Optical characterization of wiregrid micropolarizers designed for infrared imaging polarimetry

Zhi Wu, Peter E. Powers, Andrew M. Sarangan, and Qiwen Zhan

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1653-1655 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of metallo-dielectric deep trench gratings: role of surface plasmons and Wood–Rayleigh anomaly

Arvind S. Vengurlekar

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1669-1671 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Angular spectrum of diffracted wave fields with apochromatic correction

Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez, María T. Caballero, and Juan J. Miret

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1753-1755 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Interrogation of a long-period grating using a mechanically scannable arrayed waveguide grating and a sampled chirped fiber Bragg grating

Honglei Guo, Yitang Dai, Gaozhi Xiao, Nezih Mrad, and Jianping Yao

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1635-1637 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Distributed strain sensor based on dynamic grating in polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber

Xinyu Fan, Zuyuan He, and Kazuo Hotate

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1647-1649 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

In-fiber polymer–glass hybrid waveguide Bragg grating

Kaiming Zhou, Xianfeng Chen, Yicheng Lai, Kate Sugden, Lin Zhang, and Ian Bennion

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1650-1652 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of depressed-index outer ring on evanescent tunneling loss in tapered double-cladding fibers

Nan-Kuang Chen, Kuei-Chu Hsu, Shien-Kuei Liaw, Yinchieh Lai, and Sien Chi

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1666-1668 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple and highly accurate technique for time delay measurement in optical fibers by free-running laser configuration

Ke Yun, Jing Li, Guangxiao Zhang, Lingling Chen, Weijian Yang, and Zhigang Zhang

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1732-1734 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic and geometric phase accumulation by Gaussian-type modes in first-order optical systems

Tatiana Alieva and Martin J. Bastiaans

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1659-1661 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic microwave bandpass filter with improved dynamic range

Yu Yan and Jianping Yao

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1756-1758 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling a ray bundle with a free-form reflector

R. Andrew Hicks

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1672-1674 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved thermal stability of volume holograms recorded in nanoparticle–polymer composite films

Yasuo Tomita, Toshihiro Nakamura, and Atsushi Tago

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1750-1752 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultimate limit of resolution of subwavelength imaging devices formed by metallic rods

Mário G. Silveirinha, Pavel A. Belov, and Constantin R. Simovski

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1726-1728 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute frequency determination of the 5P_3/2-->7S_1/2 transition in ⁸⁷Rb

Kanhaiya Pandey, P. V. Kiran Kumar, M. V. Suryanarayana, and Vasant Natarajan

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1675-1677 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental investigation of relative intensity noise in Brillouin fiber ring lasers for microwave photonics applications

Stéphanie Molin, Ghaya Baili, Mehdi Alouini, Daniel Dolfi, and Jean-Pierre Huignard

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1681-1683 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-wavelength 92.5 GHz self-mode-locked InP-based quantum dot laser

Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, and D. Poitras

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1702-1704 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous-wave all-solid-state 244 nm deep-ultraviolet laser source by fourth-harmonic generation of an optically pumped semiconductor laser using CsLiB₆O₁₀ in an external resonator

Yushi Kaneda, J. M. Yarborough, Li Li, N. Peyghambarian, Li Fan, Chris Hessenius, Mahmoud Fallahi, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Yoshiyuki Honda, Masato Nishioka, Youhei Shimizu, Kenshi Miyazono, Hiroya Shimatani, Masashi Yoshimura, Yusuke Mori, Yasuo Kitaoka, and Takatomo Sasaki

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1705-1707 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-end-pumped double Nd:YLF slab laser with high energy, short pulse width, and diffraction-limited quality

Daijun Li, Zhe Ma, Rüdiger Haas, Alexander Schell, Peng Zhu, Peng Shi, and Keming Du

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1708-1710 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

213 W average power of 2.4 GW pulsed thermally controlled Nd:glass zigzag slab laser with a stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror

Ryo Yasuhara, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Takashi Sekine, Takashi Kurita, Tadashi Ikegawa, Osamu Matsumoto, Masahiro Miyamoto, Hirofumi Kan, Hidetsugu Yoshida, Junji Kawanaka, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yasukazu Izawa, and Tadashi Kanabe

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1711-1713 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of antisymmetric dispersion-managed solitons in a mode-locked laser

Andy Chong, William H. Renninger, and Frank W. Wise

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1717-1719 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Angular dependence of the thermal-lens effect on LiSrAlF₆ and LiSrGaF₆ single crystals

Alysson Steimacher, Otavio Akira Sakai, Antonio Carlos Bento, Mauro Luciano Baesso, Antonio N. Medina, Sandro Marcio Lima, and Tomaz Catunda

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1720-1722 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed polygon-scanner-based wavelength-swept laser source in the telescope-less configurations with application in optical coherence tomography

S. M. R. Motaghian Nezam

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1741-1743 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Azimuthally polarized 1 kW CO₂ laser with a triple-axicon retroreflector optical resonator

Masamori Endo

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1771-1773 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Bessel beam spectral-domain high-resolution optical coherence tomography with micro-optic axicon providing extended focusing range

Kye-Sung Lee and Jannick P. Rolland

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1696-1698 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescent optical tomography with large data sets

George Y. Panasyuk, Zheng-Min Wang, John C. Schotland, and Vadim A. Markel

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1744-1746 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Superlensing approach to a long-focus near-field probe

Eugene G. Bortchagovsky

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1765-1767 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase noise generation in an amplitude limiter using saturation of a fiber-optic parametric amplifier

Masayuki Matsumoto

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1638-1640 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical isolation by directional coupling

Alessandro Alberucci and Gaetano Assanto

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1641-1643 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient mid-IR spectral generation via spontaneous fifth-order cascaded-Raman amplification in silica fibers

Peter T. Rakich, Yoel Fink, and Marin Soljačić

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1690-1692 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy, broadly tunable, narrow-bandwidth mid-infrared optical parametric system pumped by quasi-phase-matched devices

Jiro Saikawa, Mitsuhiko Miyazaki, Masaaki Fujii, Hideki Ishizuki, and Takunori Taira

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1699-1701 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Soliton self-frequency shift decelerated by self-steepening

Aleksandr A. Voronin and Aleksei M. Zheltikov

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1723-1725 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear unbalanced Bessel beams in the collapse of Gaussian beams arrested by nonlinear losses

Miguel A. Porras and Alberto Parola

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1738-1740 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Soliton modes, stability, and drift in optical lattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1747-1749 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear photonic crystals near the supercollimation point

Zhiyong Xu, Björn Maes, Xunya Jiang, John D. Joannopoulos, Lluis Torner, and Marin Soljačić

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1762-1764 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation of solitons in thermal media with periodic nonlinearity

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1774-1776 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed electro-optic control of the optical quality factor of a silicon microcavity

Sasikanth Manipatruni, Carl B. Poitras, Qianfan Xu, and Michal Lipson

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1644-1646 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoparticles-doped guest-host liquid crystal displays

Wen-Yu Teng, Shie-Chang Jeng, Chia-Wei Kuo, Yan-Rung Lin, Chi-Chang Liao, and Wei-Kuo Chin

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1663-1665 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing fluorescence detection with a photonic crystal structure in a total-internal-reflection configuration

Jing Yong Ye and Mitsuru Ishikawa

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1729-1731 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free biosensor by protein grating coupler on planar optical waveguides

Zhian Lai, Yuli Wang, Nancy Allbritton, G.-P. Li, and Mark Bachman

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1735-1737 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Photochemically deposited surface relief gratings of an azo-dye-labeled phospholipid from the aqueous phase

A. Kassu, J. M. Taguenang, and A. Sharma

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1656-1658 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling the emission profile of a nanowire with a conical taper

Niels Gregersen, Torben R. Nielsen, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard, and Jesper Mørk

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1693-1695 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Accelerating parabolic beams

Miguel A. Bandres

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1678-1680 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Photochromism induced by infrared two-photon absorption

Mitsunori Saito and Yoshinori Takahashi

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1687-1689 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics of spontaneous emission from SiN with two-dimensional photonic crystals

Xingsheng Xu, Toshiki Yamada, Rieko Ueda, and Akira Otomo

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1768-1770 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Scalable fabrication of optical resonators with embedded site-controlled quantum dots

Thomas Sünner, Christian Schneider, Micha Strauß, Alexander Huggenberger, Daniel Wiener, Sven Höfling, Martin Kamp, and Alfred Forchel

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1759-1761 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of large-aperture tiled-grating compressors for high-energy, petawatt-class, chirped-pulse amplification systems

J. Qiao, A. Kalb, T. Nguyen, J. Bunkenburg, D. Canning, and J. H. Kelly

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1684-1686 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact 10 GHz loopback arrayed-waveguide grating for high-fidelity optical arbitrary waveform generation

Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, Chunxin Yang, David J. Geisler, Jonathan P. Heritage, Katsu Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo

Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1714-1716 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF