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IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:
CFP07CLE-PRT 978-1-4244-3590-6
2007 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics (CLEO 2007)
Baltimore, MD 6 – 11 May 2007
Pages 1-561
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CLEO - MONDAY
CMA SHORT WAVELENGTH
CMA1 Tunable Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator in the Vacuum Ultraviolet ...........................1Jiaan Zheng
CMA2 Optimum Laser and Plasma Conditions for Achieving High-Order Harmonic Generation from Manganese Plume in the Range of 8.4nm ............................................................................3
Luc Bertrand, Elouga Bom
CMA3 Achromatic and Single-Beam Pulse Characterization Technique for Visible-UV Pulses Based on Direct UV Pulse Shaping and Cross-Polarized Wave Generation ......................................5
Nicolas Forget
CMB ULTRAFAST PROCESSES
CMB1 Frequency Doubling in Femtosecond-Written Periodically-Poled Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Waveguides .......................................................................................................................................7
Stuart Campbell
CMB2 Efficient High-Energy Femtosecond Pulse Compression in Quadratic Media with Flattop Beams ......................................................................................................................................................9
Jeffrey Moses
CMB3 Direct Time-Domain Measurements of the Pulse Amplitude Statistics of a Fiber Supercontinuum Source ...................................................................................................................................11
Daniel Solli
CMB4 All-Optical Delay of Images Using Slow Light ...................................................................................13Ryan Camacho
CMB5 Ultrafast Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator in Periodically Poled KTiOPO4 via Extended Phase Matching ..........................................................................................................................15
Ye Pu
CMB6 Group Velocity Control by Atomic Nonlinear Response in a Laser Cavity ....................................17Laden Arissian
CMB7 High Pulse Energy Supercontinuum Radiation Generated in a Single-Mode Fibre and Its Application to Near-IR Absorption Spectroscopy .............................................................................19
Rosalynne Watt
CMC FIBER LASERS I
CMC1 Towards the Short-Wavelength Limit at 1450 nm in a Widely Tunable Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser.............................................................................................................................................21
Nan-Kuang Chen
CMC2 396 fs, 2.5-12 GHz Asynchronous Mode-Locking Erbium Fiber Laser...........................................23Eunezio De Souza
CMC3 Mode-Locked, Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser with 25 GHz Spacing ...................25Lawrence Chen
CMC4 Dynamics of All-Fiber Self-Q-switched Ytterbium/Samarium Laser ..............................................27Andrei Fotiadi
CMC5 Linearly-Polarized Yb-Doped Fiber Laser in an All-Fiber Configuration......................................29Akira Shirakawa
CMC6 Phase Locking of Nanosecond Pulses of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a Two-Element Fiber Laser Array ..............................................................................................................................31
Fanting Kong
CMC7 Spectral Beam Combining of Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers with Excellent Beam Quality................................................................................................................................................................33
Sandro Klingebiel
CMD SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT LASERS I
CMD1 Three-Dimensional Quantization from an Ordered Nanopore Array Diode Laser .......................35V. Elarde
CMD2 Ground State Lasing at 1.34 µm from InAs Quantum Dots Grown on GaAs Substrate by Antimony-Mediated Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition ..........................................37
Denis Guimard
CMD4 Ultra-Low Threshold Lasing in a Quantum Dot Microdisk Cavity .................................................39Glenn Solomon
CMD5 Low-Threshold Current-Injection Single-Mode Lasing in T-Shaped Quantum Wires with Parallel Doping Layers..................................................................................................................41
Shu-man Liu
CMD6 InP / AlGaInP on GaAs Quantum Dot Lasers ...................................................................................43Peter Smowton
CME UV AND VISIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONIC MATERIALS
CME1 Highly Efficient Resonance Energy Transfer in Ultrathin Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Hybrid Films ...........................................................................................................................45
Qiang Zhang
CME2 Near Field Optical Spectroscopy Studies of Carrier Localization in AlxGa1-xN Alloys ..................................................................................................................................................................47
Pavel Capek
CME3 MOCVD Epitaxy and Optical Properties of Self-Assembled InGaN Quantum Dots via Stranski-Kastranow Growth Mode Emitting at 520-nm .........................................................................49
Yik-Khoon Ee
CME4 High Resolution Utraviolet to Visible Image Conversion Using Self-Assembled CdSe/ZnCdMgSe Quantum Dots Photoluminescence ...................................................................................51
Iosif Zeylikovich
CME5 Angle Resolved Transmission Spectroscopy of ZnSe Based Microcavities Fabricated Using Epitaxial Liftoff Technique ................................................................................................53
Arran Curran
CME6 Nanophotonic Switch Using One-Dimensional ZnO Double-Quantum-Well Structures...........................................................................................................................................................55
Takashi Yatsui
CME7 ZnO p-n Junction Photodetectors .......................................................................................................57Ping Yu
CMF 100 YEARS OF LEDS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
CMF1 Visible LEDs: Past, Present, and Future.............................................................................................59George Craford
CMF2 Micro-Pixellated Flip-Chip InGaN and AlInGaN Light-Emitting Diodes.......................................61Chris Griffin
CMF3 HVPE-Grown n-InGaN/p-GaN Single Heterostructure LED With p-Side down ...........................63Meredith Reed
CMF4 The Characteristics of a High-Q GaN Micro-Cavity Light Emitting Diode ....................................65Chih-Chiang Kao
CMF5 Enhancement of Radiative Efficiency of Nitride-Based LEDs via Staggered InGaN Quantum Wells Emitting at 420-500 nm.........................................................................................................67
Ronald Arif
CMF6 Influence of the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect of an InGaN/GaN Quantum Well on Its Coupling with Surface Plasmons for Emission Enhancement ............................................................69
Cheng-Yen Chen
CMG FILTERS
CMG1 Low Loss and Low Crosstalk Multimode Polymer Waveguide Crossings for High-Speed Optical Interconnects.............................................................................................................................71
Nikolaos Bamiedakis
CMG2 Wavelength-Independent Bent-Fiber Coupler to an Ultra-High Q Cavity Demonstrated over 850 nm Span .....................................................................................................................73
Steven Wang
CMG3 Active Narrowband Multiple Wavelength Filters and Frequency Doublers in Aperiodically Poled Lithium Niobates ............................................................................................................75
Chao-Hung Lin
CMG4 Bandwidth-Tunable Add-Drop Filters Based on MEMS-Actuated Single-Crystalline Silicon Microtoroidal Resonators.................................................................................................77
Jin Yao
CMG5 Synthesis of the Transfer Function of a Spectral Bragg Filter Using Electro-Optical Phase-Shift Keying ............................................................................................................................................79
Poonam Arora
CMG6 Group Delay Ripple in Fiber Bragg Gratings: Electronic Equalization .........................................81Kasyapa Balemarthy
CMG7 Apodisation of Photo-Induced Waveguide Gratings with Double-Exposure of Reversely Varied Duty Cycles ..........................................................................................................................83
Xuewen Shu
CMG8 Analysis of Filter-Assisted 160 Gb/s Wavelength Converter Using a Single Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ....................................................................................................................85
Zhonggui Li
CMH ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS
CMH1 Advanced LiNbO3 Modulation ............................................................................................................87Tetsuya Kawanishi
CMH2 Performance Comparison of Duobinary and DQPSK Modulation Formats for Mixed 10/40-Gbit/s WDM Transmission on SMF and LEAF Fibers ...........................................................89
Erwan Pincemin
CMH3 Bi-Directional DPSK Transmission over 230-km SSMF Employing Innovative Bi-Directional Amplification .................................................................................................................................91
Ming Fang Huang
CMH4 QPSK-Homodyne Transmission Using a Multi-Wavelength Fabry-Perot Laser Diode...................................................................................................................................................................93
Moriya Nakamura
CMH5 Parameters Affecting the Performance of WDM-DPSK Systems Based on SOA Amplifiers ..........................................................................................................................................................95
Ernesto Ciaramella
CMH6 Noise-Induced Spectral Shifts in Pseudo-Linear Fiber-Optic Communication Systems ...............................................................................................................................................................97
Armando Pinto
CMI PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY I
CMI1 Optical Clocks Based on Single Ions and Atoms .................................................................................99Fritz Riehle
CMI2 Experimental Study Comparing EIT in V and ? Schemes in Acetylene-Filled HC-PCF...................................................................................................................................................................101
Philip Light
CMI3 High Accuracy Photon-Counting Detector Calibration and Independent Verification of a Correlated-Photon Calibration Technique.......................................................................103
Sergey Polyakov
CMI4 Magnetic Field-Induced Spectroscopy of Optical Clock Transitions in an Elliptically Polarized Lattice Field ....................................................................................................................................105
Valeriy Yudin
CMI5 Optical Frequency Measurements in the Far- and Mid-infrared Range ........................................107Peter Gaal
CMI6 A Broadband Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy Using a Femtosecond White-Light Continuum .......................................................................................................................................................109
Anton Trifonov
CMJ PARAMETRIC DEVICES
CMJ1 New Light from Gallium Arsenide: Micro-Structured GaAs for Mid-IR and THz-Wave Generation.............................................................................................................................................111
Konstantin Vodopyanov
CMJ2 GaAs Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Circularly Polarized Pump........................................113Paulina Kuo
CMJ3 Energy Scaling of a White-Light-Seeded Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier.................115Jiaan Zheng
CMJ4 A Very Simple and Versatile Dual-Signal Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator ...........................117Luca Tartara
CMJ5 Deep Domain Inversions in X-Cut MgO:LiNbO3 for Efficient Infrared Generation....................119Francis Genereux
CMJ6 Ultrafast Pump-Probe Experiment Based on Extremely Broadband Second-Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................121
Yen-Cheng Lu
CMK ULTRAFAST PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION I
CMK2 Development of a Few-Cycle Infrared OPCPA System and Its Use in High-Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................123
Xun Gu
CMK3 1.2-mJ, 1-kHz OPCPA System toward Few-Cycle Pulse ................................................................125Shunsuke Adachi
CMK4 Generation of High Repetition Rate Few-Cycle Pulses from a Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................................127
Andy Steinmann
CML FIBER LASERS II
CML1 Synchronised Pulsed Pumped Fiber Amplifiers...............................................................................129Christian Bohling
CML2 Pulsed, Fiber-Based Laser with Widely Tunable Repetition Rate, Fixed Pulse Duration, and Minimal Nonlinear Effects.....................................................................................................131
Dahv Kliner
CML3 Shot Noise Limited Fiber Laser Source by Frequency Locking to a Fiber Ring Cavity ...............................................................................................................................................................133
Jong Chow
CML4 Dye-Doped Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre Laser with High Numerical Aperture Air-Clad...........................................................................................................................................135
Kang Li
CML5 Dynamic Surface Emitting Fiber Laser ............................................................................................137Ofer Shapira
CML6 Evanescent-Wave Pumped Microfiber Knot Laser .........................................................................139Limin Tong
CML7 2.1 µm CW Raman Source in GeO2 Fiber ........................................................................................141B. Cumberland
CMM SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT LASERS II
CMM1 Two-Section Quantum Dot Lasers with 20-dB Modulation Efficiency Improvement.................143Yan Li
CMM2 Dynamics of Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Lasers ......................................................................145Bryan Ellis
CMM3 Characterization of the Static and Dynamic Parameters in a 1.3-µm Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Laser ........................................................................................................................................147
Yongchun Xin
CMM4 Gain Dynamics after Ultrashort Pulse Trains in Quantum Dot Based Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ................................................................................................................149
Sabine Dommers
CMM5 All-Epitaxial VCSELs with Tunnel-Coupled QDs-QW InAs-InGaAs Active Medium ............................................................................................................................................................151
Vadim Tokranov
CMM6 Selectively Populating a Quantum Dot Ensemble Using a Tunnel Injection Structure ..........................................................................................................................................................153
Adrian George
CMM7 Y-Junction-Coupled S-Section InAs/InGaAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Ring Lasers with High Unidirectionality ....................................................................................................................................155
Marek Osinski
CMN NEAR-INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
CMN1 Angle-Resolved Entanglement Spectroscopy for Semiconductor Applications ............................157Walter Hoyer
CMN2 Strong Lateral Confinment in Ga(AsSb)/GaAs/(AlGa)As Heterostructures ................................159Swantje Horst
CMN3 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Nitrogen-Cluster States in Diluted Ga(NAs)/GaAs Heterostructures ...................................................................................................................161
Kristian Hantke
CMN4 N-Rich and Dilute-Nitride GaNx(AsSb)1-x on InP Substrates .......................................................163Luke Mawst
CMN5 Photovoltaic Detectors in the GaN/AlN Intersubbandsystem Operating at 1.55 µm....................165Esther Baumann
CMN6 Sub-Band Energy Level Controlling of QDs Using InGaAs Gradient Composition Strain-Reducing Layer ...................................................................................................................................167
Takeru Amano
CMN7 InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Saturable Absorber Mirror for Passive Mode-Locking of Nd:YVO4 Lasers at 1064 nm .........................................................................................................................169
C. Scurtescu
CMO NANOCRYSTALLINE AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTERS
CMO1 Efficient All-Inorganic Colloidal Quantum Dot LEDs....................................................................171Vanessa Wood
CMO2 Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Colloidal Nanocrystals ....................................................173Marek Osinski
CMO3 InGaN/GaN MQW Nanorods LED Fabricated by ICP-RIE and PEC Oxidation Processes ..........................................................................................................................................................175
Fang-I Lai
CMO4 Recent Progress in Phosphorescent White Organic Light-Emitting Devices for Displays and Lighting .....................................................................................................................................177
Vadim Adamovich
CMO5 White Light Generation with Azide Functionalized Polyfluorene Hybridized on Near-UV Light Emitting Diode ......................................................................................................................179
Ozge Huyal
CMO6 Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Optical Upconversion Device...............................................................181Dayan Ban
CMP SWITCHES AND MODULATORS
CMP1 Novel Si-Based Optoelectronic Switching Device: Light to Latch ..................................................183Ali Okyay
CMP2 High-Speed MEMS Micromirror Switching.....................................................................................185Gregory Nielson
CMP3 GaAs/AlGaAs Five-Layer Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Well (FACQW) Mach-Zehnder Modulator.........................................................................................................................................187
Taro Arakawa
CMP4 1.3 µm Quantum-Dot Electro-Absorption Modulator .....................................................................189Yuanliang Chu
CMP5 Duty-Cycle and Chirp Diagnosis of All-Optical Format Conversion Data in Multi- and Single-Wavelength Inverse Optical Comb Injected Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ....................191
Gong-Ru Lin
CMP6 High Speed Response of Optical Nonlinear Phase Shifter Based on 1.55 µm VCSEL..................193Satoshi Suda
CMP7 Electro-Optic Ti:PPLN Waveguides as Efficient Optical Wavelength Filters and Mode Polarization Converters .......................................................................................................................195
Yen-Hung Chen
CMQ SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
CMQ1 First 10Gb/s Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) Optical Transceiver for 140km DWDM Transmission .....................................................................................................................................197
Sunil Priyadarshi
CMQ2 Advanced Modulation Formats and Digital Signal Processing in Optical Communications..............................................................................................................................................199
Joseph Kahn
CMQ3 PMD Compensation Using LDPC Coding Based Turbo Equalization ..........................................201Ivan Djordjevic
CMQ4 Massively Parallel Transmission over Multimode Fiber Applied to 100 Gigabit Ethernet with Random-Coding ......................................................................................................................203
Maxim Greenberg
CMQ5 Optical Error Correction Using Passive Optical Logic Gates Demodulators in Differential Demodulation ..............................................................................................................................205
Yannick Lize
CMR PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY II
CMR2 A 4-Hz Fundamental Linewidth On-Chip Microlaser ....................................................................207Lan Yang
CMR3 Low Phase Noise 250 MHz Repetition Rate Fiber fs Laser for Frequency Comb Applications .....................................................................................................................................................209
Tobias Wilken
CMR4 Laser-Mode Dynamics Measurement and Control of Mode-Locked Er-Fiber Lasers.................211Yohei Kobayashi
CMR5 Terahertz Frequency Comb for High-Accuracy, High-Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy ....................................................................................................................................................213
Shuko Yokoyama
CMR6 Doubly Modulated Interferometry for Trace Gas Detection ..........................................................215Steven Hughes
CMS CUBIC NONLINEARITY AND APPLICATIONS
CMS1 Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing with Defocusing Nonlinearity .......................................................217Shu Jia
CMS2 Transient Two-Wave Mixing via Dynamic Phase Gratings in Yb-Doped Fibers with Saturable Absorption......................................................................................................................................219
Serguei Stepanov
CMS3 2-kW Average Power CW Phase-Conjugate Solid-State Laser ......................................................221David Rockwell
CMS4 Stability of Polarization Vortices in Self-Focusing Kerr Media ......................................................223Amiel Ishaaya
CMS5 Nonlinear Diffractive Optical Elements ............................................................................................225Ofer Manela
CMS6 Optical Limiting in Solid-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers .................................................................227James Butler
CMS7 Dynamics of Thermally Induced Optical Bistability in Yb3+-Er3+ Co-Doped Phosphate Glass Microspherical Lasers........................................................................................................229
Danny O'Shea
CMT ULTRAFAST PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION II
CMT1 Generation of Terawatt Sub-8 fs Laser Pulses Using Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification .........................................................................................................................................231
Kjeld Eikema
CMT2 1 mJ, Multi-kHz, Sub-500 fs Diode-Pumped Ytterbium Laser Amplifier .....................................233Clemens Hönninger
CMT3 Ultrabroadband Femtosecond Continuum Amplification in Crystals of Bismuth Triborate ..........................................................................................................................................................235
Valentin Petrov
CMT4 Tunable Phase-Stable Few-Optical-Cycle Visible Pulses by Parametric Amplification of a Self-Phase-Stabilized Seed ..............................................................................................237
Giulio Cerullo
CMT5 Tunable 20 fs Red Pulses with up to 200 nJ Energy from a 2 MHz Yb-Doped Fiber Oscillator/Amplifier System ...........................................................................................................................239
Christian Schriever
CMT6 An 11-fs, 5-kHz Optical Parametric/Ti:sapphire Hybrid Chirped Pulse Amplification System ......................................................................................................................................241
Xiangyu Zhou
CMU FEMTOSECOND FIBER OSCILLATORS AND APPLICATIONS
CMU1 Fiber Laser Frequency Combs ..........................................................................................................243Nathan Newbury
CMU2 Self-Referenced Yb-Fiber-Laser Frequency Comb Using a Dispersion Micromanaged Tapered Holey Fiber ............................................................................................................245
Ingmar Hartl
CMU3 91 fs Pulses from an Yb-Doped Figure-Eight Fiber-Laser Dispersion Compensated with Higher-Order-Mode Fiber .....................................................................................................................247
Jeffrey Nicholson
CMU4 Properties of All-Normal-Dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Lasers...................................................249Andy Chong
CMU5 Subpicosecond Soliton Outputs from an Entirely Normal-Dispersion Fiber Laser .....................251Janet Lou
CMU6 Optically Assisted Deposition of Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorbers ....................................253Jeffrey Nicholson
CMV SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASERS
CMV1 Electrically Pumped Photonic Crystal Lasers..................................................................................255Yong Hee Lee
CMV2 Room-Temperature CW Lasing Characteristics in Photonic Crystal Nanolasers and Their Thresholdless Behavior.................................................................................................................257
Kengo Nozaki
CMV3 60 MicroWatts of Fiber-Coupled Peak Output Power from an Edge-Emitting Photonic Crystal Heterostructure Laser .......................................................................................................259
Ling Lu
CMV4 Radially Polarized Doughnut Beam Emitted by a Two-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Laser ...................................................................................................................................................261
Kyosuke Sakai
CMV5 Experimental Observation of Band-Edge Lasing in Broad Planar 2D Photonic Crystal Waveguides ........................................................................................................................................263
Cyril Cambournac
CMV6 Single Mode Operation of Integrated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Coupled Surface Emitting Lasers .................................................................................................................................265
Shih-Chieh Huang
CMW LASERS AND LASER MATERIALS
CMW1 All Taper Coupled Novel Fluoride Glass Microspherical Light Source for Microphotonics ................................................................................................................................................267
Danny O'Shea
CMW2 Rare Earth Doped Silver Halide Crystals: A New Candidate for Mid-IR Solid State Lasers and Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers .............................................................................................269
Ofer Gayer
CMW3 Energy Transfer Analysis between Tb3+ and Yb3+ Codoped in Silicate Glasses under the 0.98 µm Excitation .........................................................................................................................271
Tatsuya Yamashita
CMW4 Confocal Micro-Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy across Grain Boundaries in Transparent Nd:YAG Ceramics Laser Gain Media................................................................................273
Mariola Ramirez
CMW5 Low-Loss Al2O3 Waveguides for Active Integrated Optics............................................................275Markus Pollnau
CMW6 Ultraviolet Emission in Doped α-Nano-Alumina ............................................................................277Samuel Oliveira
CMW7 NaLa(WO4)2 and NaY(WO4)2 Raman Converters for Picosecond Pulses ....................................279Valdas Pasiskevicius
CMX ATTOSECOND METROLOGY AND WAVEPACKET DYNAMICS
CMX1 Attosecond Metrology ........................................................................................................................281Paul Corkum
CMX2 Rydberg Wavepacket Metrology and Dynamics..............................................................................282Robert Jones
CMX3 Table Top Extreme Ultraviolet Holography ....................................................................................283Randy Bartels
CMY PHOTODETECTORS
CMY1 Characterization of a Sub-THz Photonic Transmitter Based on a Separated-Transport-Recombination Photodiode..........................................................................................................285
Jin-Wei Shi
CMY2 High Gain ZnO Nanowire Phototransistor ......................................................................................287Arthur Zhang
CMY3 Silicon-Germanium p-i-n Photodetectors at Telecommunication Wavelengths Grown Directly on Silicon ..............................................................................................................................289
Dyan Ali
CMY4 Si/SiGe-Based Photodiode on a Standard Silicon Substrate for 10-Gbit/s Short-Reach Fiber Communication at 830nm Wavelength ...................................................................................291
Jin-Wei Shi
CMY5 Germanium-on-SOI Photo-Detector Based on an FET Structure .................................................293Subal Sahni
CMY6 Enhancing Infrared Photodetection with a Circular Metal Grating..............................................295Ravi Bhat
CMZ OPTICAL REGENERATION
CMZ1 Regeneration Using an SOA-MZI in a 100-Pass 10,000-km Recirculating Fiber Loop..................................................................................................................................................................297
Jade Wang
CMZ2 Coherent Interference 2R Regeneration of Optical CDMA Based on MZI SOA .........................299Tiago Silveira
CMZ3 Recirculating-Loop Study of Dispersion-Managed 2R Regeneration ............................................301Michael Vasilyev
CMZ4 Phase Regeneration of DPSK Signals Based on Symmetric-Pump Phase-Sensitive Amplification in Bismuth Oxide Highly Nonlinear Fiber............................................................................303
Kevin Croussore
CMZ5 Using a Newly Developed Long-Period Grating Filter to Improve the Timing Tolerance of a 320 Gb/s Demultiplexer .........................................................................................................305
Leif Oxenlowe
CMZ6 Experimental Demonstration of Optical TTL Based Selective-3R in OLS Network Testbed with Label Rewriting ........................................................................................................................307
Bo Xiang
CMAA OPTICAL MANIPULATION OF CELLS
CMAA1 The Guiding Light: Holographic Manipulation of Mesoscopic Systems ....................................309David Grier
CMAA2 Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers ..................................................311Sudeep Mandal
CMAA3 Mega-Pixel Laser Chips of Photonic Quantum Ring Holes for Optical Manipulation of Biological Cells ....................................................................................................................313
S. E. Lee
CMAA4 Circulating Optical Particle Trapping through the Integration of Fiber Optics and Microfluidics ............................................................................................................................................315
J. Thomas Blakely
CMAA5 Integrated, All-Optical, Particle Characterization and Sorting in Microfluidic Systems .............................................................................................................................................................317
Robert Applegate
CMAA6 Fiber Optical Tweezers for Cell Manipulation and Force Sensing .............................................319Yuxiang Liu
CMBB SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION
CMBB1 Ultraviolet Second Harmonic Generation in β-BaB2O4 Waveguides...........................................321Riccardo Degl'Innocenti
CMBB2 Observation of Second-Harmonic Generation from Wurzite AlxGa1-xN Multilayers in Reflection Geometry ..............................................................................................................323
Zhan Fu
CMBB3 Widely Tunable SHG in a PPLN Using a Low Voltage ................................................................325Francis Genereux
CMBB4 Bandwidth Control of Second Harmonic Generation through Chirped Period Poling of Optical Fibres ..................................................................................................................................327
Albert Canagasabey
CMBB5 Thermal Managements for Highly Efficient SHG with Linear Input/Output Characteristics Using Periodically Poled Stoichiometric LiTaO3 ...............................................................329
Hideki Hatano
CMBB6 Broadband Frequency Doubling in Unpoled SBN Crystals in the Thermal Focusing Regime..............................................................................................................................................331
Robert Fischer
CMBB7 Three-Primary-Color Laser Efficiently Generated from the Second Harmonic Emission of a Nd:YAG Laser .........................................................................................................................333
Totaro Imasaka
CMCC NANOPARTICLES AND RHEOLOGY
CMCC2 Molecular Imaging of EGFR Expression in Live Cancer Cells Using Immunotargeted Nanoparticles .....................................................................................................................335
Matthew Crow
CMCC3 Measuring Gold Nanoparticle Concentrations in Tissue Using Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy ....................................................................................................................................................337
Raiyan Zaman
CMCC4 Molecular Imaging Using CdSe/ZnS/Lipid Quantum Dots as Contrast Agents of Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy .....................................................................................................339
Shih-Peng Tai
CMDD NONLINEAR ULTRAFAST PROPOGATION
CMDD1 Generation of 5fs, 0.7mJ Two-Cycle Pulses at 1kHz with CEP Controlled through Cascade Filamentation....................................................................................................................................341
Xiaowei Chen
CMDD2 Spatio-Temporal Structure of Sub-10-fs Pulses Generated in a Self-Compressed White-Light Filament .....................................................................................................................................343
Günter Steinmeyer
CMDD3 Ultrafast Imaging of Wakefields.....................................................................................................345Michael Downer
CMDD4 Angle-Dispersion Compensation of Multiple CARS Signals in LiNbO3 towards Extremely-Short Optical Pulse Generation ..................................................................................................347
Eiichi Matsubara
CMDD5 Pulse Polarization Splitting in a Transient Wave Plate................................................................349Klaus Hartinger
CMDD6 High-Order Enhancement of Multi-Frequency Raman Generation in a Hollow Fibre .................................................................................................................................................................351
Fraser Turner
CMEE ULTRASHORT PULSE FIBER AMPLIFICATION
CMEE1 Bi2O3-Based Erbium Doped Double Core Fiber for Short Pulse Amplification .........................353Seiki Ohara
CMEE2 Diffraction Limited Amplification of Picosecond Pulses at 1.55 µm Wavelength to 14 kW Peak Power in a Single Stage Core-Pumped Er Fiber Amplifier ...................................................355
Jayesh Jasapara
CMEE3 Direct Amplification of 3-ps Pulses to 80 nJ at 50-MHz Repetition Rate in Large-Mode-Area Yb-Fiber ......................................................................................................................................357
Dimitre Ouzounov
CMEE4 50-W Chirped-Volume-Bragg-Grating Based Fiber CPA at 1055-nm........................................359Guoqing Chang
CMEE5 High Average Power, High Energy, Femto-second Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System ......................................................................................................................................361
Fei He
CMEE6 High Quality Fiber CPA-System at a B-Integral of 16 .................................................................363Damian Schimpf
CMEE7 Chirped-Pulse Amplification near the Gain-Narrowing Limit of an Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier Using a Reflection Grism Compressor ..............................................................................365
Lyuba Kuznetsova
CMFF GAINNAS AND INTERBAND CASCADE AND GASB-BASED LASERS
CMFF1 GaInNAs Distributed Feedback (DFB) Laser Diode .....................................................................367Jun-ichi Hashimoto
CMFF2 Tunable Red Laser Emission by Intra-Cavity Frequency-Doubling of a GaInNAs VECSEL...........................................................................................................................................................369
Stephane Calvez
CMFF3 Interband Cascade Lasers: From Concept to Devices and Applications.....................................371Rui Yang
CMFF4 CW, High Power, Single-Longitudinal-Mode Operation of an Optically Pumped Mid-IR DFB Laser ..........................................................................................................................................372
Liang Xue
CMFF5 Pulsed Pumping of a 2.3µm InGaAsSb Semiconductor Disk Laser .............................................374David Burns
CMFF6 Resonant In-Well Pumping of GaSb-Based VECSELs Emitting in the 2.X µm Wavelength Regime ........................................................................................................................................376
Nicola Schulz
CMGG ELECTRO-OPTIC AND NONLINEAR OPTIC MATERIALS
CMGG1 Large-Angle, Low-Voltage Electro-Optic Beam Scanner by Kerr Effect and Space-Charge-Controlled Electrical Conduction in KTa1-xNbxO3..............................................................378
Koichiro Nakamura
CMGG2 Highly Electro-Optical Calcium Barium Niobate Thin Films .....................................................380Luca Razzari
CMGG3 Submerged Waveguide Constructed by the Implantation of 12C Ions in Electrooptic Crystals.......................................................................................................................................382
Harel Ilan
CMGG4 Transparent Conducting Oxide (TCO) Electrode Based High-Speed Organic Electro-Optic (EO) Modulator.......................................................................................................................384
Shuai Wu
CMGG5 Higher Raman Scattering Cross-Sections, Bandwidths and Nonlinear Indices in the TeO2-ZnO-Nb2O5-Mo2O3 Quarternary Glass System ...........................................................................386
Yasutake Ohishi
CMGG6 Solvent-Casting of Photo-Refractive Chalcogenide Glasses and Their Applications in Quantum Cascade Laser Tuning ........................................................................................388
Shanshan Song
CMGG7 Optical Properties and Structural Transitions in Ge-As-Se Glasses Barry ...............................390Luther-Davies
CMHH NONLINEARITIES IN PHOTONIC STRUCTURES
CMHH1 All-Optical Nonlinear Switching in Active Microdisks ................................................................392Kuldeep Amarnath
CMHH2 Integrated Optical Regenerator on a Silicon Chip .......................................................................394Reza Salem
CMHH3 Anisotropic Nonlinear Response of Silicon in the Near-Infrared Region...................................396Jidong Zhang
CMHH4 Determination of Third-Order Dispersion Coefficient and Observation of Soliton Radiation in Si-Wire Waveguides..................................................................................................................398
I-Wei Hsieh
CMHH5 Spectral Measurements of the Third-Order Nonlinearity of Bulk Silicon in the Near-Infrared Region .....................................................................................................................................400
Jidong Zhang
CMHH6 Pulse Compression and Modelocking by Using TPA in Silicon Waveguides .............................402En-Kuang Tien
CMHH7 Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystal in KTiOPO4 for CW Second Harmonic Blue Light Generation ..................................................................................................................404
Carlota Canalias
CMII SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS
CMII1 Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes for Near-Infrared Photon Counting .................................406Mark Itzler
CMII2 High Uniformity, Stability, and Reliability Large-Format InGaAs APD Arrays.........................408Yonglin Gu
CMII3 InGaAsP/InP Single Photon Avalanche Photodetectors for 1.06 µm Free-Running Photon Counting..............................................................................................................................................410
Michael Krainak
CMII4 Demonstration of a Wavelength-Converter-Based 1550-nm Photon-Counting Receiver with Better than 2 Incident Photon/Bit Sensitivity .......................................................................412
Matthew Grein
CMJJ ADVANCED OPTICAL RECEIVERS AND TRANSMITTERS
CMJJ1 Optimization of Receiver Filter Bandwidth for Externally Modulated Optical MSK Data ........................................................................................................................................................414
Jinyu Mo
CMJJ2 Stabilization of a 40 Gb/s DPSK Delay-Line Interfering Using Half Bit-Rate AM Pilot Tone Monitoring.....................................................................................................................................416
Louis Christen
CMJJ3 Simultaneous Balanced DPSK Demodulation of Multiple 40 Gbit/s WDM Channels Using a Single Periodic FBG .........................................................................................................418
Louis Christen
CMJJ4 Low-Loss S-, C- and L-Band Differential Phase Shift Keying Demodulator ...............................420Yannick Lize
CMJJ5 Automatic All-Optical Detection in Polarization-Division-Multiplexing System Using Power Unbalanced Transmission........................................................................................................422
Lianshan Yan
CMJJ6 Polarization-Based 43 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Receiver Design Employing a Single Delay-Line Interferometer .............................................................................................................................424
Louis Christen
CMJJ7 Multi-Channel High-Speed Optical Pulse Train Generation Based on Phase Modulation at Half Frequency.......................................................................................................................426
Changyuan Yu
CMKK TIMING STABILIZATION AND TRANSFER
CMKK1 Transmission of an Optical Carrier Frequency over a Telecommunication Fiber Link ..................................................................................................................................................................428
Gesine Grosche
CMKK2 Long-Term Femtosecond Timing Link Stabilization Using a Single-Crystal Balanced Cross-Correlator.............................................................................................................................430
Jungwon Kim
CMKK3 Multi-Octave Optical Coherence Spanning Hundreds of Meters ...............................................432Ian Coddington
CMKK4 Attosecond Timing Jitter Actively Modelocked Semiconductor Fiber Ring Laser with Normal Net Cavity Dispersion...............................................................................................................434
Sangyoun Gee
CMKK5 Long-Term Stable Microwave Signal Extraction from Mode-Locked Lasers...........................436Jungwon Kim
CMKK6 Ultralow-Litter Passive Timing Stabilization of a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser by Injection of Reference Pulses .........................................................................................................................438
Dai Yoshitomi
CMKK7 Phase-Stabilized Prism Based Cr:Forsterite Laser Frequency Comb for Absolute Frequency Measurements...............................................................................................................................440
Rajesh Thapa
CLEO - TUESDAY
CTUA APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY
CTuA1 Second-Harmonic Generation from Aligned and Mono-Sized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes ..........................................................................................................................................442
Huimin Su
CTuA2 Second-Harmonic Imaging of ZnO Nanoparticles .........................................................................444Elder de la Rosa
CTuA3 Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Time-Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................446
Arthur Dogariu
CTuA4 New Nonlinear Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy to Study Liquid Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................................448
Tahei Tahara
CTuA5 Single Pulse Time Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering .........................................450Yehiam Prior
CTuA6 Remote Chemical Detection Using SUPER-CARS .........................................................................452D. Harris
CTUB OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING
CTuB1 Scaling Packet Networks and Routers Using Optics.......................................................................454David Neilson
CTuB2 Instantaneous-Locking 8-Channel Arrayed 10 Gbps Burst-Mode Optical Packet Receiver and 80 (8? x 10) Gbps Wide-Colored Optical Packet Transmitter .............................................456
Hideaki Furukawa
CTuB3 Binary-Encoded Address for All-Optical Packet Switching ..........................................................458C. C. Lee
CTuB4 Independent Delay Control and Synchronization of Multiple 2.5-Gb/s Channels within a Single SBS Slow-Light Medium ......................................................................................................460
Bo Zhang
CTUC ULTRAFAST SOURCES I
CTuC1 High Power and High Repetition Rate Pulse Generation Using Self Injection-Locking in Fabry-Perot Laser Diode.............................................................................................................462
Xiaohui Fang
CTuC2 77-GHz Pulse Train at 1.5 µm Directly Generated by a Passively Mode-Locked High Repetition Rate Er:Yb:Glass Laser......................................................................................................464
Ursula Keller
CTuC3 Sub 6-fs Pulses Penerated from a Broadband 1-GHz Ti:sapphire Oscillator ..............................466Yohei Kobayashi
CTuC4 Pulse-Quasi-Crystal Formation in Mode-Locked Lasers...............................................................468Amir Rosen
CTuC5 Resonant Saturable Absorbers for Dispersion Compensation in Compact Femtosecond Lasers ........................................................................................................................................470
Günter Steinmeyer
CTuC6 Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Yb:KYW Laser Incorporating a Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber .........................................................................................................................................472
Alexander Lagatsky
CTuC7 A Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Method for Computing Stationary Pulse Solutions of Mode-Locked Lasers..................................................................................................................474
Jonathan Birge
CTUD ULTRAVIOLET, VISIBLE AND Q-SWITCHED LASERS
CTuD1 12 W Continuous-Wave 266-nm Deep-UV Generation through 24 W Single-Frequency 1064-nm Light from a Fiber MOPA...........................................................................................476
Thomas Sudmeyer
CTuD2 Development of a Single-Frequency Nanosecond Pulsed Deep-UV Coherent Light Source for Manipulating Silicon Atoms ........................................................................................................478
Yasutomo Shiomi
CTuD3 Powerful Pr3+:LiLuF4-Laser in the Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Range ...............................480Ernst Heumann
CTuD4 218 W, M2 = 20.2 Green Beam Generation by Intracavity- Frequency-Doubled Diode-Pumped Nd:YAG Laser ......................................................................................................................482
Yong Bo
CTuD5 Watt-Level Single-Frequency Tunable Nd:YLF/PPKTP Red Laser for Silver Atom Cooling .............................................................................................................................................................484
Jean-Jacques Zondy
CTuD6 CW 795 nm Rb Vapor Laser Pumped by Volume Transmission Grating-Stabilized Diode Bar .........................................................................................................................................................486
Alan Petersen
CTuD7 Single-Frequency, 55 W Average Power, 1-kHz Pulse Rate Nd:YLF MOPA System.................488Yelena Isyanova
CTUE QUANTUM AND INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS
CTuE1 Quantum Cascade Lasers Emitting below 3 µm .............................................................................490Alexei Baranov
CTuE2 InGaAs-AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: Towards 3 µm Emission ..........................................492Dmitry Revin
CTuE3 Cascaded Emission from a Dual-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Laser ......................................494Kale Franz
CTuE4 Current Injection Spiral-Shaped Chaotic Microcavity Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................496Ross Audet
CTuE5 Quantum Cascade Microdisk Lasers for Mid Infrared Intra-Cavity Sensing .............................498Raviv Perahia
CTuE7 High-Power/High-Temperature CW Narrow-Ridge Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................................................................500
Igor Vurgaftman
CTUF NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY I
CTuF1 Two-Photon Absorption Imaging of Hemoglobin ...........................................................................502Dan Fu
CTuF2 Rapid Detection of Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts Using Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy.........................................................................................................504
Sangeeta Murugkar
CTuF3 Flexible Scanning MicroEndoscope for Two-Photon Fluorescence and SHG Imaging ............................................................................................................................................................506
Xiaoli Li
CTuF4 In vivo Molecular-Resonant Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy of Hemoglobin......................................................................................................................................................508
Shih-Peng Tai
CTuF5 Selective Two-Photon Excitation for Biomedical Imaging .............................................................510Lindsay Weisel
CTuF6 Upconversion Fiber-Optic Confocal Microscopy Using a Near-Infrared Light Source...............................................................................................................................................................512
Do-Hyun Kim
CTUG NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGIES
CTuG1 Efficient, Broadband and Compact Metal Grating Couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides .....................................................................................................................................514
Stijn Scheerlinck
CTuG2 Polysilicon-on-Insulator Photonic Devices ......................................................................................516Kyle Preston
CTuG3 Ultra-Compact Silicon WDM Optical Filters with Flat-Top Response for On-Chip Optical Interconnects......................................................................................................................................518
Fengnian Xia
CTuG4 Investigation of Group Delay and Disorder in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide Using Low-Coherence Reflectometry.......................................................................................................................520
Philippe Hamel
CTuG5 Metallic-Contamination-Induced Optical Loss in Silicon Microphotonic Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................522
Tymon Barwicz
CTuG6 Breaking the Tradeoff between Speed and Extinction Ratio in Silicon Electro-Optic Modulators ............................................................................................................................................524
Sasikanth Manipatruni
CTuG7 Chiral 3-D Photonic Crystals as Compact Optical Isolators .........................................................526Michael Thiel
CTUH INTEGRATED OPTICS
CTuH2 Single Mode Operation of 1.5 µm TM-mode Waveguide Optical Isolators Based on the Nonreciprocal-Loss Phenomenon ............................................................................................................528
Tomohiro Amemiya
CTuH3 Enabling Technologies for the Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguide Optical Isolators ...................................................................................................................530
David Hutchings
CTuH4 Concave Low-Loss Total Internal Reflection Mirrors in Indium Phosphide for High Fabrication Tolerance ...........................................................................................................................532
Joseph Summers
CTuH5 Advances in Monolithic Integration of InP-Based Optoelectronics ..............................................534David Robbins
CTUI ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR LED LIGHTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
CTuI1 Enhancement of Light Extraction in GaInN Light-Emitting Diodes with Graded-Index Indium Tin Oxide Layer ......................................................................................................................536
Jong Kyu Kim
CTuI2 Enhanced Light-Extraction from InGaN Quantum Wells Using Refractive-Index-Matched TiO2 ..................................................................................................................................................538
Arthur Fischer
CTuI3 Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency of InGaN Quantum Wells LEDs Using SiO2 Microspheres...........................................................................................................................................540
Yik-Khoon Ee
CTuI4 High Light-Extraction GaN-Based Vertical LEDs with Double Diffuse Surfaces ........................542Ya-Ju Lee
CTuI5 Visible Light Communications ..........................................................................................................544Masao Nakagawa
CTuI6 High-Efficiency Light Emitters Using Gallium-Arsenide Deep-Centers for Long-Distance Fiber-Optics .....................................................................................................................................546
Janet Pan
CTUJ CONTROL AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FREQUENCY COMBS
CTuJ1 Residual Stability of a Fiber-Based Frequency Comb ....................................................................548William Swann
CTuJ2 Quantum-Noise Limit on the Linewidth of Frequency Combs ......................................................550Boaz Ilan
CTuJ3 Spectral Line-by-Line Processing on an Optical Frequency Comb Generator ............................552Zhi Jiang
CTuJ4 Injection-Locked Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Lasers ........................................................................554Qudsia Quraishi
CTuJ5 Improved Precision Measurement of the Refractive Indices of Gases Using Frequency Comb .............................................................................................................................................556
Zehuang Lu
CTuJ6 Analysis of Comb Frequency Offset Variations via Phase-Only Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping.............................................................................................................................................................558
José Caraquitena
CTuJ7 Self-Zooming Stable Stage with Sub-nm Resolution Using Femtosecond Comb..........................560Mariko Kajima
CTUK QPM DEVICES
CTuK1 Efficient Generation of Tunable CW Single Frequency Green Radiation by Second Harmonic Generation in Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4 ...............................................................................562
Zhipei Sun
CTuK2 Octave-Level Spectral Broadening in RPE PPLN Waveguides ....................................................564Carsten Langrock
CTuK4 1.5 W, Green-Pumped, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on MgO:sPPLT...................................................................................................................566
Goutam Samanta
CTuK5 High-Energy Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Optical Parametric System with a Bragg Grating..................................................................................................................................................568
Jiro Saikawa
CTuK6 Engineered Quasi-Phase Matching Device for Unequally Spaced Multiple Wavelength Generation ..................................................................................................................................570
Masaki Asobe
CTUL ORGANIC LEDS AND LASERS
CTuL2 Gallium Nitride LEDs Incorporating Organic Semiconductor Heterojunctions .........................572Hyunjin Kim
CTuL3 Recent Advances in Polymer Lasers and Optical Amplifiers ........................................................574Ifor Samuel
CTUM ULTRAFAST SOURCES II
CTuM1 High Energy and High Repetition Rate Diode-Pumped Solid-State Oscillator Enhances High-Field Physics Measurements ...............................................................................................576
T. Südmeyer
CTuM2 Actively Mode-Locked Optical Parametric Oscillator ..................................................................578Nicolas Forget
CTuM3 Intracavity Pumped Picosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator for Intracavity Interferometry .................................................................................................................................................580
Andreas Velten
CTuM4 Spectral Phase and Amplitude Measurements of Parametric Transfer in a Synchronously Pumped OPO.........................................................................................................................582
Hazel Hung
CTuM5 Group-Velocity-Matched Noncollinear Optical Parametric Oscillation in Quasi-Phase Matched Gratings.................................................................................................................................584
Ye Liu
CTuM6 Divided-Pulse Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses .........................................................................586Shian Zhou
CTUN EYESAFE LASERS
CTuN1 Ultra-Low-Photon-Defect Cryo-Laser Performance of Resonantly Diode-Pumped Er3+:YAG .........................................................................................................................................................588
Mark Dubinskii
CTuN2 Development of a 1.5µm Er:Yb:Glass Laser for Use in a Coherent Laser Radar .......................590Matthew Heintze
CTuN3 High-Brightness, Pulsed, Cladding-Pumped Raman Fiber Source at 1660 nm ...........................592Christophe Codemard
CTuN4 Asymmetric Time Constants ............................................................................................................594Norman Barnes
CTuN5 Highly Efficient Q-Switched Ho:YLF Laser Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser...................................596Yingxin Bai
CTuN6 CW Single-Frequency Tunable, CW Multi-Watt Polycrystalline, and CW Hot-Pressed-Ceramic Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers ...............................................................................................................598
Igor Moskalev
CTuN7 Tm:ZBLAN Fiber Lasers and their Use for Gain-Switched Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers ...........................600Marc Eichhorn
CTUO QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS
CTuO1 Narrow Stripe-Width, Low-Ridge Configuration for High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................................................................602
Arkadiy Lyakh
CTuO2 Analysis of the Thermal Roll-over of Quantum Cascade Lasers ..................................................604Scott Howard
CTuO3 Photon-Driven Transport in Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................606Hyunyong Choi
CTuO4 Temperature-Dependent Gain and Loss in High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers at 8.2 and 10.3µm ................................................................................................................................608
Zhijun Liu
CTuO5 Low-Threshold-Current-Density Room-Temperature Continuous-Wave Quantum-Cascade-Lasers Grown by Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition ..................................610
Xiaojun Wang
CTuO6 Nonlinear Quantum Cascade Lasers: Toward Broad Tunability and Short-Wavelength Operation....................................................................................................................................612
Alexey Belyanin
CTuO7 Comparative Analysis of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers..............................................................614Christian Jirauschek
CTUP NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY II
CTuP1 Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging of NADH to Investigate Metabolic Changes in Human Epileptic Tissue in vitro ....................................................................................................................616
Thomas Chia
CTuP2 Molecular Imaging of Central Nervous System with Multi-Modal Nonlinear Optical Microscopy .........................................................................................................................................618
Haifeng Wang
CTuP3 Detecting the Optical Signature of Malignancy with Second Harmonic Imaging........................620Karen Reiser
CTuP4 In vivo Continuous Imaging of Vertebrate Cardiac Valves for Congenital Heart Disease Study and Medical Drug Screening Using Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy.................622
Chun-Ta Kung
CTuP5 Noninvasive Long Term Observation and Evaluation of Mammal Oocytes and Embryos with a 3-D Subcellular Spatial Resolution ....................................................................................624
Cho-Shuen Hsieh
CTuP6 Development of Multiphoton Scanning Microscope for Simultaneous Imaging of Multiple Depths ...............................................................................................................................................626
Ramon Carriles
CTuP7 Enhanced Two-Photon in vivo Flow Cytometry with an Extended Cavity Laser........................628Eric Tkaczyk
CTUQ ACTIVE SILICON PHOTONICS
CTuQ1 Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology ...........................................630John Bowers
CTuQ2 12.5 Gbit/s Silicon Micro-Ring Silicon Modulators ........................................................................632Qianfan Xu
CTuQ3 Silicon Modulator Based on Anti-Crossing between Paired Amplitude and Phase Tunable Microring Resonators ......................................................................................................................634
William Green
CTuQ4 Inducing Photonic Transitions between Discrete Modes in a Microcavity ..................................636Po Dong
CTuQ5 Demonstration of 300 Gbps Error-Free Transmission of WDM Data Stream in Silicon Photonic Wires ....................................................................................................................................638
Xiaogang Chen
CTuQ6 Compact, Low-Power, High-Speed Silicon Electro-Optic Modulator ..........................................640Fuwan Gan
CTUR SIGNAL PROCESSING
CTuR1 Artificial Compound-Eye Camera and Its Application to Visual Information Processing ........................................................................................................................................................642
Jun Tanida
CTuR2 Time-Stretched Photonic Analog-to-Digital Sampling Using a CW Multi-Wavelength Source and Phase Modulation ..................................................................................................644
Bartosz Bortnik
CTuR3 All-Optical NRZ-OOK to RZ-QPSK Conversion Using Parallel SOA-MZI OOK/BPSK Converters ..................................................................................................................................646
Suresh Nissanka
CTuR4 10 Gb/s Wavelength Transparent All-Optical Memory Using PCF-Based Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror .....................................................................................................................648
C. C. Lee
CTuR5 Implementation of Molecular Addressing Technique Based on Photoinduced Cleavage Reaction ...........................................................................................................................................650
Naoya Tate
CTuR6 Analysis of Hierarchical Interconnects Using Optical Near-Fields Based on Angular Spectrum ...........................................................................................................................................652
Makoto Naruse
CTUS LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS
CTuS1 SBS Gain Efficiency Measurements in a 1714 µm2 Effective Area LP08 Higher Order Optical Fiber ........................................................................................................................................654
Marc Mermelstein
CTuS2 Energy Storage Saturation in Large Mode Area Fiber Lasers ......................................................656Ramatou Bello Doua
CTuS3 Resistance of Higher Order Modes to Bend-Induced Mode Coupling and Distortion .........................................................................................................................................................658
John Fini
CTuS4 Beam Quality and Modal Content for LMA Fiber Sources ...........................................................660Stephan Wielandy
CTuS5 Ultra-Large Mode-Area Fibers .........................................................................................................662Siddharth Ramachandran
CTuS6 Robustly Single-Mode Polarization Maintaining Er/Yb Co-Doped LMA Fiber for High Power Applications ................................................................................................................................663
Adrian Carter
CTUT OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY
CTuT1 Real-Time Optical Frequency-Domain Reflectometry ...................................................................665Yongwoo Park
CTuT2 Enhancing the Spectral Sensitivity and Resolution of Interferometers Using Slow-Light Media .....................................................................................................................................................667
Zhimin Shi
CTuT4 An Ultra-High Resolution Spectrometer with Successive Combination of a Fabry-Perot Etalon and a Cylindrical Beam Volume Hologram ...........................................................................669
Majid Badieirostami
CTuT5 Improved Method for Two-Dimensional Determination of the Magnitude and Orientation of Weak Birefringence ...............................................................................................................671
François Busque
CTuT6 Characterization of High-Frequency Surface Modulation Using the Transport-of-Intensity Equation ...........................................................................................................................................673
Christophe Dorrer
CTUU NLO DEVICES
CTuU1 Efficient Single-Pass Optical Parametric Generator for Environmental Gas Sensing Based on Periodically Poled Stoichiometric Lithium Tantalate....................................................675
Nan Ei Yu
CTuU2 Fibered Laser System for Rubidium Laser Cooling Based on Telecom Technology at 1560 nm and Frequency Doubling.............................................................................................................677
Yannick Bidel
CTuU3 Compact, All Solid-State, High Repetition Rate Intracavity Optical Parametric Oscillator and Its Application to the Spectroscopic Imaging of Gases and Liquids..................................679
David Stothard
CTuU4 Mid-Infrared Generation by Wavelength Conversion of a 10W, Linearly-Polarized, ns-Pulse Eye-Safe Fiber Source ...................................................................................................681
Fabio Di Teodoro
CTuU5 InGaAs/GaAs QD-Based 100 nm Bandwidth Electro-Optic Modulator for 1.55 µm Applications ....................................................................................................................................................N/A
Gautier Moreau
CTuU6 Progress in High Sensitivity Electro-Optic Field Sensors ..............................................................683Anthony Garzarella
CTuU7 Noise Elimination of Intracavity Doubled Lasers by Single-Mode Operation with Volumetric Bragg Grating..............................................................................................................................685
Sidney Yang
CTUV NOVEL MICROSCOPY
