Average BER of free-space optical systems in turbulent atmosphere with exponentiated Weibull distribution

Xiang Yi, Zengji Liu, and Peng Yue

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5142-5144 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of ultrahigh resonance contrast in vapor-cell atomic clocks

Jinda Lin, Jianliao Deng, Yisheng Ma, Huijuan He, and Yuzhu Wang

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5036-5038 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Control of optical orbital angular momentum by Vogel spiral arrays of metallic nanoparticles

Nate Lawrence, Jacob Trevino, and Luca Dal Negro

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5076-5078 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Tailoring of optical modes of semiconductor microcavities via metal and dielectric gratings

Guangda Dong, Yongyou Zhang, Muhammad Arshad Kamran, and Bingsuo Zou

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5085-5087 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Steering plasmon beam from a point source

L. Li, T. Li, S. M. Wang, and S. N. Zhu

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5091-5093 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband focusing grating couplers for suspended-membrane waveguides

Zhenzhou Cheng, Xia Chen, Chi Yan Wong, Ke Xu, and Hon Ki Tsang

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5181-5183 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved grating reconstruction by determination of line roughness in extreme ultraviolet scatterometry

Mark-Alexander Henn, Sebastian Heidenreich, Hermann Gross, Andreas Rathsfeld, Frank Scholze, and Markus Bär

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5229-5231 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct-detection polarization division multiplexed orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing transmission systems without polarization tracking

Chih-Yun Wang, Chia-Chien Wei, Chun-Ting Lin, and Sien Chi

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5070-5072 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Power scaling of dispersion-managed Er-doped ultrashort pulse fiber laser with single wall carbon nanotubes

Y. Nozaki, N. Nishizawa, E. Omoda, H. Kataura, and Y. Sakakibara

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5079-5081 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-wireless transmission system of 108  Gb/sdata over 80 km fiber and 2×2multiple-input multiple-output wireless links at 100 GHz W-band frequency

Xinying Li, Ze Dong, Jianjun Yu, Nan Chi, Yufeng Shao, and G. K. Chang

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5106-5108 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical control of group velocity dispersion in tellurite photonic crystal fibers

Lai Liu, Qijun Tian, Meisong Liao, Dan Zhao, Guanshi Qin, Yasutake Ohishi, and Weiping Qin

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5124-5126 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse generation and propagation in dispersion-managed ultralong erbium-doped fiber lasers mode-locked by carbon nanotubes

H. G. Rosa and E. A. Thoroh de Souza

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5211-5213 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

In-cylinder temperature measurements via time-correlated single-photon counting of toluene laser-induced fluorescence through a fiber-based sensor

Eugen Friesen, Christopher Gessenhardt, Sebastian A. Kaiser, Thomas Dreier, and Christof Schulz

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5244-5246 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic generation of impulse ultrawideband signals with switchable shapes and polarities based on frequency-to-time mapping

H.-Y. Jiang, L.-S. Yan, J. Ye, W. Pan, B. Luo, Z.-Y. Chen, X.-H. Zou, and X. Steve Yao

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5052-5054 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic millimeter-wave frequency multiplication based on cascaded four-wave mixing and polarization pulling

B. Vidal

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5055-5057 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation of an Airy beam with a spiral phase

Xiuxiang Chu

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5202-5204 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrasonic optical lens array with variable focal length and pitch

Daisuke Koyama, Megumi Hatanaka, Kentaro Nakamura, and Mami Matsukawa

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5256-5258 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffuserless holographic projection working on twin spatial light modulators

Andrzej Siemion, Maciej Sypek, Jarosław Suszek, Michał Makowski, Agnieszka Siemion, Andrzej Kolodziejczyk, and Zbigniew Jaroszewicz

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5064-5066 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Accelerated autofocusing of off-axis holograms using critical sampling

M. Fatih Toy, Jonas Kühn, Stéphane Richard, Jérôme Parent, Marcel Egli, and Christian Depeursinge

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5094-5096 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution three-dimensional holographic display using dense ray sampling from integral imaging

