High-efficiency diffractive beam splitters surface-structured on submicrometer scale using deep-UV interference lithography

Jun Amako, Daisuke Sawaki, and Eiichi Fujii

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5105-5113 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical waveguide grating couplers: 2nd-order and 4th-order finite-difference time-domain analysis

Aristeides D. Papadopoulos and Elias N. Glytsis

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5164-5175 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Plane wave coupling into single-mode fiber in the presence of random angular jitter

Jing Ma, Fang Zhao, Liying Tan, Siyuan Yu, and Qiqi Han

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5184-5189 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple frequency resolution using stressed liquid crystal as a Fourier transform spectrometer

Leslie Shelton, John McMurdy, and Gregory Crawford

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5138-5142 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of low-derivative surface lenses by two-laser holography with Bi₁₂TiO₂₀ crystals

Eduardo A. Barbosa, Camila B. F. de Sousa, and Wellington M. Maffei

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5114-5120 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterizing large-area electro-optic crystals toward two-dimensional real-time terahertz imaging

Fanzhen Meng, Mark D. Thomson, Volker Blank, Wolff von Spiegel, Torsten Löffler, and Hartmut G. Roskos

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5197-5204 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical encoder based on a nondiffractive beam III

Ariel Lutenberg and Fernando Perez-Quintián

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5015-5024 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Angle resolved Mueller polarimetry with a high numerical aperture and characterization of transparent biaxial samples

Bicher Haj Ibrahim, Sami Ben Hatit, and Antonello De Martino

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5025-5034 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Microvalve thickness and topography measurements in microfluidic devices by white-light confocal microscopy

Shiguang Li, Todd Thorsen, Zhiguang Xu, Zhong Ping Fang, Jianhong Zhao, and Soon Fatt Yoon

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5088-5094 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Using quantum dots to tag subsurface damage in lapped and polished glass samples

Wesley B. Williams, Brigid A. Mullany, Wesley C. Parker, Patrick J. Moyer, and Mark H. Randles

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5155-5163 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband IR polarizing beam splitter using a subwavelength-structured one-dimensional photonic-crystal layer embedded in a high-index prism

H. K. Khanfar and R. M. A. Azzam

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5121-5126 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Hardware accelerated optical alignment of lasers using beam-specific matched filters

Abdul A. S. Awwal, Kenneth L. Rice, and Tarek M. Taha

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5190-5196 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Tri-arm multipinhole interferometer for wavefront measurement and diffractive imaging

Gong-Xiang Wei, Lei-Lei Lu, Cheng-Shan Guo, and Hui-Tian Wang

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5099-5104 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

High fidelity sky coverage analysis via time domain adaptive optics simulations

Lianqi Wang, Brent Ellerbroek, and Jean Pierre Veran

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5076-5087 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of molecular scattering models on aerosol optical properties measured by high spectral resolution lidar

Bing-Yi Liu, Michael Esselborn, Martin Wirth, Andreas Fix, De-Cang Bi, and Gerhard Ehret

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5143-5154 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Color filter based on a two-dimensional submicrometer metal grating

Yan Ye, Yun zhou, and Linsen Chen

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5035-5039 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Design considerations for short-wavelength operation of 790-nm-pumped Tm-doped fibers

Gavin Frith, Adrian Carter, Bryce Samson, and Graham Town

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5072-5075 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Extinction efficiencies for metallic fibers in the infrared

Charles W. Bruce and Sharhabeel Alyones

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5095-5098 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Gain dispersion for dissipative soliton generation in all-normal-dispersion fiber lasers

L. M. Zhao, C. Lu, H. Y. Tam, P. K. A. Wai, and D. Y. Tang

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5131-5137 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Optimization of output coupling ratio on the performance of a ring-cavity Brillouin-erbium fiber laser

Nor Azura Malini A. Hambali, Mohd Adzir Mahdi, Mohammed Hayder Al-Mansoori, M. Iqbal Saripan, and Ahmad Fauzi Abas

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5055-5060 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization properties of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subject to feedback with variably rotated polarization angle

Shuiying Xiang, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan, Bin Luo, Ning Jiang, and Lei Yang

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5176-5183 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-switching of solitons in an AlGaAs nanowire coupler

Amarendra K. Sarma

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5067-5071 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonics enhancement of a luminescent or Raman-active layer in a multilayered metallic nanoshell

Stephen J. Norton and Tuan Vo-Dinh

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5040-5049 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Small-hole waveguides in silicon photonic crystal slabs: efficient use of the complete photonic bandgap

Christian Bayer and Martin Straub

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5050-5054 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced sensitivity for the detection of trace gases using multiple line integrated absorption spectroscopy

Andreas Karpf and Gottipaty N. Rao

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5061-5066 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature feedback control for long-term carrier-envelope phase locking

Chenxia Yun, Shouyuan Chen, He Wang, Michael Chini, and Zenghu Chang

Appl. Opt. 48(27), 5127-5130 (2009)  View: HTML | PDF