OPTICAL LETTERS

 Optics Letters
Vol. 33, Iss. 15 -- August 1, 2008 pp: 1635-1776
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	Diffraction and gratings
LA eng
TE Optical characterization of wiregrid micropolarizers designed
   for infrared imaging polarimetry
AU Zhi Wu, Peter E.Powers, Andrew M.Sarangan, and Qiwen Zhan
PP 1653-1655
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LA eng
TE Optical properties of metallo-dielectric deep trench gratings:
   role of surface plasmons and Wood-Rayleigh anomaly
AU Arvind S.Vengurlekar
PP 1669-1671
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LA eng
TE Angular spectrum of diffracted wave fields with apochromatic
   correction
AU Carlos J.Zapata-Rodri'guez, Mari'a T.Caballero, and Juan J.Miret
PP 1753-1755
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	Fiber optics and optical communications
LA eng
TE Interrogation of a long-period grating using a mechanically
   scannable arrayed waveguide grating and a sampled chirped fiber
   Bragg grating
AU Honglei Guo, Yitang Dai, Gaozhi Xiao, Nezih Mrad, and
   Jianping Yao
PP 1635-1637
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LA eng
TE Distributed strain sensor based on dynamic grating in
   polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber
AU Xinyu Fan, Zuyuan He, and Kazuo Hotate
PP 1647-1649
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LA eng
TE In-fiber polymer-glass hybrid waveguide Bragg grating
AU Kaiming Zhou, Xianfeng Chen, Yicheng Lai, Kate Sugden,
   Lin Zhang, and Ian Bennion
PP 1650-1652
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LA eng
TE Influence of depressed-index outer ring on evanescent tunneling
   loss in tapered double-cladding fibers
AU Nan-Kuang Chen, Kuei-Chu Hsu, Shien-Kuei Liaw, Yinchieh Lai, and
   Sien Chi
PP 1666-1668
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LA eng
TE Simple and highly accurate technique for time delay measurement
   in optical fibers by free-running laser configuration
AU Ke Yun, Jing Li, Guangxiao Zhang, Lingling Chen, Weijian Yang,
   and Zhigang Zhang
PP 1732-1734
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	Fourier optics and signal processing
LA eng
TE Dynamic and geometric phase accumulation by Gaussian-type modes
   in first-order optical systems
AU Tatiana Alieva and Martin J.Bastiaans
PP 1659-1661
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LA eng
TE Photonic microwave bandpass filter with improved dynamic range
AU Yu Yan and Jianping Yao
PP 1756-1758
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	Geometric optics
LA eng
TE Controlling a ray bundle with a free-form reflector
AU R.Andrew Hicks
PP 1672-1674
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	Holography
LA eng
TE Improved thermal stability of volume holograms recorded in
   nanoparticle-polymer composite films
AU Yasuo Tomita, Toshihiro Nakamura, and Atsushi Tago
PP 1750-1752
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	Imaging systems
LA eng
TE Ultimate limit of resolution of subwavelength imaging devices
   formed by metallic rods
AU Ma'rio G.Silveirinha, Pavel A.Belov, and Constantin R.Simovski
PP 1726-1728
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	Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
LA eng
TE Absolute frequency determination of the 5P_{3/2}-->7S_{1/2}
   transition in ^{87}Rb
AU Kanhaiya Pandey, P.V.Kiran Kumar, M.V.Suryanarayana, and
   Vasant Natarajan
PP 1675-1677
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	Lasers and laser optics
LA eng
TE Experimental investigation of relative intensity noise in
   Brillouin fiber ring lasers for microwave photonics applications
AU Ste'phanie Molin, Ghaya Baili, Mehdi Alouini, Daniel Dolfi, and
   Jean-Pierre Huignard
PP 1681-1683
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LA eng
TE Dual-wavelength 92.5 GHz self-mode-locked InP-based quantum dot
   laser
AU Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, S.Raymond, P.J.Poole, P.J.Barrios, and
   D.Poitras
PP 1702-1704
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LA eng
TE Continuous-wave all-solid-state 244 nm deep-ultraviolet laser
   source by fourth-harmonic generation of an optically pumped
   semiconductor laser using CsLiB_{6}O_{10} in an external
   resonator
AU Yushi Kaneda, J.M.Yarborough, Li Li, N.Peyghambarian, Li Fan,
   Chris Hessenius, Mahmoud Fallahi, Joerg Hader, Jerome V.Moloney,
   Yoshiyuki Honda, Masato Nishioka, Youhei Shimizu,
   Kenshi Miyazono, Hiroya Shimatani, Masashi Yoshimura,
   Yusuke Mori, Yasuo Kitaoka, and Takatomo Sasaki
PP 1705-1707
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LA eng
TE Diode-end-pumped double Nd:YLF slab laser with high energy,
   short pulse width, and diffraction-limited quality
AU Daijun Li, Zhe Ma, Ruediger Haas, Alexander Schell, Peng Zhu,
   Peng Shi, and Keming Du
PP 1708-1710
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LA eng
TE 213 W average power of 2.4 GW pulsed thermally controlled
   Nd:glass zigzag slab laser with a stimulated Brillouin
   scattering mirror
AU Ryo Yasuhara, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Takashi Sekine,
   Takashi Kurita, Tadashi Ikegawa, Osamu Matsumoto,
   Masahiro Miyamoto, Hirofumi Kan, Hidetsugu Yoshida,
   Junji Kawanaka, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Noriaki Miyanaga,
   Yasukazu Izawa, and Tadashi Kanabe
PP 1711-1713
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LA eng
TE Observation of antisymmetric dispersion-managed solitons in a
   mode-locked laser
AU Andy Chong, William H.Renninger, and Frank W.Wise
PP 1717-1719
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LA eng
TE Angular dependence of the thermal-lens effect on LiSrAlF_{6} and
   LiSrGaF_{6} single crystals
AU Alysson Steimacher, Otavio Akira Sakai, Antonio Carlos Bento,
   Mauro Luciano Baesso, Antonio N.Medina, Sandro Marcio Lima, and
   Tomaz Catunda
PP 1720-1722
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LA eng
TE High-speed polygon-scanner-based wavelength-swept laser source
   in the telescope-less configurations with application in optical
   coherence tomography
AU S.M.R.Motaghian Nezam
PP 1741-1743
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LA eng
TE Azimuthally polarized 1 kW CO_{2} laser with a triple-axicon
   retroreflector optical resonator
AU Masamori Endo
PP 1771-1773
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	Medical optics and biotechnology
LA eng
TE Bessel beam spectral-domain high-resolution optical coherence
   tomography with micro-optic axicon providing extended focusing
   range
AU Kye-Sung Lee and Jannick P.Rolland
PP 1696-1698
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LA eng
TE Fluorescent optical tomography with large data sets
AU George Y.Panasyuk, Zheng-Min Wang, John C.Schotland, and
   Vadim A.Markel
PP 1744-1746
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	Microscopy
LA eng
TE Superlensing approach to a long-focus near-field probe
AU Eugene G.Bortchagovsky
PP 1765-1767
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	Nonlinear optics
LA eng
TE Phase noise generation in an amplitude limiter using saturation
   of a fiber-optic parametric amplifier
AU Masayuki Matsumoto
PP 1638-1640
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LA eng
TE All-optical isolation by directional coupling
AU Alessandro Alberucci and Gaetano Assanto
PP 1641-1643
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LA eng
TE Efficient mid-IR spectral generation via spontaneous fifth-order
   cascaded-Raman amplification in silica fibers
AU Peter T.Rakich, Yoel Fink, and Marin Soljachich
PP 1690-1692
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LA eng
TE High-energy, broadly tunable, narrow-bandwidth mid-infrared
   optical parametric system pumped by quasi-phase-matched devices
AU Jiro Saikawa, Mitsuhiko Miyazaki, Masaaki Fujii,
   Hideki Ishizuki, and Takunori Taira
PP 1699-1701
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LA eng
TE Soliton self-frequency shift decelerated by self-steepening
AU Aleksandr A.Voronin and Aleksei M.Zheltikov
PP 1723-1725
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LA eng
TE Nonlinear unbalanced Bessel beams in the collapse of Gaussian
   beams arrested by nonlinear losses
AU Miguel A.Porras and Alberto Parola
PP 1738-1740
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LA eng
TE Soliton modes, stability, and drift in optical lattices with
   spatially modulated nonlinearity
AU Yaroslav V.Kartashov, Victor A.Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
PP 1747-1749
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LA eng
TE Nonlinear photonic crystals near the supercollimation point
AU Zhiyong Xu, Bjoern Maes, Xunya Jiang, John D.Joannopoulos,
   Lluis Torner, and Marin Soljachich
PP 1762-1764
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LA eng
TE Propagation of solitons in thermal media with periodic
   nonlinearity
AU Yaroslav V.Kartashov, Victor A.Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
PP 1774-1776
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	Optical devices
LA eng
TE High-speed electro-optic control of the optical quality factor
   of a silicon microcavity
AU Sasikanth Manipatruni, Carl B.Poitras, Qianfan Xu, and
   Michal Lipson
PP 1644-1646
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LA eng
TE Nanoparticles-doped guest-host liquid crystal displays
AU Wen-Yu Teng, Shie-Chang Jeng, Chia-Wei Kuo, Yan-Rung Lin,
   Chi-Chang Liao, and Wei-Kuo Chin
PP 1663-1665
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LA eng
TE Enhancing fluorescence detection with a photonic crystal
   structure in a total-internal-reflection configuration
AU Jing Yong Ye and Mitsuru Ishikawa
PP 1729-1731
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LA eng
TE Label-free biosensor by protein grating coupler on planar
   optical waveguides
AU Zhian Lai, Yuli Wang, Nancy Allbritton, G.-P.Li, and Mark Bachman
PP 1735-1737
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	Optics at surfaces
LA eng
TE Photochemically deposited surface relief gratings of an
   azo-dye-labeled phospholipid from the aqueous phase
AU A.Kassu, J.M.Taguenang, and A.Sharma
PP 1656-1658
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	Optoelectronics
LA eng
TE Controlling the emission profile of a nanowire with a conical
   taper
AU Niels Gregersen, Torben R.Nielsen, Julien Claudon,
   Jean-Michel Ge'rard, and Jesper Mourk
PP 1693-1695
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	Physical optics
LA eng
TE Accelerating parabolic beams
AU Miguel A.Bandres
PP 1678-1680
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LA eng
TE Photochromism induced by infrared two-photon absorption
AU Mitsunori Saito and Yoshinori Takahashi
PP 1687-1689
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LA eng
TE Dynamics of spontaneous emission from SiN with two-dimensional
   photonic crystals
AU Xingsheng Xu, Toshiki Yamada, Rieko Ueda, and Akira Otomo
PP 1768-1770
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	Quantum optics
LA eng
TE Scalable fabrication of optical resonators with embedded
   site-controlled quantum dots
AU Thomas Suenner, Christian Schneider, Micha Strauss,
   Alexander Huggenberger, Daniel Wiener, Sven Hoefling,
   Martin Kamp, and Alfred Forchel
PP 1759-1761
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	Ultrafast optics
LA eng
TE Demonstration of large-aperture tiled-grating compressors for
   high-energy, petawatt-class, chirped-pulse amplification systems
AU J.Qiao, A.Kalb, T.Nguyen, J.Bunkenburg, D.Canning, and J.H.Kelly
PP 1684-1686
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LA eng
TE Compact 10 GHz loopback arrayed-waveguide grating for
   high-fidelity optical arbitrary waveform generation
AU Nicolas K.Fontaine, Ryan P.Scott, Chunxin Yang, David J.Geisler,
   Jonathan P.Heritage, Katsu Okamoto, and S.J.B.Yoo
PP 1714-1716
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	Erratum
	Lasers and laser optics
LA eng
TE Acceleration in vacuum of bare nuclei by tightly focused
   radially polarized laser light: erratum
AU Yousef I.Salamin
PP 1662
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