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August

Ultrafast control of grating assisted light coupling to surface plasmons
Nir Rotenberg, Markus Betz, and Henry van Driel
received 06/06/2008; accepted 08/13/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 97022
[full text: PDF (291) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(320.0320) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast optics

Observation of Optical Precursors at the Biphoton Level
Shengwang Du, Chinmay Belthangady, Pavel Kolchin, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris
received 06/25/2008; accepted 08/11/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 97726
[full text: PDF (555) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(070.7345) Fourier optics and signal processing : Wave propagation

Nonlinear interaction between two different photonic bandgaps of a Hybrid Photonic Crystal Fiber
Arismar Cerqueira Sodre, C.M.B. Cordeiro, Fabio Biancalana, Peter J. Roberts, H.E. Hernandez-Figueroa, and Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
received 06/10/2008; accepted 08/09/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 97269
[full text: PDF (334) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(060.5295) Fiber optics and optical communications : Photonic crystal fibers

Light driven circular plasmon current in a silver nanoring
Shengli Zou
received 05/20/2008; accepted 08/08/2008; posted 08/14/2008; Doc. ID 96412
[full text: PDF (1165) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(220.4830) Optical design and fabrication : Systems design
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics

Towards visible CW pumped supercontinua
B Cumberland, J Travers, S Popov, and J Taylor
received 06/17/2008; accepted 08/07/2008; posted 08/14/2008; Doc. ID 97526
[full text: PDF (403) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing

Experimental quantum key distribution with an untrusted source
Peng Xiang, Hao Jiang, Bing Xu, Xiong Ma, and Hong Guo
received 06/19/2008; accepted 08/07/2008; posted 08/14/2008; Doc. ID 97607
[full text: PDF (276) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(270.5568) Quantum optics : Quantum cryptography

Near-confocal cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for multi-trace-gas detection
Xiaoyun LI, Yuxing Xia, Li Zhan, and Juming Huang
received 04/22/2008; accepted 08/07/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 95324
[full text: PDF (989) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(300.6450) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, Raman
(280.4788) Remote sensing and sensors : Optical sensing and sensors

Higher-band gap soliton formation in defocusing photonic lattices
Detlef Kip, Christian R�ter, Rong Dong, Zhe Wang, and Jingjun Xu
received 04/29/2008; accepted 08/06/2008; posted 08/13/2008; Doc. ID 95536
[full text: PDF (281) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(190.5330) Nonlinear optics : Photorefractive optics
(190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons

PbZr0.4Ti0.6O3 and Ba0.9Sr0.1TiO3 Reflectors Derived From Chemical Solutions Containing Polymers
Gu Hu, Jin Ling Shang, yan sun, Tian Zhang, wu jie, and jing xie
received 03/31/2008; accepted 08/06/2008; posted 08/14/2008; Doc. ID 94476
[full text: PDF (393) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(160.2260) Materials : Ferroelectrics
(310.6860) Thin films : Thin films, optical properties

Laser induced fluorescence imaging of sub-surface tissue structures with a volume holographic spatial-spectral imaging system
yuan luo, Paul J. Gelsinger-Austin, Jonathan M. Watson, George Barbastathis, Jennifer K. Barton, and Raymond K. Kostuk
received 06/10/2008; accepted 08/06/2008; posted 08/12/2008; Doc. ID 97220
[full text: PDF (602) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(090.4220) Holography : Multiplex holography
(090.7330) Holography : Volume gratings
(100.6890) Image processing : Three-dimensional image processing
(110.0110) Imaging systems : Imaging systems

Optical Parametric Generation of Nearly Transform-limited Mid-Infrared Pulses in Dispersion-Engineered Nonlinear Waveguides
Marco Marangoni, Mirko Lobino, and Roberta Ramponi
received 07/02/2008; accepted 08/06/2008; posted 08/12/2008; Doc. ID 98250
[full text: PDF (341) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(130.3060) Integrated optics : Infrared
(190.4390) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, integrated optics
(190.4975) Nonlinear optics : Parametric processes

Inverse scattering for one-dimensional Helmholtz equation: fast numerical method
Oleg Belai, Leonid Frumin, Evgenii Podivilov, and David Shapiro
received 02/26/2008; accepted 08/05/2008; posted 08/07/2008; Doc. ID 93212
[full text: PDF (215) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(100.3200) Image processing : Inverse scattering

Polymer-based micro/nanowire structures for three-dimensional photonic integrations
Menglin Guo, Jinchun Shi, and Baojun Li
received 06/26/2008; accepted 08/05/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 97919
[full text: PDF (569) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication
(250.5300) Optoelectronics : Photonic integrated circuits

Harmonic interferometry in the visible and UV based on second and third harmonic generation of a 25 ps mode-locked Nd:YAG laser
Fernando Brandi and Francesco Giammanco
received 05/13/2008; accepted 08/02/2008; posted 08/07/2008; Doc. ID 96120
[full text: PDF (233) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(000.2170) General : Equipment and techniques
(190.1900) Nonlinear optics : Diagnostic applications of nonlinear optics

Spectral phase induced by the reflection on a mirror-based waveguide grating in the neighborhood of modal resonance
David Pietroy, Alexandre Tishchenko, Olivier Parriaux, Manuel Flury, Stephane Robert, and Svetlen Tonchev
received 07/01/2008; accepted 08/02/2008; posted 08/06/2008; Doc. ID 98191
[full text: PDF (370) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(120.2130) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Ellipsometry and polarimetry
(230.7400) Optical devices : Waveguides, slab

7.3 W of single-frequency output power at 2.09 mm from a Ho:YAG monolithic nonplanar ring laser
Baoquan Yao, Xiao-Ming Duan, Dan Fang, Yun-Jun Zhang, Liang Ke, You-Lun Ju, Yue-Zhu Wang, and Guang-Jun Zhao
received 06/26/2008; accepted 08/02/2008; posted 08/07/2008; Doc. ID 97999
[full text: PDF (179) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(140.3560) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, ring
(140.3570) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, single-mode
(140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
(140.5680) Lasers and laser optics : Rare earth and transition metal solid-state lasers

Experimental validation of single-iteration multigrid wavefront reconstruction at the Palomar Observatory
Laurent Lessard, Douglas MacMynowski, Matthew West, Antonin Bouchez, and Sanjay Lall
received 06/10/2008; accepted 08/01/2008; posted 08/07/2008; Doc. ID 97266
[full text: PDF (181) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(010.1080) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Active or adaptive optics
(010.7350) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Wave-front sensing
(350.1260) Other areas of optics : Astronomical optics

All-Semiconductor Room-Temperature Terahertz Time Domain Spectrometer
Zakaria Mihoubi, Keith Wilcox, Stephen Elsmere, Adrian Quarterman, Rakchanok Rungsawang, Ian Farrer, Harvey Beere, David Ritchie, Anne Tropper, and Vasilis Apostolopoulos
received 06/17/2008; accepted 08/01/2008; posted 08/18/2008; Doc. ID 97566
[full text: PDF (309) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(300.6495) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, teraherz
(140.7270) Lasers and laser optics : Vertical emitting lasers

July

Manipulation of microscale objects using a microfabricated optical fiber
Samarendra Mohanty, Khyati Mohanty, and Michael Berns
received 04/01/2008; accepted 07/29/2008; posted 08/05/2008; Doc. ID 94428
[full text: PDF (326) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(020.7010) Atomic and molecular physics : Laser trapping
(060.2280) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber design and fabrication
(140.7010) Lasers and laser optics : Laser trapping
(350.4855) Other areas of optics : Optical tweezers or optical manipulation

Reflection-reduced encapsulated transmission grating
Tina Clausnitzer, Thomas K�mpfe, Frank Brueckner, Roland Heinze, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, and Andreas Tuennermann
received 06/03/2008; accepted 07/29/2008; posted 08/05/2008; Doc. ID 96986
[full text: PDF (499) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):
(050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
(230.1950) Optical devices : Diffraction gratings
(230.4000) Optical devices : Microstructure fabrication