Focus issue introduction: Nonlinear optics 2013

Jerry I. Dadap, Magnus Karlsson, and Nicolae C. Panoiu

Opt. Express 21(25), 31176-31178 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optics in daily life

Elsa Garmire

Opt. Express 21(25), 30532-30544 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear switching in multicore versus multimode waveguide junctions for mode-locked laser applications

Elham Nazemosadat and Arash Mafi

Opt. Express 21(25), 30739-30745 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of the domain shape on noncollinear second-harmonic emission in disordered quadratic media

Mousa Ayoub, Markus Paßlick, Kaloian Koynov, Jörg Imbrock, and Cornelia Denz

Opt. Express 21(25), 31462-31468 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Performance evaluation of a 1.6-µm methane DIAL system from ground, aircraft and UAV platforms

Tamer F. Refaat, Syed Ismail, Amin R. Nehrir, John W. Hair, James H. Crawford, Ira Leifer, and Timothy Shuman

Opt. Express 21(25), 30415-30432 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser fluorescence and propagation in very dense potassium vapor

Y. Makdisi, J. Kokaj, K. Afrousheh, R. Nair, J. Mathew, and G Pichler

Opt. Express 21(25), 30306-30314 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

The influence of non-imaging detector design on heralded ghost-imaging and ghost-diffraction examined using a triggered ICCD camera

D. S. Tasca, R. S. Aspden, P. A. Morris, G. Anderson, R. W. Boyd, and M. J. Padgett

Opt. Express 21(25), 30460-30473 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of spot-size converter for low polarization dependent loss of waveguide photodetector

Joong-Seon Choe, Won-Seok Han, Duk Jun Kim, Jong-Hoi Kim, Chun Ju Youn, Dong-Young Kim, Yong-Hwan Kwon, and Eun-Soo Nam

Opt. Express 21(25), 30175-30182 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-performance photoreceivers based on vertical-illumination type Ge-on-Si photodetectors operating up to 43 Gb/s at λ~1550nm

In Gyoo Kim, Ki-Seok Jang, Jiho Joo, Sanghoon Kim, Sanggi Kim, Kwang-Seong Choi, Jin Hyuk Oh, Sun Ae Kim, and Gyungock Kim

Opt. Express 21(25), 30716-30723 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Bound-to-continuum absorption with tunneling in type-II nanostructures: a multiband source-radiation approach

Chi-Ti Hsieh and Shu-Wei Chang

Opt. Express 21(25), 30778-30795 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission bleaching and coupling crossover in a split tapered aperture

Shuchang Liu, Oleg Mitrofanov, and Ajay Nahata

Opt. Express 21(25), 30895-30902 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis and experimental demonstration of novel 8PolSK-QPSK modulation at 5 bits/symbol for passive mitigation of nonlinear impairments

Mathieu Chagnon, Mohamed Osman, Qunbi Zhuge, Xian Xu, and David V. Plant

Opt. Express 21(25), 30204-30220 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing the decoding performance of optical wireless communication systems using receiver-side predistortion

Qi Wang, Zhaocheng Wang, Sheng Chen, and Lajos Hanzo

Opt. Express 21(25), 30295-30305 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-loss photonic crystal fiber fabricated by a slurry casting method

Tamotsu Yajima, Jun Yamamoto, Futoshi Ishii, Toshihiko Hirooka, Masato Yoshida, and Masataka Nakazawa

Opt. Express 21(25), 30500-30506 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical filtering in directly modulated/detected OOFDM systems

C. Sánchez, B. Ortega, J. L. Wei, and J. Capmany

Opt. Express 21(25), 30591-30609 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of wired and wireless services based on OFDM DSB-RC transmission in the presence of modulation chirp of a DEMZM

Paulo Almeida and Henrique Silva

Opt. Express 21(25), 30764-30777 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Four-wave mixing stability in hybrid photonic crystal fibers with two zero-dispersion wavelengths

Benoit Sévigny, Olivier Vanvincq, Constance Valentin, Na Chen, Yves Quiquempois, and Géraud Bouwmans

Opt. Express 21(25), 30859-30873 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Twin-resonance-coupling and high sensitivity sensing characteristics of a selectively fluid-filled microstructured optical fiber

Mingming Luo, Yan-ge Liu, Zhi Wang, Tingting Han, Zhifang Wu, Junqi Guo, and Wei Huang

Opt. Express 21(25), 30911-30917 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission and reception of Quad-Carrier QPSK-OFDM signal with blind equalization and overhead-free operation

Fan Li, Junwen Zhang, Zizheng Cao, Jianjun Yu, Xinying Li, Lin Chen, Yan Xia, and Yufei Chen

Opt. Express 21(25), 30999-31005 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Superposed pulse amplitude modulation for visible light communication

J. F. Li, Z. T. Huang, R. Q. Zhang, F. X. Zeng, M. Jiang, and Y. F. Ji

Opt. Express 21(25), 31006-31011 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Field demonstration of mode-division multiplexing upgrade scenarios on commercial networks

V.A.J.M. Sleiffer, H. Chen, Y. Jung, P. Leoni, M. Kuschnerov, A. Simperler, H. Fabian, H. Schuh, F. Kub, D.J. Richardson, S.U. Alam, L. Grüner-Nielsen, Y. Sun, A.M.J. Koonen, and H. de Waardt

Opt. Express 21(25), 31036-31046 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects based on hybrid free-space and multi-mode fiber propagations

Ke Wang, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Efstratios Skafidas, and Kamal Alameh

Opt. Express 21(25), 31166-31175 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal packing for cascaded regenerative transmission based on phase sensitive amplifiers

Mariia Sorokina, Stylianos Sygletos, Andrew D. Ellis, and Sergei Turitsyn

Opt. Express 21(25), 31201-31211 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation and transmission of 512-Gb/s quad-carrier digital super-Nyquist spectral shaped signal

Junwen Zhang, Jianjun Yu, and Nan Chi

Opt. Express 21(25), 31212-31217 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Lead silicate microstructured optical fibres for electro-optical applications

Wen Qi Zhang, Sean Manning, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, and Tanya M. Monro

Opt. Express 21(25), 31309-31317 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Michelson interferometer based interleaver design using classic IIR filter decomposition

Chi-Hao Cheng and Shasha Tang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31330-31335 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Maintenance-free operation of WDM quantum key distribution system through a field fiber over 30 days

Ken-ichiro Yoshino, Takao Ochi, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, and Akio Tajima

Opt. Express 21(25), 31395-31401 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of cross-phase modulation reduction in hybrid systems with co-propagating 100G PM-QPSK and 10G OOK

Steven Searcy and Sorin Tibuleac

Opt. Express 21(25), 31483-31491 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Acquisition of phase-shift fiber grating spectra with 23.5 femtometer spectral resolution using DFB-LD

Cunguang Zhu, Jun Chang, Pengpeng Wang, Wei Wei, Sasa Zhang, Zhi Liu, and Gangding Peng

Opt. Express 21(25), 31540-31547 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber optical parametric amplifier with double-pass pump configuration

Kwok Shien Yeo, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan, Makhfudzah Mokhtar, Salasiah Hitam, and Mohd Adzir Mahdi

Opt. Express 21(25), 31623-31631 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Few mode Er³⁺-doped fiber with micro-structured core for mode division multiplexing in the C-band

Guillaume Le Cocq, Yves Quiquempois, Antoine Le Rouge, Géraud Bouwmans, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Karen Delplace, Mohamed Bouazaoui, and Laurent Bigot

Opt. Express 21(25), 31646-31659 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Anti-resonant reflecting guidance in alcohol-filled hollow core photonic crystal fiber for sensing applications

Shuhui Liu, Ying Wang, Maoxiang Hou, Jiangtao Guo, Zhihua Li, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Express 21(25), 31690-31697 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Potential benefits of free-form optics in on-axis imaging applications with high aspect ratio

Fabian Duerr, Youri Meuret, and Hugo Thienpont

Opt. Express 21(25), 31072-31081 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Automatable sample fabrication process for pump-probe X-ray holographic imaging

Felix Büttner, Michael Schneider, Christian M. Günther, C. A. F. Vaz, Bert Lägel, Dirk Berger, Sören Selve, Mathias Kläui, and Stefan Eisebitt

Opt. Express 21(25), 30563-30572 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Locating particles accurately in microscope images requires image-processing kernels to be rotationally symmetric

Peter J. Lu, Maor Shutman, Eli Sloutskin, and Alexander V. Butenko

Opt. Express 21(25), 30755-30763 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the depth of field of integral imaging displays based on wave optics

Cheng-Gao Luo, Xiao Xiao, Manuel Martínez-Corral, Chih-Wei Chen, Bahram Javidi, and Qiong-Hua Wang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31263-31273 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoacoustic guided ultrasound wavefront shaping for targeted acousto-optic imaging

Jacob Staley, Erwin Hondebrink, Wilma Peterson, and Wiendelt Steenbergen

Opt. Express 21(25), 30553-30562 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase noise analysis of two wavelength coherent imaging system

Benjamin R. Dapore, David J. Rabb, and Joseph W. Haus

Opt. Express 21(25), 30642-30652 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

A hybrid temporal and spatial speckle-suppression method for laser displays

Qing-Long Deng, Bor-Shyh Lin, Pei-Jung Wu, Kuan-Yao Chiu, Ping-Lin Fan, and Chien-Yue Chen

Opt. Express 21(25), 31062-31071 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Bi-sided integral imaging with 2D/3D convertibility using scattering polarizer

Jiwoon Yeom, Keehoon Hong, Soon-gi Park, Jisoo Hong, Sung-Wook Min, and Byoungho Lee

Opt. Express 21(25), 31189-31200 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

New approach to improve the accuracy of 3-D shape measurement of moving object using phase shifting profilometry

Lei Lu, Jiangtao Xi, Yanguang Yu, and Qinghua Guo

Opt. Express 21(25), 30610-30622 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotating polarization spectroscopy for single nano-antenna characterization

Govinda Lilley and Karl Unterrainer

Opt. Express 21(25), 30903-30910 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Perfect blackbody radiation from a graphene nanostructure with application to high-temperature spectral emissivity measurements

Takahiro Matsumoto, Tomoaki Koizumi, Yasuyuki Kawakami, Koichi Okamoto, and Makoto Tomita

Opt. Express 21(25), 30964-30974 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-loss, flat-topped and spectrally uniform silicon-nanowire-based 5th-order CROW fabricated by ArF-immersion lithography process on a 300-mm SOI wafer

Seok-Hwan Jeong, Daisuke Shimura, Takasi Simoyama, Miyoshi Seki, Nobuyuki Yokoyama, Minoru Ohtsuka, Keiji Koshino, Tsuyoshi Horikawa, Yu Tanaka, and Ken Morito

Opt. Express 21(25), 30163-30174 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Low power 50 Gb/s silicon traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator near 1300 nm

Matthew Streshinsky, Ran Ding, Yang Liu, Ari Novack, Yisu Yang, Yangjin Ma, Xiaoguang Tu, Edward Koh Sing Chee, Andy Eu-Jin Lim, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Tom Baehr-Jones, and Michael Hochberg

Opt. Express 21(25), 30350-30357 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

A compact bi-wavelength polarization splitting grating coupler fabricated in a 220 nm SOI platform

Matthew Streshinsky, Ruizhi Shi, Ari Novack, Roger Tern Poh Cher, Andy Eu-Jin Lim, Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo, Tom Baehr-Jones, and Michael Hochberg

Opt. Express 21(25), 31019-31028 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient coupling between dielectric waveguide modes and exterior plasmon whispering gallery modes

Chen-Guang Xu, Xiao Xiong, Chang-Ling Zou, Xi-Feng Ren, and Guang-Can Guo

Opt. Express 21(25), 31253-31262 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Bending losses of optically anisotropic exciton polaritons in organic molecular-crystal nanofibers

Hiroyuki Takeda and Kazuaki Sakoda

Opt. Express 21(25), 31420-31429 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficient blue emission of Ce³⁺ activated Ca₄P₂O₉ phosphor for white LEDs

Xin Zhao, Li Fan, Tao Yu, Zhaosheng Li, and Zhigang Zou

Opt. Express 21(25), 31660-31667 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-quality Si₃N₄ circuits as a platform for graphene-based nanophotonic devices

N. Gruhler, C. Benz, H. Jang, J.-H. Ahn, R. Danneau, and W. H. P. Pernice

Opt. Express 21(25), 31678-31689 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable locking phase limits of optically injected semiconductor lasers

Aidan Daly, Brendan Roycroft, and Brian Corbett

Opt. Express 21(25), 30126-30139 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency synchronization of Fourier domain harmonically mode locked fiber laser by monitoring the supermode noise peaks

Feng Li, Aiqin Zhang, Xinhuan Feng, and P. K. A. Wai

Opt. Express 21(25), 30255-30265 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory and experiment of submonolayer quantum-dot metal-cavity surface-emitting microlasers

Pengfei Qiao, Chien-Yao Lu, Dieter Bimberg, and Shun Lien Chuang

Opt. Express 21(25), 30336-30349 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-prism domain PPLN for simultaneous laser Q-switching and optical parametric oscillation in a Nd:YVO₄ laser

J. F. Huang, W. K. Chang, H. P. Chung, S. S. Huang, J. W. Chang, and Y. H. Chen

Opt. Express 21(25), 30370-30378 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Relations between subsurface damage depth and surface roughness of grinded fused silica

P. Blaineau, R. Laheurte, P. Darnis, N. Darbois, O. Cahuc, and J. Neauport

Opt. Express 21(25), 30433-30443 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power continuous-wave frequency-doubling in KTiOAsO₄

Peter Zeil, Andrius Zukauskas, Staffan Tjörnhammar, Carlota Canalias, Valdas Pasiskevicius, and Fredrik Laurell

Opt. Express 21(25), 30453-30459 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of transverse stimulated Raman scattering with laser-induced damage array in a large-aperture potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal

Wei Han, Fang Wang, Lidan Zhou, Fuquan Li, Bin Feng, Huabao Cao, Junpu Zhao, Sheng Li, Kuixing Zheng, Xiaofeng Wei, Mali Gong, and Wanguo Zheng

Opt. Express 21(25), 30481-30491 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-IR optical amplification and detection using quantum cascade lasers

Dingkai Guo, Xing Chen, Liwei Cheng, Alexey Belyanin, and Fow-Sen Choa

Opt. Express 21(25), 30545-30552 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Interfacial damage in a Ta₂O₅/SiO₂ double cavity filter irradiated by 1064 nm nanosecond laser pulses

Zhanshan Wang, Ganghua Bao, Hongfei Jiao, Bin Ma, Jinlong Zhang, Tao Ding, and Xinbin Cheng

Opt. Express 21(25), 30623-30632 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High power room temperature 1014.8 nm Yb fiber amplifier and frequency quadrupling to 253.7 nm for laser cooling of mercury atoms

Jinmeng Hu, Lei Zhang, Hongli Liu, Kangkang Liu, Zhen Xu, and Yan Feng

Opt. Express 21(25), 30958-30963 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength selection and spectral narrowing of distributed Bragg reflector quantum cascade lasers up to peak optical power

Arash Sadeghi, Peter Q. Liu, Xiaojun Wang, Jenyu Fan, Mariano Troccoli, and Claire F. Gmachl

Opt. Express 21(25), 31012-31018 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast, electrically controlled polarization modulation of multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by RF frequency modulation

Ajit V. Barve, Yan Zheng, Leif A. Johansson, Alok Mehta, Anis Husain, and Larry A. Coldren

Opt. Express 21(25), 31092-31097 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal, spectroscopic and laser characterization of monoclinic vanadate Nd:LaVO₄ crystal

Shangqian Sun, Haohai Yu, Yicheng Wang, Huaijin Zhang, and Jiyang Wang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31119-31129 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent beam combining of high power broad-area laser diode array with near diffraction limited beam quality and high power conversion efficiency

B. Liu and Y. Braiman

Opt. Express 21(25), 31218-31228 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide wavelength tunability and green laser operation of diode-pumped Pr³⁺:KY₃F₁₀

Philip W. Metz, Sebastian Müller, Fabian Reichert, Daniel-Timo Marzahl, Francesca Moglia, Christian Kränkel, and Günter Huber

Opt. Express 21(25), 31274-31281 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

All-PM coherent 2.05 µm Thulium/Holmium fiber frequency comb source at 100 MHz with up to 0.5 W average power and pulse duration down to 135 fs

H. Hoogland, A. Thai, D. Sánchez, S. L. Cousin, M. Hemmer, M. Engelbrecht, J. Biegert, and R. Holzwarth

Opt. Express 21(25), 31390-31394 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of operation dynamics for crystal temperature measurement in a diode end-pumped monolithic Yb:YAG laser

Hee-Jong Moon, Changhwan Lim, Guang-Hoon Kim, and Uk Kang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31506-31520 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast and widely tuneable vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser, mode-locked by a graphene-integrated distributed Bragg reflector

C. A. Zaugg, Z. Sun, V. J. Wittwer, D. Popa, S. Milana, T. S. Kulmala, R. S. Sundaram, M. Mangold, O. D. Sieber, M. Golling, Y. Lee, J. H. Ahn, A. C. Ferrari, and U. Keller

Opt. Express 21(25), 31548-31559 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-graphene-layer terahertz laser: concept, characteristics, and comparison

Victor Ryzhii, Alexander A. Dubinov, Taiichi Otsuji, Vladimir Ya. Aleshkin, Maxim Ryzhii, and Michael Shur

Opt. Express 21(25), 31567-31577 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Linearly polarized emission from random lasers with anisotropically amplifying media

Sebastian Knitter, Michael Kues, Michael Haidl, and Carsten Fallnich

Opt. Express 21(25), 31591-31603 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Achieving enhanced gain in photorefractive polymers by eliminating electron contributions using large bias fields

C. M. Liebig, S. H. Buller, P. P. Banerjee, S. A. Basun, P.-A. Blanche, J. Thomas, C. W. Christenson, N. Peyghambarian, and D. R. Evans

Opt. Express 21(25), 30392-30400 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependence of thermo-optic effects of single-crystal and ceramic TGG

Ryo Yasuhara, Hoshiteru Nozawa, Takagimi Yanagitani, Shinji Motokoshi, and Junji Kawanaka

Opt. Express 21(25), 31443-31452 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo femtosecond endosurgery: an intestinal epithelial regeneration-after-injury model

Myunghwan Choi and Seok Hyun Yun

Opt. Express 21(25), 30842-30848 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical coherence tomography – near infrared spectroscopy system and catheter for intravascular imaging

Ali M. Fard, Paulino Vacas-Jacques, Ehsan Hamidi, Hao Wang, Robert W. Carruth, Joseph A. Gardecki, and Guillermo J. Tearney

Opt. Express 21(25), 30849-30858 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated quantitative analysis of 3D morphology and mean corpuscular hemoglobin in human red blood cells stored in different periods

Inkyu Moon, Faliu Yi, Yeon H. Lee, Bahram Javidi, Daniel Boss, and Pierre Marquet

Opt. Express 21(25), 30947-30957 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing using interferometric focusing of light onto guide-stars

Xiaodong Tao, Ziah Dean, Christopher Chien, Oscar Azucena, Dare Bodington, and Joel Kubby

Opt. Express 21(25), 31282-31292 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband metamaterial absorber at mid-infrared using multiplexed cross resonators

Wei Ma, Yongzheng Wen, and Xiaomei Yu

Opt. Express 21(25), 30724-30730 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropic plasmonic Cu nanoparticles in sol-gel oxide nanopillars studied by spectroscopic Mueller matrix ellipsometry

Z. Ghadyani, M. Kildemo, L. M. S. Aas, Y. Cohin, and E. Søndergård

Opt. Express 21(25), 30796-30811 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Bifunctional plasmonic metamaterials enabled by subwavelength nano-notches for broadband, polarization-independent enhanced optical transmission and passive beam-steering

Zhi Hao Jiang, Lan Lin, Jeremy A. Bossard, and Douglas H. Werner

Opt. Express 21(25), 31492-31505 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Aberrations of flat lenses and aplanatic metasurfaces

Francesco Aieta, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail Kats, and Federico Capasso

Opt. Express 21(25), 31530-31539 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Towards in situ fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy investigations of asphaltene precipitation kinetics

Juliana C. Franco, Grasiele Gonçalves, Monique S. Souza, Samantha B. C. Rosa, Larissa M. Thiegue, Teresa D. Z. Atvars, Paulo T. V. Rosa, and René A. Nome

Opt. Express 21(25), 30874-30885 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-helix enhanced axial localization in STED nanoscopy

G. P. J. Laporte, D. B. Conkey, A. Vasdekis, R. Piestun, and D. Psaltis

Opt. Express 21(25), 30984-30992 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Blu-ray disk lens as the objective of a miniaturized two-photon fluorescence microscope

Hsiang-Yu Chung, Wei-Cheng Kuo, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Che-Hang Yu, Shih-Hsuan Chia, Cheng-Yung Lin, Jie-Shin Chen, Huai-Jen Tsai, Andrey B. Fedotov, Anatoly A. Ivanov, Aleksei M. Zheltikov, and Chi-Kuang Sun

Opt. Express 21(25), 31604-31614 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Evaluation of domain randomness in periodically poled lithium niobate by diffraction noise measurement

Prashant Povel Dwivedi, Hee Joo Choi, Byoung Joo Kim, and Myoungsik Cha

Opt. Express 21(25), 30221-30226 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Aging solitons in photorefractive dipolar glasses

J. Parravicini, D. Pierangeli, F. Di Mei, C. Conti, A. J. Agranat, and E. DelRe

Opt. Express 21(25), 30573-30579 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Dark soliton synthesis using an optical pulse synthesizer and transmission through a normal-dispersion optical fiber

Ken Kashiwagi, Kiyonobu Mozawa, Yosuke Tanaka, and Takashi Kurokawa

Opt. Express 21(25), 30886-30894 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Dissipative structure in the photo-induced phase under steady light irradiation in the spin crossover complex

Taishi Nishihara, Azzdine Bousseksou, and Koichiro Tanaka

Opt. Express 21(25), 31179-31188 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Interaction between optical fields and their conjugates in nonlinear media

Matteo Conforti, Andrea Marini, Truong X. Tran, Daniele Faccio, and Fabio Biancalana

Opt. Express 21(25), 31239-31252 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Single shot interferometric method for measuring the nonlinear refractive index

Ioan Dancus, Silviu T. Popescu, and Adrian Petris

Opt. Express 21(25), 31303-31308 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in nanoscale silicon step-index waveguides: a general framework of selection rules and calculating SBS gain

Wenjun Qiu, Peter T. Rakich, Heedeuk Shin, Hui Dong, Marin Soljačić, and Zheng Wang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31402-31419 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent phonon dynamics in micro- and nanocrystalline diamond

M. Kozák, F. Trojánek, P. Galář, M. Varga, A. Kromka, and P. Malý

Opt. Express 21(25), 31521-31529 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

A high-resolution optical see-through head-mounted display with eyetracking capability

Hong Hua, Xinda Hu, and Chunyu Gao

Opt. Express 21(25), 30993-30998 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

3D fabrication of all-polymer conductive microstructures by two photon polymerization

Kestutis Kurselis, Roman Kiyan, Victor N. Bagratashvili, Vladimir K. Popov, and Boris N. Chichkov

Opt. Express 21(25), 31029-31035 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Orthonormal curvature polynomials over a unit circle: basis set derived from curvatures of Zernike polynomials

Chunyu Zhao and James H. Burge

Opt. Express 21(25), 31430-31442 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Cylindrical beam propagation modelling of perturbed whispering-gallery mode microcavities

Mohammad Amin Cheraghi Shirazi, Wenyan Yu, Serge Vincent, and Tao Lu

Opt. Express 21(25), 30243-30254 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Defect roles in the excitation of Eu ions in Eu:GaN

Jonathan D. Poplawsky, Atsushi Nishikawa, Yasufumi Fujiwara, and Volkmar Dierolf

Opt. Express 21(25), 30633-30641 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Whispering gallery modes at the rim of an axisymmetric optical resonator: Analytical versus numerical description and comparison with experiment

I. Breunig, B. Sturman, F. Sedlmeir, H. G. L. Schwefel, and K. Buse

Opt. Express 21(25), 30683-30692 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable liquid crystal microlenses with crater polymer prepared by droplet evaporation

Shug-June Hwang, Yi-Xiang Liu, and Glen Andrew Porter

Opt. Express 21(25), 30731-30738 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Formulation for scalable optimization of microcavities via the frequency-averaged local density of states

Xiangdong Liang and Steven G. Johnson

Opt. Express 21(25), 30812-30841 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Room temperature polariton light emitting diode with integrated tunnel junction

S. Brodbeck, J.-P. Jahn, A. Rahimi-Iman, J. Fischer, M. Amthor, S. Reitzenstein, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, and S. Höfling

Opt. Express 21(25), 31098-31104 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-independent electrically tunable/switchable Airy beam based on polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal

D. Luo, H. T. Dai, and X. W. Sun

Opt. Express 21(25), 31318-31323 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Photo-stimulated phase and anchoring transitions of chiral azo-dye doped nematic liquid crystals

Sudarshan Kundu and Shin-Woong Kang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31324-31329 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoreactive self-assembled monolayer for the stabilization of tilt orientation of a director in vertically aligned nematic liquid crystals

Su Yeon Oh and Shin-Woong Kang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31367-31374 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced ultraviolet emission of MgZnO/ZnO multiple quantum wells light-emitting diode by p-type MgZnO electron blocking layer

Yong-Seok Choi, Jang-Won Kang, Byeong-Hyeok Kim, and Seong-Ju Park

Opt. Express 21(25), 31560-31566 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Aerosol droplet optical trap loading using surface acoustic wave nebulization

S. Anand, J. Nylk, S. L. Neale, C. Dodds, S. Grant, M. H. Ismail, J. Reboud, J. M. Cooper, and D. McGloin

Opt. Express 21(25), 30148-30155 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Holographic optical tweezers combined with back-focal-plane displacement detection

Ferran Marsà, Arnau Farré, Estela Martín-Badosa, and Mario Montes-Usategui

Opt. Express 21(25), 30282-30294 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Hollow Bessel-like beam as an optical guide for a stream of microscopic particles

Niko Eckerskorn, Li Li, Richard A. Kirian, Jochen Küpper, Daniel P. DePonte, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Woei M. Lee, Henry N. Chapman, and Andrei V. Rode

Opt. Express 21(25), 30492-30499 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Calibrating optical tweezers with Bayesian inference

Maximilian U. Richly, Silvan Türkcan, Antoine Le Gall, Nicolas Fiszman, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Nathalie Westbrook, Karen Perronet, and Antigoni Alexandrou

Opt. Express 21(25), 31578-31590 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable electro-optic wavelength filter based on lossy-guided mode resonances

Jesus M. Corres, Joaquin Ascorbe, Francisco J. Arregui, and Ignacio R. Matias

Opt. Express 21(25), 31668-31677 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Super-collimation with high frequency sensitivity in 2D photonic crystals induced by saddle-type van Hove singularities

Xulin Lin, Xiaogang Zhang, Liang Chen, Marin Soljačić, and Xunya Jiang

Opt. Express 21(25), 30140-30147 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and optical characterization of high-Q guided-resonance modes in the slot-graphite photonic crystal lattice

Luis Javier Martínez, Ningfeng Huang, Jing Ma, Chenxi Lin, Eric Jaquay, and Michelle L. Povinelli

