According to numerical models of nanosecond optical parametric oscillators, cavities with 90° image rotation can produce high-quality beams even if the Fresnel number of the cavity is large. We review the properties of such image-rotating cavities and present a method for designing them. The laboratory performance of one promising design is characterized, demonstrating its ability to produce hi...

A novel optical layer performance monitoring method in transparent optical-label switching networks is presented. It is based on the signal quality correlation between the data payload and the label, which allows monitoring of the data payload signal quality by monitoring the label bit error rates. Experimental results indicate effective estimations of payload data bit error rates over approxim...

We report guided-light opto-mechanical sensing of the mechanical vibrations of a toroidal-lipped SiO2 GOBLiT. An optical quality factor of 1.7x10 allowed us to measure mechanical vibrations of the GOBLiT with mechanical quality factor 206 in air for the n=2 degenerate wineglass mode. Light was coupled into the resonator via a tapered optical fiber and used to sense mechanical motion of the GOBL...

A microscope for quantitative analysis of the birefringence properties of samples is introduced. The microscope is used to measure variations in the slow optical axis position (SOAP) across hen egg-white lysozyme, glucose isomerase and fibronectin crystals. By comparing these variations with indicators of diffraction quality, it is shown that the optical properties of a protein crystal provide ...

Optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers (OPSDLs) with extended cavities are surfaceemitting laser devices which efficiently convert the low-beam-quality emission of a pump laser to a high-beam-quality circular non-astigmatic laser emission. Furthermore, the extended cavity can be utilized for intra-cavity second harmonic generation by insertion of nonlinear optical crystals. By that way, the...

This paper presents a study designed to compare optical quality expressed through PSF (Point Spread Function), MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) and OSI (OqasTM Scattering Index) between several intraocular implants for presbytia surgery. These are: TecnisTM ZM900, Acri.LISATM 366D, ReSTOR SN6AD1 and Crystalens® HD. Historically, research on the optical quality of intraocular lenses developed ...

introduction one of the most important pre-processing steps in optical coherence tomography (oct) is reducing speckle noise, resulting from multiple scattering of tissues, which degrades the quality of oct images. materials and methods the present study focused on speckle noise reduction and edge detection techniques. statistical filters with different masks and noise variances were applied on ...

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are plagued by a significantly lower optical quality compared to exfoliated TMDCs. In this work, we show that the optical quality of CVD-grown MoSe2 is completely recovered if the material is sandwiched in MoS2/MoSe2/MoS2 trilayer van der Waals heterostructures. We show by means of density functional the...

An efficient optical signal regenerator can mitigate the effect of signal degradation and increase the performance of optical communication system. All optical signal regenerators have been studied and developed for maintaining good quality signal in long haul optical communication. Fiber nonlinearity has some inherent properties for signal regeneration and it has an enormous potential for ultr...