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November

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
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Keywords (OCIS):

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

A Waveguide Saturable Absorber Fabricated by Femtosecond pulses in YAG:Cr4+ Crystal for Q-switched Operation of Yb-fiber laser

Andrey Okhrimchuk, Vladimir Mezentsev, Vladislav Dvoyrin, Andrey Kurkov, Evgeny Sholokhov, Sergey Turitsyn, Alexander Shestakov, and Ian Bennion
received 10/20/2009; accepted 11/05/2009; posted 11/20/2009; Doc. ID 118616
[full text: PDF (371) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(140.3540) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Q-switched
(220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication

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

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
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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

Optical gain in DNA-DCM for lasing in photonic materials

Marco Leonetti, Riccardo Sapienza, Marta Ibisate, Claudio Conti, and Cefe Lopez
received 07/07/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 113828
[full text: PDF (561) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(140.4480) Lasers and laser optics : Optical amplifiers
(160.2540) Materials : Fluorescent and luminescent materials
(160.1435) Materials : Biomaterials

Some consequences of the van Cittert-Zernike theorem for partially polarized, stochastic electromagnetic fields

Tomohiro Shirai
received 07/01/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/06/2009; Doc. ID 113530
[full text: PDF (206) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(030.1640) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherence
(260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

Bragg Reflection Waveguide Diode Lasers

Bhavin Bijlani and Amr Helmy
received 08/07/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/05/2009; Doc. ID 115464
[full text: PDF (496) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(230.1480) Optical devices : Bragg reflectors
(130.5296) Integrated optics : Photonic crystal waveguides

Generation of extended filaments of femtosecond pulses in air by use of a single-step phase plate

Ya Cheng, Yuxi Fu, Hui Xiong, Han Xu, Jinping Yao, Bin Zeng, Wei Chu, Zhizhan Xu, Weiwei Liu, and See Leang Chin
received 09/29/2009; accepted 11/03/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 117781
[full text: PDF (335) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Demonstration of a large-size real-time full-color three-dimensional display

Xinzhu Sang, Frank C. Fan, Chaochuan Jiang, Sam Choi, Wenhua Dou, Chongxiu Yu, and Daxiong Xu
received 08/19/2009; accepted 11/02/2009; posted 11/05/2009; Doc. ID 115961
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Keywords (OCIS):

(090.2870) Holography : Holographic display
(110.2990) Imaging systems : Image formation theory
(120.2040) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Displays
(090.1995) Holography : Digital holography

2�2 Photonic crystal fiber splitter based on a silica-based planar lightwave circuits

Byeong Ha Lee, Joo Beom Eom, and Jong-Hyuk Park
received 06/15/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/05/2009; Doc. ID 112856
[full text: PDF (448) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(060.1810) Fiber optics and optical communications : Buffers, couplers, routers, switches, and multiplexers
(060.2430) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fibers, single-mode

A common path laser interferometer

Lihua Wang and Xinghua Qu
received 06/18/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/09/2009; Doc. ID 112958
[full text: PDF (2175) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(120.3940) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Metrology
(230.1950) Optical devices : Diffraction gratings
(280.3340) Remote sensing and sensors : Laser Doppler velocimetry
(280.3420) Remote sensing and sensors : Laser sensors

Enhancement of semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes photoluminescence

Nicolas Izard, Etienne Gaufres, Laurent Vivien, Said Kazaoui, Delphine Marris-Morini, and Eric Cassan
received 09/14/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 117022
[full text: PDF (1046) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(160.2540) Materials : Fluorescent and luminescent materials
(160.4760) Materials : Optical properties
(260.2510) Physical optics : Fluorescence
(300.6280) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, fluorescence and luminescence
(160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials

Polarization conversion spectroscopy of hybrid modes

Alexey Nikitin, David Artigas, Lluis Torner, Luis Martin-Moreno, and Francisco Garcia-Vidal
received 10/09/2009; accepted 11/01/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 118393
[full text: PDF (1215) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(160.1190) Materials : Anisotropic optical materials
(230.5440) Optical devices : Polarization-selective devices
(240.6690) Optics at surfaces : Surface waves
(260.1180) Physical optics : Crystal optics
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

October

Si rib waveguide photodetector with ordered array of Ge islands for 1.5 �m

Ventsislav Lavchiev, Roman Holly, Gang Chen, Friedrich Schaeffler, Ruediger Goldhahn, and Wolfgang Jantsch
received 09/29/2009; accepted 10/31/2009; posted 11/12/2009; Doc. ID 117932
[full text: PDF (546) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(040.0040) Detectors : Detectors
(130.0130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics
(250.0250) Optoelectronics : Optoelectronics

Theory of adiabatic pressure-gradient soliton compression in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Jesper Laegsgaard and Peter Roberts
received 09/15/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/05/2009; Doc. ID 117281
[full text: PDF (211) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(060.7140) Fiber optics and optical communications : Ultrafast processes in fibers
(060.4005) Fiber optics and optical communications : Microstructured fibers
(060.5295) Fiber optics and optical communications : Photonic crystal fibers
(060.3510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Lasers, fiber

Photonic Scanning Receiver Using Electrically Tuned FBG

Patrik Rugeland, Zhangwei Yu, Carola Sterner, Oleksandr Tarasenko, G�ran Tengstrand, and Walter Margulis
received 09/08/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/03/2009; Doc. ID 116796
[full text: PDF (346) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(060.4005) Fiber optics and optical communications : Microstructured fibers
(060.5625) Fiber optics and optical communications : Radio frequency photonics

Compensating loss with gain in slow light propagation along slab waveguide with anisotropic metamaterial cladding

Yijun Feng, Tian Jiang, and Qi Zhang
received 08/18/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 115866
[full text: PDF (412) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

(230.7400) Optical devices : Waveguides, slab
(350.3618) Other areas of optics : Left-handed materials
(160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials

Onset of the optical damage in CaF2 optics caused by DUV lasers

Michael Bauer, Martin Bischoff, Thomas H�lsenbusch, Ansgar Matern, Robert Stark, and Norbert Kaiser
received 08/31/2009; accepted 10/30/2009; posted 11/13/2009; Doc. ID 116524
[full text: PDF (2842) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):