Feature issue introduction: quantum dots for photonic applications

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10721–10723 (2012)
• Kwang-Sup Lee, Paras N. Prasad, Guillaume Huyet, and Chee Hing Tan

1300 nm Wavelength InAs Quantum Dot Photodetector Grown on Silicon

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10446–10452 (2012)
• Ian Sandall, Jo Shien Ng, John P. R. David, Chee Hing Tan, Ting Wang, and Huiyun Liu

Saturation behaviour of colloidal PbSe quantum dot exciton emission coupled into silicon photonic circuits

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10453–10469 (2012)
• Charles A. Foell, Ellen Schelew, Haijun Qiao, Keith A. Abel, Stephen Hughes, Frank C. J. M. van Veggel, and Jeff F. Young

Optical properties and sub-bandgap formation of nano-crystalline Si quantum dots embedded ZnO thin film

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10470–10475 (2012)
• Kuang-Yang Kuo, Shu-Wei Hsu, Pin-Ruei Huang, Wen-Ling Chuang, Chuan-Cheng Liu, and Po-Tsung Lee

Significant enhancement of the power conversion efficiency for organic photovoltaic cells due to a P3HT pillar layer containing ZnSe quantum dots

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10476–10483 (2012)
• Dae Hun Kim, Young Hun Lee, Dea Uk Lee, Tae Whan Kim, Sungwoo Kim, and Sang Wook Kim

Voltage-tunable dual-band quantum dot infrared photodetectors for temperature sensing

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10484–10489 (2012)
• Hong-Shi Ling, Shiang-Yu Wang, Wei-Cheng Hsu, and Chien-Ping Lee

Magnetical and electrical tuning of transient photovoltaic effects in manganite-based heterojunctions

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A406–A411 (2012)
• Hao Ni, Zengji Yue, Kun Zhao, Wenfeng Xiang, Songqing Zhao, Aijun Wang, Yu-Chau Kong, and Hong-Kuen Wong

Nanophotonic light trapping with patterned transparent conductive oxides

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A385–A394 (2012)
• Alok P. Vasudev, Jon A. Schuller, and Mark L. Brongersma

Nano-patterned glass superstrates with different aspect ratios for enhanced light harvesting in a-Si:H thin film solar cells

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A412–A417 (2012)
• Ting-Gang Chen, Peichen Yu, Yu-Lin Tsai, Chang-Hong Shen, Jia-Min Shieh, Min-An Tsai, and Hao-Chung Kuo

Plasmonic-photonic arrays with aperiodic spiral order for ultra-thin film solar cells

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A418–A430 (2012)
• Jacob Trevino, Carlo Forestiere, Giuliana Di Martino, Selcuk Yerci, Francesco Priolo, and Luca Dal Negro

Indium tin oxide subwavelength nanostructures with surface antireflection and superhydrophilicity for high-efficiency Si-based thin film solar cells

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A431–A440 (2012)
• Jung Woo Leem and Jae Su Yu

Progress in phosphors and filters for luminescent solar concentrators

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A395–A405 (2012)
• Dick K. G. de Boer, Dirk J. Broer, Michael G. Debije, Wilco Keur, Andries Meijerink, Cees R. Ronda, and Paul P. C. Verbunt

Overcoming the black body limit in plasmonic and graphene near-field thermophotovoltaic systems

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. S3, pp. A366–A384 (2012)
• Ognjen Ilic, Marinko Jablan, John D. Joannopoulos, Ivan Celanovic, and Marin Soljacic

Variations in the optical scattering properties of phytoplankton cultures

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11189–11206 (2012)
• Wen Zhou, Guifen Wang, Zhaohua Sun, Wenxi Cao, Zhantang Xu, Shuibo Hu, and Jun Zhao

Versatile method for achieving 1% speckle contrast in large-venue laser projection displays using a stationary multimode optical fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11288–11315 (2012)
• Jeffrey G. Manni and Joseph W. Goodman

310 GHz gain-bandwidth product Ge/Si avalanche photodetector for 1550 nm light detection

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11031–11036 (2012)
• Ning Duan, Tsung-Yang Liow, Andy Eu-Jin Lim, Liang Ding, and G. Q. Lo

Accurate analysis of electromagnetic scattering from periodic circular cylinder array with defects

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10646–10657 (2012)
• Koki Watanabe, Yoshimasa Nakatake, and Jaromír Pištora

Physics of near-wavelength high contrast gratings

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10888–10895 (2012)
• Vadim Karagodsky and Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

Relief diffracted elements recorded on absorbent photopolymers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11218–11231 (2012)
• S. Gallego, A. Márquez, M. Ortuño, J. Francés, I. Pascual, and A. Beléndez

Formation of X-pulses in periodically gain/loss modulated materials

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11271–11276 (2012)
• Yurii Loiko, Muriel Botey, Ramon Herrero, and Kestutis Staliunas

109.92-Gb/s WDM-OFDMA Uni-PON with Dynamic Resource Allocation and Variable Rate Access

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10552–10561 (2012)
• Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin, Lijia Zhang, and Jianjun Yu

Impact of amplified spontaneous emission on Brillouin scattering of a single-frequency signal

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10572–10582 (2012)
• Malte Karow, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht, and Peter Weßels

Optically tunable chirped fiber Bragg grating

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10827–10832 (2012)
• Zhen Li, Zhe Chen, V.K.S. Hsiao, Jie-Yuan Tang, Fuli Zhao, and Shao-Ji Jiang

DSP complexity of mode-division multiplexed receivers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10859–10869 (2012)
• Beril Inan, Bernhard Spinnler, Filipe Ferreira, Dirk van den Borne, Adriana Lobato, Susmita Adhikari, Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer, Maxim Kuschnerov, Norbert Hanik, and Sander L. Jansen

Joint phase noise and frequency offset estimation and mitigation for optically coherent QAM based on adaptive multi-symbol delay detection (MSDD)

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10944–10962 (2012)
• Igor Tselniker, Netta Sigron, and Moshe Nazarathy

Coherent ultrashort pulse generation from incoherent light by pulse trapping in birefringent fibers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11073–11082 (2012)
• Eiji Shiraki and Norihiko Nishizawa

Experimental investigation on Brillouin scattering property in highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with hybrid core

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11083–11090 (2012)
• Weiwen Zou, Zuyuan He, and Kazuo Hotate

Bidirectional measurement for Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11091–11096 (2012)
• Ji Ho Jeong, Kwanil Lee, Kwang Yong Song, Je-Myung Jeong, and Sang Bae Lee

Low loss silica hollow core fibers for 3–4 μm spectral region

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11153–11158 (2012)
• Fei Yu, William J. Wadsworth, and Jonathan C. Knight

High speed photodiodes in standard nanometer scale CMOS technology: a comparative study

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11256–11270 (2012)
• Behrooz Nakhkoob, Sagar Ray, and Mona M. Hella

Incoherent photon conversion in selectively infiltrated hollow-core photonic crystal fibers for single photon generation in the near infrared

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11536–11547 (2012)
• Ping Jiang, Tim Schroeder, Michael Bath, Vladimir Lesnyak, Nikolai Gaponik, Alexander Eychmüller, and Oliver Benson

Distortion-free spectrum sliced microwave photonic signal processor: analysis, design and implementation

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11517–11528 (2012)
• Liwei Li, Xiaoke Yi, Thomas X. H. Huang, and Robert A. Minasian

Analytic free-form lens design in 3D: coupling three ray sets using two lens surfaces

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10839–10846 (2012)
• Fabian Duerr, Pablo Benítez, Juan C. Miñano, Youri Meuret, and Hugo Thienpont

Azimuthal decomposition with digital holograms

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10996–11004 (2012)
• Igor A. Litvin, Angela Dudley, Filippus S. Roux, and Andrew Forbes

Hyperspectral video restoration using optical flow and sparse coding

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10658–10673 (2012)
• Ajmal Mian and Richard Hartley

Investigation of discrete imaging models and iterative image reconstruction in differential X-ray phase-contrast tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10724–10749 (2012)
• Qiaofeng Xu, Emil Y. Sidky, Xiaochuan Pan, Marco Stampanoni, Peter Modregger, and Mark A. Anastasio

Integration of robust filters and phase unwrapping algorithms for image reconstruction of objects containing height discontinuities

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10896–10920 (2012)
• Jing-Feng Weng and Yu-Lung Lo

Abnormal pixel detection using sum-of-projections symmetry in cone beam computed tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11014–11030 (2012)
• Xiaoquan Yang, Yuanzheng Meng, Hui Gong, Yong Deng, and Qingming Luo

Focusing and scanning light through a multimode optical fiber using digital phase conjugation

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10583–10590 (2012)
• Ioannis N. Papadopoulos, Salma Farahi, Christophe Moser, and Demetri Psaltis

Novel compact dual-band LOROP camera with telecentricity

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10921–10932 (2012)
• Kwang-Woo Park, Jeong-Yeol Han, Jongin Bae, Sug-Whan Kim, and Chang-Woo Kim

Wide-band coronagraph with sinusoidal phase in the angular direction

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10933–10943 (2012)
• Ourui Ma, Qing Cao, and Fanzhen Hou

High-resolution lightfield photography using two masks

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10971–10983 (2012)
• Zhimin Xu, Jun Ke, and Edmund Y. Lam

Stabilized high-power laser system for the gravitational wave detector advanced LIGO

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10617–10634 (2012)
• P. Kwee, C. Bogan, K. Danzmann, M. Frede, H. Kim, P. King, J. Pöld, O. Puncken, R. L. Savage, F. Seifert, P. Wessels, L. Winkelmann, and B. Willke

A high-accuracy and convenient figure measurement system for large convex lens

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10761–10775 (2012)
• Zhihui Tian, Wang Yang, Yongxin Sui, Yusi Kang, Weiqi Liu, and Huaijiang Yang

Versatile generation of optical vector fields and vector beams using a non-interferometric approach

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10788–10795 (2012)
• Santosh Tripathi and Kimani C. Toussaint

40 Gbit/s low-loss silicon optical modulator based on a pipin diode

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10591–10596 (2012)
• Melissa Ziebell, Delphine Marris-Morini, Gilles Rasigade, Jean-Marc Fédéli, Paul Crozat, Eric Cassan, David Bouville, and Laurent Vivien

Broadband microwave photonic fully tunable filter using a single heterogeneously integrated III-V/SOI-microdisk-based phase shifter

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10796–10806 (2012)
• Juan Lloret, Geert Morthier, Francisco Ramos, Salvador Sales, Dries Van Thourhout, Thijs Spuesens, Nicolas Olivier, Jean-Marc Fédéli, and José Capmany

Single silicon wire waveguide based delay line interferometer for DPSK demodulation

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11037–11045 (2012)
• Rai Kou, Hidetaka Nishi, Tai Tsuchizawa, Hiroshi Fukuda, Hiroyuki Shinojima, and Koji Yamada

Novel, low-index waveguide as laser external cavity

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11137–11142 (2012)
• Alexandre Horth and Nathaniel J. Quitoriano

Continuously tunable delay line based on SOI tapered Bragg gratings

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11241–11246 (2012)
• Ivano Giuntoni, David Stolarek, Dimitar I. Kroushkov, Jürgen Bruns, Lars Zimmermann, Bernd Tillack, and Klaus Petermann

Passive InP regenerator integrated on SOI for the support of broadband silicon modulators

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11383–11388 (2012)
• M. Tassaert, H. J. S. Dorren, G. Roelkens, and O. Raz

Enhanced optical bistability from self-heating due to free carrier absorption in substrate removed silicon ring modulators

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11478–11486 (2012)
• Xuezhe Zheng, Ying Luo, Guoliang Li, Ivan Shubin, Hiren Thacker, Jin Yao, Kannan Raj, John E. Cunningham, and Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy

Rapid fabrication of 3D terahertz split ring resonator arrays by novel single-shot direct write focused proximity field nanopatterning

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11097–11108 (2012)
• Jonathan P. Singer, Jae-Hwang Lee, Steven E. Kooi, and Edwin L. Thomas

Injection locking of Yb-fiber based optical frequency comb

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10509–10518 (2012)
• Naoya Kuse, Akira Ozawa, Yutaka Nomura, Isao Ito, and Yohei Kobayashi

Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10545–10551 (2012)
• Claude Aguergaray, Neil G. R. Broderick, Miro Erkintalo, Jocelyn S. Y. Chen, and Vladimir Kruglov

Influences of spherical aberration on resonator’s stable zones and fundamental mode output power scaling of solid state laser oscillators

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10605–10616 (2012)
• Zhigang Zhao, Sunqiang Pan, Zhen Xiang, Yantao Dong, Jianhong Ge, Chong Liu, and Jun Chen

Generation of high-contrast, 30 fs, 1.5 PW laser pulses from chirped-pulse amplification Ti:sapphire laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10807–10815 (2012)
• Tae Jun Yu, Seong Ku Lee, Jae Hee Sung, Jin Woo Yoon, Tae Moon Jeong, and Jongmin Lee

Spectrally narrow mid-infrared optically pumped lasers with partial surface DBR

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10833–10838 (2012)
• Chi Yang, Ron Kaspi, Michael L. Tilton, Joseph R. Chavez, Andrew P. Ongstad, and Gregory C. Dente

Continuous wave and mode-locked Yb³⁺:Y₂O₃ ceramic thin disk laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10847–10853 (2012)
• Masaki Tokurakawa, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-ichi Ueda, Hideki Yagi, Takagimi Yanagitani, Alexander A. Kaminskii, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, and Günter Huber

Octave-spanning OPCPA system delivering CEP-stable few-cycle pulses and 22 W of average power at 1 MHz repetition rate

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10870–10878 (2012)
• Jan Rothhardt, Stefan Demmler, Steffen Hädrich, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann

Experimental and theoretical study of longitudinal power distribution in a random DFB fiber laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11178–11188 (2012)
• Dmitry V. Churkin, Atalla E. El-Taher, Ilya D. Vatnik, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Paul Harper, Eugeny V. Podivilov, Sergey A. Babin, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

Lateral distributed-feedback gratings for single-mode, high-power terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11207–11217 (2012)
• M. Wienold, A. Tahraoui, L. Schrottke, R. Sharma, X. Lü, K. Biermann, R. Hey, and H. T. Grahn

An electrically pumped germanium laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11316–11320 (2012)
• Rodolfo E. Camacho-Aguilera, Yan Cai, Neil Patel, Jonathan T. Bessette, Marco Romagnoli, Lionel C. Kimerling, and Jurgen Michel

Temporal cross-correlation of x-ray free electron and optical lasers using soft x-ray pulse induced transient reflectivity

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11396–11406 (2012)
• O. Krupin, M. Trigo, W. F. Schlotter, M. Beye, F. Sorgenfrei, J. J. Turner, D. A. Reis, N. Gerken, S. Lee, W. S. Lee, G. Hays, Y. Acremann, B. Abbey, R. Coffee, M. Messerschmidt, S. P. Hau-Riege, G. Lapertot, J. Lüning, P. Heimann, R. Soufli, M. Fernández-Perea, M. Rowen, M. Holmes, S. L. Molodtsov, A. Föhlisch, and W. Wurth

Origin of thermal modal instabilities in large mode area fiber amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11407–11422 (2012)
• B. Ward, C. Robin, and I. Dajani

Finite element simulation of microphotonic lasing system

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11548–11560 (2012)
• Chris Fietz and Costas M. Soukoulis

Extracting the distribution of laser damage precursors on fused silica surfaces for 351 nm, 3 ns laser pulses at high fluences (20-150 J/cm²)

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11561–11573 (2012)
• Ted A. Laurence, Jeff D. Bude, Sonny Ly, Nan Shen, and Michael D. Feit

First principles study of Bismuth alloying effects in GaAs saturable absorber

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11574–11580 (2012)
• Dechun Li, Ming Yang, Shengzhi Zhao, Yongqing Cai, and Yuanping Feng

Long working distance fluorescence lifetime imaging with stimulated emission and electronic time delay

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11445–11450 (2012)
• Po-Yen Lin, Shin-Shian Lee, Chia-Seng Chang, and Fu-Jen Kao

Three-dimensional reconstruction of blood vessels extracted from retinal fundus images

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11451–11465 (2012)
• M. Elena Martinez-Perez and Arturo Espinosa-Romero

Digital holographic microscopy long-term and real-time monitoring of cell division and changes under simulated zero gravity

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11496–11505 (2012)
• Feng Pan, Shuo Liu, Zhe Wang, Peng Shang, and Wen Xiao

Dielectric based resonant guided wave networks

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10674–10683 (2012)
• Eyal Feigenbaum and Harry A. Atwater

Asymmetric fishnet metamaterials with strong optical activity

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10776–10787 (2012)
• Yong-Liang Zhang, Wei Jin, Xian-Zi Dong, Zhen-Sheng Zhao, and Xuan-Ming Duan

Oblique incidence ellipsometric characterization and the substrate dependence of visible frequency fishnet metamaterials

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11166–11177 (2012)
• Thomas W.H. Oates, Babak Dastmalchi, Goran Isic, Sajjad Tollabimazraehno, Christian Helgert, Thomas Pertsch, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Marc A. Verschuuren, Iris Bergmair, Kurt Hingerl, and Karsten Hinrichs

THz near-field Faraday imaging in hybrid metamaterials

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11277–11287 (2012)
• Nishant Kumar, Andrew C. Strikwerda, Kebin Fan, Xin Zhang, Richard D. Averitt, Paul C. M. Planken, and Aurèle J. L. Adam

Site-selective laser spectroscopy of Nd³⁺ ions in 0.8CaSiO₃-0.2Ca₃(PO₄)₂ biocompatible eutectic glass-ceramics

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10701–10711 (2012)
• D. Sola, R. Balda, J.I. Peña, and J. Fernández

Silencing and enhancement of second-harmonic generation in optical gap antennas

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10498–10508 (2012)
• Johann Berthelot, Guillaume Bachelier, Mingxia Song, Padmnabh Rai, Gérard Colas des Francs, Alain Dereux, and Alexandre Bouhelier

Control of near-infrared supercontinuum bandwidth by adjusting pump pulse duration

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10750–10760 (2012)
• M. Andreana, A. Labruyère, A. Tonello, S. Wabnitz, P. Leproux, V. Couderc, C. Duterte, A. Cserteg, A. Bertrand, Y. Hernandez, D. Giannone, S. Hilaire, and G. Huss

Enhancing four-wave-mixing processes by nanowire arrays coupled to a gold film

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11005–11013 (2012)
• Ekaterina Poutrina, Cristian Ciracì, Daniel J. Gauthier, and David R. Smith

Random walks and random numbers from supercontinuum generation

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11143–11152 (2012)
• Benjamin Wetzel, Keith J. Blow, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Guy Millot, Laurent Larger, and John M. Dudley

Freeform lens design for LED collimating illumination

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10984–10995 (2012)
• Jin-Jia Chen, Te-Yuan Wang, Kuang-Lung Huang, Te-Shu Liu, Ming-Da Tsai, and Chin-Tang Lin

Optimization of refractive liquid crystal lenses using an efficient multigrid simulation

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11159–11165 (2012)
• Harry Milton, Paul Brimicombe, Philip Morgan, Helen Gleeson, and John Clamp

Enhancement of light output power in GaN-based light-emitting diodes using hydrothermally grown ZnO micro-walls

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10597–10604 (2012)
• Hyun Jeong, Yong Hwan Kim, Tae Hoon Seo, Hong Seok Lee, Jun Sung Kim, Eun-Kyung Suh, and Mun Seok Jeong

Photo-induced SNAP: fabrication, trimming, and tuning of microresonator chains

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10684–10691 (2012)
• M. Sumetsky, D. J. DiGiovanni, Y. Dulashko, X. Liu, E. M. Monberg, and T. F. Taunay

Optical configuration for symmetric and high contrast ratio in three-dimensional polarization switching display

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11389–11395 (2012)
• Taehyung Kim, Sunhwan Kim, Kyung-Won Park, Seung-Chul Lee, Moonsoo Park, and Suk-Won Choi

Fabrication of SiN_x-based photonic crystals on GaN-based LED devices with patterned sapphire substrate by nanoimprint lithography

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11423–11432 (2012)
• Kyeong-Jae Byeon, Joong-Yeon Cho, Jinseung Kim, Hyoungwon Park, and Heon Lee

Role of interfering optical fields in the trapping and melting of gold nanorods and related clusters

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10963–10970 (2012)
• Hai-Dong Deng, Guang-Can Li, Qiao-Feng Dai, Min Ouyang, Sheng Lan, Achanta Venu Gopal, Vyacheslav A. Trofimov, and Tatiana M. Lysak

Spectroscopy of 3D-trapped particles inside a hollow-core microstructured optical fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11232–11240 (2012)
• Charithra Rajapakse, Fan Wang, Tiffany C. Y. Tang, Peter J. Reece, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, and Alexander Argyros

Looking through the mirror: Optical microcavity-mirror image photonic interaction

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11247–11255 (2012)
• Lei Shi, E. Xifré-Pérez, F. J. García de Abajo, and F. Meseguer

Circular motion of particles suspended in a Gaussian beam with circular polarization validates the spin part of the internal energy flow

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11351–11356 (2012)
• O. V. Angelsky, A. Ya. Bekshaev, P. P. Maksimyak, A. P. Maksimyak, I. I. Mokhun, S. G. Hanson, C. Yu. Zenkova, and A. V. Tyurin

Imaging slit-coupled surface plasmon polaritons using conventional optical microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10526–10537 (2012)
• R. Mehfuz, F. A. Chowdhury, and K. J. Chau

Handedness-sensitive emission of surface plasmon polaritons by elliptical nanohole ensembles

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10538–10544 (2012)
• Boris B. Tsema, Yuri B. Tsema, Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Da-Ren Liu, Vasily V. Klimov, Andrey A. Fedyanin, and Din Ping Tsai

Simulating light scattering from supported plasmonic nanowires

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10816–10826 (2012)
• Vladimir D. Miljkovic, Timur Shegai, Peter Johansson, and Mikael Käll

Interacting plasmon and phonon polaritons in aligned nano- and microwires

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10879–10887 (2012)
• Viktor Myroshnychenko, Andrzej Stefanski, Alejandro Manjavacas, Maria Kafesaki, Rosa I. Merino, Victor M. Orera, Dorota Anna Pawlak, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Surface plasmon resonances in periodic and random patterns of gold nano-disks for broadband light harvesting

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11466–11477 (2012)
• Yoshiaki Nishijima, Lorenzo Rosa, and Saulius Juodkazis

Active metal strip hybrid plasmonic waveguide with low critical material gain

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11487–11495 (2012)
• Linfei Gao, Liangxiao Tang, Feifei Hu, Ruimin Guo, Xingjun Wang, and Zhiping Zhou

Figures of merit for microwave photonic phase shifters based on semiconductor optical amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10519–10525 (2012)
• Juan Sancho, Juan Lloret, Ivana Gasulla, Salvador Sales, and José Capmany

Effects of overgrown p-layer on the emission characteristics of the InGaN/GaN quantum wells in a high-indium light-emitting diode

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11321–11335 (2012)
• Chih-Yen Chen, Chieh Hsieh, Che-Hao Liao, Wei-Lun Chung, Hao-Tsung Chen, Wenyu Cao, Wen-Ming Chang, Horng-Shyang Chen, Yu-Feng Yao, Shao-Ying Ting, Yean-Woei Kiang, Chih-Chung (C. C.) Yang, and Xiaodong Hu

Over 67 GHz bandwidth hybrid silicon electroabsorption modulator with asymmetric segmented electrode for 1.3 μm transmission

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11529–11535 (2012)
• Yongbo Tang, Jonathan D. Peters, and John E. Bowers

Reconfigurable photonic crystal waveguides created by selective liquid infiltration

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11046–11056 (2012)
• A. Casas Bedoya, P. Domachuk, C. Grillet, C. Monat, E.C. Mägi, E. Li, and B. J. Eggleton

Electromagnetic field energy density in homogeneous negative index materials

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11370–11381 (2012)
• Shivanand and Kevin J. Webb

A nanodiamond-tapered fiber system with high single-mode coupling efficiency

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10490–10497 (2012)
• Tim Schröder, Masazumi Fujiwara, Tetsuya Noda, Hong-Quan Zhao, Oliver Benson, and Shigeki Takeuchi

Resonant gain suppression and superluminal group velocity in a multilevel system

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10712–10720 (2012)
• Cui-Li Cui, Chang-Bao Fu, Hong Yang, Qian-Qian Bao, Huai-Liang Xu, and Jin-Hui Wu

EIT-based all-optical switching and cross-phase modulation under the influence of four-wave mixing

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11057–11063 (2012)
• Meng-Jung Lee, Yi-Hsin Chen, I-Chung Wang, and Ite A. Yu

Generation of non-classical correlated photon pairs via a ladder-type atomic configuration: theory and experiment

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11433–11444 (2012)
• Dong-Sheng Ding, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, Xu-Bo Zou, and Guang-Can Guo

Satellite peaks in the scattering of light from the two-dimensional randomly rough surface of a dielectric film on a planar metal surface

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11336–11350 (2012)
• T. Nordam, P.A. Letnes, I. Simonsen, and A.A. Maradudin

Refractive index sensor based on tilted fiber Bragg grating and stimulated Brillouin scattering

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10853–10858 (2012)
• Xueliang Shi, Shilie Zheng, Hao Chi, Xiaofeng Jin, and Xianmin Zhang

All-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers for sensing applications

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11109–11120 (2012)
• Lecheng Li, Li Xia, Zhenhai Xie, and Deming Liu

Design of plasmonic grating structures towards optimum signal discrimination for biosensing applications

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11357–11369 (2012)
• Uwe Bog, Klaus Huska, Frieder Maerkle, Alexander Nesterov-Mueller, Uli Lemmer, and Timo Mappes

Optimal design of light trapping in thin-film solar cells enhanced with graded SiN_x and SiO_xN_y structure

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11121–11136 (2012)
• Yongxiang Zhao, Fei Chen, Qiang Shen, and Lianmeng Zhang

Enhanced photon absorption of single nanowire α-Si solar cells modulated by silver core

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11506–11516 (2012)
• Yaohui Zhan, Jiupeng Zhao, Changhai Zhou, Muluneh Alemayehu, Yanpeng Li, and Yao Li

Broadband near-field mid-infrared spectroscopy and application to phonon resonances in quartz

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11064–11072 (2012)
• Michio Ishikawa, Makoto Katsura, Satoru Nakashima, Yuka Ikemoto, and Hidekazu Okamura

Ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy by chirped pulse upconversion in 1800-1000cm⁻¹ region

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10562–10571 (2012)
• Jingyi Zhu, Tilo Mathes, Andreas D. Stahl, John T.M. Kennis, and Marie Louise Groot

Deep-blue supercontinnum sources with optimum taper profiles – verification of GAM

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10635–10645 (2012)
• S. T. Sørensen, U. Møller, C. Larsen, P. M. Moselund, C. Jakobsen, J. Johansen, T. V. Andersen, C. L. Thomsen, and O. Bang

Optical and structural performance of the Al(1%wtSi)/Zr reflection multilayers in the 17–19nm region

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 10692–10700 (2012)
• Qi Zhong, Wenbin Li, Zhong Zhang, Jingtao Zhu, Qiushi Huang, Haochuan Li, Zhanshan Wang, Philippe Jonnard, Karine Le Guen, Jean-Michel André, Hongjun Zhou, and Tonglin Huo

SMS-based optimization strategy for ultra-compact SWIR telephoto lens design:erratum

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11581–11581 (2012)
• Wang Lin, Pablo Benítez, Juan C. Miñano, José M. Infante, Guillermo Biot, Marta de la Fuente, and Asunción Santamaría

Experimental and numerical analysis on temporal dynamics of polarization switching in an injection-locked 1.55-μm wavelength VCSEL: errata

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• Optics Express Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pp. 11382–11382 (2012)
• Vijay Manohar Deshmukh, Seoung Hun Lee, Dong Wook Kim, Kyong Hon Kim, and Min Hee Lee