1. Effects of laser fluence non-uniformity on ambient-temperature soot measurements using the auto-compensating laser-induced incandescence technique

   • Fengshan Liu
   • Steven Rogak
   • Gregory J. Smallwood

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2016 Article: 286

   

2. 2-μm Switchable dual-wavelength single-longitudinal-mode fiber laser based on a core-offset structure and carbon nanotube

   • Enci Chen
   • Ping Lu
   • Jiangshan Zhang

   OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 285

   

3. Spatial–temporal gain distribution of a CuBr vapor brightness amplifier

   • F. A. Gubarev
   • Lin Li
   • D. V. Shiyanov

   OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 284

   

4. “Enlightening the World with the Laser”—Honoring T. W. Hänsch

   Editorial 11 November 2016 Article: 283

5. Research on the glucose-sensing characteristics of gold microparticle-doped silica microfiber based on refractive index measurement

   • Haifeng Hu
   • Jin Li
   • Riqing Lv

   OriginalPaper 10 November 2016 Article: 282

   

6. Narrow-linewidth cooling of \(^{6}\)Li atoms using the 2S-3P transition

   • Hao-Ze Chen
   • Xing-Can Yao
   • Jian-Wei Pan

   OriginalPaper 04 November 2016 Article: 281

   

7. Generation of intense femtosecond optical vortex pulses with blazed-phase grating in chirped-pulse amplification system of Ti:sapphire laser

   • Yu-Chieh Lin
   • Yasuo Nabekawa
   • Katsumi Midorikawa

   OriginalPaper Open access 03 November 2016 Article: 280

   

8. Near-diffraction-limited 156 W laser-diode end-pumped Yb:YAG Innoslab laser operated at room temperature

   • Yefei Mao
   • Xianglong Hao
   • Hengli Zhang

   OriginalPaper 01 November 2016 Article: 279

   

9. Dispersive Fourier transformation femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering

   • Sven Dobner
   • Carsten Fallnich

   OriginalPaper 31 October 2016 Article: 278

   

10. Laser-induced incandescence from laser-heated silicon nanoparticles

    • Jan Menser
    • Kyle Daun
    • Christof Schulz

    OriginalPaper 28 October 2016 Article: 277

    

11. Thermally controllable chiral nematic vector gratings with holographically regulated photoalignment films

    • Tomoyuki Sasaki
    • Rei Shimura
    • Hiroshi Ono

    OriginalPaper 27 October 2016 Article: 276

    

12. Assessment of biological activity in RAW 264.7 cell line stimulated with lipopolysaccharide using dynamic laser speckle

    • Rolando J. González-Peña
    • Héctor Pérez-Montoyo
    • Dimitri Campos Viana

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2016 Article: 275

    

13. Erratum to: Vortex and anti-vortex compositions of exact elegant Laguerre–Gaussian vector beams

    • W. Nasalski

    Erratum Open access 20 October 2016 Article: 274

14. Sub-picosecond ultra-low frequency passively mode-locked fiber laser

    • Christian Cuadrado-Laborde
    • José L. Cruz
    • Miguel V. Andrés

    OriginalPaper 20 October 2016 Article: 273

    

15. The modified SRRS threshold criteria for high peak power laser pulses in long air-path transmission considering the near-field beam quality

    • C. Y. Zhu
    • D. Y. Lin
    • D. X. Ba

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2016 Article: 272

    

16. An equivalent source to describe realistic synchrotron hard X-rays

    • Hui Jiang
    • Shuai Yan
    • Aiguo Li

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2016 Article: 271

    

17. The nonlinear optical properties of the monoclinic d-isoascorbic acid crystal

    • K. Raghavendra Rao
    • R. Sanathkumar
    • Suja Elizabeth

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2016 Article: 270