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Atomic and molecular physics

Production and detection of atomic hexadecapole at Earth's magnetic field

  • V. M. Acosta, M. Auzinsh, W. Gawlik, P. Grisins, J. M. Higbie, D. F. Jackson Kimball, L. Krzemien, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker
  • pp. 11423-11430 [full text: PDF (737 KB)]

Detectors

Diffraction and gratings

The failure of perfectly matched layers, and towards their redemption by adiabatic absorbers

  • Ardavan F. Oskooi, Lei Zhang, Yehuda Avniel, and Steven G. Johnson
  • pp. 11376-11392 [full text: PDF (681 KB)]

Fiber optics and optical communications

Pulsed pump wavelength exchange for high speed signal de-multiplexing

  • C. H. Kwok, Bill P. P. Kuo, and Kenneth K. Wong
  • pp. 10894-10899 [full text: PDF (673 KB)]

Index mapping for fibres with symmetric and asymmetric refractive index profiles

  • Eric Ampem-Lassen, Fotios Sidiroglou, Ju L. Peng, Shane T. Huntington, and A. Roberts
  • pp. 10912-10917 [full text: PDF (382 KB)]

Characterisation of an optical clock recovery method based on a mode-locked laser diode using spectrographic pulse measurement

  • P. J. Maguire, V. Roncin, A. O'Hare, D. Reid, S. Lobo, M. Gay, L. Bramerie, L. P. Barry, and J. C. Simon
  • pp. 10933-10942 [full text: PDF (1487 KB)]

Ultrafast, atto-Joule switch using fiber-optic parametric amplifier operated in saturation

  • Peter A. Andrekson, Henrik Sunnerud, Shoichiro Oda, Takashi Nishitani, and Jiang Yang
  • pp. 10956-10961 [full text: PDF (240 KB)]

DPSK signal regeneration using a fiber-based amplitude regenerator

  • Masayuki Matsumoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi
  • pp. 11169-11175 [full text: PDF (138 KB)]

Multi-channel Bragg gratings based on nonuniform amplitude-only sampling

  • Yitang Dai and Jianping Yao
  • pp. 11216-11223 [full text: PDF (235 KB)]

Optical clock division based on dual-wavelength mode-locked semiconductor fiber ring laser

  • Weiwei Zhang, Junqiang Sun, Jian Wang, Xingliang Zhang, and Dexiu Huang
  • pp. 11231-11236 [full text: PDF (1074 KB)]

Potential of the polymer optical fibers deployed in a 10Gbps small office/home office network

  • Christophe Lethien, Christophe Loyez, Jean-Pierre Vilcot, Nathalie Rolland, and Paul Alain Rolland
  • pp. 11266-11274 [full text: PDF (279 KB)]

Optimization of a 42.7 Gb/s wavelength tunable RZ transmitter using a linear spectrogram technique

  • Robert Maher, Prince M. Anandarajah, Andrew D. Ellis, Douglas Reid, and Liam P. Barry
  • pp. 11281-11288 [full text: PDF (649 KB)]

Partial bit delay correlative modulation used to improve the dispersion tolerance of an optical duobinary system

  • Zhongxi Zhang, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao, and Ahmad Atieh
  • pp. 11344-11353 [full text: PDF (185 KB)]

A WDM-PON with a 40 Gb/s (32 x 1.25 Gb/s) capacity based on wavelength-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes

  • Sil-Gu Mun, Jung-Hyung Moon, Hoon-Keun Lee, Jun-Young Kim, and Chang-Hee Lee
  • pp. 11361-11368 [full text: PDF (510 KB)]

High temperature fiber sensor with high sensitivity based on core diameter mismatch

  • Linh V. Nguyen, Dusun Hwang, Sucbei Moon, Dae S. Moon, and Youngjoo Chung
  • pp. 11369-11375 [full text: PDF (889 KB)]

