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December (2010)

Identity Crisis: A Message from the Applied Optics Editor Appl. Opt. 49, BO1-BO2 (2010).

Two-dimensional modulation transfer function: a new perspective Appl. Opt. 49, 6749-6755 (2010).

The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation Nat. Photon. 4, 822–832 (2010).

Tunable frequency-controlled isolated attosecond pulses characterized by either 750 nm or 400 nm wavelength streak fields Opt. Ex. 18, 25887-25895 (2010).

Light confinement within nanoholes in nanostructured optical fibers Opt. Ex. 18, 26018-26026 (2010).

Single-mode, narrow-linewidth external cavity quantum cascade laser through optical feedback from a partial-reflector Opt. Ex. 18, 26037-26045 (2010).

A 22-watt mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator with V-shaped 3-mirror ring resonator Opt. Ex. 18, 26475-26486 (2010).

Femtotesla atomic magnetometry in a microfabricated vapor cell Opt. Ex. 18, 27167-27172 (2010).

1240 nm diamond Raman laser operating near the quantum limit Opt. Lett. 35, 3874-3876 (2010).

Ultrafast pulse compression by semiconductor two-photon gain Opt. Lett. 35, 3877-3879 (2010).

Compact laser source for high-power white-light and widely tunable sub 65 fs laser pulses Opt. Lett. 35, 3961-3963 (2010).

Influence of finite spatial resolution on single- and double-pass femtosecond pulse shapers Opt. Lett. 35, 4072-4074 (2010).

Accelerating regular polygon beams Opt. Lett. 35, 4118-4120(2010).



November (2010)

Blue extension of optical fibre supercontinuum generation J. Opt. 12, 113001 (2010).

The evolving optical frequency comb J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, B51-B62 (2010).

High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, B63-B92 (2010).

Optical trapping of an ion Nat. Photon. 4, 772–775 (2010).

Flexible metamaterials at visible wavelengths New J. Phys. 12, 113006 (2010).

Miniaturized multimodal CARS microscope based on MEMS scanning and a single laser source Opt. Ex. 18, 23796-23804 (2010).

Model-based aberration correction in a closed-loop wavefront-sensor-less adaptive optics system Opt. Ex. 18, 24070-24084 (2010).

Bending loss and thermo-optic effect of a hybrid PDMS/silica photonic crystal fiber Opt. Ex. 18, 24344-24355 (2010).

Ionization-assisted guided-wave pulse compression to extreme peak powers and single-cycle pulse widths in the mid-infrared Opt. Lett. 35, 3640-3642 (2010).

Three-dimensional optical microscopy using axially distributed image sensing Opt. Lett. 35, 3646-3648 (2010).

Femtoliter tunable optical cavity arrays Opt. Lett. 35, 3656-3658 (2010).

Focusing of light beyond the diffraction limit of half the wavelength Opt. Lett. 35, 3763-3765 (2010).

Molecular ruler based on concurrent measurements of enhanced Raman scattering and fluorescence Opt. Lett. 35, 3808-3810 (2010).

On the concept of “tractor beams” Opt. Lett. 35, 3847-3849 (2010).



October (2010)

Free-space optical communications link budget estimation Appl. Opt. 49, 5333-5343 (2010).

Short wavelength red-emitting AlGaInP-VECSEL exceeds 1.2 W continuous-wave output power Appl. Phys. B 100 (2010).

FDTD analysis of the optical black hole J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 2020-2025 (2010).

Liquid-crystal lasers Nat. Photon. 4, 676 - 685 (2010).

Time-of-flight measurement with femtosecond light pulses Nat. Photon. 4, 716 - 720 (2010).

3 W of 650 nm red emission by frequency doubling of wafer-fused semiconductor disk laser Opt. Ex. 18, 218645-21650 (2010).

Adaptive optics photoacoustic microscopy Opt. Ex. 18, 21770-21776 (2010).

Femtosecond laser micromachining of fused silica molds Opt. Ex. 18, 21826-21840 (2010).

Ultrafast double-slab regenerative amplifier with combined gain spectra and intracavity dispersion compensation Opt. Ex. 18, 21973-21980 (2010).

Highly photo-stable dye doped solid-state distributed-feedback (DFB) channeled waveguide lasers by a pen-drawing technique Opt. Ex. 18, 22080-22089 (2010).

