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December (2011)

On-chip optical isolation in monolithically integrated non-reciprocal optical resonators Nat. Photon. 5, 758–762 (2011).

Wide temperature range 0 < T < 85 °C narrow linewidth discrete mode laser diodes for coherent communications applications Opt. Ex. 19, B90-B95 (2011).

40nm wavelength tunable gain-switched optical comb source Opt. Ex. 19, B415-B420 (2011).

Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of a terawatt level chirped pulse amplifier for generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses Opt. Ex. 19, 24922-24932 (2011).

High-power solid-state cw dye laser Opt. Ex. 19, 26382-26393 (2011).

Quantum mechanics, à la Feynman, is just fine Opt. J. 5, 4 (2011).

Beyond-limit light focusing in the intermediate zone Opt. Lett. 36, 4497-4499 (2011).

1 MHz repetition rate hollow fiber pulse compression to sub-100-fs duration at 100 W average power Opt. Lett. 36, 4605-4607 (2011).

Injection-locked fiber laser for tunable millimeter-wave generation Opt. Lett. 36, 4722-4724 (2011).

High-performance iodine fiber frequency standard Opt. Lett. 36, 4776-4778 (2011).



November (2011)

Experimental results from an airborne static Fourier transform imaging spectrometer Appl. Opt. 50, 5894-5904 (2011).

Optical spectra analysis for breast cancer diagnostics Appl. Phys. B 105, 641-648 (2011).

Compact frequency standard based on an intracavity sample of cold cesium atoms JOSA B 28, 2592-2596 (2011).

High-energy attosecond light sources Nat. Photon. 5, 655-663 (2011).

Quantum mechanics, à la Feynman, is just fine Opt. J. 5, 4 (2011).

Generation of 120-fs laser pulses at 1-GHz repetition rate derived from continuous wave laser diode Opt. Ex. 19, 22402-22409 (2011).

Optimizing intracavity high harmonic generation for XUV fs frequency combs Opt. Ex. 19, 23315-23326 (2011).

Compression methods for XUV attosecond pulses Opt. Ex. 19, 23420-23428 (2011).

A subwavelength slit as a quarter-wave retarder Opt. Ex. 19, 24219-24227 (2011).

Lateral cavity photonic crystal surface-emitting laser with ultralow threshold Opt. Lett. 36, 4140-4142 (2011).

Long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides operating at telecommunication wavelengths Opt. Lett. 36, 4278-4280 (2011).

Plasmonic black-hole: broadband omnidirectional absorber of gap surface plasmons Opt. Lett. 36, 4311-4313 (2011).

Experimental demonstration of coherent beam combining over a 7 km propagation path Opt. Lett. 36, 4455-4457 (2011).



October (2011)

Bose–Einstein condensation of paraxial light Appl. Phys. B 105, 17-33 (2011).

Spatial light interference tomography (SLIT) Opt. Ex. 19, 19907-19918 (2011).

Ultrabroadband TW-class Ti:sapphire laser system with adjustable central wavelength, bandwidth and multi-color operation Opt. Ex. 19, 20128-20140 (2011).

Generation of high quality, 1.3 cycle pulses by active phase control of an octave spanning supercontinuum Opt. Ex. 19, 20151-20158 (2011).

Lasing characteristics of an optically pumped single ZnO nanosheet Opt. Ex. 19, 20389-20394 (2011).

Multiplying optical tweezers force using a micro-lever Opt. Ex. 19, 20604-20609 (2011).

Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide-silica step-index fibers Opt. Ex. 19, 21003-21019 (2011).

Quantum mechanics, à la Feynman, is just fine Opt. J. 5, 4 (2011).

Ultrafine optical-frequency tunable Brillouin fiber laser based on fiber strain Opt. Lett. 36, 3837-3839 (2011).

Group and phase velocity coupling of colliding pulses in a nanostructure Opt. Lett. 36, 3885-3887 (2011).

Ultra-high-resolution large-dynamic-range optical fiber static strain sensor using Pound–Drever–Hall technique Opt. Lett. 36, 4044-4046 (2011).

Airy beam laser Opt. Lett. 36, 4119-4121 (2011).



September (2011)

Holographic UV laser microsurgery Biomed. Opt. Ex. 2, 2590-2599 (2011).

Complete characterization of supercontinuum coherence J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28, 2301-2309 (2011).

Optical pulling force Nat. Photon. 5, 531–534 (2011).

Near-100% Bragg reflectivity of X-rays Nat. Photon. 5, 539–542 (2011).

Femtosecond laser writing of waveguide retarders in fused silica for polarization control in optical circuits Opt. Ex. 19, 18294-18301 (2011).

Direction-dependent optical modes in nanoscale Silicon waveguides Opt. Ex. 19, 18380-18392 (2011).

MEMS Bragg grating force sensor Opt. Ex. 19, 19190-19198 (2011).

Ultrafast all-optical temporal differentiators based on CMOS-compatible integrated-waveguide Bragg gratings Opt. Ex. 19, 19514-19522 (2011).

Methods and evaluation of frequency aging in distributed-feedback laser diodes for rubidium atomic clocks Opt. Lett. 36, 3311-3313 (2011).

Spectral contrast imaging microscopy Opt. Lett. 36, 3323-3325 (2011).

Infrared suppression by hybrid EUV multilayer—IR etalon structures Opt. Lett. 36, 3344-3346 (2011).

Broadband integrated polarization beam splitter with surface plasmon Opt. Lett. 36, 3630-3632 (2011).

Improved carrier-envelope phase locking of intense few-cycle laser pulses using above-threshold ionization Opt. Lett. 36, 3639-3641 (2011).

August (2011)

Differentiation of pancreatic cysts with optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging: an ex vivo pilot study Biomed. Opt. Ex. 2, 2372-2382 (2011).

High-energy pulse synthesis with sub-cycle waveform control for strong-field physics Nat. Photon. 5, 475-479 (2011).

Zero phase delay in negative-refractive-index photonic crystal superlattices Nat. Photon. 5, 499-505 (2011).

Waveguide grating mirror in a fully suspended 10 meter Fabry-Perot cavity Opt. Ex. 19, 14955-14963 (2011).

Diffractively coupled Fabry-Perot resonator with power-recycling Opt. Ex. 19, 14964-14975 (2011).

A compact broadband microfiber Bragg grating Opt. Ex. 19, 15621-15626 (2011).

The electromagnetics of light transmission through subwavelength slits in metallic films Opt. Ex. 19, 16139-16153 (2011).

90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier Opt. Lett. 36, 2755-2757 (2011).

Femtosecond laser pumped by high-brightness coherent polarization locked diodes Opt. Lett. 36, 2797-2799 (2011).

A microscale camera using direct Fourier-domain scene capture Opt. Lett. 36, 2949-2951 (2011).

Ultra-high-contrast few-cycle pulses for multipetawatt-class laser technology Opt. Lett. 36, 3145-3147 (2011).

July (2011)

Cell imaging beyond the diffraction limit using sparse deconvolution spatial light interference microscopy Biomed. Opt. Ex. 2, 1815-1827 (2011).

Single-cell biological lasers Nat. Photon. 5, 406-410 (2011).

Broadband graphene polarizer Nat. Photon. 5, 411-415 (2011).

Phase resolved interferometric spectral modulation (PRISM) for ultrafast pulse measurement and compression Opt. Ex. 19, 12961-12968 (2011).

Negative refraction and lensing at visible wavelength: experimental results using a waveguide array Opt. Ex. 19, 13358-13364 (2011).

Anderson localization in optical waveguide arrays with off-diagonal coupling disorder Opt. Ex. 19, 13636-13646 (2011).

Pure optical dynamical color encryption Opt. Ex. 19, 13779-13786 (2011).

Ultrasmall bullets of light—focusing few-cycle light pulses to the diffraction limit Opt. Ex. 19, 14451-14463 (2011).

“All air–plasma” terahertz spectroscopy Opt. Lett. 36, 2399-2401 (2011).

Focusing light with a reflection photon sieve Opt. Lett. 36, 2405-2407 (2011).

Large negative lateral shifts due to negative refraction Opt. Lett. 36, 2539-2541 (2011).

Coherent combining of a 4 kW, eight-element fiber amplifier array Opt. Lett. 36, 2686-2688 (2011).

Diode pumped high power operation of a femtosecond laser inscribed Yb:YAG waveguide laser Opt. Mater. Ex. 1, 428-423 (2011).

June (2011)

Picosecond pulses with 50 W peak power and reduced ASE background from an all-semiconductor MOPA system Appl. Phys. B 103, 603-607 (2011).

Ultrasmall spot size scanning laser ophthalmoscopy Biomed. Opt. Ex. 2, 1597-1609 (2011).

Airy pulsed beams J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28, 1243-1255 (2011).

Reconfigurable quantum metamaterials Opt. Ex. 19, 11018-11033 (2011).

Harmonic generation in silicon nitride ring resonators Opt. Ex. 19, 11415-11421 (2011).

Direct laser writing for active and passive high-Q polymer microdisks on silicon Opt. Ex. 19, 11451-11456 (2011).

Widely tunable extreme UV frequency comb generation Opt. Lett. 36, 2026-2028 (2011).

Spectral phase retrieval of 8 fs optical pulses at 600 nm by using a collinear autocorrelator with 300-µm-thick lithium triborate crystals Opt. Lett. 36, 2041-2043 (2011).

Directional far-field response of a spherical nanoantenna Opt. Lett. 36, 2146-2148 (2011).

Observing the average trajectories of single photons in a two-slit interferometer Science 332, 1170-1173 (2011).

May (2011)

The direct evaluation of attosecond chirp from a streaking measurement Appl. Phys. B 103, 303-309 (2011).

Ultralow-threshold electrically pumped quantum-dot photonic-crystal nanocavity laser Nat. Photon. 5, 297-300 (2011).

Suspended core subwavelength fibers: towards practical designs for low-loss terahertz guidance Opt. Ex. 19, 9127-9138 (2011).

Hybrid III-V semiconductor/silicon nanolaser Opt. Ex. 19, 9221-9231 (2011).

Single mode emission and non-stochastic laser system based on disordered point-sized structures: toward a tuneable random laser Opt. Ex. 19, 9262-9268 (2011).

Generation of energetic femtosecond green pulses based on an OPCPA-SFG scheme Opt. Ex. 19, 9646-9655 (2011).

Inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator Opt. Ex. 19, 10563-10570 (2011).

Broadband, rapidly tunable Ti:sapphire-pumped BiB3O6 femtosecond optical parametric oscillator Opt. Lett. 36, 1671-1673 (2011).

Characterization of high-intensity sub-4-fs laser pulses using spatially encoded spectral shearing interferometry Opt. Lett. 36, 1680-1682 (2011).

Coherent quasi-cw 153 nm light source at 33 MHz repetition rate Opt. Lett. 36, 1758-1760 (2011).

Observation of abruptly autofocusing waves Opt. Lett. 36, 1842-1844 (2011).

Array of a dye-doped polymer-based microlaser with multiwavelength emission Opt. Lett. 36, 1875-1877 (2011).

Nonlinear optics, chirality, magneto-optics: a serendipitous road Opt. Mater. Ex. 1, 5-16 (2011).

Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials Opt. Mater. Ex. 1, 85-100 (2011).

April (2011)

Tunable solid-state laser based on modified polymethyl methacrylate with methanol doped with Pyrromethene 580 Appl. Opt. 50, 1302-1306 (2011).

Demonstration of remote optical measurement configuration that correlates to glucose concentration in blood Biomed. Opt. 2, 858-870 (2011).

Observation and simulation of an optically driven micromotor J. Opt. 13, 044018 (2011).

Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms J. Opt. 13, 044024 (2011).

The impact of frequency combs Nat. Photon. 5, 193 (2011).

Advances in quantum metrology Nat. Photon. 5, 222-229 (2011).

Micro-integrated 1 Watt semiconductor laser system with a linewidth of 3.6 kHz Opt. Ex. 19, 7077-7083 (2011).

Generation of isolated single attosecond hard X-ray pulse in enhanced self-amplified spontaneous emission scheme Opt. Ex. 19, 7537-7545 (2011).

Bessel-like beam generation by superposing multiple Airy beams Opt. Ex. 19, 7356-7364 (2011).

Multi-gigawatt ultrashort pulses at high repetition rate and average power from two-stage nonlinear compression Opt. Ex. 19, 7546-7552 (2011).

Single-shot full-field reflection phase microscopy Opt. Ex. 19, 7587-7595 (2011).

Femtosecond laser filament-fringes in fused silica Opt. Ex. 19, 7799-7806 (2011).

Homogeneous optical cloak constructed with uniform layered structures Opt. Ex. 19, 8625-8631 (2011).

Counting atoms in a deep optical microtrap Opt. Lett. 36, 1041-1043 (2011).

Interferometric output coupling of ring optical oscillators Opt. Lett. 36, 1068-1070 (2011).

Near-field observation of beam steering in a photonic crystal superprism Opt. Lett. 36, 1074-1076 (2011).

Direct calculation of a three-dimensional diffracted field Opt. Lett. 36, 1341-1343 (2011).

March (2011)

Feedback control of a single atom in an optical cavity Appl. Phys. B 102, 433-442 (2011).

Injection-locked single-frequency laser with an output power of 220 W Appl. Phys. B 102, 529-538 (2011).

N-slit interferometer for secure free-space optical communications: 527 m intra interferometric path length J. Opt. 13, 035710 (2011).

Nanolasers grown on silicon Nat. Photon. 5, 170-175 (2011).

Characterization of antireflection moth-eye film on crystalline silicon photovoltaic module Opt. Ex. 19, A110-A125 (2011).

Coupled photonic crystal micro-cavities with ultra-low threshold power for stimulated Raman scattering Opt. Ex. 19, 4795-4804 (2011).

A reversibly tunable photonic crystal nanocavity laser using photochromic thin film Opt. Ex. 19, 5551-5558 (2011).

Ultrafast laser inscription of an integrated photonic lantern Opt. Ex. 19, 5698-5705 (2011).

Coherent beam combining of two femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplifiers Opt. Lett. 36, 621-623 (2011).

MEMS-based tunable terahertz wire-laser over 330 GHz Opt. Lett. 36, 692-694 (2011).

Three-dimensional imaging of direct-written photonic structures Opt. Lett. 36, 695-697 (2011).

Broadband phase noise suppression in a Yb-fiber frequency comb Opt. Lett. 36, 743-745 (2011).

February (2011)

Laser guide star wavefront sensing for ground-layer adaptive optics on extremely large telescopes Appl. Opt. 50, 473-483 (2011).

Phasing beams with different dispersions and application to the petawatt-class beamline at the National Ignition Facility Appl. Opt. 50, 554-561 (2011).

Non-symmetrical line broadening effects using short-pulse QCL spectrometers as determined with sub-nanosecond time-resolution Appl. Phys. B 102, 303-311 (2011).

Superresolved femtosecond laser nanosurgery of cells Biomed. Opt. 2, 264-271 (2011).

Fast nonlinear spectral microscopy of in vivo human skin Biomed. Opt. 2, 365-373 (2011).

Single-molecule imaging by optical absorption Nat. Photon. 5, 95-98 (2011).

Ultrashort pulse generation from diode pumped mode-locked Yb3+:sesquioxide single crystal lasers Opt. Ex. 19, 2904-2909 (2011).

Megahertz OCT for ultrawide-field retinal imaging with a 1050nm Fourier domain mode-locked laser Opt. Ex. 19, 3044-3062 (2011).

250 years Lambert surface: does it really exist? Opt. Ex. 19, 3881-3889 (2011).

High-repetition-rate sub-5-fs pulses with 12 GW peak power from fiber-amplifier-pumped optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification Opt. Lett. 36, 313-315 (2011).

135 W average-power femtosecond pulses at 520 nm from a frequency-doubled fiber laser system Opt. Lett. 36, 316-318 (2011).

Hollow fiber for flexible sub-20-fs pulse delivery Opt. Lett. 36, 442-445 (2011).

Compact polarization rotator on silicon for polarization-diversified circuits Opt. Lett. 36, 469-471 (2011).

January (2011)

Tunable high-power narrow-spectrum external-cavity diode laser at 675 nm as a pump source for UV generation Appl. Opt. 50, 90-94 (2011).

Refractive index determination of transparent samples by noniterative phase retrieval Appl. Opt. 50, 427-433 (2011).

Stable optical lift Nat. Photon. 5, 48-51 (2011).

High reflectivity monolithic sub-wavelength diffraction grating with GaAs/AlOx stack J. Opt 13, 015505 (2011).

Fiber chirped-pulse amplification system emitting 3.8 GW peak power Opt. Ex. 19, 255-260 (2011).

Extreme ultraviolet free electron laser seeded with high-order harmonic of Ti:sapphire laser Opt. Ex. 19, 317-324 (2011).

Optical twists in phase and amplitude Opt. Ex. 19, 476-481 (2011).

Spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) Opt. Ex. 19, 1016-1026 (2011).

Narrow line width operation of a 980 nm gain guided tapered diode laser bar Opt. Ex. 19, 1131-1137 (2011).

Precise, real-time, every-single-shot, carrier-envelope phase measurement of ultrashort laser pulses Opt. Lett. 36, 1-3 (2011).

In vivo imaging of the human rod photoreceptor mosaic Opt. Lett. 36, 31-33 (2011).

High-speed synthetic aperture microscopy for live cell imaging Opt. Lett. 36, 148-150 (2011).

Direct diode-laser pumping of a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser Opt. Lett. 36, 304-306 (2011).


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