Applied Optics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Applied Optics is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatially resolved reflectance from turbid media having a rough surface. Part II: experiments83
Estimation precision for a normalized response matrix in linear polarization calibration66
Potential of edge machine learning for instrumentation61
Chemometrics applied quantitative analysis of iron oxide mixtures by terahertz spectroscopy55
Real-time high-precision FMCW laser range extraction method based on a hardware multiplier array55
Binarization for low-quality ESPI fringe patterns based on preprocessing and clustering53
Free-form off-axis three-mirror optical antenna design with an integrated primary/tertiary-mirror structure51
Mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser far off the gain peak: tunable sub-200-fs pulses near 1  µm43
Thermally responsive polymer-dispersed liquid crystal diffusers fabricated using laser speckle pattern irradiation41
Using a broadband long-wavelength channel to increase the capture range of segment piston phase retrieval for segmented-aperture systems38
Adaptive dynamic adjustment star identification threshold estimation for a terrestrial star tracker34
Control of light-induced torque in quantum well waveguides through electron spin coherence33
Confocal microscopy multi-focus image fusion method based on axial information guidance33
Design and implementation of a physical layer optical fiber security communication system based on a ZUC stream cipher31
Multi-channel synthetic aperture infrared imaging and experimental research31
Optical design and development of an underwater dual-channel microlens array integral field snapshot hyperspectral imager30
Effective interference mitigation scheme for multi-LED-based mobile optical camera communication30
Mask correction method for surface plasmon lithography29
Mirror-backed dielectric metasurface sensor with ultrahigh figure of merit based on a super-narrow Rayleigh anomaly29
Compact and broadband design of an 850 nm 2 × 2 3-dB directional coupler with a shallowly etched SWG gap29
Cutting sinusoidal gratings to enhance light trapping in thin-film silicon solar cells27
Phase retrieval from single-shot square wave fringe based on image denoising using deep learning27
Design parameters for Airy beams in light-sheet microscopy26
Combined multi-scale mesh and full-matrix inversion for enhancing time-domain breast diffuse optical tomography26
Reed microstructure detection by optical coherence tomography, an efficient and non-invasive method25
Engineering a conformal optical window of a square-to-circular transition isolator25
High-performance reconstruction method combining total variation with a video denoiser for compressed ultrafast imaging25
Design of an efficient illuminator for partially coherent sources in the extreme ultraviolet25
Performance analysis of an SMF-/MMF-based single/double/quadruple tapered optical fiber structure25
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