Efficient ~2.0 μm emission from Ho³⁺ doped tellurite glass sensitized by Yb³⁺ ions: Judd-Ofelt analysis and energy transfer mechanism [Invited]

Sathravada Balaji, Atul D. Sontakke, Ranjan Sen, and Annapurna Kalyandurg

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 138-150 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonant in-band pumping of cryo-cooled Er³⁺:YAG laser at 1532, 1534 and 1546 nm: a comparative study

Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Viktor Fromzel, Larry D. Merkle, and Mark Dubinskii

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 223-233 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Manipulating and controlling the evanescent field within optical waveguides using high index nanolayers [Invited]

John Canning, Whayne Padden, Danijel Boskovic, Masood Naqshbandi, Hank de Bruyn, and Maxwell J. Crossley

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 192-200 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Anomalous permittivity and plasmon resonances of copper nanoparticle conformal coatings on optical fibers [Invited]

Li-Yang Shao, Jason P. Coyle, Seán T. Barry, and Jacques Albert

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 128-137 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Template-growth of periodically domain-structured KTiOPO₄ [Invited]

Alexandra Peña, Bertrand Ménaert, Benoît Boulanger, Fredrik Laurell, Carlota Canalias, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Patricia Segonds, Corinne Félix, Jérôme Debray, and Sébastien Pairis

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 185-191 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

5 mm thick periodically poled Rb-doped KTP for high energy optical parametric frequency conversion

Andrius Zukauskas, Nicky Thilmann, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell, and Carlota Canalias

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 201-206 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasma ion assisted deposition of hafnium dioxide using argon and xenon as process gases

O. Stenzel, S. Wilbrandt, S. Yulin, N. Kaiser, M. Held, A. Tünnermann, J. Biskupek, and U. Kaiser

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 278-292 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient and photostable photonic materials from diiodinated BODIPY laser dyes

M. Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda, Cliferson Thivierge, Virginia Martín, Ángel Costela, Kevin Burgess, and Inmaculada García-Moreno

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 243-251 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Reducing spectral attenuation in small-core photonic crystal fibers

I. Gris-Sánchez, B.J. Mangan, and J.C. Knight

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 179-184 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable resonance enhancement of multi-layer terahertz metamaterials fabricated by parallel laser micro-lens array lithography on flexible substrates

Z. C. Chen, N. R. Han, Z. Y. Pan, Y. D. Gong, T. C. Chong, and M. H. Hong

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 151-157 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ag nanoparticles embedded in glass by two-step ion exchange and their SERS application

Ya Chen, Lasse Karvonen, Antti Säynätjoki, Changgeng Ye, Ari Tervonen, and Seppo Honkanen

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 164-172 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Zirconium-doped lithium niobate: photorefractive and electro-optical properties as a function of dopant concentration

Giovanni Nava, Paolo Minzioni, Wenbo Yan, Jacopo Parravicini, Daniela Grando, Eleonora Musso, Ilaria Cristiani, Nicola Argiolas, Marco Bazzan, Maria Vittoria Ciampolillo, Annamaria Zaltron, Cinzia Sada, and Vittorio Degiorgio

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 270-277 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographic nanoparticle-polymer composites based on step-growth thiol-ene photopolymerization

Eiji Hata, Ken Mitsube, Keisuke Momose, and Yasuo Tomita

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 207-222 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid polymer microlens arrays with high numerical apertures fabricated using simple ink-jet printing technique

Joo Yeon Kim, Nils B. Brauer, Vahid Fakhfouri, Dmitri L. Boiko, Edoardo Charbon, Gabi Grutzner, and Juergen Brugger

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 259-269 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Primary photo-events in a metastable photomerocyanine of spirooxazines

R. Sai Santosh Kumar, Larry Lüer, Dario Polli, Michele Garbugli, and Guglielmo Lanzani

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 293-304 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time near-field evidence of optical blinking in the photoluminescence of InGaN by scanning near-field optical microscope

Kotaro Oikawa, Christian Feldmeier, Ulrich Theodor Schwarz, Yoichi Kawakami, and Ruggero Micheletto

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 158-163 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Multi-zone light emission in a one-dimensional ZnO waveguide with hybrid structures

Qi Zhang, Junjie Qi, Jing Zhao, Xin Li, and Yue Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 173-178 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

From molecular precursors in solution to microstructured optical fiber: a Sol-gel polymeric route

Hicham El Hamzaoui, Laurent Bigot, Géraud Bouwmans, Igor Razdobreev, Mohamed Bouazaoui, and Bruno Capoen

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 234-242 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Titanium oxide sol-gel films with tunable refractive index

Roland Himmelhuber, Palash Gangopadhyay, Robert A. Norwood, Douglas A. Loy, and Nasser Peyghambarian

Opt. Mater. Express 1(2), 252-258 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF