Excitation Enhanced Optical Reorientation in Nematic Liquid Crystals

• Lei Xu, Pei Yang, Liying Liu, and Y. R. Shen
• received 04/01/2009; accepted 06/29/2009; posted 07/02/2009; Doc. ID 109557
• [full text: PDF (239) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.3710) Materials : Liquid crystals
• (190.4400) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, materials

Realization of the Compact Static Fourier Transform Spectrometer LLIFTS in glass integrated optics

• Bruno Martin, Alain Morand, Pierre Benech, Gr�gory Grosa, Pierre Kern, and Etienne Le Coarer
• received 04/30/2009; accepted 06/27/2009; posted 06/29/2009; Doc. ID 110767
• [full text: PDF (466) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.6200) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Spectrometers and spectroscopic instrumentation
• (130.0130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics
• (130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
• (230.3120) Optical devices : Integrated optics devices
• (300.6170) Spectroscopy : Spectra

Optical frequency transfer via 146 km fiber link with 10^{-19} relative accuracy

• Gesine Grosche, Osama Terra, Katharina Predehl, Ronald Holzwarth, Burghard Lipphardt, Felix Vogt, Uwe Sterr, and Harald Schnatz
• received 03/30/2009; accepted 06/25/2009; posted 06/30/2009; Doc. ID 109337
• [full text: PDF (421) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2360) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics links and subsystems
• (120.0280) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Remote sensing and sensors
• (120.4800) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Optical standards and testing

Measurement of the spatio-temporal field of ultrashort Bessel-X pulses

• Pamela Bowlan, Heli Valtna-Lukner, Madis Lohmus, Peeter Piksarv, Peeter Saari, and Rick Trebino
• received 05/13/2009; accepted 06/23/2009; posted 06/25/2009; Doc. ID 111378
• [full text: PDF (2866) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (320.5550) Ultrafast optics : Pulses
• (320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements

Gain Balance of Pulses and Noise in Passive Mode-Locking with Slow Saturable Absorber

• Baruch Fischer, Omri Gat, and Michael Katz
• received 04/07/2009; accepted 06/22/2009; posted 06/25/2009; Doc. ID 109771
• [full text: PDF (320) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3430) Lasers and laser optics : Laser theory
• (140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers

Correction of vortex laser beam in a closed-loop adaptive system with bimorph mirror

• Fedor Starikov, Gennadi Kochemasov, Mikhail Koltygin, Stanislav Kulikov, Aleksei Manachinsky, Nikita Maslov, Stanislav Sukharev, Valeri Aksenov, Igor Izmailov, Feodor Kanev, Viktor Atuchin, and Ivan Soldatenkov
• received 05/13/2009; accepted 06/22/2009; posted 06/30/2009; Doc. ID 111379
• [full text: PDF (538) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (010.1080) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Active or adaptive optics
• (010.7350) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Wave-front sensing
• (050.4865) Diffraction and gratings : Optical vortices

High-temporal contrast using low-gain optical parametric amplification

• Rahul Shah, Randall Johnson, Tsutomu Shimada, Kirk Flippo, Juan Fernandez, and B. Hegelich
• received 03/04/2009; accepted 06/22/2009; posted 06/30/2009; Doc. ID 108372
• [full text: PDF (620) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.4970) Nonlinear optics : Parametric oscillators and amplifiers
• (230.4480) Optical devices : Optical amplifiers

Optimization of a 4-temporal Phase-lock for PEM Polarimetry

• Hsiu-Ming Tsai and Yu-Faye Chao
• received 03/24/2009; accepted 06/21/2009; posted 06/26/2009; Doc. ID 109183
• [full text: PDF (527) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.3190) Image processing : Inverse problems
• (120.2130) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Ellipsometry and polarimetry
• (260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

Blind Multi-spectral Image Decomposition by 3D Nonnegative Tensor Factorization

• Ivica Kopriva and Andrzej Cichocki
• received 03/26/2009; accepted 06/21/2009; posted 06/25/2009; Doc. ID 109250
• [full text: PDF (1980) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.2960) Image processing : Image analysis
• (100.3190) Image processing : Inverse problems
• (100.6890) Image processing : Three-dimensional image processing
• (150.6910) Machine vision : Three-dimensional sensing
• (170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging

Influence of the drawing process on the defect generation in multistep index germanium-doped optical fibers

• Giusy Origlio, Marco Cannas, Sylvain Girard, Roberto Boscaino, Aziz Boukenter, and Youcef Ouerdane
• received 03/05/2009; accepted 06/19/2009; posted 06/30/2009; Doc. ID 108151
• [full text: PDF (383) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
• (160.2750) Materials : Glass and other amorphous materials
• (180.2520) Microscopy : Fluorescence microscopy
• (160.5335) Materials : Photosensitive materials

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Fiber Probe fabricated by Femtosecond Laser

• Hai Xiao, Xinwei Lan, Yukun Han, Tao Wei, Yinan Zhang, Lan Jiang, and Hai-Lung Tsai
• received 05/05/2009; accepted 06/18/2009; posted 06/29/2009; Doc. ID 110890
• [full text: PDF (773) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sensors
• (220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication
• (300.6450) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, Raman

Aberration-free laser beam in the soft x-ray range

• Jean-Philippe GODDET, St�phane SEBBAN, Julien GAUTIER, Philippe ZEITON, Constance VALENTIN, Fabien TISSANDIER, Tatiana MARCHENKO, Guillaume LAMBERT, Maxime RIBIERE, Jaroslav NEJDL, Gilles MAYNARD, Brigitte CROS, Bruno ROBILLART, Tomas MOCEK, Krzysztof JAKUBCZAK, and Michaela KOZLOVA
• received 06/09/2009; accepted 06/18/2009; posted 07/02/2009; Doc. ID 106456
• [full text: PDF (286) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (070.6110) Fourier optics and signal processing : Spatial filtering
• (140.7240) Lasers and laser optics : UV, EUV, and X-ray lasers

Extracting Coherent Modes from Partially Coherent Wavefields

• Keith Nugent, Samuel Flewett, Harry Quiney, and Chanh Tran
• received 03/11/2009; accepted 06/17/2009; posted 06/25/2009; Doc. ID 108636
• [full text: PDF (470) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (030.4070) Coherence and statistical optics : Modes
• (340.7215) X-ray optics : Undulator radiation

Peeling adhesive tape emits electromagnetic radiation at terahertz frequencies

• Roger Lewis and J. Horvat
• received 04/14/2009; accepted 06/16/2009; posted 06/18/2009; Doc. ID 110103
• [full text: PDF (367) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (000.2170) General : Equipment and techniques
• (000.2190) General : Experimental physics
• (000.3110) General : Instruments, apparatus, and components common to the sciences
• (230.6080) Optical devices : Sources
• (350.5610) Other areas of optics : Radiation
• (300.6495) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, teraherz

More-than-threefold expansion of highly-nonlinear PCF cores for low-loss fusion-splicing

• Timothy Birks, Zilun Chen, Chunle Xiong, Limin Xiao, and William Wadsworth
• received 04/24/2009; accepted 06/16/2009; posted 06/22/2009; Doc. ID 110588
• [full text: PDF (371) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
• (060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components

Extended Depth of Focus Contact Lenses for Presbyopia

• Zeev Zalevsky, Alex Zlotnik, Shai Ben Yaish, Oren Yehezkel, Karen Lahav-Yacouel, and Michael Belkin
• received 03/04/2009; accepted 06/15/2009; posted 06/22/2009; Doc. ID 108220
• [full text: PDF (407) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (330.1070) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision - acuity
• (330.4460) Vision, color, and visual optics : Ophthalmic optics and devices
• (110.7348) Imaging systems : Wavefront encoding

Self-frequency-doubled KTiOAsO4 Raman laser emitting at 573 nm

• Zhaojun Liu, Qingpu Wang, Xingyu Zhang, Sasa Zhang, Jun Chang, Shuzhen Fan, Wenjia Sun, Guofan Jin, Xutang Tao, Youxuan Sun, Shaojun Zhang, and Zejin Liu
• received 05/05/2009; accepted 06/15/2009; posted 06/25/2009; Doc. ID 110986
• [full text: PDF (265) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3550) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Raman
• (190.2620) Nonlinear optics : Harmonic generation and mixing

Differential coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy with linearly-chirped femtosecond laser pulses

• Paola Borri, Israel Rocha-Mendoza, Wolfgang Langbein, and Peter Watson
• received 04/23/2009; accepted 06/15/2009; posted 06/30/2009; Doc. ID 110537
• [full text: PDF (590) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (170.5810) Medical optics and biotechnology : Scanning microscopy
• (190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
• (180.4315) Microscopy : Nonlinear microscopy

Optically switchable gratings based on azo-dye-doped, polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

• Yanjun Liu, Yuebing Zheng, Jinjie Shi, Hua Huang, Thomas R. Walker, and Tony Jun Huang
• received 04/28/2009; accepted 06/14/2009; posted 06/26/2009; Doc. ID 110750
• [full text: PDF (700) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.2770) Diffraction and gratings : Gratings
• (160.2900) Materials : Optical storage materials

A Mono/Dual-View Switchable Liquid Crystal Display

• Chao Ping Chen, Joong Ha Lee, Tae-Hoon Yoon, and Jae Chang Kim
• received 05/04/2009; accepted 06/14/2009; posted 06/22/2009; Doc. ID 110967
• [full text: PDF (393) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (230.0230) Optical devices : Optical devices
• (230.3720) Optical devices : Liquid-crystal devices