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Highlights of EOSAM 2018

EOSAM © EOSThe EOS biennial Meeting was held at the Delft University of Technology in October 08-12, 2018, showcasing the latest results in optics and photonics research. A selection of the best articles submitted to EOSAM 2018 will be published here.


  1. Modern optical multi-camera systems require integrating many camera modules in a small volume. A new space-saving concept for such imaging systems is presented, based on intersecting optical paths that utilize...

    Authors: Jyrki Kimmel
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:25
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  2. Precision and ultra-precision surfaces are crucial for many products – quality optics, joint & cranial implants, turbine blades, and industrial moulds & dies, to name a few. Automation in this context is disti...

    Authors: David Douglas Walker, Thomas Leo McCluskey, Guoyu Yu, Sanja Petrovic and Hongyu Li
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:24
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  3. Palm oil is one of the most useful vegetable available. Sudan IV dye is used as hue enhancer in palm oil despite the ban as food colorant due to its carcinogenicity and mutagenicity by the International Agency...

    Authors: Sampson Saj Andoh, Tarmo Nuutinen, Cheetham Mingle and Matthieu Roussey
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:21
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  4. In this work, a nanostructured guided-mode resonance filter matrix with high transmission efficiency and narrow bandwidth is demonstrated. The developed nano-filter arrays have various usages, e.g., combined w...

    Authors: Wenze Wu, Leonard Weber, Peter Hinze, Thomas Weimann, Thorsten Dziomba, Bernd Bodermann, Stefanie Kroker, Joan Daniel Prades, Hutomo Suryo Wasisto and Andreas Waag
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:19
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  5. In order to remove mid-spatial frequency errors on aspheric and freeform surfaces, we have developed an aspheric smoothing tool which, unusually, is rigid. This has been proved feasible in the special case whe...

    Authors: Guoyu Yu, Lunzhe Wu, Xing Su, Yuancheng Li, Ke Wang, Hongyu Li and David Walker
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:18
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  6. The behavior of the light field near the beam waist has attracted considerable attention due to the studies of the light spin-orbit interaction: it’s manifestation as well as potential applications. Similarly,...

    Authors: Evelina A Bibikova, Nazar Al-wassiti and Nataliya D Kundikova
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:17
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  7. In this contribution, we investigate hybrid single vision spectacle lenses (SVSLs) consisting of holographic optical elements (HOEs) embedded into a refractive lens. We evaluate the performance of two examples...

    Authors: Jannik M. Trapp, Toufic G. Jabbour, Gerhard Kelch, Thomas Pertsch and Manuel Decker
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:14
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  8. In this work, two photo-structuring processes, photo induced spontaneous surface structuring (PSSP) and photo induced supramolecular chirality (PSC) are applied to high-performance azo polymers. We demonstrate...

    Authors: Sekvan Bagatur and Thomas Fuhrmann-Lieker
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:12
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  9. Classical zoom lenses are based on movements of sub-modules along the optical axis. Generally, a constant image plane position requires at least one nonlinear sub-module movement. This nonlinearity poses a cha...

    Authors: Leonhard Lenk, Beate Mitschunas and Stefan Sinzinger
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:9
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  10. For lighting applications demanding high brightness, a new type of LED-based light source has been developed, the high lumen density (HLD) source (luminance > 2·109 cd/m2). The performance can be improved further...

    Authors: Dick K. G. de Boer and Ludo Haenen
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:8
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  11. Photonic crystal fiber Mach-Zehnder modal interferometers based on no adiabatic tapered fibers are perspective for bio-chemical sensing, since they have very high refractive index sensitivity and it is possibl...

    Authors: Vladimir P. Minkovich and Alexander B. Sotsky
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:7
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  12. A strip-loaded slot waveguide is a waveguide platform allowing a large amount of degrees of freedom in terms of fabrication. Contrary to other waveguide types where the guiding layer has to be patterned, only ...

    Authors: Ségolène Pélisset and Matthieu Roussey
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:6
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  13. Interference signals in coherence scanning interferometry at high numerical apertures and narrow bandwidth illumination are spectrally broadened. This enables phase analysis within a spectral range much wider ...

    Authors: Peter Lehmann, Stanislav Tereschenko, Benedikt Allendorf, Sebastian Hagemeier and Lucie Hüser
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:5
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  14. We report on an auxiliary field approach for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems occurring in nano-optical systems with material dispersion. The material dispersion can be described by a rational function fo...

    Authors: Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich and Sven Burger
    Citation: Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 2019 15:3
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