CTuV1 The Role of Amplitude and Phase in Fluorescence Coherence Imaging: From Wide Field to Nanometer Depth Profiling ..............................................................................................................687
Alberto Bilenca
CTuV2 Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Asynchronous Digital Holography System .......................689Kevin Chalut
CTuV3 Quantitative Phase Microscopy by Multi-Wavelength Phase-Shifting Interference Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................691
Nilanthi Warnasooriya
CTuV4 Bio-Imaging with Femtosecond Laser Induced Ionization Microscopy .......................................693Youbo Zhao
CTuV5 Three-Dimensional Brillouin Confocal Microscopy .......................................................................695Giuliano Scarcelli
CTuV6 Very Efficient Fluorescent Background Suppression in Confocal Raman Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................697
Vladislav Yakovlev
CTuV7 High-Throughput Endpoint and Real-Time Detection of Biochemical Reactions in Microarrays Using Label-Free Oblique-Incidence Reflectivity Difference Microscopes .........................699
James Landry
CTUW SHORT WAVELENGTH GENERATION AND APPLICATIONS
CTuW1 Grating-Assisted Phase Matching in Extreme Nonlinear Optics .................................................701Oren Cohen
CTuW2 Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Coupling of Extreme Ultraviolet Ultrashort Pulses from High Harmonic Generation.......................................................................................................703
Adam Wyatt
CTuW3 Complete Temporal Reconstruction of Attosecond Harmonic Pulses .........................................705Chang Hee Nam
CTuW4 Tabletop Lensless Imaging Using Coherent High Harmonic Beams ...........................................707Richard Sandberg
CTuW5 Soft X-Ray Contact Imaging of Thin Films by a Laser Plasma Source.......................................709Salvatore Stagira
CTuW6 Generation of Intense Deep-Ultraviolet 10-fs Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing through Flamentation in Gases ......................................................................................................................711
Takao Fuji
CTUX NOVEL VCSELS
CTuX1 Transverse Mode Control in High-Contrast Subwavelength Grating VCSEL............................713Michael Huang
CTuX2 Two-Dimensional Electronic Beam-Steering with Implant-Defined VCSEL Arrays..................715Dominic Siriani
CTuX3 Beam Switching and Steering in VCSEL-Based Photonic Crystal Coupled Heterostructures..............................................................................................................................................717
Lars D. Lundeberg
CTuX4 Characterization of Micro-Fluidic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers .............................719Ansas Kasten
CTuX5 Modulation Characteristics of Single-Mode Implant-Confined Photonic Crystal VCSELs............................................................................................................................................................721
Paul Leisher
CTuX6 Optical Decoupling in a Loss-Modulated Dual-Cavity VCSEL ....................................................723Jobert van Eisden
CTuX7 Nano Electromechanical Optoelectronic Tunable VCSEL ............................................................725Michael Huang
CTUY SILICON-BASED OPTICAL MATERIALS
CTuY1 Neodymium Doped Ultrathin Sol-Gel Tapered Channel Waveguide Amplifier on Silicon Substrate..............................................................................................................................................727
Asher Peled
CTuY2 Buried As2S3 Strips for High-Mode-Confinement Optical Waveguiding .....................................729Mehmet Solmaz
CTuY3 Directly Pumped Silicon Lasing .......................................................................................................731Jimmy Xu
CTuY4 Spatial Characterization of Germanium-on-Silicon C-Band PIN Photodiodes ...........................733Jason Orcutt
CTuY5 Wavelength Dependence of the Ultrafast Third-Order Nonlinearity of Silicon ..........................735Mark Foster
CTuY6 Fabrication of Silicon Inverse Woodpile Photonic Crystals ..........................................................737Martin Hermatschweiler
CTUZ PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FOR EMISSION AND DETECTION
CTuZ1 Nano-Scale Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Photodetectors..................................................................739Michael Hegg
CTuZ2 Photonic Crystal Infrared Photodetectors.......................................................................................741Werner Schrenk
CTuZ3 CMOS-Compatible High Frequency Infrared Photodiodes ..........................................................743Michael Geis
CTuZ4 Monolithic Integrated SiGe Optical Receiver and Detector ..........................................................745Paul Chen
CTuZ5 Thermal Microphotonic Focal Plane Array (TM-FPA) for Uncooled High Sensitivity Thermal Imaging ..........................................................................................................................747
Michael Watts
CTuZ6 Local Fields of Optical Antenna Structures ....................................................................................749Bradley Deutsch
CTuZ7 Widely-Tunable Nanostructured Leaky-Mode Resonant Pixels for the Visible Spectral Region................................................................................................................................................751
Robert Magnusson
CTUAA MICROWAVE PHOTONICS
CTuAA1 Microwave Photonic Signal Processing.........................................................................................753Robert Minasian
CTuAA2 Photonic Downconversion and Linearization of an X-Band Fiber Optic Link Using Optical I/Q Demodulation ...................................................................................................................755
Michael Dennis
CTuAA3 Multi-Tap RF Transversal Filter Using AOTF Double Diffraction ...........................................757Farzan Ghauri
CTuAA4 Coherence Free High-Resolution RF Photonic Filter..................................................................759Cibby Pulikkaseril
CTUBB NOVEL FIBER DESIGNS
CTuBB1 Er-Yb-Doped LMA Fiber Structures for High Energy Amplification of Narrow Linewidth Pulses at 1.5µm..............................................................................................................................761
Guillaume Canat
CTuBB2 Gain Interaction in the Design of Bend-Resistant Large Mode Area Amplifier Fibers................................................................................................................................................................763
John Fini
CTuBB3 Chirally Coupled Core Fibers at 1550-nm and 1064-nm for Effectively Single-Mode Core Size Scaling ..................................................................................................................................765
Chi-Hung Liu
CTuBB4 Radial Index Tailoring for Reduced Intermodal Coupling in Large-Mode-Area Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers...........................................................................................................................767
John Marciante
CTuBB5 Atomic Layer Deposition as a New Method for Rare-Earth Doping of Optical Fibers................................................................................................................................................................769
Lars Norin
CTuBB6 Bandwidth Performance of W-Shaped Plastic Optical Fiber and Its Stability under Static Microbending.............................................................................................................................771
Kenichi Aoyagi
CTUCC THZ METAMATERIALS AND PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
CTuCC1 Terahertz Switch/Modulator Based on Metamaterials ...............................................................773Hou-Tong Chen
CTuCC2 Properties of Novel Terahertz Electric Metamaterials................................................................775John O'Hara
CTuCC3 The Superprism Effect in a Metal-Clad Terahertz Photonic Crystal Slab................................777Tushar Prasad
CTuCC4 A New Method for the Realization of a Tunable Terahertz Photonic Bandgap .......................779Daniel Grischkowsky
CTuCC5 An Optically Controlled Modulator of Terahertz Radiation Based on 1-D Photonic Crystal ..............................................................................................................................................781
Filip Kadlec
CTuCC6 Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Periodic Metal Arrays .............................................783Juraj Darmo
CTuCC7 Frequency Selective Surface for High-Sensitivity Terahertz Sensors ........................................785Christian Debus
CTUDD SILICON PHOTONICS
CTuDD1 Silicon Nanophotonics and Its Applications in Sensing...............................................................787Roel Baets
CTuDD2 All Optical Ultrafast Broadband Silicon Switch ..........................................................................789Po Dong
CTuDD3 High Directivity, Vertical Fiber-to-Chip Coupler with Anisotropically Radiating Grating Teeth ..................................................................................................................................................791
Mingyan Fan
CTuDD4 Low-Loss Silicon Wire Waveguides with 3-D Tapered Couplers Fabricated by Self Profile Transformation............................................................................................................................793
Wei-Chao Chiu
CTUEE CELLULAR IMAGING
CTuEE1 Three-Dimensional in vivo Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging by a Handheld Dual-Axes Confocal Microscope ....................................................................................................................795
Hyejun Ra
CTuEE2 Endoscopic Fiber Confocal Microscopy Using a GRIN Lens......................................................797Abner Rodriguez
CTuEE3 Analysis and Measurement of Light Propagation in Coherent Fiber Bundles ..........................799Chris Xu
CTuEE4 Fiber Optic Guided Functional Electrical Stimulation with Microscale Photovoltaic Neurostimulator Devices ..........................................................................................................801
Yoon-Kyu Song
CTuEE5 Fluorescence Microscopic Mapping of Electrical Wave Propagation in an in-vitro Model of Skeletal Myoblast Cell Transplantation........................................................................................803
Yibing Zhang
CTuEE6 Cancer Cell Filopodia Characterized by Super-Resolution Bright-Field Optical Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................805
Chau-Hwang Lee
CTuEE7 Depolarized Raman Spectroscopy of Optically Trapped Cells for Rapid Identification of Microorganisms...................................................................................................................807
De Chen
CTUFF ULTRAFAST PULSE SHAPING
CTuFF1 All-Optical Dynamic Chirp Compensation of Few-Cycle Optical Pulses by Frequency-Domain Phase Conjugator ..........................................................................................................809
Hajime Nishioka
CTuFF2 Semiconductor Waveguide Device for Picosecond Pulse Amplification and Spectral Shaping at 1560 nm..........................................................................................................................811
Erwin Bente
CTuFF3 Efficient Temporal Shaping of Ultrashort Pulses with Birefringent Crystals............................813Shian Zhou
CTuFF4 Birefringent Nonlinear Polarization Rotation Mirror for Pedestal Suppression of Ultrashort Pulse...............................................................................................................................................815
Norihiko Nishizawa
CTuFF5 Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using a 2-D Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator...................817Eugene Frumker
CTuFF6 Pulse Shaping of Octave Spanning Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...................................................819Bingwei Xu
CTuFF7 Phase Characterization and Adaptive Pulse Compression Using MIIPS in Air ........................821D. Harris
CTUGG VCSELS AND INTEGRATION
CTuGG1 Monolithically Integrated III-Sb Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes on Si (100) Substrates ...............................................................................................................................................823
Diana Huffaker
CTuGG2 High Power Single Mode VCSELs Emitting at 1320nm Wavelength........................................825Vladimir Iakovlev
CTuGG3 Scaling Rules for High-Power 1.55 µm VCSEL Arrays..............................................................827Werner Hofmann
CTuGG4 Low Threshold VCSELs Recess-Integrated on Si-CMOS ICs ...................................................829James Perkins
CTuGG5 Integrated Waveguide-Grating-Coupled VCSEL/Photodetector Arrays with High-Coupled Power for Dense High-Speed Interconnects.........................................................................831
Kai Yang
CTuGG6 Shift Register Function in Optical Buffer Memory Using Polarization Bistable VCSELs............................................................................................................................................................833
Takashi Mori
CTUHH HIGH POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS
CTuHH1 Progress on the Development of High-Power Solid-State Lasers for Directed Energy Applications........................................................................................................................................835
Mark Neice
CTuHH2 A Highly Efficient Quasi-Continuous-Wave Diode-Pumped Nd: YAG Rod Laser with a 3.8 kW Output......................................................................................................................................837
Qinjun Peng
CTuHH3 Measurement of the Self-Phase-Modulation-Induced Bandwidth in a 30-kJ-Class Laser-Amplifier Chain....................................................................................................................................839
William Donaldson
CTuHH4 High-Power CW Yb:YAG Cryogenic Laser ................................................................................841David Brown
CTuHH5 15 kW Near-Diffraction-Limited Single-Frequency Nd:YAG Laser.........................................843Shawn Redmond
CTUII WAVEGUIDE DEVICES
CTuII1 High-Speed Data Amplification Using Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Amplifier .............................845Ying-hao Kuo
CTuII2 Dynamic Range Studied for a Monolithic 2x2 Quantum Dot Switch ...........................................847Eng Tin Aw
CTuII3 Mode-Locked and Single-Longitudinal-Mode Waveguide Lasers Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Er:Yb-Doped Phosphate Glass.....................................................................849
Roberto Osellame
CTuII4 Photoluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots at 1550 nm Wavelength in the Core of Photonic Bandgap Fiber....................................................................................851
Satoki Kawanishi
CTuII5 Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Optical Waveguides in Bismuth Ion Doped Glass .................................................................................................................................................................853
Nicholas Psaila
CTuII6 KY(WO4)2:Tm3+ Planar Waveguide Laser .....................................................................................855Uwe Griebner
CTuII7 Tunable Photonic Crystal Fiber Couplers Infiltrated with Highly-Thermo-Responsive Liquid Crystal Substances ..........................................................................................................857
Kunimasa Saitoh
CTUJJ TERAHERTZ SURFACE PLASMONS AND NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY
CTuJJ1 Frequency-Dependent Radiation Patterns Emitted by THz Plasmons on Cylindrical Metal Wires .................................................................................................................................859
Jason Deibel
CTuJJ2 Terahertz Near-Field Imaging of Subwavelength One-Dimensional Plasmonic Structures.........................................................................................................................................................861
M. A. Seo
CTuJJ3 Resonantly Enhanced Terahertz Transmission through Aperiodic Arrays of Subwavelength Apertures...............................................................................................................................863
Amit Agrawal
CTuJJ4 Surface Plasmon Polariton-Based Coaxial Probe for Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................865
Dustin Surawicz
CTuJJ5 Plasmon-Enhanced Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy .................................................................867Victoria Astley
CTuJJ6 Terahertz Apertureless Near-Field Aicroscopy of a Vanadium Dioxide Thin Film ...................869Hui Zhan
CLEO – WEDNESDAY
CWA MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS I
CWA1 Monolithic Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Lasers ..............................................................................871Ian White
CWA2 High Repetition Rate Monolithic Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Quantum-Dot Laser: Investigation of the Locking Regimes and the RF Linewidth.................................873
Fabien Kéfélian
CWA3 High-Power and Low-Noise 10-GHz All-Active Monolithic Mode-Locked Lasers with Surface Etched Bragg Grating ..............................................................................................................875
David Larsson
CWA4 Linewidth Enhancement Factor Reduction on the Blue Side of the Gain Peak from a Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Laser.............................................................................................................877
Jimyung Kim
CWB ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS
CWB1 Variational and WKB Descriptions of Laterally Localized Eigenmodes in Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplifiers ......................................................................................................879
Bedros Afeyan
CWB2 A Simple Scalable Solid-State 589nm Laser Guide Star Source Based on Optical Parametric Amplifiers ....................................................................................................................................881
Barry Luther-Davies
CWB3 Multi-kHz Operation of Cr:Forsterite Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier .................883Fabian Rotermund
CWB4 Highly Efficient, Widely Tunable, Picosecond Optical Parametric Generation and Amplification in BiB3O6..................................................................................................................................885
Zhipei Sun
CWB5 High-Power Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Near-IR Based on BiB3O6 ..............................................................................................................................................................887
Valentin Petrov
CWB6 Optical Pulse Generation Using Two-Stage Compression Based on Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................................889
Henry Cheung
CWB7 PPLN OPCPA Based on Spectrally Addressed Amplification .......................................................891Eric Freysz
CWC PLASMONICS AND METAMATERIALS
CWC1 Metamaterial Nanophotonics ............................................................................................................893Nader Engheta
CWC2 Compact Couplers between Dielectric and Metal-Dielectric-Metal Plasmonic Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................895
Georgios Veronis
CWC3 Enhanced Optical Trapping through Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au Nanoparticle Array .........................................................................................................................................897
Xiaoyu Miao
CWC4 High Quality 3-D Virtual Nanocavity by Fringing Near-Fields of a Plasmonic Cylinder............................................................................................................................................................899
David Arbel
CWC5 Focusing of Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Surface Parabolic Dielectric Gratings.....................901Yu-Ju Hung
CWC6 Guided Modes in Arrays of Metallic Nanowires..............................................................................903Christopher Poulton
CWD BEAM COMBINATION AND REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS
CWD1 First Experimental Demonstration of Fiber Amplifier Array Phase Locking without an External Reference Beam ............................................................................................................905
Thomas Shay
CWD2 Theoretical Model for Self-Synchronous Locking of Optical Coherence by Single-Detector Electronic-Frequency Tagging .......................................................................................................907
Thomas Shay
CWD3 Laser Beam Combing for High-Power, Broadband Sources, Using Two-Step Refractive Grating ..........................................................................................................................................909
Mona Mayeh
CWD4 Upscaling Coherent Addition of Laser Distributions ......................................................................911Liran Shimshi
CWD5 High Average Power Phase-Coded Laser System for the CTF3 Photoinjector ............................913Ian Musgrave
CWD6 High-Energy, Diode-Pumped, Picosecond Yb:YAG Chirped-Pulse Regenerative Amplifier as a Pump Source for Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification .................................915
Yutaka Akahane
CWD7 Multi-Millijoule, Diode-Pumped, Chirped-Pulse Yb:KY(WO4)2 Regenerative Amplifier ..........................................................................................................................................................917
Kanade Ogawa
CWE CAVITY-BASED OPTICAL SENSING
CWE1 Stimulated Raman Gain Spectroscopy with Continuous-Wave Cavity Ringdown Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................919
Brian Orr
CWE2 Sensitive Trace Gas Detection in a Jet Expansion Using cw OPO-Based Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................921
Anthony Ngai
CWE4 Optical Microring Resonator Sensors with Selective Membrane Surface Customization ..................................................................................................................................................923
Sang-Yeon Cho
CWE5 Enhancing the Sensitivity Limit of a Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensor through Sub-Wavelength Confinement of Light.........................................................................................................925
Stephen Arnold
CWE6 Prism-Coupled Silica Micro-Tube Resonator as a Bio-Sensor .......................................................927Tao Ling
CWF PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS
CWF1 Large Pitch Kagome-Structured Hollow-Core PCF ........................................................................929Francois Couny
CWF2 Control of Dispersion in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers......................................................931Peter Roberts
CWF3 Bandwidth Enhancement by Differential Mode Attenuation in Multimode Photonic Crystal Bragg Fibers.......................................................................................................................................933
Maksim Skorobogatiy
CWF4 Transmission of Different Angular-Momentum Modes in Cylindrically Symmetric Photonic Bandgap Fibers in the Near-Infrared............................................................................................935
Ayman F. Abouraddy
CWF5 Fresnel Zone Imaging of Bloch-Modes from a Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Cladding ...........................................................................................................................................................937
Francois Couny
CWF6 Sub-Wavelength Intensity Profiles and Field Enhancement within an Optical Fiber ..................939Gustavo Wiederhecker
CWF7 Numerical Study of Heterogeneously-Indexed Photonic Bandgap Fibers .....................................941Tsinghua Her
CWG JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ QCLS I
CWG1 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................943Benjamin Williams
CWG2 Limiting Factors for High Temperature Operation of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................945
Christian Jirauschek
CWG3 Thermally Activated Absorption in Terahertz Semiconductor Heterostructure Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................947
J. Kröll
CWG4 Experimental Measurement of the Wall-Plug Efficiency in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................949
Miriam Vitiello
CWG5 Low-Divergence Surface-Emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................................951Jonathan Fan
CWG6 High-Power Metal-Metal Waveguide Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser with a Hyperhemispherical Lens...............................................................................................................................953
Alan W. Lee
CWH ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS
CWH1 Organic Photovoltaics ........................................................................................................................955Bernard Kippelen
CWH2 High External Quantum Efficiency from Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photodetectors .................................................................................................................................................957
Younggu Kim
CWH3 Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficient of 170pm/V and Low Vπ of 1V at 1.55µm in Hybrid Polymer/Sol-Gel Waveguide Modulators ........................................................................................959
Yasufumi Enami
CWH4 Photoconductive Properties of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) ...........................................961Jonathan Laib
CWI MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS II
CWI1 First Demonstration of a Modelocked Integrated External-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (MIXSEL)..............................................................................................................................................963
Aude-Reine Bellancourt
CWI2 Injection Locking of a Broad Area Laser Diode by Use of Holographic Four-Wave Mixing in a Photorefractive Polymer ............................................................................................................965
Peter van Voorst
CWI3 Self-Injection Locking on Brillouin-Amplified Radiation in Long Optical Fiber Feedback ..........................................................................................................................................................967
Vasily Spirin
CWI4 Monolithic 1.55-µm GaInNAsSb Quantum Well Mode-Locked Lasers .........................................969Yongchun Xin
CWI5 Optically Injection-Locked Optoelectronic Oscillators with Low RF Threshold Gain .................971Hyuk-Kee Sung
CWI6 Bistable Lasing Wavelength in a Mode-Locked Two-Section Quantum-Dot Diode Laser.................................................................................................................................................................973
Mingming Feng
CWJ ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS AND OPTICAL SWITCHING
CWJ1 Quantum Interference Control of Electrical Currents in Silicon....................................................975Henry van Driel
CWJ2 Ultrafast Optical Response of InAs Quantum Dots for Photoconductive Applications .....................................................................................................................................................977
Amartya Sengupta
CWJ3 Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in an InAs/InGaAs Quantum-Dots-in-a-Well Mid-Infrared Photodetector ...................................................................................................................................979
Rohit Prasankumar
CWJ4 Ultra High Bandwidth THz Tunable Delays Using Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................981
Bala Pesala
CWJ5 Multi-Fiber-Channel, Ultrafast, All-Optical Switch Utilizing a 2-D Fresnel Lens Array ................................................................................................................................................................983
Darren Wu
CWJ6 Ultrafast Organic Photonic Crystal Optical Switching....................................................................985Gong Qihuang
CWJ7 Optical Spatially Quantized High Performance Analog-to-Digital Conversion ............................987Mona Jarrahi
CWK BIOSENSORS
CWK1 Molecular Interferometric Imaging Biosensor ................................................................................989Ming Zhao
CWK2 Virus Detection on a Planar Optofluidic Chip.................................................................................991Mikhail Rudenko
CWK3 Optical Characterization and Sensitivity Evaluation of Guided-Resonances in Photonic Crystal Slabs for Biosensing Applications ....................................................................................993
Ofer Levi
CWK4 Protein Microarray Analysis Using Surface Optical Wave Resonance in Photonic Band Gap Multilayers.....................................................................................................................................995
William Robertson
CWK5 Biological Life Signs Detection Using High Sensitivity Pulsed Laser Vibrometer........................997Chen-Chia Wang
CWK6 Multilayer Polymer Optical Backplanes for Frequency Multiplexed Phase Fluorometry Arrays ........................................................................................................................................999
Kevin Lee
CWK7 Single Molecule Pulsed Interleaved Excitation Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (PIE-FRET) inside Nanometer-Scale Apertures at Biologically Relevant Concentration ................................................................................................................................................1001
Samantha Fore
CWM FREE-SPACE AND MULTI-MODE FIBER TRANSMISSION
CWM1 Ultra-Long Distance Free Space Laser Communications ............................................................1003David Caplan
CWM2 Receiver Sensitivity Improvement of Optical Wireless Channels with Delayed-Diversified Pulse-Position Modulation ........................................................................................................1005
C. H. Kwok
CWM3 Optimized Multi-Emitter Beams for Free-Space Optical Communications through Atmospheric Turbulence ..............................................................................................................................1007
Pavel Polynkin
CWM4 Simple SBS-Mitigating Waveforms for High-Power PPM Transmitters for Space Laser Communications .................................................................................................................................1009
Neal Spellmeyer
CWM5 Mode Coupling: Why POF Supports 40Gbps...............................................................................1011Arup Polley
CWM6 Twin-Spot Launch for Enhancement of Multimode-Fiber Communication Links ...................1013Qing Sun
CWN III-IV NANOPHOTONICS
CWN1 Integration of an Electrically Driven InGaAsP Based Microdisk Laser with a Silicon Based Passive Photonic Circuit .......................................................................................................1015
Pedro Rojo-Romeo
CWN2 Temperature Insensitive Ultra Low Threshold Lasing in Quantum-Dot Photonic-Crystal Nanocavities .....................................................................................................................................1017
Takehiko Tawara
CWN3 High Quality Factor with Fundamental Resonant Mode near the Bandedge of GaN Triangular Submicron Laser Cavity ...........................................................................................................1019
C. M. Lai
CWN4 Growth of Localized InAs/InP Quantum Dots on Nano-Holes for Quantum Photonic Sources ...........................................................................................................................................1021
Pedro Rojo-Romeo
CWN5 Local On-Chip Temperature Tuning of InGaAs Quantum Dots .................................................1023Andrei Faraon
CWN6 Littrow Lasing in Photonic Crystal Waveguides ...........................................................................1025Cyril Cambournac
CWN7 Topology Optimization for Photonic Crystal Waveguide Bends with Wide and Flat Bandwidths in Air-Bride Type Photonic Crystal Slabs .............................................................................1027
Yoshinori Watanabe
CWO MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS AND APPLICATIONS
CWO1 Control of the Transient Regime of Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................1029
Francois Couny
CWO2 Side Coupling Light into the Core of Photonic Crystal Fiber ......................................................1031Graham Marshall
CWO3 Quantum Optics in Microstructured Fibers ..................................................................................1033John Rarity
CWO4 Practical Design of Microstructured Optical Fibers for Surface Plasmon Resonance Excitation ....................................................................................................................................1035
Maksim Skorobogatiy
CWO5 Index-Guiding, Single-Mode, Liquid-Core, Liquid-Cladding Photonic Crystal Fibers..............................................................................................................................................................1037
Christiano de Matos
CWO6 IR Supercontinuum in Compact Tellurite PCFs ...........................................................................1039Peter Domachuk
CWP JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ QCLS II
CWP1 Quantum-Cascade Lasers with One-Well Injector Operating at 1.59 THz (λ = 188.5 µm)..................................................................................................................................................................1041
Sushil Kumar
CWP2 Long Wavelength Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers, Emitting down to 1.2 THz..................1043Christoph Walther
CWP3 Optically-Assisted Electrically-Driven THz Generation: A New Approach for Efficient THz Quantum Cascade Lasers.....................................................................................................1045
Ines Waldmueller
CWP4 Integrated Horn Antenna for Microstrip Waveguide THz Quantum Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................1047
Stefano Barbieri
CWP5 Electrical and Optical Characterization of Microdisk Quantum Cascade Lasers emitting at Terahertz Frequencies...............................................................................................................1049
L. Andrea Dunbar
CWP6 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Novel Resonators and Linewidth Properties ..................1051Lukas Mahler
CWP7 Ultra-Low Threshold THz Microcavity Lasers with Sub-Wavelength Mode Volumes..........................................................................................................................................................1053
Yannick Chassagneux
CLEO - THURSDAY
CTHA FUNDAMENTALS OF FEMTOSECOND LASER/MATERIAL INTERACTIONS
CThA2 Subcellular Surgery and Nanoneurosurgery.................................................................................1055Eric Mazur
CThA3 Temperature Measurement of Aluminum Nanoparticles in Femtosecond Laser Ablation Plume Using Spatiotemporally Resolved XAFS Technique.......................................................1057
Yasuaki Okano
CTHB NOVEL SEMICONDUCTOR LASER CAVITIES
CThB1 Nanoscale Semiconductor Plasmon Lasers....................................................................................1059Farhan Rana
CThB2 Polarization Controlled 0.85 µm VCSELs with Plasmonic Nanorods ........................................1061Babu Dayal Padullaparthi
CThB3 Ultraviolet Lasing Characteristics of a GaN Photonic Crystal Defect Emitter ..........................1063Chun-Feng Lai
CThB4 Room-Temperature InAs/InP Quantum-Dot Photonic Crystal Microlasers Using Cavity-Confined Slow Light .........................................................................................................................1065
Frederic Bordas
CThB5 Electrically Pumped, Edge-Emitting, Large-Area Photonic Crystal Lasers with Straight and Angled Facets ..........................................................................................................................1067
Lin Zhu
CThB6 Vertically-Coupled Microring Laser Array for Dual-Wavelength Generation .........................1069Chyng Tee
CThB7 Integrated 10th Order Fresnel Lens Design for Beam Quality Enhancement in Tapered Laser Diode.....................................................................................................................................1071
F. K. Lau
CTHC X(2)/CASCADED X(2) DEVICES
CThC1 Parametric Generation in AlGaAs/AlOx Waveguides: Performances and Perspectives....................................................................................................................................................1073
Marco Ravaro
CThC2 Gain Enhancement Due to Transverse Effects in Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Amplifiers.....................................................................................................................1075
Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort
CThC3 Pulsed Picosecond UV Source by Frequency Quadrupling .........................................................1077Onur Kuzucu
CThC4 Tunable Blue/Green Light Source by Self-Cascaded χ(2) Nonlinearity in ZnO:PPLN Crystal Fiber .............................................................................................................................1079
Shan-Chuang Pei
CThC5 Ultrashort Pulse Cascaded Third-Harmonic Generation in Two-Dimensional Quasi-Phase-Matching Structure ................................................................................................................1081
Satoshi Ashihara
CThC6 High Efficiency Third Harmonic Generation in PPMgLN Disk Resonator...............................1083Kiyotaka Sasagawa
CThC7 Tunable Ring Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Volume Bragg Grating.............................1085Björn Jacobsson
CTHD OPTICAL POLYMERS
CThD1 Biomimetic Optical Polymers .........................................................................................................1087James Shirk
CThD2 Processible Polyacetylene-Based χ(3) Materials for Photonic Applications .................................1089San-Hui Chi
CThD3 Integrated Active and Passive Polymer Optical Components with nm to mm Features..........................................................................................................................................................1091
Mads Christiansen
CThD4 Demonstration of Polymer-Based Directional Coupler Modulator with High Linearity.........................................................................................................................................................1093
Yu-Chueh Hung
CThD5 Linear and Nonlinear Absorption Studies of Polymethine, Squaraine and Tetraone Dyes ................................................................................................................................................................1095
Scott Webster
CThD6 Carbon Nanotube/Conducting Polymer Addressable Interconnects ..........................................1097Seon Woo Lee
CTHE SPECTRAL CONTROL OF SOLID-STATE LASERS
CThE1 Widely Tunable Yb:KYW Laser Locked by a Volume Bragg Grating ......................................1099Björn Jacobsson
CThE2 Monolithic Bragg-Locked Nd-Laser ..............................................................................................1101Björn Jacobsson
CThE3 Lasing Action of Nd:GdVO4 at 1070 nm by Volumetric Bragg Grating ....................................1103Yu-Hung Lien
CThE4 Wavelength Tunable Single Mode Nd:GdVO4 Laser Using a Volume Bragg Grating Fold Mirror .....................................................................................................................................1105
Te-yuan Chung
CThE5 Spectral Narrowing in a Dual Volume Bragg Grating Ti:Sapphire Oscillator ..........................1107Michael Hemmer
CThE6 Solid-State Laser Development Activities in China ......................................................................1109Jianqiang Zhu
CTHF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS
CThF1 320 Gbit/s DQPSK All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Periodically Poled LiNbO3 ...........................................................................................................................................................1111
Bernd Huettl
CThF2 Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion of DPSK Signal Using Four-Wave Mixing in 32-cm Bismuth-Oxide Highly Nonlinear Fiber .........................................................................1113
Mable P. Fok
CThF3 Parametric Amplification and Processing in High-Confinement Optical Fibers .......................1115Stojan Radic
CThF4 Low-Penalty Raman-Assisted XPM Wavelength Conversion at 320 Gb/s .................................1117Michael Galili
CThF5 Wavelength Conversion Using Multi-Pump Raman-Assisted Four-Wave Mixing ....................1119S. H. Wang
CThF6 Power Equalization for the Optical Subsystems Based on the SOA Polarization Rotation..........................................................................................................................................................1121
Songnian Fu
CTHG PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
CThG1 Development of an Analog-to-Digital Converter Using Photonic Crystals ................................1123Ahmed Sharkawy
CThG2 Manipulation of Dielectric Particles Using Photonic Crystal Cavities .......................................1125Michael Barth
CThG3 What is the Velocity of Slow Light in Weakly Disordered Optical Slow-Wave Structures?.....................................................................................................................................................1127
Shayan Mookherjea
CThG4 Experimentally Demonstrated Waveguide-Coupled Corner-Cut Microcavities .......................1129Elton Marchena
CThG5 Optical Add-Drop Filter Design Based on Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators ..........................1131Weidong Zhou
CThG6 Group Delay Measurements of High Quality GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities.........................1133Thomas Sünner
CThG7 Silicon Based Photonic Crystal Electro-Optic Modulator Utilizing the Plasma Dispersion Effect ...........................................................................................................................................1135
Timothy Hodson
CTHH CONTINUUM GENERATION AND SBS IN FIBERS
CThH1 All-Fiber-Integrated Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum System with 0.7 Watts Time-Averaged Power ............................................................................................................................................1137
Chenan Xia
CThH2 Bragg Gratings as Phase Matching Elements to Extend Continuum Generation at Short Wavelengths ........................................................................................................................................1139
Paul Westbrook
CThH3 Tunable Spectral Enhancement in Supercontinuum with a Long-Period Fiber Grating ...........................................................................................................................................................1141
Dong-Il Yeom
CThH4 High Nonlinearity Glass Photonic Crystal Nanowires .................................................................1143Fiorenzo Omenetto
CThH5 Generation of Supercontinuum in a Waveguide with Slow Nonlinearity Related to Shock Formation ...........................................................................................................................................1145
Anton Husakou
CThH6 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Assisted Slow Light Generation in Single Mode Tellurite Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................1147
Kazi Abedin
CThH7 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in Small Core Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCF) ..............................................................................................................................................................1149
Jean Toulouse
CTHI TERAHERTZ GENERATION AND DETECTION
CThI1 Detection of Pulsed Terahertz Waves Using Ambient Air as the Sensor .....................................1151Jianming Dai
CThI2 Generation of 5 µJ Broadband THz Pulses by Tilted Pulse Front Excitation .............................1153Matthias Hoffmann
CThI3 Intense Coherent THz Pulse Generation by Two-Color Photoionization in Air .........................1155Ki-Yong Kim
CThI4 Strong THz-Field-Induced Nonlinear Optical Effects in Electro-Optical Crystals ....................1157Yuzhen Shen
CThI5 Generation of High Power Terahertz Pulses at Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS)............................................................................................................................................................1159
Francois Blanchard
CThI6 Intracavity Terahertz Generation in a Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator Using Quasi-Phasematched GaAs ..............................................................................................1161
Joseph Schaar
CThI7 Generation of Terahertz Radiation from a New InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs Double Grating Gate HEMT Device.........................................................................................................................1163
Yahya Meziani
CTHJ NANOSTRUCTURES IN FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING
CThJ1 Femtosecond Laser Nanomachining Applications in Fused Silica ...............................................1165Rod Taylor
CThJ2 “Quill” Writing with Ultrashort Light Pulses in Transparent Optical Materials ......................1167Peter Kazansky
CThJ3 Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Two-Plasmon Decay in Femtosecond Processing of Transparent Materials ..........................................................................................................1169
Peter Kazansky
CThJ4 Single and Multi-Scan Femtosecond Laser Writing for Selective Chemical Etching of Glass Micro-Channels ..............................................................................................................................1171
Stephen Ho
CThJ5 Solid-Phase Generation of Silicon Nanoparticles by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation ......................1173Amir Nejadmalayeri
CThJ6 Tunable Tungsten Nano-Gratings Deposited by a Single Femtosecond Laser Beam on Dielectrics .................................................................................................................................................1175
Mingzhen Tang
CTHK NEAR IR DIODE LASERS
CThK1 Linewidth Enhancement Factor of Semiconductor Lasers: Results from Round-Robin Measurements in COST 288 Action .................................................................................................1177
Asier Villafranca
CThK2 Linewidth Enhancement Factors in 1.55 µm Quantum Dot, Quantum Dash, and Quantum Well Amplifiers ............................................................................................................................1179
A. Zilkie
CThK3 Experimental Modulation Response beyond the Relaxation Oscillation Frequency in a Multiple-Spatial-Mode Laser Diode Based on Active Spatial Mode Coupling ................................1181
Weiguo Yang
CThK4 Transient Gain Spectroscopy of (GaIn)As Quantum Well Structures .......................................1183Christoph Lange
CThK5 Integrated Chirped Bragg Gratings on Deeply Etched Tapered III-V Waveguides .................1185Michael Strain
CThK6 1.55 µm GaSb/AlGaSb MQW Diode Lasers Grown on GaAs Substrates Using Interfacial Misfit (IMF) Arrays ...................................................................................................................1187
Manish Mehta
CThK7 480-mW DBR Laser Integrated with Micro Heaters for Wavelength Tuning...........................1189Martin Hu
CTHL MID-IR GENERATION
CThL1 Enhancement of Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation at 10.6 µm in an Annealed ZnGeP2 Crystal ............................................................................................................................1191
Yi Jiang
CThL2 SHG of CO2 Laser Radiation at 10.6 µm in the Highly Nonlinear Chalcopyrite LiGaTe2 ..........................................................................................................................................................1193
Valentin Petrov
CThL3 Advances in Mid-IR Materials .......................................................................................................1195Peter Schunemann
CThL4 Femotsecond Mid-Infrared Difference-Frequency-Generation Tunable between 3.2 µm and 4.8 µm from a Compact Fiber Source ...........................................................................................1197
Christian Erny
CThL5 Mid-IR OPO Operating near Room Temperature Based on Vapor-Transport Equilibrated Periodically Poled Stoichiometric LiTaO3............................................................................1199
Mordechai Katz
CThL6 Mid-IR Entangled-Cavity Doubly Resonant OPO Pumped by a Micro-Laser ..........................1201Michel Lefebvre
CTHM ULTRAFAST BEAMS AND MATERIALS PROCESSING
CThM1 Multiphoton Ionization in Dielectrics: Competition of Circular and Linear Polarization....................................................................................................................................................1203
Vasily Temnov
CThM2 Spatio-Spectral Analysis and Encoding of Ultrashort Pulses with Higher-Order Statistical Moments .......................................................................................................................................1205
Ruediger Grunwald
CThM3 Dual Wavelength Femtosecond Laser Materials Processing ......................................................1207Masanao Kamata
CThM4 Low Insertion Loss Waveguides in Lithium Niobate Using Multi-Scan Femtosecond Waveguide Inscription...........................................................................................................1209
Henry Bookey
CThM5 Ultrafast p-Si Field Emitter Array Photocathode........................................................................1211Chin-Jen Chiang
CThM6 Ultrashort Lagguere-Gaussian Pulses with Angular and Group Velocity Dispersion Compensation .............................................................................................................................1213
Iosif Zeylikovich
CThM7 Young's Interference Experiment with Ultrashort-Pulsed Bessel Beams..................................1215Ruediger Grunwald
CTHN NANOFABRICATION
CThN1 Advances in Two-Photon 3-D Microfabrication ...........................................................................1217Joseph Perry
CThN2 Large-Area Metal Grid Ultraviolet Filter Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography ...............1219Wen-Di Li
CThN3 2-Photon Polymerization for Plasmonic Applications ..................................................................1221Sven Passinger
CThN4 Novel Shadow Mask Structure for Sampled Bragg Gratings in Chalcogenide (As2S3) Planar Waveguides...........................................................................................................................1223
DukYong Choi
CThN5 Fabrication of Garnet Waveguides and Polarizers forIntegrated Optical Isolators .................1225Sang-Yeob Sung
CThN6 Three-Dimensional Laser Nano-Structuring: Contrast in Three-Photon and Two-Photon Polymerization of SU-8 ....................................................................................................................1227
Ladan Abolghasemi
CThN7 Electron-Beam Lithography Techniques for Micro- and Nano-Scale Surface Structure Current Injection Lasers .............................................................................................................1229
Guy DeRose
CTHO FIBER-BASED OPTICAL SENSING
CThO1 Selectively Infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fibers for Fluorescence Sensing ..................................1231Michael Barth
CThO2 An In-Fibre Microcavity .................................................................................................................1233Fredrik Laurell
CThO3 Mid-Infrared Methane Sensing Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator and a Photonic Bandgap Fiber as a Gas Cell ........................................................................................................1235
Lukasz Kornaszewski
CThO4 Geometry and Structure of Multimaterial Photodetecting Fibers: A Comparative Study...............................................................................................................................................................1237
Fabien Sorin
CThO5 A 100 km Ultra-High Performance Fiber Sensing System ..........................................................1239Jong Chow
CThO6 Simplified Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis System with Optimized Time-Gating Scheme.....................................................................................................................................1241
Kwang-Yong Song
CTHP PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND MICROCAVITIES
CThP1 Novel Design to Increase the Angular Tolerance of Grating Resonance Devices at Oblique Incidence..........................................................................................................................................1243
Sakoolkan Boonruang
CThP2 Photonic Crystal Reflection Prisms ................................................................................................1245Ethan Schonbrun
CThP3 Tunable Fabry-Perot Waveguide Microcavities with High Index Contrast Mirrors ................1247Marcel Pruessner
CThP4 NRZ-to-PRZ Format Conversion Using Silicon Second-Order Coupled-Microring Resonator-Based Notch Filters ....................................................................................................................1249
Linjie Zhou
CThP5 Flattened Broadband Filters with Strongly Modulated Gratings with Two Distinct Filling Factors within One Identical Period................................................................................................1251
YunChih Lee
CThP6 Sharply-Defined Optical Filters and Dispersionless Delay Lines Based on Loop-Coupled Resonators and “Negative” Coupling ..........................................................................................1253
Milos Popovic
CThP7 Single-Film Broadband Photonic Crystal Micro-Mirror with Large Angular Range and Low Polarization Dependence ..............................................................................................................1255
Sora Kim
CTHQ NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION AND SHAPING IN FIBERS
CThQ1 Pulse Compression Techniques Using Highly Nonlinear Fibers .................................................1257Takashi Inoue
CThQ2 Enhancement of Self-Phase Modulation Induced Spectral Broadening in Silicon Waveguides by Ion Implantation.................................................................................................................1259
Yang Liu
CThQ3 Parabolic Pulse Generation in Dispersion Decreasing Fiber Amplifier .....................................1261Stefan Wabnitz
CThQ4 Soliton Compression to Few-Cycle Pulses Using Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers: A Design Study....................................................................................................................1263
Frank Wise
CThQ5 Long Range Soliton Interaction Related to Sidebands Generation in Mode-Locked lasers...............................................................................................................................................................1265
Rafi Weill
CThQ6 Coexistence and Competition between Different Soliton Shaping Mechanisms in a Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1267
Luming Zhao
CTHR TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGIES
CThR1 InGaAs Photoconductive Antennas for THz Emission and Detection with 1.56 µm Excitation .......................................................................................................................................................1269
Yutaka Kadoya
CThR2 THz Time-Domain Spectrometer Based on LT-InGaAs Photoconductive Antennas Exited by a 1.55 µm Fibre Laser ..................................................................................................................1271
Rafal Wilk
CThR3 Excitation Wavelength Dependence of Terahertz Emission from Indium Nitride Multiple Quantum Wells ..............................................................................................................................1273
Grace Chern
CThR4 Measurement of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by THz-Emission Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................1275
Hartmut Roskos
CThR5 THz Radiation Transfer onto a Telecom Optical Carrier ...........................................................1277Sukhdeep Dhillon
CThR6 Energy-Scalable THz-Wave Parametric Oscillator and Its Application to Scanning-Beam Terahertz-Wave Reflection Imaging................................................................................1279
Tomofumi Ikari
CTHS WAVEGUIDE WRITING WITH ULTRASHORT LASERS
CThS1 Writing High-Strength Bragg Grating Waveguides in Bulk Glasses with Picosecond Laser Pulses................................................................................................................................1281
Haibin Zhang
CThS2 Integration of Optical Waveguides and Microfluidic Channels Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation....................................................................................................................1283
Valeria Maselli
CThS3 Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Directional Couplers and Mach-Zehnder Interferometers..............................................................................................................................................1285
Yu Gu
CThS4 Submicron-Period Waveguide Bragg Gratings Direct Written by an 800-nm Femtosecond Oscillator ................................................................................................................................1287
Jung-Ho Chung
CThS5 Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguide Arrays with Tailored Supermodes .............................1289Michael Nguyen
CThS6 Refractive Index Modifications in Chalcogenide Films Induced by Sub-Bandgap Near-IR Femtosecond Pulses........................................................................................................................1291
Jiyeon Choi
CThS7 Depth-Independent, Low-Loss Waveguides Formed by High-Repetition Rate Femtosecond Fiber Laser .............................................................................................................................1293
Shane Eaton
CTHT CERAMIC LASERS
CThT1 Synthesis and Performance of Advanced Ceramic Lasers ...........................................................1295Akio Ikesue
CThT2 Brightness Enhancement Using Core Doped Nd:YAG Ceramic Rods for Side Pumped Laser Heads in Laser Amplifiers and Oscillators .......................................................................1297
Alexander Sträßer
CThT3 Oscillation Property of Rod-Type Nd/Cr:YAG Ceramic Lasers with Quasi-Solar Pumping .........................................................................................................................................................1299
Taku Saiki
CThT4 Specificity of Thermal Lensing in Laser Ceramics .......................................................................1301Efim Khazanov
CThT5 Core-Doped Ceramic Nd:YAG Laser with Sm:YAG Cladding ..................................................1303Dietmar Kracht
CThT6 Ceramic YAG Composite with Nd Gradient Structure for Homogeneous Absorption of Pump Power ..........................................................................................................................1305
Tomosumi Kamimura
CTHU THZ IMAGING AND APPLICATIONS
CThU1 Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space .........................................................................1307Peter Siegel
CThU2 Continuous-Wave Terahertz Imaging with a Hybrid System .....................................................1308Torsten Löffler
CThU3 Real-Time, Transmission-Mode, Terahertz Imaging Over A 25-Meter Distance......................1310Alan Lee
CThU4 Terahertz Imaging with Compressed Sensing and Phase Retrieval............................................1312Wai Chan
CTHV NONLINEAR OPTICS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
CThV1 Carbon Nanotube-Polyimide Saturable Absorbing Waveguide Made by Simple Photolithography...........................................................................................................................................1314
Toshiyuki Oomuro
CThV2 Resonant Nonlinear Optical Properties of CdSe Quantum Dots.................................................1316Lazaro Padilha
CThV3 Hierarchy in Optical Near-Fields by Nano-Scale Shape Engineering and Its Application to Traceable Memory ...............................................................................................................1318
Makoto Naruse
CThV4 Reducing Feature-Sizes of Two-Photon Polymerized Lines by Re-Polymerization in SCR500 ......................................................................................................................................................1320
Yan Li
CThV5 Parametric Oscillation via Dispersion-Compensation in High-Q Microspheres .......................1322Imad Agha
CThV6 Exact Optimization-Based Analysis Method Applied to Nonlinear Processes in a Multi-Cavity Micro-Resonator ....................................................................................................................1324
Guy Klemens
CThV7 Interband Second-Order Susceptibility Enhancement in Strained GaInP/AlGaInP Quantum Wells..............................................................................................................................................1326
Alex Hayat
CTHW FABRICATION OF PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURES
CThW1 Nanofabricated Negative Permeability Media .............................................................................1328Alex Grigorenko
CThW2 Enhanced Aspect Ratio of Focused Ion Beam Nanopatterning Technique in Semiconductors .............................................................................................................................................1329
Alex Hayat
CThW3 Wafer Scale Texturing of LiNbO3.................................................................................................1331Vijay Sivan
CThW4 Diffractive Optical Elements Based Single-Step Fabrication of 3-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Templates .........................................................................................................................1333
Debashis Chanda
CThW5 Photonic Band Gap Synthesis by Optical Phase Mask Lithography .........................................1335Timothy Chan
CThW6 Orthorhombic or Tetragonal Woodpile-Type Photonic Crystals Template Fabricated by Laser Phase Mask Lithography ..........................................................................................1337
Yuankun Lin
CTHX OPTICAL COMBS TECHNOLOGY I
CThX1 Nearly Three-Octave-Spanning Frequency Comb from a Phase-Controlled Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator...............1339
Jinghua Sun
CThX2 Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement and Control of Sub-10fs Laser Pulse at High Repetition Rate with Difference Frequency Technique....................................................................1341
Zhiyi Wei
CThX3 High-Resolution Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Optical Combs..............................................1343Jason Stalnaker
CThX4 Controlling Carrier-Envelope Phase of Grating-Based Chirped Pulse Amplifiers ...................1345Chengquan Li
CThX5 Efficient Compression of Carrier-Envelope Phase-Locked Laser Pulses to 5 fs Esing an Aluminum-Coated Hollow Fiber..................................................................................................1347
Taro Sekikawa
CThX6 Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilized 5.6 fs, 1.2 mJ Pulses..............................................................1349Hiroki Mashiko
CTHY REMOTE SENSING I
CThY1 Regional Aerosol Transport Study Using a Compact Aircraft Lidar .........................................1351Jasper Lewis
CThY2 RADAR REMPI: A New Approach to Detection, Spectroscopy and the Dynamics of Gases for Combustion, Fluid Dynamics and Homeland Defense .........................................................1353
Richard Miles
CThY3 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites .........................1355Caroline McEnnis
CThY4 Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Trinitrotoluene ...............................1357Yamac Dikmelik
CThY5 Long Range Trace Detection in Aqueous Aerosol Using Remote Filament-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (R-FIBS).............................................................................................................1359
Jean-François Daigle
CThY6 Hybrid of Frequency and Time Resolved CARS ..........................................................................1361Dmitry Pestov
CTHZ APPLICATIONS OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
CThZ1 Chip-Scale Photonic Crystal Spectrometers with High Resolution for Lab-on-a-chip Sensing Applications .............................................................................................................................1363
Babak Momeni
CThZ2 Label-Free Optical Biosensor Built with Two-Dimensional Silicon Photonic Crystal Microcavity ......................................................................................................................................1365
Mindy Lee
CThZ3 Photon Crystal Waveguide-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor ................................1367Maksim Skorobogatiy
CThZ4 Fast and Efficient Simulation of Diffuse Light Using Wiener Chaos Expansion and Its Applications for Design of Photonic Crystal Spectrometers ................................................................1369
Majid Badieirostami
CThZ5 Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence......................................................................................1371Nikhil Ganesh
CThZ6 High NA Fourier Space Imaging of Planar Photonic Crystals ....................................................1373Nicolas Le Thomas
CThZ7 Optical and Local Tuning of Planar Photonic Crystals Infiltrated with Organic Molecules........................................................................................................................................................1375
Rolando Ferrini
CTHAA OPTICAL FIBER APPLICATIONS
CThAA1 Fiber-Based All-Optical Sampling ..............................................................................................1377Mathias Westlund
CThAA2 Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion at 40Gb/s Using Birefringent Nonlinear Fiber .............................................................................................................................................1379
Anthony Lenihan
CThAA3 A Monolithic, Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer Using Asymmetric Twin Waveguide Technology .......................................................................................................................1381
Kuen-Ting Shiu
CThAA4 Large Tunable Optical Delays via Self-Phase Modulation and Dispersion .............................1383Yoshitomo Okawachi
CThAA5 Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML) in the Non-Zero Dispersion Regime: A Laser for Ultrahigh-Speed Retinal OCT Imaging at 236kHz Line Rate ..................................................1385
Robert Huber
CTHBB SECURITY ISSUES IN OPTICAL NETWORKING
CThBB1 Demonstration of 1550 nm QKD with ROADM-Based DWDM Networking and the Impact of Fiber FWM ............................................................................................................................1387
Paul Toliver
CThBB2 Enhanced Confidentiality with Multi-Level Phase Scrambling in SPE-OCDMA...................1389Anjali Agarwal
CThBB3 Security Analysis of Stealth Transmission over a Public Fiber-Optical Network ...................1391Bernard Wu
CThBB4 Security Issues in OCDMA with Multiple-User Aggregation ...................................................1393Zhi Jiang
CThBB5 Design of a Virtual Quadrant Receiver for 4-ary Pulse Position Modulation/Optical Code Division Multiple Access (4-ary PPM/O-CDMA) ..........................................1395
Vincent Hernandez
CThBB6 Improving Transmission Privacy Using Optical Layer XOR ...................................................1397Ivan Glesk
CTHCC LASER PROCESSING AND MEASUREMENTS
CThCC1 Microfluidic Bead Array Device Using Laser-Machined Surface Microstructures on Silica Glass ................................................................................................................................................1399
Tadatake Sato
CThCC2 Nanometer-Scale Imaging and Ablation with Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers .............................1401Fernando Brizuela
CThCC3 Arrays of Sub-100 nm Features Fabricated with Table Top Extreme Ultraviolet Interferometric Laser Lithography .............................................................................................................1403
Mario Marconi
CThCC4 Highly Sensitive Asymmetric Long Period Fiber Grating over 1545 ~ 1650 nm Using Optical Polymer on Deep-Ablated Cladding....................................................................................1405
Nan-Kuang Chen
CThCC5 Transparent Thin-Film Characterization by Using Differential Optical Sectioning Interference Microscopy ............................................................................................................1407
Chun-Chieh Wang
CTHDD NOVEL DESIGNS FOR SOLID-STATE LASERS
CThDD1 Cross Sections for Room and Low Temperature Operation of Er-Doped Sesquioxide Lasers ........................................................................................................................................1409
Larry Merkle
CThDD2 Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Giant Pulse Generation in 2 Microns Tm,Ho Lasers ................................................................................................................................................1411
Oleg Louchev
CThDD3 High-Power CW Operation and Beam Quality of a Diode Edge-Pumped, Composite All-Ceramic Yb:YAG Microchip Laser ...................................................................................1413
Masaki Tsunekane
CTHEE HIGH-POWER SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
CThEE1 High-Brightness Wavelength-Beam-Combined Eyesafe Diode Laser Stacks ..........................1415Juliet Gopinath
CThEE2 High-Brightness, Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser System for Fiber Laser Pumping....................1417S. David Roh
CThEE3 High Power 7-GHz Bandwidth External-Cavity Diode Laser Array .......................................1419Lei Meng
CThEE4 High-Power (14 W CW), Narrow Far-Field (3° FWHM) 920 nm Quantum-Dots Tapered Laser Mini-Bar...............................................................................................................................1421
Nicolas Michel
CThEE5 Investigation of Catastrophic Optical Mirror Damage in High Power Single-Mode InGaAs-AlGaAs Strained Quantum Well Lasers with Focused Ion Beam and HR-TEM Techniques ...........................................................................................................................................1423
Yongkun Sin
CThEE6 Power Scalable Semiconductor Disk Laser Using Multiple Gain Cavity.................................1425Esa Saarinen
CThEE7 Etched Micro-Structures for Control of Optical Mode Distribution for Improved Broad Area Laser Performance...................................................................................................................1427
Paul Crump
CTHFF SPATIAL NONLINEAR EFFECT
CThFF1 Photonic Crystal Fiber Based 10 GHz Optical Clock Recovery Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator....................................................................................................................................1429
Ailing Zhang
CThFF2 Controlling Acousto-Optic Interactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber with Sub-Wavelength Core-Hole..................................................................................................................................1431
Gustavo Wiederhecker
CThFF3 Power Threshold of Discrete Surface Solitons ............................................................................1433Sergiy Suntsov
CThFF4 Observation of Two-Dimensional Discrete Surface Solitons and Surface Gap Solitons ...........................................................................................................................................................1435
Xiaosheng Weng
CThFF5 Nonreciprocal Transmission and Low-Threshold Bistability in Strongly Modulated Asymmetric Nonlinear WBGs ..................................................................................................1437
Masafumi Fujii
CThFF6 Polarization Instability in a Long Period Grating of χ(3) ............................................................1439Alain Villeneuve
CThFF7 Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Second-Harmonic Imaging of Ferroelectric Domain Structure of YMnO3......................................................................................................................................1441
Corneliu Catalin Neacsu
CTHGG NANOWIRES AND NANORODS
CThGG1 Effects of V/III Ratios for InP Nanowires Grown on Si Substrates.........................................1443Linus Chuang
CThGG2 Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Epitaxial InP Nanowires ........................................................1445Shanna Crankshaw
CThGG3 Photoluminescence of GaInAsP/InP Single Quantum Wires with Lateral Widths down to 6 nm Fabricated by Dry Etching and Regrowth ..........................................................................1447
Hirotake Itoh
CThGG4 Second- and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Arrayed ZnO Nanorods ........................................................................................................................................................1449
Fabian Rotermund
CThGG5 Trapping and Transport of Silicon Nanowires Using Lateral-Field Optoelectronic Tweezers...............................................................................................................................1451
Aaron Ohta
CTHHH OPTICAL COMBS TECHNOLOGY II
CThHH1 Determining Phase-Energy Coupling Coefficient in Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurements................................................................................................................................................1453
Chengquan Li
CThHH2 Coherent Synthesis Using Carrier-Envelope Phase Controlled Pulses from a Dual-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator...........................................................................1455
Jinghua Sun
CThHH3 High Repetition Rate, Low Jitter, Fundamentally Mode-Locked Soliton Er-Fiber Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1457
Jian Chen
CThHH4 Synchronizing Lasers over Fiber by Transmitting Continuous Waves...................................1459Russell Wilcox
CThHH5 Pulse to Pulse Frequency Skew by Modulated Composite Cavity Structure for Range Detection.............................................................................................................................................1461
Sarper Ozharar
CThHH6 Frequency Stabilized Low Timing Jitter Mode-Locked Laser with an Intracavity Etalon .............................................................................................................................................................1463
Franklyn Quinlan
CThHH7 Octave-Spanning Optical Waveform Synthesizer for Coherent Control Experiments ...................................................................................................................................................1465
Stefan Rausch
CTHII REMOTE SENSING II
CThII1 Pushbroom Laser Altimetry Using Fiber Lasers and Photon Counting Detectors ...................1467James Abshire
CThII2 The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and the Laser Ranging System on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ................................................................................................................................1469
Xiaoli Sun
CThII3 Phase Insensitive Frequency Modulation Sensor for Long Distance CO2 Monitoring .....................................................................................................................................................1471
Sheng Wu
CThII4 Remote Detection of Breath CO2 with Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................1473
Andrew Wright
CThII5 Lidar Approach for Measuring the CO2 Concentrations in the Troposphere from Space...............................................................................................................................................................1474
James Abshire
CThII6 Infrared Heterodyne Radiometry Using Quantum Cascade Laser as Tunable Local Oscillator: Application to Atmospheric Studies...............................................................................1476
Damien Weidmann
CThII7 Tunable Diode Laser Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy (TDL-WMS) Using a Fiber-Amplified Source ................................................................................................................................1478
Richard Wainner
CTHJJ NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES AND DEVICES
CThJJ1 Multi-Axis Electrothermal Scanning Micromirror with Low Driving Voltage ........................1480Kemiao Jia
CThJJ2 Fiber-Coupled Γ-point Photonic Crystal Bandedge Laser .........................................................1482Heonsu Jeon
CThJJ3 Micromachined Quantum-Well Air-Clad Waveguides...............................................................1484Todd Stievater
CThJJ4 Polarization Effect in the Transmission through a Single Nanoscopic Aperture .....................1486Jochen Mueller
CThJJ5 Circularly Polarized Emission from Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Confined in Sculptured Thin Film Based Microcavities............................................................................1488
Jian Xu
CThJJ6 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies and Spectral Narrowing in ZnO Nanostructures ..............................................................................................................................................1490
Gregory Garrett
CThJJ7 Performance Limits to Waveguide Isolators in InP ....................................................................1492Tauhid Zaman
CTHKK FIBER DEVICES FOR SENSING AND METROLOGY
CThKK1 Characterization of the Large Index Modification Caused by Electrical Discharge in Optical Fibers ..........................................................................................................................1494
Benoit Sevigny
CThKK2 Two-Photon Long-Period Grating Inscription in Pure-Fused-Silica Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................................1496
Andrei Fotiadi
CThKK3 First and Higher-Order All-Optical Temporal Differentiators Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings ..............................................................................................................................................1498
Luis Rivas
CThKK4 Low Insertion-Loss (1.8 dB) and Vacuum-Pressure All-Fiber Acetylene Cell Based on Hollow-Core PCF..........................................................................................................................1500
Philip Light
CThKK5 Nonlinear Phenomena in the Response of Interferometric Fiber-Optic Current Sensors............................................................................................................................................................1502
Klaus Bohnert
CThKK6 Multimode Fiber Loop Ring down Spectroscopy for Pressure Measurement........................1504Zhihao Chen
CThKK7 Novel Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry with Measurement Range beyond Laser Coherence Length Realized Using Concatenatively Generated Reference Signal ..............................................................................................................................................................1506
Xinyu Fan
CTHLL TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDES
CThLL1 A Terahertz Dual Wire Waveguide .............................................................................................1508Marx Mbonye
CThLL2 Missing Conductivity in the THz Skin-Depth Layer of Metals .................................................1510Norman Laman
CThLL3 Silver/Polystyrene Coated Hollow Glass Waveguides for the Transmission of THz Radiation........................................................................................................................................................1512
Bradley Bowden
CThLL4 Ferroelectric All-Polymer Hollow Bragg Fibers for THz ..........................................................1514Maksim Skorobogatiy
CThLL5 Air-Core Microstructure Fiber for Terahertz Radiation Waveguiding...................................1516Ja-Yu Lu
CThLL6 1-D THz Photonic Waveguides ....................................................................................................1518Adam Bingham
CThLL7 THz Fiber Directional Coupler ....................................................................................................1520Hung-Wen Chen
CLEO - FRIDAY
CFA ND LASERS
CFA1 High Power CW and A-O Q-Switch Operation of 912 nm Nd:GdVO4 Laser ..............................1522Jing Gao
CFA2 Laser Properties of Composite Nd:GdVO4 Single Crystal Grown by the Double Die EFG Method ..................................................................................................................................................1524
Akio Miyamoto
CFA3 High Order Wavefront Correction for High-Energy Nd:YLF Rod Amplifier by Phase Conjugate Plate ..................................................................................................................................1526
Takashi Sekine
CFA4 Generation of Cylindrical Vector Beams from a Nd:YAG Laser Cavity including a c-cut YVO4 Crystal .......................................................................................................................................1528
Yuichi Kozawa
CFA5 Quasi CW Laser Diode Side Pumped Nd:YAG Slab Laser Passively Mode-Locked Using Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorbers .................................................................................1530
Vaclav Kubecek
CFA6 Development and Vacuum Life Test of a Diode-Pumped Cr:Nd:YAG Laser (Heritage Laser) for Space Applications .....................................................................................................1532
Antonios Seas
CFA7 Repetition-Rate-Stabilized High Power Passively Q-Switched Nd:YAG Microchip Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1534
Jianwu Ding
CFB LASER SOURCES FOR ACTIVE OPTICAL SENSING
CFB1 Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers for Spectroscopic Trace-Gas Detection.....................................1536Dahv Kliner
CFB2 Single-Frequency, Frequency-Doubled, Erbium-Doped, Fiber-Amplified Transmitter for Oxygen A-Band Spectroscopy ..........................................................................................1537
Mark Stephen
CFB3 Widely Tunable, High Power, Mode-Hop Free, CW External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser at 8.4µm ................................................................................................................................1539
Gerard Wysocki
CFB4 Broadly Tunable Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Laser Source...................................................1541Benjamin Lee
CFC IMAGING OF TISSUE AND CANCER
CFC1 High-Speed Camera for Frequency Domain Imaging ....................................................................1543Abneesh Srivastava
CFC2 Single-Scattering Optical Tomography............................................................................................1545Vadim Markel
CFC3 Cellular Motion as Contrast Agent in Tumor Imaging ..................................................................1547Kwan Jeong
CFC4 Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging for Colonic Cancer Diagnosis ............................................1549Zhiwei Huang
CFC5 Evaluation of a Multi-Wavelength Reflectance System for Determination of Tissue Optical Properties in the UVA-VIS .............................................................................................................1551
Quanzeng Wang
CFC6 Enzyme-Based Labeling of Tumor Boundaries...............................................................................1553Jeanne Haushalter
CFC7 Inhomogeneity Localization in Scattering Media Based on an Optical Diffusion Model..............................................................................................................................................................1555
Guangzhi Cao
CFD STIMULATED NLO PROCESSES
CFD1 Effect of Raman Susceptibility on Single-Pump Parametric Amplifiers ......................................1557Stuart Murdoch
CFD2 High Quality Millimeter Wave Carrier Generation via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering .......................................................................................................................................................1559
Markus Junker
CFD3 Efficient Single Spatial Mode Stimulated Raman Scattering in a Hollow Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber Filled with Ethanol ...........................................................................................1561
Sylvie Lebrun
CFD4 Enhancement of Maximum Time Delay in One Fiber Segment Slow Light Systems Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering ...................................................................................................1563
Ronny Henker
CFD5 Efficient Broadband Raman Generation in Crystals Driven by Dual-Frequency Femtosecond Laser Fields ............................................................................................................................1565
Alexei Sokolov
CFD6 Single-Shot Pulse Characterization with High Spatial Resolution Using Localized Nonlinearities and Cerenkov Phase-Matching ...........................................................................................1567
Valdas Pasiskevicius
CFD7 Beam Cleanup of a Pulsed Multimode Fiber Master-Oscillator Power-amplifier at 1.55 µm Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering ..........................................................................................1569
Bastien Steinhausser
CFE HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES
CFE1 Tunable Optofluidic Third Order DFB Dye Laser .........................................................................1571Morten Gersborg-Hansen
CFE2 Use of Optical Tweezers to Fabricate Tunable Filters in Photonic Crystal Fibers ......................1573Mark Cronin-Golomb
CFE3 Integrated Semiconductor Chips for EIT ........................................................................................1575Holger Schmidt
CFE4 Identification of the Band-Edge Cladding Modes of a Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibre ...............................................................................................................................................................1577
Francois Couny
CFE5 Characterization of Index Changes in Silicone- and Nonsilicone-Based Hydrogel Polymers Induced by Femtosecond Micromachining ................................................................................1579
Li Ding
CFE6 Drawing-Induced Index Anisotropy in Single-Material Endlessly Single-Mode Microstructured Optical Fibers ...................................................................................................................1581
Benoit Sevigny
CFF ULTRAFAST PULSE CHARACTERIZATION I
CFF1 Guided-Wave Temporal Imaging Based Ultrafast Recorders........................................................1583Corey Bennett
CFF2 Looped Time-Lens Compression for Generation of 3.5 nJ Femtosecond Pulses from a CW Laser ....................................................................................................................................................1585
James van Howe
CFF3 Polarization-Insensitive Ultralow-Power Second-Harmonic Generation Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating ...............................................................................................................................1587
Houxun Miao
CFF4 Full Characterisation of Low Power Picosecond Pulses From a Gain-Switched Diode Laser Using Electro-Optic Modulation Based FROG................................................................................1589
Andrew Malinowski
CFF5 Sinusoidal Phase Modulation as a Gate for FROG .........................................................................1591Nicolas Fontaine
CFF6 Complex-Pulse Characterization Using a One Dimensional Scheme.............................................1593Balakishore Yellampalle
CFF7 Pulse Phase Reconstruction Using Optical Ultrafast Differentiation.............................................1595Fangxin Li
CFG OPTICAL TRACE GAS DETECTION
CFG1 Sensitive Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy of Ethane Using a Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Laser..............................................................................................................................1597
Krishnan Parameswaran
CFG2 Sensitive, Real-Time Interband Cascade Laser Based Sensor for Ethane Monitoring ...............1599Yury Bakhirkin
CFG3 Isotopic Ratio Measurements of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using a 4.3 µm Pulsed Quantum Cascade Laser ..................................................................................................................1601
David Nelson
CFG4 Methane Detection by Means of Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy in NIR .................................................................................................................................................................1603
Anatoliy Kosterev
CFG5 Spectroscopic Study of Simulant for VX Nerve Agent in a Wide Frequency Range ...................1605Renbo Song
CFG6 Airborne Difference Frequency Spectrometer for Ultra Sensitive Formaldehyde Measurements................................................................................................................................................1607
Petter Weibring
CFG7 Petrochemical Gas Speciation Using a Rapid Widely-Tunable Mid-IR Laser Spectrometer..................................................................................................................................................1609
Douglas Bamford
CFH HIGH-Q MICRORESONATORS AND DEVICES I
CFH1 High-Q Photonic Crystal Cavities ....................................................................................................1611Susumu Noda
CFH2 Analytic Photonic Crystal Cavity Design.........................................................................................1612Dirk Englund
CFH3 c-Er2O3 Microdisks on Silicon: Fabrication and Photoluminescence ...........................................1614Christopher Michael
CFH4 Electro-Optically Tunable Microring Resonators Based on Single-Crystalline LiNbO3 Thin Films........................................................................................................................................1616
Gorazd Poberaj
CFH5 Demonstration of High-Q Microdisk Resonators: Fabrication and Nonlinear Properties .......................................................................................................................................................1618
Tobias Kippenberg
CFH6 Photonic Crystals (PC) in Diamond: Cavity Q-Mode Volume Influence on the Design .............................................................................................................................................................1620
Igal Bayn
CFI HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS
CFI1 Bi-Doped Fiber Lasers: New Type of High-Power Radiation Sources ...........................................1622Igor Bufetov
CFI2 High-Power Cascaded Raman Fiber Laser with 41-W Output Power at 1480-nm Band ...............................................................................................................................................................1624
Yoshihiro Emori
CFI3 Multi-mJ Energy, Multi-MW Peak-Power Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifiers with Near-Diffraction-Limited Output ................................................................................................................1626
Fabio Di Teodoro
CFI4 Strictly-All-Fiber 1070nm High Power Source in a Distributed Side-Coupled Pump Configuration ................................................................................................................................................1628
Yaakov Glick
CFI5 20W Single-Frequency Fiber Laser Operating at 1.93 um ..............................................................1630Soren Agger
CFI6 High Power Single-Ended Yb-Doped Fiber ASE Source.................................................................1632Pu Wang
CFI7 Mode Field Adaptation for High Power Fiber Lasers......................................................................1634Mathieu Faucher
CFJ YB LASERS
CFJ1 On-Chip, Ultra-Low Threshold Yb Silica Laser ..............................................................................1636Eric Ostby
CFJ2 Compact Multi-Pass Ring Laser Using LHPG-Grown Yb:YAG Crystal Fiber............................1638Jui-Yun Yi
CFJ3 Segmented Growth of Monoclinic Yb:KY(WO4)2/KY(WO4)2 and Its Laser Operation .......................................................................................................................................................1640
Uwe Griebner
CFJ4 Tunable Laser Operation of Yb:NaY(WO4)2 ...................................................................................1642Valentin Petrov
CFJ5 Composite Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG Ceramics Self-Q-Switched Laser....................................................1644Jun Dong
CFJ6 Up-Conversion to the Conduction Band in Highly Doped Yb:YAG and Yb:Y2O3 and Its Effect on Thin-Disk Lasers .....................................................................................................................1646
Susanne Fredrich-Thornton
CFJ7 High-Power Diode-Pumped Lasers Based on Yb:YAl3(BO3)4 Crystals Cut along the Crystallographic Axes...................................................................................................................................1648
Valentin Petrov
CFK TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS
CFK1 Pulse Compression in Dispersion Decreasing Photonic Crystal Fiber ..........................................1650J. Travers
CFK2 Up-Tapering of Optical Fibers Using a Conventional Flame Tapering Rig .................................1652George Kakarantzas
CFK3 Photonic Crystal Fiber Tapers and Devices ....................................................................................1654Tim Birks
CFK4 Analytical Relation between Effective Mode Field Area and Waveguide Dispersion in Microstructure Fibers ..............................................................................................................................1656
Günter Steinmeyer
CFL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
CFL1 Optical Coherence Tomography Phase Microscopy Using Buffered Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) Lasers at up to 370,000 Lines per Second............................................................1658
Desmond Adler
CFL2 High-Resolution OCT Balloon Catheter for Systematic Imaging of the Esophagus ....................1660Henry Fu
CFL3 Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography: Frequency Domain Technology and Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1662
Seok-Hyun Yun
CFL4 Real-Time Imaging of Biological Tissues Using High Resolution Line-Scanning Optical Coherence Microscopy ....................................................................................................................1664
Yu Chen
CFL5 Novel S+C+L Broadband Source Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and Erbium-Doped Fiber for Optical Coherence Tomography .......................................................................1666
David Beitel
CFL6 Fiber-Broadened Passively Modelocked Er:Yb:Glass Laser for High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography..................................................................................................................1668
Max Stumpf
CFM MISC. NLO
CFM1 First Experimental Demonstration of a SOA/DFB-LD Feedback Scheme Based All-Optical Flip-Flop ...........................................................................................................................................1670
Wouter D'Oosterlinck
CFM2 Room Temperature Semiconductor Source of Twin Photons .......................................................1672Giuseppe Leo
CFM3 3-D Integration of Continuum Generation and Carving on a Silicon Chip .................................1674Prakash Koonath
CFM4 Generation of Continuous-Wave 17.6 THz Pulse Train ................................................................1676Shin-ichi Zaitsu
CFM5 Energy Harvesting in Silicon Photonics ..........................................................................................1678Bahram Jalali
CFM6 Nanometric Three-Dimensional Sub-Surface Imaging of a Silicon Flip-Chip.............................1680Euan Ramsay
CFN QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED MATERIALS/FERROELECTRICS
CFN1 Ferroelectric Photonic Structures: Characterization and Device Demonstration .......................1682A. Kung
CFN2 High Power Continuous-Wave Green Light Generation by Quasi Phase Matching in MgSLT ...........................................................................................................................................................1684
Sergey Tovstonog
CFN3 E/O Tunable Second-Harmonic-Generation Gratings in Ion-Exfoliated Thin Films of Periodically Poled LiNbO3 .......................................................................................................................1686
Richard Osgood
CFN4 Broadly Tunable mW Level UV Light Generated by Intracavity SFG in a Compact High-Q PPMgSLT OPO ...............................................................................................................................1688
Shih-Yu Tu
CFN5 Thin Film Pyrolectric Detector Coated with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes: Absorptivity and Frequency Response........................................................................................................1690
Antonije Radojevic
CFN6 Patterning Sub-Micrometer Domain in MgO:LiNbO3 Ridge Waveguides by Focused Ion Beam for QPM Nonlinear Optical Devices ..........................................................................................1692
Xijun Li
CFO ULTRASHORT PULSE CHARACTERIZATION II
CFO1 Spatio-Temporal and Interferometric Characterisation of Sub-5-fs Pulses Obtained by Filamentation............................................................................................................................................1694
Amelle Zair
CFO2 Spectral Shearing Interferometry with Spatially Chirped Beams ................................................1696Simon-Pierre Gorza
CFO3 Directly Measuring the Spatio-Temporal Electric Field of Ultrashort Pulses in and near a Focus ...................................................................................................................................................1698
Pamela Bowlan
CFO4 Exact Solution for Sub-Cycle Pulsed Focused Vector Beams ........................................................1700Qiang Lin
CFO5 Direct UV Pulse Shaping Applied to 3ps Square and Parabolic Pulses ........................................1702Thomas Oksenhendler
CFO6 Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet...................................................................1704Brett Pearson
CFO7 Toward Programmable Ultrashort Pulse Characterization .........................................................1706Nicolas Forget
CFP PMD AND MICROWAVE PHOTONICS
CFP1 High Speed, Broadband PMD Measurements via Efficient Spectral Polarimetry .......................1708Li Xu
CFP2 Broadband All-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation by Characterization and Inversion of Jones Matrices on a Wavelength-by-Wavelength Basis ..................1710
Houxun Miao
CFP3 Optical Control of Microwave Phase ................................................................................................1712Marc Currie
CFP4 Hybrid Optical Access Network Integrating Baseband and Radio Signals Transmitted on a Single Wavelength...........................................................................................................1714
Chun-Ting Lin
CFQ HIGH-Q MICRORESONATORS AND DEVICES II
CFQ1 Photon Trapping, Delaying, and Dynamic-Control Using Ultra-Small High-Q Photonic Crystal Cavities .............................................................................................................................1716
Takasumi Tanabe
CFQ2 Ultra Fast Nonlinear Optical Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities ..............................................1718Ilya Fushman
CFQ3 Free UH-Q Microtoroids, New Tools for Designing Photonic Devices..........................................1720Mani Hossein-Zadeh
CFQ4 Demonstration of Silicon Microdisk Resonators Compatible with Active Integration: Ultra-High Q and Efficient Waveguide-Resonator Coupling ..............................................1722
Mohammad Soltani
CFQ5 Low Power Thermal Tuning of Second-Order Microring Resonators .........................................1724Reja Amatya
CFQ6 Highly Compact High-Order Micro-Ring Filters ...........................................................................1726Shijun Xiao
CFR ULTRASHORT PULSE MICROFABRICATION AND ABLATION
CFR1 Micro and Nanostereolithography for Production of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices .............................1728Shoji Maruo
CFR2 Variable Pressure Hollow-Core Band-Gap Fiber Cell Produced Using Femtosecond Laser Micromachining..................................................................................................................................1730
Christopher Hensley
CFR3 Heat Accumulation Effects in Femtosecond Laser Ablation of ITO Thin Films for DEP Trapping Devices..................................................................................................................................1732
M. Xu
CFR4 Combining 5-D Microscopy with 3-D Femtosecond Laser Nanoprocessing .................................1734Peter Herman
CFR5 Fabrication of a Multilayer Polymer Light-Emitting Diode by Resonant Infrared Laser Ablation ...............................................................................................................................................1736
Stephen Johnson
CFR6 Effect of Pulse Shaping on Silicon Micromachining Monitored by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Surface Second Harmonic Generation.....................................................1738
Tissa Gunaratne
CFS THZ SPECTROSCOPY
CFS1 Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Crystalline and Aqueous Systems ...............................1740Peter Jepsen
CFS2 Accurate Modeling of Inter- and Intra-Molecular Interactions in 1,4-Dihydroxynaphthalene in the 0.5-6 Terahertz Region...............................................................................1742
Carlito Ponseca
CFS3 High Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy of Organic Polycrystalline Thin Films Using a Parallel Metal Plate Waveguide .....................................................................................................1744
Joseph Melinger
CFS4 Narrow-Line THz Absorption Spectra of Deoxycytidine and D-Glucose Films in Parallel Plate Waveguides ............................................................................................................................1746
Norman Laman
CFS5 Dielectric Measurements for Powder-Shape Samples Using Terahertz Time-Domain Attenuated Total Reflection Technique.......................................................................................................1748
Hiroyuki Yada
CFS6 THz Vibrational Spectra of Hydrated and Dehydrated Samples by Time-Domain Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................1750
Haruko Yoneyama
JOINT SESSIONS
JMA PLASMONIC NANOPHOTONICS
JMA1 Search for Negative Refraction and Focusing at Optical Wavelengths: Imaging of Quantum Dots Fluorescence in Opal Photonic Crystals............................................................................1752
Anvar Zakhidov
JMA2 Negative Index Metamaterial for Two Distinct Polarizations: Double Negative at 813 nm and Single Negative at 770 nm........................................................................................................1753
Uday Chettiar
JMA3 Nanomechanical Control of an Optical Nanoantenna....................................................................1755Joerg Merlein
JMA4 Magnifying Superlens in the Visible Frequency Range .................................................................1757Igor Smolyaninov
JMA5 Compensation of Loss in Propagating Surface Plasmon by Optical Gain....................................1759M. Noginov
JMA6 Plasmonic Quantum Cascade Laser Antenna .................................................................................1761Nanfang Yu
JMB RESONATORS AND PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