Linear optics based nanoscopy Opt. Ex. 18, 22222-22231 (2010).

Dark and bright pulse passive mode-locked laser with in-cavity pulse-shaper Opt. Ex. 18, 22715-22721 (2010).

High-energy femtosecond photonic crystal fiber laser Opt. Lett. 35, 3156-3158 (2010).

Six-cycle mid-infrared source with 3.8 µJ at 100 kHz Opt. Lett. 35, 3204-3106 (2010).

Subpicosecond hard x-ray streak camera using single-photon counting Opt. Lett. 35, 3219-3221 (2010).

Coherent recovery of the degree of polarization of light propagating in random anisotropy media Opt. Lett. 35, 3294-3296 (2010).

Laser cooling with a single laser beam and a planar diffractor Opt. Lett. 35, 3453-3455 (2010).

High-energy femtosecond fiber laser at 976 nm Opt. Lett. 35, 3459-3461 (2010).



September (2010)

Laser-based displays: a review Appl. Opt. 49, F79-F98 (2010).

Highly confined and continuous single-mode operation of self-align photonic crystal oxide VCSEL Appl. Phys. B 100, 453-459 (2010).

Tuning the high-order harmonic lines of a Nd:Glass laser for soft X-ray laser seeding Appl. Phys. B 100, 711-716 (2010).

Ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier with tunable repetition rate and pulse duration Laser Phys. 20, 1738-1743 (2010).

Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination Nat. Photon. 4, (2010).

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect in a pulsed atom laser Opt. Ex. 18, 18712-18719 (2010).

Real-time imaging of cardiovascular dynamics and circulating gold nanorods with multispectral optoacoustic tomography Opt. Ex. 18, 19592-19602 (2010).

Ultrafast widefield optical sectioning microscopy by multifocal temporal focusing Opt. Ex. 18, 19645-19655 (2010).

Fast wideband source tuning by extra-cavity parametric process Opt. Ex. 18, 19930-19940 (2010).

Ultrahigh speed 1050nm swept source / Fourier domain OCT retinal and anterior segment imaging at 100,000 to 400,000 axial scans per second Opt. Ex. 18, 20029-20048 (2010).

Subwavelength grating periodic structures in silicon-on-insulator: a new type of microphotonic waveguide Opt. Ex. 18, 20251-20262 (2010).

Pulse energy of 151 nJ from ultrafast thulium-doped chirped-pulse fiber amplifier Opt. Lett. 35, 2991-2993 (2010).

Continuous-wave diamond Raman laser Opt. Lett. 35, 2994-2996 (2010).

80 W, 120 fs Yb-fiber frequency comb Opt. Lett. 35, 3015-3017 (2010).

0.1 Hz 1.0 PW Ti:sapphire laser Opt. Lett. 35, 3021-3023 (2010).

Second-order coherence of supercontinuum light Opt. Lett. 35, 3057-3059 (2010).

August (2010)

Time-resolved spectral characteristics of external-cavity quantum cascade lasers and their application to stand-off detection of explosives Appl. Phys. B 100, 253-260 (2010).

Spectral and modulation properties of a largely tunable MEMS-VCSEL in view of gas phase spectroscopy applications Appl. Phys. B 100, 321-329 (2010).

Ultrashort pulse laser surgery of the cornea and the sclera J. Opt. 12, 084002 (2010).

First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser Nat. Photon. 4 (2010).

Diode-pumped gigahertz femtosecond Yb:KGW laser with a peak power of 3.9 kW Opt. Ex. 18, 16320-16326 (2010).

Emission properties of electrically pumped triangular shaped microlasers Opt. Ex. 18, 16437-16442 (2010).

Stopping of light by the dynamic tuning of photonic crystal slow light device Opt. Ex. 18, 17141-17153 (2010).

Endoscopically guided spectral-domain OCT with double-balloon catheters Opt. Ex. 18, 17364-17372 (2010).

Fifteen terawatt picosecond CO2 laser system Opt. Ex. 18, 17865-17875 (2010).

Laser cooling of a semiconductor load to 165 K Opt. Ex. 18, 18061-18066 (2010).

Clean sub-8-fs pulses at 400 nm generated by a hollow fiber compressor for ultraviolet ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy Opt. Ex. 18, 20645-20650 (2010).

Dynamic tuning of an optical resonator through MEMS-driven coupled photonic crystal nanocavities Opt. Lett. 35, 2517-2519 (2010).

Refractive index engineering with subwavelength gratings for efficient microphotonic couplers and planar waveguide multiplexers Opt. Lett. 35, 2526-2528 (2010).

Pr:YAlO3 microchip laser Opt. Lett. 35, 2556-2557 (2010).

80 W, 120 fs Yb-fiber frequency comb Opt. Lett. 35, 3015-3017 (2010).

July (2010)

All-optical frequency-controlled frequency switch J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 1458-1463 (2010).

On-chip beam-steering photonic-crystal lasers Nat. Photon. 4, 447 - 450 (2010).

Fabrication of concave silicon micro-mirrors Opt. Ex. 18, 14511-14518 (2010).

Experimental demonstration of spatially coherent beam combining using optical parametric amplification Opt. Ex. 18, 14541-14546 (2010).

Multiwatt–power highly–coherent compact single–frequency tunable Vertical–External–Cavity–Surface–Emitting–Semiconductor–Laser Opt. Ex. 18, 14627-14636 (2010).

Performance characteristics of a continuous-wave compact widely tunable external cavity interband cascade lasers Opt. Ex. 18, 15691-15696 (2010).

Trapping a single atom in a blue detuned optical bottle beam trap Opt. Lett. 35, 2164-2166 (2010).

Generation of sub-3 fs pulses in the deep ultraviolet Opt. Lett. 35, 2248-2250 (2010).

Multicolor diode-pumped upconversion fiber laser Opt. Lett. 35, 2263-2265 (2010).

Efficient, high-power, and radially polarized fiber laser Opt. Lett. 35, 2290-2292 (2010).

Femtosecond thin-disk laser with 141 W of average power Opt. Lett. 35, 2302-2304 (2010).

Sub-70 nm resolution tabletop microscopy at 13.8 nm using a compact laser–plasma EUV source Opt. Lett. 35, 2337-2339 (2010).

Ultra-narrow-linewidth, single-frequency distributed feedback waveguide laser in Al2O3:Er3+ on silicon Opt. Lett. 35, 2394-2396 (2010).

Chirped-pulse amplification with narrowband pulses Opt. Lett. 35, 2478-2480 (2010).

External cavity quantum cascade laser Semicond. Sci. Technol. 25, 083001 (2010).

June (2010)

Recent advances in astronomical adaptive optics Appl. Opt. 49, D17-D29 (2010).

Mechanically driven millimeter source of nanosecond X-ray pulses Appl. Phys. B 99, 613-617 (2010).

Theory and design of two-dimensional spectral shearing interferometry for few-cycle pulse measurement J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 1165-1173 (2010).

In vitro femtosecond laser subsurface micro-disruption inside human cornea Laser Phys. Lett. 7, 463-466 (2010).

Room-temperature subwavelength metallo-dielectric lasers Nat. Photon. 4, 395 - 399 (2010).

Enhancement of light scattering and photoluminescence in electrospun polymer nanofibers Opt. Ex. 18, A174-A184 (2010).

All-optical memory operation of 980-nm polarization bistable VCSEL for 20-Gb/s PRBS RZ and 40-Gb/s NRZ data signals Opt. Ex. 18, 12362-12370 (2010).

High average and peak power few-cycle laser pulses delivered by fiber pumped OPCPA system Opt. Ex. 18, 12719-12726 (2010).

Characterizing ultrabroadband attosecond lasers Opt. Ex. 18, 13006-13016 (2010).

Dark pulse quantum dot diode laser Opt. Ex. 18, 13085-13095 (2010).

Sub-10 fs deep-ultraviolet pulses generated by chirped-pulse four-wave mixing Opt. Lett. 35, 1807-1809 (2010).

Super free spectral range tunable optical microbubble resonator Opt. Lett. 35, 1866-1868 (2010).

Coherent combining of two quantum-cascade lasers in a Michelson cavity Opt. Lett. 35, 1917-1919 (2010).

Continuous-wave Nd-doped polymer lasers Opt. Lett. 35, 1983-1985 (2010).

May (2010)

Elemental analysis of cotton by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy Appl. Opt. 49, C153-C160 (2010).

Femtosecond diode laser MOPA system at 920 nm based on asymmetric colliding pulse mode-locking Appl. Phys. B 99, 409-414 (2010).

Study of the properties of the SHG with diode lasers Appl. Phys. B 99, 457-464 (2010).

Deposition of fibrous nanostructure by ultrafast laser ablation J. Micromech. Microeng. 20, 055002 (2010).

Fast minimum variance wavefront reconstruction for extremely large telescopes J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27, 1046-1059 (2010).

Tuning the thermal expansion properties of optical reference cavities with fused silica mirrors J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 914-919 (2010).

Simple piezoelectric-actuated mirror with 180 kHz servo bandwidth Opt. Ex. 18, 9739-9746 (2010).

Experimental verification of soliton-like pulse-shaping mechanisms in passively mode-locked VECSELs Opt. Ex. 18, 10143-10153 (2010).

One-Watt level mid-IR output, singly resonant, continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator pumped by a monolithic diode laser Opt. Ex. 18, 11123-11131 (2010).

Free spectral range measurement of a fiberized Fabry–Perot etalon with sub-Hz accuracy Opt. Ex. 18, 11264-11269 (2010).

A versatile diffractive maskless lithography for single-shot and serial microfabrication Opt. Ex. 18, 11754-11762 (2010).

Fourier-limited seeded soft x-ray laser pulse Opt. Lett. 35, 1326-1328 (2010).

Reconfigurable Shack–Hartmann sensor without moving elements Opt. Lett. 35, 1338-1340 (2010).

Solid-state ultrafast all-optical streak camera enabling high-dynamic-range picosecond recording Opt. Lett. 35, 1389-1391 (2010).

Continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator based on a Bragg grating Opt. Lett. 35, 1527-1529 (2010).

Tunable high-power narrow-spectrum external-cavity diode laser based on tapered amplifier at 668 nm Opt. Lett. 35, 1545-1547 (2010).

All-optical excitonic transistor Opt. Lett. 35, 1587-1589 (2010).


April (2010)

High average power generation in barium nitrate Raman laser Appl. Phys. B 99, 127-134 (2010).

Nonlinear microscopy with fiber laser continuum excitation J. Biomed. Opt. 15, 026026 (2010).

Subpicosecond optical pulse compression via an integrated nonlinear chirper Opt. Ex. 18, 7625-7633 (2010).

Optical signal processing on a silicon chip at 640Gb/s using slow-light Opt. Ex. 18, 7770-7781 (2010).

A higher-order-mode fiber delivery for Ti:Sapphire femtosecond lasers Opt. Ex. 18, 7798-7806 (2010).

Optomechanical zipper cavity lasers: theoretical analysis of tuning range and stability Opt. Ex. 18, 7872-7885 (2010).

Fabrication of micro DOE using micro tools shaped with focused ion beam Opt. Ex. 18, 8025-8032 (2010).

Photonic crystal spectrometer Opt. Ex. 18, 8277-8285 (2010).

Collinear generation of ultrashort UV and XUV pulses Opt. Ex. 18, 9173-9180 (2010).

Optical microbubble resonator Opt. Lett. 35, 898-900 (2010).

Microjoule-energy, 1 MHz repetition rate pulses from all-fiber-integrated nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifier Opt. Lett. 35, 959-961 (2010).

1.2 mJ sub-4-fs source at 1 kHz from an ionizing gas Opt. Lett. 35, 980-982 (2010).

Experimental realization of phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography Opt. Lett. 35, 1001-1003 (2010).

March (2010)

Efficient 5.3 W cw laser at 559 nm by intracavity frequency summation Opt. Lett. 35, 682-684 (2010).

High average power few-cycle pulse non-collinear OPCPA Opt. Ex. 18, 4689-4694 (2010).

Long-term deformation at room temperature observed in fused silica Opt. Ex. 18, 5114-5123 (2010).

Effects of age on peripheral ocular aberrations Opt. Ex. 18, 5840-5853 (2010).

Compact Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on self-collimation of light in a silicon photonic crystal Opt. Ex. 18, 6437-6446 (2010).

Optical solenoid beams Opt. Ex. 18, 6988-6993 (2010).

Laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures Nat. Photon. 4, 161 - 164 (2010).

February (2010)

Conversion of a TEM10 beam into two nearly Gaussian beams Appl. Opt. 49, 739-744 (2010).

