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See Visualization 1 in Opt. Letters 50(21), 6710-6713 (2025).
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Holography in your pocket: generating full-parallax portraits with an iPhone

See Visualization 1 in Opt. Letters 50(21), 6710-6713 (2025).

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Broadband second harmonic generation in potassium tantalate niobate crystals with “2T” engineered domain configurations (Opt. Express)
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Temperature-dependent absorption coefficient of ceramic Nd:YAG in the range of 30–100°C for various doping conditions (Opt. Mater. Express)
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Portable in vivo confocal ophthalmoscope for non-contact imaging of the cornea and anterior segment of the eye (Biomed. Opt. Express)
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Spectroscopic characterization of Pr,Zn:LT and Pr,Zr:LT ridge waveguides, fabricated by high temperature in-diffusion and diamond-blade dicing (Opt. Express)
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Arbitrary frequency difference locking method for carrier in intersatellite coherent laser communication (Opt. Express)
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Optics Continuum
Holographic laser processing with axial beam shaping optimized in optical system
Summary by Johann Toudert

Shaping laser beams with smart holograms for high-fidelity and reproducible material processing. Laser beams with a...

Optics Express
Dual-resonance single-beam triaxial spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometer
Summary by Mario A. Maldonado

Dual-resonance method unlocks 3D magnetic sensing in SERF magnetometers. A newly discovered dual-resonance phenomenon...

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Efficient Raman shifting of microjoule pulses in N2-filled anti-resonant fiber
Summary by David Novoa

Many advanced applications require sources of ultrashort pulses with microjoule-level energies and continuously-tunable...

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