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Optics in 2014

Guest editors: Robert D. Guenther, Mihaela Dinu, Dmitry Dylov, Andrew Forbes, Nicholas J. Frigo, Groot Gregory, Bob Jopson, Carlos López-Mariscal, Zuleykhan Tomova and Stephen R. Wilk.

This special issue of Optics & Photonics News highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months.

Our panel of editors reviewed a record 200 research summaries from scientists all over the globe. They selected for publication 30 stories that they felt most clearly communicated breakthroughs of interest to the optics community. Some of the summaries have related multimedia that you can access at www.osa-opn.org/optics-in-2014. Thanks to all who submitted summaries as well as our panel of guest editors.

Lasers Feedback creates simple and stable fiber and vertical-cavity lasers. Random Fiber Laser: Simpler and Brighter Self-Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers

 

Imaging A temporal pinhole and needle tip offer new imaging modalities Turning a Needle into a Microscope Incoherent-Light Temporal Imaging of Intensity Waveforms

 

Bioimaging Two very different approaches to multidimensional biological imaging Quantitative Phase Imaging of Cells in 2-, 3- and 4-D Super-Resolution Imaging with Airy Beams

 

Optical Coherence Imaging Engineering lowers the cost of interferometric imaging at multiple scales A 4-D OCT Engine with 1 GVoxel/s MR-OCT: Affordable Tomographic Imaging Applications Photon-Correlation Interferometer for Quantum Metrology

 

Guided Waves Enhancements for guided-wave circuits that perform like electronic circuits Nano Guiding of Light Using Dyakonov Waves Supersymmetric Mode Converters and Transformation Optics Integrated Photonics Goes Flexible

 

Quantum Optics Measurement and control expand for systems from semiconductors to single photons Quantum-Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Dropletons in Quantum Wells Spin on a Fiber Controlling Spontaneous Emission Beyond the Radiative Lifetime

 

Terahertz Large-bandwidth source and detector methods in the THz region New Method for THz Detection and Imaging Efficient Broadband THz Generation from Split-Ring-Resonator Metamaterials

 

Propagation Singularities and random index variations for Anderson localization and image propagation Asymmetric Polarization Singularities in Optical Beams Image Transport via Transverse Anderson Localization

 

Optomechanics Optical chiral sorting and spatial ordering of atoms and molecules Optofluidic Chiral Sorting at the Micron Scale Optomechanical Self-Structuring of Cold Atoms

 

Metamaterials Metamaterials for analog processors and optical beam shaping Chiral Torsional Metamaterials Doing Math with Light Efficient, Broadband Holograms via Optical Nano-Antennas

 

Optical Elastography Measuring biomechanical properties of living tissue Improving OCE for In Vivo Use with Resonant-Frequency Measurement A New Window into Disease

 

Nonlinear Optics Tabletop XUV generation and graphene allow for work in novel wavelengths Bright High-Order Harmonics with Controlled Polarization Turning on Graphene’s Optical Nonlinearities Molecular Fine Structure from Water Window X-rays

 

Ultrafast Optics Collecting video at a trillion frames per second Motion Picture Femtophotography

Publish Date: 01 December 2014