Nonlinear optics in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Amar R. Bhagwat and Alexander L. Gaeta

Opt. Express 16(7), 5035-5047 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent spectroscopy of semiconductors

Steven T. Cundiff

Opt. Express 16(7), 4639-4664 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Photocurrent response from photonic crystal defect modes

Stephan Schartner, Michele Nobile, Werner Schrenk, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, and Gottfried Strasser

Opt. Express 16(7), 4797-4803 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Anomalies in the disappearance of the extraordinary electromagnetic transmission in subwavelength hole arrays

Jean-Baptiste Masson, Alexander Podzorov, and Guilhem Gallot

Opt. Express 16(7), 4719-4730 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Reliable tree-type passive optical networks with self-restorable apparatus

Chien Hung Yeh, Fu-Yuan Shih, Gee-Kung Chang, and Sien Chi

Opt. Express 16(7), 4494-4498 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Cost-effective colorless WDM-PON delivering up/down-stream data and broadcast services on a single wavelength using mutually injected Fabry-Perot laser diodes

Ho-Chul Ji, Ikuo Yamashita, and Ken-Ichi Kitayama

Opt. Express 16(7), 4520-4528 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of defect luminescence in Yb doped silica fibers: part I NBOHC

Peter D. Dragic, Chad G. Carlson, and André Croteau

Opt. Express 16(7), 4688-4697 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonuniformly-spaced photonic microwave delay-line filter

Yitang Dai and Jianping Yao

Opt. Express 16(7), 4713-4718 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirp and error rate analyses of an optical-injection gain-switching VCSEL based all-optical NRZ-to-PRZ converter

Chia-Chi Lin, Hao-Chung Kuo, Peng-Chun Peng, and Gong-Ru Lin

Opt. Express 16(7), 4838-4847 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Soliton self-frequency shift, non-solitonic radiation and self-induced transparency in air-core fibers

Andrey V. Gorbach and Dmitry V. Skryabin

Opt. Express 16(7), 4858-4865 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

320 Gbps to 10 GHz sub-clock recovery using a PPLN-based opto-electronic phase-locked loop

Cédric Ware, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Fausto Gómez Agis, Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Michael Galili, Sunao Kurimura, Hirochika Nakajima, Junichiro Ichikawa, Didier Erasme, Anders T. Clausen, and Palle Jeppesen

Opt. Express 16(7), 5007-5012 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and tolerance analysis of a low bending loss hole-assisted fiber using statistical design methodology

Jürgen Van Erps, Christof Debaes, Tomasz Nasilowski, Jan Watté, Jan Wojcik, and Hugo Thienpont

Opt. Express 16(7), 5061-5074 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical generation of binary-phase-coded, direct-sequence ultra-wideband signals by polarization modulation and FBG-based multichannel frequency discriminator

Pan Ou, Ye Zhang, and Chun-Xi Zhang

Opt. Express 16(7), 5130-5135 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Integrated 10 Gb/s AWG-based correlator for multi-wavelength optical header recognition

Muhsen Aljada and Kamal E. Alameh

Opt. Express 16(7), 5150-5157 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of optical beams with spiral phase interferometry

Roser Juanola-Parramon, Noelia Gonzalez, and Gabriel Molina-Terriza

Opt. Express 16(7), 4471-4478 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Computing extinction maps of star nulling interferometers

François Hénault

Opt. Express 16(7), 4537-4546 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical generation of Voronoi Diagram

F. Giavazzi, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, M. Giglio, and A. Vailati

Opt. Express 16(7), 4819-4823 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

The optical advantages of curved focal plane arrays

Seung-Bum Rim, Peter B. Catrysse, Rostam Dinyari, Kevin Huang, and Peter Peumans

Opt. Express 16(7), 4965-4971 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Three dimensional visualization by photon counting computational Integral Imaging

Behnoosh Tavakoli, Bahram Javidi, and Edward Watson

Opt. Express 16(7), 4426-4436 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Photothermal detection of gold nanoparticles using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Desmond C. Adler, Shu-Wei Huang, Robert Huber, and James G. Fujimoto

Opt. Express 16(7), 4376-4393 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration and validation by professional observers of the Mission-Quality criterion for imaging systems design

Alain Philippe Kattnig and Jérôme Primot

Opt. Express 16(7), 4824-4837 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging complex structures with diffuse light

Soren D. Konecky, George Y. Panasyuk, Kijoon Lee, Vadim Markel, Arjun G. Yodh, and John C. Schotland

Opt. Express 16(7), 5048-5060 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Real time modulable multifocality through annular optical elements

J. Perez, J. Espinosa, C. Illueca, C. Vázquez, and I. Moreno

Opt. Express 16(7), 5095-5106 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Fresnel diffraction in the case of an inclined image plane

Peter Modregger, Daniel Lübbert, Peter Schäfer, Rolf Köhler, Timm Weitkamp, Michael Hanke, and Tilo Baumbach

Opt. Express 16(7), 5141-5149 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase shifting speckle interferometry for dynamic phenomena

Luigi Bruno and Andrea Poggialini

Opt. Express 16(7), 4665-4670 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Calibration of wafer surface inspection systems using spherical silica nanoparticles

Thomas A. Germer, Christian Wolters, and Don Brayton

Opt. Express 16(7), 4698-4705 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study on subaperture testing with iterative stitching algorithm

Shanyong Chen, Shengyi Li, Yifan Dai, Lingyan Ding, and Shengyue Zeng

Opt. Express 16(7), 4760-4765 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Rainbow surface tension analysis

Charles L. Adler, Valen A. Smith, and Natalie M. Haddad

Opt. Express 16(7), 5118-5129 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-low power parametric frequency conversion in a silicon microring resonator

Amy C. Turner, Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta, and Michal Lipson

Opt. Express 16(7), 4881-4887 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact waveguide splitter networks

Yusheng Qian, Jiguo Song, Seunghyun Kim, Weisheng Hu, and Gregory P. Nordin

Opt. Express 16(7), 4981-4990 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

A distributed feedback silicon evanescent laser

Alexander W. Fang, Erica Lively, Ying-Hao Kuo, Di Liang, and John. E. Bowers

Opt. Express 16(7), 4413-4419 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Evolution from modal to spatially incoherent emission of a broad-area VCSEL

Shyam K. Mandre, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Ingo Fischer, Michael Peeters, and Guy Verschaffelt

Opt. Express 16(7), 4452-4464 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 3.5W high efficiency blue-violet laser by intracavity frequency-doubling of an all-solid-state tunable Ti:sapphire laser

X. Ding, R. Wang, H. Zhang, W. Q. Wen, L. Huang, P. Wang, J. Q. Yao, X. Y. Yu, and Z. Li

Opt. Express 16(7), 4582-4587 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

eXtreme Chirped Pulse Oscillator Operating in the Nanosecond Stretched Pulse Regime

Shinwook Lee, Dimitrios Mandridis, and Peter J. Delfyett

Opt. Express 16(7), 4766-4773 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Single quantum dot controlled lasing effects in high-Q micropillar cavities

S. Reitzenstein, C. Böckler, A. Bazhenov, A. Gorbunov, A. Löffler, M. Kamp, V.D. Kulakovskii, and A. Forchel

Opt. Express 16(7), 4848-4857 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

External-cavity frequency doubling of a 5-W 756-nm injection-locked Ti:sapphire laser

Yong-Ho Cha, Kwang-Hoon Ko, Gwon Lim, Jae-Min Han, Hyun-Min Park, Taek-Soo Kim, and Do-Young Jeong

Opt. Express 16(7), 4866-4871 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared Cr²⁺:ZnSe random powder lasers

C. Kim, D.V. Martyshkin, V. V. Fedorov, and S. B. Mirov

Opt. Express 16(7), 4952-4959 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser oscillation of Yb:KLu(WO₄)₂ crystal polarized along the N_g principal optical axis

Junhai Liu, Huaijin Zhang, Wenjuan Han, Valentin Petrov, and Jiyang Wang

Opt. Express 16(7), 4960-4964 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal properties of monoclinic KLu(WO₄)₂ as a promising solid state laser host

Òscar Silvestre, Joan Grau, Maria Cinta Pujol, Jaume Massons, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Borowiec, Andrzej Szewczyk, Maria Urszula Gutowska, Marta Massot, Agustín Salazar, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Express 16(7), 5022-5034 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped continuous wave and Q-switched operation of a c-cut Tm,Ho:YAlO₃ laser

Bao-Quan Yao, Lin-Jun Li, Liang-Liang Zheng, Yue-zhu Wang, Guang-Jun Zhao, and Jun Xu

Opt. Express 16(7), 5075-5081 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Integration of epitaxially-grown InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers with hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides on silicon

Jun Yang and Pallab Bhattacharya

Opt. Express 16(7), 5136-5140 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Finite-difference time-domain simulations of exciton-polariton resonances in quantum-dot arrays

Yong Zeng, Ying Fu, Mats Bengtsson, Xiaoshuang Chen, Wei Lu, and Hans Ågren

Opt. Express 16(7), 4507-4519 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Twofold coordinated Ge defects induced by gamma-ray irradiation in Ge-doped SiO₂

A. Alessi, S. Agnello, F. M. Gelardi, S. Grandi, A. Magistris, and R. Boscaino

Opt. Express 16(7), 4895-4900 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Combination of passivated Si anode with phosphor doped organic to realize highly efficient Si-based electroluminescence

W. Q. Zhao, G. Z. Ran, Z. W. Liu, Z. Q. Bian, K. Sun, W. J. Xu, C. H. Huang, and G. G. Qin

Opt. Express 16(7), 5158-5163 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

A zero-crossing detection method applied to Doppler OCT

Zhiqiang Xu, Lionel Carrion, and Roman Maciejko

Opt. Express 16(7), 4394-4412 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantification of in vivo autofluorescence dynamics during renal ischemia and reperfusion under 355 nm excitation

Rajesh N. Raman, Christopher D. Pivetti, Dennis L. Matthews, Christoph Troppmann, and Stavros G. Demos

Opt. Express 16(7), 4930-4944 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Evaluation of effective electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in metamaterial slabs by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Yosuke Minowa, Takashi Fujii, Masaya Nagai, Tetsuyuki Ochiai, Kazuaki Sakoda, Kazuyuki Hirao, and Koichiro Tanaka

Opt. Express 16(7), 4785-4796 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of surface reflective properties on differential interference contrast microscopy

Olivier Theodoly, Sylvain Gabriele, and Marie-Pierre Valignat

Opt. Express 16(7), 4547-4558 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

THz emission Microscopy with sub-wavelength broadband source

Romain Lecaque, Samuel Grésillon, and Claude Boccara

Opt. Express 16(7), 4731-4738 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization anisotropy in fiber-optic second harmonic generation microscopy

Ling Fu and Min Gu

Opt. Express 16(7), 5000-5006 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Image heterogeneity correction in large-area, three-dimensional multiphoton microscopy

Vladimir A. Hovhannisyan, Ping-Jung Su, Yang-Fang Chen, and Chen Yuan Dong

Opt. Express 16(7), 5107-5117 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Large irradiance limiting induced by three-photon absorption of a symmetrical fluorene-based molecule

Junhui Liu, Yanli Mao, Yuzong Gu, Mingju Huang, Weifeng Zhang, Lijun Guo, and Wenbo Ma

Opt. Express 16(7), 4739-4746 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing properties of Gaussian beams by a slab of Kerr-type left-handed metamaterial

Yonghua Hu, Shuangchun Wen, Hui Zhuo, Kaiming You, and Dianyuan Fan

Opt. Express 16(7), 4774-4784 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Passive mode locking of optical parametric oscillators: an efficient technique for generating sub-picosecond pulses

J. Khurgin, J-M. Melkonian, A. Godard, M. Lefebvre, and E. Rosencher

Opt. Express 16(7), 4804-4818 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

3-D modulable PDMS-based microlens system

V.J. Cadarso, A. Llobera, G. Villanueva, C. Dominguez, and J.A. Plaza

Opt. Express 16(7), 4918-4929 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of an infrared photodetector with a circular metal grating

Ravi D. R. Bhat, Nicolae C. Panoiu, Steven R. J. Brueck, and Richard M. Osgood

Opt. Express 16(7), 4588-4596 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonance-splitting and enhanced notch depth in SOI ring resonators with mutual mode coupling

Ziyang Zhang, Matteo Dainese, Lech Wosinski, and Min Qiu

Opt. Express 16(7), 4621-4630 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Silicon photonic circuit with polarization diversity

Hiroshi Fukuda, Koji Yamada, Tai Tsuchizawa, Toshifumi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Shinojima, and Sei-ichi Itabashi

Opt. Express 16(7), 4872-4880 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

An adaptive system identification approach to optical trap calibration

Kurt D. Wulff, Daniel G. Cole, and Robert L. Clark

Opt. Express 16(7), 4420-4425 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Full phase and amplitude control of holographic optical tweezers with high efficiency

Alexander Jesacher, Christian Maurer, Andreas Schwaighofer, Stefan Bernet, and Monika Ritsch-Marte

Opt. Express 16(7), 4479-4486 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Twin-core fiber optical tweezers

Libo Yuan, Zhihai Liu, Jun Yang, and Chunying Guan

Opt. Express 16(7), 4559-4566 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical vortex trap for resonant confinement of metal nanoparticles

Maria Dienerowitz, Michael Mazilu, Peter J. Reece, Thomas F. Krauss, and Kishan Dholakia

Opt. Express 16(7), 4991-4999 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Multiple directional beaming effect of metallic subwavelength slit surrounded by periodically corrugated grooves

Yugang Liu, Haofei Shi, Changtao Wang, Chunlei Du, and Xiangang Luo

Opt. Express 16(7), 4487-4493 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmon guided modes in nanoparticle metamaterials

R. Sainidou and F. J. García de Abajo

Opt. Express 16(7), 4499-4506 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic beam deflector

Ting Xu, Changtao Wang, Chunlei Du, and Xiangang Luo

Opt. Express 16(7), 4753-4759 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

A wide bandgap plasmonic Bragg reflector

Jian-Qiang Liu, Ling-Ling Wang, Meng-Dong He, Wei-Qing Huang, Dianyuan Wang, B. S. Zou, and Shuangchun Wen

Opt. Express 16(7), 4888-4894 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion relation of surface plasmon wave propagating along a curved metal-dielectric interface

Jiunn-Woei Liaw and Po-Tsang Wu

Opt. Express 16(7), 4945-4951 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Local and anisotropic excitation of surface plasmon polaritons by semiconductor nanowires

T.M. Rümke, J.A. Sánchez-Gil, O.L. Muskens, M.T. Borgström, E.P.A.M. Bakkers, and J. Gómez Rivas

Opt. Express 16(7), 5013-5021 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable dual-core liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers for dispersion compensation

Chin-ping Yu, Jia-hong Liou, Sheng-shuo Huang, and Hung-chun Chang

Opt. Express 16(7), 4443-4451 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization coupling in a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber by torsional acoustic wave

Kwang Jo Lee, Kee Suk Hong, Hyun Chul Park, and Byoung Yoon Kim

Opt. Express 16(7), 4631-4638 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal cavity created by modulating air hole radius of a waveguide

Soon-Hong Kwon, Thomas Sünner, Martin Kamp, and Alfred Forchel

Opt. Express 16(7), 4605-4614 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra high-Q photonic crystal nanocavity design: The effect of a low-ε slab material

Igal Bayn and Joseph Salzman

Opt. Express 16(7), 4972-4980 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of radial polarization and apodization on spot size under tight focusing conditions

Gilad M. Lerman and Uriel Levy

Opt. Express 16(7), 4567-4581 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Semiclassical description of non magnetic cloaking

Zubin Jacob and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Opt. Express 16(7), 4597-4604 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Inside-out electromagnetic cloaking

Nina A. Zharova, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Opt. Express 16(7), 4615-4620 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Inversion of the Debye-Wolf diffraction integral using an eigenfunction representation of the electric fields in the focal region

Matthew R. Foreman, Sherif S. Sherif, Peter R. T. Munro, and Peter Török

Opt. Express 16(7), 4901-4917 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of vortex beams from lasers with controlled Hermite- and Ince-Gaussian modes

Takayuki Ohtomo, Shu-Chun Chu, and Kenju Otsuka

Opt. Express 16(7), 5082-5094 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (5)]

Infra-red multi-mode absorption spectroscopy of acetylene using an Er/Yb:glass micro-laser

Yoshihiko Arita and Paul Ewart

Opt. Express 16(7), 4437-4442 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Rayleigh-Debye-Gans as a model for continuous monitoring of biological particles: Part II, development of a hybrid model

Alicia C. Garcia-Lopez and Luis H. Garcia-Rubio

Opt. Express 16(7), 4671-4687 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Arbitrarily copropagating superluminal and slow light by controllable one-photon detuning in trapped cold atoms

Yanting Zhao, Jie Ma, Xianli Zhang, Lirong Wang, Liantuan Xiao, and Suotang Jia

Opt. Express 16(7), 4747-4752 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser chirp effect on femtosecond laser filamentation generated for pulse compression

Juyun Park, Jae-hwan Lee, and Chang Hee Nam

Opt. Express 16(7), 4465-4470 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of carrier envelope offset locking with low pulse energy

Atsushi Ishizawa, Tadashi Nishikawa, Shinichi Aozasa, Atsushi Mori, Osamu Tadanaga, Masaki Asobe, and Hidetoshi Nakano

Opt. Express 16(7), 4706-4712 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF