Optics Express
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FOCUS SERIAL: FRONTIERS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS


High field and attosecond nonlinear optics

Quasi-phase matching and characterization of high-order harmonic generation in hollow waveguides using counterpropagating light

  • Amy L. Lytle, Xiaoshi Zhang, Richard L. Sandberg, Oren Cohen, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane
  • pp. 6544-6566 [full text: PDF (3250 KB)]

REGULAR PAPERS


Coherence and statistical optics

Independent-elementary-field model for three-dimensional spatially partially coherent sources

  • Jari Turunen and Pas Vahimaa
  • pp. 6433-6442 [full text: PDF (180 KB)]

Diffraction and gratings

Total absorption of unpolarized light by crossed gratings

  • E. Popov, D. Maystre, R. C. McPhedran, M. Nevière, M.C. Hutley, and G. H. Derrick
  • pp. 6146-6155 [full text: PDF (616 KB)]

Extraordinary optical transmission through metallic films perforated with aperture arrays having short-range order

  • Amit Agrawal, Tatsunosuke Matsui, Z. V. Vardeny, and Ajay Nahata
  • pp. 6267-6273 [full text: PDF (531 KB)]

Out-of-phase mixed holographic gratings : a quantative analysis

  • Martin Fally, Mostafa Ellabban, and Irena Drevensek-Olenik
  • pp. 6528-6536 [full text: PDF (207 KB)]

Fiber optics and optical communications

Constellation diagram analysis of DPSK signal regeneration in a saturated parametric amplifier

  • Mats Sköld, Jiang Yang, Henrik Sunnerud, Magnus Karlsson, Shoichiro Oda, and Peter A. Andrekson
  • pp. 5974-5982 [full text: PDF (2683 KB)]

Metallic mode confinement in microstructured fibres

  • Jing Hou, David Bird, Alan George, Stefan Maier, Boris Kuhlmey, and J. C. Knight
  • pp. 5983-5990 [full text: PDF (4054 KB)]

Optical direct-detection OFDM signal generation for radio-over-fiber link using frequency doubling scheme with carrier suppression

  • Chun-Ting Lin, Yu-Min Lin, Jason (Jyehong) Chen, Sheng-Peng Dai, Po Tsung Shih, Peng-Chun Peng, and Sien Chi
  • pp. 6056-6063 [full text: PDF (273 KB)]

A theoretical study of the effect of zero-crossing points within the dispersion map upon a longhaul RZ-DPSK system

  • Hidenori Taga, Seng-Sheng Shu, Jyun-Yi Wu, and Wei-Tong Shih
  • pp. 6163-6169 [full text: PDF (130 KB)]

Fiber nonlinearity precompensation for long-haul links using direct-detection optical OFDM

  • Liang B. Y. Du and Arthur J. Lowery
  • pp. 6209-6215 [full text: PDF (156 KB)]

A multiple star WDM-PON using a band splitting WDM filter

  • Sil-Gu Mun, Sang-Mook Lee, Katsunari Okamoto, and Chang-Hee Lee
  • pp. 6260-6266 [full text: PDF (168 KB)]

Fourier optics and signal processing

Fizeau Fourier transform imaging spectroscopy: missing data reconstruction Multimedia

  • Samuel T. Thurman and James R. Fienup
  • pp. 6631-6645 [full text: PDF (660 KB)]

Image processing

Three dimensional imaging with randomly distributed sensors Multimedia

  • Mehdi DaneshPanah, Bahram Javidi, and Edward A. Watson
  • pp. 6368-6377 [full text: PDF (928 KB)]

Imaging systems

Absorption-sensitive diffuse reflection imaging of concealed powders using a terahertz quantum cascade laser

  • Paul Dean, Muhammad U. Shaukat, Suraj P. Khanna, Subhasish Chakraborty, Mohammad Lachab, Andrew Burnett, Giles Davies, and Edmund H. Linfield
  • pp. 5997-6007 [full text: PDF (1373 KB)]

Integrated optics

Design and fabrication of a micro-optic switch

  • Wei Li, Jingqiu Liang, Zhongzhu Liang, Xiaoqi Li, Weibiao Wang, Yanchao Zhong, and Degui Sun
  • pp. 6324-6330 [full text: PDF (256 KB)]

Low loss (~6.45dB/cm) sub-micron polycrystalline silicon waveguide integrated with efficient SiON waveguide coupler

  • Q. Fang, J. F. Song, S. H. Tao, M. B. Yu, G. Q. Lo, and D. L. Kwong
  • pp. 6425-6432 [full text: PDF (748 KB)]

Direct electron beam writing of electro-optic polymer microring resonators

  • Haishan Sun, Antao Chen, Benjamin C. Olbricht, Joshua A. Davies, Philip A. Sullivan, Yi Liao, and Larry R. Dalton
  • pp. 6592-6599 [full text: PDF (622 KB)]

Lasers and laser optics

Three-dimensional grain boundary spectroscopy in transparent high power ceramic laser materials

  • Mariola O. Ramirez, Jeffrey Wisdom, Haifeng Li, Yan L. Aung, Joseph Stitt, Gary L. Messing, V. Dierolf, Zhiwen Liu, Akio Ikesue, Robert L. Byer, and Venkatraman Gopalan
  • pp. 5965-5973 [full text: PDF (526 KB)]

Thermal lensing in an end-pumped Yb:KGW slab laser with high power single emitter diodes

  • F. Hoos, S. Li, T. P. Meyrath, B. Braun, and H. Giessen
  • pp. 6041-6049 [full text: PDF (972 KB)]

Thermal lens and heat generation of Nd:YAG lasers operating at 1.064 and 1.34 μm

  • C. Jacinto, T. Catunda, D. Jaque, L. E. Bausá, and J. Garcia-Solé
  • pp. 6317-6323 [full text: PDF (187 KB)]

Microlasers based on effective index confined slow light modes in photonic crystal waveguides

  • Samuele Gardin, Frederic Bordas, Xavier Letartre, Christian Seassal, Adel Rahmani, Renato Bozio, and Pierre Viktorovitch
  • pp. 6331-6339 [full text: PDF (852 KB)]

Proof-of-principle of surface detection with air-guided quantum cascade lasers

  • Virginie Moreau, Raffaele Colombelli, Raviv Perahia, Oskar Painter, Luke R. Wilson, and Andrey B. Krysa
  • pp. 6387-6396 [full text: PDF (921 KB)]

Femtosecond thin disk laser oscillator with pulse energy beyond the 10-microjoule level

  • S. V. Marchese, C. R. Baer, A. G. Engqvist, S. Hashimoto, D. J. Maas, M. Golling, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller
  • pp. 6397-6407 [full text: PDF (600 KB)]

Optofluidic integration of a photonic crystal nanolaser

  • Se-Heon Kim, Jae-Hoon Choi, Seung-Kon Lee, Shin-Hyun Kim, Seung-Man Yang, Yong-Hee Lee, Christian Seassal, Philippe Regrency, and Pierre Viktorovitch
  • pp. 6515-6527 [full text: PDF (1576 KB)]

Strong optical injection-locked semiconductor lasers demonstrating > 100-GHz resonance frequencies and 80-GHz intrinsic bandwidths

  • Erwin K. Lau, Xiaoxue Zhao, Hyuk-Kee Sung, Devang Parekh, Connie Chang-Hasnain, and Ming C. Wu
  • pp. 6609-6618 [full text: PDF (849 KB)]

Liquid crystal as laser medium with tunable gain spectra

  • L. M. Blinov, G. Cipparrone, V. V. Lazarev, P. Pagliusi, and T. Rugiero
  • pp. 6625-6630 [full text: PDF (170 KB)]

Materials

Cyan-white-red luminescence from europium doped Al2O3-La2O3-SiO2 glasses

  • Hucheng Yang, G. Lakshminarayana, Shifeng Zhou, Yu Teng, and Jianrong Qiu
  • pp. 6731-6735 [full text: PDF (295 KB)]

Medical optics and biotechnology

Flow velocity estimation using joint Spectral and Time domain Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Maciej Szkulmowski, Anna Szkulmowska, Tomasz Bajraszewski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, and Maciej Wojtkowski
  • pp. 6008-6025 [full text: PDF (3076 KB)]

Measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina with a spectroscopic sensitive multi aperture camera

  • Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Scott A. Mathews, Haripriya Kandimalla, Afshin Nabili, Donald D. Duncan, Salvatore A. D'Anna, Syed M. Shah, and Quan D. Nguyen
  • pp. 6170-6182 [full text: PDF (804 KB)]

Early dental caries detection using a fibre-optic coupled polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopic system

  • Alex C. Ko, Mark Hewko, Michael G. Sowa, Cecilia C. Dong, Blaine Cleghorn, and Lin-P'ing Choo-Smith
  • pp. 6274-6284 [full text: PDF (300 KB)]

Metamaterials

Invisibility cloaks for irregular particles using coordinate transformations

  • Yu You, George W. Kattawar, Peng-Wang Zhai, and Ping Yang
  • pp. 6134-6145 [full text: PDF (1877 KB)]

Time domain simulation of electromagnetic cloaking structures with TLM method

  • Cedric Blanchard, Jorge A. Portí, Bae-Ian Wu, Juan A. Morente, Alfonso Salinas, and Jin Au Kong
  • pp. 6461-6470 [full text: PDF (739 KB)]

Optically thin terahertz metamaterials

  • Ranjan Singh, Evgenya Smirnova, Antoinette J. Taylor, John F. O??Hara, and Weili Zhang
  • pp. 6537-6543 [full text: PDF (195 KB)]

CNP optical metamaterials

  • Joshua A. Gordon and Richard W. Ziolkowski
  • pp. 6692-6716 [full text: PDF (945 KB)]

Full-wave finite-difference time-domain simulation of electromagnetic cloaking structures Multimedia

  • Yan Zhao, Christos Argyropoulos, and Yang Hao
  • pp. 6717-6730 [full text: PDF (586 KB)]

Negative index bulk metamaterial at terahertz frequencies

  • Oliver Paul, Christian Imhof, Benjamin Reinhard, Remigius Zengerle, and René Beigang
  • pp. 6736-6744 [full text: PDF (523 KB)]

Microscopy

Resolving single fluorophores within dense ensembles: contrast limits of tip-enhanced fluorescence microscopy

  • Benjamin D. Mangum, Chun Mu, and Jordan M. Gerton
  • pp. 6183-6193 [full text: PDF (423 KB)]

Nonlinear optics

Observation of polychromatic gap solitons

  • Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Alexander Dreischuh, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Jeremy Bolger, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Lam Bui, Arnan Mitchell, and Yuri S. Kivshar
  • pp. 5991-5996 [full text: PDF (708 KB)]

Midband solitons in an array of quadratically nonlinear cavities

  • Oleg Egorov and Falk Lederer
  • pp. 6050-6055 [full text: PDF (218 KB)]

Time-resolved pump-probe system based on a nonlinear imaging technique with phase object

  • Yunbo Li, Guangfei Pan, Kun Yang, Xueru Zhang, Yuxiao Wang, Tai-Huei Wei, and Yinglin Song
  • pp. 6251-6259 [full text: PDF (203 KB)]

Nonlinear thermal effects in optical microspheres at different wavelength sweeping speeds

  • C. Schmidt, A. Chipouline, T. Pertsch, A. Tünnermann, O. Egorov, F. Lederer, and L. Deych
  • pp. 6285-6301 [full text: PDF (457 KB)]

Similaritons in nonlinear optical systems

  • Lei Wu, Jie-Fang Zhang, Lu Li, Qing Tian, and K. Porsezian
  • pp. 6352-6360 [full text: PDF (283 KB)]

Method to precisely measure the phase of few-cycle laser pulses

  • Qing Liao, Peixiang Lu, Pengfei Lan, Zhenyu Yang, and Yunhua Li
  • pp. 6455-6460 [full text: PDF (2243 KB)]

Forward and backward terahertz-wave difference-frequency generations from periodically poled lithium niobate

  • T. D. Wang, S. T. Lin, Y. Y Lin, A. C. Chiang, and Y. C. Huang
  • pp. 6471-6478 [full text: PDF (312 KB)]

Three-photon-excited upconversion luminescence of niobium ions doped silicate glass by a femtosecond laser irradiation

  • Huidan Zeng, Juan Song, Danping Chen, Shuanglong Yuan, Xiongwei Jiang, Ya Cheng, Yunxia Yang, and Guorong Chen
  • pp. 6502-6506 [full text: PDF (169 KB)]

Polarization attraction using counter-propagating waves in optical fiber at telecommunication wavelengths

  • S. Pitois, J. Fatome, and G. Millot
  • pp. 6646-6651 [full text: PDF (273 KB)]

Spectrally-bounded continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths

  • Sonia Martin-Lopez, Laura Abrardi, Pedro Corredera, Miguel Gonzalez Herraez, and Arnaud Mussot
  • pp. 6745-6755 [full text: PDF (597 KB)]

Optical data storage

Multi-level read-only recording using signal waveform modulation

  • Yi Tang, Jing Pei, Yi Ni, Longfa Pan, Hua Hu, and Buqing Zhang
  • pp. 6156-6162 [full text: PDF (247 KB)]

Optical design and fabrication

Orthonormal vector polynomials in a unit circle, Part II : completing the basis set

  • Chunyu Zhao and James H. Burge
  • pp. 6586-6591 [full text: PDF (413 KB)]

Optical devices

Angle-tuned, evanescently-decoupled reflector for high-efficiency red light-emitting diode

  • Sun-Kyung Kim, Hyun K. Cho, Kyung K. Park, Junho Jang, Jeong S. Lee, Kyung W. Park, Youngho Park, Ju-Young Kim, and Yong-Hee Lee
  • pp. 6026-6032 [full text: PDF (663 KB)]

Towards a picosecond transform-limited nitrogen-vacancy based single photon source

  • Chun-Hsu Su, Andrew D. Greentree, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
  • pp. 6240-6250 [full text: PDF (699 KB)]

Megahertz-frequency large-area optical modulators at 1.55 μm based on solution-cast colloidal quantum dots

  • Sjoerd Hoogland, Vlad Sukhovatkin, Harnik Shukla, Jason Clifford, Larissa Levina, and Edward H. Sargent
  • pp. 6683-6691 [full text: PDF (1802 KB)]

Optical trapping and manipulation

A controllable double-well magneto-optical trap for Rb and Cs atoms

  • C. T. Lin, C. R. Chen, I. H. Yang, Jianping Yin, and D. J. Han
  • pp. 6104-6111 [full text: PDF (215 KB)]

Lensless optical manipulation with an evanescent field

  • Victor Ruiz-Cortés and Juan P. Vite-Frías
  • pp. 6600-6608 [full text: PDF (1032 KB)]

Optics at surfaces

Surface plasmon resonance in CdSe semiconductor coated with gold nanoparticles

  • A. K. Pradhan, R. B. Konda, H. Mustafa, R. Mundle, O. Bamiduro, U. N. Roy, Y. Cui, and A. Burger
  • pp. 6202-6208 [full text: PDF (1365 KB)]

Planar plasmonic terahertz guided-wave devices

  • Wenqi Zhu, Amit Agrawal, and Ajay Nahata
  • pp. 6216-6226 [full text: PDF (899 KB)]

Creating optical anisotropy of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots by coupling to surface plasmon polariton resonance of a metal grating

  • H. K. Fu, C. W. Chen, C. H. Wang, T. T. Chen, and Y. F. Chen
  • pp. 6361-6367 [full text: PDF (1633 KB)]

Longwave plasmonics on doped silicon and silicides

  • Richard Soref, Robert E. Peale, and Walter Buchwald
  • pp. 6507-6514 [full text: PDF (143 KB)]

Photonic crystal fibers

Combined effects of optical and acoustic birefringence on acousto-optic mode coupling in photonic crystal fiber

  • Sun Do Lim, Hyun Chul Park, In Kag Hwang, and Byoung Yoon Kim
  • pp. 6125-6133 [full text: PDF (497 KB)]

Porous polymer fibers for low-loss Terahertz guiding

  • Alireza Hassani, Alexandre Dupuis, and Maksim Skorobogatiy
  • pp. 6340-6351 [full text: PDF (1563 KB)]

Analytical method for band structure calculation of photonic crystal fibers filled with liquid crystal

  • Juan Juan Hu, Guobin Ren, Ping Shum, Xia Yu, Guanghui Wang, and Chao Lu
  • pp. 6668-6674 [full text: PDF (201 KB)]

Photonic crystals

Coupled-wave model for triangular-lattice photonic crystal with transverse electric polarization

  • Kyosuke Sakai, Jianglin Yue, and Susumu Noda
  • pp. 6033-6040 [full text: PDF (520 KB)]

Coupling of free space sub-terahertz waves into dielectric slabs using PC waveguides

  • Z. Ghattan, T. Hasek, M. Shahabadi, and M. Koch
  • pp. 6112-6118 [full text: PDF (1139 KB)]

The impact of finite-depth cylindrical and conical holes in lithium niobate photonic crystals

  • G. W. Burr, S. Diziain, and M.-P. Bernal
  • pp. 6302-6316 [full text: PDF (2040 KB)]

Photonic crystal alloys: a new twist in controlling photonic band structure properties

  • Hee J. Kim, Dong-Uk Kim, Young-Geun Roh, Jaejun Yu, Heonsu Jeon, and Q-Han Park
  • pp. 6579-6585 [full text: PDF (580 KB)]

Physical optics

Analytical vectorial structure of hollow Gaussian beams in the far field

  • Guohua Wu, Qihong Lou, and Jun Zhou
  • pp. 6417-6424 [full text: PDF (247 KB)]

Quantum optics

Quantum interferometry using coherent beam stimulated parametric down-conversion

  • Aziz Kolkiran and G. S. Agarwal
  • pp. 6479-6485 [full text: PDF (146 KB)]

Remote sensing and sensors

Silica-based monolithic sensing plates for waveguide-mode sensors

  • Makoto Fujimaki, Carsten Rockstuhl, Xiaomin Wang, Koichi Awazu, Junji Tominaga, Yuuki Koganezawa, Yoshimichi Ohki, and Tetsuro Komatsubara
  • pp. 6408-6416 [full text: PDF (1365 KB)]

Slow light

Systematic design of flat band slow light in photonic crystal waveguides

  • Juntao Li, Thomas P. White, Liam O'Faolain, Alvaro Gomez-Iglesias, and Thomas F. Krauss
  • pp. 6227-6232 [full text: PDF (1447 KB)]

Spectroscopy

Multi-field frequency modulation spectroscopy

  • Ido Ben-Aroya, Matan Kahanov, and Gadi Eisenstein
  • pp. 6081-6097 [full text: PDF (753 KB)]

Supercontinuum generation

Power adjustable visible supercontinuum generation using amplified nanosecond gains-witched laser diode

  • Malay Kumar, Chenan Xia, Xiuquan Ma, Vinay V. Alexander, Mohammed N. Islam, Fred L. Terry, Carl C. Aleksoff, Alex Klooster, and Douglas Davidson
  • pp. 6194-6201 [full text: PDF (515 KB)]

Thin films

Multilayer coatings monitoring using admittance diagram

  • Cheng-Chung Lee and Yu-Jen Chen
  • pp. 6119-6124 [full text: PDF (121 KB)]

Enhanced transmission mediated by guided resonances in metallic gratings coated with dielectric layers

  • Fengqin Wu, Dezhuan Han, Xin Li, Xiaohan Liu, and Jian Zi
  • pp. 6619-6624 [full text: PDF (2063 KB)]

Ultrafast optics

Non-collinear high harmonic generation: a promising outcoupling method for cavity-assisted XUV generation

  • A. Ozawa, A. Vernaleken, W. Schneider, I. Gotlibovych, Th. Udem, and T. W. Hänsch
  • pp. 6233-6239 [full text: PDF (759 KB)]

Effect of jitter on linear pulse-characterization techniques

  • C. Dorrer
  • pp. 6567-6578 [full text: PDF (516 KB)]

Optical concept of a compressor for XUV pulses in the attosecond domain

  • Fabio Frassetto, Paolo Villoresi, and Luca Poletto
  • pp. 6652-6667 [full text: PDF (287 KB)]

Vision, color, and visual optics

Measuring retinal contributions to the optical Stiles-Crawford effect with optical coherence tomography

  • Weihua Gao, Barry Cense, Yan Zhang, Ravi S. Jonnal, and Donald T. Miller
  • pp. 6486-6501 [full text: PDF (264 KB)]
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