Vector discrete nonlinear surface waves

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7720–7725 (2005)
• Jared Hudock, Sergiy Suntsov, Demetrios Christodoulides, and George Stegeman

Fractional optical vortex beam induced rotation of particles

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7726–7731 (2005)
• S. Tao, X-C. Yuan, J. Lin, X. Peng, and H. Niu

High-speed infrared phase modulators using short helical pitch ferroelectric liquid crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7732–7740 (2005)
• Ju-Hyun Lee, Dong-Woo Kim, Yung-Hsun Wu, Chang-Jae Yu, Sin-Doo Lee, and Shin-Tson Wu

Optical minimum-shift keying with external modulation scheme

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7741–7747 (2005)
• Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, and Masayuki Izutsu

Nonuniform photonic crystal taper for high-efficiency mode coupling

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7748–7759 (2005)
• E. Khoo, A. Liu, and J. Wu

Role of optical and surface plasmon modes in enhanced transmission and applications

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7760–7771 (2005)
• David Crouse and Pavan Keshavareddy

Influence of exciton dynamics on the interference of two photons from a microcavity single-photon source

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7772–7778 (2005)
• A. Bennett, D. Unitt, A. Shields, P. Atkinson, and D. Ritchie

Loss in solid-core photonic crystal fibers due to interface roughness scattering

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7779–7793 (2005)
• P. Roberts, F. Couny, H. Sabert, B. Mangan, T. Birks, J. Knight, and P. Russell

Discrete modulational instability in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide arrays

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7794–7799 (2005)
• Robert Iwanow, George Stegeman, Roland Schiek, Yoohong Min, and Wolfgang Sohler

Defect modes in micro-ring resonator arrays

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7800–7815 (2005)
• Yosef Landobasa and Mee Chin

Optimization of optical spectral throughput of acousto-optic modulators for high-speed optical coherence tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7816–7822 (2005)
• Yuchuan Chen, Xiumei Liu, Michael Cobb, Mon Myaing, Tao Sun, and Xingde Li

The role of local heating in the formation process of UV written optical waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7823–7831 (2005)
• Mikael Svalgaard, Anders Harpøth, and Marc Andersen

1.5-µm band quantum-correlated photon pair generation in dispersion-shifted fiber: suppression of noise photons by cooling fiber

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7832–7839 (2005)
• Hiroki Takesue and Kyo Inoue

Analysis of dual-microring-resonator cross-connect switches and modulators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7840–7853 (2005)
• Stephen Emelett and Richard Soref

Connected hexagonal photonic crystals with largest full band gap

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7854–7860 (2005)
• H. Fu, Y. Chen, R. Chern, and Chien Chang

Direct experimental and numerical determination of extremely high group indices in photonic crystal waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7861–7871 (2005)
• Rune Jacobsen, Andrei Lavrinenko, Lars Frandsen, Christophe Peucheret, Beata Zsigri, Gaid Moulin, Jacob Fage-Pedersen, and Peter Borel

All-optical, wavelength and bandwidth preserving, pulse delay based on parametric wavelength conversion and dispersion

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7872–7877 (2005)
• Jay Sharping, Yoshitomo Okawachi, James van Howe, Chris Xu, Yan Wang, Alan Willner, and Alexander Gaeta

Branch arm filtered coherent combining of tunable fiber lasers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7878–7883 (2005)
• Sheng-Ping Chen, Yi-Gang Li, and Ke-Cheng Lu

Large-mode-area Nd-doped single-transversemode dual-wavelength microstructure fiber laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7884–7892 (2005)
• P. Glas, D. Fischer, M. Moenster, G. Steinmeyer, R. Iliew, C. Etrich, M. Kreitel, L.-E. Nilsson, and R. Köppler

Upconversion luminescence from 2E state of Cr3+ in Al2O3 crystal by infrared femtosecond laser irradiation

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7893–7898 (2005)
• Lu-Yun Yang, Yong-Jun Dong, Dan-Ping Chen, Cheng Wang, Nin Da, XiongWei Jiang, Conghan Zhu, and Jiang-rong Qiu

Tunable ultraslow light in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser amplifier

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7899–7904 (2005)
• Xiaoxue Zhao, Phedon Palinginis, Bala Pesala, Connie Chang-Hasnain, and Philip Hemmer

Intracavity measurement of liquid crystal layer thickness by wavelength tuning of an external cavity laser diode

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7905–7912 (2005)
• Yu-Ping Lan, Yea-Feng Lin, Yu-Tai Li, Ru-Pin Pan, Chao-Kuei Lee, and Ci-Ling Pan

Accurate encoding of arbitrary complex fields with amplitude-only liquid crystal spatial light modulators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7913–7927 (2005)
• Victor Arrizón, Guadalupe Méndez, and David Sánchez-de-La-Llave

Irregular lasing pattern formation and dynamic effects in a thin-slice solid-state laser

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7928–7936 (2005)
• Yoshihiko Miyasaka, Tatsuro Narita, Kenju Otsuka, Hironori Makino, Akane Okamoto, and Jing-Yuan Ko

Advanced scanning methods with tracking optical coherence tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7937–7947 (2005)
• Daniel Hammer, R. Daniel Ferguson, Nicusor Iftimia, Teoman Ustun, Gadi Wollstein, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Michelle Gabriele, William Dilworth, Larry Kagemann, and Joel Schuman

1.34-μm efficient laser emission in highly-doped Nd:YAG under 885-nm diode pumping

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7948–7953 (2005)
• N. Pavel, V. Lupei, and T. Taira

Time-resolved ring structure of circularly polarized beams backscattered from forward scattering media

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7954–7969 (2005)
• Kevin Phillips, Min Xu, S. Gayen, and R. Alfano

1ps passively mode-locked laser operation of Na,Yb:CaF2 crystal

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7970–7975 (2005)
• Juan Du, Xiaoyan Liang, Yonggang Wang, Liangbi Su, Weiwei Feng, Enwen Dai, Zhizhan Xu, and Jun Xu

Z-scan measurements using high repetition rate lasers: how to manage thermal effects

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7976–7981 (2005)
• Andrea Gnoli, Luca Razzari, and Marcofabio Righini

Method for analyzing multilayer nonlinear optical waveguide

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7982–7996 (2005)
• Yaw-Dong Wu and Mao-Hsiung Chen

Waveguiding, collimation and subwavelength concentration in photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 7997–8007 (2005)
• J. Garcia-Pomar and M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Long-wavelength tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and the influence of coupled cavities

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8008–8014 (2005)
• Markus Maute, Gerhard Böhm, Markus-C. Amann, Benjamin Kögel, Hubert Halbritter, and Peter Meissner

Modeling of the �?(2) susceptibility time-evolution in thermally poled fused silica

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8015–8024 (2005)
• A. Kudlinski, Y. Quiquempois, and G. Martinelli

Ultrashort pulse-generation by saturable absorber mirrors based on polymer-embedded carbon nanotubes

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8025–8031 (2005)
• T. Schibli, K. Minoshima, H. Kataura, E. Itoga, N. Minami, S. Kazaoui, K. Miyashita, M. Tokumoto, and Y. Sakakibara

Controllable delay of ultrashort pulses in a quantum dot optical amplifier

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8032–8037 (2005)
• Mike van der Poel, Jesper Mørk, and Jørn Hvam

All-optical modulation format conversion from frequency-shift-keying to phase-shift-keying

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8038–8044 (2005)
• Tetsuya Kawanishi, Takahide Sakamoto, and Masayuki Izutsu

Simulations of thermal lensing of a Ti:Sapphire crystal end-pumped with high average power

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8045–8055 (2005)
• Gerd Wagner, Max Shiler, and Volker Wulfmeyer

A programmable Fresnel transform pulse shaper

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8056–8068 (2005)
• G. Mínguez-Vega, J. McKinney, and A. Weiner

Tracking-FCS: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy of individual particles

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8069–8082 (2005)
• Andrew Berglund and Hideo Mabuchi

Polarization gaps in spiral photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8083–8088 (2005)
• Jeffrey Lee and C. Chan

On the profile of pulses generated by fiber lasers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8089–8096 (2005)
• Pierre-André Bélanger

Uniform estimation of orientation using local and nonlocal 2-D energy operators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8097–8121 (2005)
• Kieran Larkin

Light amplification from Cantor and asymmetric multilayer resonators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8122–8127 (2005)
• Takashi Okamoto and Akira Fukuyama

Ultrafast all optical switching using pulse trapping in birefringent fibers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8128–8135 (2005)
• Norihiko Nishizawa, Yosuke Ukai, and Toshio Goto

Slow light in a semiconductor waveguide at gigahertz frequencies

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8136–8145 (2005)
• Jesper Mørk, Rasmus Kjær, Mike van der Poel, and Kresten Yvind

Theoretical comparison of the sensitivity of molecular contrast optical coherence tomography techniques

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8146–8163 (2005)
• Brian Applegate, Changhuei Yang, and Joseph Izatt

Investigation of laminar dispersion with optical coherence tomography and optical Doppler tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8164–8171 (2005)
• Yeh-Chan Ahn, Woonggyu Jung, Jun Zhang, and Zhongping Chen

Low noise wavelength conversion of femtosecond pulses with dispersion micro-managed holey fibers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8172–8178 (2005)
• Fei Lu and Wayne Knox

Interference diagnostics of white-light vortices

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8179–8183 (2005)
• Oleg Angelsky, Alexander Maksimyak, Peter Maksimyak, and Steen Hanson

Influence of ocular chromatic aberration and pupil size on transverse resolution in ophthalmic adaptive optics optical coherence tomography

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8184–8197 (2005)
• Enrique Fernández and Wolfgang Drexler

Transition between superluminal and subluminal light propagation in photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8198–8203 (2005)
• Fang Bo, Guoquan Zhang, and Jingjun Xu

Laser-activated shape memory polymer intravascular thrombectomy device

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8204–8213 (2005)
• Ward Small IV, Thomas Wilson, William Benett, Jeffrey Loge, and Duncan Maitland

Rapid wavelength-swept spectrally encoded confocal microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8214–8221 (2005)
• C. Boudoux, S. Yun, W. Oh, W. White, N. Iftimia, M. Shishkov, B. Bouma, and G. Tearney

Temporal superresolution of ultrashort laser pulses

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8222–8230 (2005)
• O. Boyko, C. Valentin, G. Rey, L. Antonucci, Ph. Balcou, and S. Coudreau

Optical biopsy of fixed human skin with backward-collected optical harmonics signals

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8231–8242 (2005)
• Shih-Peng Tai, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wen-Jeng Lee, Dar-Bin Shieh, Yi-Hua Liao, Hsin-Yi Huang, Kenneth Zhang, Hsiang-Lin Liu, and Chi-Kuang Sun

Simplified calibration strategy for an optical six-port reflectometer

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8243–8255 (2005)
• I. Molina-Fernandez, Pablo Pérez-Lara, and J. Wangüemert-Pérez

High-resolution differential mode delay measurement for a multimode optical fiber using a modified optical frequency domain reflectometer

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8256–8262 (2005)
• T.-J. Ahn and D. Kim

Visualization of mitochondria in cardiomyocytes by simultaneous harmonic generation and fluorescence microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8263–8276 (2005)
• Virginijus Barzda, Catherine Greenhalgh, Jürg Aus der Au, Steven Elmore, Johannes van Beek, and Jeff Squier

Realizing low loss air core photonic crystal fibers by exploiting an antiresonant core surround

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8277–8285 (2005)
• P. Roberts, D. Williams, B. Mangan, H. Sabert, F. Couny, W. Wadsworth, T. Birks, J. Knight, and P. Russell

High-Q enhancement of attractive and repulsive optical forces between coupled whispering-gallery- mode resonators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8286–8295 (2005)
• Michelle Povinelli, Steven Johnson, Marko Lonèar, Mihai Ibanescu, Elizabeth Smythe, Federico Capasso, and J. Joannopoulos

Bidimensional chromophores for photorefractive polymers with working wavelength in the near IR

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8296–8307 (2005)
• P. Acebal, S. Blaya, and L. Carretero

Dark solitons in semiconductor resonators

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8308–8317 (2005)
• Ye. Larionova, C. Weiss, and O. Egorov

Designs of wide-view and broadband circular polarizers

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• Optics Express Vol. 13, Iss. 20, pp. 8318–8331 (2005)
• Qi Hong, Thomas Wu, Xinyu Zhu, Ruibo Lu, and Shin-Tson Wu