Observation of transition to turbulence in an air jet by collective light scattering

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1873–1875 (1996)
• J. M. Dias and J. T. Mendonça

Two-dimensional near-field intensity distribution of tapered fiber probes

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1876–1878 (1996)
• P. K. Wei, R. Chang, J. H. Hsu, S. H. Lin, W. S. Fann, and B. R. Hsieh

Confocal microscopy by aperture correlation

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1879–1981 (1996)
• T. Wilson, R. Juškaitis, M. A. A. Neil, and M. Kozubek

Autosoliton in a fiber with distributed saturable amplifiers

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1882–1884 (1996)
• V. S. Grigoryan

Nonlinear Christiansen filter

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1885–1887 (1996)
• S. D. Vartak and N. M. Lawandy

Reflection-geometry photorefractive quantum wells

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1888–1890 (1996)
• D. D. Nolte, I. Lahiri, and M. R. Melloch

Anisotropic photoconductivity and current deflection induced in Bi₁₂SiO₂₀ crystals by a high-contrast interference pattern

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1891–1893 (1996)
• N. Kukhtarev, S. Lyuksyutov, P. Buchhave, H. J. Caulfield, and M. Vasnetsov

Soliton transmission control by super-Gaussian filters

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1894–1896 (1996)
• E. Peral, J. Capmany, and J. Marti

Polarization properties of fanning light in fiberlike bismuth titanium oxide crystals

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1897–1899 (1996)
• Erik Raita, Alexei A. Kamshilin, and Timo Jaaskelainen

Basis for a polarized superfluorescent fiber source with increased efficiency

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1900–1902 (1996)
• D. G. Falquier, J. L. Wagener, M. J. F. Digonnet, and H. J. Shaw

Reduction of initial collision effects by adiabatic expansion in soliton wavelength-division multiplexed systems

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1903–1905 (1996)
• Shiva Kumar and Akira Hasegawa

Widely tunable spectrum translation and wavelength exchange by four-wave mixing in optical fibers

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1906–1908 (1996)
• M. E. Marhic, Y. Park, F. S. Yang, and L. G. Kazovsky

Self-starting short-pulse XeCl laser with a stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1909–1911 (1996)
• Hans J. Eichler, Steffen Heinrich, and Jörg Schwartz

High-power, efficient, low-noise, continuous-wave all-solid-state Ti:sapphire laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1912–1914 (1996)
• Masaki Tsunekane, Noboru Taguchi, and Humio Inaba

Pr:YLF, intracavity-pumped, room-temperature upconversion laser

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1915–1917 (1996)
• Paul W. Binun, Timothy L. Boyd, Maurice A. Pessot, Douglas H. Tanimoto, and David E. Hargis

Digital polarization-encoding technique for optical logic operations

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1918–1920 (1996)
• Roberto Torroba, Rodrigo Henao, and Claudia Carletti

Generation of 25-TW, 32-fs pulses at 10 Hz

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1921–1923 (1996)
• J. P. Chambaret, C. Le Blanc, G. Chériaux, P. Curley, G. Darpentigny, P. Rousseau, G. Hamoniaux, A. Antonetti, and F. Salin

Terahertz emission from electric field singularities in biased semiconductors

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1924–1926 (1996)
• I. Brener, D. Dykaar, A. Frommer, L. N. Pfeiffer, J. Lopata, J. Wynn, K. West, and M. C. Nuss

10-GHz, 1.3-ps erbium fiber laser employing soliton pulse shortening

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1927–1929 (1996)
• Thomas F. Carruthers and Irl N. Duling III

Pulse energy equalization in harmonically FM mode-locked lasers with slow gain

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1930–1932 (1996)
• K. Tamura and M. Nakazawa

Scanning phase-retrieval system with an exponential-filtered probe

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1933–1935 (1996)
• Nobuharu Nakajima

Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1936–1938 (1996)
• H. Schmidt and A. Imamogdlu

7S_1/2 → 9S_1/2 two-photon spectroscopy of trapped francium

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1939–1941 (1996)
• J. E. Simsarian, W. Shi, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, and W. Z. Zhao

Simultaneous measurement of thicknesses and refractive indices of multiple layers by a low-coherence confocal interference microscope

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1942–1944 (1996)
• Takashi Fukano and Ichirou Yamaguchi

Gas imaging by infrared gas-correlation spectrometry

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1945–1947 (1996)
• Jonas Sandsten, Hans Edner, and Sune Svanberg

Linearly polarized light with axial symmetry generated by liquid-crystal polarization converters

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1948–1950 (1996)
• M. Stalder and M. Schadt

Mass-producible microscopic computer-generated holograms: microtags

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Iss. 23, pp. 1951–1953 (1996)
• M. R. Descour, W. C. Sweatt, A. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, K. D. Krenz, M. E. Warren, S. H. Kravitz, D. A. Tichenor, R. H. Stulen, and T. L. Love