Koki Wakunami, Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Bahram Javidi

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5103-5105 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative phase-contrast imaging with compact digital holographic microscope employing Lloyd’s mirror

Vani Chhaniwal, Amardeep S. G. Singh, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Bahram Javidi, and Arun Anand

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5127-5129 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Noncontact single-pulse optical method to measure interfacial properties in intact systems

David C. Clark and Myung K. Kim

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5145-5147 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Apodized holographic beam combiners for dense wavelength multiplexing based on Gaussian-beam interference

Sebastian Nippgen, Stefan Hengesbach, Martin Traub, and Dieter Hoffmann

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5205-5207 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging of reflective surfaces by near-field optics

Gang Bao and Junshan Lin

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5027-5029 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Engineering of nondiffracting beams with genetic algorithms

Pedro A. Sanchez-Serrano, David Wong-Campos, Servando Lopez-Aguayo, and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5040-5042 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Miniaturized fiber in-line Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on inner air cavity for high-temperature sensing

T. Y. Hu, Y. Wang, C. R. Liao, and D. N. Wang

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5082-5084 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optofluidic jet waveguide for laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

Gianluca Persichetti, Genni Testa, and Romeo Bernini

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5115-5117 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Engineering of fast mode conversion in multimode waveguides

Shuo-Yen Tseng and Xi Chen

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5118-5120 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Power scaling of fundamental-mode thin-disk lasers using intracavity deformable mirrors

Stefan Piehler, Birgit Weichelt, Andreas Voss, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, and Thomas Graf

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5033-5035 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband near-infrared emission of chromium-doped sulfide glass-ceramics containing Ga₂S₃ nanocrystals

Jing Ren, Bo Li, Guang Yang, Weina Xu, Zhihuan Zhang, Mihail Secu, Vasile Bercu, Huidan Zeng, and Guorong Chen

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5043-5045 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High-Q planar organic–inorganic Perovskite-based microcavity

Zheng Han, Hai-Son Nguyen, Fabien Boitier, Yi Wei, Katia Abdel-Baki, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, Jacqueline Bloch, Sophie Bouchoule, and Emmanuelle Deleporte

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5061-5063 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

100 kHz linewidth Cr²⁺:ZnSe ring laser tunable from 2.12 to 2.58 μm

Nicola Coluccelli, Marco Cassinerio, Paolo Laporta, and Gianluca Galzerano

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5088-5090 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Pump energy reduction for a high gain Ag X-ray laser using one long and two short pump pulses

Romeo A. Banici, Gabriel V. Cojocaru, Razvan G. Ungureanu, Razvan Dabu, Daniel Ursescu, and Holger Stiel

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5130-5132 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Sharp whispering-gallery modes in rolled-up vertical SiO₂ microcavities with quality factors exceeding 5000

Stefan Böttner, Shilong Li, Jens Trommer, Suwit Kiravittaya, and Oliver G. Schmidt

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5136-5138 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement and analysis of titanium monoxide spectra in laser-induced plasma

Alexander C. Woods, Christian G. Parigger, and James O. Hornkohl

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5139-5141 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

58 mJ burst comprising ultrashort pulses with homogenous energy level from an Yb-doped fiber amplifier

Sven Breitkopf, Arno Klenke, Thomas Gottschall, Hans-Jürgen Otto, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5169-5171 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Langmuir wave undulator for terahertz radiation

Seunghyeon Son, Sung Joon Moon, and Jaeyoung Park

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5172-5174 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb:GYSO laser generating 324 fs pulses at 1091 nm

Jiangfeng Zhu, Wenlong Tian, Junli Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Zhiyi Wei, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, and Jun Xu

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5190-5192 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal bistability-based method for real-time optimization of ultralow-threshold whispering gallery mode microlasers

Guoping Lin, Y. Candela, O. Tillement, Zhiping Cai, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, and J. Hare

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5193-5195 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Organic polymer composite random laser operating underwater

Yujie Chen, Yanfeng Zhang, Nicolas Laurand, Alex L. Kanibolotsky, Erdan Gu, Peter J. Skabara, and Martin D. Dawson