JMB2 Opto-Mechanical Modal Spectroscopy: Opto-Excited Vibrations of a Micron-Scale On-Chip Resonator .......................................................................................................................................1763
Tal Carmon
JMB3 Measurement of Optical Forces within a High-Q Microcavity-Waveguide System ....................1765Matt Eichenfield
JMB4 Nanowire Coupling to Photonic Crystal Nanocavities for Single Photon Sources .......................1767Christian Grillet
JMB5 Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Fabricated by Double-Angled Plasma Etching...............1769Shigeki Takahashi
JMB6 Experimental Observation of Inflection-Point Slow Light Modes in Photonic Crystal Coupled Waveguides.....................................................................................................................................1771
Shih-Chieh Huang
JMC INTEGRATED NANOPHOTONICS
JMC1 Nanostructured Optics and Optoelectronics for Dense Optical Interconnects ............................1773David Miller
JMC2 Visible 2-Dimentional Photonic Crystal Laser................................................................................1775Zhaoyu Zhang
JMC3 Photonic Crystal Surface Mode Laser .............................................................................................1777Hatice Altug
JMC4 Single Photon Source on Demand Based on Single-Colloidal-Quantum-Dot Fluorescence in Chiral Photonic Bandgap Liquid Crystal Hosts .............................................................1779
Luke Bissell
JMC5 Near-Field Characterization of Plasmon Polariton Propagation Along Periodically Nano-Structured Metal Thin Films .............................................................................................................1781
J. Weeber
JTUA POSTER SESSION I
JTuA1 Power Dissipation Requirements in Slow Light Devices...............................................................1783Jacob Khurgin
JTuA2 Spectral Properties of Entangled-Photons Generated via Type-I Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion ........................................................................................................................1785
Yoon-ho Kim
JTuA3 Magneto-Optical Resonance in Counterpropagating Waves........................................................1787Denis Brazhnikov
JTuA4 Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Photons..................................................................................1789Joachim von Zanthier
JTuA5 1.5-µm Band Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiment Using Photon Pairs Generated in Two Independent Optical Fibers..........................................................................................................................1791
Hiroki Takesue
JTuA6 Negative Bi-Exciton Binding Energy in (211)B InAs/GaAs Piezoelectric Quantum Dots.................................................................................................................................................................1793
Nikolaos Pelekanos
JTuA7 All-Optical Switching at Ultra-Low Light Levels ..........................................................................1795Jiepeng Zhang
JTuA8 Narrow Linewidth Diode Laser System for Coherent Precision Spectroscopy ..........................1797Andreas Wicht
JTuA9 Entangled Photon Generation from a Single Quantum Dot in Microcavity ...............................1799Hiroshi Ajiki
JTuA10 Giant Kerr Effect in Degenerate Closed Transitions ..................................................................1801Luca Spani Molella
JTuA11 Compact and Robust Laser System for Rubidium Laser Cooling Based on Fibered Technology at 1560 nm and Second Harmonic Generation ........................................................1803
Yannick Bidel
JTuA12 Mesoscopic Entanglement of Atomic Ensembles through Non-Resonant Stimulated Raman Scattering ......................................................................................................................1805
Wenhai Ji
JTuA13 High-Visibility Classical Multi-Photon Interference ...................................................................1807Ivan Agafonov
JTuA14 Quantum-Dot-Photon Dynamics in a Coupled-Cavity Waveguide: A Platform for Bandedge Quantum Optics ..........................................................................................................................1809
David Fussell
JTuA15 Coherent Association of Two-Component Atomic Condensate into Heteronuclear Molecular Condensate ..................................................................................................................................1811
Hong Ling
JTuA16 Effects of Polarization-Dependent Loss and Fiber Birefringence on Photon-Pair Entanglement in Fiber-Optic Channels ......................................................................................................1813
Milja Medic
JTuA17 Is Entanglement Dispensable in Quantum Lithography?...........................................................1815Milena D'Angelo
JTuA18 Two-Photon Spectral Coherency Matrix and Multi-Parameter Optical Entanglement.................................................................................................................................................1817
Cristian Bonato
JTuA19 Exploring Non-Conservation of Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion ..........................................................................................................................................1818
Sheng Feng
JTuA20 Velocity-Selective Two-Photon Resonances with Blue and Red Detunings in a Cold Atomic Sample .....................................................................................................................................1820
Matthew Terraciano
JTuA21 Realization of Loschmidt Echo in Atom Optics Billiard .............................................................1822Tzahi Grunzweig
JTuA22 Violation of Bell’s Inequality with Continuous Spatial Variables..............................................1824Ayman F. Abouraddy
JTuA23 Long-Range Spin-Qubit Interaction in Planar Microcavities ....................................................1826Carlo Piermarocchi
JTuA24 Integrated Optics Technology for Quantum Information Processing in Atomic Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................1828
Jungsang Kim
JTuA25 Two-Photon Based Semiconductor Entanglement-Source for Quantum Communications............................................................................................................................................1830
Pavel Ginzburg
JTuA26 Generation of Photon Pairs with Engineered Spectral Properties by Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing ........................................................................................................................................1832
Karina Garay-Palmett
JTuA27 Propagation of Two Photon States through Dispersive Media and Spectral Entanglement Migration...............................................................................................................................1834
Yasser Jeronimo-Moreno
JTuA28 Optimized Photon Pair Generation by Parametric Downconversion in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals ..........................................................................................................................................1836
Alfred U'Ren
JTuA29 Multipartite Atom(s)-Field Entanglement in Cavity QED .........................................................1838Perry Rice
JTuA30 A New Scheme of Birefringent Optical Interleaver Employing Ring Cavity as Phase-Dispersion Element ............................................................................................................................1840
Wood-Hi Cheng
JTuA31 General Two-Dimensional Coupled-Cavity Microring Filter Architectures ............................1842Ashok Masilamani
JTuA32 Polymer Waveguide with 4-Channel Circular GI Cores toward High-Speed Optical Interconnects....................................................................................................................................1844
Takaaki Ishigure
JTuA33 Laser-Assisted Electrical Gating in a Two-Terminal Device Based on Vanadium Dioxide Thin Film .........................................................................................................................................1846
Yong Wook Lee
JTuA34 Monitoring of Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio Using Polarization Maintaining Fiber Bragg Grating................................................................................................................................................1848
Khurram Qureshi
JTuA35 Multimode SCM-Based PON Architecture for Computer Network Applications Using a Low-Cost Polymer 1x8 Splitter/Combiner ....................................................................................1850
Nikolaos Bamiedakis
JTuA36 Strain Induced Waveguide Electro-Optic Modulators in Barium Titanate Crystal ................1852Jiansheng Tang
JTuA37 Add-Drop Filters Based on Mode Conversion Cavities ..............................................................1854Jacob Khurgin
JTuA38 Modelling Intersubband Electroabsorption Modulation ............................................................1856Duncan Allsopp
JTuA39 Wavelength Exchange with Enhanced Extinction Ratio in Highly Nonlinear Dispersion-Shifted Fiber...............................................................................................................................1858
Rebecca W.L. Fung
JTuA40 Fiber-Free Characterization of Photonics Integrated Circuits by Thermoreflectance Microscopy....................................................................................................................1860
Maryam Farzaneh
JTuA41 Development of Planar Waveguide Based Integrated Optic SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance) Sensor Array .............................................................................................................................1862
Hyungseok Pang
JTuA42 Speckle Mechanism in Optical Coherence Imaging ....................................................................1864Ping Yu
JTuA43 Detection of Bacillus thuringiensis Spore Germination via CaDPA Biomarker Using Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy ..............................................................................................1866
De Chen
JTuA44 High-Resolution Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography with the Frequency-Sweeping the Broadened Spectrum of a fs Cr:Forsterite Laser ............................................1868
Chih-Wei Lu
JTuA45 Broadband, Low Intensity Noise Source for Optical Coherence Tomography at 1.8µm ..............................................................................................................................................................1870
S Popov
JTuA46 Enhancement of Fluorescence and Raman Scattering in a Liquid-Core Optical Fiber Based on Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibers ..............................................................................1872
Li Huo
JTuA47 Cancer Detection Using Infrared Transillumination ..................................................................1874Sanhita Dixit
JTuA48 A Novel Confocal Fiber-Optic Laser Method for Exact Intraocular Lens Dioptric Power Measurement .....................................................................................................................................1876
Ilko Ilev
JTuA49 Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter-Based Spectropolarimetric Imagers for Biomedical Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1878
Neelam Gupta
JTuA50 Single-Shot Two-Photon Action Cross Section Measurement ....................................................1880Kebin Shi
JTuA51 An All-Fiber-Optic Confocal Interference Microscope Using Low-Coherence Near-Infrared Light Source .........................................................................................................................1882
Do-Hyun Kim
JTuA52 Quantitative Phase Contrast Imaging of Cells by Multi-Wavelength Digital Holography ....................................................................................................................................................1884
Alexander Khmaladze
JTuA53 Characterization of Skin Incision Closure Using Diode Laser and ICG - Albumin Protein Solder ................................................................................................................................................1886
Mohammad Khosroshahi
JTuA54 Linear, Spatio-Temporal Characterization of UV Microscope Objectives for Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy..........................................................................................................1888
Dawn Schafer
JTuA55 Fourier Domain Common-Path Fiber OCT with Tunable Reference: Analysis and Optimization ..................................................................................................................................................1890
Jin Kang
JTuA56 Optode Design on Flexible Print Circuit Board for a Portable Diffuse Optical Tomography System .....................................................................................................................................1892
Chia-Wei Sun
JTuA57 Cascaded Two Wavelength Lasers and Their Effects on C-Band Amplification Performance for Er3+-Doped Fluoride Fiber ..............................................................................................1894
Guanshi Qin
JTuA58 Experimental Demonstration of Raman Gain Efficiency and Chromatic Dispersion of Hole-Assisted Fiber: Influence of Bend ...............................................................................1896
Shailendra Varshney
JTuA59 Radiation Dose Enhancement in Photonic Crystal Fiber Bragg Gratings: Towards Photo-Ionization Monitoring of Irradiation Sources in Harsh Nuclear Power Reactors .......................1898
Nikolaos Florous
JTuA60 A New Compact Polarization Beam Splitter Based on Dual-Elliptical-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................1900
Jung-Sheng Chiang
JTuA61 Divalent Ytterbium in Ytterbium Doped Aluminosilicate Glass: Aspects on Photodarkening in Fiber Lasers ..................................................................................................................1902
Magnus Engholm
JTuA62 6.4W, Narrowline CW Bismuth-Doped Fiber Laser for Frequency Doubling to 590nm .............................................................................................................................................................1904
Andrey Rulkov
JTuA63 Optimizing Raman/EDFA Hybrid Amplifier Based on Dual-Order Stimulated Raman Scattering of a Single Pump ............................................................................................................1906
Zhaohui Li
JTuA64 Er:Yb-Doped Waveguide Amplifier Fabricated in Oxyfluoride Silicate Glass Using Femtosecond Laser Inscription .........................................................................................................1908
Nicholas Psaila
JTuA65 Photonic Bandgaps in Photonic Crystal Fibers with Coated High-Index Inclusions ...............1910Markus Hautakorpi
JTuA66 FM Laser Operation in SOA Based Fiber Ring Lasers ..............................................................1912Simon Lambert Girard
JTuA67 All-Fiber Integrated Assemblies Based on the Resonant Tunneling Effect in Multi-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fibers .......................................................................................................1914
Kunimasa Saitoh
JTuA68 Optical Amplification at 0.54 µm by Er3+-Doped Fluoride Fiber...............................................1916Yasutake Ohishi
JTuA69 Suppression of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a Photonic/Phononic Crystal Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................................1918
Ravi Hegde
JTuA70 High-Repetition-Rate Passively Q-Switched Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser with Cr4+:YAG Saturable Absorber ....................................................................................................................1920
Lei Pan
JTuA71 Paradoxical Features of Monochromatic Light Amplification in Multicore Fibers .................1922Anatoly Napartovich
JTuA72 Extending S-band of EDFA to 1450 nm .......................................................................................1924Charu Kakkar
JTuA73 Optical Comb Filter Based on the Spectral Talbot Effect in Uniform Fiber Bragg Gratings..........................................................................................................................................................1926
Naum Berger
JTuA74 The Fabrication of Laser Array by Holographic Interference Lithography ............................1928Chuli Chao
JTuA75 Bandwidth Tunable Band Rejection Filter Based on Helicoidal Fiber Grating Pair of Opposite Hellicity......................................................................................................................................1930
Woojin Shin
JTuA76 Photodarkening and Photobleaching of an Ytterbium-Doped Silica Double-Clad LMA Fiber .....................................................................................................................................................1932
Johan Boullet
JTuA77 One Centimeter Resolution Temperature Measurements from 25 to 850°C Using Rayleigh Scatter in Gold Coated Fiber .......................................................................................................1934
Alexander Sang
JTuA78 Microjoule Supercontinuum Generation by Prechirped Laser Pulses in a Large-Mode-Area Photonic-Crystal Fiber .............................................................................................................1936
Aleksei Zheltikov
JTuA79 Dispersion Tuning of Chirped Sampled Fiber Bragg Gratings by Controlling only Duty Ratios ....................................................................................................................................................1938
Kien Dinh
JTuA80 Ultra-Flat Spectrum, Multiwavelength Operation in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Power-Clamping Effect ...........................................................................................................1940
Xinhuan Feng
JTuA81 Competition between 20th-Order Rational Harmonic Mode-Locking and Gain-Switching in Inverse Optical Comb Injected Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Fiber Ring Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1942
Gong-Ru Lin
JTuA82 Collision of Orthogonally Polarized Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................1944Alexander Podlipensky
JTuA83 A Volume Bragg Grating Locked Nd:Fiber Laser ......................................................................1946Fredrik Laurell
JTuA84 EDFA Gain Stabilization with Fast Transient Behavior by Use of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ................................................................................................................1948
Roger Ibrahim
JTuA85 Power Scaling of Laser Systems Using Spectral Beam Combining with Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass.......................................................................................................................1950
Oleksiy Andrusyak
JTuA86 Gain Filtering for Single-Spatial-Mode Operation of Large-Mode-Area Fiber Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................1951
John Marciante
JTuA87 Rare Event Simulation of the Performance of an Actively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Model ...................................................................................................................................................1953
Graham Donovan
JTuA88 High Order-Mode Coupling in a Fiber Bragg Grating by Flexural Acoustic-Wave Modulations ...................................................................................................................................................1955
Ming-Yue Fu
JTuA89 Low-Loss Splicing Small-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers and Single-Mode Fibers by Repeated Arc Discharges.........................................................................................................................1957
Limin Xiao
JTuA90 Discrimination between Strain and Temperature by Using Holey Fibers-Based Long-Period Fiber Gratings with Different Air Hole Size.........................................................................1959
Young-Geun Han
JTuA91 Emission Intensity Improvement of InGaN Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes Grown on Wet-Etched Sapphire Substrates ...............................................................................................1961
Chang-Chi Pan
JTuA92 Multiple Wavelength Emission from Semipolar InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells Selectively Grown by MOCVD ....................................................................................................................1963
P. C. Ku
JTuA93 Carrier Concentration and Junction Temperature Dependencies of Illumination Efficiency of GaN Power Light-Emitting Diodes .......................................................................................1965
Michael Liao
JTuA94 Electronically Tunable Photonic Crystals ....................................................................................1967Martin Cryan
JTuA95 Efficient Point Defect Engineered Si Light-Emitting Diode at 1.218 µm ..................................1969Jiming Bao
JTuA96 Enhanced ZnO Band-Gap Emission of Electroluminescence from ZnO Nanoparticles/Organic Nanocomposites Using a Hole-Transporting Material .......................................1971
Chun-Yu Lee
JTuA97 Light Emission from Size Reduced Nanocrystal Silicon Quantum Dots ...................................1973Hea-Jeong Cheong
JTuA98 Patterning and Integration of Polyfluorene Polymers on Micropixellated UV AlInGaN Light Emitting Diodes ..................................................................................................................1975
Benoit Guilhabert
JTuA99 Deep Ultraviolet Light Generation at 266 nm by Quasi-Phase-Matched Quartz .....................1977Muneyuki Adachi
JTuA100 Fluorescent and Photoconductive Properties of Anthradithiophene and Pentacene Derivatives ...................................................................................................................................1979
Andrew Platt
JTuA101 Impulse-Response Reconstruction of a Scattering Medium with the Kramers-Kronig Method ..............................................................................................................................................1981
Yossi Ben-Aderet
JTuA102 Uniform Growth of 10-µm-Core Double-Clad Cr4+:YAG Crystal Fiber ................................1983Kuang-Yao Huang
JTuA103 Nondestructive Internal Device Characterization of an Oxide-Confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser ....................................................................................................................1985
Victoria de Lange
JTuA104 Nd3+: (La1-x,Bax)F3-x as Vacuum Ultraviolet Scintillator and New Laser Material .................1987Marilou Cadatal
JTuA105 Efficient CW Optical Limiting in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Twist Cell .................................1989Kenneth Singer
JTuA106 Investigating Charge Carrier Mobilities in Nanocrystal-Polymer Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices......................................................................................................................................1991
Fan Zhang
JTuA107 Strong Nuclear Contribution to the Optical Kerr Effect in Niobium Oxide Containing Glasses ........................................................................................................................................1993
Arnaud Royon
JTuA108 Evidence of Periodic Electric Fields Generated by Spatial Separation of Photogenerated Electron-Hole Pairs in Short-Period InAs/GaSb Type-II Superlattices .......................1995
Xiaodong Mu
JTuA109 Shape Analysis of Laser Deformed Metallic Nanoparticles......................................................1997Heinrich Graener
JTuA110 Estimation of Refractive Index Distribution inside Transparent Materials by Use of Four-Wave Mixing Process ......................................................................................................................1999
Takehito Kawasumi
JTuA111 Determination of Interband Transition Dipole Moment of InAs/InGaAs Quantum Dots from Modal Absorption Spectra ........................................................................................2001
Der Chin Wu
JTuA112 Doping Effect on Carrier Occupation and Transport in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors: A Capacitance-Voltage Spectroscopy Study.............................................2003
Zhiya Zhao
JTuA113 Fabrication of Photonic Crystal by Two-Photon Single-Beam Laser Holographic Lithography ...................................................................................................................................................2005
Kam Sing Wong
JTuA114 Linear Electro-Optic Coefficient in Multilayer Self-Organized InAs Quantum Dot Structures ...............................................................................................................................................2007
Imran Akca
JTuA115 Threshold Analysis of Longitudinal Modes in Surface Emitting Organic Distributed Feedback Lasers........................................................................................................................2009
Sidney Yang
JTuA116 Polarization Dependence of SHG Efficiency in Periodically-Twinned QPM Quartz ............................................................................................................................................................2011
Sunao Kurimura
JTuA117 Fabrication of PPLT Crystal Fiber by the Method of Laser Heated Pedestal Growth ...........................................................................................................................................................2013
Shan-Chuang Pei
JTuA118 Novel Full-Color Photorefractive Polymer for Photonics Applications...................................2015Peng Wang
JTuA119 Excited State Absorption Cross-Section Spectrum of Chlorophyll A......................................2017Daniel Corrêa
JTuA120 Study of Transient Effects in Photo-Excited Semiconducting Polymer and Bulk Heterojunctions .............................................................................................................................................2019
Yi-Hsing Peng
JTuA121 A Novel Anti-Reflecton Coated FP Laser Amplifier for 2.5Gbit/s DWDM-PON Transmission..................................................................................................................................................2021
Gong-Ru Lin
JTuA122 Real-Time PMD Monitoring Using a DOP Ellipsoid Based on PSO Technique.....................2023Xiaoguang Zhang
JTuA123 Multiple-Wavelength Transmission Using FP-LD for Increasing Upstream Capacity in Asymmetric TDM-PON ...........................................................................................................2025
Manik Attygalle
JTuA124 40 GHz All-Optical Clock Recovery Using Cross-Absorption in an Electro-Absorption Modulator Inside a Fiber Ring Laser......................................................................................2027
L. F. K. Lui
JTuA125 Pulse Limiting Amplification by Saturation Effects in an SOA ...............................................2029Giampiero Contestabile
JTuA126 All-Optical ASK-DPSK Signal Regeneration Using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ........................................................................................................................................................2031
Mable P. Fok
JTuA127 Biasing a Diode Laser at the Self-Mixing Crossover Improves Immunity to Backreflection ................................................................................................................................................2033
Silvano Donati
JTuA128 A Fully Bi-Directional 2.4GHz Wireless-Over-Fibre System Using Photonic Active Integrated Antennas (PhAIAs).........................................................................................................2035
Martin Cryan
JTuA129 High Spectral Efficiency Phase Diversity Coherent Optical CDMA with Low MAI ................................................................................................................................................................2037
A Brinton Cooper
JTuA130 Theoretical Study on the Performance of Optical Phase Conjugation for Ultra Long-Haul Differential Phase-Shift-Keyed Transmission .........................................................................2039
Nat Sarapa
JTuA131 Sub-Clock Extraction of Optical Signals at High Rates Using an Opto-Electronic Phase-Locked Loop Based on Three-Wave Mixing in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate..................2041
Fausto Gómez Agis
JTuA132 PMD Compensation with Coherent Reception and Digital Signal Processing........................2043Stefan Boehm
JTuA133 Mitigation of Transient Response of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Burst Traffic of High Speed Optical Packets ........................................................................................................2045
Yoshinari Awaji
JTuA134 Suppression of Phase Noise Induced by Intrachannel Four-Wave Mixing Using Phase Noise Averagers ..................................................................................................................................2047
Chia Chien Wei
JTuA135 Multi-Uplink Passive Optical Networks .....................................................................................2049Chun-Yin Li
JTuA136 High Density FTTH Network Utilizing Asymmetric Data Transmission................................2051Tak-Chuen Luk
JTuA137 Impact of Facet Reflectivity and Operation Condition on Injection-Locking Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes with Spectrum Sliced ASE Noise in WDM-PON...........................................2053
Xiao-Fei Cheng
JTuA138 Depolarization of External Optical Feedback on VCSEL and Variation of Relative Intensity Noise ................................................................................................................................2055
Shinyoung Yoon
JTuA139 High Repetition Rate Passively Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Incorporating an Electro-Absorption Modulator ......................................................................................2057
Lixin Xu
JTuA140 Uncompensated 20 Gb/s Duobinary Polarization Division Multiplexing Transmission over 200 km............................................................................................................................2059
Paolo Martelli
JTUB SYMPOSIUM ON SELF-PHASE MODULATION I
JTuB1 Self-Phase Modulation: The Formative Years ...............................................................................2061T. Gustafson
JTuB2 Multi-Watt Supercontinuum Generation from 0.3 to 2.4 µm in PCF Tapers .............................2062J Travers
JTuB3 Self-Steepening without Self-Phase Modulation ............................................................................2064Jeffrey Moses
JTuB4 Narrow-Band Spectral Enhancement of a Self-Phase Modulated Pulse......................................2066Dane Austin
JTuB5 Self-Phase Modulation in Optical Fiber Communications: Good or Bad? .................................2068Govind Agrawal
JTUC SYMPOSIUM ON SELF-PHASE MODULATION II
JTuC1 From Supercontinuum Generation to Carrier Shocks: Extreme Nonlinear Propagation in Photonic Crystal Fiber .......................................................................................................2070
John Dudley
JTuC2 Cross-Phase Modulation in AlGaAs Photonic Nanowires ............................................................2072David Duchesne
JTuC3 160-Gbit/s Optical Time-Division Demultiplexing Based on Cross-Phase Modulation in a 2-m-Long Dispersion-Shifted Bi2O3 Photonic Crystal Fiber .........................................2074
Koji Igarashi
JTuC4 Kerr Nonlinearity Induced Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Microcavities ..................2076Pascal Del'Haye
JTuC5 Bigger and Better: The Critical Role of Self-Phase Modulation in Ultraprecise Optical Frequency Combs ............................................................................................................................2078
Scott Diddams
JTUD HIGH-FIELD SCIENCE
JTuD1 Practical Method for Calculating the Interferometric Autocorrelation Trace of an Attosecond Pulse Train.................................................................................................................................2079
Yasuo Nabekawa
JTuD2 In-situ Probing of Coherence in Hollow Waveguide High-Order Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2081
Amy Lytle
JTuD3 Single Attosecond Pulse Generation Using a Seed Harmonic Pulse Train..................................2083Kenichi Ishikawa
JTuD4 Wideband to Narrowband Pulse Shaping via aChirp-Transform Scaling Technique ...............2085Nicolas Forget
JTuD5 97% Top Hat Efficiency, 4 J/cm2 Damage Threshold Compression Gratings............................2087Federico Canova
JTuD6 Stable Long-Cavity Regenerative Amplifier with 10-11 ASE Contrast.........................................2089James Easter
JTuD7 Probing Attosecond Kinetic Physics in Strongly Coupled Plasmas .............................................2091Lora Ramunno
JWA POSTER SESSION II
JWA1 Weak Coupling Interactions of Silicon Photonic Crystals with Lead Sulphide Nanocrystals at Room Temperature............................................................................................................2093
Ranojoy Bose
JWA2 Semiclassical Theory of the Hyperlens ............................................................................................2095Zubin Jacob
JWA3 Exciton Dressing and Capture by a Photonic Band Edge..............................................................2097Shengjun Yang
JWA4 Directional Output from GaAs Micro-Stadium Lasers .................................................................2099Wei Fang
JWA5 Experimental Observation of Modulational Instability in the 1st and 2nd Band of a Self-Defocusing Nonlinear Waveguide Array..............................................................................................N/A
Christian Rüter
JWA6 All-Optical Bistable Switching in a Metal-Dielectric Multilayer Structure due to Intensity-Dependent Sign of the Effective Dielectric Constant .................................................................2101
Anton Husakou
JWA7 Explicit Formulae for the Medium Parameters of Optically-Active Molecules and Crystals from the Microscopic Theory........................................................................................................2103
G. Hugh Song
JWA8 Exact Modeling of Generalised Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals .............................................2105Lindsay Botten
JWA9 Superradiance and Motional Narrowing of Exciton-Polaritons in J-Aggregate Thin Films ...............................................................................................................................................................2107
M. Scott Bradley
JWA10 New Gap Solitons in Two-Dimensional Photonic Lattices ...........................................................2109Zuoqiang Shi
JWA11 Transformation of Surface States from Shockley-like to Tamm-like in Photonic Crystals ..........................................................................................................................................................2111
Natalia Malkova
