APL Photonics is the dedicated home for open access multidisciplinary research from and for the photonics community. The journal publishes fundamental and applied results that significantly advance the knowledge in photonics across physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. It welcomes high-quality original contributions to the science of light and the technology that generates, controls, and detects photons.
Spectral analysis of light is one of the oldest and most versatile scientific methods and the basis of countless techniques and instruments. Miniaturized spectrometers have recently seen great ...
The debate over whether light’s momentum within a medium is accurately described by Abraham or Minkowski formulation has persisted for over a century. To our knowledge, this dilemma has not been ...
Optical biosensors that consist of a light source, optical elements, and a photodetector are used to detect chemical and biological species and pollutants. This Tutorial discusses the fundamental ...
This paper reports on a monolithically integrated gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based photonic integrated circuit platform for wavelengths around 1064 nm. Enabled by spatially selective quantum well ...
Heavy metal fluoride glasses are the backbone of modern mid-infrared fiber technology. In the last few years, optical fibers made of fluorozirconate, fluoroaluminate, and fluoroindate glasses have ...
Integrated quantum sources are proving to be the most effective technology of sources for scalable quantum applications. A platform that satisfies all the requirements has not prevailed yet. In this ...
This paper describes a unique, extremely sensitive biophotonic sensor with a three-tier S-tapered (3S) structure. It is designed for the real-time detection of Shigella flexneri (S. flexneri), a ...
Optical frequency combs in the 2 μm wavelength region are important for applications ranging from sensing of gases such as CO2 and CO to optical communications, LIDAR, and gravitational wave ...
We study the formation of surface relief structures in azo-polymers generated via two-photon induced photoisomerization using a femtosecond near-infrared optical vortex laser beam. These structures ...
