Optics Express

Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Eric A. Dauler, Andrew J. Kerman, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Karl K. Berggren, Richard P. Mirin, and Sae Woo Nam

Opt. Express 18(2), 1430-1437 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Detectors

Multiple-junction quantum cascade photodetectors for thermophotovoltaic energy conversion

Jian Yin and Roberto Paiella

Opt. Express 18(2), 1618-1629 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

InGaAs PIN photodetectors integrated on silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Zhen Sheng, Liu Liu, Joost Brouckaert, Sailing He, and Dries Van Thourhout

Opt. Express 18(2), 1756-1761 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction and Gratings

Designing asymmetric and branched petals for planet-finding occulters

Eric Cady, N.Jeremy Kasdin, and Stuart Shaklan

Opt. Express 18(2), 523-543 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Monolithically integrated multi-wavelength VCSEL arrays using high-contrast gratings

Vadim Karagodsky, Bala Pesala, Christopher Chase, Werner Hofmann, Fumio Koyama, and Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

Opt. Express 18(2), 694-699 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication and characterization of freestanding circular GaN gratings

Yongjin Wang, Fangren Hu, Hidehisa Sameshima, and Kazuhiro Hane

Opt. Express 18(2), 773-779 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Solar-blind deep-UV band-pass filter (250 - 350 nm) consisting of a metal nano-grid fabricated by nanoimprint lithography

Wen-Di Li and Stephen Y. Chou

Opt. Express 18(2), 931-937 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Achromatic phase retarder applied to  MWIR & LWIR dual-band

Guoguo Kang, Qiaofeng Tan, Xiaoling Wang, and Guofan Jin

Opt. Express 18(2), 1695-1703 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Short wavelength infrared frequency conversion in ultra-compact fiber device

J. M. Chavez Boggio, S. Zlatanovic, F. Gholami, J.M. Aparicio, S. Moro, K. Balch, N. Alic, and S. Radic

Opt. Express 18(2), 439-445 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

100 GHz ultra-wideband (UWB) fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA) system for in-building and in-home networks

C. W. Chow, F. M. Kuo, J. W. Shi, C. H. Yeh, Y. F. Wu, C. H. Wang, Y. T. Li, and C. L. Pan

Opt. Express 18(2), 473-478 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Full vector complex coupled mode theory for tilted fiber gratings

Yu-Chun Lu, Wei-Ping Huang, and Shui-Sheng Jian

Opt. Express 18(2), 713-726 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of optical switching and routing via four-wave mixing spatial shift

Zhiqiang Nie, Huaibin Zheng, Yanpeng Zhang, Yan Zhao, Cuicui Zuo, Changbiao Li, Hong Chang, and Min Xiao

Opt. Express 18(2), 899-905 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of 5.1 Tbit/s data capacity on a single-wavelength channel

Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Michael Galili, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Hao Hu, Anders T. Clausen, Jesper B. Jensen, Christophe Peucheret, and Palle Jeppesen

Opt. Express 18(2), 1438-1443 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Reduction of polarization-fluctuation induced drift in resonator fiber optic gyro by a resonator with twin 90° polarization-axis rotated splices

Xijing Wang, Zuyuan He, and Kazuo Hotate

Opt. Express 18(2), 1677-1683 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Pulsed-incoherent-light-injected Fabry-Perot laser diode for WDM passive optical networks

Hoon Kim

Opt. Express 18(2), 1714-1721 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Holography

Photothermal heterodyne holography of gold nanoparticles

E. Absil, G. Tessier, M. Gross, M. Atlan, N. Warnasooriya, S. Suck, M. Coppey-Moisan, and D. Fournier

Opt. Express 18(2), 780-786 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

An explanation for the non-uniform grating effects during recording of diffraction gratings in photopolymers

S. Blaya, P. Acebal, L. Carretero, A. Murciano, R. F. Madrigal, and A. Fimia

Opt. Express 18(2), 799-808 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Super-resolution in incoherent optical imaging using synthetic aperture with Fresnel elements

Barak Katz and Joseph Rosen

Opt. Express 18(2), 962-972 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Image Processing

