Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Numerical Investigation of Metamaterials Infiltrated by Liquid Crystal

• Fuli Zhang, Qian Zhao, Davy Gaillot, Xiaopeng Zhao, and Didier Lippens
• received 07/03/2008; accepted 09/22/2008; posted 10/01/2008; Doc. ID 98200
• [full text: PDF (1196) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.3710) Materials : Liquid crystals
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials

Statistical properties of the photon-subtracted squeezed vacuum in thermal enviornment

• Li-yun Hu and Hong-yi Fan
• received 06/19/2008; accepted 09/18/2008; posted 09/26/2008; Doc. ID 97688
• [full text: PDF (601) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (000.5490) General : Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
• (270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
• (270.2500) Quantum optics : Fluctuations, relaxations, and noise

Phase-controlled polarization coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy for high sensitive and high contrast molecular imaging

• Fake Lu, Wei Zheng, and Zhiwei Huang
• received 06/17/2008; accepted 09/15/2008; posted 09/19/2008; Doc. ID 97496
• [full text: PDF (2281) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (110.0180) Imaging systems : Microscopy
• (180.6900) Microscopy : Three-dimensional microscopy
• (190.3970) Nonlinear optics : Microparticle nonlinear optics
• (190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
• (300.6230) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
• (100.3175) Image processing : Interferometric imaging

Wavelength-tunable optical short pulses with high sidemode suppression ratio generated by use of Bi-EDFA

• Xia Fang and Dong Ning Wang
• received 08/08/2008; accepted 09/15/2008; posted 09/23/2008; Doc. ID 99878
• [full text: PDF (341) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (320.0320) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast optics
• (320.5550) Ultrafast optics : Pulses
• (320.7090) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast lasers

Mechanisms of holographic recording in rubidium vapor close to resonance

• Nikolai Korneev and Olena Benavides
• received 06/19/2008; accepted 09/09/2008; posted 09/15/2008; Doc. ID 97697
• [full text: PDF (949) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (090.7330) Holography : Volume gratings
• (190.4223) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear wave mixing

Amplification in epitaxially grown Er:(Gd, Lu)$_2$O$_3$ waveguides for active integrated optical devices

• Andreas Kahn, Henning K�hn, Sebastian Heinrich, Klaus Petermann, Jonathan Bradley, Kerstin W�rhoff, Markus Pollnau, Yury Kuzminykh, and G�nter Huber
• received 08/08/2008; accepted 09/09/2008; posted 09/16/2008; Doc. ID 99995
• [full text: PDF (245) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.3380) Lasers and laser optics : Laser materials
• (230.7380) Optical devices : Waveguides, channeled
• (310.1860) Thin films : Deposition and fabrication
• (230.4480) Optical devices : Optical amplifiers

Modal Analysis of One-dimensional Non-uniform Arrays of Square Resonators

• Haroldo Hattori
• received 06/23/2008; accepted 09/09/2008; posted 09/10/2008; Doc. ID 97773
• [full text: PDF (682) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
• (140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers

Taper-microsphere coupling with numerical calculation of coupled-mode theory

• Chang-Ling Zou, Yong Yang, Chun-Hua Dong, Yun-Feng Xiao, Xiao-Wei Wu, Zheng-fu Han, and Guang-Can Guo
• received 07/14/2008; accepted 09/09/2008; posted 09/10/2008; Doc. ID 98738
• [full text: PDF (345) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components
• (140.3945) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavities
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

Controlling the photonic band structure of optically driven cold atoms

• Jin-Hui Wu, Maurizio Artoni, and Giuseppe La Rocca
• received 05/13/2008; accepted 09/09/2008; posted 09/11/2008; Doc. ID 95937
• [full text: PDF (1392) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (270.1670) Quantum optics : Coherent optical effects
• (190.4223) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear wave mixing
• (160.5298) Materials : Photonic crystals

Negative refractive indices of a confined discrete fishnet metamaterial at visible wavelengths

• Changchun Yan, Yiping Cui, Qiong Wang, and Shichuang Zhuo
• received 07/22/2008; accepted 09/04/2008; posted 09/08/2008; Doc. ID 99239
• [full text: PDF (1276) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.4760) Materials : Optical properties
• (260.5740) Physical optics : Resonance

{FEATURE: SL} Slow-Light Interferometry: Practical Limitations to Spectroscopic Performance

• Zhimin Shi and Robert Boyd
• received 04/17/2008; accepted 09/04/2008; posted 09/17/2008; Doc. ID 94991
• [full text: PDF (379) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
• (120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement
• (120.6200) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Spectrometers and spectroscopic instrumentation
• (260.2030) Physical optics : Dispersion

{SL} Analysis of optical ARMA architectures in the slow-light regime

• Vishnupriya Govindan and Steve Blair
• received 04/17/2008; accepted 09/03/2008; posted 09/15/2008; Doc. ID 95070
• [full text: PDF (695) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
• (190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
• (190.4180) Nonlinear optics : Multiphoton processes

Beneficial impact of wave-breaking for coherent continuum formation in normally dispersive nonlinear fibers

• Christophe Finot, Bertrand Kibler, Lionel Provost, and Stefan Wabnitz
• received 05/15/2008; accepted 09/01/2008; posted 09/15/2008; Doc. ID 96250
• [full text: PDF (1792) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (060.7140) Fiber optics and optical communications : Ultrafast processes in fibers

Design of long-period gratings in cladding-pumped microstructured optical fiber

• Luciano Mescia
• received 04/18/2008; accepted 09/01/2008; posted 09/03/2008; Doc. ID 95194
• [full text: PDF (360) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.2770) Diffraction and gratings : Gratings
• (060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components
• (060.2400) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber properties

{FEATURE: SL} Enhancement of dispersion modulation in nanoscale waveguides

• Alexander Govyadinov and Viktor Podolskiy
• received 04/16/2008; accepted 08/29/2008; posted 09/11/2008; Doc. ID 95047
• [full text: PDF (744) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
• (260.2030) Physical optics : Dispersion
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials

Soft x-ray laser holography with wavelength resolution

• Przemyslaw Wachulak, Mario Marconi, Randy Bartels, Carmen Menoni, and Jorge Rocca
• received 08/18/2008; accepted 08/26/2008; posted 09/03/2008; Doc. ID 100162
• [full text: PDF (533) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.7240) Lasers and laser optics : UV, EUV, and X-ray lasers
• (180.7460) Microscopy : X-ray microscopy
• (340.7480) X-ray optics : X-rays, soft x-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV)
• (090.1995) Holography : Digital holography

Frequency response of resonance modes in heterostructures composed of single-negative materials

• Yihang Chen
• received 06/17/2008; accepted 08/22/2008; posted 08/28/2008; Doc. ID 97573
• [full text: PDF (361) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
• (160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials
• (050.5298) Diffraction and gratings : Photonic crystals

Extremely large non-resonant second-order nonlinear optical response in crystals of the stilbazolium salt DAPSH

• Harry Figi, Lukas Mutter, Christoph Hunziker, Mojca Jazbinsek, Peter G�nter, and Benjamin Coe
• received 07/11/2008; accepted 08/22/2008; posted 08/28/2008; Doc. ID 98672
• [full text: PDF (1423) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
• (160.4760) Materials : Optical properties
• (160.4890) Materials : Organic materials
• (190.4400) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, materials
• (190.4710) Nonlinear optics : Optical nonlinearities in organic materials

Solitons in one-dimensional photonic crystals

• Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo and Boris Malomed
• received 07/18/2008; accepted 08/22/2008; posted 08/28/2008; Doc. ID 99085
• [full text: PDF (1254) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.2790) Integrated optics : Guided waves
• (130.4310) Integrated optics : Nonlinear
• (190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons

Cloak of arbitrary shape

• Jingjing Zhang, Yu Luo, Hongsheng Chen, and Bae-Ian Wu
• received 05/15/2008; accepted 08/22/2008; posted 08/28/2008; Doc. ID 96047
• [full text: PDF (718) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
• (290.5839) Scattering : Scattering, invisibility