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December (2012)

Ultrafast X-ray pulse characterization at free-electron lasers Nat. Photon. 6, 852-857 (2012).

Spectral spatial coherence of high-power multi-chip LEDs Optoelectron. Lett. 8, 422-425 (2012).

A holographic projection system with an electrically tuning and continuously adjustable optical zoom Opt. Ex. 20, 27222-27229 (2012).

A diffractive mechanism of focusing Opt. Ex. 20, 27253-27262 (2012).

Position measurement of non-integer OAM beams with structurally invariant propagation Opt. Ex. 20, 27429-27441 (2012).

Multi-view display module employing MEMS projector array Opt. Ex. 20, 28257-28266 (2012).

Generation of single-cycle mid-infrared pulses via coherent synthesis Opt. Ex. 20, 28455-28464 (2012).

Subkilohertz linewidth room-temperature mid-infrared quantum cascade laser using a molecular sub-Doppler reference Opt. Lett. 37, 4811-4813 (2012).

Transient-grating self-referenced spectral interferometry for infrared femtosecond pulse characterization Opt. Lett. 37, 4829-4831 (2012).

Frequency-chirped subwavelength nanoantennas Opt. Lett. 37, 4979-4981 (2012).

Bessel-like optical beams with arbitrary trajectories Opt. Lett. 37, 5003-5005 (2012).

Thermal bistability-based method for real-time optimization of ultralow-threshold whispering gallery mode microlasers Opt. Lett. 37, 5193-5195 (2012).

Organic polymer composite random laser operating underwater Opt. Lett. 37, 5160-5162 (2012).



November (2012)

Quantum communication without the necessity of quantum memories Nat. Photon. 6, 777-781 (2012).

Room-temperature mid-infrared single-photon spectral imaging Nat. Photon. 6, 788-793 (2012).

The circular-polarization phase-meter Opt. Ex. 20, 25315-25324 (2012).

Michelson interferometer with diffractively-coupled arm resonators in second-order Littrow configuration Opt. Ex. 20, 25400-25408 (2012).

Prototype of an ultra-stable optical cavity for space applications Opt. Ex. 20, 25409-25420 (2012).

75 MW few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from a collinear apodized APPLN-based OPCPA Opt. Ex. 20, 26888-26894 (2012).

Encoding and decoding of orbital angular momentum for wireless optical interconnects on chip Opt. Ex. 20, 26986-26995 (2012).

Organic light-emitting-diode-based plasmonic dark-field microscopy Opt. Lett. 37, 4359-4361 (2012).

Sub 25 fs pulses from solid-core nonlinear compression stage at 250 W of average power Opt. Lett. 37, 4407-4409 (2012).

High average brightness water window source for short-exposure cryomicroscopy Opt. Lett. 37, 4425-4427 (2012).

Polarization control of multiply scattered light through random media by wavefront shaping Opt. Lett. 37, 4663-4665 (2012).

Spectral characteristics of quantum-cascade laser operating at 10.6 µm wavelength for a seed application in laser-produced-plasma extreme UV source Opt. Lett. 37, 4765-4767 (2012).



October (2012)

A sub-40-mHz-linewidth laser based on a silicon single-crystal optical cavity Nat. Photon. 6, 687-692 (2012).

Demonstration of self-seeding in a hard-X-ray free-electron laser Nat. Photon. 6, 693-698 (2012).

Highly coherent and stable pulses from the FERMI seeded free-electron laser in the extreme ultraviolet Nat. Photon. 6, 699-704 (2012).

Ultra-low power generation of twin photons in a compact silicon ring resonator Opt. Ex. 20, 23100-23107 (2012).

Experimental quantum teleportation over a high-loss free-space channel Opt. Ex. 20, 23126-23137 (2012).

Widely tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers using sampled grating reflectors Opt. Ex. 20, 23339-23348 (2012).

Power-efficient III-V/Silicon external cavity DBR lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 23456-23462 (2012).

