Optical Quality of High-Power Laser Beams in Lenses

• Joseph Penano, Phillip Sprangle, Antonio Ting, Richard Fischer, Bahman Hafizi, and Phillip Serafim
• received 09/30/2008; accepted 12/19/2008; posted 12/22/2008; Doc. ID 101821
• [full text: PDF (506) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (080.3620) Geometric optics : Lens system design
• (080.3630) Geometric optics : Lenses
• (140.6810) Lasers and laser optics : Thermal effects

Greatly-reduced threshold power of optical bistability by using asymmetrical lineshape cavity

• Lei Dai and Chun Jiang
• received 11/18/2008; accepted 12/18/2008; posted 12/23/2008; Doc. ID 104204
• [full text: PDF (313) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.4310) Integrated optics : Nonlinear
• (140.3948) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavity devices
• (130.5296) Integrated optics : Photonic crystal waveguides
• (050.5298) Diffraction and gratings : Photonic crystals

Nearly chirp-free and pedestal-free pulse compression in nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings

• Qian Li, K. Senthilnathan, K. Nakkeeran, and P. K. A. Wai
• received 06/30/2008; accepted 12/17/2008; posted 12/18/2008; Doc. ID 98090
• [full text: PDF (817) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (320.1590) Ultrafast optics : Chirping
• (320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression
• (060.3735) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber Bragg gratings

Weak-light superluminal vector solitons in a room-temperature four-level active-Raman-gain medium

• Chao Hang and Guoxiang Huang
• received 10/09/2008; accepted 12/17/2008; posted 12/23/2008; Doc. ID 102452
• [full text: PDF (1388) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
• (270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics

Beam Steering from Resonant Subwavelength Slits Filled with a Nonlinear Material

• Maria Vincenti, Antonella D'Orazio, Milan Buncick, Neset Akozbek, Mark Bloemer, and Michael Scalora
• received 09/12/2008; accepted 12/17/2008; posted 12/17/2008; Doc. ID 101456
• [full text: PDF (997) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.7000) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Transmission
• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (240.3695) Optics at surfaces : Linear and nonlinear light scattering from surfaces
• (310.6628) Thin films : Subwavelength structures, nanostructures

Investigation of dynamics of Kerr liquids by time-resolved pump-probe system based on 4f nonlinear imaging technique with phase object

• Guang Shi, Yunbo Li, Junyi Yang, Yuxiao Wang, Yinglin Song, and C. Wang
• received 11/14/2008; accepted 12/16/2008; posted 12/22/2008; Doc. ID 104137
• [full text: PDF (317) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
• (190.5890) Nonlinear optics : Scattering, stimulated
• (190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
• (190.7070) Nonlinear optics : Two-wave mixing
• (190.2055) Nonlinear optics : Dynamic gratings

Photoinduced optical retardation in mesostructured dye-doped films investigated by an imaging pump probe technique

• Iari-Gabriel Marino, Davide Delmonte, Federica Pessini, Pier Paolo Lottici, Luigi Cristofolini, Jorge Garc�a-Macedo, Alfredo Franco, and Guadalupe Valverde-Aguilar
• received 09/08/2008; accepted 12/15/2008; posted 12/16/2008; Doc. ID 101358
• [full text: PDF (652) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.1190) Materials : Anisotropic optical materials
• (160.2900) Materials : Optical storage materials
• (260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence
• (160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials
• (160.5335) Materials : Photosensitive materials
• (110.5405) Imaging systems : Polarimetric imaging

Roadmaps for the use of Mueller matrix measurements to detect and identify biological and chemical materials through their optical activity: Potential applications in biomedicine, biochemistry, security and industry.

• Ezekiel Bahar
• received 10/15/2008; accepted 12/15/2008; posted 12/16/2008; Doc. ID 102845
• [full text: PDF (401) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.1930) Image processing : Dichroism
• (120.1880) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Detection
• (120.2130) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Ellipsometry and polarimetry
• (280.1415) Remote sensing and sensors : Biological sensing and sensors
• (160.1585) Materials : Chiral media
• (110.5405) Imaging systems : Polarimetric imaging

High-frequency surface-plasmon resonance in planar metal-dielectric periodic semi-infinite structures

• Hyoung-In Lee and Jinsik Mok
• received 07/07/2008; accepted 12/15/2008; posted 12/16/2008; Doc. ID 98437
• [full text: PDF (336) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

Thermal radiation of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein gas of surface plasmons

• Anatoly Latyshev, Dmitriy Minakov, Oleg Ovchinnikov, Vadim Buslov, Oleg Vikin, Vera Zon, and Boris Zon
• received 10/06/2008; accepted 12/15/2008; posted 01/05/2009; Doc. ID 102280
• [full text: PDF (252) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (290.6815) Scattering : Thermal emission

Effective characterization of the phase and intensity profiles of asymmetrically distorted light pulses in optical fiber systems

• Jacques Atangana, Aladji Kamagate, Patrice Dinda, Alexis Labruyere, and Timoleon Kofane
• received 04/07/2008; accepted 12/09/2008; posted 12/09/2008; Doc. ID 94724
• [full text: PDF (389) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications
• (060.2360) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics links and subsystems
• (060.4510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Optical communications
• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons

Bragg diffraction in thin 2D refractive index modulated semiconductor samples

• Qiong HE, Isabelle Zaquine, Gerald Roosen, and Robert Frey
• received 10/17/2008; accepted 12/08/2008; posted 12/18/2008; Doc. ID 102927
• [full text: PDF (284) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
• (230.1480) Optical devices : Bragg reflectors
• (190.2055) Nonlinear optics : Dynamic gratings

Wide-Angle Beam Propagation Method without Using Slowly Varying Envelope Approximation

• Khai Le and Peter Bienstman
• received 11/05/2008; accepted 12/07/2008; posted 12/12/2008; Doc. ID 103747
• [full text: PDF (190) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (000.4430) General : Numerical approximation and analysis
• (220.2560) Optical design and fabrication : Propagating methods
• (350.5500) Other areas of optics : Propagation

Optical selectivity calculations of 90Sr isotope in double optical resonance photoionisation schemes

• Manda Sankari
• received 07/18/2008; accepted 12/03/2008; posted 12/08/2008; Doc. ID 98952
• [full text: PDF (631) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (020.3260) Atomic and molecular physics : Isotope shifts
• (020.3690) Atomic and molecular physics : Line shapes and shifts
• (300.6210) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, atomic
• (300.6360) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, laser

Identification of competing ultrafast all-optical switching mechanisms in Si woodpile photonic crystals

• Philip Harding, Tijmen Euser, and Willem Vos
• received 07/29/2008; accepted 12/03/2008; posted 12/23/2008; Doc. ID 99505
• [full text: PDF (845) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
• (190.4180) Nonlinear optics : Multiphoton processes
• (320.2250) Ultrafast optics : Femtosecond phenomena
• (320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
• (050.5298) Diffraction and gratings : Photonic crystals

Photorefractive waveguides in He+ implanted pure and Te-doped Sn2P2S6

• Roger Mosimann, Flurin Juvalta, Mojca Jazbinsek, Peter Gunter, and Alexander A. Grabar
• received 10/31/2008; accepted 12/01/2008; posted 12/15/2008; Doc. ID 103506
• [full text: PDF (248) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.5320) Materials : Photorefractive materials
• (190.5330) Nonlinear optics : Photorefractive optics
• (190.7070) Nonlinear optics : Two-wave mixing
• (230.7390) Optical devices : Waveguides, planar

Polarized spectral properties and laser operation of Nd3+-doped La2(WO4)3 crystal

• Xinghong Gong, Yujin Chen, Yanfu Lin, Zundu Luo, and Yidong Huang
• received 07/24/2008; accepted 12/01/2008; posted 12/03/2008; Doc. ID 99355
• [full text: PDF (286) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3380) Lasers and laser optics : Laser materials
• (140.3530) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, neodymium
• (160.5690) Materials : Rare-earth-doped materials

Radiative transitions and optical gains in Er3+/Yb3+ codoped acid-resistant ion exchanged germanate glass channel waveguides

• Yang Lai, Pun Edwin, Chen Jie, and Lin Hai
• received 09/03/2008; accepted 12/01/2008; posted 12/04/2008; Doc. ID 100973
• [full text: PDF (2495) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
• (130.3130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics materials
• (130.2755) Integrated optics : Glass waveguides

Nonlinear transmission through a tapered fiber in rubidium vapor

• Scott Hendrickson, Todd Pittman, and James Franson
• received 10/02/2008; accepted 12/01/2008; posted 12/04/2008; Doc. ID 102211
• [full text: PDF (166) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
• (060.4080) Fiber optics and optical communications : Modulation
• (300.6210) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, atomic
• (240.6648) Optics at surfaces : Surface dynamics

Depolarization field of spheroidal particles

• Alexander Moroz
• received 10/21/2008; accepted 11/30/2008; posted 12/18/2008; Doc. ID 103068
• [full text: PDF (453) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (290.3770) Scattering : Long-wave scattering
• (350.4238) Other areas of optics : Nanophotonics and photonic crystals
• (250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics