Saturable absorbers incorporating carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates and fibers and their application to mode-locked fiber lasers

S. Yamashita, Y. Inoue, S. Maruyama, Y. Murakami, H. Yaguchi, M. Jablonski, and S. Y. Set

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1581-1583 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Double random-phase encoding in the Fresnel domain

Guohai Situ and Jingjuan Zhang

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1584-1586 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Evolution of the vortex and the asymmetrical parts of orbital angular momentum in separable first-order optical systems

Tatiana Alieva and Martin J. Bastiaans

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1587-1589 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral Talbot-like phenomena in one-dimensional photonic bandgap structures

Chinhua Wang, José Azaña, and Lawrence R. Chen

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1590-1592 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband blazing with artificial dielectrics

Christophe Sauvan, Philippe Lalanne, and Mane-Si Laure Lee

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1593-1595 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote coupling in Bragg fibers

Rumen Iliew, Christoph Etrich, and Falk Lederer

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1596-1598 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Relation between vestigial-sideband filtering and π/2 progressive phase shift

Xing Wei and Juerg Leuthold

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1599-1601 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic-based absolute displacement sensors at 1500 nm by means of a variant of channeled spectrum signal recovery

Christophe Boulet, Mark Hathaway, and David A. Jackson

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1602-1604 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Strain dependence of Brillouin frequency, intensity, and bandwidth in polarization-maintaining fibers

Qinrong Yu, Xiaoyi Bao, and Liang Chen

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1605-1607 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid-crystal microlens arrays using patterned polymer networks

Hongwen Ren, Yun-Hsing Fan, and Shin-Tson Wu

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1608-1610 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Information-theory-based snake adapted to multiregion objects with different noise models

Frédéric Galland and Philippe Réfrégier

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1611-1613 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Tilted superstructure fiber grating used as a Fourier-transform spectrometer

S. Wielandy and S. C. Dunn

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1614-1616 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Waveguide terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of nanometer water layers

Jiangquan Zhang and D. Grischkowsky

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1617-1619 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Planar photonic crystal polarization splitter

Lijun Wu, M. Mazilu, J.-F. Gallet, T. F. Krauss, A. Jugessur, and R. M. De La Rue

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1620-1622 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultralow-loss 3-dB photonic crystal waveguide splitter

L. H. Frandsen, P. I. Borel, Y. X. Zhuang, A. Harpøth, M. Thorhauge, M. Kristensen, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, V. Wiaux, J. Wouters, and S. Beckx

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1623-1625 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of guiding and confining light in nanometer-size low-refractive-index material

Qianfan Xu, Vilson R. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, and Michal Lipson

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1626-1628 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal intensity noise reduction in multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by polarization-selective attenuation

Marco Romanelli, Elisabeth Giacobino, and Alberto Bramati

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1629-1631 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Heterodyne mixing of two far-infrared quantum cascade lasers by use of a point-contact Schottky diode

S. Barbieri, J. Alton, H. E. Beere, E. H. Linfield, D. A. Ritchie, S. Withington, G. Scalari, L. Ajili, and J. Faist

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1632-1634 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

1.6 W of single-mode output power from a novel power-scaling scheme for monolithic nonplanar ring lasers

Hagen Zimer and Ulrich Wittrock

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1635-1637 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped passively mode-locked and passively stabilized Nd³⁺:BaY₂F₈ laser

Antonio Agnesi, Annalisa Guandalini, Alessandra Tomaselli, Elisa Sani, Alessandra Toncelli, and Mauro Tonelli

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1638-1640 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Extraction of optical scattering parameters and attenuation compensation in optical coherence tomography images of multilayered tissue structures

Lars Thrane, Michael H. Frosz, Thomas M. Jørgensen, Andreas Tycho, Harold T. Yura, and Peter E. Andersen

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1641-1643 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear optical coherence tomography system with a downconverted fringe pattern

Peter Koch, Gereon Hüttmann, Hansfrieder Schleiermacher, Jörge Eichholz, and Edmund Koch

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1644-1646 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-infrared dyes as contrast-enhancing agents for spectroscopic optical coherence tomography

Chenyang Xu, Jian Ye, Daniel L. Marks, and Stephen A. Boppart

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1647-1649 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Laminar optical tomography: demonstration of millimeter-scale depth-resolved imaging in turbid media

Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, David A. Boas, Anders M. Dale, and Andrew K. Dunn

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1650-1652 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Entropy and degree of polarization for nonlinear optical waves

Antonio Picozzi

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1653-1655 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of two-dimensional lattice vector solitons

Zhigang Chen, Anna Bezryadina, Igor Makasyuk, and Jianke Yang

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1656-1658 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantum beat between two excitonic levels split by spin–orbit interactions in the oxychalcogenide LaCuOS

Hayato Kamioka, Hidenori Hiramatsu, Masahiro Hirano, Kazushige Ueda, Toshio Kamiya, and Hideo Hosono

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1659-1661 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Dipole solitons in optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattices

Jianke Yang, Igor Makasyuk, Anna Bezryadina, and Zhigang Chen

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1662-1664 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of twin beams from an optical parametric oscillator pumped by a frequency-doubled diode laser

Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Yun Zhang, and Katsuyuki Kasai

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1665-1667 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Algorithm for reconstruction of digital holograms with adjustable magnification

Fucai Zhang, Ichirou Yamaguchi, and L. P. Yaroslavsky

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1668-1670 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Advanced iterative algorithm for phase extraction of randomly phase-shifted interferograms

Zhaoyang Wang and Bongtae Han

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1671-1673 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct evidence of open ray orbits in a square two-dimensional resonator of dye-doped polymers

G. D. Chern, A. W. Poon, R. K. Chang, T. Ben-Messaoud, O. Alloschery, E. Toussaere, J. Zyss, and S.-Y. Kuo

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1674-1676 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optic wavelength-tunable fiber ring laser based on cascaded composite Sagnac loop filters

Chang-Seok Kim, Fatima N. Farokhrooz, and Jin U. Kang

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1677-1679 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal switching of the enhanced transmission of terahertz radiation through subwavelength apertures

J. Gómez Rivas, P. Haring Bolivar, and H. Kurz

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1680-1682 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct frequency comb generation from an octave-spanning, prismless Ti:sapphire laser

L. Matos, D. Kleppner, O. Kuzucu, T. R. Schibli, J. Kim, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kaertner

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1683-1685 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable sub-10-fs ultraviolet pulses generated by achromatic frequency doubling

Peter Baum, Stefan Lochbrunner, and Eberhard Riedle

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1686-1688 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation of mode-locked surface-emitting lasers through a finite-difference time-domain algorithm

Mayank Bahl, Hongling Rao, Nicolae C. Panoiu, and Richard M. Osgood

Opt. Lett. 29(14), 1689-1691 (2004)  View: HTML | PDF