Multiwatt long wavelength quantum cascade lasers based on high strain composition with 70% injection efficiency Opt. Ex. 20, 24272-24279 (2012).

Sagnac interferometric multipass loop amplifier Opt. Ex. 20, 25121-25129 (2012).

Generation of sub-7-cycle optical pulses from a mode-locked ytterbium-doped single-mode fiber oscillator pumped by polarization-combined 915 nm laser diodes Opt. Lett. 37, 3972-3974 (2012).

Multicore fiber distributed feedback lasers Opt. Lett. 37, 4014-4016 (2012).

Tunable source of terahertz radiation using molecular modulation Opt. Lett. 37, 4191-4193 (2012).

Confocal line-scanning microscope with modified illumination Opt. Lett. 37, 4293-4295 (2012).

Narrow linewidth single frequency microfiber laser Opt. Lett. 37, 4323-4325 (2012).



September (2012)

Realization of quantum Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment Nat. Photon. 6, 602-606 (2012).

Ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons Nat. Photon. 6, 607-611 (2012).

FRET-assisted laser emission in colloidal suspensions of dye-doped latex nanoparticles Nat. Photon. 6, 623-628 (2012).

High-power room-temperature continuous-wave mid-infrared interband cascade lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 20894-20901 (2012).

Narrowband terahertz emitters using metamaterial films Opt. Ex. 20, 21025-21032 (2012).

Probing coherence in microcavity frequency combs via optical pulse shaping Opt. Ex. 20, 21033-21043 (2012).

Full-range spectral domain Jones matrix optical coherence tomography using a single spectral camera Opt. Ex. 20, 22360-22371 (2012).

Giant transverse optical forces in nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials Opt. Ex. 20, 22372-22382 (2012).

Pulse synthesis in the single-cycle regime from independent mode-locked lasers using attosecond-precision feedback Opt. Lett. 37, 3579-3581 (2012).

Spectral and temporal holograms with nonlinear optics Opt. Lett. 37, 3591-3593 (2012).

Demonstration of a 100 Hz repetition rate gain-saturated diode-pumped table-top soft x-ray laser Opt. Lett. 37, 3624-3626 (2012).

Defect-tolerant extreme ultraviolet nanoscale printing Opt. Lett. 37, 3633-3635 (2012).

How to optically count graphene layers Opt. Lett. 37, 3765-3767 (2012).

August (2012)

The origin of quantum entanglement experiments based on polarization measurements Euro. Phys. J. H 37, 311-318 (2012).

Lasing from water solution of rhodamine 6G/gold nanoparticles: impact of SiO2 coating on metal surface IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 48, 1220 - 1226 (2012).

Conversion of broadband to narrowband thermal emission through energy recycling Nat. Photon. 6, 535–539 (2012).

A compact X-ray free-electron laser emitting in the sub-ĺngström region Nat. Photon. 6, 540-544 (2012).

Broadband dye-sensitized upconversion of near-infrared light Nat. Photon. 6, 560-564 (2012).

1.3-mW tunable and narrow-band continuous-wave light source at 191 nm Opt. Ex. 20, 18659-18664 (2012).

Ultrashort optical-vortex pulse generation in few-cycle regime Opt. Ex. 20, 18986-18993 (2012).

High-speed three-dimensional profilometry for multiple objects with complex shapes Opt. Ex. 20, 19493-19510 (2012).

Bandwidth scaling and spectral flatness enhancement of optical frequency combs from phase-modulated continuous-wave lasers using cascaded four-wave mixing Opt. Lett. 37, 3066-3068 (2012).

Rayleigh scattering-assisted narrow linewidth Brillouin lasing in cascaded fiber Opt. Lett. 37, 3129-3131 (2012).

High power all-fibered femtosecond master oscillator power amplifier at 1.56 µm Opt. Lett. 37, 3186-3188 (2012).

Adaptive Detection of Arbitrarily Shaped Ultrashort Quantum Light States Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 053602 (2012).