Characterization of attosecond XUV pulses Opt. Ex. 18, 2020-2035 (2010).

Spatially resolved magnetometry using cold atoms Opt. Ex. 18, 2190-2196 (2010).

Quantitative cerebral blood flow with optical coherence tomography Opt. Ex. 18, 2477-2494 (2010).

A hybrid organic semiconductor/silicon photodiode for efficient ultraviolet photodetection Opt. Ex. 18, 3219-3225 (2010).

Photoacoustic ocular imaging Opt. Lett. 35, 270-272 (2010).

High-power distributed Bragg reflector ridge-waveguide diode laser with 1.4 MHz linewidth Opt. Lett. 35, 402-404 (2010).

Atherosclerotic tissue characterization in vivo by optical coherence tomography attenuation imaging J. Biomed. Opt. 15, 011105 (2010).

Quantum cascade lasers that emit more light than heat Nat. Photon. 4, 99-102 (2010).

Spectral variations in narrow-linewidth copper-vapor-laser pumped dye lasers Opt. Laser Technol. 42, 225-229 (2010).


January (2010)

N-slit interferometer with a 35 meter intra-interferometric path length J. Opt. 12, 015705 (2010).

Coherence characteristics of light-emitting diodes J. Lumin. 130, 96-102 (2010).

Image contrast enhancement in confocal ultramicroscopy Opt. Lett. 35, 79-81 (2010).

Femtosecond fiber CPA system emitting 830 W average power Opt. Lett. 35, 94-96 (2010).

Femtosecond synchronously in-well pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser Opt. Ex. 18, 187-192 (2010).

Synthesis of a single cycle of light with compact erbium-doped fibre technology Nat. Photon. 4, 33-36 (2010).

CW Nd:YAG laser with 1 Hz linewidth Appl. Phys. B 98, 61-67 (2010).

Atom lithography without laser cooling Appl. Phys. B (2010).

Highly efficient waveguide dye laser containing SiO2 nanoparticle-dispersed active media Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 48, 112503 (2009).


December (2009)

Spectroscopic phase microscopy for quantifying hemoglobin concentrations in intact red blood cells Opt. Lett. 34, 3668-3670 (2009).

Femtosecond pulses from a dissipative soliton fiber laser: 1.4 W average power Opt. Lett. 34, 3731-3733 (2009).

Bragg reflection waveguide diode lasers Opt. Lett 34, 3734-3736 (2009).

Optical gain in DNA-DCM Opt. Lett 34, 3764-3766 (2009).

Sub-two-cycle pulses by soliton self-compression Opt. Lett 34, 3851-3853 (2009).

88 fs fiber soliton laser using a quantum well saturable absorber Opt. Ex. 17, 22499-22504 (2009).

Second harmonic generation in gallium phosphide photonic crystal nanocavities Opt. Ex. 17, 22609-22615 (2009).

A high performance photonic pulse processing device Opt. Ex. 17, 22267-22772 (2009).

150 W highly-efficient Raman fiber laser Opt. Ex. 17, 23678-23683 (2009).

35 GHz mode-hop-free tuning of external cavity diode laser Appl. Opt. 48, 6692-6700 (2009).

Passively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser emitting 60-fs pulses Nat. Photon. 3, 729-731 (2009).


November (2009)

High resolution multiple-pass interferometer Opt. Ex. 17, 21042-21049 (2009).

Proposal for a quantum computer using ultracold neutral atoms in an optical lattice Appl. Phys. B 97, 753-758 (2009).

Electrically-pumped compact hybrid silicon microring lasers Opt. Ex. 17, 20355-20364 (2009).

Directly diode-laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser Opt. Lett. 34, 3334-3336 (2009).

Very-large-mode-area, single-mode multicore fiber Opt. Lett. 34, 2876-2878 (2009).

A biological quarter-wave retarder Nat. Photon. 3, 641-644 (2009).

Precision measurements of gravity using cold atom sensors J. Europ. Opt. Soc. Rap. Public. 4, 09025 (2009).

Generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory for laser pulse compression: higher order phase derivatives Appl. Phys. B 96, 809-814 (2009).

Self-adaptive, narrowband tuning of a pulsed optical parametric oscillator Appl. Phys. B 96, 546-560 (2009).


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Updated on the 17th of December, 2010


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