Field trial of 160 Gbit/s DWDM-based optical packet switching and transmission

  • Hideaki Furukawa, Naoya Wada, Yoshinari Awaji, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Eddie Kong, Peter Chan, Ray Man, Gabriella Cincotti, and Ken-ichi Kitayama
  • pp. 11487-11495 [full text: PDF (818 KB)]

High bit rate all-optical signal processing in a fiber photonic wire

  • M. D. Pelusi, F. Luan, E. Magi, M. R. Lamont, D. J. Moss, B. J. Eggleton, J. S. Sanghera, L. B. Shaw, and I. D. Aggarwal
  • pp. 11506-11512 [full text: PDF (685 KB)]

Low loss fusion splicing of micron scale silica fibers

  • Parama Pal and Wayne H. Knox
  • pp. 11568-11573 [full text: PDF (626 KB)]

Geometric optics

Patterned microlens array for efficiency improvement of small-pixelated organic light-emitting devices

  • Hoang-Yan Lin, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Juin-Haw Lee, Kuan-Yu Chen, Jheng-Hao Fang, Sheng-Chih Hsu, Mao-Kuo Wei, Hung-Yi Lin, Jen-Hui Tsai, and Tung-Chuan Wu
  • pp. 11044-11051 [full text: PDF (658 KB)]

Holography

Non-local response in glass-like polymer storage materials based on poly (methylmethacrylate) with distributed phenanthrenequinone

  • E. Tolstik, O. Kashin, A. Matusevich, V. Matusevich, R. Kowarschik, Yu. I. Matusevich, and L. P. Krul
  • pp. 11253-11258 [full text: PDF (143 KB)]

Colorful reconstructions from a thin multi-plane phase hologram

  • Michal Makowski, Maciej Sypek, and Andrzej Kolodziejczyk
  • pp. 11618-11623 [full text: PDF (949 KB)]

Imaging systems

High-throughput, multiplexed pushbroom hyperspectral microscopy

  • M. E. Gehm, M. S. Kim, C. Fernandez, and D. J. Brady
  • pp. 11032-11043 [full text: PDF (500 KB)]

Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography and pancorrection for cellular imaging of the living human retina Multimedia

  • Enrique J. Fernández, Boris Hermann, Boris Považay, Angelika Unterhuber, Harald Sattmann, Bernd Hofer, Peter K. Ahnelt, and Wolfgang Drexler
  • pp. 11083-11094 [full text: PDF (788 KB)]

Absolute sensitivity calibration of extreme ultraviolet photoresists

  • Patrick P. Naulleau, Eric M. Gullikson, Andrew Aquila, Simi George, and Dimitra Niakoula
  • pp. 11519-11524 [full text: PDF (81 KB)]

Optical properties of a bio-inspired gradient refractive index polymer lens

  • G. Beadie, James S. Shirk, A. Rosenberg, Paul A. Lane, E. Fleet, A. R. Kamdar, Y. Jin, M. Ponting, T. Kazmierczak, Y. Yang, A. Hiltner, and E. Baer
  • pp. 11540-11547 [full text: PDF (406 KB)]

Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology

Nondestructive high-resolution soft-boundary profiling based on forward shadow diffraction Multimedia

  • Songky Moon, Juhee Yang, Sang-Bum Lee, Jeong-Bo Shim, Sang-Wook Kim, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An
  • pp. 11007-11020 [full text: PDF (733 KB)]

Terahertz profilometry at 600 GHz with 0.5 μm depth resolution

  • Bernhard Hils, Mark D. Thomson, Torsten Löffler, Wolff von Spiegel, Christian am Weg, Hartmut G. Roskos, Peter de Maagt, Dominic Doyle, and Ralf D. Geckeler
  • pp. 11289-11293 [full text: PDF (486 KB)]

Optimization of Mueller matrix polarimeters in the presence of error sources

  • K. M. Twietmeyer and R. A. Chipman
  • pp. 11589-11603 [full text: PDF (1684 KB)]

Integrated optics

Whispering gallery mode spectra of channel waveguide coupled Microspheres

  • Y. Panitchob, G. Senthil Murugan, M. N. Zervas, P. Horak, S. Berneschi, S. Pelli, G. Nunzi Conti, and J. S. Wilkinson
  • pp. 11066-11076 [full text: PDF (374 KB)]