July (2012)

The origin of quantum entanglement experiments based on polarization measurements Euro. Phys. J. H 37 (2012).

Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers Nat. Photon. 6, 432–439 (2012).

Mid-infrared frequency combs Nat. Photon. 6, 440-449 (2012).

Nanonewton optical force trap employing anti-reflection coated, high-refractive-index titania microspheres Nat. Photon. 6, 469-473 (2012).

Experimental verification of fiber-coupling efficiency for satellite-to-ground atmospheric laser downlinks Opt. Ex. 20, 15301-15308 (2012).

Graphene oxide mode-locked femtosecond erbium-doped fiber lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 15474-15480 (2012).

Pulsed quantum cascade laser-based CRDS substance detection: real-time detection of TNT Opt. Ex. 20, 15489-15502 (2012).

Narrow linewidth laser system realized by linewidth transfer using a fiber-based frequency comb for the magneto-optical trapping of strontium Opt. Ex. 20, 16010-16016 (2012).

Lens based adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope Opt. Ex. 20, 17297-17310 (2012).

Wide-bandwidth phase lock between a CW laser and a frequency comb based on a feed-forward configuration Opt. Lett. 37, 2592-2594 (2012).

Efficient graphene Q switching and mode locking of 1.34 µm neodymium lasers Opt. Lett. 37, 2652-2654 (2012).

120 watt continuous wave solar-pumped laser with a liquid light-guide lens and an Nd:YAG rod Opt. Lett. 37, 2670-2672 (2012).

Geometric representation for partial polarization in three dimensions Opt. Lett. 37, 2772-2774 (2012).

Buffer-gas-assisted polarization spectroscopy of Li6 Opt. Lett. 37, 2865-2867 (2012).

Light sources generating far fields with tunable flat profiles Opt. Lett. 37, 2970-2972 (2012).

June (2012)

First lasing of an echo-enabled harmonic generation free-electron laser Nat. Photon. 6, 360-363 (2012).

High-power ultra-broadband frequency comb from ultraviolet to infrared by high-power fiber amplifiers Opt. Ex. 20, 12899-12905 (2012).

3D adaptive optics in a light sheet microscope Opt. Ex. 20, 13252-13261 (2012).

Femtosecond dark-field imaging with an X-ray free electron laser Opt. Ex. 20, 13501-13512 (2012).

Long-external-cavity distributed Bragg reflector laser with subkilohertz intrinsic linewidth Opt. Lett. 37, 1989-1991 (2012).

Mechano-optical wavelength tuning in a photonic crystal microcavity with sub-1 V drive voltage Opt. Lett. 37, 2010-2012 (2012).

Femtosecond pulse parametric amplification at narrowband high power gas laser pumping Opt. Lett. 37, 2100-2102 (2012).

Generation of intense single-order harmonic pulse in the vacuum ultraviolet region using a deep ultraviolet driving laser Opt. Lett. 37, 2118-2120 (2012).

Multiwatt octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in multicore photonic-crystal fiber Opt. Lett. 37, 2292-2294 (2012).

Avoiding temporal distortions in tilted pulses Opt. Lett. 37, 2373-2375 (2012).

May (2012)

Local-field effects in nanostructured photonic materials Adv. Opt. Photon. 4, 1-77 (2012).

Observing the localization of light in space and time by ultrafast second-harmonic microscopy Nat. Photon. 6, 293–298 (2012).

Giant half-cycle attosecond pulses Nat. Photon. 6, 304-307 (2012).

All-optical Compton gamma-ray source Nat. Photon. 6, 308-311 (2012).

Coherent ultrashort pulse generation from incoherent light by pulse trapping in birefringent fibers Opt. Ex. 20, 11073-11082 (2012).

Lateral distributed-feedback gratings for single-mode, high-power terahertz quantum-cascade lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 11207-11217 (2012).

An electrically pumped germanium laser Opt. Ex. 20, 11316-11320 (2012).

Nanolasers grown on silicon-based MOSFETs Opt. Ex. 20, 12171-12176 (2012).

Ultrashort highly localized wavepackets Opt. Ex. 20, 12563-12578 (2012).

Sub-watt threshold, kilohertz-linewidth Raman distributed-feedback fiber laser Opt. Lett. 37, 1544-1546 (2012).

Femtosecond mode-locked holmium fiber laser pumped by semiconductor disk laser Opt. Lett. 37, 1448-1450 (2012).

Thermally activated state transition technique for femto-Newton-level force measurement Opt. Lett. 37, 1469-1471 (2012).

Noncontact all-optical measurement of corneal elasticity Opt. Lett. 37, 1625-1627 (2012).

66 W average power from a microjoule-class sub-100 fs fiber oscillator Opt. Lett. 37, 1640-1642 (2012).

Tunable organic dye lasers: physics and technology of high-performance liquid and solid-state narrow-linewidth oscillators Prog. Quantum Electron. 36, 29-50 (2012).

April (2012)

Ultralow-power all-optical RAM based on nanocavities Nat. Photon. 6, 248–252 (2012).

Organic light-emitting diodes employing efficient reverse intersystem crossing for triplet-to-singlet state conversion Nat. Photon. 6, 253–258 (2012).

Impact of upconverted scattered light on advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors Opt. Ex. 20, 8329-8336 (2012).

A nano-opto-mechanical pressure sensor via ring resonator Opt. Ex. 20, 8535-8542 (2012).

Femtosecond superradiant emission in AlGaInAs quantum-well semiconductor laser structures Opt. Ex. 20, 8755-8760 (2012).

11 W narrow linewidth laser source at 780nm for laser cooling and manipulation of Rubidium Opt. Ex. 20, 8915-8919 (2012).

Self-referenceable frequency comb from an ultrafast thin disk laser Opt. Ex. 20, 9650-9656 (2012).

Reconfigurable wavefront sensor for ultrashort pulses Opt. Lett. 37, 1154-1156 (2012).

Grism compressor for carrier-envelope phase-stable millijoule-energy chirped pulse amplifier lasers featuring bulk material stretcher Opt. Lett. 37, 1196-1198 (2012).

Interferometric autocorrelation in the ultraviolet utilizing spontaneous parametric down-conversion inside an enhancement cavity Opt. Lett. 37, 1223-1225 (2012).

Aperiodic interferometer for six degrees of freedom position measurement Opt. Lett. 37, 1247-1249 (2012).

Square-wave pulse with ultra-wide tuning range in a passively mode-locked fiber laser Opt. Lett. 37, 1334-1336 (2012).

Tunable organic dye lasers: physics and technology of high-performance liquid and solid-state narrow-linewidth oscillators Prog. Quantum Electron. 36 (2012).

March (2012)

Low noise dual-wavelength erbium fiber laser in single-longitudinal-mode operation Appl. Phys. B 106, 563-567 (2012).

Optimization of a distributed feedback dye laser system to generate single tunable picosecond pulses from UV to IR Appl. Phys. B 106 (2012).

Mode-hop-free tuning over 135 GHz of external cavity diode lasers without antireflection coating Appl. Phys. B 106, 629-633 (2012).

Comb-based radiofrequency photonic filters with rapid tunability and high selectivity Nat. Photon. 6, 186–194 (2012).

Laser emission from a solar-pumped fiber Opt. Ex. 20, 5891-5895 (2012).

Non-iterative characterization of few-cycle laser pulses using flat-top gates Opt. Ex. 20, 5955-5961 (2012).

Spheroidal Fabry-Perot microcavities in optical fibers for high-sensitivity sensing Opt. Ex. 20, 7112-7118 (2012).

All-optical phase modulation for integrated interferometric biosensors Opt. Ex. 20, 7195-7205 (2012).

