Development of a variable focal length concave mirror for on-shot thermal lens correction in rod amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10957–10969 (2006)
• Jens Schwarz, Matthias Geissel, Patrick Rambo, John Porter, Daniel Headley, and Marc Ramsey

Interferometric wavefront sensors for high contrast imaging

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10970–10975 (2006)
• K. L. Baker

Miniature fluorescence detector for single atom observation on a microchip

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10976–10983 (2006)
• Akifumi Takamizawa, Tilo Steinmetz, Rémi Delhuille, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Jakob Reichel

High-sensitivity multi-channel single-interferometer DPSK receiver

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10984–10989 (2006)
• D. O. Caplan, M. L. Stevens, and J. J. Carney

A new heuristic algorithm with shared segment-backup paths for trap avoidance in survivable optical networks

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10990–10995 (2006)
• Lei Guo, Lemin Li, Jin Cao, and Hongfang Yu

Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 10996–11001 (2006)
• K. T. Vu, A. Malinowski, D. J. Richardson, F. Ghiringhelli, L. M. B. Hickey, and M. N. Zervas

Design of multichannel DWDM fiber Bragg grating filters by Lagrange multiplier constrained optimization

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11002–11011 (2006)
• Cheng-Ling Lee, Ray-Kuang Lee, and Yee-Mou Kao

Dispersion enhancement of the nonlinear electro-optical effect

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11012–11017 (2006)
• Raman Kashyap

Efficient all-optical 2R regeneration using self-phase modulation in bidirectional fiber configuration

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11018–11023 (2006)
• Masayuki Matsumoto

Frequency domain model to calculate the pump to signal RIN transfer in multi-pump Raman fiber amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11024–11035 (2006)
• Junhe Zhou, Jianping Chen, Xinwan Li, Guiling Wu, Yiping Wang, and Wenning Jiang

Local structure analyses around Er³⁺ in Er-doped fibers with Al co-doping

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11036–11042 (2006)
• Tetsuya Haruna, Junji Iihara, Koji Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Saito, Shinji Ishikawa, Masashi Onishi, and Takahiro Murata

Performance evaluation of an optical hybrid switch with circuit queued reservations and circuit priority preemption

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11043–11070 (2006)
• Eric W. M. Wong and Moshe Zukerman

Single-frequency master-oscillator photonic crystal fiber amplifier with 148 W output power

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11071–11076 (2006)
• Matthias Hildebrandt, Maik Frede, Patrick Kwee, Benno Willke, and Dietmar Kracht

Technique to improve carrier-to-interference ratio of optical single sideband with carrier modulated signals

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11077–11081 (2006)
• Christina Lim, Ka-Lun Lee, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Dalma Novak, and Rod Waterhouse

Potential ultra wide slow-light bandwidth enhancement

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11082–11087 (2006)
• Thomas Schneider, Markus Junker, and Kai-Uwe Lauterbach

Microscopic particle discrimination using spatially-resolved Fourier-holographic light scattering angular spectroscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11088–11102 (2006)
• Timothy R. Hillman, Sergey A. Alexandrov, Thomas Gutzler, and David D. Sampson

Optical implementation of iterative fractional Fourier transform algorithm

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11103–11112 (2006)
• Joonku Hahn, Hwi Kim, and Byoungho Lee

One GHz linewidth, 33 line per mm, wide angle imaging filter at the potassium resonant line

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11113–11127 (2006)
• Lipeng Qian, Sohail H. Zaidi, and Richard B. Miles

Full-vectorial finite element method in a cylindrical coordinate system for loss analysis of photonic wire bends

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11128–11141 (2006)
• Kuniaki Kakihara, Naoya Kono, Kunimasa Saitoh, and Masanori Koshiba

Self-starting of passive mode locking

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11142–11154 (2006)
• Ariel Gordon, Omri Gat, Baruch Fischer, and Franz X. Kärtner

Coupling effect of magnetic polariton in perforated metal/dielectric layered metamaterials and its influence on negative refraction transmission

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11155–11163 (2006)
• T. Li, H. Liu, F. M. Wang, Z. G. Dong, S. N. Zhu, and X. Zhang

Doubly negative metamaterials in the near infrared and visible regimes based on thin film nanocomposites

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11164–11177 (2006)
• Vitaliy Lomakin, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Yaroslav Urzhumov, and Gennady Shvets

Layered superlensing in two-dimensional photonic crystals

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11178–11183 (2006)
• Haifei Zhang, Linfang Shen, Lixin Ran, Yu Yuan, and Jin Au Kong

Slow light and 3D imaging with non-magnetic negative index systems

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11184–11193 (2006)
• Leonid V. Alekseyev and Evgenii Narimanov

Subdiffraction focusing of scanning beams by a negative-refraction layer combined with a nonlinear layer

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11194–11203 (2006)
• A. Husakou and J. Herrmann

Highly sensitive spectral interferometric four-wave mixing microscopy near the shot noise limit and its combination with two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11204–11214 (2006)
• Keisuke Isobe, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Takehito Kawasumi, Shogo Kataoka, Shin'ichiro Kajiyama, Kiichi Fukui, and Kazuyoshi Itoh

Rapid, in-line, non-interferometric auto- and cross-correlator for microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11215–11221 (2006)
• Christopher N. LaFratta, Linjie Li, and John T. Fourkas

Spectroscopic near-field microscopy using frequency combs in the mid-infrared

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11222–11233 (2006)
• Markus Brehm, Albert Schliesser, and Fritz Keilmann

All fiber polarimetric modulation using an electro-optic fiber with internal Pb-Sn electrodes

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11234–11241 (2006)
• Bok Hyeon Kim, Songbae Moon, Un-Chul Paek, and Won-Taek Han

All optical wavelength conversion via cross phase modulation in chalcogenide glass rib waveguides

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11242–11247 (2006)
• Vahid G. Ta'eed, Michael R. E. Lamont, David J. Moss, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Duk-Yong Choi, Steve Madden, and Barry Luther-Davies

Dark and bright blocker soliton interaction in defocusing waveguide arrays

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11248–11255 (2006)
• Eugene Smirnov, Christian E. Rüter, Milutin Stepic, Vladimir Shandarov, and Detlef Kip

Nonlinear phase matching locking via optical readout

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11256–11264 (2006)
• Kirk McKenzie, Malcolm B. Gray, Ping Koy Lam, and David E. McClelland

Polychromatic nonlinear surface modes generated by supercontinuum light

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11265–11270 (2006)
• Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Alexander Dreischuh, Robert Fischer, Sangwoo Ha, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Jeremy Bolger, Arnan Mitchell, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Surface defect gap solitons

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11271–11276 (2006)
• W. H. Chen, Y. J. He, and H. Z. Wang

Fast focus field calculations

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11277–11291 (2006)
• Marcel Leutenegger, Ramachandra Rao, Rainer A. Leitgeb, and Theo Lasser

Adaptive liquid crystal lens with large focal length tunability

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11292–11298 (2006)
• Hongwen Ren and Shin-Tson Wu

Enhancing the laser power by stacking multiple dye-doped chiral polymer films

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11299–11303 (2006)
• Yuhua Huang, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Ying Zhou, and Shin-Tson Wu

Numerical analysis of polarization splitter based on vertically coupled microring resonator

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11304–11311 (2006)
• Xinlun Cai, Dexiu Huang, and Xinliang Zhang

Photonic switching in waveguides using spatial concepts inspired by EIT

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11312–11317 (2006)
• Pavel Ginzburg and Meir Orenstein

A low-loss metal-insulator-metal plasmonic bragg reflector

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11318–11323 (2006)
• Amir Hossieni and Yehia Massoud

Simulations of atomic resolution tip-enhanced optical microscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11324–11329 (2006)
• Andrew Downes, Donald Salter, and Alistair Elfick

Dispersive contour-path finite-difference time-domain algorithm for modeling surface plasmon polaritons at flat interfaces

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11330–11338 (2006)
• Ahmad Mohammadi and Mario Agio

Surface plasmon-like modes on structured perfectly conducting surfaces

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11339–11347 (2006)
• Yung-Chiang Lan and Ruey-Lin Chern

Extinction ratio regeneration, signal re-amplification (2R), and broadband wavelength switching using a monolithically integrated photocurrent driven wavelength converter

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11348–11353 (2006)
• Matthew N. Sysak, James W. Raring, Jonathon S. Barton, Henrik N. Poulsen, Daniel J. Blumenthal, and Larry A. Coldren

Aircore microstructure fibers with suppressed higher-order modes

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11354–11361 (2006)
• John M. Fini

Numerical computation of the Green’s function for two-dimensional finite-size photonic crystals of infinite length

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11362–11371 (2006)
• F. Seydou, Omar M. Ramahi, Ramani Duraiswami, and T. Seppänen

LCAO approximation for scaling properties of the Menger sponge fractal

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11372–11384 (2006)
• Kazuaki Sakoda

Matrix method for the study of wave propagation in one-dimensional general media

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11385–11391 (2006)
• L. Carretero, M. Perez-Molina, P. Acebal, S. Blaya, and A. Fimia

Scanning optical near-field resolution analyzed in terms of communication modes

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11392–11401 (2006)
• Per Martinsson, Hanna Lajunen, and Ari T. Friberg

Stokes parameters in the unfolding of an optical vortex through a birefringent crystal

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11402–11411 (2006)
• Florian Flossmann, Ulrich T. Schwarz, Max Maier, and Mark R. Dennis

White light emissions through down-conversion of rare-earth doped LaF₃ nanoparticles

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11412–11417 (2006)
• Jeffrey R. DiMaio, Baris Kokuoz, and John Ballato

Noise figure and photon statistics in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11418–11432 (2006)
• D. Dimitropoulos, D. R. Solli, R. Claps, and B. Jalali

High-frequency dielectric relaxation of liquid crystals: THz time-domain spectroscopy of liquid crystal colloids

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11433–11441 (2006)
• Masahito Oh-e, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Mattijs Koeberg, Euan Hendry, and Mischa Bonn

Looking into the volcano with a Mid-IR DFB diode laser and Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11442–11452 (2006)
• S. Kassi, M. Chenevier, L. Gianfrani, A. Salhi, Y. Rouillard, A. Ouvrard, and D. Romanini

Femtosecond gain and index dynamics in an InAs/InGaAsP quantum dot amplifier operating at 1.55 µm

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11453–11459 (2006)
• Aaron J. Zilkie, Joachim Meier, Peter W. E. Smith, Mo Mojahedi, J. Stewart Aitchison, Philip J. Poole, Claudine Nì. Allen, Pedro Barrios, and Daniel Poitras

Single-shot measurement of the full spatio-temporal field of ultrashort pulses with multi-spectral digital holography

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11460–11467 (2006)
• Pablo Gabolde and Rick Trebino

Precision control of carrier-envelope phase in grating based chirped pulse amplifiers

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11468–11476 (2006)
• Chengquan Li, Eric Moon, Hiroki Mashiko, Christopher M. Nakamura, Predrag Ranitovic, Chakra M. Maharjan, C. Lewis Cocke, Zenghu Chang, and Gerhard G. Paulus

Simulation of keratoconus observation in photorefraction

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• Optics Express Vol. 14, Iss. 23, pp. 11477–11485 (2006)
• Ying-Ling Chen, B. Tan, K. Baker, J. W. L. Lewis, T. Swartz, Y. Jiang, and M. Wang