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  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2016-2027 (2009)
  • Dietze, Daniel; Darmo, Juraj; Roither, Stefan; Pugzlys, Audrius; Heyman, James N; Unterrainer, Karl
  • An analysis of the polarization of terahertz (THz) radiation from a laser-induced plasma source is presented. THz emission is achieved by mixing a laser pulse with its second...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2125-2130 (2009)
  • Li, Fang-Qin; Zhang, Xiao-Fu; Yang, Feng; Zong, Nan; Peng, Qin-Jun; Cui, Da-Fu; Xu, Zu-Yan
  • An analytical solution of on-axis beam propagation is presented for determining the nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of a thin nonlinear medium accurately, efficiently,...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2143-2151 (2009)
  • Ganeev, R A; Singhal, H; Naik, P A; Chakera, J A; Tayyab, M; Baba, M; Kuroda, H; Gupta, P D
  • The intensity enhancement of harmonics and change in harmonic profiles have been observed in a few plasma plumes (La, In, Mn) under variable phase modulation of Ti:sapphire laser...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2161-2166 (2009)
  • Wang, L; Jain, R K
  • We propose the use of ultrasmall semiconductor quantum dots (USQDs) for specialized bio-imaging applications, and discuss methods for enhancing fluorescent signals from USQDs to be...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2204-2210 (2009)
  • Chang, Wonkeun; Akhmediev, Nail; Wabnitz, Stefan; Taki, Majid
  • We study the dynamics of bound solitons of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg- Landau equation under the influence of external modulation. We consider periods of modulation being...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21302-21312 (2009)
  • Ling, Alexander; Chen, Jun; Fan, Jingyun; Migdall, Alan
  • We report the development of a fiber-based single spatial-mode source of photon-pairs where the efficiency of extracting photon-pairs is increased through the use of fiber-end...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3496-3498 (2009)
  • Hsu, Wei-Chun; Lai, Ying-Yao; Lai, Chien-Jen; Peng, Lung-Han; Pan, Ci-Ling; Kung, A H
  • We report the generation of the second to the sixth harmonics of a fundamental frequency covering two and a half octaves in a multiply-periodically poled lithium tantalate crystal by...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3499-3501 (2009)
  • Nodop, D; Jauregui, C; Schimpf, D; Limpert, J; Tünnermann, A
  • An efficient and simple approach for converting pulsed near-IR laser radiation into visible and mid-IR light by exploiting degenerate four-wave-mixing in an endlessly single-mode,...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3502-3504 (2009)
  • Jia, Lianxi; Geng, Minming; Zhang, Lei; Yang, Lin; Chen, Ping; Liu, Yuliang; Fang, Qing; Yu, Mingbin
  • We point out the use of a wrong definition for conversion efficiency in the literature and analyze the effects of the waveguide length and pump power on conversion efficiency...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3523-3525 (2009)
  • Shou, Qian; Liang, Yanbin; Jiang, Qun; Zheng, Yajian; Lan, Sheng; Hu, Wei; Guo, Qi
  • We investigate the propagation of spatial solitons in cylindrical strongly nonlocal media by a method of image beam of light. The dynamic force of the soliton steering resulting from...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3544-3546 (2009)
  • Kartashov, Yaroslav V; Vysloukh, Victor A
  • We address light propagation in couplers with longitudinal biharmonic modulation of refractive index in neighboring channels. While simplest single-frequency out-of-phase modulation...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3577-3579 (2009)
  • Afshar V , Shahraam; Zhang, Wen Qi; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike; Monro, Tanya M
  • For the first time, to our knowledge, we demonstrate the experimental confirmation of a new vectorially based expression of the effective nonlinear coefficient γ in bismuth suspended...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3580-3582 (2009)
  • Kuo, P S; Fang, W; Solomon, G S
  • We describe quasi-phase-matched nonlinear interactions in materials that possess 4¯ symmetry, such as GaAs. 4¯ symmetry together with curved propagation geometries produce quasi...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3589-3591 (2009)
  • Setzpfandt, Frank; Neshev, Dragomir N; Schiek, Roland; Lederer, Falk; Tünnermann, Andreas; Pertsch, Thomas
  • We demonstrate experimentally the existence of competing focusing and defocusing nonlinearities in a double-resonant system with quadratic nonlinear response. We use an array of...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3592-3594 (2009)
  • Siddiqui, A M; Cirmi, G; Brida, D; Kärtner, F X; Cerullo, G
  • We generate ultrabroadband pulses at 800 nm from an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) pumped by the second harmonic of a Ti:sapphire system and working at degeneracy. The OPA is...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20669-20674 (2009)
  • Zhu, Haiyong; Zhang, Ge; Chen, Huibin; Huang, Chenghui; Wei, Yong; Duan, Yanmin; Huang, Yidong; Wang, Hongyan; Qiu, Gang
  • An efficient intracavity KTA optical parametric oscillator (OPO) driven by diode-end-pumped acousto-optical Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser is demonstrated. The mode mismatch...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20794-20799 (2009)
  • Kuroda, Takashi; Zhokhov, Peter A; Watanabe, Kenji; Zheltikov, Aleksey M; Sakoda, Kazuaki
  • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) associated with the second-order Raman process has been confirmed in diamond. Frequency dependence of CARS was analyzed using two-color...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2268-2274 (2009)
  • Niu, Jinyan; Wang, Ruquan; Wu, Ling-An; Fu, Panming
  • In nonlinear atomic gaseous media the interference between independent macroscopic polarizations of different ensembles within the atomic velocity distribution can lead to anomalous...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2275-2279 (2009)
  • Zang, Xiaofei; Jiang, Chun
  • The nonlinear modulation dynamic properties of nonreciprocal indirect interband photonic transitions have been theoretically investigated in this paper. It is found that the period...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2280-2284 (2009)
  • Bortolozzo, Umberto; Laurie, Jason; Nazarenko, Sergey; Residori, Stefania
  • In an optical experiment, we report a wave turbulence regime that, starting with weakly nonlinear waves with randomized phases, shows an inverse cascade of photons toward the lowest...

  • Applied Optics, Vol. 48 Issue 33, pp.6417-6425 (2009)
  • Rabady, Rabi
  • Second harmonic generation in optical planar waveguides is the most promising mechanism for frequency doubling of laser emission since light can be highly confined to the nonlinear...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21509-21514 (2009)
  • Yan, Lihe; Si, Jinhai; Chen, Feng; Jia, Sen; Zhang, Yanpeng; Hou, Xun
  • We investigated the influence of self-diffraction effect on femtosecond cross pump-probe optical Kerr shutter (OKS) measurements for fast response and slow response materials,...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21515-21521 (2009)
  • Jovic, Dragana; Kivshar, Yuri S; Jovanovic, Raka; Belic, Milivoj
  • We study interaction of counterpropagating beams in truncated two-dimensional photonic lattices induced optically in photorefractive crystals, and demonstrate the existence of...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21544-21550 (2009)
  • Zhu, Haiyong; Duan, Yanmin; Zhang, Ge; Huang, Chenghui; Wei, Yong; Shen, Hongyuan; Zheng, Yiqun; Huang, Lingxiong; Chen, Zhenqiang
  • A high power and efficient 588 nm yellow light is demonstrated through intracavity frequency doubling of an acousto-optic Q-switched self-frequency Raman laser. A 30-mm-length...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21732-21737 (2009)
  • Davoyan, Arthur R; Shadrivov, Ilya V; Kivshar, Yuri S
  • We study nonlinear propagation of surface plasmon polaritons along an interface between metal and nonlinear Kerr dielectric. We demonstrate numerically self-focusing of a plasmon...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2301-2307 (2009)
  • Salgueiro, José Ramón; Santos, Francisco
  • We study the different families of vortex-type modes that can exist in a photonic crystal fiber with two close defects forming a dual-core coupler and presenting the Kerr...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2315-2322 (2009)
  • Umeki, T; Asobe, M; Yanagawa, T; Tadanaga, O; Nishida, Y; Magari, K; Suzuki, H
  • We achieved apodization in a quasi-phase-matched (QPM) wavelength converter by changing the duty cycle of a χ(2) grating. The new design yields a large bandwidth and a...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2323-2330 (2009)
  • Christian, J M; McDonald, G S; Chamorro-Posada, P
  • We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first exact analytical solitons of a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with a saturable refractive-index model. These new two-dimensional...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3625-3627 (2009)
  • Kartashov, Yaroslav V; Malomed, Boris A; Vysloukh, Victor A; Torner, Lluis
  • We consider two-component solitons in a medium with a periodic modulation of the nonlinear coefficient. The modulation enables the existence of complex multihump vector states. In...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3631-3633 (2009)
  • Kudlinski, A; Bouwmans, G; Vanvincq, O; Quiquempois, Y; Le Rouge, A; Bigot, L; Mélin, G; Mussot, A
  • GeO2-doped-core photonic crystal fibers show greatly enhanced Kerr and Raman responses with respect to pure silica without any significant modification of the...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3644-3646 (2009)
  • Chattopadhyay, M; Kumbhakar, P; Tiwary, C S; Mitra, A K; Chatterjee, U; Kobayashi, T
  • Three-photon-induced four-photon absorption via excited-state absorption and self-defocusing nonlinear refraction are reported for the first time, to our knowledge, in ZnO quantum...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3656-3658 (2009)
  • Han, Junbo; Abolghasem, Payam; Bijlani, Bhavin J; Helmy, Amr S
  • Efficient sum-frequency generation in epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs waveguides is reported. Phase matching is achieved for type II nonlinear interaction using Bragg reflection waveguides....

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3665-3667 (2009)
  • Chen, Shuqi; Zang, Weiping; Schülzgen, Axel; Liu, Xin; Tian, Jianguo; Moloney, Jerome V; Peyghambarian, Nasser
  • We propose a Z-scan theory for one-dimensional nonlinear photonic bandgap materials. The Z-scan characteristics for this material are analyzed. Results show that the Z-scan curves...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3701-3703 (2009)
  • Heinrich, M; Kartashov, Y V; Ramirez, L P R; Szameit, A; Dreisow, F; Keil, R; Nolte, S; Tünnermann, A; Vysloukh, V A; Torner, L
  • We observe experimentally two-dimensional solitons in superlattices comprising alternating deep and shallow waveguides fabricated via the femtosecond-laser direct writing technique....
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