Remote sensing image registration approach based on a retrofitted SIFT algorithm and Lissajous-curve trajectories

Zhi-li Song, Sheng Li, and Thomas F. George

Opt. Express 18(2), 513-522 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Genuine full-field deformation measurement of an object with complex shape using reliability-guided digital image correlation

Bing Pan, Zhaoyang Wang, and Zixing Lu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1011-1023 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Regional phase unwrapping algorithm for photoelastic phase map

M.J. Huang and Po-Chi Sung

Opt. Express 18(2), 1419-1429 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Multi-stage phase retrieval algorithm based upon the gyrator transform

José A. Rodrigo, Hamootal Duadi, Tatiana Alieva, and Zeev Zalevsky

Opt. Express 18(2), 1510-1520 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Non-iterative imaging of inhomogeneous cold atom clouds using phase retrieval from a single diffraction measurement

D. V. Sheludko, A. J. McCulloch, M. Jasperse, H. M. Quiney, and R. E. Scholten

Opt. Express 18(2), 1586-1599 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Imaging Systems

Three-dimensional speckle suppression in optical coherence tomography based on the curvelet transform

Zhongping Jian, Lingfeng Yu, Bin Rao, Bruce J. Tromberg, and Zhongping Chen

Opt. Express 18(2), 1024-1032 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-wavelet domain deconvolution for terahertz reflection imaging and spectroscopy

Yang Chen, Shengyang Huang, and Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

Opt. Express 18(2), 1177-1190 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology

Strain estimation in digital holographic interferometry using piecewise polynomial phase approximation based method

Sai Siva Gorthi, G Rajshekhar, and Pramod Rastogi

Opt. Express 18(2), 560-565 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

High resolution heterodyne interferometer without detectable periodic nonlinearity

Ki-Nam Joo, Jonathan D. Ellis, Eric S. Buice, Jo W. Spronck, and Robert H. Munnig Schmidt

Opt. Express 18(2), 1159-1165 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical metrology of randomly-distributed Au colloids on a multilayer film

Shih-Hsin Hsu, Yia-Chung Chang, Yi-Chun Chen, Pei-Kuen Wei, and Y. D. Kim

Opt. Express 18(2), 1310-1315 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical sampling by laser cavity tuning

Thomas Hochrein, Rafal Wilk, Michael Mei, Ronald Holzwarth, Norman Krumbholz, and Martin Koch

Opt. Express 18(2), 1613-1617 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

A multi-branch, fiber-based frequency comb with millihertz-level relative linewidths using an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator

Yoshiaki Nakajima, Hajime Inaba, Kazumoto Hosaka, Kaoru Minoshima, Atsushi Onae, Masami Yasuda, Takuya Kohno, Sakae Kawato, Takao Kobayashi, Toshio Katsuyama, and Feng-Lei Hong

Opt. Express 18(2), 1667-1676 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Integrated Optics

Ultra-high order ring resonator system with sharp transmission peaks

S. H. Tao, S. C. Mao, J. F. Song, Q. Fang, M. B. Yu, G. Q. Lo, and D. L. Kwong

Opt. Express 18(2), 393-400 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Spotlight on Optics

Domino plasmons for subwavelength terahertz circuitry

D. Martin-Cano, M. L. Nesterov, A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno, and Esteban Moreno

Opt. Express 18(2), 754-764 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

UV trimming of Polarization - independent Microring Resonator by Internal Stress and Temperature Control

Naoki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Sato, and Yasuo Kokubun

Opt. Express 18(2), 906-916 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Improvement of THz coupling using a tapered parallel-plate waveguide

Sang-Hoon Kim, Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, and Tae-In Jeon

Opt. Express 18(2), 1289-1295 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

All-optical switching in silicon-on-insulator photonic wire nano–cavities

Michele Belotti, Matteo Galli, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Giorgio Guizzetti, Ahmad R. Md Zain, Nigel P. Johnson, Marc Sorel, and Richard M. De La Rue

Opt. Express 18(2), 1450-1461 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical loss reduction in high-index-contrast chalcogenide glass waveguides via thermal reflow

Juejun Hu, Ning-Ning Feng, Nathan Carlie, Laeticia Petit, Anu Agarwal, Kathleen Richardson, and Lionel Kimerling

Opt. Express 18(2), 1469-1478 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Synthesis of coupled resonator optical waveguides by cavity aggregation

Pascual Muñoz, José David Doménech, and José Capmany

Opt. Express 18(2), 1600-1606 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Band splitting and modal dispersion induced by symmetry breaking in coupled-resonator slow-light waveguide structures

J. Scheuer and M. Shtaif

Opt. Express 18(2), 1762-1776 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Laser Microfabrication

High aspect ratio taper-free microchannel fabrication using femtosecond Bessel beams

M. K. Bhuyan, F. Courvoisier, P.-A. Lacourt, M. Jacquot, L. Furfaro, M. J. Withford, and J. M. Dudley

Opt. Express 18(2), 566-574 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive optics for direct laser writing with plasma emission aberration sensing

Alexander Jesacher, Graham D. Marshall, Tony Wilson, and Martin J. Booth

Opt. Express 18(2), 656-661 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Single step self-enclosed fluidic channels via two photon absorption (TPA) polymerization

S. Jariwala, K. Venkatakrishnan, and B. Tan

Opt. Express 18(2), 1630-1636 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Lasers and Laser Optics

Widely tunable erbium-doped fiber laser based on multimode interference effect

A. Castillo-Guzman, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Selvas-Aguilar, D. A. May-Arrioja, J. Estudillo-Ayala, and P. LiKamWa

Opt. Express 18(2), 591-597 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Noise transfer functions of mode-locked semiconductor laser

Sangyoun Gee and Peter J. Delfyett

Opt. Express 18(2), 624-631 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Single shot damage mechanism of Mo/Si multilayer optics under intense pulsed XUV-exposure

A.R. Khorsand, R. Sobierajski, E. Louis, S. Bruijn, E.D. van Hattum, R.W.E. van de Kruijs, M. Jurek, D. Klinger, J.B. Pelka, L. Juha, T. Burian, J. Chalupsky, J. Cihelka, V. Hajkova, L. Vysin, U. Jastrow, N. Stojanovic, S. Toleikis, H. Wabnitz, K. Tiedtke, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, U. Shymanovich, J. Krzywinski, S. Hau-Riege, R. London, A. Gleeson, E.M. Gullikson, and F. Bijkerk

Opt. Express 18(2), 700-712 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Activation energy study of electron transport in high performance short wavelengths quantum cascade lasers

Christian Pflügl, Laurent Diehl, Arkadiy Lyakh, Qi Jie Wang, Richard Maulini, Alexei Tsekoun, C. Kumar N. Patel, Xiaojun Wang, and Federico Capasso

Opt. Express 18(2), 746-753 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Spectral beam combining of a 980 nm tapered diode laser bar

Deepak Vijayakumar, Ole Bjarlin Jensen, Ralf Ostendorf, Thomas Westphalen, and Birgitte Thestrup

Opt. Express 18(2), 893-898 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Pulse dynamics of a passively mode-locked Bi-doped fiber laser

Samuli Kivistö, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina, Robert Herda, Saulius Marcinkevicius, Evgueny M. Dianov, and Oleg. G. Okhotnikov

Opt. Express 18(2), 1041-1048 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

An efficient compact 300 mW narrow-linewidth single frequency fiber laser at 1.5 μm

S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, T. Liu, W. N. Zhang, Z. M. Feng, Q. Y. Zhang, and Z. H. Jiang

Opt. Express 18(2), 1249-1254 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Suppressing the turn-off-induced pulsations in VCSELs using an elevated oxide-layer structure

Taeyong Kim and Sang-Bae Kim

Opt. Express 18(2), 1271-1277 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Frequency stabilized three mode HeNe laser using nonlinear optical phenomena

Jonathan D. Ellis, Ki-Nam Joo, Eric S. Buice, and Jo W. Spronck

Opt. Express 18(2), 1373-1379 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Modulation instability in  high power laser amplifiers

Alexander M. Rubenchik, Sergey K. Turitsyn, and Michail P. Fedoruk

Opt. Express 18(2), 1380-1388 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

28W average power hydrocarbon-free rubidium diode pumped alkali laser

Jason Zweiback and William F Krupke

Opt. Express 18(2), 1444-1449 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb:YAG ceramic laser in single cavity

Hiroaki Yoshioka, Shinki Nakamura, Takayo Ogawa, and Satoshi Wada

Opt. Express 18(2), 1479-1486 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Design and epitaxy of 1.5 μm InGaAsP-InP MQW material for a transistor laser

Zigang Duan, Wei Shi, Lukas Chrostowski, Xiaodong Huang, Ning Zhou, and Guangyue Chai

Opt. Express 18(2), 1501-1509 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

High-power linearly-polarized single-frequency thulium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier

L. Pearson, J. W. Kim, Z. Zhang, M. Ibsen, J. K. Sahu, and W. A. Clarkson

Opt. Express 18(2), 1607-1612 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Materials

Janus Nematic Colloids driven by light

M. Conradi, M. Zorko, and I. Muševič

Opt. Express 18(2), 500-506 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode laser tuning from cholesteric elastomers using a “notch” band-gap configuration

Francesca Serra, Mario Ariosto Matranga, Yan Ji, and Eugene M. Terentjev

Opt. Express 18(2), 575-581 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Nanocrystals distribution inside the writing lines in a glass matrix using Argon laser irradiation

P. Haro-González, I.R. Martín, and Alberto Hernández Creus

Opt. Express 18(2), 582-590 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Intense near-infrared emission from ZnO-LiYbO₂ hybrid phosphors through efficient energy transfer from ZnO to Yb³⁺

Song Ye, Nan Jiang, Feng He, Xiaofeng Liu, Bin Zhu, Yu Teng, and Jian Rong Qiu

Opt. Express 18(2), 639-644 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Non-radiative resonance energy transfer in bi-polymer nanoparticles of fluorescent conjugated polymers

Ilkem Ozge Ozel, Tuncay Ozel, Hilmi Volkan Demir, and Donus Tuncel

Opt. Express 18(2), 670-684 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Birefringence characteristics of nanoscale dielectrics with cubic and tetragonal lattices

Yin-Jung Chang and Thomas K. Gaylord

Opt. Express 18(2), 809-821 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Improved emission efficiency of electroluminescent device containing nc-Si/SiO₂ multilayers by using nano-patterned substrate

Deyuan Chen, Yu Liu, Jun Xu, Deyuan Wei, Hongcheng Sun, Ling Xu, Tao Wang, Wei Li, and Kunji Chen

Opt. Express 18(2), 917-922 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Second harmonic generation study of internally-generated strain in bismuth-substituted iron garnet films

Pradeep Kumar, A. I. Maydykovskiy, Levy Miguel, N. V. Dubrovina, and O. A. Aktsipetrov

Opt. Express 18(2), 1076-1084 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Detailed characterization of pump-induced refractive index changes observed in  Nd:YVO₄, Nd:GdVO₄ and Nd:KGW

R. Soulard, A. Zinoviev, J.L. Doualan, E. Ivakin, O. Antipov, and R. Moncorgé

Opt. Express 18(2), 1553-1568 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Medical Optics and Biotechnology

Generalized Jones matrix optical coherence tomography: performance and local birefringence imaging

Shuichi Makita, Masahiro Yamanari, and Yoshiaki Yasuno

Opt. Express 18(2), 854-876 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Image patterned molecular delivery into live cells using gold particle coated substrates

Ting-Hsiang Wu, Sheraz Kalim, Caitlin Callahan, Michael A. Teitell, and Pei-Yu Chiou

Opt. Express 18(2), 938-946 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Imaging leukocyte trafficking in vivo with two-photon-excited endogenous tryptophan fluorescence

Chunqiang Li, Riikka K. Pastila, Costas Pitsillides, Judith M. Runnels, Mehron Puoris’haag, Daniel Côté, and Charles P. Lin

Opt. Express 18(2), 988-999 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Second harmonic generation imaging via nonlinear endomicroscopy

Hongchun Bao, Alex Boussioutas, Reynolds Jeremy, Sarah Russell, and Min Gu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1255-1260 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Transit-time analysis based on delay-encoded beam shape for velocity vector quantification by spectral-domain Doppler optical coherence tomography

Jie Meng, Zhihua Ding, Jiawen Li, Kai Wang, and Tong Wu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1261-1270 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Parabolic BM-scan technique for full range doppler spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Franck Jaillon, Shuichi Makita, Masaki Yabusaki, and Yoshiaki Yasuno

Opt. Express 18(2), 1358-1372 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Metamaterials

Tunable negative group index in metamaterial structures with large form birefringence

Kirill Sinchuk, Richard Dudley, John D. Graham, Michael Clare, Mesfin Woldeyohannes, John O. Schenk, Robert P. Ingel, Weiguo Yang, and Michael A. Fiddy

Opt. Express 18(2), 463-472 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Gold helix photonic metamaterials: A numerical parameter study

Justyna K. Gansel, Martin Wegener, Sven Burger, and Stefan Linden

Opt. Express 18(2), 1059-1069 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Effect of thin silicon dioxide layers on resonant frequency in infrared metamaterials

D. J. Shelton, D. W. Peters, M. B. Sinclair, I. Brener, L. K. Warne, L. I. Basilio, K. R. Coffey, and G. D. Boreman

Opt. Express 18(2), 1085-1090 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of tunable phase in a thermochromic infrared-reflectarray metamaterial

D.J. Shelton, K.R. Coffey, and G. D. Boreman

Opt. Express 18(2), 1330-1335 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Microscopy

Multiplane imaging and three dimensional nanoscale particle tracking in biological microscopy

Paul A. Dalgarno, Heather I. C. Dalgarno, Aurélie Putoud, Robert Lambert, Lynn Paterson, David C. Logan, David P. Towers, Richard J. Warburton, and Alan H. Greenaway

Opt. Express 18(2), 877-884 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Birefringent device converts a standard scanning microscope into a STED microscope that also maps molecular orientation

Matthias Reuss, Johann Engelhardt, and Stefan W. Hell

Opt. Express 18(2), 1049-1058 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical imaging of lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystals

Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Paulo De Sa Peixoto, Gervaise Mosser, and Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein

Opt. Express 18(2), 1113-1121 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Collecting back-reflected photons in photoacoustic microscopy

Hao F. Zhang, Jing Wang, Qing Wei, Tan Liu, Shuliang Jiao, and Carmen A. Puliafito

Opt. Express 18(2), 1278-1282 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Fast STED microscopy with continuous wave fiber lasers

Gael Moneron, Rebecca Medda, Birka Hein, Arnold Giske, Volker Westphal, and Stefan W. Hell

Opt. Express 18(2), 1302-1309 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Instantaneous spatial light interference microscopy

Huafeng Ding and Gabriel Popescu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1569-1575 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Effects of primary aberrations on the fluorescence depletion patterns of STED microscopy

Suhui Deng, Li Liu, Ya Cheng, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1657-1666 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear Optics

Generation of correlated UV and visible rainbows

Guang Wu, Wenxue Li, E Wu, and Heping Zeng

Opt. Express 18(2), 1000-1010 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Sub-10-fs pulses from a MHz-NOPA with pulse energies of 0.4 μJ

Moritz Emons, Andy Steinmann, Thomas Binhammer, Guido Palmer, Marcel Schultze, and Uwe Morgner

Opt. Express 18(2), 1191-1196 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Extreme-value statistics in supercontinuum generation by cascaded stimulated Raman scattering

Antti Aalto, Goëry Genty, and Juha Toivonen

Opt. Express 18(2), 1234-1239 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Thermal waveguide OPO

S. T. Lin, Y.Y. Lin, T. D. Wang, and Y.C. Huang

Opt. Express 18(2), 1323-1329 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Relaxation oscillation suppression in continuous-wave intracavity optical parametric oscillators