All-optical switching in 2D silicon photonic crystals with low loss waveguides and optical cavities

  • Michele Belotti, Juan F. Galisteo Lòpez, Sara De Angelis, Matteo Galli, Ivan Maksymov, Lucio C. Andreani, David Peyrade, and Yong Chen
  • pp. 11624-11636 [full text: PDF (902 KB)]

Laser micromachining

Ultra-broadband enhanced absorption of metal surfaces structured by femtosecond laser pulses

  • Yang Yang, Jianjun Yang, Chunyong Liang, and Hongshui Wang
  • pp. 11259-11265 [full text: PDF (2600 KB)]

Laser induced forward transfer of metals by temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses

  • A. Klini, P. A. Loukakos, D. Gray, A. Manousaki, and C. Fotakis
  • pp. 11300-11309 [full text: PDF (11202 KB)]

Lasers and laser optics

Multiwatts narrow linewidth fiber Raman amplifiers

  • Yan Feng, Luke Taylor, and Domenico Bonaccini Calia
  • pp. 10927-10932 [full text: PDF (421 KB)]

Enhancement of laser performance using an intracavity deformable membrane mirror

  • Walter Lubeigt, Gareth Valentine, and David Burns
  • pp. 10943-10955 [full text: PDF (683 KB)]

Optical injection in semiconductor ring lasers: backfire dynamics

  • Lendert Gelens, Stefano Beri, Guy Van der Sande, Jan Danckaert, Nicola Calabretta, Harm J. S. Dorren, Richard Nötzel, Erwin A. J. M. Bente, and Meint K. Smit
  • pp. 10968-10974 [full text: PDF (1456 KB)]

Broadband Tm-doped superfluorescent fiber source with 11 W single-ended output power

  • D. Y. Shen, L. Pearson, P. Wang, J. K. Sahu, and W. A. Clarkson
  • pp. 11021-11026 [full text: PDF (343 KB)]

Estimation of thermal fracture limits in quasi-continuous-wave end-pumped lasers through a time-dependent analytical model Multimedia

  • E. H. Bernhardi, A. Forbes, C. Bollig, and M.J. D. Esser
  • pp. 11115-11123 [full text: PDF (428 KB)]

Singly resonant cw OPO with simple wavelength tuning

  • Markku Vainio, Jari Peltola, Stefan Persijn, Frans J. M. Harren, and Lauri Halonen
  • pp. 11141-11146 [full text: PDF (193 KB)]

Interband optical pulse injection locking of quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor laser

  • Jimyung Kim and Peter J. Delfyett
  • pp. 11153-11161 [full text: PDF (321 KB)]

Self-oscillations in a cascaded Raman laser made with a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

  • P. Suret, N. Y. Joly, G. Mélin, and S. Randoux
  • pp. 11237-11246 [full text: PDF (429 KB)]

High-efficiency direct-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser operating at 1.34 μm

  • X. Ding, H. Zhang, R. Wang, W. Q. Wen, P. Wang, J. Q. Yao, and X. Y. Yu
  • pp. 11247-11252 [full text: PDF (373 KB)]

Fast all-optical flip-flop based on a single distributed feedback laser diode

  • Koen Huybrechts, Geert Morthier, and Roel Baets
  • pp. 11405-11410 [full text: PDF (376 KB)]

Thermal properties measurement and laser operation of a new Yb: Gd0.68Lu0.32VO4 crystal

  • Huaijin Zhang, Yonggui Yu, Yan Cheng, Jiyang Wang, Xutang Tao, Minhua Jiang, and Huirui Xia
  • pp. 11481-11486 [full text: PDF (98 KB)]

Lamb-dip-locked quantum cascade laser for comb-referenced IR absolute frequency measurements

  • S. Borri, S. Bartalini, I. Galli, P. Cancio, G. Giusfredi, D. Mazzotti, A. Castrillo, L. Gianfrani, and P. De Natale
  • pp. 11637-11646 [full text: PDF (909 KB)]

