writing deep under the plane surface of dielectrics

Vasily S. Tsarev, Vladimir K. Mezentsev, and Andrey G. Okhrimchuk

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2009-2014 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Comparing information content in SWIR, eSWIR, MWIR, superband, and multiband-fused images

Luke Somerville and Ronald Driggers

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1841-1852 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced aberration correction in minimalist optical systems with the deep attention Wiener network

Ziyang Wang, Runzhou Shi, Yan Zhou, and Jian Bai

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1924-1932 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Microscopic DIC measurement using an improved global registration image-stitching algorithm

Jiateng Wang, Chunmei Wang, and Kun Ma

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2082-2091 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Windspeed determination from a near-field, UV, direct-detection Doppler wind lidar based on Michelson interferometer fringe imaging

Philippe Linsmayer and Patrick Vrancken

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1745-1756 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigations on the measurement of freeform optical wavefront using a holo-shear lens

Lalit Mohan Pant, Dali Ramu Burada, Mahendra Pratap Singh, Gufran Sayeed Khan, and Chandra Shakher

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1775-1782 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Sub-aperture stitching strategy for dark-field imaging of large fine optical components

Shiling Wang, Le Zhao, Ming Kong, Yubo Liu, Shiwei Guo, Jing Yu, and Dong Liu

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1791-1799 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Reconstruction method for highly curved surfaces using bi-direction laser speckle

Wanlin Pan, Yonghong Wang, Jiangxun Zhou, Huanqing Wang, and Junrui Li

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1831-1840 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorption measurements of optical coatings at 1.1 and 1.5 µm with lock-in thermography and an associated thermal model

Mathias Soulier, Hélène Krol, Julien Lumeau, and Laurent Gallais

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1853-1863 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Comparing optical four-flux model results with experimental data obtained by integrating sphere measurements

Maryna Bilokur and Jacob C. Jonsson

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1918-1923 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Hypersonic wake velocity measurements using acetone molecular tagging velocimetry

Angelina Andrade, W. Lawton Shoemake, Chad O. Willamson, Nicholas W. Stegmeier, Kevin R. Posladek, Nathan S. Strasser, Christopher L. Hall, Kristopher T. Olshefski, Nicole F. Nutter, Ryan S. Glasby, and Christopher S. Combs

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1933-1942 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Narrowband reflector based on a side-coupled transverse-mode-conversion Bragg grating resonator

Jixiang Shen, Yong Zhao, Ruxin Wang, Dehui Zhao, and Yi Ni

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1871-1882 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF | Compressed PDF

Dual-wavelength twin-pulse laser at 912 and 1064 nm without gain competition

Jian Xu, Yuan Dong, Long Jin, Yu Liu, Yushi Jin, Yongji Yu, and Guangyong Jin

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1943-1948 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study on optical isolation characteristics of SF₆ for a high-repetition-rate nanosecond CO₂ laser

Ranran Zhang, Yang Gao, Qikun Pan, Chongxiao Zhao, Yiping Zhou, Xiubo Zhang, Jin Guo, Fei Chen, Yiyi Chen, and Fei Xu

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1949-1955 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical simulations of watt-level 5 µm lasers based on Tb-doped and Nd-doped chalcogenide multicore fibers

Nikolay I. Salnikov, Alexey V. Andrianov, and Elena A. Anashkina

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1956-1964 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Power distribution of collimated coherent radiation at 1061 nm over the corneal thickness

Elena V. Motylkova, Serafima A. Filatova, Anastasia M. Subbot, Marina V. Kravchik, Vladimir A. Kamynin, Grigoriy A. Osipyan, Ivan A. Novikov, Sergey V. Kuznetsov, and Yusef N. Yusef

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1973-1979 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design, simulation, and testing of a large field of view bionic eyeball optical model with aspheric surfaces

Chenyu Wang, Ze Yuan, Liangpei Wang, Shangcong Luo, Yeping Yin, Kang An, Peng Sun, Hua Zhang, Shurong Dong, Jikui Luo, and Zhi Ye

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2073-2081 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid resistance in underwater laser propulsion

Hao Qiang, Yi Gao, Jun Chen, Yang Li, Yuya Cui, Yan Zhao, and Qinggong Hou

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1864-1870 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and analysis of a 0.36 NA central obscuration extreme ultraviolet objective system

Shuai Wang, Xianxing Chen, Xinhuai Xu, and Liping Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1757-1765 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation study of turntable-based multi-industrial robot collaborative optical machining technology

Qianlong Feng, Longxiang Li, Hao Chen, Ximing Liu, Xingchang Li, Feng Zhang, and Xuejun Zhang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1965-1972 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Wideband microwave measurement based on single-channel mapping and image-rejection mixing

Yuzheng Jiang, Jing Li, Cheng Tian, Weichen Zhao, Li Pei, and Tigang Ning

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2048-2056 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive double sinusoidal-assisted EMD 3D shape profilometry measurement method

Xin Lai, Yunke Xiao, Siqi Tong, Suzhen Zheng, and Zhenyi Chen

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1901-1911 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

μg-level bias stability of a tri-axial grating Talbot-effect-based MOEMS accelerometer

Ge Yang, Xinying Quan, Li Jin, Kunyang Xie, and Mengwei Li

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1980-1986 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and performance evaluation of flexible terahertz ultra-wideband stop-band filters

Anqi Li, Zishan Yang, Zehua Long, Feng Huang, and Zhaoyang Chen

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2028-2036 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Two to four THz decoding device with an encoding function based on the PCM and PIT effect

Aijun Zhu, Wenrui Wei, Weigang Hou, Lei Cheng, Huiming Zheng, and Chuanpei Xu

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2037-2047 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple laser parametric study of fiber-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Shudi Zhang, Qingtian Xiao, Fangfang Chen, Yupei Chen, Hongtan Wu, and Gueyhorng Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1800-1808 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging as a tool to unlock physiological and molecular mechanisms for drought resistance of agaves

Enrique Castro-Camus, Abhishek K. Singh, Arely V. Perez-Lopez, Jose Antonio Morales-Hernandez, June Simpson, Socorro J. Villanueva-Rodriguez, and Monica Ortiz-Martinez

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 2057-2062 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon resonance sensor based on a dual-hole optical fiber for temperature and refractive index detection

Shichen Cao, Yi Tang, Shengchen Bao, Ming Chen, Yu Cheng, Shijie Deng, Houquan Liu, Chuanxin Teng, Hongyan Yang, Hongchang Deng, and Libo Yuan

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1783-1790 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

High-precision deposition of a laterally graded X-ray multilayer with high reflectance on a strongly curved toroidal mirror

Fengrui Tang, Zhong Zhang, Shengyou Wen, Yifan Zhu, Li Wang, Yunyang Zhang, Rong Wang, Zhe Zhang, Qiushi Huang, and Zhanshan Wang

Appl. Opt. 64(8), 1987-1994 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF