Study of Band Gap of Silver Nanoparticles—Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites by P. Barone, F. Stranges, M. Barberio, D. Renzelli, A. Bonanno, F. Xu

“…The optical and chemical properties of Ag/TiO2 nanocomposites were investigated to explore the possibilities of incorporating these new materials in Gratzel photoelectrochemical cells. …”
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Terahertz generation from surface of the bulk and monolayer tungsten diselenide by D. I. Khusyainov, A. V. Gorbatova, A. M. Buryakov

“…The analysis results confirm that the only possible contribution to the generation of terahertz radiation in a tungsten diselenide monolayer crystal is the second order nonlinear optical effect – optical rectification. One of the contributions to the generation of tungsten diselenide is a nonlinear-optical effect of the third order – surface optical rectification.…”
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Advanced process control in laser-based powder bed fusion–Smart Fusion feedback-loop control as a path to uniform properties for complex structures? by Florian Nahr, Tobias Novotny, Dominik Kunz, Ulrich Kleinhans, Lova Chechik, Dominic Bartels, Michael Schmidt

“…Smart Fusion feedback-loop control monitors gray values recorded by optical tomography and compares them to a material and process specific target. …”
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Efficiency and Droop Improvement in GaN-Based High-Voltage Flip Chip LEDs by Yen-Chih Chiang, Bing-Cheng Lin, Kuo-Ju Chen, Sheng-Huan Chiu, Chien-Chung Lin, Po-Tsung Lee, Min-Hsiung Shih, Hao-Chung Kuo

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Tailoring the Anomalous Hall Effect in van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 by WU Kaile, WANG Junshan, JIANG Jiaolin, CHAI Qian, WANG Qin, SANG Shengbo, GE Yang

“…Two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials have shown fascinating natural ferromagnetic properties at the atomic level, which has great potential in the fields of low power spintronics, quantum computing, and optical communication. [Methods] Herein, the ferromagnetism and magnetic anisotropy of bulk Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) were investigated. …”
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An Approach to Reduce Tuning Sensitivity in the PIC-Based Optoelectronic Oscillator by Controlling the Phase Shift in Its Feedback Loop by Vladislav Ivanov, Ivan Stepanov, Grigory Voronkov, Ruslan Kutluyarov, Elizaveta Grakhova

“…The OEO that utilized an MRR-based electro-optical delay line demonstrated a tuning sensitivity of 174.5 MHz/V. …”
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A Technique for Section Thickness Evaluation for Microphotometry and Image Analysis of Sectioned Nuclei by R. L. Cabrini, A. Folco, S. Orrea, M. T. Savino, A. M. Schwint, M. E. Itoiz

“…The thickness was then measured with a micrometric eye-piece. Optical density and actual thickness of each section were plotted on a normogram curve. …”
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Fabrication of Hybrid Organic Photovoltaic Devices Using Electrostatic Spray Method by Zhe-Wei Chiu, Yu-Jen Hsiao, Te-Hua Fang, Liang-Wen Ji

“…E-spray is used to deposit a hybrid film (P3HT: PCBM/nanodiamond) with morphology and optical characteristics onto OPVDs. The root-mean-square roughness and optical absorption increase with increasing nanodiamond content. …”
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Carrier-envelope-phase characterization of ultrafast mid-infrared laser pulses through harmonic generation and interference in argon by Claudia Gollner, Valentina Shumakova, Jacob Barker, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Pavel Polynkin

“…Abstract The propagation of an intense, femtosecond, mid-infrared laser pulse in a gaseous medium results in the efficient generation of spectrally overlapping low-order harmonics, whose optical carrier phases are linked to the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the mid-infrared driver pulse. …”
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A Hybrid OFDM-TDM Architecture with Decentralized Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for PONs by Taner Cevik

“…Instead of sending bandwidth demands to the optical line terminal (OLT) which is the only competent authority, each optical network unit (ONU) runs the same bandwidth demand determination algorithm. …”
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Telecommunication Networks in Germany — Expanding with a Public Company by Cordelius Ilgmann, André Störr

“…Hence, the expansion of fibre optic lines is progressing too slowly. Government subsidy programmes create additional problems. …”
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Unidirectional chiral scattering from single enantiomeric plasmonic nanoparticles by Yuanyang Xie, Alexey V. Krasavin, Diane J. Roth, Anatoly V. Zayats

“…Abstract Controlling scattering and routing of chiral light at the nanoscale is important for optical information processing and imaging, quantum technologies as well as optical manipulation. …”
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Applying a Self-Made Automobile Heterodyne Interferometer to Measure the Parameters of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal by Shinn-Fwu Wang, Pei-Cheng Ke, Wesley Lai, Hao Ma, Yi-Zhan Su, Jyh-Shyan Chiu

“…Besides, it is very stable because of its common optical path insensitive to environmental disturbances. …”
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Mode-Dependent Loss Equalized Few-Mode Fiber Photonic Lantern by Yingxuan Li, Senyu Zhang, Zhiyong Zhao, Jing Liu, Zhuyixiao Liu, Ming Tang

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A comprehensive review of metasurface-assisted direction-of-arrival estimation by Huang Min, Li Ruichen, Zou Yijun, Zheng Bin, Qian Chao, Jin Hui, Chen Hongsheng

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Improving Edge Quality of Liquid Crystal Display 3D Printing Using Local Dimming Method by Xing-Rui Ding, Zi-Hao Deng, Jia-Sheng Li, Rui-Xiang Qian, Bo-Wen Duan, Zong-Tao Li

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Maximal steered coherence in accelerating Unruh–DeWitt detectors by Hong-Wei Li, Yi-Hao Fan, Shu-Ting Shen, Xiao-Jing Yan, Xi-Yun Li, Wei Zhong, Yu-Bo Sheng, Lan Zhou, Ming-Ming Du

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Micromechanical behavior of the apple fruit cuticle investigated by Brillouin light scattering microscopy by Timm Landes, Bishnu P. Khanal, Hans Lukas Bethge, Tina Lehrich, Maximilian Seydi Kilic, Franz Renz, Miroslav Zabic, Moritz Knoche, Dag Heinemann

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Probability of Erroneous Data Registration in a Single Photon Erasure-Type Communication Channel with a Receiver Based on a Photon Counter by A. M. Timofeev

“…When measuring low-power optical signals, it is necessary to ensure the highest reliability of the received data, which is especially important for single-photon communication channels. …”
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Algorithm and mathematical model for geometric positioning of segments on aspherical composite mirror by B. Conquet, L. F. Zambrano, N. K. Artyukhina, R. V. Fiodоrtsev, A. R. Silie

“…In the software package Zemax, the convergence of optical beams from flat hexagonal elements to the central region of the aspherical surface is verified.…”
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