Spectral limits for periodic pattern propagation in Kerr media

N. Korneev and E. Morales Rodríguez

Opt. Express 12(15), 3297-3306 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Random stack of resonant dielectric layers as a laser system

Yan Feng and Ken-ichi Ueda

Opt. Express 12(15), 3307-3312 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact slanted grating couplers

Bin Wang, Jianhua Jiang, and Gregory P. Nordin

Opt. Express 12(15), 3313-3326 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Colour mixing LEDs with short microsphere doped acrylic rods

Chris Deller, Geoff Smith, and Jim Franklin

Opt. Express 12(15), 3327-3333 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Impact of mode partition noise in free-running gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser for 2-dimensional OCDMA

Xu Wang and Kam Tai Chan

Opt. Express 12(15), 3334-3340 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Loss and dispersion analysis of microstructured fibers by finite-difference method

Shangping Guo, Feng Wu, Sacharia Albin, Hsiang Tai, and Robert S. Rogowski

Opt. Express 12(15), 3341-3352 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinearity enhancement in finite coupled-resonator slow-light waveguides

Yan Chen and Steve Blair

Opt. Express 12(15), 3353-3366 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Iterative processing of second-order optical nonlinearity depth profiles

A. Ozcan, M. J. F. Digonnet, and G. S. Kino

Opt. Express 12(15), 3367-3376 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Trapping metallic Rayleigh particles with radial polarization

Qiwen Zhan

Opt. Express 12(15), 3377-3382 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse-compression down to 20 fs using a photonic crystal fiber seeded by a diode-pumped Yb:SYS laser at 1070 nm

Frédéric Druon and Patrick Georges

Opt. Express 12(15), 3383-3396 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Solitary pulse shaping dynamics in cavity-dumped laser oscillators

Alexander Killi and Uwe Morgner

Opt. Express 12(15), 3397-3407 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Selective excitation between two-photon and three-photon fluorescence with engineered cost functions

Jianfang Chen, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yasuo Nabekawa, Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Miyawaki, Takasumi Tanabe, Fumihiko Kannari, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Opt. Express 12(15), 3408-3414 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct-detection optical differential 8-level phase-shift keying (OD8PSK) for spectrally efficient transmission

Cheolhwan Kim and Guifang Li

Opt. Express 12(15), 3415-3421 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical sensing based on plasmon coupling in nanoparticle arrays

Stefan Enoch, Romain Quidant, and Gonçal Badenes

Opt. Express 12(15), 3422-3427 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Cooperative microlenses

L.E. Helseth and T.M. Fischer

Opt. Express 12(15), 3428-3435 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Simulations of the effect of the core ring on surface and air-core modes in photonic bandgap fibers

Hyang Kyun Kim, Michel J. F. Digonnet, Gordon S. Kino, Jonghwa Shin, and Shanhui Fan

Opt. Express 12(15), 3436-3442 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Reducing symmetric polarization aberrations in a lens by annealing

J. Wolfe and R. A. Chipman

Opt. Express 12(15), 3443-3451 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

High gain efficiency amplifier based on an erbium doped aluminosilicate holey fiber

K. Furusawa, T. Kogure, T. M. Monro, and D. J. Richardson

Opt. Express 12(15), 3452-3458 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Formation of off-axis beams in an axially pumped solid-state laser

Hsiao-Hua Wu

Opt. Express 12(15), 3459-3464 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Intermodal interference in a photonic crystal fibre

D. Káčik, I. Turek, I. Martinček, J. Canning, N.A. Issa, and K. Lyytikäinen

Opt. Express 12(15), 3465-3470 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced bandwidth of supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers

G. Genty, M. Lehtonen, H. Ludvigsen, and M. Kaivola

Opt. Express 12(15), 3471-3480 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Spontaneous pattern formation in a cavity with incoherent light

Tal Carmon, Hrvoje Buljan, and Mordechai Segev

Opt. Express 12(15), 3481-3487 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

80Gb/s clock recovery with phase locked loop based on LiNbO₃ modulators

G. Zhu, Q. Wang, H. Dong, H. Sun, and N.K. Dutta

Opt. Express 12(15), 3488-3492 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of a grating-based stretcher/compressor for carrier-envelope phase stabilized fs pulses

Isabell Thomann, Etienne Gagnon, R. Jason Jones, Arvinder S. Sandhu, Amy Lytle, Ryan Anderson, Jun Ye, Margaret Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn

Opt. Express 12(15), 3493-3499 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-large bandwidth hollow-core guiding in all-silica Bragg fibers with nano-supports

Guillaume Vienne, Yong Xu, Christian Jakobsen, Hans-Jürgen Deyerl, Jesper B. Jensen, Thorkild Sørensen, Theis P. Hansen, Yanyi Huang, Matthew Terrel, Reginald K. Lee, Niels A. Mortensen, Jes Broeng, Harald Simonsen, Anders Bjarklev, and Amnon Yariv

Opt. Express 12(15), 3500-3508 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity-tunable optical sensors based on surface plasmon resonance and phase detection

Chien-Ming Wu and Ming-Chi Pao

Opt. Express 12(15), 3509-3514 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Raman amplifier-based long-distance remote, strain and temperature sensing system using an erbium-doped fiber and a fiber Bragg grating

Ju Han Lee, You Min Chang, Young-Geun Han, Haeyang Chung, Sang Hyuck Kim, and Sang Bae Lee

Opt. Express 12(15), 3515-3520 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication and study of bent and coiled free silica nanowires: Self-coupling microloop optical interferometer

M. Sumetsky, Y. Dulashko, and A. Hale

Opt. Express 12(15), 3521-3531 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrahigh resolution optical biopsy with endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Paul R. Herz, Yu Chen, Aaron D. Aguirre, James G. Fujimoto, Hiroshi Mashimo, Joseph Schmitt, Amanda Koski, John Goodnow, and Chris Petersen

Opt. Express 12(15), 3532-3542 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

High repetition rate, q-switched and intracavity frequency doubled Nd:YVO₄ laser at 671nm

Hamish Ogilvy, Michael J. Withford, Peter Dekker, and James A. Piper

Opt. Express 12(15), 3543-3547 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Laguerre-Gaussian beam generated with a multilevel spiral phase plate for high intensity laser pulses

K. Sueda, G. Miyaji, N. Miyanaga, and M. Nakatsuka

Opt. Express 12(15), 3548-3553 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical model of a Q-switched double-clad fiber laser

J. Swiderski, A. Zajac, P. Konieczny, and M. Skorczakowski

Opt. Express 12(15), 3554-3559 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched Yb:Y₂O₃ ceramic laser with a GaAs output coupler

J. Kong, D. Y. Tang, J. Lu, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, and T. Yanagitani

Opt. Express 12(15), 3560-3566 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 22.8 mW single-frequency green light by frequency doubling of a 50-mW diode laser

Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Yun Zhang, and Katsuyuki Kasai

Opt. Express 12(15), 3567-3572 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Bright, single-spatial-mode source of frequency non-degenerate, polarization-entangled photon pairs using periodically poled KTP

Matthew Pelton, Philip Marsden, Daniel Ljunggren, Maria Tengner, Anders Karlsson, Anna Fragemann, Carlota Canalias, and Fredrik Laurell

Opt. Express 12(15), 3573-3580 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

High power fundamental mode Nd:YAG laser with efficient birefringence compensation

Maik Frede, Ralf Wilhelm, Martina Brendel, Carsten Fallnich, Frank Seifert, Benno Willke, and Karsten Danzmann

Opt. Express 12(15), 3581-3589 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Light propulsion of microbeads with femtosecond laser pulses

Nan Zhang, You-Bo Zhao, and Xiao-Nong Zhu

Opt. Express 12(15), 3590-3598 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic crystal power-splitter based on directional coupling

Insu Park, Hyun-Shik Lee, Hyun-Jun Kim, Kyung-Mi Moon, Seung-Gol Lee, Beom-Hoan O, Se-Geun Park, and El-Hang Lee

Opt. Express 12(15), 3599-3604 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

The use of Gauss-Laguerre vector beams in STED microscopy

P. Török and P.R.T. Munro

Opt. Express 12(15), 3605-3617 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]