Label-free Photoacoustic Ophthalmic Angiography

• Song Hu, Bin Rao, Konstantin Maslov, and Lihong Wang
• received 09/10/2009; accepted 11/16/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 116816
• [full text: PDF (1387) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3360) Lasers and laser optics : Laser safety and eye protection
• (170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
• (170.5120) Medical optics and biotechnology : Photoacoustic imaging
• (330.7327) Vision, color, and visual optics : Visual optics, ophthalmic instrumentation

Fast responsive non-volatile holographic storage in LiNbO3 triply doped with Zr, Fe, and Mn

• Yongfa Kong, Fucai Liu, Shiguo Liu, Shaolin Chen, Romano Rupp, and Jingjun Xu
• received 08/26/2009; accepted 11/13/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 116101
• [full text: PDF (295) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (090.2900) Holography : Optical storage materials
• (160.5320) Materials : Photorefractive materials
• (210.2860) Optical data storage : Holographic and volume memories

Multiple-image encryption and multiplexing using modified Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm and phase modulation in Fresnel transform domain

• Hone-Ene Hwang, Hsuan-Ting Chang, and Wen-Nung Lie
• received 09/21/2009; accepted 11/12/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 117533
• [full text: PDF (716) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.3010) Image processing : Image reconstruction techniques
• (100.5070) Image processing : Phase retrieval

Suppression of FM-to-AM conversion in third-harmonic generation at the retracing point of crystal

• Yisheng Yang, Bin Feng, Jichun Tan, Wei Han, Wanguo Zheng, and Fuquan Li
• received 06/19/2009; accepted 11/12/2009; posted 11/17/2009; Doc. ID 113073
• [full text: PDF (368) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.2620) Nonlinear optics : Harmonic generation and mixing
• (190.4400) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, materials

Cross-spectral purity of electromagnetic fields

• Timo Hassinen, Jani Tervo, and Ari Friberg
• received 09/11/2009; accepted 11/12/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 117106
• [full text: PDF (210) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (030.1640) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherence
• (260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
• (260.3160) Physical optics : Interference

On-chip tunable long-period grating devices based on liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers

• Lei Wei, Johannes Weirich, Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, and Anders Bjarklev
• received 10/01/2009; accepted 11/12/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 118038
• [full text: PDF (935) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components
• (230.3720) Optical devices : Liquid-crystal devices
• (060.5295) Fiber optics and optical communications : Photonic crystal fibers

Broadband, high-power, continuous-wave, mid-infrared source using extended phase-matching bandwidth in MgO:PPLN

• Ritwick Das, Suddapalli Kumar, Goutam Samanta, and Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
• received 08/19/2009; accepted 11/11/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 115895
• [full text: PDF (299) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
• (190.4400) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, materials
• (190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
• (190.4970) Nonlinear optics : Parametric oscillators and amplifiers

Picosecond optical vortex converted from multi-GHz self-mode-locked high-order Hermite-Gaussian Nd:GdVO4 lasers

• Yung-Fu Chen, H. C. Liang, Y. J. Huang, Y. C. Lin, T. H. Lu, and K. F. Huang
• received 08/19/2009; accepted 11/11/2009; posted 11/17/2009; Doc. ID 115983
• [full text: PDF (429) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
• (080.4865) Geometric optics : Optical vortices

Hysteresis of Dissipative Soliton Molecules in Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

• Aleksandr Zavyalov, Rumen Iliew, Oleg Egorov, and Falk Lederer
• received 09/18/2009; accepted 11/11/2009; posted 11/17/2009; Doc. ID 117418
• [full text: PDF (654) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
• (140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
• (190.1450) Nonlinear optics : Bistability

Nanocrystalline LaOCl: Tb3+/Sm3+ as promising phosphors for full color field emission displays (FEDs)

• guogang li, Chunxia Li, Zhiyao Hou, Chong Peng, and jun Lin
• received 08/25/2009; accepted 11/10/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 116160
• [full text: PDF (395) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.2540) Materials : Fluorescent and luminescent materials
• (220.4610) Optical design and fabrication : Optical fabrication

Intravital imaging of amyloid plaques in a transgenic mouse model using optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy

• Song Hu, Ping Yan, Konstantin Maslov, Jin-Moo Lee, and Lihong Wang
• received 07/08/2009; accepted 11/10/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 114001
• [full text: PDF (1012) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
• (170.5120) Medical optics and biotechnology : Photoacoustic imaging
• (170.6900) Medical optics and biotechnology : Three-dimensional microscopy

Bend Insensitive Optical Fiber with Ultra Low Bending Loss in the Visible Wavelength Band

• Won-Taek Han, Pramod Watekar, and Seongmin Ju
• received 09/02/2009; accepted 11/09/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 116447
• [full text: PDF (251) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2280) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber design and fabrication
• (060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
• (060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications

Quantitative measurements of absorption spectra in scattering media by Low Coherence Spectroscopy

• Nienke Bosschaart, Maurice Aalders, Dirk Faber, Jelmer Weda, Martin van Gemert, and Ton van Leeuwen
• received 07/27/2009; accepted 11/08/2009; posted 11/10/2009; Doc. ID 114864
• [full text: PDF (610) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (030.1640) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherence
• (170.6510) Medical optics and biotechnology : Spectroscopy, tissue diagnostics
• (300.1030) Spectroscopy : Absorption

Simulation Study of Surface Plasmon Resonance Electro-optic Light Modulator based on Polymer Grating Coupler

• Wen-Kai Kuo and Meng-Ting Chen
• received 08/05/2009; accepted 11/06/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 114902
• [full text: PDF (301) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.2770) Diffraction and gratings : Gratings
• (230.4110) Optical devices : Modulators
• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

Optical Fields of the Lowest Modes in a Uniformly Active Thin Sub-Wavelength Spiral Microcavity

• Elena Smotrova, Trevor Benson, Phillip Sewell, Jiri Ctyroky, and Alexander Nosich
• received 05/21/2009; accepted 11/06/2009; posted 11/06/2009; Doc. ID 111725
• [full text: PDF (1124) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.0140) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers and laser optics
• (230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators

Robust sensor for turbidity measurement from light scattering and absorbing liquids

• Ville Konttturi, Petri Turunen, Jun Uozumi, and Kai-Erik Peiponen
• received 08/04/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/10/2009; Doc. ID 115263
• [full text: PDF (1021) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.5820) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Scattering measurements
• (120.6150) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Speckle imaging
• (230.5480) Optical devices : Prisms
• (290.5820) Scattering : Scattering measurements
• (290.7050) Scattering : Turbid media

A phase modulation method for AWG phase error measurement in the frequency domain

• Kazumasa Takada and Tomohiro Hirose
• received 04/27/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/19/2009; Doc. ID 110634
• [full text: PDF (759) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sensors
• (120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
• (130.7408) Integrated optics : Wavelength filtering devices

Tunable diode laser spectroscopy using a 3 03um GaInAsSb/AlGaInAsSb DFB Laser

• Stefan Lundqvist, Pawel Kluczynski, Sofiane Belahsene, and Yves Rouillard
• received 09/30/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 117980
• [full text: PDF (775) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (280.3420) Remote sensing and sensors : Laser sensors
• (300.1030) Spectroscopy : Absorption
• (300.6260) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, diode lasers

Monolithic double-grating phase mask for high-spatial-coherence large-period grating printing

• Yves JOURLIN, Y. Bourgin, S. Bakkali, S. Tonchev, and O. Parriaux
• received 09/04/2009; accepted 11/04/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 116595
• [full text: PDF (1221) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
• (120.4610) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Optical fabrication
• (050.6624) Diffraction and gratings : Subwavelength structures

Control of the optical Kerr-effect in CPA-systems using model-based phase-shaping

• Damian Schimpf, Enrico Seise, Tino Eidam, Jens Limpert, and Andreas T�nnermann
• received 07/23/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/10/2009; Doc. ID 114546
• [full text: PDF (580) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
• (060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (320.5540) Ultrafast optics : Pulse shaping
• (320.7090) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast lasers