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Optics, Volume 7, Issue 4

2026 August - 16 articles

Cover Story: The problem of direct inverse optimization of multi-output wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) on silicon is that these WDMS often exhibit inter-channel crosstalk, making reliable designs difficult to achieve. A cascaded WDM design on a silicon photonics platform is implemented using an inverse design approach. The key idea is to avoid the instability of direct multi-output optimization by sequentially combining several two-output units, thereby realizing a single-input three-output device within a small footprint. Full-wave FDTD simulations show that the first stage achieves effective wavelength separation with high transmission. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
18 Pages

The Worst Influence of Raman Spectra Surrounding a Sample: A Study of Containers and Contact Surface Materials to Improve the Raman Signal

  • Héctor Nahum Chavarría-Lizárraga,
  • Caroleny Eloiza Villalba-Hernández,
  • Adrián Eugenio Villanueva-Luna,
  • Juan Jaime Sánchez-Escobar,
  • Carlos Ortiz-Lima and
  • Jorge Castro-Ramos

19 August 2026

Raman spectroscopy is a widely used analytical technique; however, the choice of container material can significantly affect repeatability due to noise and unwanted Raman bands. This paper describes the interaction of excitation radiation with the sa...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
21 Pages

13 August 2026

Semantic segmentation of large-scale 3D point clouds is a fundamental task in robotic perception, semantic mapping, and urban scene understanding. Existing methods mainly rely on geometric information, which limits their ability to distinguish semant...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optical and Laser Scanning: Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
239 Views
16 Pages

10 August 2026

Nonreciprocal optical devices are key components of integrated photonics and quantum information processing. However, achieving dynamically reconfigurable nonreciprocal transport without magnetic materials or structural asymmetry remains challenging....

(This article belongs to the Section Photonics and Optical Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,031 Views
14 Pages

Deformable Sparse-Gradient Regularization for Extreme Image Denoising

  • Liwei Xin,
  • Luxia Xu,
  • Lijun Dong,
  • Di Wang,
  • Yanhua Xue,
  • Duan Luo,
  • Yahui Li,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Tao Shen and
  • Jinshou Tian
  • + 1 author

5 August 2026

Extreme noise severely degrades image quality in photon-limited imaging systems and challenges existing denoising methods. Classical total variation (TV) models rely on fixed local gradients and often introduce cross-edge smoothing, while deep learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
27 Pages

A Workflow for the Identification of Oligomeric Structures on Tilted Sample Planes in Cryo-SMLM

  • Yakun Dong,
  • Zheyi Yang,
  • Magdalena C. Schneider,
  • Otmar Scherzer and
  • Gerhard J. Schütz

3 August 2026

We introduce a workflow to identify oligomeric structures that are recorded with single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) under cryogenic conditions. Typically, these oligomers are assumed to consist of protomers arranged as equilateral two-dim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
519 Views
23 Pages

3 August 2026

Within the framework of geometric optics, we obtain an analytical description of light propagation in media with a transverse variation in the refractive index. For a plane wave normally incident on a medium with a smooth monotonic step-like refracti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
17 Pages

27 July 2026

The problem of direct inverse optimization of multi-output wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) on silicon is that these WDMS often exhibit inter-channel crosstalk, making reliable designs difficult to achieve. A cascaded WDM design on a silicon p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
625 Views
25 Pages

Hybrid Plasmonic Materials and Architectures for Advanced Optoelectronic Systems

  • Gerardo Valenzuela-Hernandez,
  • Gabriel Enrique Montoya-Leyva,
  • Ana V. Torres-Figueroa,
  • Antonio Ramos-Carrazco,
  • Ricardo Rangel-Segura,
  • Roberto Gomez-Fuentes,
  • Manuel Angel Quevedo-Lopez,
  • Omar Emmanuel Paredes-Gallardo,
  • Juan Jazziel Favela-Lopez and
  • Dainet Berman-Mendoza
  • + 1 author

27 July 2026

Recent developments in optoelectronics have led to the incorporation of metallic nanostructures into semiconductors and other active materials for tailoring optical confinement, carrier generation, energy transfer, and light emission. This review dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
346 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2026

Addressing unstable stratified oceanic turbulence, this paper develops a composite stratified oceanic turbulent phase screen model using power spectrum inversion, which fully accounts for the coupled effects of turbulence diffusion, absorption, and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
12 Pages

9 July 2026

This study investigates the effects of post-annealing on the properties of thermally evaporated antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) thin films. The prepared samples were annealed at different temperatures of 150, 200, 250 and 300 °C for half an hour. Diff...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
10 Pages

8 July 2026

This paper proposes a high-sensitivity and sensitivity-tunable vibration sensing system based on a switchable loop length optoelectronic oscillator (OEO). Carrier-sideband separation is realized by using an acousto-optic modulator (AOM), and the reso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensors: Features and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
23 Pages

Wave Aberration Correction Algorithm for Unobscured Two-Mirror Telescope Designs

  • Eduard R. Muslimov,
  • Railia R. Akhmetgaleeva,
  • Nadezhda K. Pavlycheva,
  • Maxim A. Koskovskiy and
  • Oleg G. Morozov

6 July 2026

In the present work, we propose a simple analytical algorithm for unobscured two-mirror telescope designs. It is based on fitting of the closest aberration-free surface for each field position and allows for computation of the wave aberration distrib...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
449 Views
16 Pages

A Concept and Numerical Study of Refractive-Index-Based pH Estimation Using an Etched Addressed Fiber Bragg Structure with Microwave Photonic Interrogation

  • Alaa N. D. Alhussein,
  • Aliya A. Kamaleeva,
  • Bulat I. Valeev,
  • Timur A. Agliullin,
  • Artem A. Kuznetsov and
  • Airat Zh. Sakhabutdinov

6 July 2026

This study investigates the feasibility of using an etched addressed fiber Bragg structure (EAFBS) as the sensing element in a microwave-photonic system for local pH monitoring. A theoretical model is developed that incorporates transmission-spectrum...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
599 Views
15 Pages

30 June 2026

We investigate the localization transition in a one-dimensional extended Aubry–André–Harper (AAH) model, emphasizing its implementation as a quantum simulator in ultracold atomic optical lattices. In the single-particle case, quasi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms: Interfaces, Integration, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
372 Views
16 Pages

Video Compression Imaging Technology Based on High-Frequency Encoding

  • Luxia Xu,
  • Liwei Xin,
  • Yanhua Xue,
  • Duan Luo,
  • Yahui Li,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Tao Shen,
  • Chao Ji and
  • Jinshou Tian

28 June 2026

Video Compressive Imaging (VCI) enables low-dimensional detectors to capture high-dimensional data through incoherent encoding. However, traditional pseudo-random coding often exhibits structural sampling that leads to detail loss. While adjusting th...

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