Materials

Electro-optic single-crystalline organic waveguides and nanowires grown from the melt

  • Harry Figi, Mojca Jazbinšek, Christoph Hunziker, Manuel Koechlin, and Peter Günter
  • pp. 11310-11327 [full text: PDF (874 KB)]

Fabrication of Carbon nanotube poly-methyl-methacrylate composites for nonlinear photonic devices

  • Amos Martinez, Sho Uchida, Yong-Won Song, Takaaki Ishigure, and Shinji Yamashita
  • pp. 11337-11343 [full text: PDF (199 KB)]

Medical optics and biotechnology

Optical micro-scale mapping of dynamic biomechanical tissue properties

  • Xing Liang, Amy L. Oldenburg, Vasilica Crecea, Eric J. Chaney, and Stephen A. Boppart
  • pp. 11052-11065 [full text: PDF (1675 KB)]

Optical imaging of cervical precancerous lesions based on active stereo vision and motion tracking Multimedia

  • Tao T. Wu, Tak-Hong Cheung, So-Fan Yim, and Jianan Y. Qu
  • pp. 11224-11230 [full text: PDF (3187 KB)]

Phase-resolved magnetomotive OCT for imaging nanomolar concentrations of magnetic nanoparticles in tissues

  • Amy L. Oldenburg, Vasilica Crecea, Stephanie A. Rinne, and Stephen A. Boppart
  • pp. 11525-11539 [full text: PDF (717 KB)]

Higher harmonic generation microscopy of in vitro cultured mammal oocytes and embryos

  • Cho-Shuen Hsieh, Shee-Uan Chen, Yen-Wei Lee, Yu-Shih Yang, and Chi-Kuang Sun
  • pp. 11574-11588 [full text: PDF (690 KB)]

Metamaterials

Manipulating the directivity of antennas with metamaterial

  • Jingjing Zhang, Yu Luo, Hongsheng Chen, and Bae-Ian Wu
  • pp. 10962-10967 [full text: PDF (10182 KB)]

Experimental observation of cavity formation in composite metamaterials

  • Humeyra Caglayan, Irfan Bulu, Marko Loncar, and Ekmel Ozbay
  • pp. 11132-11140 [full text: PDF (470 KB)]

An efficient way to reduce losses of left-handed metamaterials

  • Jiangfeng Zhou, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis
  • pp. 11147-11152 [full text: PDF (427 KB)]

Design and fabrication of diverse metamaterial structures by holographic lithography

  • Yi Yang, Qiuze Li, and Guo Ping Wang
  • pp. 11275-11280 [full text: PDF (703 KB)]

Transformation-optical design of adaptive beam bends and beam expanders Multimedia

  • M. Rahm, D. A. Roberts, J. B. Pendry, and D. R. Smith
  • pp. 11555-11567 [full text: PDF (1264 KB)]

Microscopy

Phase imaging of cells by simultaneous dual-wavelength reflection digital holography

  • Alexander Khmaladze, Myung Kim, and Chun-Min Lo
  • pp. 10900-10911 [full text: PDF (691 KB)]

Antenna-mediated back-scattering efficiency in infrared near-field microscopy

  • M. Brehm, A. Schliesser, F. Cajko, I. Tsukerman, and F. Keilmann
  • pp. 11203-11215 [full text: PDF (728 KB)]

Nonlinear optics

Wiggling and bending-free micron-sized solitons in periodically biased photorefractives Multimedia

  • A. Ciattoni, E. DelRe, A. Marini, and C. Rizza
  • pp. 10867-10872 [full text: PDF (572 KB)]

Stimulated Brillouin scattering continuous wave phase conjugation in step-index fiber optics

  • Steven M. Massey, Justin B. Spring, and Timothy H. Russell
  • pp. 10873-10885 [full text: PDF (466 KB)]

Harmonic extended supercontinuum generation and carrier envelope phase dependent spectral broadening in silica nanowires Multimedia