David J. M. Stothard and Malcolm H. Dunn

Opt. Express 18(2), 1336-1348 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Nonlinear optical properties of nanocrystalline diamond

F. Trojánek, K. Žídek, B. Dzurňák, M. Kozák, and P. Malý

Opt. Express 18(2), 1349-1357 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Reversed Cherenkov emission of terahertz waves from an ultrashort laser pulse in a sandwich structure with nonlinear core and left-handed cladding

M. I. Bakunov, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, S. B. Bodrov, and B. S. Luk'yanchuk

Opt. Express 18(2), 1684-1694 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Data Storage

Multiplexing capability in polychromatic reconstruction with selective detection method

R. Fujimura, T. Shimura, and K. Kuroda

Opt. Express 18(2), 1091-1098 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Fabrication

Design of compact freeform lens for application specific light-emitting diode packaging

Kai Wang, Fei Chen, Zongyuan Liu, Xiaobing Luo, and Sheng Liu

Opt. Express 18(2), 413-425 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Color separation system with angularly positioned light source module for pixelized backlighting

Po-Chou Chen, Hui-Hsiung Lin, Cheng-Huan Chen, Chi-Hung Lee, and Mao-Hong Lu

Opt. Express 18(2), 645-655 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Improvement of linewidth in laser beam lithographed computer generated hologram

Hyug-Gyo Rhee and Yun-Woo Lee

Opt. Express 18(2), 1734-1740 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Devices

Enhanced Electro-Optic Phase Shifts in Suspended Waveguides

T. H. Stievater, D. Park, W. S. Rabinovich, M. W. Pruessner, S. Kanakaraju, C. J. K. Richardson, and J. B. Khurgin

Opt. Express 18(2), 885-892 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient phosphor-converted white organic light-emitting diodes with moderate microcavity and light-recycling filters

Sang-Hwan Cho, Jeong Rok Oh, Hoo Keun Park, Hyoung Kun Kim, Yong-Hee Lee, Jae-Gab Lee, and Young Rag Do

Opt. Express 18(2), 1099-1104 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced electroluminescence from SiN-based multilayer structure by laser crystallization of ultrathin amorphous Si-rich SiN layers

R. Huang, D. Q. Wang, H. L. Ding, X. Wang, K. J. Chen, J. Xu, Y. Q. Guo, J. Song, and Z. Y. Ma

Opt. Express 18(2), 1144-1150 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Characterization and compensation of the residual chirp in a Mach-Zehnder-type electro-optical intensity modulator

C. E. Rogers III, J. L. Carini, J. A. Pechkis, and P. L. Gould

Opt. Express 18(2), 1166-1176 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Magnetic-field tunable defect modes in a photonic-crystal/liquid-crystal cell

Victor Ya. Zyryanov, Sergey A. Myslivets, Vladimir A. Gunyakov, Alexander M. Parshin, Vasily G. Arkhipkin, Vasily F. Shabanov, and Wei Lee

Opt. Express 18(2), 1283-1288 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Improvement of light output power of InGaN/GaN light-emitting diode by lateral epitaxial overgrowth using pyramidal-shaped SiO₂

Chu-Young Cho, Jin-Bock Lee, Sang-Jun Lee, Sang-Heon Han, Tae-Young Park, Je Won Kim, Yong Chun Kim, and Seong-Ju Park

Opt. Express 18(2), 1462-1468 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Trapping and Manipulation

Optimized optical trapping of gold nanoparticles

Faegheh Hajizadeh and S.Nader S.Reihani

Opt. Express 18(2), 551-559 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Rotational dynamics of optically trapped nanofibers

Antonio Alvaro Ranha Neves, Andrea Camposeo, Stefano Pagliara, Rosalba Saija, Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Maria Antonia Iatì, Roberto Cingolani, Onofrio M. Maragò, and Dario Pisignano

Opt. Express 18(2), 822-830 (2010) View: HTML | PDF [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Optics at Surfaces

Trapping light in plasmonic waveguides

Junghyun Park, Kyoung-Youm Kim, Il-Min Lee, Hyunmin Na, Seung-Yeol Lee, and Byoungho Lee

Opt. Express 18(2), 598-623 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Designing the metallic superlens  close to the cutoff of the long-range mode

Guillaume Tremblay and Yunlong Sheng

Opt. Express 18(2), 740-745 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Nanofocusing of surface plasmon polaritons by a pyramidal structure on an aperture

Kazuo Tanaka, Kiyofumi Katayama, and Masahiro Tanaka

Opt. Express 18(2), 787-798 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

A numerical investigation of the effect of vertex geometry on localized surface plasmon resonance of nanostructures

W. Y. Ma, H. Yang, J. P. Hilton, Q. Lin, J. Y. Liu, L. X. Huang, and J. Yao

Opt. Express 18(2), 843-853 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Thermo-optic control of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide components

Jacek Gosciniak, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Thomas B. Andersen, Valentyn S. Volkov, Jakob Kjelstrup-Hansen, Laurent Markey, and Alain Dereux

Opt. Express 18(2), 1207-1216 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Multiple excitation of localized surface plasmon to create a 10 nm × 10 nm strong optical spot using an Au nanoparticle array-based ridge waveguide

Sung-Mook Kang, Jin Han, Taeseob Kim, No-Cheol Park, Kyoung-Su Park, Byung-Kwon Min, and Young-Pil Park

Opt. Express 18(2), 1576-1585 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Full analytical model for obtaining surface plasmon resonance modes

Ergun Simsek

Opt. Express 18(2), 1722-1733 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

UV waveguides light fabricated in fluoropolymer CYTOP by femtosecond laser direct writing

Yasutaka Hanada, Koji Sugioka, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Opt. Express 18(2), 446-450 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

25Gb/s hybrid silicon switch using a capacitively loaded traveling wave electrode

Hui-Wen Chen, Ying-hao Kuo, and John E. Bowers

Opt. Express 18(2), 1070-1075 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Photonic Crystal Fibers

Core-cladding mode coupling and recoupling in photonic crystal fiber for enhanced overlap of evanescent field using long-period gratings

Zonghu He, Yinian Zhu, Jiří Kaňka, and Henry Du

Opt. Express 18(2), 507-512 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Photonic Crystals

Engineering the refractive index of three-dimensional photonic crystals through multilayer deposition of CdS films

Dario Buso, Elisa Nicoletti, Jiafang Li, and Min Gu

Opt. Express 18(2), 1033-1040 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Generalized phase matching condition for  lossy periodic photonic structures

Xuhuai Zhang and Stephen R. Forrest

Opt. Express 18(2), 1151-1158 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Physical Optics

Magnetic field distribution of a highly focused radially-polarized light beam: comment

Qiwen Zhan

Opt. Express 18(2), 765-766 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Waveguide taper engineering using coordinate transformation technology

Paul-Henri Tichit, Shah Nawaz Burokur, and André de Lustrac

Opt. Express 18(2), 767-772 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Experimental validation of the symmetric decomposition of Mueller matrices

Clément Fallet, Angelo Pierangelo, Razvigor Ossikovski, and Antonello De Martino

Opt. Express 18(2), 831-842 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Quantum Optics

Remote preparation of complex spatial states of single photons and verification by two-photon coincidence experiment

Yoonshik Kang, Kiyoung Cho, Jaewoo Noh, Dashiell L. P. Vitullo, Cody Leary, and M. G. Raymer

Opt. Express 18(2), 1217-1233 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

A novel method for polarization squeezing with Photonic Crystal Fibers

Josip Milanović, Mikael Lassen, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Gerd Leuchs

Opt. Express 18(2), 1521-1527 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Control of photon storage time using phase locking

Byoung S. Ham

Opt. Express 18(2), 1704-1713 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Remote Sensing and Sensors

Errors analysis on temperature and emissivity determination from hyperspectral thermal infrared data

Xiaoying OuYang, Ning Wang, Hua Wu, and Zhao-Liang Li

Opt. Express 18(2), 544-550 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Scattering

Properties of sub-diffraction limited focusing by optical phase conjugation

M. J. Steel, Benjy Marks, and Adel Rahmani

Opt. Express 18(2), 1487-1500 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Sensors