JWA12 Interaction of Counterpropagating Discrete Solitons and Nonlinear Surface Tamm States in 1-D Waveguide Arrays ...................................................................................................................N/A
Eugene Smirnov
JWA13 Control of Photon Tunneling Decay in Engineered Optical Waveguide Arrays .......................2113Stefano Longhi
JWA14 Interaction-Induced Localization of Self-Defocusing Discrete Solitons......................................2115Yoav Linzon
JWA15 Negative Index Bands in Sub-wavelength Metallic Gratings ......................................................2117Mihaela Dinu
JWA16 Slow-Light Trapping in a Photonic Crystal Slab..........................................................................2119Adel Rahmani
JWA17 Periodic Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Diffraction in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Grating ...........................................................................................................................................................2121
Wen-Chi Hung
JWA18 Hollow Nano-Magnetic Resonators Mediated by Photo-Thermal Effects: Towards the Realization of Highly-Tunable Mid-Infrared Negative Permeability ................................................2123
Nikolaos Florous
JWA19 Localization by Random Apertures in a Metal Film....................................................................2125Reuven Gordon
JWA20 Saturable Absorption in Nanocomposite Gold-Silica Materials with High Gold Fill Fraction ..........................................................................................................................................................2127
Giovanni Piredda
JWA21 Second Harmonic Generation in AlGaAs/AlOx Random Structures .........................................2129Marco Centini
JWA22 High Repetition Rate Two-Color Pump-Probe System Based on Optical Parametric Generation in PPLN Crystals ..................................................................................................2131
Marco Marangoni
JWA23 Theoretical and Experimental Study of Third Order Difference Frequency Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2133
Benoît Boulanger
JWA24 Effect of Raman-Induced Refractive Index Change on Multi-Pump Raman-Assisted Four-Wave Mixing .........................................................................................................................2135
S. H. Wang
JWA25 Tunable Single-to-Single and Single-to-Dual Channel Wavelength Conversions of Ps-Pulses Using PPLN-Based Double-Ring Fiber Laser............................................................................2137
Jian Wang
JWA26 Mid-Infrared Optical Upconversion by Integrating an InAsSb Photodetector with a GaAs Light Emitting Diode .......................................................................................................................2139
Boucherif Abderraouf
JWA27 Time-Resolved Third Harmonic Generation from Laser-Melted Semiconductors...................2141Will Grigsby
JWA28 Mid-IR Entangled-Cavity Doubly Resonant OPO with Back-Conversion Minimization and Automated Tuning .........................................................................................................2143
Michel Lefebvre
JWA29 Two-Wave Mixing in a Broad-Area Semiconductor Amplifier ..................................................2145Mingjun Chi
JWA30 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering to Submerged Objects Detecting ..........................................................................................................................................2147
Lu Yuelan
JWA31 Ti:Sapphire-Pumped Infrared Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on BiB3O6 .......................................................................................................................................................2149
Masood Ghotbi
JWA32 Transient Fluorescence Excited by Oscillating Interference Pattern in Er-Doped Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................................2151
Serguei Stepanov
JWA33 Evaluation of a 486 nm Single Frequency Source Using an MgO:PPLN Waveguide Doubled Semiconductor Laser .....................................................................................................................2153
Ali Khademian
JWA34 Simultaneous Generation of Two Pairs of Entangled Photons in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Crystals .............................................................................................................................2155
Shiming Gao
JWA35 Internal Second Harmonics of an Injection-Locked Laser Diode and Its Application to Laser Frequency Stabilization ............................................................................................2157
Che-Chung Chou
JWA36 Optical Flip-Flop Operation Using an AR-coated Distributed Feedback Laser Diode...............................................................................................................................................................2159
Koen Huybrechts
JWA37 Tunable Polarization and Power Anti-Stokes Line Generation in Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................2161
Bing Zhou
JWA38 Green and Ultraviolet Pulse Generation Using a Low-Repetition-Rate Mode-Locked Yb-Doped Fiber Laser.....................................................................................................................2163
Janet Lou
JWA39 Multimode Silicon Raman Amplifier.............................................................................................2165Varun Raghunathan
JWA40 Experimental Demonstration of a L-Band to S-Band Wavelength Conversion ........................2167David Méchin
JWA41 Fast Light Using Multiple Cascaded Quantum-Well Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2169
Piotr Kondratko
JWA42 Plasma Density inside Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air .......................................................2171Jens Bernhardt
JWA43 Enhanced Cascade χ(2) SHG+DFG Interactions Based on Chirp Period Quasi-Phase-Matched Waveguide ..........................................................................................................................2173
Nai-Hsiang Sun
JWA44 Powerful High Repetition Rate Nanosecond Optical Parametric Generator in MgO:PPLN Tunable fromn 3.5 µm to 4.6 µm ............................................................................................2175
Martin Nittmann
JWA45 Generation of Simultaneous Red, Green and Blue Light in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate with Broad Quasi-Phase Matching Band .......................................................................2177
Myoungsik Cha
JWA46 Tunable Repetition-Rate Ultrawideband Monocycle Pulse Generation by Using Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................2179
Bill P. P. Kuo
JWA47 A Scheme to Realize Class B Slow Light Buffer in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2181
Ming Xin
JWA48 Investigation of Fast Light in Long Optical Fibers Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering .......................................................................................................................................................2183
Kai-Uwe Lauterbach
JWA49 Wideband SBS Slow Light in a Single Mode Fiber Using a Phase-Modulated Pump ..............................................................................................................................................................2185
Alan Cheng
JWA50 Reciprocating Optical Modulation on Erbium Doped LiNbO3 for Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2187
So Kogahara
JWA51 Low Power Optical Bistability in 1550 nm VCSOAs ...................................................................2189Douglas Jorgesen
JWA52 Highly Efficient Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections and Their Frequency Dependence in Small Organic Molecules ....................................................................................................2191
Joshua May
JWA53 Nonlinear Switching in a Bragg Grating with Periodic χ(3)..........................................................2193Alain Villeneuve
JWA54 Designing Dispersion- and Mode-Area-Decreasing Holey Fibers for Soliton Compression ..................................................................................................................................................2195
Ming-Leung Tse
JWA55 "Photon Emission by Photon" Model for Spontaneous Frequency Conversion in Dispersive Dielectric Microcavities..............................................................................................................2197
Alex Hayat
JWA56 CEP Stabilization and Measurement in the Highly Nonlinear Regime ......................................2199Samuel Radnor
JWA57 Light Emitting Diodes with Extremely High Extraction-Efficiency for Electroluminescence Refrigeration..............................................................................................................2201
Shuiqing Yu
JWA58 Stopping and Time Reversal of Light Pulses in Dynamic Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides via Bloch Oscillations .................................................................................................2203
Stefano Longhi
JWA59 Matrices and Necklaces of Solitons in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media ..............................................2205Wieslaw Krolikowski
JWA60 New Collapsing Solutions of the Time-Dispersive Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation................2207Nir Gavish
JWA61 Controlling the Excited State Charge Transfer in DMABN Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses.......................................................................................................................................2209
Christine Kalcic
JWA62 Optical Field Enhancement In Tweezer Trapping .......................................................................2211Mark Kendrick
JWA63 Light Grating Storage .....................................................................................................................2213Jose Tabosa
JWA64 Electron Spin Beat Nonlinear Susceptibility in Semiconductor Quantum Wells ......................2215Nai Kwong
JWA65 Incoherent Solitons in Fast and Local Nonlinear Media..............................................................2217Oren Cohen
JWA66 Fast Photorefractive Self-Focusing in InP:Fe Semi-Conductor at Infrared Wavelengths...................................................................................................................................................2219
Delphine Wolfersberger
JWA67 Parametric Frequency Conversion of Optical Simulton Pulses ..................................................2221Stefan Wabnitz
JWA68 Two-Dimensional Defect Modes in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices ..................................2223Jianke Yang
JWA69 Atomic Frequency References Based on Dark Resonances in Micrometric Thin Cells ................................................................................................................................................................2225
Horacio Failache
JWA70 Simulation of the Propagation of a UV Filament in the Air ........................................................2227Olivier Chalus
JWA71 Analytical Dynamics of Optical Similaritons ................................................................................2229Stefan Wabnitz
JWA72 Linewidth Broadening in Single-Mode Sub-kHz Fiber Ring Laser with Unpumped Er-doped Sagnac Loop .................................................................................................................................2231
Jae-Ho Han
JWA73 Laser Based Continuous-Wave Excitonic Lyman Spectroscopy of Spin-Forbidden Excitons in Cu2O ...........................................................................................................................................2233
Kosuke Yoshioka
JWA74 Modeling Sub-Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Dynamics Using the Exponential Time Difference Method.........................................................................................................................................2235
Orven Swenson
JWA75 A High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti:Sapphire Laser for Water-Vapor DIAL..........................2237Max Schiller
JWA76 The Quantum Noise Limits to Simultaneous Intensity and Frequency Stabilization of Solid-State Lasers .....................................................................................................................................2239
Elanor Huntington
JWA77 Theoretical Study of Mutual Injection Locking of Two Individual Lasers................................2241Qiang Wang
JWA78 Intracavity Beam Addition for Energy Scaling with a Six-Mirror Cavity .................................2243Ming Lei
JWA79 Co2+:GSGG as a Saturable Absorber for Resonantly Laser Pumped 1.6 µm Er:YAG Laser ...............................................................................................................................................2245
Kelly Nash
JWA80 Minimizing Non-Radiative Losses in Erbium Laser Systems......................................................2247Richard Quimby
JWA81 Low Quantum-Defect Laser Oscillation by High Intensity Pumping at Room Temperature ..................................................................................................................................................2249
Shinichi Matsubara
JWA82 Compact, 65 W, 10-30 kHz, TEM00 - mode, Q-Switched, Side-Diode-Pumped Yb:YAG Laser...............................................................................................................................................2251
Mikhail Yakshin
JWA83 Optically Pumped Potassium Vapor Laser ...................................................................................2253Boris Zhdanov
JWA84 Rapidly Tunable, Narrow Linewidth, 1W, 1 kHz Ce:LiCAF Laser Pumped by the Fourth Harmonic of a Diode-Pumped Nd:YLF Laser for Ozone DIAL Measurements ........................2254
Viktor Fromzel
JWA85 Development of 50J Class Repetitive Laser Based on Nd-Doped Silica Glass ...........................2256Takahiro Sato
JWA86 2.5 MHz Line-Width High-Energy, 2µm Coherent Wind Lidar Transmitter ...........................2258Mulugeta Petros
JWA87 Thermo-Optical and -Mechanical Parameters of Nd:GdVO4 and Nd:YVO4 ............................2260Yoichi Sato
JWA88 100 mJ Q-Switched, High Efficiency, High Brightness Nd:YAG Oscillator: Wavefront Analysis .......................................................................................................................................2262
Paul Stysley
JWA89 Gain Grating in a Nd:YVO4 Microlaser........................................................................................2264Qiong He
JWA90 Nd-Vanadate Thin-Disk Lasers under Diode Pumping into the 4F5/2 and 4F3/2 Levels..............................................................................................................................................................2266
Nicolaie Pavel
JWA91 Gain Dynamics and Frequency Pulling in Mode-Locked Lasers ................................................2268Jared Wahlstrand
JWA92 Development of a Sodium Laser Guide Star for Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................2270
Thomas Rutten
JWA93 Temporal Dynamics of Optical-to-Terahertz Conversion in Electro-Optic Crystal .................2272Sergey Bodrov
JWA94 THz-Wave Fiber Generator for 1-15THz Band............................................................................2274Yoshie Ohta
JWA95 Efficient Terahertz Generation from Nanolayers to Microlayers of InN ...................................2276Xiaodong Mu
JWA96 Optimal Cd Molar Fraction in Zn1-xCdxTe Terahertz Emitters .................................................2278Minwoo Yi
JWA97 Design and Simulation of a Terahertz Negative Permeability Metamaterial with Connected Metallic Discs..............................................................................................................................2280
Zhongyan Sheng
JWA98 Narrow-Line, High-Repetition-Rate THz-Wave Generation from Collinearly Phase-Matched Difference-Frequency Mixing in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate ..........................2282
Tsong-Dong Wang
JWA99 Optical-Pump-THz-Probe Studies of Carrier Dynamics in Hg-Based High-Temperature Superconducting Thin Films.................................................................................................2284
Xia Li
JWA100 Radially Polarized Terahertz Beam Emission by Difference Frequency Generation in GaAs.......................................................................................................................................2286
Yuri Avetisyan
JWA101 Three-Dimensional Characterisation of the Non-Gaussian Focused Beam from a Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser ............................................................................................................2288
Paul Dean
JWA102 LT-GaAsSb Photomixer for THz Generation with a Two-Color Nd:LSB Microchiplaser................................................................................................................................................N/A
Ulrike Willer
JWA103 Revisiting Chirped Probe Pulse Electro-Optic Terahertz Detection ........................................2290Balakishore Yellampalle
JWA104 Scaling of Line Excitation THz Array Source ............................................................................2292Joong Kim
JWA105 Low Loss, Low Dispersion T-Ray Transmission in Microwires................................................2294Shahraam Afshar
JWA106 Observation of Long-Lived Screening in Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs Photoconductive Switches.............................................................................................................................2296
Hartmut Roskos
JWA107 Spectral Loss Characteristics of Subwavelength THz Fibers....................................................2298Hung-Wen Chen
JWA108 Single-shot THz Pulse Characterization with Dual Echelons....................................................2300Ki-Yong Kim
JWA109 Limits of Strong Mode Confinement in Microdisk Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................2302
Gernot Fasching
JWA110 Highly Accurate Material Parameter Extraction from THz Time Domain Spectroscopy Data .........................................................................................................................................2304
Ioachim Pupeza
JWA111 Pressure-Broadening Coefficient of Water Vapor Measured with a High Resolution, Coherent Tunable THz-Wave Spectrometer ..........................................................................2306
GUO Ruixiang
JWA112 Time Domain Terahertz Non Destructive Evaluation of Water Intrusion in Composites and Corrosion under Insulation ..............................................................................................2308
David Zimdars
JWA113 Combining of Modes of Broad Area Laser Diode into Single Mode Spot ................................2310Nikolai Stelmakh
JWA114 Growth Studies of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Current-Blocking Structures...................2312Liwei Cheng
JWA115 Detection of Gold in the Facet of a Failed Semiconductor Laser Diode ...................................2314John Chaney
JWA116 Closed-Loop Design and Demonstration of an 1178nm Multi-Watt VECSEL for a Sodium Guidestar Source .............................................................................................................................2316
Jerome Moloney
JWA117 Structural Dependence of Optical Gain and Carrier Losses in InGaN Quantum Well Lasers ....................................................................................................................................................2318
Jorg Hader
JWA118 Diode Laser MOPA System for the Generation of 920 nm Femtosecond Pulses with 65 W Peak Power ..................................................................................................................................2320
Thorsten Ulm
JWA119 Detailed Comparison of Injection-Seeded and Self-Seeded Performance of a Gain-Switched Laser Diode..........................................................................................................................2322
Andrew Malinowski
JWA120 Spectral and Spatial Mode Control in Self-Seeded Semiconductor Disk Laser Using Optical Feedback from Fiber Bragg Grating...................................................................................2324
Dionisio Pereira
JWA121 Metal-Encased Semiconductor Nanowires as Waveguides for Ultrasmall Lasers ..................2326Alexey Maslov
JWA122 Analysis of Ring-Metal-Aperture VCSELs for Single-Lateral-Mode Operation ....................2328Marek Osinski
JWA123 Single-Contact Multi-Spatial-Mode Mode-Locking Fabry-Perot Semiconductor Laser Diodes ..................................................................................................................................................2330
Weiguo Yang
JWA124 Emission Characteristics of InGaN/GaN Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers...............2332Jung-Tang Chu
JWA125 Transient Thermal Properties of High-Power Diode Laser Bars..............................................2334Mathias Ziegler
JWA126 Carrier Capture and Recombination in 2.4µm GaSb-Based Type-I Quantum Well High Power Diode Lasers ....................................................................................................................2336
Leon Shterengas
JWA127 Axis and Ring Mode Switching in Multi-Electrode GaAs Quasi-Stadium Laser Diodes .............................................................................................................................................................2338
Takehiro Fukushima
JWA128 Photon Coupling Mechanism in 1.3-µm Quantum-Dot Lasers .................................................2340Chaoyuan Jin
JWA129 Narrow Spectral Linewidth of Al-Free Active Region DFB Laser Diodes Operating at 852nm ......................................................................................................................................2342
Vincent Ligeret
JWA130 Nanosecond to Microsecond Dynamics of 1040nm Semiconductor Disk Lasers .....................2344Sangam Chatterjee
JWA131 Development of a Clock Laser of Ca+ Ion for the Optical Frequency Standards ....................2346Ying Li
JWA132 Highly Efficient and Compact Green VECSEL by Novel Optical End-Pumping Scheme............................................................................................................................................................2348
Soohaeng Cho
JWA133 Pulsed High Duty-Cycle Operation of λ ~ 8µm Quantum Cascade Lasers ..............................2350Tiffany Ko
JWA134 Temperature-Stable Operating Current of Surface Plasmon VCSELs with Metal Nanohole Arrays............................................................................................................................................2352
Tatsuya Tanigawa
JWA135 Nonlinear Carrier Waves and Gain Oscillations in Infrared and Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................2354
Carsten Weber
JWA136 Above Room-Temperature Operation of InAs/AlSb Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................2356Yoshitaka Moriyasu
JWA137 Single-Mode Surface-Emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Operating up to ~ 150 K .......................................................................................................................................................2358
Sushil Kumar
JWA138 Difference Frequency Generation from Integrated Nonlinearities in Two-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers........................................................................................................2360
Daniel Wasserman
JWA139 Very Low-Threshold-Current-Density 1.34-µm GaInNAs/GaAs Quantum Well Lasers with a Quaternary-Barrier Structure .............................................................................................2362
Chaoyuan Jin
JWA140 High Performance 800-1000nm Single Mode Lasers Using an Asymmetric Waveguide......................................................................................................................................................2364
Bocang Qiu
JWB REGIONAL OVERVIEWS OF THE STATUS OF LASER APPLICATIONS
JWB1 A View from a Leading Chinese Laser System Manufacturer ......................................................2366Rangda Wu
JWB2 Overview and Recent Topics in Industrial Laser Applications in Japan .....................................2367Kunihiko Washio
JWB3 Industrial Applications of Laser Direct-Write Processing: A Review ..........................................2368Andrew Holmes
JWB4 3-D Photofabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Its Applications in Photonics and Biomedicine...........................................................................................................................2369
Aleksandr Ovsianikov
JWC LARGE HIGH-INTENSITY LASERS
JWC1 MegaJoule NIF ..................................................................................................................................2371Edward Moses
JWC2 A 355 TW Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser Facility with Three Stage Amplifiers......................2373Zhi Wei
JWC3 Generation and Characterization of Femtosecond Petawatt Ti:Sapphire Laser.........................2375Xiaoyan Liang
JWC4 ILE 25PW Single Laser Beamline: The French Step for the European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) ...........................................................................................................................2377
Jean-Paul Chambaret
JWC5 Electra: An Electron Beam Pumped 730 J Rep-Rate KrF Laser..................................................2379Matthew Wolford
JWC6 Interferometric Tiling of Large-Aperture Gratings for Petawatt Laser Systems .......................2381Jie Qiao
JWD NEW INDUSTRIAL LASERS
JWD2 A 142-W Diffraction-Limited Q-Switched Rotary Disk Yb-YAG Laser for Material Processing ......................................................................................................................................................2383
Santanu Basu
JWD4 Refractive Gauss-to-Tophat Beam Shapers Improve Structure Quality and Speed in Micromachining ............................................................................................................................................2384
Frank Toennissen
JWD5 Advances in High Efficiency Diode Laser Pump Sources Suitable for Pumping Nd:YAG Systems...........................................................................................................................................2385
Paul Crump
JWD6 30W CW Operation of Single-Chip Laser Diodes ..........................................................................2386Wei Gao
JWD7 Evaluating Micromachining Capabilities of High Power Diode Pumped Solid-State Mode-Locked and Q-Switched Ultraviolet Laser.......................................................................................2387
Rajesh Patel
JWE HIGH-POWER FEW-CYCLE SOURCES
JWE1 Optimal Pulse Compression via Sequential Filamentation............................................................2388Luat Vuong
JWE2 High-Energy Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in a Filament for Relativistic Applications at kHz Repetition Rate ...........................................................................................................2390
Christoph Hauri
JWE3 Organizing and Characterizing Multiple Filaments in Space and Time ......................................2392Christoph Hauri
JWE4 Intense Self-Compressed Carrier-Envelope Phase-Locked Few-Cycle Pulses at 2 µm ...............2394Christoph Hauri
JWE5 Multiterawatt Three-Cycle Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier...................................2396Franz Tavella
JWE6 Few-Cycle Terawatt Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification System Using an Yb:YLF Chirped-Pulse Amplification Pump Laser .............................................................................2398
Makoto Aoyama
JTHA ATTOSECOND DYNAMICS
JThA1 Probing Proton Dynamics in Molecules on an Attosecond Time Scale........................................2400Sarah Baker
JThA2 Attosecond Two-Slit Interference Controlled by Carrier-Envelope Phase .................................2402Mahendra Shakya
JThA3 All-Optical Quasi-Phase Matching and Quantum Path Control by Counter Propagating Pulse Trains .............................................................................................................................2404
Xiaoshi Zhang
JThA4 Attosecond Pulse Compression in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region by Conical Diffraction......................................................................................................................................................2406
Luca Poletto
JThA5 Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime....................................................................2408Giuseppe Sansone
JTHB ATTOSECOND LASER PULSES
JThB1 Attosecond Technology and Wavefunction Tomography .............................................................2410Mauro Nisoli
JThB2 Observation of Interferometric Autocorrelation Trace of an Attosecond Pulse Train................................................................................................................................................................N/A
Toshihiko Shimizu
JThB3 Single-Shot Observation of Quasi-Continuum High-Harmonic Spectrum Generated in a Two-Color Driving Field ....................................................................................................2412
Masanori Kaku
JThB4 Broadband Attosecond Pulse Shaping ............................................................................................2414Marko Swoboda
JTHC JOINT CLEO/PHAST SYMPOSIUM ON BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS I
JThC1 Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging....................................................................2416Siavash Yazdanfar
JTHD POSTER SESSION III
JThD1 Optical Parametric Amplification of Optical Pulses with a Nearly One-Octave Bandwidth from a Hollow Fiber ..................................................................................................................2418
Keisaku Yamane
JThD2 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Imaging Interferometry: A Technique to Investigate Ultrafast Phenomena in Solids .....................................................................................................................2420
Vasily Temnov
JThD3 Development of a Spatial Light Modulator with an Over-Two-Octave Bandwidth from Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared ...............................................................................................................2422
Kouji Hazu
JThD4 The Noise Effect on Pulses in Passive Mode-Locking with Unrestricted Dispersive and Dissipative Parameters ..........................................................................................................................2424
Michael Katz
JThD5 Ultrafast Dynamics of Sub-Threshold Modes in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................2426
Botao Zhang
JThD6 Broadband 2 GHz Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser .....................................................................2428Flavio Cruz
JThD7 A Total Internal Reflection Technique for Time Resolved Measurements of Index of Refraction ..................................................................................................................................................2430
John Houser
JThD8 Numerical Simulations of the Ultrasimple Ultrashort-Laser-Pulse Measurement Technique.......................................................................................................................................................2432
Xuan Liu
JThD9 Ultrashort Pulse Electric-Field Reconstruction Using Only One Autocorrelator ......................2434Daniel Bender
JThD10 Improved Acousto-Optic Modulator for Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping ..................................2436Chien-Hung Tseng
JThD11 Coherent Phonons Imprinted into Reflectivity Oscillations of Laser-Excited Bi through Electron-Phonon Coupling ............................................................................................................2438
Barry Luther-Davies
JThD12 Molecular Control of the Evolution of Capillary-Generated Soft X-Ray High Harmonics......................................................................................................................................................2440
Sarah Stebbings
JThD13 Reducing the Fast Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter of Amplified Femtosecond Laser Pulses ..............................................................................................................................................................2442
Eric Moon
JThD14 Pulse Compression by Coherent Raman Scattering....................................................................2444Yuichiro Kida
JThD15 Supercontinuum Generation Using Imaging Taper ....................................................................2446Kebin Shi
JThD16 Pulse Characterization Using Hilbert Transformation Temporal Interferometry (HTTI) ............................................................................................................................................................2448
Tae-Jung Ahn
JThD17 Filtered SOA De-Multiplexer Structure with Pattern Independence at 0.1 THz Repetition Rate ..............................................................................................................................................2450
Claudio Crognale
JThD18 Scaling Features in Passively Mode-Locked Inhomogeneously Broadened Lasers ..................2452Li Yan
JThD19 Turn-On Dynamics of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Lasers .....................................................2454Ermin Malíc
JThD20 Robustness Enhancement of Iteration-Free Spectral Phase Retrieval by Interferometric Second-Harmonic Trace....................................................................................................2456
Chen-Shao Hsu
JThD21 Intersubband Transition of AlN/GaN Quantum Wells in Optimized AlN-Based Waveguide Structure ....................................................................................................................................2458
Toshimasa Shimizu
JThD22 Pulse Shaping Using Binary Sequences Designed with Error Diffusion....................................2460Christophe Dorrer
JThD23 Polarization-Dependence of Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities of Bragg-Spaced Quantum Wells..............................................................................................................................................2462
Nai Kwong
JThD24 Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Crossover in the Current-Driven Vortex State in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Probed by the Josephson Plasma Resonance ..................................................................2464
Verner Thorsmølle
JThD25 Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Intersubband Lasers--Role of Motional Narrowing ......................................................................................................................................................2466
Jacob Khurgin
JThD26 Direct Dissociation and Laser Modulated Predissociation of N2+ ..............................................2468
Ryan Coffee
JThD27 Ultrafast Intervalley Transitions in GaN Single Crystals ...........................................................2470Shuai Wu
JThD28 Probing Photoconductivity in Discotic Liquid Crystals by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy....................................................................................................................................2472
Chen Xia
JThD29 All-Optical Generation and Detection of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in GaN Single Crystals ...............................................................................................................................................2474
Shuai Wu
JThD30 Analytic Model of Rotational Wave Packet Excitation with Arbitrary Pump Polarization in the Impulsive Limit .............................................................................................................2476
Randy Bartels
JThD31 Identification in the Frequency Domain of Molecular Dissociation Fragments Detected by a Wavepacket............................................................................................................................2478
Yan Xiao
JThD32 Intra-Molecular Dynamics Probed Using High-Harmonic Generation ....................................2480Xibin Zhou
JThD33 Dissociative Ionization of an Aligned Molecular Sample ............................................................2482Sarah Nichols
JThD34 Monitoring Vibrational Wave Packet Dynamics via Direct Femtosecond Pump-Probe Measurements ....................................................................................................................................2484
Dmitry Pestov
JThD35 Mechanistic Comparison of Different Solutions Found in Closed-Loop Quantum Control Simulations ......................................................................................................................................2486
James White
JThD36 Femtosecond Dynamics of the Laser-Induced Solid-to-Liquid Phase Transition in Aluminum ......................................................................................................................................................2488
Maria Kandyla
JThD37 Time- and Spectrally-Resolved PL Study of a Regular Array of InP/InAs/InP Core-Multishell Nanowires...........................................................................................................................2490
Bipul Pal
JThD38 Characterication of the Complex Noise Transfer Function of a Modelocked Ti:Sapphire Laser .........................................................................................................................................2492
Theresa Mulder
JThD39 A Compact Annular Beam Generator Based on a Laser Diode Pumped Power Build-up Cavity for Optical Tweezers .........................................................................................................2494
Jun-ichi Sato
JThD40 Cesium 6S1/2 →8S1/2 Two-Photon Transition Stabilized 822.5 nm Diode Laser........................2496Wang-Yau Cheng
JThD41 Full Dispersion Characterization Using Single-Arm Interferometry on a mm-Length Fiber ..................................................................................................................................................2498
Waleed Mohammed
JThD42 Absolute Mode Number Determination Using Two Er:Fiber Laser Combs for Optical Frequency Metrology ......................................................................................................................2500
Jin-Long Peng
JThD43 High-Resolution Mode-Spacing Measurement of the Blue-Violet Diode Laser Using Interference of Fields Created with Time Delays Greater than the Coherence Time ..................2502
Yoon-ho Kim
JThD44 Fiber-Optic Voltage Sensor Using a Hybrid Laser Interferometer ...........................................2504Hyoung-Jun Park
JThD45 The Bragg Side-Band BioCD.........................................................................................................2506Xuefeng Wang
JThD46 Reflected Pump Technique for Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy inside Photonic Bandgap Fibers..............................................................................................................................2508
Kevin Knabe
JThD47 Diode-Pumped Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscope ......................................................................2510Sylvain Schwartz
JThD48 Beam Characteristics of Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers.......................................................2512Kannan Krishnaswami
JThD49 Real-Time 3-D Shape Measurement with High Accuracy and Low Cost..................................2514Zhaoyang Wang
JThD50 Absolute Surface Displacement Measurement Using Pulsed Photo-Electromotive-Force Laser Vibrometer ...............................................................................................................................2516
Chen-Chia Wang
JThD51 DAVLL with Absolute Frequency Reference ..............................................................................2518Ethan Elliott
JThD52 Optical Studies of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Axial Strain ..............................................................................................................................................................2520
Yang Wu
JThD53 Chirality Dependence of Absorption in Carbon Nanotubes .......................................................2522Ermin Malic
JThD54 Terahertz Electric Polarizability of Multiple Excitons in CdSe Quantum Dots .......................2524Georgi Dakovski
JThD55 Analysis of the Spontaneous Emission Rate Enhancement by Surface Plasmons in a Thin Metallic Layer Embedded in Semiconductor .................................................................................2526
Hideo Iwase
JThD56 Transmission through Composite Nano Aperture and Effects of Surface Plasmon Resonance ......................................................................................................................................................2528
Shih-Wei Yin
JThD57 Lithography, Plasmonics and Sub-Wavelength Aperture Exposure Technology.....................2530Mario Dagenais
JThD58 An Offset Apertured Probe: A Hybrid Apertured and Scattering-Type Near-Field Scanning Optical Probe ................................................................................................................................2532
Michael Quong
JThD59 Design and Analysis of Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Traveling Wave Photodetectors ...................................................................................................................2534
Tzeng Kao
JThD60 Local Field Enhancement and Spectral Response of Resonant Nanostructures.......................2536C. Dineen
JThD61 Nonlinear Optical Probe of a Singly-Charged Stranski-Krastanow Quantum Dot .................2538Bo Sun
JThD62 Observation of the Dark States of Near-Field Coupled InAs Quantum Dots Using Optical Near-Field Microscopy ....................................................................................................................2540
Tadashi Kawazoe
JThD63 Optical Linewidth and Dephasing in Single InAs Quantum Dots and Coupled Dot-Microcavity Systems .....................................................................................................................................2542
Sergey Rudin
JThD64 Electromagnetic Interaction between Nanoparticles and Optical Subwavelength Devices............................................................................................................................................................2544
Matthias Reichelt
JThD65 Transition between Rydberg 1s and 2p Exciton States of Biexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots .....................................................................................................................2546
Kensuke Miyajima
JThD66 Optimizing Contrast of Tip-Enhanced Fluorescence Microscopy for Imaging High-Density Samples ...................................................................................................................................2548
Chun Mu
JThD67 Second-Harmonic Generation Driven by Local Field Asymmetry in Noncentrosymmetric Gold Nano-Ts ............................................................................................................2550
Brian Canfield
JThD68 Spectral Phase Control of Remote Surface-Plasmon-Mediated Two-Photon-Induced Luminescence..................................................................................................................................2552
Jess Gunn
JThD69 Dynamics of Exciton Recombination in InAs Quantum Dots Embedded in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well ......................................................................................................................2554
Xiaodong Mu
JThD70 Thermo-Plasmonic Resonances in Hybrid Metallo-Dielectric Nano-Particles: Towards Tunable Standalone Nano-Sensors ..............................................................................................2556
Nikolaos Florous
JThD71 Double Nanohole-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy......................................................................2558Antoine Lesuffleur
JThD72 Surface Enhanced Raman with Nano-Holes ................................................................................2560H. Grebel
JThD73 Ultra-Long Range Surface Plasmon Structures for Plasmonic Devices ....................................2562Charles Durfee
JThD74 AIRIS Remote Detection for Chemical Vapor Clouds: Systems Design and Detection Algorithms ....................................................................................................................................2564
A. Peter Snyder
JThD75 Free Spectral Range Matched Scanning Interrogator ................................................................2566Fengguo Sun
JThD76 The Study on 3-D Image Laser Sensing Technology of Welding Seam .....................................2568Yinqi Feng
JThD77 15 mW, Tunable Difference Frequency Generation Source for Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2570
Dirk Richter
JThD78 H2S Trace Detection Using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy in the Near-Infrared ................................................................................................................................................2572
Weidong Chen
JThD79 Continuous Long-Term Observations of UV Laser and LED-Induced Fluorescence of Processed Drinking Water ................................................................................................2574
Anna Sharikova
JThD80 I/Q Data Processing Techniques for the Analysis of an Amplitude Modulated Laser Imaging System...................................................................................................................................2576
Alan Laux
JThD81 An Optical Fiber for Brillouin-Based Discriminative Sensing of Strain and Temperature ..................................................................................................................................................2578
Weiwen Zou
JThD82 Optical Reflectometry for in-situ Monitoring of Carbon Nanotubes Deposition by Optical Tweezers ...........................................................................................................................................2580
Ken Kashiwagi
JThD83 Multi-Species Trace Gas Detection by Rapidly Swept Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2582
Brian Orr
JThD84 Techniques Based on Digital Multiplexing Holography for Three-Dimensional Object Tracking ............................................................................................................................................2584
Jose Dominguez-Caballero
JThD85 Compact Slit-Less Spectrometer Using Cylindrical Beam Volume Holograms .......................2586Chaoray Hsieh
JThD86 Phase Detection Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor in Infrared with Increased Sensitivity and Dynamic Range ..................................................................................................2588
Aykut Koc
JThD87 A Chaotic Optical Cavity Combined with a Quantum Cascade Laser for Chemical Vapor Sensing................................................................................................................................................2590
Abhishek Agrawal
JThD88 A Mid-IR DIAL System Using Interband Cascade Laser Diodes ..............................................2592Marcus Schuetz
JThD89 Synthesis of Monodispersed DLC Nanoparticles in Intense Optical Field by Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Liquid Benzene ........................................................................................2594
Takahiro Nakamura
JThD90 Microbend Gratings Fabricated in Glass Substrates via Direct Writing with Near-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses .......................................................................................................................2596
Jung-Ho Chung
JThD91 In-situ Pulse Characterization for Silicon Micromachining .......................................................2598Xin Zhu
JThD92 Temperature Dependence of Ultrafast Laser Ablation Efficiency of Crystalline Silicon .............................................................................................................................................................2600
Ji Sang Yahng
JThD93 Inscription of Optical Waveguides with Ultrafast Bessel Beams ................................................N/AVéronique Zambon
JThD94 Photonic Torque Microscope.........................................................................................................2602Giovanni Volpe
JThD95 Design and Application of Circular Dammann Grating .............................................................2604Shuai Zhao
JThD96 Photonic Force Microscopy with Back-Scattered Light..............................................................2606Giovanni Volpe
JThD97 The Application of Laser-Driven Acoustic Waves in Modern Mass Spectrometry..................2608Alexander Zinovev
JThD98 Toward 3-D Microfluidic Structures Fabricated with Two-Photon Laser Machining ......................................................................................................................................................2610
Yihong Liu
JThD99 Application of Near-Field Optical Microscopy to the Study of Femtosecond Laser Micro-Structured Nd:YAG Crystals ...........................................................................................................2612
Daniel Jaque
JThD100 The Creation of Gaussian Beams with Extremely High Orbital Angular Momentum.....................................................................................................................................................2614
Yana Izdebskaya
JThD101 Increase of Ablation Rate Using Burst Mode Femtosecond Pulses ..........................................2616Jiyeon Choi
JThD102 Multiscale Bessel Beams from Tunable Acoustic Gradient Index of Refraction Lenses .............................................................................................................................................................2618
Euan McLeod
JThD103 SOI Ridge Waveguide Incorporating a Photonic Crystal Microcavity Multi-Channel Filter................................................................................................................................................2620
Duncan Allsopp
JThD104 NOEMS Devices Based on Slot-Waveguides..............................................................................2622Vilson Almeida
JThD105 Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Photodiode through Quantum Well Intermixing ...........................................................................................................2624
Jiansheng Tang
JThD106 Single Water Microdroplets Resting on a Superhydrophobic Surface: Largely Tunable Optical Microcavities .....................................................................................................................2626
Alper Kiraz
JThD107 Random Laser Action inside a Photonic Crystal Fiber.............................................................2628Christiano de Matos
JThD108 Tip-to-Sample Distance Control in Apertureless Near-Field Optical Microscopy .................2630Yehiam Prior
JThD109 Demonstration of a Two Color 320 x 256 Quantum Dots-in-a-Well Focal Plane Array ..............................................................................................................................................................2632
Eric Varley
JThD110 Dispersion Inversion in High Index Contrast AlGaAs-Nanowires...........................................2634Joachim Meier
JThD111 Microring Resonators Using Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization ..................................2636L. Li
JThD112 Super Mode Propagation in Low Index Medium ......................................................................2638M. Alam
JThD113 Geometric Optics for Surface Plasmon Integrated Circuits .....................................................2640Fatemeh Eftekhari
JThD114 Non-Evanescently Pumped Raman Silicon Lasers Using Spiral-Shaped Microdisks......................................................................................................................................................2642
Hui Chen
JThD115 Silicon Electro-Optic Switching Based on Coupled-Microring Resonators ............................2644Chao Li
JThD116 Spiral-Shaped Microdisk Resonator Channel Drop/Add Filters: Asymmetry in Modal Distributions ......................................................................................................................................2646
Jonathan Y. Lee
JThD117 Nonlinear Resonance Broadening and Shift due to Thermo-Optical Instability in Microsphere Resonators ...............................................................................................................................2648
Arkadi Chipouline
JThD118 Silicon Depletion-Type Microdisk Electro-Optic Modulators Using Selectively Integrated Schottky Diodes ..........................................................................................................................2650
Nick Hon
JThD119 Coupled-Mode Theory Analysis of Optical Bistability Involving Fano Resonances in High-Q/Vm Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ............................................................2652
Xiaodong Yang
JThD120 All-Optical Switching in Microring-Loaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Fabricated from Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) ............................................................................................2654
Younggu Kim
JThD121 Design of Gradient Index (GRIN) Lens Using Photonic Non-Crystals....................................2656Paul Stellman
JThD122 Optical Jitter due to Refractive Index Variations in Slow-Light Photonic Crystal MZI Switches.................................................................................................................................................2658
Ashutosh Shroff
JThD123 Transient Thermal Lensing at 1kHz Repetition Rate in a Cryogenically-Cooled High Average Power Ti:Sapphire Amplifier ..............................................................................................2660
Charles Durfee
JThD124 High Current Permanent Discharges in Air Induced by Femtosecond Laser Filamentation.................................................................................................................................................2662
Aurelien Houard
JThD125 Wavefront Correction and Aberrations Pre-Compensation in the Middle of Petawatt-Class CPA Laser Chains ..............................................................................................................2664
Federico Canova
JThD126 Chirp-Dependent Above-Threshold Ionization .........................................................................2666Takashi Nakajima
JThD127 Spatially Shaping the Longitudinal Focal Distribution into a Horseshoe-Shaped Profile .............................................................................................................................................................2668
P. Brijesh
JThD128 Generation of Isolated Sub-100-as XUV Pulses Using Time-Gate Assisted Few-Cycle Driving Pulses .....................................................................................................................................2670
Ya Cheng
JThD129 Pulse Shape Control of a High-Energy PW Laser for Fast Ignition of Laser Fusion .............................................................................................................................................................2672
Keiichi Sueda
JThD130 Pump Beams Homogenization for Terawatt / Petawatt Class Ti:Sapphire Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2674
Federico Canova
JThD131 Coherent Contrast Improvement by Cross-Polarized Wave Generation................................2676Lorenzo Canova
JThD132 Optical Probing of Laser-Produced Plasmas for Laboratory Simulations of Magnetic Astrophysical Jets.........................................................................................................................2678
Parrish Brady
JThD133 Asymmetric Explosion of Laser-Irradiated Hydrogen Clusters ..............................................2680Yu-hsin Chen
JThD134 Optical Measurements of Heat and Shock Waves in a Dense Plasma .....................................2682Irina Churina
JThD135 The Effect of Focal Geometry on Radiation from Atomic Ionization in Ultrastrong/Ultrafast Laser Field ................................................................................................................2684
Isaac Ghebregziabiher
JThD136 Destructive Interference of High Harmonics Generated in Mixed Gases ...............................2686Tsuneto Kanai
JThD137 High-Dynamic-Range, 200-ps Window, Single-Shot Cross-Correlator for Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Characterization ...............................................................................................2688
Igor Jovanovic
JThD138 Spectral Broadening of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using a Hollow Fiber with Symmetric Pressure Gradient ......................................................................................................................2690
Samuel Bohman
JThD139 Accurate Contrast-Ratio Characterization of Femtosecond and Chirped Picosecond Pulses Using the Decorrelation of Third-Order Correlation Trace ......................................2692
Kyung-Han Hong
JThD140 High Sensitive THz Faraday Rotation Measurements in Doped Semiconductors..................2694Yohei Ikebe
JTHE JOINT CLEO/PHAST SYMPOSIUM ON BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS II
JThE1 Multi-Functional Video-Rate Optical Coherence Tomography Microscopy ..............................2696James Jiang
JThE3 In vivo Imaging Using Harmonic Generation Microscopy ...........................................................2697Chi-Kuang Sun
JThE4 Teraherz Imaging .............................................................................................................................2698David Zimdars
JTHF LASER WAKEFIELD AND RELATIVISTIC PLASMA INTERACTIONS
JThF1 Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons in the Corrugated Plasma Waveguide...........................2699Andrew York
JThF2 Injection of Electrons into Plasma Waves by Colliding Laser Pulses into an Underdense Plasma .......................................................................................................................................2701
Jerome Faure
JThF3 Wakefield Acceleration of Quasi-Monoenergetic 200MeV Electrons in Nitrogen and Helium Gas Targets ......................................................................................................................................2703
Zheng Chen
JThF4 Coherence-Based Transverse Measurement of Synchrotron X-Ray Radiation from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction and of Laser-Accelerated Electrons ............................................2705
Rahul Shah
JThF5 Imaging Electron Trajectories in Laser Wakefield Cavity Using Betatron X-Ray Radiation........................................................................................................................................................2707
Antoine Rousse
JThF6 THz Modulation of Relativistic Electrons Using a Vacuum Laser Beat-Wave ...........................2709Sergei Tochitsky
JTHG LASER PLASMAS AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION
JThG1 Proton Acceleration from Thin Foils Using Ultraintense, High-Contrast Pulses .......................2711Stephen Reed
JThG2 Single-Shot Time Resolved Expansion and Emission Measurements of Proton-Heated Warm Dense Matter ........................................................................................................................2713
Gilliss Dyer
JThG3 Streaking Transient Electric Fields with Laser Accelerated Proton Beams ...............................2715Thomas Sokollik
JThG4 Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysical Blastwaves Using Intense Laser Interactions ....................................................................................................................................................2717
Todd Ditmire
JThG5 Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Mediated by Ponderomotive-Force-Driven Plasma Gratings..........................................................................................................................................................2719
Kan-Hua Lee
JThG6 Study of Hot Electron Transportation in Foils and Wedge Targets Irradiated with Ultrashort Laser Pulses ................................................................................................................................2721
Byoung-ick Cho
JFA HARMONIC AND X-RAY GENERATION IN PLASMAS
JFA1 High Brightness Injection-Seeded Table-Top Soft X-Ray Laser Using a Dense Plasma Amplifier...........................................................................................................................................2723
Yong Wang
JFA2 Attosecond Nonlinear Optics .............................................................................................................2725Katsumi Midorikawa
JFA3 Enhanced High Harmonic Generation in Xe, Kr and Ar Using a Capillary Discharge ...............2727Tenio Popmintchev
JFA4 Enhancement of Relativistic Harmonic Generation by an Optically-Preformed Periodic Plasma Waveguide .........................................................................................................................2729
Chih-Hao Pai
JFA5 Two Mechanisms of High Harmonic Generation from Overdense Laser Plasmas--Relativistic and Non-Relativistic ..................................................................................................................2731
Robin Marjoribanks
JFA6 Corrugated Plasma Waveguide: Slow Wave Structure for High Intensity Optical Pulses ..............................................................................................................................................................2733
Brian Layer
JFB JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ SPECTROSCOPY
JFB1 THz Phase-Transition Spectroscopy of Metals.................................................................................2735Kenneth Chau
JFB2 Electrical Conductivity Measurements of Warm Dense Matter with Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy ................................................................................................................................2737
Ki-Yong Kim
JFB3 Isotropic Photonic Magnetoresistance: A New Phenomenon at Terahertz Frequencies ....................................................................................................................................................2739
Corey Baron
JFB4 Temperature Dependent and Magnetic Field Dependent Terahertz Spectroscopy of In1-xMnxAs......................................................................................................................................................2741
Jason Deibel
JFB5 Intrinsic Photoconductivity of P3HT Films Measured by Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2743
Okan Esenturk
JFB6 Broadband THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes.........................2745Ryo Shimano
JFB7 Observation of Soft-Mode Hardening and Broadening in SrTiO3 Thin Films by Broadband Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy ...................................................................................2747
Ikufumi Katayama
JFC ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN STRONG FIELDS
JFC1 Photoelectron Angular Distributions from the Single Atom Response to a Relativistic Laser Field .....................................................................................................................................................2749
Anthony DiChiara
JFC2 Intense Field Ionization of Methane, Butane, and Octane: Transition from Molecular to Atomic Response.....................................................................................................................2751
Sasi Palaniyappan
JFC3 Single-Shot Time Resolved Measurement of Molecular Alignment in Laser-Irradiated Gases ............................................................................................................................................2753
Sanjay Varma
JFC4 High Field Physics with XUV Pulses from the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg: Atoms and Clusters .......................................................................................................................................2755
Hubertus Wabnitz
JFC5 Dramatic Enhancement of High-Order Harmonic Generation in Mixed Gases ...........................2757Eiji Takahashi
JFC6 Two-Quantum-Path Interferences in High Order Harmonic Generation.....................................2759Amelle Zaïr
PHAST
PTUA LASERS IN DEVICE MANUFACTURING
PTuA3 Laser Micro-Processing for Industrial Production Applications.................................................2761Heather Booth
PTuA4 Laser Processing in Printform Fabrication ...................................................................................2762Guido Hennig
PTuA5 High Precision and High Speed Cutting of 4th Generation OLED Masks with LaserMicroJet® .............................................................................................................................................2763
Tuan Anh Mai
PTUB THREAT AGENT DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION METHODS
PTuB4 Detection of B. subtilis spores via Hybrid CARS ..........................................................................2764Dmitry Pestov
PTuB5 Chemical and Biological Warfare Agent and Explosives Detection Based on Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology ....................................................................................................2765
Marcos Dantus
PTUC COMMERCIALIZATION OF APPLIED RESEARCH I
PTuC4 Aggressive Commercialization in a Sub-Critical Market.............................................................2766Marion Soileau
PTuD2 Compact, High Performance Femtosecond Laser Ablation System............................................2767Eric Mottay
PTuD3 The Impact of Ultrashort Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology for Micromachining ............................................................................................................................................2769
Marcos Dantus
PTuD4 High Speed Production of Periodical Nanostructures Using Femtosecond Laser Radiation........................................................................................................................................................2770
Dirk Wortmann
PTuD5 Advanced Femtosecomd Lasers in Manufacturing.......................................................................2771Hitoshi Sekita
PTuD6 Waveguide Lasers of Er:ZBLAN and Nd:GGG by Pulsed Laser Deposition and fs-Laser Microstructuring ................................................................................................................................2772
Dirk Wortmann
PTUE AMBIENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
PTuE3 Real-Time Monitoring of Atmospheric Aerosol at New Haven, CT, for Fluorescence Spectra, Particle Size and Concentration.............................................................................2773
Yong-Le Pan
PTuE4 Elastic-Light Scattering for the Characterization of Respirable Aerosols ..................................2774Gustavo Fernandes
PTuE5 Practical Anti-Microbial Surfaces on Nylon and Polyester by UV Photochemistry ..................2775Michael Kelley
PWA STAND-OFF AND POINT DETECTION
PWA1 Development of a LIDAR Controlled Airspace Scanner for Bio-Aerosol Detection...................2776Jack Bufton
PWA2 Hyperspectral Imaging Detection of CBE Threat Materials ........................................................2777Patrick Treado
PWA3 A Fiber-Coupled Eye Safe Spectrometer for the Stand-off Detection of Explosives...................2778Christoph Bauer
PWA4 Novel Distributed Fiber Temperature and Strain Sensor Using Coherent Radio-Frequency Detection ofSpontaneous Brillouin Scattering.........................................................................2779
Jihong Geng
PWA5 Long Fiber-Optic Perimeter Sensor: Signature Analysis ..............................................................2780Christi Madsen
PWB SOLID-STATE LIGHTING I
PWB3 Can We Fabricate Efficient White-Light InGaN/GaN Quantum-Well Light-Emitting Diodes without Using Phosphors?................................................................................................2781
C. Yang
PWB4 Development of High Efficiency Green and Deep Green Light Emitted in Piezoelectric Group-III Nitrides ..................................................................................................................2782
Christian Wetzel
PWC DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS
PWC1 BAND Sensor for BioDefense...........................................................................................................2783David Robbins
PWC3 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Infrared Emission from Inorganic and Organic Substances .......................................................................................................................................2784
Clayton Yang
PWC4 Biological Substance Characterization in Water Matrices with Raman Microscopy.................2786Rabih Jabbour
PWC5 Detection and Identification of a Water Mixture of E. coli Cells and B. subtilis Spores with Raman Chemical Imaging Microscopy ..................................................................................2788
Ashish Tripathi
PTHA NOVEL OPTICS AND OPTICAL SOURCES
PThA3 Developing High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers for Homeland Security and Defense Applications .....................................................................................................................................2790
Paul Rudy
PTHB HIGH-POWER LASERS SYSTEMS I
PThB2 The Big Bang Observer: High Laser Power for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics ...................2792G. Harry
PTHC EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES
PThC1 Precision Resistor Laser Trimming for Analog Microelectronics ...............................................2793Michel Meunier
PThC2 Asymmetrical M2 in Solid-State Laser Beam Shaping for the Line Scanning Laser Annealing .......................................................................................................................................................2794
Maxim Darscht
PThC3 Micromachining with Tailored Pulse Parameters.........................................................................2795Hans Herfurth
PThC7 High Power EUVL Source Demonstration of Tin-Doped Droplet Laser Plasma Generated by Industrial Solid-State Lasers................................................................................................2796
Kazutoshi Takenoshita
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