Low-frequency surface plasmon excitations in multicoaxial negative-index metamaterial cables

• M. S. Kushwaha and B. Djafari-Rouhani
• received 11/18/2009; accepted 02/02/2010; posted 02/02/2010; Doc. ID 120202
• [full text: PDF (562) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.5420) Optics at surfaces : Polaritons
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials

Field localization in Bragg waveguide assisted by metal layers

• Valeria Marrocco, Maria Vincenti, Marco Grande, Giovanna Calo, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Francesco Prudenzano, and Antonella D' Orazio
• received 01/07/2010; accepted 02/02/2010; posted 02/03/2010; Doc. ID 122334
• [full text: PDF (1305) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.3900) Materials : Metals
• (230.0230) Optical devices : Optical devices
• (230.1480) Optical devices : Bragg reflectors
• (230.7400) Optical devices : Waveguides, slab
• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (260.5740) Physical optics : Resonance

Symmetry breaking in networks of nonlinear cavities

• Koen Huybrechts, Geert Morthier, and Bjorn Maes
• received 11/19/2009; accepted 02/01/2010; posted 02/02/2010; Doc. ID 120247
• [full text: PDF (442) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
• (230.4555) Optical devices : Coupled resonators

Pulse measurement techniques using a single amplitude and phase spectral shaper

• Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, and Thomas Oksenhendler
• received 09/14/2009; accepted 02/01/2010; posted 02/01/2010; Doc. ID 117219
• [full text: PDF (407) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement
• (320.5540) Ultrafast optics : Pulse shaping
• (320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements

The influence of axial correlation depth of light field on lensless ghost imaging

• Wenlin Gong and Shensheng Han
• received 11/03/2009; accepted 01/28/2010; posted 02/01/2010; Doc. ID 119420
• [full text: PDF (558) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (030.1640) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherence
• (110.2990) Imaging systems : Image formation theory
• (270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics

[QOIT] Theory of Unitary Spin Rotation and Spin State Tomography for a Single Electron and Two Electrons

• T. Takagahara
• received 11/19/2009; accepted 01/27/2010; posted 01/28/2010; Doc. ID 120214
• [full text: PDF (840) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.1670) Quantum optics : Coherent optical effects
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

Spoof surface plasmon assisted light beaming in mid-infrared

• Pengyu Chen, Qiaoqiang Gan, Filbert Bartoli, and Lin Zhu
• received 12/04/2009; accepted 01/26/2010; posted 01/28/2010; Doc. ID 120951
• [full text: PDF (337) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.0050) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction and gratings
• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

UV-enhanced supercontinuum generation in tapered photonic crystal fiber

• S. P. Stark, A. Podlipensky, N. Y. Joly, and P. St. J. Russell
• received 10/02/2009; accepted 01/26/2010; posted 01/26/2010; Doc. ID 118031
• [full text: PDF (4883) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (060.7140) Fiber optics and optical communications : Ultrafast processes in fibers

Laser induced Bessel beams can realize fast all-optical switch in gold nanosol prepared by pulsed laser ablation

• Santhi Joseph, Gaurav Sharma, Misha Hari, S. Mathew, P. Radhakrishnan, and V. P. N. Nampoori
• received 12/07/2009; accepted 01/26/2010; posted 01/26/2010; Doc. ID 121135
• [full text: PDF (299) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.0140) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers and laser optics
• (160.3380) Materials : Laser materials

Nonlinear Brillouin based slow-light system for almost distortion-free pulse delay

• Andrzej Wiatrek, Kambiz Jamshidi, Ronny Henker, Stefan Preussler, and Thomas Schneider
• received 11/17/2009; accepted 01/24/2010; posted 01/25/2010; Doc. ID 120071
• [full text: PDF (723) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
• (290.5900) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Brillouin

Dark focal spot shaping of hyperbolic-cosine-Gaussian beam

• Xiumin Gao, Qiufang Zhan, Jinsong Li, Song Hu, Jian Wang, and Songlin Zhuang
• received 08/18/2009; accepted 01/23/2010; posted 01/25/2010; Doc. ID 115823
• [full text: PDF (715) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3300) Lasers and laser optics : Laser beam shaping
• (140.7010) Lasers and laser optics : Laser trapping
• (260.1960) Physical optics : Diffraction theory
• (050.4865) Diffraction and gratings : Optical vortices

