Optics Letters — published by OSA

Constrained matched filtering for extended dynamic range and improved noise rejection for Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing

• L. Gilles and B. L. Ellerbroek
• pp. 1159-1161 [full text: PDF (397 KB)]

Superbroadband fluorescence fiber fabricated with granulated oxides

• Loredana Di Labio, Willy Lüthy, Valerio Romano, Frédéric Sandoz, and Thomas Feurer
• pp. 1050-1052 [full text: PDF (188 KB)]

Phase modulation of an electro-optic polymer cladded polarization-maintaining optic fiber

• Liming Wang and Thomas D. Monte
• pp. 1078-1080 [full text: PDF (304 KB)]

Evaluating the performance improvement of differential phase-shift keying signals by amplitude regeneration and phase-noise suppression

• Chia-Chien Wei, Jason Chen, and Yung Jui Chen
• pp. 1090-1092 [full text: PDF (264 KB)]

Effect of fiber-spinning profile on plug-and-play quantum-key distribution systems

• Antonio Mecozzi, Cristian Antonelli, and Misha Brodsky
• pp. 1096-1098 [full text: PDF (157 KB)]

Refractive index sensor based on an abrupt taper Michelson interferometer in a single-mode fiber

• Zhaobing Tian, Scott S-H. Yam, and Hans-Peter Loock
• pp. 1105-1107 [full text: PDF (205 KB)]

Phase ripple correction: theory and application

• Josh A. Conway, George A. Sefler, Jason T. Chou, and George C. Valley
• pp. 1108-1110 [full text: PDF (264 KB)]

Phase-modulated multigroup volume holographic correlator

• Kai Ni, Wei Ren, Zongyao Qu, Liangcai Cao, Qingsheng He, and Guofan Jin
• pp. 1144-1146 [full text: PDF (461 KB)]

Orthonormal polynomials for hexagonal pupils: addendum

• Virendra N. Mahajan and Guang-ming Dai
• pp. 1077-1077 [full text: PDF (39 KB)]

Prism design for image orientation changes by the screw triangle method

• Chuang-Yu Tsai, Psang Dain Lin, and Yu-Lung Lo
• pp. 1081-1083 [full text: PDF (189 KB)]

Weighting iterative Fourier transform algorithm of the kinoform synthesis

• Alexander V. Kuzmenko
• pp. 1147-1149 [full text: PDF (412 KB)]

Optical coherence Doppler tomography quantifies laser speckle contrast imaging for blood flow imaging in the rat cerebral cortex

• Zhongchi Luo, Zhenguo Wang, Zhijia Yuan, Congwu Du, and Yingtian Pan
• pp. 1156-1158 [full text: PDF (336 KB)]

Optical coherence pulsed interferometry: shaping probe pulses in time-domain interferometry

• Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni, and Mario Martinelli
• pp. 1123-1125 [full text: PDF (466 KB)]

Junction field-effect-transistor-based germanium photodetector on silicon-on-insulator

• Subal Sahni, Xi Luo, Jian Liu, Ya-hong Xie, and Eli Yablonovitch
• pp. 1138-1140 [full text: PDF (328 KB)]

High-pulse-energy, actively Q-switched Tm³⁺,Ho³⁺-codoped silica 2μm fiber laser

• Marc Eichhorn and Stuart D. Jackson
• pp. 1044-1046 [full text: PDF (295 KB)]

Single-shot soft x-ray laser-induced ablative microstructuring of organic polymer with demagnifying projection

• T. Mocek, B. Rus, M. Kozlová, J. Polan, P. Homer, L. Juha, V. Hájková, and J. Chalupský
• pp. 1087-1089 [full text: PDF (208 KB)]

Generation of 220 mJ nanosecond pulses at a 10 Hz repetition rate with excellent beam quality in a diode-pumped Yb:YAG MOPA system

• Christoph Wandt, Sandro Klingebiel, Mathias Siebold, Zsuzsanna Major, Joachim Hein, Ferenc Krausz, and Stefan Karsch
• pp. 1111-1113 [full text: PDF (227 KB)]

Diode-pumped Yb³⁺:KYF₄ femtosecond laser

• Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Mauro Tonelli, Paolo Laporta, and Orazio Svelto
• pp. 1141-1143 [full text: PDF (284 KB)]

Single-frequency coupled asymmetric microcavity laser

• Lei Shang, Liying Liu, and Lei Xu
• pp. 1150-1152 [full text: PDF (309 KB)]

Excited-state absorption in a terpyridyl platinum(II) pentynyl complex

• Timothy M. Pritchett, Wenfang Sun, Fengqi Guo, Bingguang Zhang, Michael J. Ferry, Joy E. Rogers-Haley, William Shensky, and Andrew G. Mott
• pp. 1053-1055 [full text: PDF (291 KB)]

Microvascular oxygen quantification using two-photon microscopy

• Arnold D. Estrada, Adrien Ponticorvo, Tim N. Ford, and Andrew K. Dunn
• pp. 1038-1040 [full text: PDF (293 KB)]

Combined Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography device for tissue characterization

• Chetan A. Patil, Nienke Bosschaart, Matthew D. Keller, Ton G. van Leeuwen, and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
• pp. 1135-1137 [full text: PDF (420 KB)]

Local observation of modes from three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystals with near-field microspectroscopy under supercontinuum illumination

• Baohua Jia, Andrew H. Norton, Jiafang Li, Adel Rahmani, Ara A. Asatryan, Lindsay C. Botten, and Min Gu
• pp. 1093-1095 [full text: PDF (274 KB)]

Power-dependent switching of nonlinear trapping by local photonic potentials

• Y. Shavit, Y. Linzon, S. Bar-Ad, R. Morandotti, M. Volatier-Ravat, V. Aimez, and R. Ares
• pp. 1056-1058 [full text: PDF (434 KB)]

Two-color fiber amplifier for short-pulse, mid-infrared generation

• R. Romero-Alvarez, R. Pettus, Z. Wu, and D. Strickland
• pp. 1065-1067 [full text: PDF (141 KB)]

Surface solitons at interfaces of arrays with spatially modulated nonlinearity

• Y. V. Kartashov, V. A. Vysloukh, A. Szameit, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, T. Pertsch, and L. Torner
• pp. 1120-1122 [full text: PDF (338 KB)]

Observation of surface solitons in chirped waveguide arrays

• A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, V. A. Vysloukh, and L. Torner
• pp. 1132-1134 [full text: PDF (275 KB)]

Ultrafast laser fabrication of submicrometer pores in borosilicate glass

• Ran An, Jeffrey D. Uram, Erik C. Yusko, Kevin Ke, Michael Mayer, and Alan J. Hunt
• pp. 1153-1155 [full text: PDF (259 KB)]

Unfolded aplanats for high-concentration photovoltaics

• Jeffrey M. Gordon, Daniel Feuermann, and Pete Young
• pp. 1114-1116 [full text: PDF (371 KB)]

High-contrast organic light emitting diodes with a partially absorbing anode

• Christophe Py, Daniel Poitras, Chien-Cheng Kuo, and Hiroshi Fukutani
• pp. 1126-1128 [full text: PDF (340 KB)]

Enhancing light slow-down in semiconductor optical amplifiers by optical filtering

• Weiqi Xue, Yaohui Chen, Filip Öhman, Salvador Sales, and Jesper Mørk
• pp. 1084-1086 [full text: PDF (341 KB)]

Exact description of a cylindrically symmetrical complex-argument Laguerre-Gauss beam

• Shaohui Yan and Baoli Yao
• pp. 1074-1076 [full text: PDF (141 KB)]

Silicon-carbide-based extreme environment temperature sensor using wavelength-tuned signal processing

• Nabeel A. Riza and Mumtaz Sheikh
• pp. 1129-1131 [full text: PDF (128 KB)]

Infrared focal plane array with a built-in stationary Fourier-transform spectrometer: basic concepts

• Sylvain Rommeluère, Nicolas Guérineau, Riad Haidar, Joël Deschamps, Eric De Borniol, Alain Million, Jean-Paul Chamonal, and Gérard Destefanis
• pp. 1062-1064 [full text: PDF (289 KB)]

Energy limits imposed by two-photon absorption for pulse amplification in high-power semiconductor optical amplifiers

• Faisal R. Ahmad, Yen Wei Tseng, Mikhail A. Kats, and Farhan Rana
• pp. 1041-1043 [full text: PDF (362 KB)]

Optical time lens based on four-wave mixing on a silicon chip

• Reza Salem, Mark A. Foster, Amy C. Turner, David F. Geraghty, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta
• pp. 1047-1049 [full text: PDF (296 KB)]

Scheme for independently stabilizing the repetition rate and optical frequency of a laser using a regenerative mode-locking technique

• Masataka Nakazawa and Masato Yoshida
• pp. 1059-1061 [full text: PDF (389 KB)]

Rapid updating of optical arbitrary waveforms via time-domain multiplexing

• R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo
• pp. 1068-1070 [full text: PDF (459 KB)]

Environmentally stable all-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser

• Andy Chong, William H. Renninger, and Frank W. Wise
• pp. 1071-1073 [full text: PDF (77 KB)]

Efficient output coupling of intracavity high-harmonic generation

• D. C. Yost, T. R. Schibli, and Jun Ye
• pp. 1099-1101 [full text: PDF (189 KB)]

Bright and dark 40 GHz parabolic pulse generation using a picosecond optical pulse train and an arrayed waveguide grating

• Toshihiko Hirooka, Masataka Nakazawa, and Katsunari Okamoto
• pp. 1102-1104 [full text: PDF (334 KB)]

Two-dimensional envelope localized waves in the anomalous dispersion regime

• Stefania Malaguti, Gaetano Bellanca, and Stefano Trillo
• pp. 1117-1119 [full text: PDF (281 KB)]