490 fs pulse generation from a passive C-band AlGaInAs/InP quantum well mode-locked laser Opt. Lett. 37, 773-775 (2012).

Nanoparticle dispersion laser Opt. Lett. 37, 939-941 (2012).

5µm laser source for frequency metrology based on difference frequency generation Opt. Lett. 37, 918-920 (2012).

Aerosol-based coherent random laser Opt. Lett. 37, 1053-1055 (2012).

Narrow linewidth tunable external cavity diode laser using wide bandwidth filter Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 023107 (2012).

February (2012)

Quantitative comparison of contrast and imaging depth of ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography images in 800–1700 nm wavelength region Biomed. Opt. Ex. 3, 282-294 (2012).

Frequency stabilization of blue extended cavity diode lasers by external cavity optical feedback Appl. Phys. B 106, 261-266 (2012).

Optical parametric oscillation with distributed feedback in cold atoms Nat. Photon. 6, 101–104 (2012).

Suppression of extraneous thermal noise in cavity optomechanics Opt. Ex. 20, 3586-3612 (2012).

Pulse compression of phase-matched high harmonic pulses from a time-delay compensated monochromator Opt. Ex. 20, 3725-3732 (2012).

Low loss depressed cladding waveguide inscribed in YAG:Nd single crystal by femtosecond laser pulses Opt. Ex. 20, 3842-3843 (2012).

Single mode quantum cascade lasers with shallow-etched distributed Bragg reflector Opt. Ex. 20, 3890-3897 (2012).

Femtosecond diode-pumped solid-state laser with a repetition rate of 4.8 GHz Opt. Ex. 20, 4248-4253 (2012).

Monolithic integration of a nanomechanical resonator to an optical microdisk cavity Opt. Ex. 20, 4272-4279 (2012).

Fundamental characteristics of degradation- recoverable solid-state DFB polymer laser Opt. Ex. 20, 4690-4696 (2012).

Longitudinal-differential interferometry: direct imaging of axial superluminal phase propagation Opt. Lett. 37, 305-307 (2012).

Single-mode whispering gallery lasing from metal-clad GaN nanopillars Opt. Lett. 37, 374-376 (2012).

Low-threshold single-wavelength all-fiber laser generating cylindrical vector beams using a few-mode fiber Bragg grating Opt. Lett. 37, 464-466 (2012).

Vacuum ultraviolet frequency combs generated by a femtosecond enhancement cavity in the visible Opt. Lett. 37, 503-505 (2012).

Single-frequency Brillouin distributed feedback fiber laser Opt. Lett. 37, 605-607 (2012).

Cold atoms experiments: influence of laser intensity imbalance on cloud formation Quantum Optics and Laser Experiments (Intech, 2012).

January (2012)

An all-solid-state laser source at 671 nm for cold-atom experiments with lithium Appl. Phys. B 106, 25-36 (2012).

Single beam atom sorting machine Laser Phys. Lett. 9, 78-84 (2012).

Demonstration of temporal cloaking Nature 481, 62-65 (2012).

Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements Nat. Photon. 6, 35-40 (2012).

A photon-driven micromotor can direct nerve fibre growth Nat. Photon. 6, 62-67 (2012).

Arm-length stabilisation for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors using frequency-doubled auxiliary lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 81-89 (2012).

Optical smart packaging to reduce transmitted information Opt. Ex. 20, 158-163 (2012).

Steady-state ab initio laser theory for N-level lasers Opt. Ex. 20, 474-488 (2012).

Wave-guided optical waveguides Opt. Ex. 20, 2004-2014 (2012).

Photostability of lasing process from water solution of Rhodamine 6G with gold nanoparticles Opt. Lett. 37, 34-36 (2012).

Continuous-wave Yb-doped Sc2SiO5 thin-disk laser Opt. Lett. 37, 37-39 (2012).

Laser profile reshaping in a Fabry–Perot thin film Opt. Lett. 37, 283-285 (2012).


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