Shape-invariance range of a light beam

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1205–1207 (1996)
• F. Gori, S. Vicalvi, M. Santarsiero, and R. Borghi

Equivalence of constant-height and constant-intensity images in scanning near-field optical microscopy

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1208–1210 (1996)
• Rémi Carminati and Jean-Jacques Greffet

Experimental cascaded operation of low-birefringence nonlinear-optical loop mirrors

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1211–1213 (1996)
• X. D. Cao, B. C. Barnett, K. H. Ahn, Y. Liang, G. R. Williams, M. Vaziri, and M. N. Islam

Experimental investigation of vector phase conjugation in Nd³⁺:YAG

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1214–1216 (1996)
• R. P. M. Green, S. Camacho-Lopez, and M. J. Damzen

Quasi-phase-matched frequency doubling in a waveguide of a 1560-nm diode laser and locking to the rubidium D₂ absorption lines

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1217–1219 (1996)
• Vered Mahal, Ady Arie, Mark A. Arbore, and Martin M. Fejer

Self-bouncing optical beams in photorefractive waveguides

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1220–1222 (1996)
• D. N. Christodoulides and T. H. Coskun

Nonlinear propagation in superstructure Bragg gratings

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1223–1225 (1996)
• Benjamin J. Eggleton, C. Martijn de Sterke, and R. E. Slusher

Bright solitary pulses in AlGaAs waveguides at half the band gap

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1226–1228 (1996)
• C. J. Hamilton, B. Vögele, J. S. Aitchison, G. T. Kennedy, W. Sibbett, W. Biehlig, U. Peschel, T. Peschel, and F. Lederer

Multipass optical parametric amplifier

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1229–1231 (1996)
• T. H. Jeys

Continuum generated by chromatic dispersion and power variations in periodically amplified soliton links

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1232–1234 (1996)
• Thierry Georges and Benoît Charbonnier

Optical fiber soliton bound states and interaction suppression with high-order filtering

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1235–1237 (1996)
• S. Wabnitz and E. Westin

Direct measurement of birefringence in ion-exchanged planar waveguides

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1238–1240 (1996)
• E. Fazio, W. A. Ramadan, M. Bertolotti, and G. C. Righini

Design and analysis of a silicon-based antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide chemical sensor

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1241–1243 (1996)
• Kate A. Remley and Andreas Weisshaar

Q switching of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser with GaAs

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1244–1246 (1996)
• T. T. Kajava and Alexander L. Gaeta

Sequential optical pumping of a far-infrared ammonia laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1247–1249 (1996)
• Maki Tachikawa and Kenneth M. Evenson

Hybrid Brillouin/erbium fiber laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1250–1252 (1996)
• Gregory J. Cowle and Dmitrii Yu. Stepanov

Small-signal gain investigations for a continuous-wave diode-pumped Q-switched Cr:LiSAF laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1253–1255 (1996)
• F. Falcoz, F. Kerboull, F. Druon, F. Balembois, P. Georges, and A. Brun

Improvement of interference fringes of a laser diode interferometer by controlling chaos with sinusoidally modulated injection

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1256–1258 (1996)
• Nobuyuki Watanabe and Koichi Karaki

Ultrabroadband ring oscillator for sub-10-fs pulse generation

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1259–1261 (1996)
• Lin Xu, Christian Spielmann, Ferenc Krausz, and Robert Szipöcs

Fundamental-frequency pulse compression through cascaded second-order processes in a type II phase-matched second-harmonic generator

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1262–1264 (1996)
• A. Dubietis, G. Valiulis, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas

Dynamic instabilities in an additive-pulse mode-locked Nd:YAG laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1265–1267 (1996)
• U. Morgner, L. Rolefs, and F. Mitschke

Noise-immune method for locating wrap regions in phase-step interferometry

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1268–1270 (1996)
• Karl A. Stetson

Phase encryption of biometrics in diffractive optical elements

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1271–1273 (1996)
• E. G. Johnson and J. D. Brasher

Free-space holographic optical interconnects for board-to-board and chip-to-chip interconnections

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1274–1276 (1996)
• Jang-Hun Yeh and Raymond K. Kostuk

Competition between two lasing modes of Sulforhodamine 640 in highly scattering media

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1277–1279 (1996)
• W. L. Sha, C.-H. Liu, Feng Liu, and R. R. Alfano

Hyperfine structure and absolute frequency of the ⁸⁷Rb 5P_3/2 state

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1280–1282 (1996)
• Jun Ye, Steve Swartz, Peter Jungner, and John L. Hall

Polarization-dependent noise in photon-number squeezed light generated by quantum-well lasers

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1283–1285 (1996)
• D. C. Kilper, D. G. Steel, R. Craig, and D. R. Scifres

High-precision intensity-selective observation of multiphoton ionization: a new method of photoelectron spectroscopy

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1286–1288 (1996)
• Peter Hansch and Linn D. Van Woerkom

Photon-gated spectral hole burning in Pr³⁺:YAG

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1289–1291 (1996)
• R. M. Macfarlane and G. Wittmann

Time-encoded spatial routing in a photorefractive crystal

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1292–1294 (1996)
• M. Rätsep, M. Tian, F. Grelet, J.-L. Le Goët, C. Sigel, and M.-L. Roblin

Compact read-only memory with lensless phase-conjugate holograms

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1295–1297 (1996)
• Feng Zhao and Koichi Sayano

Technique for controlling cross-talk noise in volume holography

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1298–1300 (1996)
• Mark A. Neifeld and Mark McDonald

Remote daytime measurements of tropospheric temperature profiles with a rotational Raman lidar

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1301–1303 (1996)
• J. Zeyn, W. Lahmann, and C. Weitkamp

Mechanism for improving the signal-to-noise ratio in scanning optical microscopes

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1304–1306 (1996)
• Tom D. Milster and Edwin P. Walker

Conditional-firing aerosol-fluorescence spectrum analyzer for individual airborne particles with pulsed 266-nm laser excitation

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1307–1309 (1996)
• Gang Chen, Paul Nachman, Ronald G. Pinnick, Steven C. Hill, and Richard K. Chang

Turbulent nature of refractive-index variations in biological tissue

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1310–1312 (1996)
• J. M. Schmitt and G. Kumar

Measurement of the intensity and phase of ultraweak, ultrashort laser pulses: erratum

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 16, pp. 1313–1313 (1996)
• David N. Fittinghoff, Jason L. Bowie, John N. Sweetser, Richard T. Jennings, Marco A. Krumbügel, Kenneth W. DeLong, Rick Trebino, and Ian A. Walmsley