Up conversion measurements in Er:YAG; comparison with 1.6 μm laser performance

Norman P. Barnes, Brian M. Walsh, Farzin Amzajerdian, Donald J. Reichle, George E. Busch, and William A. Carrion

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 678-685 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of ultrafast laser written active waveguides by rigorous modeling of optical gain measurements

J.A. Vallés, A. Ferrer, J. M. Fernández-Navarro, V. Berdejo, A. Ruiz de la Cruz, Inés Ortega-Feliu, M.Á. Rebolledo, and J. Solís

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 564-575 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional direct laser writing inspired by stimulated-emission-depletion microscopy [Invited]

Joachim Fischer and Martin Wegener

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 614-624 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrashort pulse inscription of tailored fiber Bragg gratings with a phase mask and a deformed wavefront [Invited]

Christian Voigtländer, Ria G. Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Anshuman Singh, Andreas Tünnermann, and Stefan Nolte

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 633-642 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Bragg grating inscription in various optical fibers with femtosecond infrared lasers and a phase mask

Stephen J. Mihailov, Dan Grobnic, Christopher W. Smelser, Ping Lu, Robert B. Walker, and Huimin Ding

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 754-765 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization sensitive elements fabricated by femtosecond laser nanostructuring of glass [Invited]

Martynas Beresna, Mindaugas Gecevičius, and Peter G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 783-795 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser induced density changes in GeO₂ and SiO₂ glasses: fictive temperature effect [Invited]

Lena Bressel, Dominique de Ligny, Camille Sonneville, Valérie Martinez, Vygantas Mizeikis, Ričardas Buividas, and Saulius Juodkazis

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 605-613 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Physical mechanisms of fused silica restructuring and densification after femtosecond laser excitation [Invited]

D. G. Papazoglou and S. Tzortzakis

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 625-632 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of bandgap and polarization on photo-ionization: guidelines for ultrafast laser inscription [Invited]

Douglas J. Little, Martin Ams, and Michael J. Withford

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 670-677 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Dependence of the femtosecond laser refractive index change thresholds on the chemical composition of doped-silica glasses

M. Lancry, B. Poumellec, A. Chahid-Erraji, M. Beresna, and P. G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 711-723 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Different refractive index change behavior in borosilicate glasses induced by 1 kHz and 250 kHz femtosecond lasers

Geng Lin, Fangfang Luo, Fei He, Qingxi Chen, Danping Chen, Ya Cheng, Long Zhang, Jianrong Qiu, and Quanzhong Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 724-731 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Modification thresholds in femtosecond laser processing of pure silica: review of dependencies on laser parameters [Invited]

B. Poumellec, M. Lancry, A. Chahid-Erraji, and P. G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 766-782 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Femtosecond laser delamination of thin transparent layers from semiconducting substrates

Tino Rublack and Gerhard Seifert

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 543-550 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Slanted S-shaped nano-columnar thin films for broadband and wide-angle polarization conversion

Yi-Jun Jen, Chia-Feng Lin, and Meng-Jie Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 525-534 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

3D conducting nanostructures fabricated using direct laser writing

Konstantina Terzaki, Nikos Vasilantonakis, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Carsten Reinhardt, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, and Maria Farsari

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 586-597 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of 2-photon ultraviolet laser etching of diamond

R. P. Mildren, J. E. Downes, J. D. Brown, B. F. Johnston, E. Granados, D. J. Spence, A. Lehmann, L. Weston, and A. Bramble

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 576-585 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro-hole drilling in thin films with cw low power lasers

J.C. Ramirez-San-Juan, J.P. Padilla-Martinez, P. Zaca-Moran, and R. Ramos-Garcia

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 598-604 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrathin optical switch based on a liquid crystal/silver nanoparticles mixture as a tunable indefinite medium

E. Spinozzi and A. Ciattoni

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 732-741 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Acoustic coefficients of P₂O₅-doped silica fiber: acoustic velocity, acoustic attenuation, and thermo-acoustic coefficient

Pi-Cheng Law, Yuh-Shiuan Liu, André Croteau, and Peter D. Dragic

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 686-699 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid, broadband two-photon-excited fluorescence spectroscopy and its application to red-emitting secondary reference compounds

Nikolay S. Makarov, Jochen Campo, Joel M. Hales, and Joseph W. Perry

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 551-563 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of nonlinear optical properties of ZnO micro and nanocrystals for biophotonics

Ben E. Urban, Jie Lin, Os Kumar, Kasilingam Senthilkumar, Yasuhisa Fujita, and Arup Neogi

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 658-669 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband three-photon absorption spectra of platinum acetylide complexes

Marcelo G. Vivas, Erick Piovesan, Daniel L. Silva, Thomas M. Cooper, Leonardo De Boni, and Cleber R. Mendonca

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 700-710 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon polaritons in enantiomeric chiroplasmonic structures due to bianisotropy

Roland H. Tarkhanyan

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 742-753 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Origin and tuning of surface optic and long wavelength phonons in biomimetic GaAs nanotip arrays

Yi-Fan Huang, Surojit Chattopadhyay, Hsu-Cheng Hsu, Chien-Ting Wu, Kuei- Hsien Chen, and Li-Chyong Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 535-542 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Formation and characterization of varied size germanium nanocrystals by electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and photoluminescence

Haiyan Ou, Yiyu Ou, Chuan Liu, Rolf W. Berg, and Karsten Rottwitt

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 643-651 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser fabrication of semiconducting ferroelectric single crystal SbSI features on chalcohalide glass

Pradyumna Gupta, Adam Stone, Nathaniel Woodward, Volkmar Dierolf, and Himanshu Jain

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 652-657 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF