An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Hybrid integration of quantum cascade lasers with germanium-on-silicon waveguides for mid-infrared sensing applications https://bit.ly/4rPXZrQ #SemiconductorLasers #SiliconPhotonics @unisouthampton.bsky.social 💡⚛️

Volume 34 Issue 20 of #OPG_OpEx is now live: https://bit.ly/4i2FUU2

The featured visualization highlights all 220 reconstructed phase-difference outputs from the rotating-output measurement.

See details at Wu et al.: https://bit.ly/4htWewS

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: An LED-pumped 3-mJ TEM00 Q-switched Nd:YLF laser https://bit.ly/4xRDkVH #SolidStateLasers #WhiteLightEmittingDiodes💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Enhancing broadband second harmonic generation in a thin film lithium niobate racetrack resonator with tunable coupling https://bit.ly/4ADqz3A #FrequencyCombs #PhaseMatching @csem.ch 💡⚛️

Via #OPG_OpEx: High-temperature wide-dynamic-range vibration sensing via an enhanced Fabry–Pérot interferometer probes https://bit.ly/4z1ryc8 #SensorPerformance #UltrafastLasers @stanforduniversity.bsky.social 💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Broadband high-level squeezed light using waveguide optical parametric amplifiers with external dispersion compensation https://bit.ly/4hlGZoi #OpticalAmplifiers #QuantumNoise @utokyoofficial.bsky.social 💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Power and energy scaling of Tm-doped fiber lasers enabled by in-band pumping https://bit.ly/4rn7AGc #LargeModeAreaFibers #LaserSources @uni-jena.de💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Electrically-driven monolithic silicon photonic isolator based on seedlayer-free bismuth terbium iron garnet https://bit.ly/4yspRVz #FaradayEffect #LaserOperation @mit.edu 💡⚛️

Volume 34 Issue 19 of #OPG_OpEx is now live: opg.optica.org/oe/issue.cfm...

The featured image displays gradually broadening dynamic laser interference fringes, exhibiting a continuous phase shift while maintaining a constant spatial period.

See Tian et al.: opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....

On this #ThankYouEditorsTuesday, we'd like to thank our returning #OPG_OpEx Associate Editors Ehab Awad, King Saud University; Luiz Jacobsohn, Clemson University; Domna Kotsifaki, Duke Kunshan University. Thank you for supporting @opg.optica.org and in particular Optics Express!

Via #OPG_OpEx: Purcell enhancement near arbitrary anisotropic multilayers: from plasmonic layers to twisted hyperbolic stacks https://bit.ly/4dcSYDu #QuantumLightSources #FresnelReflection @iitalk.bsky.social💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Axially pumped diode-pumped alkali amplifier with high extraction efficiency https://bit.ly/4j1XGHQ #BeamQuality #GasLasers💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Comprehensive study of chirp-dependent terahertz generation in the organic crystal BNA pumped by 800-nm femtosecond laser pulses https://bit.ly/4xmDlQY #OpticalRectification #THzPulses 💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Cross-phase-mediated suppression of coma aberration and preservation of hollow structures in partially coherent hollow beams https://bit.ly/4gHOaZ9 #FreeSpaceOptics #StructuredLight💡⚛️

Via #OPG_OpEx: High-gain amplification at 1.06 µm based on freestanding Nd:YAG optical amplifier https://bit.ly/4dpXoXD #PhotonicDevices #QuantumLightSources💡⚛️

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: 36-fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAB laser https://bit.ly/4cBog6J #LaserCrystals #UltrafastLasers 💡⚛️

Volume 34 Issue 18 of #OPG_OpEx is now live: https://bit.ly/3UXMeD9

The featured visualization presents the three-dimensional tubular structures in a whole expanded mouse kidney.

See details at Lee et al.: https://bit.ly/4yqxlI2

On this #WelcomeNewEditorsWednesday, we'd like to welcome our incoming #OPG_OpEx Associate Editors Xinying Li, Beijing Institute of Technology and Yoshifumi Wakisaka, NTT Research Labs. Thank you for supporting @opg.optica.org and in particular Optics Express!

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OpEx: Spectrometer-free quantitative vapor sensing and classification via spatiotemporal imaging of porous silicon metasurfaces https://bit.ly/4gzQPm4 #WaveguideModes #LightMatterInteractions💡⚛️