Keep Up on the Top-Cited Articles in Optics Express over the Past YearOSA’s Optics Express publishes some of the most cited research in optics and photonics. In fact, according to just released 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2014), it publishes the second highest number of citations of all journals listed in the Optics category. And as an open-access journal, all its content is FREELY available to scientists worldwide.
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*Source for top cited articles is Thomson Reuters' Web of Science™ Science Citation Index Expanded®. Photoluminescence emission and Raman response of monolayer MoS2, MoSe2, and WSe2 | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 4908-4916 (2013) Philipp Tonndorf, Robert Schmidt, Philipp Böttger, Xiao Zhang, Janna Börner, Andreas Liebig, Manfred Albrecht, Christian Kloc, Ovidiu Gordan, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, and Rudolf Bratschitsch We mechanically exfoliate mono- and few-layers of the transition metal dichalcogenides molybdenum disulfide, molybdenum diselenide, and tungsten diselenide. The exact number of layers... |
Graphene-based tunable hyperbolic metamaterials and enhanced near-field absorption | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 6, pp. 7614-7632 (2013) Mohamed A. K. Othman, Caner Guclu, and Filippo Capolino We investigate a novel implementation of hyperbolic metamaterial (HM) at far-infrared frequencies composed of stacked graphene sheets separated by thin dielectric layers. Using the... |
Modelocking and femtosecond pulse generation in chip-based frequency combs | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | Spotlight | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 1, pp.1335-1343 (2013) Saha, Kasturi; Okawachi, Yoshitomo; Shim, Bonggu; Levy, Jacob S; Salem, Reza; Johnson, Adrea R; Foster, Mark A; Lamont, Michael R E; Lipson, Michal; Gaeta, Alexander L We investigate simultaneously the temporal and optical and radio-frequency spectral properties of parametric frequency combs generated in silicon-nitride microresonators and observe... |
Record performance of electrical injection sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor lasers at room temperature | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 4, pp.4728-4733 (2013) Ding, K; Hill, M T; Liu, Z C; Yin, L J; van Veldhoven, P J; Ning, C Z We demonstrate a continuous wave (CW) sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor laser with electrical injection at room temperature (RT). Our metal-cavity laser with a cavity volume... |
Theoretical analysis of mode instability in high-power fiber amplifiers | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 2, pp.1944-1971 (2013) Hansen, Kristian Rymann; Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard; Broeng, Jes; Lægsgaard, Jesper We present a simple theoretical model of transverse mode instability in high-power rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers. The model shows that efficient power transfer between the... |
Ultrathin, high-efficiency, broad-band, omni-acceptance, organic solar cells enhanced by plasmonic cavity with subwavelength hole array | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue S1, pp.A60-A76 (2013) Chou, Stephen Y; Ding, Wei Three of central challenges in solar cells are high light coupling into solar cell, high light trapping and absorption in a sub-absorption-length-thick active layer, and replacement of... |
Mid-IR supercontinuum generation in a ZBLAN fiber pumped by a gain-switched mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser and amplifier system | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 7, pp.7851-7857 (2013) Swiderski, Jacek; Michalska, Maria; Maze, Gwenael We demonstrate a novel method of mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum (SC) generation with the use of a 2 µm gain-switched self-mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser. SC... |
Scalable photonic quantum computing assisted by quantum-dot spin in double-sided optical microcavity | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 15, pp.17671-17685 (2013) Wei, Hai-Rui; Deng, Fu-Guo We investigate the possibility of achieving scalable photonic quantum computing by the giant optical circular birefringence induced by a quantum-dot spin in a double-sided optical... |
High-speed, low-loss silicon Mach–Zehnder modulators with doping optimization | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 4, pp.4116-4125 (2013) Xiao, Xi; Xu, Hao; Li, Xianyao; Li, Zhiyong; Chu, Tao; Yu, Yude; Yu, Jinzhong We demonstrate a high-speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) with low insertion loss, based on the carrier depletion effect in a lateral PN junction. A 1.9 dB on-chip insertion... |
Stimulated thermal Rayleigh scattering in optical fibers | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 3, pp.2642-2656 (2013) Dong, Liang Recently, mode instability was observed in optical fiber lasers at high powers, severely limiting power scaling for single-mode outputs. Some progress has been made towards... |
A compact and low loss Y-junction for submicron silicon waveguide | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 1, pp.1310-1316 (2013) Zhang, Yi; Yang, Shuyu; Lim, Andy Eu-Jin; Lo, Guo-Qiang; Galland, Christophe; Baehr-Jones, Tom; Hochberg, Michael We designed a compact, low-loss and wavelength insensitive Y-junction for submicron silicon waveguide using finite difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation and particle swarm... |
Third order nonlinear optical property of Bi2Se3 | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 2, pp.2072-2082 (2013) Lu, Shunbin; Zhao, Chujun; Zou, Yanhong; Chen, Shuqing; Chen, Yu; Li, Ying; Zhang, Han; Wen, Shuangchun; Tang, Dingyuan The third order nonlinear optical property of Bi2Se3, a kind of topological insulator (TI), has been investigated under femto-second laser excitation. The open... |
Demonstration of 575-Mb/s downlink and 225-Mb/s uplink bi-directional SCM-WDM visible light communication using RGB LED and phosphor-based LED | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 1, pp.1203-1208 (2013) Wang, Yuanquan; Wang, Yiguang; Chi, Nan; Yu, Jianjun; Shang, Huiliang We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel full-duplex bi-directional subcarrier multiplexing (SCM)-wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) visible light communication (VLC)... |
Dielectric resonator nanoantennas at visible frequencies | Abstract | Full Text: Enhanced HTML | PDF | | Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 1, pp.1344-1352 (2013) Zou, Longfang; Withayachumnankul, Withawat; Shah, Charan M; Mitchell, Arnan; Bhaskaran, Madhu; Sriram, Sharath; Fumeaux, Christophe Drawing inspiration from radio-frequency technologies, we propose a realization of nano-scale optical dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) functioning in their fundamental mode. These... |
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