Initial three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain phenomenology study of the transient response of a large vertically coupled photonic racetrack

Jethro H. Greene and Allen Taflove

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1733-1735 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous emission in nanoscopic dielectric particles

Lavinia Rogobete, Hannes Schniepp, Vahid Sandoghdar, and Carsten Henkel

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1736-1738 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional laser-induced photoacoustic tomography of mouse brain with the skin and skull intact

Xueding Wang, Yongjiang Pang, Geng Ku, George Stoica, and Lihong V. Wang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1739-1741 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon microscopy of fura-2-loaded cardiac myocytes with an all-solid-state tunable and visible femtosecond laser source

G. McConnell, G. L. Smith, J. M. Girkin, A. M. Gurney, and A. I. Ferguson

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1742-1744 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time in vivo imaging by high-speed spectral optical coherence tomography

Maciej Wojtkowski, Tomasz Bajraszewski, Piotr Targowski, and Andrzej Kowalczyk

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1745-1747 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Modulated speckle simulations based on the random-walk model

A. Lencina, P. Vaveliuk, M. Tebaldi, and N. Bolognini

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1748-1750 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-grating interferometer with a one-to-one correspondence with a Michelson interferometer

Yande Xu, Osami Sasaki, and Takamasa Suzuki

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1751-1753 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Noise evolution and soliton internal modes in dispersion-managed fiber systems

Antonio-D. Capobianco, Gianfranco Nalesso, Alessandro Tonello, Francesco Consolandi, Costantino De Angelis, and Francesco Gringoli

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1754-1756 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantized separations of phase-locked soliton pairs in fiber lasers

J. M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev, Ph. Grelu, and F. Belhache

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1757-1759 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Widely tunable femtosecond soliton pulse generation at a 10-GHz repetition rate by use of the soliton self-frequency shift in photonic crystal fiber

Kazi S. Abedin and Fumito Kubota

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1760-1762 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Mechanically switchable photonic crystal filter with either all-pass transmission or flat-top reflection characteristics

Wonjoo Suh and Shanhui Fan

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1763-1765 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Variable-field aspect-ratio transformer with cascaded graded-index oval-core fibers

Kazuo Shiraishi, Akira Ogura, and Hidehiko Yoda

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1766-1768 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Arrangements of four beams for any Bravais lattice

Liang Yuan, Guo Ping Wang, and Xingkang Huang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1769-1771 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Sub-diffraction-limit imaging based on the topographic contrast of differential confocal microscopy

Chau-Hwang Lee, Hui-Yu Chiang, and Hong-Yao Mong

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1772-1774 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-maintaining fiber-based optical low-coherence reflectometer for characterization and ranging of birefringence

Digant P. Davé, Taner Akkin, and Thomas E. Milner

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1775-1777 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of birefringence in thin-film waveguides by Rayleigh scattering

S. Janz, P. Cheben, H. Dayan, and R. Deakos

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1778-1780 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Calculated out-of-plane transmission loss for photonic-crystal slab waveguides

Wan Kuang, Cheolwoo Kim, Andrew Stapleton, Woo Jun Kim, and John D. O’Brien

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1781-1783 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Intense directional lasing from a deformed square-shaped organic-inorganic hybrid glass microring cavity

Tao Ling, Liying Liu, Qinghai Song, Lei Xu, and Wencheng Wang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1784-1786 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

5-W repetitively Q-switched Er:LuAG laser resonantly pumped by an erbium fiber laser

Scott D. Setzler, Kevin J. Snell, Thomas M. Pollak, Peter A. Budni, York E. Young, and E. P. Chicklis

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1787-1789 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical nonlinearity of nanocrystalline Au/ZnO composite films

Hongbo Liao, Weijia Wen, George K. L. Wong, and Guozhen Yang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1790-1792 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Exact eigenstates for a class of models describing two-mode multiphoton processes

Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1793-1795 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

New approach to the measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of short (< 25 m) lengths of silica and erbium-doped fibers

Hernando Garcia, Anthony M. Johnson, Ferdinand A. Oguama, and Sudhir Trivedi

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1796-1798 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization decorrelation in optical fibers with randomly varying elliptical birefringence

T. Wanner, B. S. Marks, C. R. Menyuk, and J. Zweck

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1799-1801 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical microwave filter based on spectral slicing by use of arrayed waveguide gratings

Daniel Pastor, Beatriz Ortega, José Capmany, Salvador Sales, Alfonso Martinez, and Pascual Muñoz

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1802-1804 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear features and response mechanisms of a PtO₂ mask layer for optical data storage with a superresolution near-field structure

Qian Liu, Toshio Fukaya, Junji Tominaga, Masashi Kuwahara, Takayuki Shima, and Jooho Kim

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1805-1807 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-shift extraction and wave-front reconstruction in phase-shifting interferometry with arbitrary phase steps

L. Z. Cai, Q. Liu, and X. L. Yang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1808-1810 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous transverse patterns in a microchip laser with a frequency-degenerate resonator

Y. F. Chen, K. F. Huang, and Y. P. Lan

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1811-1813 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of atomic lifetimes with a mode-locked laser

B. M. Patterson, C. D. Lindstrom, T. Takekoshi, J. R. Lowell, C. Villarreal, and R. J. Knize

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1814-1816 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrow structure in the coherent population trapping resonance in rubidium

Emilia Alipieva, Sanka Gateva, Elena Taskova, and Stefka Cartaleva

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1817-1819 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of a broadband single-mode supercontinuum in a conventional dispersion-shifted fiber by use of a subnanosecond microchiplaser

Arnaud Mussot, Thibaut Sylvestre, Laurent Provino, and Hervé Maillotte

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1820-1822 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Tuning of laser pulse shapes in grating-based compressors for optimal electron acceleration in plasmas

Cs. Tóth, J. Faure, J. van Tilborg, C. G. R. Geddes, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1823-1825 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-domain interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses

Cathie Ventalon, James M. Fraser, and Manuel Joffre

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1826-1828 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Passive mode locking of a diode-end-pumped Nd:GdVO₄ laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

Bingyuan Zhang, Gang Li, Meng Chen, Zhigang Zhang, and Yonggang Wang

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1829-1831 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Sub-10-fs, terawatt-scale Ti:sapphire laser system

Jzsef Seres, Alexander Müller, Enikö Seres, Kevin O’Keeffe, Miklós Lenner, Richard F. Herzog, Daniel Kaplan, Christian Spielmann, and Ferenc Krausz

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1832-1834 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Picosecond-pulse amplification with an external passive optical cavity

Eric O. Potma, Conor Evans, X. Sunney Xie, R. Jason Jones, and Jun Ye

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1835-1837 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:YVO₄ oscillator operating at an ultralow repetition rate

D. N. Papadopoulos, S. Forget, M. Delaigue, F. Druon, F. Balembois, and P. Georges

Opt. Lett. 28(19), 1838-1840 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF