Group delay locking of coherently combined broadband lasers

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 455–457 (2012)
• S. Benjamin Weiss, Mark E. Weber, and Gregory D. Goodno

Nineteen-port photonic lantern with multimode delivery fiber

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 452–454 (2012)
• D. Noordegraaf, P. M. W. Skovgaard, R. H. Sandberg, M. D. Maack, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. S. Lawrence, and J. Lægsgaard

Ultrahigh-resolution full-field optical coherence tomography using spatial coherence gating and quasi-monochromatic illumination

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 458–460 (2012)
• Avner Safrani and Ibrahim Abdulhalim

Polarization phase-shifting Newton interferometer for plane optical surface measurements

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 467–469 (2012)
• Shyh-Tsong Lin, Liang-Chia Chen, Sheng-Lih Yeh, Hu’ng-Xuân Trinh, and Hung-Pin Chen

Anderson localization in a periodic photonic lattice with a disordered boundary

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 485–487 (2012)
• U. Naether, J. M. Meyer, S. Stützer, A. Tünnermann, S. Nolte, M. I. Molina, and A. Szameit

Spontaneous subpicosecond pulse formation with pulse repetition rate of 80 GHz in a diode-pumped Nd:SrGdGa₃O₇ disordered crystal laser

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 461–463 (2012)
• Y. F. Chen, H. C. Liang, J. C. Tung, K. W. Su, Y. Y. Zhang, H. J. Zhang, H. H. Yu, and J. Y. Wang

Low-threshold single-wavelength all-fiber laser generating cylindrical vector beams using a few-mode fiber Bragg grating

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 464–466 (2012)
• Biao Sun, Anting Wang, Lixin Xu, Chun Gu, Zhongxi Lin, Hai Ming, and Qiwen Zhan

Radio frequency interrogated actively mode-locked fiber ring laser for sensing application

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 494–496 (2012)
• Jie Huang, Xinwei Lan, Tao Wei, Qun Han, Zhan Gao, Zhi Zhou, and Hai Xiao

Active coherent beam combination of two high-power single-frequency nanosecond fiber amplifiers

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 497–499 (2012)
• Rongtao Su, Pu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Yanxing Ma, and Xiaojun Xu

Experimental evidence of extreme value statistics in Raman fiber lasers

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 500–502 (2012)
• Stéphane Randoux and Pierre Suret

Vacuum ultraviolet frequency combs generated by a femtosecond enhancement cavity in the visible

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 503–505 (2012)
• Birgitta Bernhardt, Akira Ozawa, Andreas Vernaleken, Ioachim Pupeza, Jan Kaster, Yohei Kobayashi, Ronald Holzwarth, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Thomas Udem

Characterization of a photonic strain sensor in silicon-on-insulator technology

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 479–481 (2012)
• Wouter J. Westerveld, Jose Pozo, Peter J. Harmsma, Ruud Schmits, Erik Tabak, Teun C. van den Dool, Suzanne M. Leinders, Koen W.A. van Dongen, H. Paul Urbach, and Mirvais Yousefi

Image formation in CARS and SRS: effect of an inhomogeneous nonresonant background medium

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 473–475 (2012)
• K. I. Popov, A. F. Pegoraro, A. Stolow, and L. Ramunno

The role of self-trapped excitons and defects in the formation of nanogratings in fused silica

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 482–484 (2012)
• Sören Richter, Fei Jia, Matthias Heinrich, Sven Döring, Ulf Peschel, Andreas Tünnermann, and Stefan Nolte

Combined frequency conversion and pulse compression in nonlinear tapered waveguides

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 446–448 (2012)
• Alexander S. Solntsev and Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Adaptive slit beam shaping for direct laser written waveguides

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 470–472 (2012)
• P. S. Salter, A. Jesacher, J. B. Spring, B. J. Metcalf, N. Thomas-Peter, R. D. Simmonds, N. K. Langford, I. A. Walmsley, and M. J. Booth

Photonic crystal nanocavity laser in an optically very thick slab

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 488–490 (2012)
• Se-Heon Kim, Jingqing Huang, and Axel Scherer

Ultrafast laser inscription of Bragg-grating waveguides using the multiscan technique

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 491–493 (2012)
• Graeme Brown, Robert R. Thomson, Ajoy K. Kar, Nicholas D. Psaila, and Henry T. Bookey

Cascaded frequency upconversion for high-speed single-photon detection at 1550 nm

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 476–478 (2012)
• J. S. Pelc, Q. Zhang, C. R. Phillips, L. Yu, Y. Yamamoto, and M. M. Fejer

Determination of layer thickness and optical constants of thin films by using a modified pattern search method

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• Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pp. 449–451 (2012)
• R. Miloua, Z. Kebbab, F. Chiker, K. Sahraoui, M. Khadraoui, and N. Benramdane