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5160-5162 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Blue emissions in Dy³⁺ doped Y₄Al₂O₉ crystals for temperature sensing

Zuzanna Boruc, Marcin Kaczkan, Bartosz Fetlinski, Sebastian Turczynski, and Michal Malinowski

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5214-5216 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear light concentrators

Apra Pandey and Natalia M. Litchinitser

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5238-5240 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Deactivation effects of the lowest excited state of Ho³⁺ at 2.9 μm emission introduced by Pr³⁺ ions in LiLuF₄ crystal

Peixiong Zhang, Yin Hang, and LianHan Zhang

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5241-5243 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic spanner

Bryan J. Black and Samarendra K. Mohanty

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5030-5032 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

High-speed interferometric spectrally encoded flow cytometry

Lior Golan, Daniella Yeheskely-Hayon, Limor Minai, and Dvir Yelin

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5154-5156 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Noncontact measurement of elasticity for the detection of soft-tissue tumors using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography combined with a focused air-puff system

Shang Wang, Jiasong Li, Ravi Kiran Manapuram, Floredes M. Menodiado, Davis R. Ingram, Michael D. Twa, Alexander J. Lazar, Dina C. Lev, Raphael E. Pollock, and Kirill V. Larin

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5184-5186 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity anastigmatic imaging needle for optical coherence tomography

Loretta Scolaro, Dirk Lorenser, Robert A. McLaughlin, Bryden C. Quirk, Rodney W. Kirk, and David D. Sampson

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5247-5249 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

High-power, continuous-wave, single-frequency, all-periodically-poled, near-infrared source

Kavita Devi, S. Chaitanya Kumar, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5049-5051 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal switching induced by cascaded third order nonlinearity

Falk Eilenberger, Morten Bache, Stefano Minardi, and Thomas Pertsch

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5109-5111 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Nonlinear microfiber loop resonators for resonantly enhanced third harmonic generation

Rand Ismaeel, Timothy Lee, Ming Ding, Neil G. R. Broderick, and Gilberto Brambilla

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5121-5123 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot spectra of temporally selected micropulses from a mid-infrared free-electron laser by upconversion

Xiaolong Wang, Takashi Nakajima, Heishun Zen, Toshiteru Kii, and Hideaki Ohgaki

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5148-5150 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Accelerated rogue waves generated by soliton fusion at the advanced stage of supercontinuum formation in photonic-crystal fibers

Rodislav Driben and Ihar Babushkin

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5157-5159 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-phase modulation spectral broadening in two-dimensional spatial solitons: toward three-dimensional spatiotemporal pulse-train solitons

Oren Lahav, Hassid Gurgov, Pavel Sidorenko, Or Peleg, Liad Levi, Avner Fleischer, and Oren Cohen

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5196-5198 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Tomographic imaging of asymmetric molecular orbitals with a two-color multicycle laser field

Meiyan Qin, Xiaosong Zhu, Qingbin Zhang, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5208-5210 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing pump threshold and conversion efficiency of whispering gallery optical parametric oscillators by controlled coupling

Tobias Beckmann, Karsten Buse, and Ingo Breunig

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5250-5252 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Programmable quasi-direct space-to-time pulse shaper with active wavefront correction

Omel Mendoza-Yero, Vincent Loriot, Jorge Pérez-Vizcaíno, Gladys Mínguez-Vega, Jesús Lancis, Rebeca de Nalda, and Luis Bañares

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5067-5069 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple plasmon-induced transparencies in coupled-resonator systems

Jianjun Chen, Chen Wang, Ru Zhang, and Jinghua Xiao

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5133-5135 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

All-fiber magnetic-field sensor based on microfiber knot resonator and magnetic fluid

Xianli Li and Hui Ding

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5187-5189 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High performance Vernier racetrack resonators

Robert Boeck, Jonas Flueckiger, Han Yun, Lukas Chrostowski, and Nicolas A. F. Jaeger

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5199-5201 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond-laser-written diode-pumped Pr:LiYF₄ waveguide laser

Sebastian Müller, Thomas Calmano, Philip Metz, Nils-Owe Hansen, Christian Kränkel, and Günter Huber

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5223-5225 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High contrast blue organic light-emitting diodes using inorganic multilayers of Al and ZnSe

You-Hyun Kim, Sang Youn Lee, Wook Song, Mei Meng, Richard Wood, Peter Mascher, Dae Hyun Ryu, and Woo Young Kim

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5235-5237 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Manipulating energy flow in variable-gap plasmonic waveguides

Weiren Zhu, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, and Malin Premaratne

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5151-5153 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of absorption and radiative decay rates of surface plasmon polaritons from nanohole array

Zhaolong Cao, Hau-Yung Lo, and Hock-Chun Ong

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5166-5168 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Flat photonic surface bands pinned between Dirac points

Dario Jukić, Hrvoje Buljan, Dung-Hai Lee, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5262-5264 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam shaping in spatially modulated broad-area semiconductor amplifiers

R. Herrero, M. Botey, M. Radziunas, and K. Staliunas

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5253-5255 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Spherical fields as nonparaxial accelerating waves

Miguel A. Alonso and Miguel A. Bandres

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5175-5177 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Left- and right-circularly polarized light in cascade conical diffraction

Stephen D. Grant and Amin Abdolvand

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5226-5228 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental preparation of eight-partite cluster state for photonic qumodes

Xiaolong Su, Yaping Zhao, Shuhong Hao, Xiaojun Jia, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5178-5180 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification in centimeter-long directly written chalcogenide waveguides

Shahar Levy, Victor Lyubin, Matvei Klebanov, Jacob Scheuer, and Avi Zadok

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5112-5114 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Structural length-scale sensitivities of reflectance measurements in continuous random media under the Born approximation

Andrew J. Radosevich, Ji Yi, Jeremy D. Rogers, and Vadim Backman

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5220-5222 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-noise delays from dynamic Brillouin gratings based on perfect Golomb coding of pump waves

Yair Antman, Nadav Levanon, and Avi Zadok

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5259-5261 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Purely absorptive fifth-order three-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

Zhengyang Zhang, Kym Lewis Wells, and Howe-Siang Tan

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5058-5060 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution mid-IR spectrometer based on frequency upconversion

Qi Hu, Jeppe Seidelin Dam, Christian Pedersen, and Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5232-5234 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Polarization instability of ultrashort pulses as a source of vectorial supercontinuum

Aleksandr A. Voronin, Il’ya V. Fedotov, Jens Kobelke, Matthias Jäger, Kay Schuster, Andrei B. Fedotov, Hartmut Bartelt, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5163-5165 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fission of solitons in continuous-wave supercontinuum

E. J. R. Kelleher, M. Erkintalo, and J. C. Travers

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5217-5219 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

XYZLMS interim connection space for spectral image compression and reproduction

Xiandou Zhang, Qiang Wang, Yong Wang, and Haozhe Wu

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5097-5099 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ronchi test for characterization of nanofocusing optics at a hard x-ray free-electron laser

Daniel Nilsson, Fredrik Uhlén, Anders Holmberg, Hans M. Hertz, Andreas Schropp, Jens Patommel, Robert Hoppe, Frank Seiboth, Vivienne Meier, Christian G. Schroer, Eric Galtier, Bob Nagler, Hae Ja Lee, and Ulrich Vogt

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5046-5048 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-shot analysis of hard x-ray laser radiation using a noninvasive grating spectrometer

Petri Karvinen, Simon Rutishauser, Aldo Mozzanica, Dominic Greiffenberg, Pavle N. Juranić, Andreas Menzel, Alberto Lutman, Jacek Krzywinski, David M. Fritz, Henrik T. Lemke, Marco Cammarata, and Christian David

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5073-5075 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of Fresnel zone plates by ion-beam lithography and application as objective lenses in extreme ultraviolet microscopy at 13 nm wavelength

Johannes Overbuschmann, Julia Hengster, Stephan Irsen, and Thomas Wilhein

Opt. Lett. 37(24), 5100-5102 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF