Recent advances in mid infrared (3-5µm) Quantum Cascade Lasers

Manijeh Razeghi, Neelanjan Bandyopadhyay, Yanbo Bai, Quanyong Lu, and Steven Slivken

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1872-1884 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Third harmonic generation at 343nm in nonlinear Ca₅(BO₃)₃F (CBF) crystals

Loïc Deyra, Simon Ilas, Xavier Délen, Pascal Loiseau, François Balembois, Gerard Aka, François Salin, and Patrick Georges

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1798-1802 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence and second-harmonic generation correlative microscopy to probe space charge separation and silver cluster stabilization during direct laser writing in a tailored silver-containing glass

G. Papon, Y. Petit, N. Marquestaut, A. Royon, M. Dussauze, V. Rodriguez, T. Cardinal, and L. Canioni

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1855-1861 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

High 90% efficiency Bragg gratings formed in fused silica by femtosecond Gauss-Bessel laser beams

Mindaugas Mikutis, Tadas Kudrius, Gintas Šlekys, Domas Paipulas, and Saulius Juodkazis

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1862-1871 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Formation and applications of periodic structures in transparent materials induced by single fs laser beam

Fangteng Zhang, Yu Teng, Yongze Yu, Kaniyarakkal N. Sharafudeen, Kazuyuki Hirao, and Jianrong Qiu

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1944-1951 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Three- and four-photon excited upconversion luminescence in terbium doped lutetium silicate powders by femtosecond laser irradiation

Nikifor Rakov, Whualkuer Lozano B., Edilson L. Falcão-filho, Renato B. Guimarães, Glauco S. Maciel, and Cid B. de Araújo

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1803-1809 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Full-color emission generation from single phased phosphor Sr₁₀[(PO₄)_5.5(BO₄)_0.5](BO₂): Ce³⁺, Mn²⁺, Tb³⁺ for white light emitting diodes

Ge Zhu, Zhipeng Ci, Qian Wang, Yurong Shi, and Yuhua Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1810-1819 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorine incorporation into porous silica by gas phase doping with C₂F₆ in N₂

Frank Froehlich, Claudia Aichele, Stephan Grimm, and Kay Schuster

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1839-1854 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Spectral and laser properties of Er:Yb:Sr₃Lu₂(BO₃)₄ crystal at 1.5–1.6 μm

Jianhua Huang, Yujin Chen, Xinghong Gong, Yanfu Lin, Zundu Luo, and Yidong Huang

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1885-1892 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Er:Lu₂O₃ – Laser-related spectroscopy

Larry D. Merkle, Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Natalie J. Kacik, Tigran Sanamyan, Huaijin Zhang, Haohai Yu, Jiyang Wang, and Mark Dubinskii

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1992-2002 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Layer separation driven by laser-induced strain in semiconductor thin film

Stefano Buratin and Paolo Villoresi

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1925-1930 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Large-area bulk self-assembly of plasmonic nanorods in nematic liquid crystal via surface-mediated alignment

Qingkun Liu, Nan Wang, Pengxin Chen, Yuan Zhang, and Sailing He

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1918-1924 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Bulk optical metamaterials assembled by microfluidic evaporation

Alexandre Baron, Antonio Iazzolino, Kévin Ehrhardt, Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Ashod Aradian, Vasyl Kravets, Alexander N. Grigorenko, Jacques Leng, Aurélie Le Beulze, Mona Tréguer-Delapierre, Miguel A. Correa-Duarte, and Philippe Barois

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1792-1797 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Opals infiltrated with a stimuli-responsive hydrogel for ethanol vapor sensing

Riccardo Pernice, Gabriele Adamo, Salvatore Stivala, Antonino Parisi, Alessandro C. Busacca, Dario Spigolon, Maria Antonietta Sabatino, Leonardo D’Acquisto, and Clelia Dispenza

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1820-1833 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond mid-IR difference-frequency generation in LiInSe₂

Marcus Beutler, Ingo Rimke, Edlef Büttner, Valentin Petrov, and Ludmila Isaenko

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1834-1838 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabricating graphite nano-sheet powder by slow electrochemical exfoliation of large-scale graphite foil as a mode-locker for fiber lasers

Chun-Yu Yang, Chung-Lun Wu, Yung-Hsiang Lin, Ling-Hsuan Tsai, Yu-Chieh Chi, Jung-Hung Chang, Chih-I Wu, Hung-Kuei Tsai, Din-Ping Tsai, and Gong-Ru Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1893-1905 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Ar⁺ ion milling rib waveguides on nonlinear optical (Yb,Nb):RTP/RTP epitaxial layers

J. Cugat, A. Choudhary, R. Solé, J. Massons, D. Shepherd, F. Díaz, and M. Aguiló

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1912-1917 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Gold nanorods as saturable absorbers for all-fiber passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser

Zhe Kang, Xingyuan Guo, Zhixu Jia, Yang Xu, Lai Liu, Dan Zhao, Guanshi Qin, and Weiping Qin

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1986-1991 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

InN/GaN alternative growth of thick InGaN wells on GaN-based light emitting diodes

Chun-Ta Yu, Wei-Chih Lai, Cheng-Hsiung Yen, and Shoou-Jinn Chang

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1952-1959 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid GaN/Organic white light emitters with aggregation induced emission organic molecule

Zhounan Yue, Yuk Fai Cheung, Hoi Wai Choi, Zujin Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang, and Kam Sing Wong

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1906-1911 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband fluorescence emission of Eu³⁺ doped germanotellurite glasses for fiber-based irradiation light sources

F. Wang, L. F. Shen, B. J. Chen, E. Y. B. Pun, and H. Lin

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1931-1943 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of planar defect filtering in InP grown on Si by epitaxial lateral overgrowth

Carl Junesand, Himanshu Kataria, Wondwosen Metaferia, Nick Julian, Zhechao Wang, Yan-Ting Sun, John Bowers, Galia Pozina, Lars Hultman, and Sebastian Lourdudoss

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1960-1973 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF

Cu₂O/MgO band alignment and Cu₂O-Au nanocomposites with enhanced optical absorption

Xuemin Wang, Dawei Yan, Changle Shen, Yuying Wang, Weidong Wu, Weihua Li, Zhongqian Jiang, Hongwen Lei, Minjie Zhou, and Yongjian Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 3(11), 1974-1985 (2013)  View: HTML | PDF