  • Goëry Genty, Bertrand Kibler, Paul Kinsler, and John M. Dudley
  • pp. 10886-10893 [full text: PDF (1747 KB)]

Two-dimensional coherent superposition of blue-shifted signals from an array of highly nonlinear waveguiding wires in a photonic-crystal fiber

  • Ming-Lie Hu, Yan-Feng Li, Lu Chai, Qirong Xing, Lyubov V. Doronina, Anatoly A. Ivanov, Ching-Yue Wang, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov
  • pp. 11176-11181 [full text: PDF (421 KB)]

Particle size-dependent giant nonlinear absorption in nanostructured Ni-Ti alloys

  • John Kiran Anthony, Hee Cheoul Kim, Hwang Woon Lee, S. Kumar Mahapatra, Hae Min Lee, Chang Koo Kim, Kihong Kim, Hanjo Lim, and Fabian Rotermund
  • pp. 11193-11202 [full text: PDF (686 KB)]

Thermal effects in high-power CW second harmonic generation in Mg-doped stoichiometric lithium tantalate

  • Sergey V. Tovstonog, Sunao Kurimura, Ikue Suzuki, Kohei Takeno, Shigenori Moriwaki, Noriaki Ohmae, Norikatsu Mio, and Toshio Katagai
  • pp. 11294-11299 [full text: PDF (96 KB)]

Phase analysis of stimulated Brillouin scattering in long, graded-index optical fiber

  • Steven M. Massey and Timothy H. Russell
  • pp. 11496-11505 [full text: PDF (2433 KB)]

UV Second Harmonic Generation at 266 nm in He+ Implanted β -BaB2O4 Optical Waveguides

  • R. Degl'Innocenti, A. Majkic, F. Sulser, L. Mutter, G. Poberaj, and P. Günter
  • pp. 11660-11669 [full text: PDF (1125 KB)]

Epi-third and second harmonic generation microscopic imaging of abnormal enamel

  • Szu-Yu Chen, Chin-Ying S. Hsu, and Chi-Kuang Sun
  • pp. 11670-11679 [full text: PDF (1054 KB)]

Optical design and fabrication

Computer-guided alignment III: Description of inter-element alignment effect in circular-pupil optical systems

  • Hanshin Lee, Gavin B. Dalton, Ian A. Tosh, and Sug-Whan Kim
  • pp. 10992-11006 [full text: PDF (224 KB)]

Optical devices

All-pass optical structures for repetition rate multiplication

  • Miguel A. Preciado and Miguel A. Muriel
  • pp. 11162-11168 [full text: PDF (973 KB)]

Broadband directional couplers fabricated in bulk glass with high repetition rate femtosecond laser pulses

  • Wei-Jen Chen, Shane M. Eaton, Haibin Zhang, and Peter R. Herman
  • pp. 11470-11480 [full text: PDF (658 KB)]

Optical trapping and manipulation

Nonlinear evolution of the interacting Gaussian-shaped Matter Waves

  • Jun Chen, Zhang Zhang, Yunxian Liu, and Qiang Lin
  • pp. 10918-10926 [full text: PDF (606 KB)]

Optics at surfaces

Coherent thermal emission by excitation of magnetic polaritons between periodic strips and a metallic film

  • B. J. Lee, L. P. Wang, and Z. M. Zhang
  • pp. 11328-11336 [full text: PDF (562 KB)]

Surface plasmon dynamics in arrays of subwavelength holes: the role of optical interband transitions

  • V. Halté, A. Benabbas, and J.-Y. Bigot
  • pp. 11611-11617 [full text: PDF (153 KB)]

Optics in computing

Toward optical signal processing using Photonic Reservoir Computing

  • Kristof Vandoorne, Wouter Dierckx, Benjamin Schrauwen, David Verstraeten, Roel Baets, Peter Bienstman, and Jan Van Campenhout
  • pp. 11182-11192 [full text: PDF (285 KB)]

Design of all-optical high-order temporal integrators based on multiple-phase-shifted Bragg gratings

  • Mohammad H. Asghari and José Azaña
  • pp. 11459-11469 [full text: PDF (153 KB)]

Optoelectronics

CMOS-compatible dual-output silicon modulator for analog signal processing

  • S. J. Spector, M. W. Geis, G.-R. Zhou, M. E. Grein, F. Gan, M. A. Popovic, J. U. Yoon, D. M. Lennon, E. P. Ippen, F. Z. Kärtner, and T. M. Lyszczarz
  • pp. 11027-11031 [full text: PDF (199 KB)]

An integrated recirculating optical buffer

  • Hyundai Park, John P. Mack, Daniel J. Bluementhal, and John E. Bowers
  • pp. 11124-11131 [full text: PDF (1000 KB)]

Photonic crystals

Ultrahigh-Q Nanocavity with 1D Photonic Gap

  • M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, and H. Taniyama
  • pp. 11095-11102 [full text: PDF (702 KB)]

Elimination of cross-talk in waveguide intersections of triangular lattice photonic crystals Multimedia

  • Soon-Hong Kwon, Martin Kamp, Alfred Forchel, Min-Kyo Seo, and Yong-Hee Lee
  • pp. 11399-11404 [full text: PDF (797 KB)]

Perfectly matched layer absorption boundary condition in planewave based transfer-scattering matrix method for photonic crystal device simulation

  • Ming Li, Xinhua Hu, Zhuo Ye, Kai-Ming Ho, Jiangrong Cao, and Mamoru Miyawaki
  • pp. 11548-11554 [full text: PDF (201 KB)]

Coupled-resonator-induced reflection in photonic-crystal waveguide structures

  • Sergei F. Mingaleev, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, and Yuri S. Kivshar
  • pp. 11647-11659 [full text: PDF (539 KB)]

Physical optics

Phase dynamics of continuous topological upconversion in vortex beams

  • Carlos López-Mariscal, Daniel Burnham, Daniel Rudd, David McGloin, and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega
  • pp. 11411-11422 [full text: PDF (1174 KB)]

Electromagnetic concentrators with reduced material parameters based on coordinate transformation

  • Wei Wang, Lan Lin, Junxian Ma, Changtao Wang, Jianhua Cui, Chunlei Du, and Xiangang Luo
  • pp. 11431-11437 [full text: PDF (220 KB)]

Quantum optics

Ultra fast quantum key distribution over a 97 km installed telecom fiber with wavelength division multiplexing clock synchronization

  • Akihiro Tanaka, Mikio Fujiwara, Sae W. Nam, Yoshihiro Nambu, Seigo Takahashi, Wakako Maeda, Ken-ichiro Yoshino, Shigehito Miki, Burm Baek, Zhen Wang, Akio Tajima, Masahide Sasaki, and Akihisa Tomita
  • pp. 11354-11360 [full text: PDF (127 KB)]

Slow light

Slow light in a dielectric waveguide with negative-refractive-index photonic crystal cladding

  • Jinlong He, Yi Jin, Zhi Hong, and Sailing He
  • pp. 11077-11082 [full text: PDF (1116 KB)]

Slow light based on coherent hole-burning in a Doppler broadened three-level Λ-type atomic system

  • Shang-qi Kuang, Peng Du, Ren-gan Wang, Yun Jiang, and Jin-yue Gao
  • pp. 11604-11610 [full text: PDF (174 KB)]

Spectroscopy

Multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy technique for fluorescence rejection

  • Scott T. McCain, Rebecca M. Willett, and David J. Brady
  • pp. 10975-10991 [full text: PDF (578 KB)]

Ultrafast optics

Spontaneous emergence of pulses with constant carrier-envelope phase in femtosecond filamentation

  • D. Faccio, A. Lotti, M. Kolesik, J. V. Moloney, S. Tzortzakis, A. Couairon, and P. Di Trapani
  • pp. 11103-11114 [full text: PDF (282 KB)]

All-fiber normal-dispersion femtosecond laser

  • K. Kieu and F. W. Wise
  • pp. 11453-11458 [full text: PDF (567 KB)]

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