A Study of Resolution Improvement in Noncoherent Optical Coherence Imaging by Guoliang Yang, Junhong Su, Yuan Li, Jialin Cai, Yiren Li

“…The empirical analysis of the FINCH imaging system is carried out. The observed optical path is designed, and the method of making a bit-phase mask loaded on a spatial light modulator is presented. …”
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Preparation of Chiral Epoxy Resins and the Optically Active Cured Products by Xinyuan Tang, Ming Hu, Xiaoran Liu, Yanyun Li, Junying Zhang, Jue Cheng

“…For this reason, the thermal stability, glass transition temperature, and thermomechanical properties of diverse chiral epoxy resins cured by D230 have no significant difference. Nevertheless, it was found that the optical rotation activity of chiral epoxy resins can be partially maintained after curing reaction, it manifests the cured products of chiral epoxy resins possesses the possibility of application in the field of polarized materials.…”
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Analytical Model for Optical Scattering of Infrared Laser by Nonspherical Raindrops by Jing Guo, He Zhang, Xiang-jin Zhang

“…Analytic model was developed to investigate the interaction of infrared laser with nonspherical raindrops. The method based on Fraunhofer diffraction and geometrical optics was presented to obtain the analytic solution for single-scattering properties by approximate ellipsoid raindrops. …”
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Effect of Annealing Treatment on the Optical Properties of Silicon Nitride Waveguides by A. A. Ershov, K. N. Chekmezov, A. P. Burovikhin, A. A. Nikitin, S. N. Abolmasov, A. A. Stashkevich, E. I. Terukov, A. V. Eskov, A. A. Semenov, A. B. Ustinov

“…To investigate the effect of annealing treatment on the optical properties of PICs based on the silicon nitride films with different thicknesses obtained by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition.Materials and methods. …”
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Sensitivity versus polarisation in multilayer optical thin film design by Efrem Ejigu, Beartys Lacquet

“…The observation of the change of the state of polarisation as a result of error sensitivity leads to a different method of designing pure S-polarised or P-polarised optical filters.…”
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Effects of Annealing on the Structural and Optical Properties of Silver Thin Films by O. Osanyinlusi, A.B. Alabi, K.A. Yusuf, M.M. Orosun

“… Silver thin films were prepared on glass substrates using chemical bath method. The thin films were annealed at different temperatures of 100 and 200oC for 1hour. …”
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The Polarization Multiplexing Image with a Single Diffractive Optical Element by Jiazhou Wang, Hui Pang, Axiu Cao, Man Zhang, Ruifeng Kan, Song Hu, Lifang Shi, Qiling Deng

“…The two orthogonally linear polarized lights with the same wavelength modulated by the DOE image differently at the same distance. The imaging of incident light with different polarization is simulated, and the diffraction efficiency and the uniformity are also calculated to demonstrate the validity of this mew method.…”
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Primary beam calibration for commensal telescopes utilizing offset optics by Emil Polisensky, Tracy E. Clarke, Simona Giacintucci, Wendy Peters

“…The VLA Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE) faces challenges in calibration due to the offset Cassegrain optics used in its commensal observing system. This study aims to develop a novel calibration method to improve accuracy with no impact on the Very Large Array (VLA) primary science observations.MethodsWe used the apparent brightness of standard candles identified in VLITE’s commensal data to develop 1D and 2D primary beam response models. …”
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Optical properties of polyvinyl alcohol-glass waste powder composites by Hani M. Hussien

“…Through this study, it become possible to change the optical properties of PVA by adding glass waste powder, which allows the possibility of benefiting from the new composites to be used in different applications according to their response to different wavelengths. …”
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Creative Techniques on Optical Fiber to Produce Luminescence Electronic Textiles by E. Feli, A. Meftahi

“…Accordingly, optical fibers of three different thicknesses (0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 mm) were subjected to secondary operations using techniques such as knotting, pulling, grinding the surface with sandpaper, melting, and creating scratches with a cutter, and were exposed to LED to evaluate their luminescence. …”
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Optoacoustic lenses for lateral sub-optical resolution elasticity imaging by Mengting Yao, Rafael Fuentes-Domínguez, Salvatore La Cavera, III, Fernando Pérez-Cota, Richard J. Smith, Matt Clark

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Optical properties and artistic color characterization of nanocomposite polyurethane materials by Hu Jiaju, Zhang Youqiang

“…In this study, the solution method was used to prepare and characterize nano-TiO2, ZnO and Ag particles, and their addition amount and dispersion state were precisely controlled to prepare composite materials with different mass fractions. …”
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Laser Transmission Characteristics of Seawater for Underwater Wireless Optical Communication by Ruiman Yuan, Tinglu Zhang, Cong Li, Hong Gao, Lianbo Hu

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Cellular neuroprotection as a modern treatment approach for optic neuropathy by S. A. Borzenok, M. Kh. Khubetsova, I. N. Saburina, N. A. Gavrilova, Kh. D. Tonaeva, D. S. Ostrovskiy, N. I. Lanevskaya, N. V. Kosheleva, I. M. Zurina

“…To determine the phenotype of the received cell culture the method of immunophenotyping by marker proteins to MMSC (CD73, CD105, CD19, CD90, CD133) was used. …”
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Optical sensors based on plasmonic nano-structures: A review by Shiva Khani, Pejman Rezaei

“…Furthermore, periodic structures include two sub-categories named metal-insulator and insulator-insulator periodic structures. The most prevalent methods used to investigate such sensors are the finite element method (FEM) and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. …”
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Numerical simulation of femtosecond laser ablation of Aluminium by S. Vela, M. Morales, D. Munoz-Martin, C. Molpeceres

“…We have developed a new MATLAB code which simulates fs laser ablation of Aluminium by solving the two-temperature model equations using finite difference methods. Dependencies of thermal and optical parameters on both temperatures have been considered with the implementation of several models. …”
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Pulse Response of an Ultracompact Grating-Based Monolithic Optical Compressor by C. Yang, E. Towe

“…The pulse response of a novel monolithic optical compressor is computationally simulated using the finite-difference time-domain method of electromagnetism. …”
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Influence of line edge roughness in optical critical dimension metrology by Siefke Thomas

“…While SEM is basically sensitive to the local volume density, optical methods are sensitive to the permittivity of the material. …”
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Repeatability, reproducibility, and agreement for three optical coherence tomography instruments by Jiali Zhang, Muhan Zhong, Shuqi Fan, Xindan Chang, Xue Li, Hao Chen, Jinhua Bao, Yingying Huang

“…Abstract Purpose To explore the repeatability, reproducibility and agreement for three optical coherence tomography (OCT) in measuring retinal (RT) and choroidal thickness (ChT). …”
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Optical properties of artificial intraocular lenses and considerations for additive manufacturing by Bushra Brighesh, Noran Alsuliman, Ahed Nimer, Omnyah Albosaad, Batool Alokosh, Tala Alnaili, Abeer Syed, Michael R. Gardner

“…The material and structure of the IOL are major factors in their efficacy, affecting, among other characteristics, the optics of the eye. In the recent research record, two optical properties have emerged as standardized characterization methods for IOL optics: (1) optical transmittance and (2) optical scattering. …”
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