Experimental evaluation of the cw lasing threshold for a Ce:LiCaAlF6 laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7256–7264 (2005)
• D. Alderighi, G. Toci, M. Vannini, D. Parisi, and M. Tonelli

Application of optical trapping to beam manipulation in optofluidics

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7265–7275 (2005)
• P. Domachuk, M. Cronin-Golomb, B. Eggleton, S. Mutzenich, G. Rosengarten, and A. Mitchell

Diffraction by a black half plane: Modified theory of physical optics approach

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7276–7287 (2005)
• Yusuf Umul

Influence of diffraction by a rectangular aperture on the aspect ratio of femtosecond direct-write waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7288–7297 (2005)
• K. Moh, Y. Tan, X.-C. Yuan, D. Low, and Z. Li

Ultrafast all-optical switching by cross-absorption modulation in silicon wire waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7298–7303 (2005)
• T. Liang, L. Nunes, T. Sakamoto, K. Sasagawa, T. Kawanishi, M. Tsuchiya, G. Priem, D. Van Thourhout, P. Dumon, R. Baets, and H. Tsang

Efficient design and optimization of photonic crystal waveguides and couplers: The Interface Diffraction Method

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7304–7318 (2005)
• Alexander Green, Emanuel Istrate, and Edward Sargent

Defect modes in multisection helical photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7319–7335 (2005)
• Fei Wang and Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Stimulated Brillouin scattering gain profile characterization by interaction between two narrow-linewidth optical sources

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7336–7341 (2005)
• Asier Villafranca, José Lázaro, ??ñigo Salinas, and Ignacio Garcés

Kinetics of UV-induced blue luminescence linked with the observation of the local mean index in fiber Bragg gratings

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7342–7349 (2005)
• L. Paccou, M. Lancry, and M. Douay

Multi-objective and constrained design of fibre Bragg gratings using Evolutionary Algorithms

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7350–7364 (2005)
• Steven Manos and Leon Poladian

A novel approach for designing photonic crystal fiber splitters with polarization-independent propagation characteristics

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7365–7373 (2005)
• Nikolaos Florous, Kunimasa Saitoh, and Masanori Koshiba

A high efficiency input/output coupler for small silicon photonic devices

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7374–7379 (2005)
• Goran Masanovic, Graham Reed, William Headley, Branislav Timotijevic, Vittorio Passaro, Raghied Atta, Graham Ensell, and Alan Evans

Organic electro-optic modulator using transparent conducting oxides as electrodes

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7380–7385 (2005)
• Guoyang Xu, Zhifu Liu, Jing Ma, Boyang Liu, Seng-Tiong Ho, Lian Wang, Peiwang Zhu, Tobin Marks, Jingdong Luo, and Alex Jen

Ultra-broad bandwidth parametric amplification at degeneracy

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7386–7392 (2005)
• J. Limpert, C. Aguergaray, S. Montant, I. Manek-Hönninger, S. Petit, D. Descamps, E. Cormier, and F. Salin

Focusing and correlation properties of white-light optical vortices

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7393–7398 (2005)
• Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Alexander Volyar, Dragomir Neshev, Anton Desyatnikov, and Yuri Kivshar

Ultra wide band supercontinuum generation in air-silica holey fibers by SHG-induced modulation instabilities

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7399–7404 (2005)
• Vincent Tombelaine, Christelle Lesvigne, Philippe Leproux, Ludovic Grossard, Vincent Couderc, Jean-Louis Auguste, Jean-Marc Blondy, Guillaume Huss, and Paul-Henri Pioger

Experimental demonstration of wavelength conversion between ps-pulses based on cascaded sum- and difference frequency generation (SFG+DFG) in LiNbO3 waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7405–7414 (2005)
• Jian Wang, Junqiang Sun, Chuanhong Lou, and Qizhen Sun

Total internal reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (TIR-FCS) with low background and high count-rate per molecule

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7415–7423 (2005)
• Kai Hassler, Marcel Leutenegger, Per Rigler, Ramachandra Rao, Rudolf Rigler, Michael Gösch, and Theo Lasser

230-kW peak power femtosecond pulses from a high power tunable source based on amplification in Tm-doped fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7424–7431 (2005)
• G. Imeshev and M. Fermann

Optical two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy with active interferometric stabilization

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7432–7441 (2005)
• Tianhao Zhang, Camelia Borca, Xiaoqin Li, and Steven Cundiff

Polymer film with optically controlled form and actuation

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7442–7448 (2005)
• Nelson Tabiryan, Svetlana Serak, Xiao-Man Dai, and Timothy Bunning

In vivo blood flow imaging by a swept laser source based Fourier domain optical Doppler tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7449–7457 (2005)
• Jun Zhang and Zhongping Chen

Robustness of holographic optical traps against phase scaling errors

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7458–7465 (2005)
• Sang-Hyuk Lee and David Grier

Time-resolved photon migration in bi-layered tissue models

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7466–7482 (2005)
• Karthik Vishwanath and Mary-Ann Mycek

Continuously tunable devices based on electrical control of dual-frequency liquid crystal filled photonic bandgap fibers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7483–7496 (2005)
• Lara Scolari, Thomas Alkeskjold, Jesper Riishede, Anders Bjarklev, David Hermann, Anawati Anawati, Martin Nielsen, and Paolo Bassi

Polarization-insensitive asymmetric four-wave mixing using circularly polarized pumps in a twisted fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7497–7505 (2005)
• Takuo Tanemura, Kazuhiro Katoh, and Kazuro Kikuchi

Transverse lightwave circuits in microstructured optical fibers: waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7506–7515 (2005)
• Maksim Skorobogatiy, Kunimasa Saitoh, and Masanori Koshiba

Nd:YAG ring laser with 213 W linearly polarized fundamental mode output power

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7516–7519 (2005)
• Maik Frede, Ralf Wilhelm, Dietmar Kracht, and Carsten Fallnich

Minimizing gain transient dynamics by optimizing the erbium concentration and cavity length of a gain clamped EDFA

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7520–7526 (2005)
• P. Chan and H. Tsang

Coherent optical communication using polarization multiple-input-multiple-output

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7527–7534 (2005)
• Yan Han and Guifang Li

Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths tapered to normal dispersion at all wavelengths

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7535–7540 (2005)
• Peter Falk, Michael Frosz, and Ole Bang

Generation of intense few-cycle laser pulses through filamentation �?? parameter dependence

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7541–7547 (2005)
• C. Hauri, A. Guandalini, P. Eckle, W. Kornelis, J. Biegert, and U. Keller

Optical modeling of an ultrathin scanning fiber endoscope, a preliminary study of confocal versus non-confocal detection

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7548–7562 (2005)
• Erek Barhoum, Richard Johnston, and Eric Seibel

Distributed phase-sensitive amplification

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7563–7571 (2005)
• Michael Vasilyev

High brightness single mode source of correlated photon pairs using a photonic crystal fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7572–7582 (2005)
• J. Fulconis, O. Alibart, W. Wadsworth, P. Russell, and J. Rarity

Photonic band structures for surface waves on structured metal surfaces

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7583–7588 (2005)
• Min Qiu

Characterization of the constituent wave of a diffracting and a nondiffracting axisymmetric laser beam

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7589–7598 (2005)
• Guy Rousseau, David Gay, and Michel Piché

Creation of optical vortices in femtosecond pulses

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7599–7608 (2005)
• I. Mariyenko, J. Strohaber, and Cornelis Uiterwaal

Holey fiber tapers with resonance transmission for high-resolution refractive index sensing

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7609–7614 (2005)
• Vladimir Minkovich, Joel Villatoro, David Monzón-Hernández, Sergio Calixto, Alexander Sotsky, and Ludmila Sotskaya

Chiral microstructures (spirals) fabrication by holographic lithography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7615–7620 (2005)
• Yee Kwong Pang, Jeffrey Lee, Hung Lee, Wing Yim Tam, C. Chan, and Ping Sheng

Stress-induced single-polarization single-transverse mode photonic crystal fiber with low nonlinearity

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7621–7630 (2005)
• T. Schreiber, F. Röser, O. Schmidt, J. Limpert, R. Iliew, F. Lederer, A. Petersson, C. Jacobsen, K. Hansen, J. Broeng, and A. Tünnermann

Study of the dynamic aberrations of the human tear film

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7631–7636 (2005)
• Steve Gruppetta, François Lacombe, and Pascal Puget

Investigation of self-phase modulation based optical regeneration in single mode As2Se3 chalcogenide glass fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7637–7644 (2005)
• L. Fu, M. Rochette, V. Ta'eed, D. Moss, and B. Eggleton

Highly directional enhanced radiation from sources embedded inside three-dimensional photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7645–7652 (2005)
• Humeyra Caglayan, Irfan Bulu, and Ekmel Ozbay

Collisions between similaritons in optical fiber amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7653–7665 (2005)
• C. Finot and G. Millot

Observation of strong stimulated photorefractive scattering and self-pumped phase conjugation in LiNbO3:Mg in the ultraviolet

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7666–7671 (2005)
• Haijun Qiao, Yasuo Tomita, Jingjun Xu, Qiang Wu, Guoquan Zhang, and Guangyin Zhang

Spectral interferometric coherent Raman imaging

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7672–7682 (2005)
• B. Yellampalle, R. Averitt, A. Efimov, and A. Taylor

Electron energy loss and Smith-Purcell radiation in two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7683–7698 (2005)
• Tetsuyuki Ochiai and Kazuo Ohtaka

A polarizing beam splitter using negative refraction of photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7699–7707 (2005)
• Vito Mocella, Principia Dardano, Luigi Moretti, and I. Rendina

Passive Q-switching characteristics of Yb3+:Gd3Ga5O12 crystal

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 19, pp. 7708–7719 (2005)
• Xingyu Zhang, Alain Brenier, Qingpu Wang, Zhengping Wang, Jun Chang, Ping Li, Shaojun Zhang, Shuanghong Ding, and Shutao Li