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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Politecnico di Milano BEST OF Optics & Photonics Journals FREE access to top articles www.lpr-journal.org ImPACT FACTOR * 8.008 HIGHLIGHTS Free access in 2015 to articles dedicated to the International Year of Light (Special Series) SCOPE Impressive Impact Factor of 8.008* – Ranked #4 in the Optics category Laser & Photonics Reviews Rigorous peer review and swift publishes top-quality review publication articles, original papers and letters covering the current Fully electronic service with free color, range of laser physics and no page charges photonics, both theoretical Editor’s Choice: Outstanding articles and experimental, from recent featured prominently and are open breakthrough research to access specific developments and novel applications. Submit your article http://www.editorialmanager.com/lpor-journal EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MAIN AREAS OF INTEREST Hans A. Bachor, Australian National University, Canberra • Photonic materials Jeremy J. Baumberg, University of Cambridge • Nanophotonics Federico Capasso, Harvard University, Cambridge • Ultrafast optics and ultrashort pulses John T. Fourkas, University of Maryland • Laser metrology Thomas Graf, Universität Stuttgart • Laser cooling and ultracold Theodor W. Hänsch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität gases München, Garching • Quantum communication and Naomi Halas, Rice University, Houston cryptography Sailing He, Joint Research Center of Photonics of the KTH • Laser applications in life EDITOR Royal Institute of Technology, Lund University and Zhejiang sciences and medicine Katja Paff University • Laser matter interaction Alexander A. Kaminskii, Russian Academy of Sciences, • Semiconductor photonics Moscow • Fibre lasers Satoshi Kawata, RIKEN, Saitama and Osaka University • Biophotonics • Plasmonics Ursula Keller, ETH Zürich • Optofluidics Stephan W. Koch, Philipps-Universität Marburg • Optomechanics Joseph Lakowicz, University of Maryland, Baltimore • Metamaterials Philippe Lalanne, LP2N, Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine, • Nanolasers Talence Cedex • Photonic crystals Manijeh Razhegi, Northwestern University, Evanston • Laser material processing Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, West Lafayette • Integrated silicon photonics Costas M. Soukoulis, Iowa State University, Ames • Optics in telecommunication Sune Svanberg, Lund University Luc Thévenaz, EPFL, Lausanne Niek van Hulst, ICFO, Barcelona Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London Joseph Zyss, École normale supérieure de Cachan 2 www.lpr-journal.org Waveguide sub-wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications Robert Halir, Przemek J. Bock, Pavel Cheben, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Jens H. Schmid, Jean Lapointe, Dan-Xia Xu, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Siegfried Janz With the recent development of silicon photonics and high resolution lithography, periodic structures with a sub-wavelength pitch have found widespread application. This review provides an introduction to the physics of sub-wavelength structures and an extensive overview of their applications in waveguide devices, including: high efficiency fiber-chip DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400083 couplers, wavelength multiplexers, athermal waveguide and ultra-broadband waveguide couplers. Functional and nonlinear optical metasurfaces Alexander E. Minovich, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Anton Y. Bykov, Tatiana V. Murzina, Dragomir N. Neshev, Yuri S. Kivshar Metasurfaces have become the subject of several rapidly growing areas of research. They show many useful properties of metadevices with engineered resonant electric and magnetic optical responses combined with low losses of thin-layer structures. The basic concepts of this rapidly growing research field are introduced and enriched by the recent development of metamaterials and subwavelength nanophotonics. The most interesting properties of photonic metasurfaces are reviewed and their useful DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400402 functionalities are demonstrated. Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms Cristian Manzoni, Oliver D. Mücke, Giovanni Cirmi, Shaobo Fang, Jeffrey Moses, Shu-Wei Huang, Kyung-Han Hong, Giulio Cerullo, Franz X. Kärtner The generation of sub-cycle light waveforms is at the frontiers of optics: ultrashort waveform generation calls for broad bandwidth and tailored spectral phase; coherent synthesis of fields from separate sources promises to fulfill both challenges. In this review, the experimental tools for coherent waveform synthesis and characterization are discussed, and the most recent DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400181 advances are presented. Enhancement of single-photon emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers with TiN/(Al,Sc)N hyperbolic metamaterial Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Vadim V. Vorobyov, Jing Liu, Marcello Ferrera, Alexey V. Akimov, Alexei Lagutchev, Andrey N. Smolyaninov, Vasily V. Klimov, Joseph Irudayaraj, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev The broadband enhancement of single photon emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds coupled to a planar multilayer metamaterial with hyperbolic dispersion is studied experimentally. The metamaterial is fabricated as an epitaxial metal/dielectric DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201400185 superlattice consisting of CMOS-compatible ceramics: titanium nitride (TiN) and aluminum scandium nitride (AlxSc1-xN). It is demonstrated that employing the metamaterial results in significant enhancement of collected single photon emission and reduction of the excited- state lifetime. The results could have an impact on future CMOS-compatible integrated quantum sources. 3 www.biophotonics-journal.org HIGHLIGHTS ImPACT FACTOR International journal devoted to the * whole field of biophotonics, from basic 4.447 research to clinical applications Highly interdisciplinary, bridging the gaps between life sciences, medicine, chemistry, physics, and engineering Our mission for the Journal Cutting-edge research on interactions ” of Biophotonics is to connect between light and biological material the various scientists who try Rigorous peer review and swift to understand basic biological publication processes using light as a Fully electronic service with free color, diagnostic and therapeutic tool. no page charges To provide a platform where Editor’s Choice: Outstanding articles physicists communicate with featured prominently and are open biologists and where clinical access practitioners learn about the Topical Issues on selected areas of latest tools they can use for research diagnosis of diseases – this is our intention with this journal.” Submit your article http://www.editorialmanager.com/jbio-journal INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD FIELDS OF APPLICATION Peter E. Andersen, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde • Advanced spectroscopy Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lund Institute of Technology • Biosafety Stephen Boppart, Beckman Inst. for Advanced Science and • Drug discovery and Technology, Urbana, IL development • Food and drug analysis Arthur Chiou, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei • Imaging and microscopy Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics & Astronomy, St. Andrews • Life sciences Alberto Diaspro, University of Genoa • Manipulation and preparation Max Diem, Northeastern University, Boston • Medicine (detection and Paul French, Imperial College, London therapy) Martin Frenz, University of Bern • Microbiology EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Min Gu, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic. • Optical biosensors Stefan Hell, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Jürgen Popp Göttingen Friedrich-Schiller-University Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Columbia University, New York FeATURED Jena, Germany TECHNOLOGIES Leibniz Institute of Photonic Satoshi Kawata, RIKEN, Saitama Karsten König, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Technology • Advanced optical microscopy Jena, Germany Laura Marcu, University of California, Davis & nanoscopy Dennis L. Matthews, University of California, Sacramento • Endoscopy Francesco S. Pavone, LENS, Florence • High volume analysis Paras Prasad, The State University of New York, Buffalo • Non-invasive physiological Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, monitoring Brisbane • Optical biosensing Albert Stolow, Steacie Inst. for Molecular Sciences, Ottawa • Optical tomography • Photonic nano-manipulation Katarina Svanberg, Lund University Hospital • Spectroscopic methods on a Attila Tárnok, University Heart Center, Leipzig cellular and molecular level Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State University, Saratov Siva Umapathy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Brian Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto 4 www.biophotonics-journal.org Quick analysis of optical spectra to quantify epidermal melanin and papillary dermal blood content of skin Steven L. Jacques A practical approach for assessing the melanin and blood content of the skin from total diffuse reflectance spectra is presented. The paper describes the non-rectilinear character of a quick analysis, which uses just three wavelengths, and shows that most any choice of two wavelengths in the 600–900 range can achieve the characterization of melanin. Monte Carlo simulations created spectral data for a skin model with epidermis, papillary dermis and reticular dermis to illustrate the analysis. DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201400103 Isotropic high resolution optoacoustic imaging with linear detector arrays in bi-directional scanning Mathias Schwarz, Andreas Buehler, Vasilis Ntziachristos Optoacoustic