Observation of bistability of trapping position in aerosol optical tweezers

• Kerry Knox, Daniel Burnham, Lowell McCann, Shawntel Murphy, David McGloin, and Jonathan Reid
• received 11/24/2009; accepted 01/22/2010; posted 01/22/2010; Doc. ID 120480
• [full text: PDF (818) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (010.1110) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Aerosols
• (350.4855) Other areas of optics : Optical tweezers or optical manipulation

[QOIT] Single photon emission by semiconductor quantum rings in a photonic crystal

• E. Gallardo, L. J. Martinez, A. K. Nowak, D. Sarkar, D. Sanvitto, H. P. van der Meulen, J. M. Calleja, I. Prieto, D. Granados, A. G. Taboada, J. M. Garcia, and P. A. Postigo
• received 12/02/2009; accepted 01/21/2010; posted 01/22/2010; Doc. ID 120804
• [full text: PDF (751) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.5290) Quantum optics : Photon statistics
• (250.5590) Optoelectronics : Quantum-well, -wire and -dot devices

One-Dimensional Fractal Photonic Crystal and Its Characteristics

• pan xu, Huiping Tian, and Yuefeng Ji
• received 09/08/2009; accepted 01/21/2010; posted 01/22/2010; Doc. ID 116875
• [full text: PDF (897) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (260.1180) Physical optics : Crystal optics
• (220.4241) Optical design and fabrication : Nanostructure fabrication
• (160.5298) Materials : Photonic crystals

Tripartite entanglement in parametric down-conversion with spatially-structured pump

• D. Daems, F. Bernard, N. Cerf, and M. Kolobov
• received 11/13/2009; accepted 01/21/2010; posted 01/25/2010; Doc. ID 119936
• [full text: PDF (259) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.6570) Quantum optics : Squeezed states
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

Effective parameters and quasistatic resonances for periodic arrays of dielectric spheres

• Ruey-Lin Chern and Xing-Xiang Liu
• received 09/23/2009; accepted 01/19/2010; posted 01/21/2010; Doc. ID 117611
• [full text: PDF (1509) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (260.2065) Physical optics : Effective medium theory
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials
• (160.5298) Materials : Photonic crystals

[QOIT] NOON states from cavity-enhanced down-conversion: High quality and super-resolution

• Florian Wolfgramm, Alessandro Cere, and Morgan Mitchell
• received 11/13/2009; accepted 01/17/2010; posted 01/20/2010; Doc. ID 119975
• [full text: PDF (278) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement
• (190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
• (230.6080) Optical devices : Sources
• (270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics

Bright Quadripartite Continuous Variable Entanglement from Coupled Intracavity Nonlinearities

• Juan Guo, Zehui Zhai, and Jiangrui Gao
• received 07/16/2009; accepted 01/16/2010; posted 01/20/2010; Doc. ID 114241
• [full text: PDF (336) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
• (270.2500) Quantum optics : Fluctuations, relaxations, and noise
• (270.5565) Quantum optics : Quantum communications

Modeling Whispering Gallery Modes in Quantum Dot Embedded Polystyrene Microspheres

• Hope Beier, Gerard Cot�, and Kenith Meissner
• received 12/18/2009; accepted 01/13/2010; posted 01/22/2010; Doc. ID 121778
• [full text: PDF (568) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (170.4520) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical confinement and manipulation
• (230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
• (260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
• (300.6490) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, surface

Experimental determination of the dispersion relation of light in metamaterials by white-light interferometry

• Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin, Frank Setzpfandt, Christian Helgert, Uwe H�bner, Christoph Menzel, Arkadi Chipouline, Carsten Rochstuhl, Andreas T�nnermann, Falk Lederer, and Thomas Pertsch
• received 12/03/2009; accepted 01/12/2010; posted 01/20/2010; Doc. ID 120877
• [full text: PDF (518) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials