Self-assembled quantum-dot superluminescent light-emitting diodes

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• Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 2 Issue 2, pp.201-228 (2010)
• Zhang, Z Y; Hogg, R A; Lv, X Q; Wang, Z G
• The development of low-cost, compact, high-power and broadband superluminescent light-emitting diodes is an important research subject for a wide range of applications. We describe...

Single-photon spin-orbit entanglement violating a Bell-like inequality

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• JOSA B, Vol. 27 Issue 6, pp.A7-A10 (2010)
• Chen, Lixiang; She, Weilong
• Single photons emerging from Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements (q plates) exhibit entanglement in the degrees of freedom of spin and orbital angular momentum. We put forward...

Galileo's telescope and the birth of instrumental optics: a review note

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 16, pp.D1-D5 (2010)
• Molesini, Giuseppe
• Early steps tracing back to Galileo's telescope and to the birth of instrumental optics are reported. Particulars of lensmaking technology, basic optics laws, concepts of eye and...

Teleportation of an N-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) polarization-entangled state using linear optical elements

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• JOSA B, Vol. 27 Issue 6, pp.A1-A6 (2010)
• Xia, Yan; Song, Jie; Lu, Pei-Min; Song, He-Shan
• With one pair of photons' polarization-entangled state as the quantum channel, we present an explicit generalized linear optical protocol for perfectly teleporting an N-photon...

Motion-free hybrid design laser beam propagation analyzer using a digital micromirror device and a variable focus liquid lens

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 16, pp.D6-D11 (2010)
• Sheikh, Mumtaz; Riza, Nabeel A
• To the best of our knowledge, we propose the first motion-free laser beam propagation analyzer with a hybrid design using a digital micromirror device (DMD) and a liquid...

Tripartite entanglement generation via four-wave mixings: narrowband triphoton W state

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• JOSA B, Vol. 27 Issue 6, pp.A11-A20 (2010)
• Wen, Jianming; Oh, Eun; Du, Shengwang
• We propose a method to generate a narrowband triphoton W state entangled in time (or energy) via two four-wave mixing processes in cold atomic gas media. The calculation of such a...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with laser irradiation resonant with vibrational transitions

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 13, pp.C1-C7 (2010)
• Khachatrian, Ani; Dagdigian, Paul J
• An investigation of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) of polymers, both in bulk form and spin coated on Si wafers, with laser irradiation in the mid-infrared spectral...

Elemental analysis of slurry samples with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 13, pp.C21-C26 (2010)
• Eseller, Kemal E; Tripathi, Markandey M; Yueh, Fang-Yu; Singh, Jagdish P
• Direct analysis of wet slurry samples with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is challenging due to problems of sedimentation, splashing, and surface turbulence. Also, water...

Development of a remote laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system for investigation of calcified tissue samples

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 13, pp.C16-C20 (2010)
• Hrdlicka, Aleš; Prokeš, Lubomír; Stanková, Alice; Novotný, Karel; Vitešníková, Anna; Kanický, Viktor; Otruba, Vítezslav; Kaiser, Jozef; Novotný, Jan; Malina, Radomír; Páleníková, Katerina
• The development of a remote laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) setup with an off-axis Newtonian collection optics, Galilean-based focusing telescope, and a 532 nm flattop...

Identification of vapor-phase chemical warfare agent simulants and rocket fuels using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 13, pp.C8-C15 (2010)
• Stearns, Jaime A; McElman, Sarah E; Dodd, James A
• Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to the identification of security threats is a growing area of research. This work presents LIBS spectra of vapor-phase...

Compressive video sensors using multichannel imagers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 10, pp.B9-B17 (2010)
• Shankar, Mohan; Pitsianis, Nikos P; Brady, David J
• We explore the possibilities of obtaining compression in video through modifiliged sampling strategies using multichannel imaging systems. The redundancies in video streams are...

Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 10, pp.B1-B8 (2010)
• Tivive, Fok H C; Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam; Phung, Son Lam; Iftekharuddin, Khan M
• We propose a new hierarchical architecture for visual pattern classification. The new architecture consists of a set of fixed, directional filters and a set of adaptive filters...

Nonlinear refraction and absorption: mechanisms and magnitudes

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• Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 2 Issue 1, pp.60-200 (2010)
• Christodoulides, Demetrios N; Khoo, Iam Choon; Salamo, Gregory J; Stegeman, George I; Van Stryland, Eric W
• We provide an in-depth treatment of the various mechanisms by which an incident light beam can produce an intensity- or flux-dependent change in the refractive index and absorption...

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers

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• Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 2 Issue 1, pp.1-59 (2010)
• Kobyakov, Andrey; Sauer, Michael; Chowdhury, Dipak
• We present a detailed overview of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in single-mode optical fibers. The review is divided into two parts. In the first part, we discuss the...

Analysis of the self-imaging effect in plasmonic multimode waveguides

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 7, pp.A1-A10 (2010)
• Edelmann, André G; Helfert, Stefan F; Jahns, Jürgen
• We present studies on the propagation of plasmon waves in metallic multimode waveguides surrounded by a dielectric medium. The permittivity of the metal was determined by a Drude...

Improving imaging performance of a metallic superlens using the long-range surface plasmon polariton mode cutoff technique

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 7, pp.A36-A41 (2010)
• Tremblay, Guillaume; Sheng, Yunlong
• The metallic superlens is based on excitation and amplification of coupled surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes through a metal slab. However, the narrow and too-high peaks of the...

Analysis of the coupling of light into a metal-dielectric composite waveguide structure and its application for use as a wavelength-band selection filter

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 7, pp.A23-A29 (2010)
• Lim, Yongjun; Kim, Seyoon; Park, Junghyun; Kim, Hwi; Lee, Byoungho
• We analyzed and experimentally tested a metal-dielectric composite waveguide structure. After coating the surface of the metal layer in the Kretschmann attenuated total internal...

Optical beam focusing with a metal slit array arranged along a semicircular surface and its optimization with a genetic algorithm

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 7, pp.A30-A35 (2010)
• Choi, Dawoon; Lim, Yongjun; Roh, Sookyoung; Lee, Il-Min; Jung, Jaehoon; Lee, Byoungho
• A metal slit array arranged along a semicircular surface achieving subwavelength optical beam focusing along the lateral direction is proposed. Taking into consideration surface...

Oscillator strength measurements of the highly excited 4s4p 3P1o→4snd 3D2 transitions of zinc

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• JOSA B, Vol. 27 Issue 3, pp.402-407 (2010)
• Haq, S U; Nadeem, Ali; Nawaz, M; Baig, M A
• We report experimentally determined oscillator strength distribution in the bound region of zinc corresponding to the 4s4p ³P₁^o→4snd...

Demonstration and selection of a single-transverse higher-order-mode beam with radial polarization

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• JOSA A, Vol. 27 Issue 3, pp.399-403 (2010)
• Kozawa, Yuichi; Sato, Shunichi
• Single-transverse higher-order radially polarized beams with multiple rings are selectively generated from a Nd:YAG laser cavity by using a reflectivity-modified and...