Distant CNOT gate via quantum Zeno dynamics

• Xiao Shao, HF Wang, L Chen, S. Zhang, and KH Yeon
• received 06/05/2009; accepted 11/14/2009; posted 11/16/2009; Doc. ID 112417
• [full text: PDF (391) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.5580) Quantum optics : Quantum electrodynamics
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

Effects of Excited-state Absorption on Self-pulsing in Tm3+-doped Fiber Lasers

• Yulong Tang and Jianqiu Xu
• received 09/14/2009; accepted 11/13/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 117195
• [full text: PDF (617) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
• (140.3540) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Q-switched
• (060.3510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Lasers, fiber

High-speed, high-resolution, and large-scanning-range three-dimensional optical measurement system using a wavelength-tunable orthogonally polarized ultrashort twin pulse source

• Takefumi OHTA, Norihiko NISHIZAWA, Tetsuya OZAWA, and Kazuyoshi ITOH
• received 09/29/2009; accepted 11/13/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 117926
• [full text: PDF (1529) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (060.7140) Fiber optics and optical communications : Ultrafast processes in fibers
• (120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
• (120.6650) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Surface measurements, figure
• (140.3600) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, tunable
• (150.6910) Machine vision : Three-dimensional sensing

Two-way diffusion model for short exposure holographic grating formation in acrylamide-based photopolymer

• Tsvetanka Babeva, Izabela Naydenova, Dana Mackey, Suzanne Martin, and Vincent Toal
• received 07/22/2009; accepted 11/13/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 114532
• [full text: PDF (533) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.2770) Diffraction and gratings : Gratings
• (050.7330) Diffraction and gratings : Volume gratings
• (090.0090) Holography : Holography
• (090.2900) Holography : Optical storage materials
• (160.5470) Materials : Polymers

Multipole method for modeling linear defects in photonic woodpiles

• Dougal Kan, Ara Asatryan, Christopher Poulton, and Lindsay Botten
• received 08/28/2009; accepted 11/08/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 116339
• [full text: PDF (973) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.0050) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction and gratings
• (050.1960) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction theory
• (260.0260) Physical optics : Physical optics
• (260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics

Quantum detection of wavelength division multiplexing optical coherent signals

• Atsushi Waseda, Masahiro Takeoka, Masahide Sasaki, Mikio Fujiwara, and Hidema Tanaka
• received 07/08/2009; accepted 11/07/2009; posted 11/11/2009; Doc. ID 113867
• [full text: PDF (864) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.1660) Fiber optics and optical communications : Coherent communications
• (060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications
• (060.5565) Fiber optics and optical communications : Quantum communications
• (270.5565) Quantum optics : Quantum communications

Mimicking a negative refractive slab by combining two phase-conjugators

• Alexandre Aubry and John Pendry
• received 09/11/2009; accepted 11/06/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 117080
• [full text: PDF (704) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (110.2990) Imaging systems : Image formation theory
• (190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
• (190.5040) Nonlinear optics : Phase conjugation

The role of nonlinear optical absorption in narrow-band difference-frequency terahertz-wave generation

• Matteo Cherchi, Saverio Bivona, Alfonso Cino, Alessandro Busacca, and Roberto Oliveri
• received 09/30/2009; accepted 11/06/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 117942
• [full text: PDF (444) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.4180) Nonlinear optics : Multiphoton processes
• (190.4223) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear wave mixing

Formation and interaction characteristics of two-component spatial weak-light soliton in a four-level double-\lambda type system

• Yan She, Denglong Wang, Weixi Zhang, Zhangming He, and Jiannwen Ding
• received 08/12/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/05/2009; Doc. ID 115575
• [full text: PDF (396) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
• (190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons

Wavelength squeeze of surface plasmon polariton in a subwavelength metal slit

• Chao Li, Yun-Song Zhou, Huai-Yu Wang, and Fu-He Wang
• received 07/01/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 113631
• [full text: PDF (544) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (260.3910) Physical optics : Metal optics

Theory of confined plasmons in coaxial cylindrical cables fabricated of metamaterials

• Manvir Kushwaha and B. Djafari-Rouhani
• received 09/11/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/16/2009; Doc. ID 117049
• [full text: PDF (553) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.1245) Materials : Artificially engineered materials
• (060.4005) Fiber optics and optical communications : Microstructured fibers

Interface Effects in Plasmon Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation from Self-Assembled Multilayer Films

• Kai Chen, Cemil Durak, Akhilesh Garg, Charles Brands, Richey Davis, James Heflin, and Hans Robinson
• received 07/01/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 113597
• [full text: PDF (1244) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
• (190.4350) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics at surfaces
• (190.4710) Nonlinear optics : Optical nonlinearities in organic materials
• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials
• (310.6628) Thin films : Subwavelength structures, nanostructures

Self-similar solitary waves in Bessel optical lattices

• Siliu Xu and Lin Yi
• received 06/02/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/16/2009; Doc. ID 112034
• [full text: PDF (804) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons

Scheme for implementing linear optical quantum iSWAP gate with conventional photon detectors

• Hong-Fu Wang, Xiao-Qiang Shao, Yong-Fang Zhao, Shou Zhang, and Kyu-Hwang Yeon
• received 08/25/2009; accepted 11/02/2009; posted 11/03/2009; Doc. ID 116083
• [full text: PDF (337) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

Numerical analysis of a sub-picosecond thin-disk laser oscillator with active multipass geometry showing a variation of pulse duration within one roundtrip

• Joerg Neuhaus, Dominik Bauer, Jochen Kleinbauer, Alexander Killi, Dirk Sutter, and Thomas Dekorsy
• received 07/29/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 114960
• [full text: PDF (774) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3430) Lasers and laser optics : Laser theory
• (140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
• (140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
• (140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers

Theoretical Optimization of Transverse Waveguiding in Oxide-Confined VCSELs with Internal Photonic Crystals

• Pavel Ivanov and Judy Rorison
• received 06/18/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/03/2009; Doc. ID 112961
• [full text: PDF (410) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3430) Lasers and laser optics : Laser theory
• (140.4780) Lasers and laser optics : Optical resonators

Analysis of mode characteristic for equilateral-polygonal resonators with a center hole

• Shi-Jiang Wang, Yue-De Yang, and Yong-Zhen Huang
• received 07/24/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/03/2009; Doc. ID 114701
• [full text: PDF (446) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.4780) Lasers and laser optics : Optical resonators
• (140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
• (140.3945) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavities

A narrow window of Rabi frequency for competition between coherent population trapping and Raman absorption

• Ray-Yuan Chang, Yi-Chi Lee, Wei-Chia Fang, Ming-Tsung Lee, Zong-Syun He, Bai-Cian Ke, and Chin-Chun Tsai
• received 07/01/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/11/2009; Doc. ID 113408
• [full text: PDF (791) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (020.5580) Atomic and molecular physics : Quantum electrodynamics
• (020.5780) Atomic and molecular physics : Rydberg states
• (030.1670) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherent optical effects

Enhanced spontaneous emission observed at one-dimensional photonic band edges

• Kazuaki Sakoda, Keiji Kuroda, Tsutomu Sawada, Takashi Kuroda, and Kenji Watanabe
• received 09/14/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/03/2009; Doc. ID 117208
• [full text: PDF (1223) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.2540) Materials : Fluorescent and luminescent materials
• (260.3800) Physical optics : Luminescence
• (160.5298) Materials : Photonic crystals

Depolarization induced by pump edge effects in high average power laser rods

• Yaakov Lumer, Inon Moshe, steven Jackel, Zvika Horovitz, Avi Meir, Revital Feldman, and Yehoshua Shimony
• received 07/16/2009; accepted 10/28/2009; posted 10/29/2009; Doc. ID 114236
• [full text: PDF (753) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
• (140.6810) Lasers and laser optics : Thermal effects
• (260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence