1 December 2003, Volume 20, Issue 12, pp. 2425-2576  
18 articles

Fiber optical parametric amplifiers with linearly or circularly polarized waves

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2425-2433 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Polynomial expansion for extraction of electromagnetic eigenmodes in layered structures

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2434-2441 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical study of cold-cavity single-mode conditions in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with incorporated two-dimensional photonic crystals

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2442-2447 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Total external reflection from metamaterials with ultralow refractive index

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2448-2453 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropy of refractive-index nonlinear change in Cr4+:YAG at cw resonant excitation: modeling

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2454-2469 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturable and reverse saturable absorption of Rhodamine B in methanol and water

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2470-2479 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear absorption and refraction in near-detuned rubidium vapor

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2480-2483 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear refractive index of a glass plate used for beam transformation and its application to Z scans

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2484-2491 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Raman scattering in a spherical microparticle

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2492-2501 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Unified analysis of modulational instability induced by cross-phase modulation in optical fibers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2502-2514 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal analysis of open-circuit dark photovoltaic spatial solitons

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2515-2522 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse distortion in optical fibers and waveguides with arbitrary chromatic dispersion

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2523-2533 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Evidence for radiative damping in surface-plasmon-mediated light transmission through perforated conducting films

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2534-2538 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous coherent pulsations in 3.39-μm He–Ne standing-wave laser oscillators

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2539-2547 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Second-harmonic amplitude and phase spectroscopy by use of broad-bandwidth femtosecond pulses

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2548-2561 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Microstructuring transparent materials by use of nondiffracting ultrashort pulse beams generated by diffractive optics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2562-2568 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent two-photon absorption quenching of short laser pulses with phase–amplitude irregularities

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2569-2575 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Exploration of self-writing and photosensitivity in ion-exchanged waveguides: erratum

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(12), 2576-2576 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF