Phase sensitivity to temperature of the fundamental mode in air-guiding photonic-bandgap fibers

Vinayak Dangui, Hyang Kyun Kim, Michel J. F. Digonnet, and Gordon S. Kino

Opt. Express 13(18), 6669-6684 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of a high-resolution periodical structure using a replication process

Wei-Ching Chuang, Chi-Ting Ho, and Wei-Chih Wang

Opt. Express 13(18), 6685-6692 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-longitudinal-mode operation of a 1 W combined actively and passively Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG laser

Xuejun Wang and Zuyan Xu

Opt. Express 13(18), 6693-6698 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Through-focus technique for nano-scale grating pitch and linewidth analysis

Yi-Sha Ku, An-Shun Liu, and Nigel Smith

Opt. Express 13(18), 6699-6708 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatial and spectral mode selection of heralded single photons from pulsed parametric down-conversion

S. Castelletto, I. P. Degiovanni, V. Schettini, and A. Migdall

Opt. Express 13(18), 6709-6722 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent reflection of light from a turbid suspension of particles in an internal-reflection configuration: Theory versus experiment

Augusto García-Valenzuela, Rubén G. Barrera, Celia Sánchez-Pérez, Alejandro Reyes-Coronado, and Eugenio R. Méndez

Opt. Express 13(18), 6723-6737 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Extended focused image in microscopy by digital holography

Pietro Ferraro, Simonetta Grilli, Domenico Alfieri, Sergio De Nicola, Andrea Finizio, Giovanni Pierattini, Bahram Javidi, Giuseppe Coppola, and Valerio Striano

Opt. Express 13(18), 6738-6749 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Study on the THz spectrum of methamphetamine

Li Ning, Shen Jingling, Sun Jinhai, Liang Laishun, Xu Xiaoyu, Lu Meihong, and Jia Yan

Opt. Express 13(18), 6750-6755 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Practical reconstruction method for bioluminescence tomography

Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang, Durairaj Kumar, Yi Liu, Ming Jiang, Lihong V. Wang, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, Paul B. McCray, Joseph Zabner, and Alexander Cong

Opt. Express 13(18), 6756-6771 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Watts-level frequency doubling of a narrow line linearly polarized Raman fiber laser to 589 nm

D. Georgiev, V. P. Gapontsev, A. G. Dronov, M. Y. Vyatkin, A. B. Rulkov, S. V. Popov, and J. R. Taylor

Opt. Express 13(18), 6772-6776 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Isochronal annealing of Bragg gratings written in H₂-loaded or in UV-hypersensitized germano-phosphosilicate planar waveguides: a comparison

Vincent Beugin, Pierre Niay, and Marc Douay

Opt. Express 13(18), 6777-6790 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear wave mixing in a multilongitudinal-mode erbium-doped fiber laser

V. Roy, M. Piché, F. Babin, and G. W. Schinn

Opt. Express 13(18), 6791-6797 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Glass micro-fibers for efficient third harmonic generation

Victor Grubsky and Arthur Savchenko

Opt. Express 13(18), 6798-6806 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse compression during second-harmonic generation in engineered aperiodic quasi-phase-matching gratings

Pingchuan Li, Xianfeng Chen, Yuping Chen, and Yuxing Xia

Opt. Express 13(18), 6807-6814 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam manipulating by metallic nano-slits with variant widths

Haofei Shi, Changtao Wang, Chunlei Du, Xiangang Luo, Xiaochun Dong, and Hongtao Gao

Opt. Express 13(18), 6815-6820 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct measurement of a radially polarized focused evanescent field facilitated by a single LCD

Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan, and Min Gu

Opt. Express 13(18), 6821-6827 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Stabilized and wavelength-tunable S-Band erbium-doped fiber ring laser with single-longitudinal-mode operation

Chien-Hung Yeh, Ming-Ching Lin, and Sien Chi

Opt. Express 13(18), 6828-6832 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Vectorial, high numerical aperture study of Nomarski’s differential interference contrast microscope

Peter R.T. Munro and Peter Török

Opt. Express 13(18), 6833-6847 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires

Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta, Qiang Cao, and Rick Trebino

Opt. Express 13(18), 6848-6855 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Honeycomb photonic bandgap fibers with and without interstitial air holes

Yanfeng Li, Ching-yue Wang, Minglie Hu, Bowen Liu, Xiwen Sun, and Lu Chai

Opt. Express 13(18), 6856-6863 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

All fiber-based 160-Gbit/s add/drop multiplexer incorporating a 1-m-long Bismuth Oxide-based ultra-high nonlinearity fiber

Ju Han Lee, Kazuro Kikuchi, Tatsuo Nagashima, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Seiki Ohara, and Naoki Sugimoto

Opt. Express 13(18), 6864-6869 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of fiber design on polarization dependence in microbend gratings

Steven E. Golowich and Siddharth Ramachandran

Opt. Express 13(18), 6870-6877 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Self induced gratings in ternary SiO₂:SnO₂:Na₂O bulk glasses by UV light seeding

M. Lancry, M. Douay, P. Niay, F. Beclin, Y. Menke, D. Milanese, M. Ferraris, and B. Poumellec

Opt. Express 13(18), 6878-6886 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative effect of temperature to the absorbance of aqueous glucose in wavelength range from 1200nm to 1700nm

Houxin Cui, Lin An, Wenliang Chen, and Kexin Xu

Opt. Express 13(18), 6887-6891 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband infrared luminescence from Li₂O-Al₂O₃-ZnO-SiO₂ glasses doped with Bi₂O₃

Mingying Peng, Jianrong Qiu, Danping Chen, Xiangeng Meng, and Congshan Zhu

Opt. Express 13(18), 6892-6898 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Actuation of microfabricated tools using multiple GPC-based counterpropagating-beam traps

Peter John Rodrigo, Lauge Gammelgaard, Peter Bøggild, Ivan R. Perch-Nielsen, and Jesper Glückstad

Opt. Express 13(18), 6899-6904 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time observation of birefringence by laser-scanning surface plasmon resonance microscope

Takuo Tanaka and Satoshi Kawata

Opt. Express 13(18), 6905-6911 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Modelling of high-power supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion shifted fibers at CW pump

Serguei M. Kobtsev and Serguei V. Smirnov

Opt. Express 13(18), 6912-6918 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient nonlinear frequency conversion with a dynamically structured nonlinearity

K. Hartinger, S. Nirmalgandhi, J. Wilson, and Randy A. Bartels

Opt. Express 13(18), 6919-6930 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Circularly polarized spatial solitons in Kerr media beyond paraxial approximation

Hongcheng Wang and Weilong She

Opt. Express 13(18), 6931-6936 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Hollow-core PCF for guidance in the mid to far infra-red

G. J. Pearce, J. M. Pottage, D. M. Bird, P. J. Roberts, J. C. Knight, and P. St.J. Russell

Opt. Express 13(18), 6937-6946 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode in-gap emission of medium-width photonic crystal waveguides on InP substrate

X. Checoury, P. Crozat, J-M. Lourtioz, C. Cuisin, E. Derouin, O. Drisse, F. Poigt, L. Legouezigou, O. Legouezigou, P. Pommereau, G-H. Duan, O. Gauthier-Lafaye, S. Bonnefont, D. Mulin, F. Lozes-Dupuy, and A. Talneau

Opt. Express 13(18), 6947-6955 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical manipulation of microparticles and cells on silicon nitride waveguides

S. Gaugiran, S. Gétin, J. M. Fedeli, G. Colas, A. Fuchs, F. Chatelain, and J. Dérouard

Opt. Express 13(18), 6956-6963 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Numerical simulation of surface-plasmon-assisted nanolithography

D. B. Shao and S. C. Chen

Opt. Express 13(18), 6964-6973 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency doubling of an efficient continuous wave single-mode Yb-doped fiber laser at 978 nm in a periodically-poled MgO:LiNbO₃ waveguide

A. Bouchier, G. Lucas-Leclin, P. Georges, and J.M. Maillard

Opt. Express 13(18), 6974-6979 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Light transmission through a high index dielectric-filled sub-wavelength hole in a metal film

Juuso Olkkonen, Kari Kataja, and Dennis G. Howe

Opt. Express 13(18), 6980-6989 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal analysis of grating formation in photopolymer using the nonlocal polymerization-driven diffusion model

John V. Kelly, Michael R. Gleeson, Ciara E. Close, Feidhlim T. O’ Neill, John T. Sheridan, Sergi Gallego, and Cristian Neipp

Opt. Express 13(18), 6990-7004 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonance-induced wave penetration through electromagnetic opaque object

He Wen, Bo Hou, Yang Leng, and Weijia Wen

Opt. Express 13(18), 7005-7010 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Power scaling of highly neodymium-doped YAG ceramic lasers with a bounce amplifier geometry

Takashige Omatsu, Yasukuni Ojima, Ara Minassian, and Michael J. Damzen

Opt. Express 13(18), 7011-7016 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

A virtual optical probe based on localized Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Emiliano Descrovi, Vincent Paeder, Luciana Vaccaro, and Hans-Peter Herzig

Opt. Express 13(18), 7017-7027 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupling of terahertz pulses onto a single metal wire waveguide using milled grooves

Hua Cao and Ajay Nahata

Opt. Express 13(18), 7028-7034 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Single molecule fluorescence in rectangular nano-apertures

Jérôme Wenger, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Evgueni Popov, Hervé Rigneault, José Dintinger, and Thomas W. Ebbesen

Opt. Express 13(18), 7035-7044 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurement of phase retardation and optic axis of a phase compensation film using an axially-symmetric sheared polymer network liquid crystal

Yung-Hsun Wu, Ju-Hyun Lee, Yi-Hsin Lin, Hongwen Ren, and Shin-Tson Wu

Opt. Express 13(18), 7045-7051 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Superresolution by localization of quantum dots using blinking statistics

Keith A. Lidke, Bernd Rieger, Thomas M. Jovin, and Rainer Heintzmann

Opt. Express 13(18), 7052-7062 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon polarization filtering in a single mode dielectric waveguide

P. S. Davids, B. A. Block, and K. C. Cadien

Opt. Express 13(18), 7063-7069 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Mathematical model of spin-coated photoresist on a spherical substrate

Xiao-guo Feng and Lian-chun Sun

Opt. Express 13(18), 7070-7075 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-collimation of light in three-dimensional photonic crystals

R. Iliew, C. Etrich, and F. Lederer

Opt. Express 13(18), 7076-7085 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Pulse-off electro-optic Q-switch made of La₃Ga₅SiO₁₄

Zhaojun Liu, Qingpu Wang, Xingyu Zhang, Zejin Liu, Aijian Wei, Jun Chang, Fufang Su, and Guofan Jin

Opt. Express 13(18), 7086-7090 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation in Ge-ion implanted fused silica channel waveguide

Shiuh Chao, Huai-Yi Chen, Yu-Hsien Yang, Ze-Wen Wang, Chih T’sung Shih, and Huan Niu

Opt. Express 13(18), 7091-7096 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical description of the photorefractive detection of the ultrasound modulated photons in scattering media

M. Gross, F. Ramaz, B.C. Forget, M. Atlan, A.C. Boccara, P. Delaye, and G. Roosen

Opt. Express 13(18), 7097-7112 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Single frequency 1083nm ytterbium doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier laser

Shenghong Huang, Guanshi Qin, Akira Shirakawa, Mitsuru Musha, and Ken-ichi Ueda

Opt. Express 13(18), 7113-7117 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam jitter coupling in advanced LIGO

Guido Mueller

Opt. Express 13(18), 7118-7132 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Moving and stationary spatial-temporal solitons in a resonantly absorbing Bragg reflector

J. Zhu, J. Y. Zhou, and J. Cheng

Opt. Express 13(18), 7133-7138 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Single-mode mid-IR guidance in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

J. D. Shephard, W. N. MacPherson, R. R. J. Maier, J. D. C. Jones, D. P. Hand, M. Mohebbi, A. K. George, P. J. Roberts, and J. C. Knight

Opt. Express 13(18), 7139-7144 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Slow-light, band-edge waveguides for tunable time delays

M. L. Povinelli, Steven G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Opt. Express 13(18), 7145-7159 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Super-resolution Fourier transform method in phase shifting interferometry

Rajesh Langoju, Abhijit Patil, and Pramod Rastogi

Opt. Express 13(18), 7160-7173 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal and optical simulation of a photonic crystal light modulator based on the thermo-optic shift of the cut-off frequency

M. T. Tinker and J-B. Lee

Opt. Express 13(18), 7174-7188 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Miniature planar solid immersion mirror with focused spot less than a quarter wavelength

William A. Challener, Christophe Mihalcea, Chubing Peng, and Kalman Pelhos

Opt. Express 13(18), 7189-7197 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Comprehensive modeling of near-field nano-patterning

Raymond C. Rumpf and Eric G. Johnson

Opt. Express 13(18), 7198-7208 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Red microchip VECSEL array

Jennifer E. Hastie, Lynne G. Morton, Stephane Calvez, Martin D. Dawson, Tomi Leinonen, Markus Pessa, Graham Gibson, and Miles J. Padgett

Opt. Express 13(18), 7209-7214 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Ultrahigh supermode noise suppressing ratio of a semiconductor optical amplifier filtered harmonically mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser

Gong-Ru Lin, Ming-Chung Wu, Yung-Cheng Chang, and Ci-Ling Pan

Opt. Express 13(18), 7215-7224 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Freestanding optical fibers fabricated in a glass chip using femtosecond laser micromachining for lab-on-a-chip application

Ya Cheng, Koji Sugioka, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Opt. Express 13(18), 7225-7232 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal selection of aspheric surfaces in optical design

Akira Yabe

Opt. Express 13(18), 7233-7242 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrically tunable lasers made from electro-optically active photonics band gap materials

Haiping Yu, Benjamin Y. Tang, Jianhui Li, and Le Li

Opt. Express 13(18), 7243-7249 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

An efficient local fundamental-mode cutoff for thermo-optic tunable Er³⁺-doped fiber ring laser

Nan-Kuang Chen, Sien Chi, and Shiao-Min Tseng

Opt. Express 13(18), 7250-7255 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF