Invited Article: Complex vibrational susceptibility by interferometric Fourier transform stimulated Raman scattering [PDF]
APL Photonics, 2018 We introduce interferometric (I) Fourier-transform (FT) stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) to measure the complex nonlinear vibrational susceptibility of molecules.
Vikas Kumar +6 more
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Invited Article: Time-bin entangled photon pairs from Bragg-reflection waveguides
APL Photonics, 2018 Semiconductor Bragg-reflection waveguides are well-established sources of correlated photon pairs as well as promising candidates for building up integrated quantum optics devices.
H. Chen +11 more
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Invited Article: Nano-kirigami metasurfaces by focused-ion-beam induced close-loop transformation
APL Photonics, 2018 Reducing fabrication difficulties while maintaining structural complexities and functionalities is one of the key challenges faced by the applications of nanophotonic devices.
Zhiguang Liu +4 more
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50th Anniversary Invited Article—City Logistics: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
Transportation Science, 2016 Today, around 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this share is expected to go up significantly. As a result, city logistics, which focuses on the efficient and effective transportation of goods in urban areas while taking into ...
Martin Savelsbergh, Tom Van Woensel
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Invited Article: Optical dynamic range compression
APL Photonics, 2018 We introduce the concept of optical dynamic range compression and discuss its utilities in the non-uniform quantization, enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio as well as reshaping signal’s statistical distribution and extending the detection range in light
Yunshan Jiang, Saili Zhao, Bahram Jalali
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Invited Article: Bragg stacks with tailored disorder create brilliant whiteness
APL Photonics, 2018 The scales of white beetles strongly scatter light within a thin disordered network of chitin filaments. There is no comparable artificial material achieving such a high scattering strength within a thin layer of low refractive index material.
D. T. Meiers +2 more
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Invited Article: A compact optically coherent fiber frequency comb [PDF]
Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015 We describe the design, fabrication, and performance of a self-referenced, optically coherent frequency comb. The system robustness is derived from a combination of an optics package based on polarization-maintaining fiber, saturable absorbers for mode ...
Laura C. Sinclair +7 more
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Invited Article: Tuning and stabilization of optomechanical crystal cavities through NEMS integration [PDF]
APL Photonics, 2018 Nanobeam optomechanical crystals, in which localized GHz frequency mechanical modes are coupled to wavelength-scale optical modes, are being employed in a variety of experiments across different material platforms.
Karen E. Grutter +3 more
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Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films
APL Photonics, 2017 Cellulose nanocrystals in water suspensions behave as lyotropic liquid crystals forming a chiral nematic phase above a critical concentration. Such an organization can be retained in solid films and give rise to an intense
B. D. Wilts +4 more
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APL Photonics, 2018 We experimentally demonstrate high-performance narrowband terahertz (THz) bandpass filters through cascading multiple bilayer metasurface antireflection structures.
Chun-Chieh Chang +3 more
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