Opt. Express 21(25), 30975-30983 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Switching characteristics of an InP photonic crystal nanocavity: Experiment and theory

Yi Yu, Evarist Palushani, Mikkel Heuck, Nadezda Kuznetsova, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Sara Ek, Dragana Vukovic, Christophe Peucheret, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Sylvain Combrié, Alfredo de Rossi, Kresten Yvind, and Jesper Mørk

Opt. Express 21(25), 31047-31061 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling of Fano resonances in the reflectivity of photonic crystal cavities with finite spot size excitation

J. P. Vasco, H. Vinck-Posada, P. T. Valentim, and P. S. S. Guimãraes

Opt. Express 21(25), 31336-31346 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of single nano-defects in photonic crystals between crossed polarizers

Jon Olav Grepstad, Peter Kaspar, Ib-Rune Johansen, Olav Solgaard, and Aasmund Sudbø

Opt. Express 21(25), 31375-31389 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High quality factor GaAs-based photonic crystal microcavities by epitaxial re-growth

Ivan Prieto, Jesús Herranz, Lukasz Wewior, Yolanda González, Benito Alén, Luisa González, and Pablo A. Postigo

Opt. Express 21(25), 31615-31622 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced detection limit by dark mode perturbation in 2D photonic crystal slab refractive index sensors

Costa Nicolaou, Wah Tung Lau, Raanan Gad, Hooman Akhavan, Ryan Schilling, and Ofer Levi

Opt. Express 21(25), 31698-31712 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid generation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum

Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Changchen Chen, Brandon Rodenburg, Mehul Malik, and Robert W. Boyd

Opt. Express 21(25), 30196-30203 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Computation of the diffraction from complex illumination sources in extended regions of space

G. Karagounis, D. De Zutter, and D. Vande Ginste

Opt. Express 21(25), 30379-30391 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Achievement of needle-like focus by engineering radial-variant vector fields

Bing Gu, Jia-Lu Wu, Yang Pan, and Yiping Cui

Opt. Express 21(25), 30444-30452 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Localization of electromagnetic wave with continuous eigenmodes in free space cavities of cylindrical or arbitrary shapes

Xuan Liu, Xinxin Li, Jing Zhou, Zhaona Wang, Jinwei Shi, and Dahe Liu

Opt. Express 21(25), 30746-30754 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Subwavelength multiple focal spots produced by tight focusing the patterned vector optical fields

Mengqiang Cai, Chenghou Tu, Huihui Zhang, Shengxia Qian, Kai Lou, Yongnan Li, and Hui-Tian Wang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31469-31482 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Strong bound exciton-photon coupling in ZnO whispering gallery microcavity

Liaoxin Sun, Hongxing Dong, Wei Xie, Jian Lu, Zhanghai Chen, Xuechu Shen, and Wei Lu

Opt. Express 21(25), 30227-30232 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Controllable directive radiation of a circularly polarized dipole above planar metal surface

Zheng Xi, Yonghua Lu, Peijun Yao, Wenhai Yu, Pei Wang, and Hai Ming

Opt. Express 21(25), 30327-30335 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Direct coupling of photonic modes and surface plasmon polaritons observed in 2-photon PEEM

Robert C. Word, Joseph P. S. Fitzgerald, and Rolf Könenkamp

Opt. Express 21(25), 30507-30520 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphene nano-ribbon waveguides of record-small mode area and ultra-high effective refractive indices for future VLSI

Sailing He, Xizhou Zhang, and Yingran He

Opt. Express 21(25), 30664-30673 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of biaxial nanopatterned gold plasmonic nanowired grid polarizer

Lars Martin Sandvik Aas, Morten Kildemo, Christian Martella, Maria Caterina Giordano, Daniele Chiappe, and Francesco Buatier de Mongeot

Opt. Express 21(25), 30918-30931 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Interacting plasmonic nanostructures beyond the quasi-static limit: a “circuit” model

Xuezhi Zheng, Niels Verellen, Vladimir Volskiy, Ventsislav K. Valev, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, and Victor V. Moshchalkov

Opt. Express 21(25), 31105-31118 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Forward and backward unidirectional scattering from plasmonic coupled wires

Ekaterina Poutrina, Alec Rose, Dean Brown, Augustine Urbas, and David R. Smith

Opt. Express 21(25), 31138-31154 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-order modes of spoof surface plasmonic wave transmission on thin metal film structure

Xiaoyong Liu, Yijun Feng, Bo Zhu, Junming Zhao, and Tian Jiang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31155-31165 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear excitation power dependence of surface enhanced fluorescence from a nanostructured Ag film

Kun-Yu Tai, Ti-Li Lin, and Hung-Chih Kan

Opt. Express 21(25), 31293-31302 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission of O-band wavelength-division-multiplexed heralded photons over a noise-corrupted optical fiber channel

Mao Tong Liu and Han Chuen Lim

Opt. Express 21(25), 30358-30369 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

1D and 2D arrays of coupled photonic crystal cavities with a site-controlled quantum wire light source

C. Jarlov, K. A. Atlasov, L. Ferrier, M. Calic, P. Gallo, A. Rudra, B. Dwir, and E. Kapon

Opt. Express 21(25), 31082-31091 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity enhancement of Faraday effect based heterodyning fiber laser magnetic field sensor by lowering linear birefringence

Linghao Cheng, Jianlei Han, Long Jin, Zhenzhen Guo, and Bai-Ou Guan

Opt. Express 21(25), 30156-30162 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

A miniature temperature high germanium doped PCF interferometer sensor

F. C. Favero, R. Spittel, F. Just, J. Kobelke, M. Rothhardt, and H. Bartelt

Opt. Express 21(25), 30266-30274 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiplexed fiber-ring laser sensors for ultrasonic detection

Tongqing Liu, Lingling Hu, and Ming Han

Opt. Express 21(25), 30474-30480 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High-accuracy fiber optical microphone in a DBR fiber laser based on a nanothick silver diaphragm by self-mixing technique

Zhengting Du, Liang Lu, Wenhua Zhang, Bo Yang, Shuang Wu, Yunhe Zhao, Feng Xu, Zhiping Wang, Huaqiao Gui, Jianguo Liu, and Benli Yu

Opt. Express 21(25), 30580-30590 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of trace chromium (VI) using a hollow-core metal-cladding optical waveguide sensor

Yang Wang, Meizhen Huang, Xiangyu Guan, Zhuangqi Cao, Fan Chen, and Xianping Wang

Opt. Express 21(25), 31130-31137 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

Marcelo A. Soto and Luc Thévenaz

Opt. Express 21(25), 31347-31366 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Light trapping in ultrathin silicon photonic crystal superlattices with randomly-textured dielectric incouplers

Dennis M. Callahan, Kelsey A. W. Horowitz, and Harry A. Atwater

Opt. Express 21(25), 30315-30326 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared near-field spectroscopy of trace explosives using an external cavity quantum cascade laser

Ian M. Craig, Matthew S. Taubman, A. Scott Lea, Mark C. Phillips, Erik E. Josberger, and Markus B. Raschke

Opt. Express 21(25), 30401-30414 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-comb spectroscopy using frequency-doubled combs around 775 nm

Simon Potvin and Jérôme Genest

Opt. Express 21(25), 30707-30715 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence suppression in Raman spectroscopy using a time-gated CMOS SPAD

Juha Kostamovaara, Jussi Tenhunen, Martin Kögler, Ilkka Nissinen, Jan Nissinen, and Pekka Keränen

Opt. Express 21(25), 31632-31645 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-temperature deposition of BaCuSF, a visible through mid-infrared p-type transparent conductor

J. A. Frantz, V. Q. Nguyen, A. J. Mäkinen, S. B. Qadri, J. D. Myers, and J. S. Sanghera

Opt. Express 21(25), 30674-30682 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical breakdown of multilayer thin-films induced by ultrashort pulses at MHz repetition rates

Ivan B. Angelov, Maximilian von Pechmann, Michael K. Trubetskov, Ferenc Krausz, and Vladimir Pervak

Opt. Express 21(25), 31453-31461 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

A comparative study on chirped-pulse upconversion and direct multichannel MCT detection

Johannes Knorr, Philipp Rudolf, and Patrick Nuernberger

Opt. Express 21(25), 30693-30706 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly sensitive ultrafast pulse characterization using hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides

Keith G. Petrillo, Ke-Yao Wang, Amy C. Foster, and Mark A. Foster

Opt. Express 21(25), 31229-31238 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of two x-ray phase-contrast imaging methods with a microfocus source

T. Zhou, U. Lundström, T. Thüring, S. Rutishauser, D. H. Larsson, M. Stampanoni, C. David, H. M. Hertz, and A. Burvall

Opt. Express 21(25), 30183-30195 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of a complex constraint for biological samples in coherent diffractive imaging

M. W. M. Jones, A. G. Peele, and G. A. van Riessen

Opt. Express 21(25), 30275-30281 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid diamond-silicon angular-dispersive x-ray monochromator with 0.25-meV energy bandwidth and high spectral efficiency

S. Stoupin, Y. V. Shvyd’ko, D. Shu, V. D. Blank, S. A. Terentyev, S. N. Polyakov, M. S. Kuznetsov, I. Lemesh, K. Mundboth, S. P. Collins, J. P. Sutter, and M. Tolkiehn

Opt. Express 21(25), 30932-30946 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF