The distribution of a carotene-containing yeast (CCY) in a biofilm formed by a small colony variant (SCV) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 was followed by confocal Raman microspectroscopy (CRM). ...

A Confocal Raman Microscopy Study of the Distribution of a Carotene-Containing Yeast in a Living <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Biofilm Christophe Sandt Truis Smith-Palmer

High radiance LEDs are being exploited in light- wave applications where their low cost, wide temperature range of operation, and outstanding reliability outweigh the power and modulation advantages o...

Long-Wavelength Light Emitting Diodes and Detectors WDD 1982 OSA Technical Digest Series Recent advances in the performance and reliability of InGaAsP LEDs for lightwave communication systems Saul...

This paper demonstrates two different ways in which photothermal deflection spectroscopy (PDS) can be used to measure a single spatial component of gas velocity. The first method is a transit-time vel...

Gas velocity measurements using photothermal deflection spectroscopy Sell Jeffrey A. The author is with General Motors Research Laboratories, Physics Department, Warren, Michigan 48090-9055. USA...

We present a new approach to solar concentration where sunlight collected by each lens in a two-dimensional lens array is coupled into a shared, planar waveguide using localized features p...

Planar micro-optic solar concentrator Karp Jason H. * Tremblay Eric J. Ford Joseph E. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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Polarization mode control is enhanced in wafer-fused vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers emitting at 1310 nm wavelength by etching two symmetrically arranged arcs above the gain structure within t...

Polarization mode control of long-wavelength VCSELs by intracavity patterning Long C. M. Mickovic Z. Dwir B. Caliman A. Iakovlev V. Mereuta A. Sirbu A. Kapon E. * Ecole Polytechnique Federale de...

We show that stable slow-light dark solitons with finite continuous-wave background can be generated in a $\Lambda$ Λ -type atomic system via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We also ...

Storage and retrieval of slow-light dark solitons Shou Chong 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0871-8618 Huang Guoxiang 1 2 3 * 1 State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal...

Uncooled 10 Gb/s directly modulated 1.3-μm semiconductor laser diodes are strongly demanded that are used in low-cost, short-haul transmitters for 10 Gb/s Ethernet systems and OC-192 applications....

Uncooled Components for Short Reach Applications ThF OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Low-Threshold 1.3-μm AlGalnAs Buried Heterostructure Laser Diodes for 85°C, 10-Gb/s Operation Okuda T. * Ko...

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Comp.risks BOB JOPSON OPN Contributing Editor Bob Jopson (virgin@lucent.com) works on lightwave systems at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ. OPN Contributing Editor Bob Jopson...

Simple Pb_1-x La_x(Zr_y Ti_z)_1-x/4 O3 (PLZT) electrooptic ceramic photonic device arrays for surface-normal operation have been developed for application to polarization-controller arrays and Fabry-P...

PLZT Electrooptic Ceramic Photonic Devices for Surface-Normal Operation in Trenches Cut Across Arrays of Optical Fiber Katsuhiko Hirabayashi Simple Pb_1-x La_x(Zr_y Ti_z)_1-x/4 O3 (PLZT)...

A new kind of partially coherent vector beam, named a partially coherent radially polarized fractional vortex (PCRPFV) beam, is introduced as a natural extension of the recently introduced scalar part...

Partially coherent radially polarized fractional vortex beam Zeng Jun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5605-2120 1 2 Liang Chunhao https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4346-705X 3 Wang Haiyun 1 Wang Fei 1 Zhao...

A technique and a hardware–software complex have been developed for simultaneously recording the electrical activity of the brains of two people. It is shown that statistically significant diff...

Influence of verbal and nonverbal signals on an interlocutor&#x2019;s electroencephalogram O. V. Zhukova I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, Russia Russia Yu. E. Shelepin I. P....

The analytical performance of the new single-bore high-pressure pneumatic nebulizer (SBHPPN) has been evaluated in ICP-AES. It has been compared with a commercially available pneumatic all-glass conce...

Performance of the New Single-Bore High-Pressure Pneumatic Nebulizer (SBHPPN) in Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry José L. Todolí Maria Muñoz

We discuss arbitrarily-designable optical frequency conversions. As a typical example, we demonstrate the single frequency tunable laser that covers an ultrabroad spectral region from vacuum-ultraviol...

General Optical Sciences III FTh1A OSA Technical Digest (online) Arbitrary designable optical frequency conversion Zheng Jian 1 Katsuragawa Masayuki 1 2 * 1 Department of Engineering Science,...

Recently, Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers have emerged as an attractive source for 1.55-μ m optical communications1). This paper reports the development of three types of Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers havin...

Practical Implementation of Fiber Amplifiers WD Technical Digest Series Development of compact Er 3+ -doped fiber amplifiers for practical applications Yoshida M. Ohizumi H. Koyama T. Gozen T....

Instrumentation design for Fourier transform spectroscopy has until now been hindered by a seemingly fundamental tradeoff between the étendue of the analyzed light source on one hand and the spectral ...

High étendue Fourier transform spectroscopy by quadratic off-axis path difference error cancellation Routley Selene Amy 1 2 * https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8864-0891 Flynn Jamie 2...

The transfer of optical angular momentum to birefringent particles via circularly polarized light is common. We report here on the unexpected, continuous rotation of chiral nematic liquid crystal drop...

Continuously rotating chiral liquid crystal droplets in a linearly polarized laser trap Yang Y. 1 Brimicombe P. D. 1 Roberts N. W. 1 Dickinson M. R. 1

Nd3+ in YAlO3 is a useful source of laser light tunable over a range of about 0.5 nm near 1341 and 1080 nm. It has strong absorption lines at 796, 807, and 812nm, where diode pump lasers are readily a...

Diode Pumped and Color Center Lasers MC OSA Technical Digest Diode-pumped 1.34 µm Nd:YAlO 3 Laser Scarl Donald 1 Feldman Barry 2 Burnham Ralph 3 1 Code 6540, Laser Physics Branch, Naval Research...

We experimentally present a proof-of-concept demonstration of OpenFlow-based wavelength path control for lightpath provisioning in transparent optical networks, assessing its overall feasibility and q...

CONTROL PLANE Tu.5.K OSA Technical Digest (CD) OpenFlow-based Wavelength Path Control in Transparent Optical Networks: a Proof-of-Concept Demonstration Liu Lei le-liu@kddilabs.jp 1 Tsuritani...

We report a remarkable improvement of photoluminescence from ZnO-core/a-SiNx:H-shell nanorod arrays by modulating the bandgap of a-SiNx:H shell. The a-SiNx:H shell with a large bandgap can significant...

Luminescence enhancement of ZnO-core/a-SiN x :H-shell nanorod arrays Huang Rui 1 Xu Shuigang 2 Guo Yanqing 1 Guo Wenhao 2 Wang Xiang 1 Song Chao

Fractional photothermolysis uses lasers to generate a pattern of microscopic columnar thermal lesions within the skin stimulating collagen remodeling. In this paper we investigate the use of Bessel be...

Fractional laser photothermolysis using Bessel beams Mignon Charles Rodriguez Aura Higuera Palero Jonathan A. * Varghese Babu Jurna Martin Department of Personal Care and Wellness, Philips...