Updated 10 August 2010

Updated monthly, each list includes a cross-disciplinary sampling of the most frequently downloaded papers from SPIE Conference Proceedings and SPIE Journal papers. Each title is linked to the abstract page for that paper on the SPIE Digital Library. 

Astronomy: Survey of cost models for space telescopes (Optical Engineering)

Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging: Laser speckle contrast imaging in biomedical optics (J. Biomedical Optics) 

Defense & Security: Advancement in 17-micron pixel pitch uncooled focal plane arrays (Proceedings of SPIE)

Electronic Imaging & Signal Processing: Object tracking using an adaptive Kalman filter combined with mean shift (Optical Engineering)

Illumination & Displays: Free-form reflector optimization for general lighting (Optical Engineering)

Industrial Sensing & Measurement: Overview of three-dimensional shape measurement using optical methods (Optical Engineering)

Lasers & Sources: Laser source for DIRCM at CILAS (Proceedings of SPIE)

Micro/Nano Lithography: Monte Carlo modeling in the low-energy domain of the secondary electron emission of polymethylmethacrylate for critical-dimension scanning electron microscopy (J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS) 

Nanotechnology: Optical manipulation of nanoparticles: a review (J. Nanophotonics)

Optical Design & Engineering: Edge tool influence function library using the parametric edge model for computer controlled optical surfacing (Proceedings of SPIE)

Optoelectronics & Communications: InAs/GaSb type II superlattices for advanced 2nd and 3rd generation detectors (Proceedings of SPIE) 

Remote Sensing: Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and management (J. Applied Remote Sensing)

Solar & Alternative Energy: Nanostructured photovoltaics for space power (J. Nanophotonics) 

Astronomy

• Developments in HgCdTe avalanche photodiode technology and applications (Proceedings of SPIE)
• EAGLE: an MOAO fed multi-IFU working in the NIR on the E-ELT (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Fast catadioptric optics with large field of view (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Fizeau interferometer with spherical reference and CGH correction for measuring large convex aspheres (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Low dark current InGaAs detector arrays for night vision and astronomy (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Modular bimorph mirrors for adaptive optics (Optical Engineering)
• Optical properties of cosmic dust analogs: a review (J. Nanophotonics)
• Optical synthetic aperture imaging with spatial heterodyne interferometry (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Photon-counting detectors for space-based laser receivers (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Survey of cost models for space telescopes (Optical Engineering)

Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging

• Gold nanorods for fluorescence lifetime imaging in biology (J. Biomedical Optics)
• A high-speed photoacoustic tomography system based on a commercial ultrasound and a custom transducer array (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Laser speckle contrast imaging in biomedical optics (J. Biomedical Optics)
• A microflow cytometer on a chip (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Multimodal simultaneous photoacoustic tomography, optical resolution microscopy, and OCT system (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Multiphoton microscopy with near infrared contrast agents (J. Biomedical Optics)
• Optical phantoms of varying geometry based on thin building blocks with controlled optical properties (J. Biomedical Optics)
• Photoacoustic imaging and characterization of the microvasculature (J. Biomedical Optics)
• Photoacoustic micro-imaging of focused ultrasound induced blood-brain-barrier opening in a rat model (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Synthesis and surface modification of highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters and their exploitation for cellular labeling (Proceedings of SPIE)

• Advancement in 17-micron pixel pitch uncooled focal plane arrays (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Advances in high-rate uncooled detector fabrication at Raytheon (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Developing high-performance III-V superlattice IRFPAs for defense: challenges and solutions (Proceedings of SPIE)
• DRS uncooled VOx infrared detector development and production status (Proceedings of SPIE)
• A history of laser radar in the United States (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Low-Light-Level InGaAs focal plane arrays with and without illumination (Proceedings of SPIE) 
• LWIR high performance focal plane arrays Based on type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) materials (Proceedings of SPIE)
• New developments in SCD's 17-µm VOx µ-bolometer product line (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Real-time passive terahertz imaging system for standoff concealed weapons imaging (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Small pixel uncooled imaging FPAs and applications (Proceedings of SPIE)

 Electronic Imaging & Signal Processing

• 2PFCTM (two pixels, full color): Image sensor demosaicing and characterization (J. Electronic Imaging) 
• Color conspicuity map based on wavelet low-pass pyramid for popping out contours of salient objects (Optical Engineering)
• Estimating reflectance from multispectral camera responses based on partial least-squares regression (J. Electronic Imaging)
• Fast directional discrete cosine transform for image compression (Optical Engineering)
• High-sensitivity, wide-dynamic-range avalanche photodiode pixel design for large-scale imaging arrays (J. Electronic Imaging)
• High-speed time-domain optical coherence tomography with an imaging speed of ten frames per second with 2000 A-scan(Optical Engineering)
• Inpainting quality assessment (J. Electronic Imaging)
• A new approach to limited angle tomography using the compressed sensing framework (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Object tracking using an adaptive Kalman filter combined with mean shift (Optical Engineering)
• Simple novel all-optical half-adder (Optical Engineering)

Illumination & Displays 

• Free-form lenses for high illumination quality light-emitting diode MR16 lamps (Optical Engineering) 
• Free-form reflector optimization for general lighting (Optical Engineering)
• Future of photorefractive based holographic 3D display (Proceedings of SPIE)
• High-power GaN LED chip with low thermal resistance (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Light-emitting diode cover lens design for large-scale liquid crystal device television backlight (Optical Engineering)
• Novel concepts for OLED lighting (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Phosphor concentration and geometry for high power white light emitting diode (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Role of interface roughness on lateral transport in InGaN/GaN LEDs: diffusion length, dislocation spacing, and radiative efficiency (Proceedings of SPIE) 
• Scalable large format 3D displays (Proceedings of SPIE)
• White LED phosphors: the next step (Proceedings of SPIE)

• The analysis of EUV mask defects using a wafer defect inspection system (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Dynamic displacement measurements with a stabilized fiber Michelson interferometer based on quadratrue-phase-tracking technique (Optical Engineering)
• Effect of surface treatments/coatings and soft bake profile on surface uniformity and adhesion of SU-8 on a glass substrate (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Flat surface measurements on fiber point diffraction interferometer (Optical Engineering)
• Foreground objects detection using multiple difference images(Optical Engineering)
• High-temperature video-extensometry for material testing of refractories(Proceedings of SPIE)
• Improving aberration control with application specific optimization using computational lithography (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Ion beam figuring (IBF) for high precision optics (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Overview of three-dimensional shape measurement using optical methods  (Optical Engineering)
• Radially expanding mechanism for dielectric elastomers (Optical Engineering)

• Development of military lasers for optical countermeasures in the mid-IR (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Diode pumped alkali lasers (DPALs): an overview (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Free space optical communications research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Generalized atmospheric turbulence: implications regarding imaging and communications (Proceedings of SPIE)
• High peak power operation of a 100µm-core Yb-doped rod-type photonic crystal fiber amplifier (Proceedings of SPIE)
• High-power high-efficiency continuous-wave InGaN laser diodes in the violet, blue, and green wavelength regimes (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Laser source for DIRCM at CILAS (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Latest advances in high power disk lasers (Proceedings of SPIE)
• NIF optical materials and fabrication technologies: an overview (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Spaceborne laser instruments for high-resolution mapping  (Proceedings of SPIE)

• 22-nm-node technology active-layer patterning for planar transistor devices (J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS)
• Advances in roll-to-roll imprint lithography for display applications (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Double-patterning requirements for optical lithography and prospects for optical extension without double patterning(J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS)
• EUV into production with ASML's NXE platform (Proceedings of SPIE)
• EUV lithography at the 22nm technology node (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Generation of arbitrary freeform source shapes using advanced illumination systems in high-NA immersion scanners (Proceedings of SPIE) 
• Hybrid energy harvester based on piezoelectric and electromagnetic mechanisms(J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS)
• Monte Carlo modeling in the low-energy domain of the secondary electron emission of polymethylmethacrylate for critical-dimension scanning electron microscopy(J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS)
• Optics for EUV production (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Thin-absorber extreme-ultraviolet lithography mask with light-shield border for full-field scanner: flatness and image placement change through mask process (J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS)

• Backward and forward modes guided by metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides (J. Nanophotonics)
• Gold nanorods for fluorescence lifetime imaging in biology (J. Biomedical Optics)
• Light scattering with oxide nanocrystallite aggregates for dye-sensitized solar cell application (J. Nanophotonics) 
• Nanostructured photovoltaics for space power (J. Nanophotonics)
• Novel biosensor based on a stadium-shaped ring structure with a dual photonic crystal microcavity (Optical Engineering)
• Optical manipulation of nanoparticles: a review (J. Nanophotonics)
• Photophysics of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: a review (J. Nanophotonics)
• Quantum-dot infrared photodetectors: a review (J. Nanophotonics)
• Strategy for designing epsilon-near-zero nanostructured metamaterials over a frequency range (J. Nanophotonics)
• Terahertz processes in carbon nanotubes (J. Nanophotonics)

Optical Design & Engineering

• Design and analysis of wide-field-of-view polarization imaging spectrometer (Optical Engineering)
• Design of an optical system consisting of a special telecentric lens for side-scattering measurement on individual cells (Optical Engineering)
• Development of a large ion beam figuring facility for correction of optics up to 1.7 m diameter (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Edge tool influence function library using the parametric edge model for computer controlled optical surfacing (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Measuring the effective focal length and the wavefront aberrations of a lens system (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Optical design for a spatial-spectral volume holographic imaging system (Optical Engineering)
• Optimization of removal function parameters in CCOS (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Optimized method for manufacturing large aspheric surfaces (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Precision compression molding process of low Tg glass aspheric lenses (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Retroreflection reduction by masking apertures (Optical Engineering)

• 5.6 Gbps optical intersatellite communication link (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Chip-to-chip optical link by using optical wiring method (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Development of an EUV polarimeter with a transmission multilayer (Proceedings of SPIE)
• InAs/GaSb type II superlattices for advanced 2nd and 3rd generation detectors (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Optical satellite communications in Europe (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Polarization- and wavelength-sensitive sub-wavelength structures fabricated in the metal layers of deep submicron CMOS processes (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Quantum ghost imaging experiments (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Theory, design, and micron-scale implementation of fully optical logic gates and optical clock circuits (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Type-II superlattices: the Fraunhofer perspective (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Underwater optical wireless communication network (Optical Engineering) 

• Adaptive multidimensional Wiener filtering for target detector improvement (J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• Calibration and in-orbit performance of the Argus 1000 spectrometer - the Canadian pollution monitor (J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• Detection of disturbed earth using passive LWIR polarimetric imaging (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Hyperspectral image analysis using artificial color(J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• A microwave imaging spectrometer for security applications (Proceedings of SPIE)
• NEON: the first continental-scale ecological observatory with airborne remote sensing of vegetation canopy biochemistry and structure (J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• PICASSO: an end-to-end image simulation tool for space and airborne imaging systems(J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• Spectral compatibility of vegetation indices across sensors: band decomposition analysis with Hyperion data (J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and management (J. Applied Remote Sensing)
• Using the Sonoran and Libyan Desert test sites to monitor the temporal stability of reflective solar bands for Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus and Terra moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer sensors (J. Applied Remote Sensing)

• Air-stable efficient polymer solar cells incorporating solution-processed titanium oxide layer (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Band gap engineering of ZnO for high efficiency CIGS based solar cells(Proceedings of SPIE)
• Design, development and manufacture of high-efficiency low-cost solar modules based on CIGS PVICs (Proceedings of SPIE)
• High efficiency polymer solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100% (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Light scattering with oxide nanocrystallite aggregates for dye-sensitized solar cell application (J. Nanophotonics)
• Nanostructured photovoltaics for space power (J. Nanophotonics)
• Nanostructures for high-efficiency photovoltaics (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Rapid reactive transfer printing of CIGS photovoltaics (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Research and developments in thin-film silicon photovoltaics (Proceedings of SPIE)
• Status and future perspective of a-Si:H, a-SiGe:H, and nc-Si:H thin film photovoltaic technology (Proceedings of SPIE)