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Optics Letters (OL) provides rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics and photonics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications. The articles often describe research-in-progress, thus reflecting the leading edge in the "science of light." With an ISI Impact Factor of 3.316, OL is among the top-ranked journals in the Optics category.

Editor-in-Chief: Alan Willner, University of Southern California
ISSN: 0146-9592 | eISSN: 1539-4794
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication, issues twice monthly
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 3.318

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Vacuum ultraviolet frequency combs generated by a femtosecond enhancement cavity in the visible
We present the first (to our best knowledge) femtosecond enhancement cavity in the visible wavelength range... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.503-505 (2012)

Experimental evidence of extreme value statistics in Raman fiber lasers
We present an experiment in which the intracavity broadened spectrum of a Raman fiber laser is sliced by... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.500-502 (2012)

Active coherent beam combination of two high-power single-frequency nanosecond fiber amplifiers
We report on active coherent beam combining of two single-frequency nanosecond fiber amplifiers by using... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.497-499 (2012)

Radio frequency interrogated actively mode-locked fiber ring laser for sensing application
This paper proposes an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser for sensing applications. Mode-locking of the... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.494-496 (2012)

Ultrafast laser inscription of Bragg-grating waveguides using the multiscan technique
We report the fabrication of high-strength (>30  dB) first order Bragg-grating waveguides in borosilicate... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.491-493 (2012)

Photonic crystal nanocavity laser in an optically very thick slab
A photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavity formed in an optically very thick slab can support reasonably high-Q... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.488-490 (2012)

Anderson localization in a periodic photonic lattice with a disordered boundary
We investigate experimentally the light evolution inside a two-dimensional finite periodic array of weakly... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.485-487 (2012)

The role of self-trapped excitons and defects in the formation of nanogratings in fused silica
We investigate the role of self-trapped excitons (STEs) and defects in the formation of femtosecond laser... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.482-484 (2012)

Characterization of a photonic strain sensor in silicon-on-insulator technology
Recently there has been growing interest in sensing by means of optical microring resonators in photonic... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.479-481 (2012)

Cascaded frequency upconversion for high-speed single-photon detection at 1550 nm
We present a device for two-stage frequency upconversion of single-photon-level signals in the 1.55 μm... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.476-478 (2012)

Image formation in CARS and SRS: effect of an inhomogeneous nonresonant background medium
We investigate the role of a spatially inhomogenous nonresonant background medium on several Raman-based... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.473-475 (2012)

Adaptive slit beam shaping for direct laser written waveguides
We demonstrate an improved method for fabricating optical waveguides in bulk materials by means of... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.470-472 (2012)

Polarization phase-shifting Newton interferometer for plane optical surface measurements
This Letter introduces a polarization phase-shifting Newton interferometer that can be utilized for plane... Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 4, pp.467-469 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 37, Iss. 3 — Feb. 1, 2012  pp: 286–445

	Atomic and Molecular Physics (1)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
	Diffraction and Gratings (2)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (8)
	Image Processing (1)
	Imaging Systems (2)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (4)
	Integrated Optics (5)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (6)
	Materials (7)
	Medical Optics and Biotechnology (1)
	Microscopy (2)
	Nonlinear Optics (3)
	Optical Devices (2)
	Optoelectronics (2)
	Physical Optics (2)
	Remote Sensing and Sensors (3)
	Thin Films (1)
	Vision, Color, and Visual Optics (1)

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