Optics Letters — published by OSA

Classifying atmospheric ice crystals by spatial light scattering

• Paul H. Kaye, Edwin Hirst, Richard S. Greenaway, Zbigniew Ulanowski, Evelyn Hesse, Paul J. DeMott, Clive Saunders, and Paul Connolly
• pp. 1545-1547 [full text: PDF (328 KB)]

Lineshape asymmetry for joint coherent population trapping and three-photon N resonances

• Cindy Hancox, Michael Hohensee, Michael Crescimanno, David F. Phillips, and Ronald L. Walsworth
• pp. 1536-1538 [full text: PDF (161 KB)]

Controlling the phase delay of light transmitted through double-layer metallic subwavelength slit arrays

• Z. Marcet, J. W. Paster, D. W. Carr, J. E. Bower, R. A. Cirelli, F. Klemens, W. M. Mansfield, J. F. Miner, C. S. Pai, and H. B. Chan
• pp. 1410-1412 [full text: PDF (652 KB)]

Control of anisotropic diffraction in liquid-crystal composite volume gratings

• Akifumi Ogiwara, Shogo Horiguchi, Hiroshi Kakiuchida, Masato Tazawa, Kazuki Yoshimura, and Hiroshi Ono
• pp. 1521-1523 [full text: PDF (269 KB)]

Particle-swarm optimization of axially superresolving binary-phase diffractive optical elements

• Toufic G. Jabbour and Stephen M. Kuebler
• pp. 1533-1535 [full text: PDF (191 KB)]

Multiple fiber Bragg grating interrogation based on a spectrum-limited Fourier domain mode-locking fiber laser

• Daru Chen, Chester Shu, and Sailing He
• pp. 1395-1397 [full text: PDF (496 KB)]

Single-mode 212 W tapered fiber laser pumped by a low-brightness source

• Valery Filippov, Yuri Chamorovskii, Juho Kerttula, Artem Kholodkov, and Oleg G. Okhotnikov
• pp. 1416-1418 [full text: PDF (324 KB)]

Monolithic modulator and demodulator of differential quadrature phase-shift keying signals based on silicon microrings

• Lin Zhang, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yunchu Li, Muping Song, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Alan E. Willner
• pp. 1428-1430 [full text: PDF (464 KB)]

Bending-induced optical loss in random-hole optical fibers

• Gary Pickrell, Cheng Ma, and Anbo Wang
• pp. 1443-1445 [full text: PDF (300 KB)]

Bragg grating recording in low-defect optical fibers using ultraviolet femtosecond radiation and a double-phase mask interferometer

• Michalis Livitziis and Stavros Pissadakis
• pp. 1449-1451 [full text: PDF (261 KB)]

Enhanced fluorescence sensing using microstructured optical fibers: a comparison of forward and backward collection modes

• Shahraam Afshar V., Yinlan Ruan, Stephen C. Warren-Smith, and Tanya M. Monro
• pp. 1473-1475 [full text: PDF (292 KB)]

Theory of the effect of geomagnetic field on plug-and-play schemes for fiber-based quantum key distribution systems

• Antonio Mecozzi, Cristian Antonelli, and Misha Brodsky
• pp. 1476-1478 [full text: PDF (140 KB)]

Demonstration of differential phase-shift keying demodulation at 10 Gbit/s optimal fiber Bragg grating filters

• Davide Gatti, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Stefano Longhi, Davide Janner, Andrea Guglierame, and Michele Belmonte
• pp. 1512-1514 [full text: PDF (291 KB)]

Optical 10–20 and 20–40 Gbits/s pseudorandom bit sequence data multiplexing utilizing conversion–dispersion-based tunable optical delays

• Xiaoxia Wu, Louis Christen, Omer F. Yilmaz, Scott R. Nuccio, and Alan E. Willner
• pp. 1518-1520 [full text: PDF (626 KB)]

Proposal for arbitrary-order temporal integration of ultrafast optical signals using a single uniform-period fiber Bragg grating

• Mohammad H. Asghari and José Azaña
• pp. 1548-1550 [full text: PDF (211 KB)]

Optimized free-form phase mask for extension of depth of field in wavefront-coded imaging

• Yasuhisa Takahashi and Shinichi Komatsu
• pp. 1515-1517 [full text: PDF (455 KB)]

Fluorescence multicolor hologram recorded by using a macrolens array

• Natan T. Shaked, Barak Katz, and Joseph Rosen
• pp. 1461-1463 [full text: PDF (2826 KB)]

Phase-resolved Doppler optical coherence tomography—limitations and improvements

• Anna Szkulmowska, Maciej Szkulmowski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, and Maciej Wojtkowski
• pp. 1425-1427 [full text: PDF (297 KB)]

Contrast in four-beam-interference lithography

• Justin L. Stay and Thomas K. Gaylord
• pp. 1434-1436 [full text: PDF (383 KB)]

Speckle variance detection of microvasculature using swept-source optical coherence tomography

• Adrian Mariampillai, Beau A. Standish, Eduardo H. Moriyama, Mamta Khurana, Nigel R. Munce, Michael K. K. Leung, James Jiang, Alex Cable, Brian C. Wilson, I. Alex Vitkin, and Victor X. D. Yang
• pp. 1530-1532 [full text: PDF (459 KB)]

Rapid pulse shaping with homodyne detection for measuring nonlinear optical signals

• Ivan R. Piletic, Martin C. Fischer, Prathyush Samineni, Gunay Yurtsever, and Warren S. Warren
• pp. 1482-1484 [full text: PDF (275 KB)]

High spatial and temporal resolution mobile incoherent Doppler lidar for sea surface wind measurements

• Zhi-Shen Liu, Bing-Yi Liu, Song-Hua Wu, Zhi-Gang Li, and Zhang-Jun Wang
• pp. 1485-1487 [full text: PDF (522 KB)]

Wide electrical tunability of a GaInAsP/InP microdisk resonator

• Marie Lesecq, Sophie Maricot, Jean-Pierre Vilcot, and Maxime Beaugeois
• pp. 1467-1469 [full text: PDF (263 KB)]

Interference effect in scattering loss of high-index-contrast planar waveguides caused by boundary reflections

• J. H. Schmid, A. Delâge, B. Lamontagne, J. Lapointe, S. Janz, P. Cheben, A. Densmore, P. Waldron, D.-X. Xu, and K. P. Yap
• pp. 1479-1481 [full text: PDF (113 KB)]

Measurement of the comb dynamics for feedback control of an etalon-based coupled optoelectronic oscillator

• Franklyn Quinlan, Charles Williams, Sarper Ozharar, and Peter J. Delfyett
• pp. 1422-1424 [full text: PDF (277 KB)]

AlGaInAs intracavity selective absorber for an efficient high-power Nd:YAG laser operation at 1.44 μm

• Y. P. Huang, Y. T. Chang, K. W. Su, Y. F. Chen, and K. F. Huang
• pp. 1452-1454 [full text: PDF (261 KB)]

Ultralow quantum-defect eye-safe Er:Sc₂O₃ laser

• Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Larry D. Merkle, Akio Ikesue, and Mark Dubinskii
• pp. 1524-1526 [full text: PDF (374 KB)]

Rotating orthogonal polarization imaging

• Stephen P. Morgan, Qun Zhu, Ian M. Stockford, and John A. Crowe
• pp. 1503-1505 [full text: PDF (360 KB)]

Time delay limits of stimulated-Brillouin-scattering-based slow light systems

• Thomas Schneider
• pp. 1398-1400 [full text: PDF (184 KB)]

Ultrabroadband, coherent light source based on self-channeling of few-cycle pulses in helium

• E. Goulielmakis, S. Koehler, B. Reiter, M. Schultze, A. J. Verhoef, E. E. Serebryannikov, A. M. Zheltikov, and F. Krausz
• pp. 1407-1409 [full text: PDF (226 KB)]

Broadly tunable single-frequency cw mid-infrared source with milliwatt-level output based on difference-frequency generation in orientation-patterned GaAs

• Sergey Vasilyev, Stephan Schiller, Alexander Nevsky, Arnaud Grisard, David Faye, Eric Lallier, Z. Zhang, A. J. Boyland, J. K. Sahu, M. Ibsen, and W. A. Clarkson
• pp. 1413-1415 [full text: PDF (295 KB)]

Nonlinear femtosecond pulse reshaping in waveguide arrays

• Darren D. Hudson, Kimberlee Shish, Thomas R. Schibli, J. Nathan Kutz, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Roberto Morandotti, and Steven T. Cundiff
• pp. 1440-1442 [full text: PDF (319 KB)]

Single-frequency and tunable operation of a continuous intracavity-frequency-doubled singly resonant optical parametric oscillator

• Thu-Hien My, Cyril Drag, and Fabien Bretenaker
• pp. 1455-1457 [full text: PDF (335 KB)]

Observation of a nonlinear microfiber resonator

• Guillaume Vienne, Yuhang Li, Limin Tong, and Philippe Grelu
• pp. 1500-1502 [full text: PDF (257 KB)]

Method for measuring the threshold value of stimulated Brillouin scattering in water

• Jianhui Bai, Jinwei Shi, Min Ouyang, Xudong Chen, Wenping Gong, Hongmei Jing, Juan Liu, and Dahe Liu
• pp. 1539-1541 [full text: PDF (302 KB)]

Angular surface solitons in sectorial hexagonal arrays

• A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov, V. A. Vysloukh, M. Heinrich, F. Dreisow, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, F. Lederer, and L. Torner
• pp. 1542-1544 [full text: PDF (328 KB)]

Liquid-crystal-based terahertz tunable Solc filter

• I-Chen Ho, Ci-Ling Pan, Cho-Fan Hsieh, and Ru-Pin Pan
• pp. 1401-1403 [full text: PDF (308 KB)]

Ultrafast all-optical three-input Boolean XOR operation for differential phase-shift keying signals using periodically poled lithium niobate

• Jian Wang, Junqiang Sun, Xinliang Zhang, Dexiu Huang, and M. M. Fejer
• pp. 1419-1421 [full text: PDF (651 KB)]

All-optical 40 Gbits/s packet regeneration by means of cross-gain compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier

• G. Contestabile, R. Proietti, M. Presi, S. Gupta, and E. Ciaramella
• pp. 1470-1472 [full text: PDF (428 KB)]

Optical ac coupling to overcome limitations in the detection of optical power fluctuations

• Patrick Kwee, Benno Willke, and Karsten Danzmann
• pp. 1509-1511 [full text: PDF (267 KB)]

Iterative technique for analysis of periodic structures at oblique incidence in the finite-difference time-domain method

• Ilya Valuev, Alexei Deinega, and Sergei Belousov
• pp. 1491-1493 [full text: PDF (271 KB)]

Role of beam propagation in Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts

• A. Aiello and J. P. Woerdman
• pp. 1437-1439 [full text: PDF (116 KB)]

Subwavelength displacement of the far-field image of a radiating dipole

• Henk F. Arnoldus, Xin Li, and Jie Shu
• pp. 1446-1448 [full text: PDF (181 KB)]

Origin of broadband near-infrared luminescence in bismuth-doped glasses

• V. O. Sokolov, V. G. Plotnichenko, and E. M. Dianov
• pp. 1488-1490 [full text: PDF (455 KB)]

Modulation of coherence of vectorial electromagnetic waves in the Young interferometer

• Alfredo Luis
• pp. 1497-1499 [full text: PDF (104 KB)]

Pulse-resolved measurement of quadrature phase amplitudes of squeezed pulse trains at a repetition rate of 76 MHz

• Ryuhi Okubo, Mayumi Hirano, Yun Zhang, and Takuya Hirano
• pp. 1458-1460 [full text: PDF (329 KB)]

Top-hat cw-laser-induced time-resolved mode-mismatched thermal lens spectroscopy for quantitative analysis of low-absorption materials

• Nelson G. C. Astrath, Francine B. G. Astrath, Jun Shen, Jianqin Zhou, Paulo R. B. Pedreira, Luis C. Malacarne, Antonio C. Bento, and Mauro L. Baesso
• pp. 1464-1466 [full text: PDF (132 KB)]

Effect of metal permittivity on resonant properties of terahertz metamaterials

• Ranjan Singh, Abul K. Azad, John F. O'Hara, Antoinette J. Taylor, and Weili Zhang
• pp. 1506-1508 [full text: PDF (297 KB)]

Single-beam homodyne SPIDER for multiphoton microscopy

• Jiha Sung, Bi-Chang Chen, and Sang-Hyun Lim
• pp. 1404-1406 [full text: PDF (181 KB)]

Active spectral phase control by use of an acousto-optic programmable filter in high-repetition-rate sub-80 fs nonlinear fiber amplifiers

• D. N. Papadopoulos, I. Martial, M. Hanna, F. Druon, and P. Georges
• pp. 1431-1433 [full text: PDF (339 KB)]

Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering light generation in BBO crystal by using two crossing femtosecond laser pulses

• Jun Liu, Jun Zhang, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
• pp. 1494-1496 [full text: PDF (344 KB)]

Transform-limited 100 μJ, 340 MW pulses from a nonlinear-fiber chirped-pulse amplifier using a mismatched grating stretcher–compressor

• Y. Zaouter, J. Boullet, E. Mottay, and E. Cormier
• pp. 1527-1529 [full text: PDF (308 KB)]