Effect of aging on optical properties of bimetallic sensor chips

X. Chen and K. Jiang

Opt. Express 18(2), 1105-1112 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Slow and Fast Light

Dynamic saturation in semiconductor optical amplifiers: accurate model, role of carrier density, and slow light

Perrine Berger, Mehdi Alouini, Jérôfme Bourderionnet, Fabien Bretenaker, and Daniel Dolfi

Opt. Express 18(2), 685-693 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Comment on: “Slow Light” in stimulated Brillouin scattering: on the influence of the spectral width of pump radiation on the group index

Aldo Minardo, Romeo Bernini, and Luigi Zeni

Opt. Express 18(2), 1788-1790 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

“Slow Light” in stimulated Brillouin scattering: on the influence of the spectral width of pump radiation on the group index: Reply

V. I. Kovalev, N. E. Kotova, and R. G. Harrison

Opt. Express 18(2), 1791-1793 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Solar Energy

Planar micro-optic solar concentrator

Jason H. Karp, Eric J. Tremblay, and Joseph E. Ford

Opt. Express 18(2), 1122-1133 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Ligand capping effect for dye solar cells with a CdSe quantum dot sensitized ZnO nanorod photoanode

Xiao Wei Sun, Jing Chen, Jun Ling Song, De Wei Zhao, Wei Qiao Deng, and Wei Lei

Opt. Express 18(2), 1296-1301 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

A tapered dielectric waveguide solar concentrator for a compound semiconductor photovoltaic cell

Minkyu Park, Kyunghwan Oh, Jeong Kim, Hyun Woo Shin, and Byung Du Oh

Opt. Express 18(2), 1777-1787 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Spectroscopy

Standing wave Spectrometer

Vladislav Jovanov, Jordan Ivanchev, and Dietmar Knipp

Opt. Express 18(2), 426-438 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Thin Films

Haze ratio enhancement using a closely packed ZnO monolayer structure

Shih-Shou Lo, Dison Haung, and Der-Jun Jan

Opt. Express 18(2), 662-669 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

InGaZnO semiconductor thin film fabricated using pulsed laser deposition

Jiangbo Chen, Li Wang, Xueqiong Su, Le Kong, Guoqing Liu, and Xinping Zhang

Opt. Express 18(2), 1398-1405 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast Optics

Line-by-line control of 10-THz-frequency-spacing Raman sidebands

Kanaka Raju Pandiri, Takayuki Suzuki, Akira Suda, Katsumi Midorikawa, and Masayuki Katsuragawa

Opt. Express 18(2), 732-739 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum generation in a high index doped silica glass spiral waveguide

David Duchesne, Marco Peccianti, Michael R. E. Lamont, Marcello Ferrera, Luca Razzari, Francois Légaré, Roberto Morandotti, Sai Chu, Brent E. Little, and David J. Moss

Opt. Express 18(2), 923-930 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Tailoring a coherent control solution landscape by linear transforms of spectral phase basis

Peter van der Walle, Herman Offerhaus, Jennifer Herek, and Aliakbar Jafarpour

Opt. Express 18(2), 973-987 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Calibration of electron spectrometer resolution  in attosecond streak camera

Ximao Feng, Steve Gilbertson, Sabih D. Khan, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Kevin Carnes, and Zenghu Chang

Opt. Express 18(2), 1316-1322 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Vision, Color, and Visual Optics

Design and validation of a scanning Shack Hartmann aberrometer for measurements of the eye over a wide field of view

Xin Wei and Larry Thibos

Opt. Express 18(2), 1134-1143 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

Visual effect of the combined correction of spherical and longitudinal chromatic aberrations

Pablo Artal, Silvestre Manzanera, Patricia Piers, and Henk Weeber

Opt. Express 18(2), 1637-1648 (2010) View: HTML | PDF

X-ray Optics

Femtosecond powder diffraction with a laser-driven hard X-ray source

F. Zamponi, Z. Ansari, M. Woerner, and T. Elsaesser

Opt. Express 18(2), 947-961 (2010) View: HTML | PDF