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December (2013)

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser in the long-wavelength (700 nm) region in the visible by energy transfer between organic dyes Appl. Phys. B 113 (2013).

The probability amplitude for entangled polarizations: an interferometric approach J. Mod. Opt. 60, 1585-1587 (2013).

Petahertz optical oscilloscope Nat. Photon. 7, 958–962 (2013).

Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate Nat. Photon. 7, 977–981 (2013).

High-contrast 2.0 Petawatt Ti:sapphire laser system Opt. Ex. 21, 29231-29239 (2013).

An ultra-broadband multilayered graphene absorber Opt. Ex. 21, 29938-29948 (2013).

Ultrafast and widely tuneable vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser, mode-locked by a graphene-integrated distributed Bragg reflector Opt. Ex. 21, 31548-31559 (2013).

Calibrating optical tweezers with Bayesian inference Opt. Ex. 21, 31578-31590 (2013).

Direct femtosecond pulse compression with miniature-sized Bragg cholesteric liquid crystal Opt. Lett. 38, 5040-5042 (2013).

Adaptive optical two-photon microscopy using autofluorescent guide stars Opt. Lett. 38, 5075-5078 (2013).

Generation of two-cycle pulses and octave-spanning frequency combs in a dispersion-flattened micro-resonator Opt. Lett. 38, 5122-5125 (2013).

Distributed feedback lasing of commercial liquid scintillators Opt. Lett. 38, 5307-5310 (2013).

Tunable laser optics: applications to optics and quantum optics Prog. Quantum Electron. 37, 326-347 (2013).

Solid state dye lasers with scattering feedback Prog. Quantum Electron. 37, 348-382 (2013).



November (2013)

Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity Nat. Photon. 7, 883–887 (2013).

CMOS-compatible graphene photodetector covering all optical communication bands Nat. Photon. 7, 892–896 (2013).

Diode-pumped wideband thulium-doped fiber amplifiers for optical communications in the 1800 – 2050 nm window Opt. Ex. 21, 26450-26455 (2013).

Volumetric display using rotating prism sheets arranged in a symmetrical configuration Opt. Ex. 21, 27074-27086 (2013).

High efficiency coupling of photon pairs in practice Opt. Ex. 21, 27641-27651 (2013).

Post-selection free, integrated optical source of non-degenerate, polarization entangled photon pairs Opt. Ex. 21, 27981-27991 (2013).

Integrated tunable CMOS laser Opt. Ex. 21, 28048-28053 (2013).

Hour-long continuous operation of a tabletop soft x-ray laser at 50-100 Hz repetition rate Opt. Ex. 21, 28380-28383 (2013).

Sub-four-cycle laser pulses directly from a high-repetition-rate optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier at 3.4 µm Opt. Lett. 38, 4265-4268 (2013).

Greatly enhanced ultrabroadband light absorption by monolayer graphene Opt. Lett. 38, 4342-4345 (2013).

High speed, high fidelity detection of an atomic hyperfine qubit Opt. Lett. 38, 4735-4738 (2013).

Tunable laser optics: applications to optics and quantum optics Prog. Quantum Electron. 37 (2013).

Solid state dye lasers with scattering feedback Prog. Quantum Electron. 37 (2013).



October (2013)

Rare-earth elements in lighting and optical applications and their recycling JOM 65, 1276–1282 (2013).

Compact, simple, and robust cross polarized wave generation source of few-cycle, high-contrast pulses for seeding petawatt-class laser systems JOSA B 30, 2607–2614 (2013).

Miniature chiral beamsplitter based on gyroid photonic crystals Nat. Photon. 7, 801-805 (2013).

Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs Nat. Photon. 7, 811–816 (2013).

Design and synthesis of sulfobetainic diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) laser dyes New J. Chem. 37 (7-8), 303-308 (2013).

Entanglement distribution over 300 km of fiber Opt. Ex. 21, 23241-23249 (2013).

Directly phase-modulation-mode-locked doubly-resonant optical parametric oscillator Opt. Ex. 21, 23365-23375 (2013).

Terahertz wireless communications based on photonics technologies Opt. Ex. 21, 23736-23747 (2013).

Nonlinear compression to sub-30-fs, 0.5 mJ pulses at 135 W of average power Opt. Lett. 38, 3866-3869 (2013).

AlGaAs microdisk cavities for second-harmonic generation Opt. Lett. 38, 3965-3968 (2013).

Time-resolved microscopy with random lasers Opt. Lett. 38, 4112-4115 (2013).

Use of radiation pressure for measurement of high-power laser emission Opt. Lett. 38, 4248-4251 (2013).



September (2013)

Wide-field, high-resolution Fourier ptychographic microscopy Nat. Photon. 7, 739–745 (2013).

Compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip Nat. Photon. 7, 746–751 (2013).

Widely tunable Vernier ring laser on hybrid silicon Opt. Ex. 21, 19718-19722 (2013).

Heterodyne interferometer for absolute amplitude vibration measurements with femtometer sensitivity Opt. Ex. 21, 19900-19921 (2013).

Experimental quasi-single-photon transmission from satellite to earth Opt. Ex. 21, 20032-20040 (2013).

MEMS Fabry-Perot sensor interrogated by optical system-on-a-chip for simultaneous pressure and temperature sensing Opt. Ex. 21, 21829-21839 (2013).

Narrow linewidth Brillouin laser based on chalcogenide photonic chip Opt. Lett. 38, 3208-3211 (2013).

Graphene Q-switched 2.78 µm Er3+-doped fluoride fiber laser Opt. Lett. 38, 3233-3236 (2013).

Narrow linewidth single-frequency terahertz source based on difference frequency generation of vertical-external-cavity source-emitting lasers in an external resonance cavity Opt. Lett. 38, 3654-3657 (2013).

Frequency stability of a 10 GHz optical frequency comb from a semiconductor-based mode-locked laser with an intracavity 10,000 finesse etalon Opt. Lett. 38, 3665-3668 (2013).

Correlated photons in one-dimensional waveguides Opt. Lett. 38, 3693-3695 (2013).

Electron interference, part deux Opt. Photon. News 24 (7-8), 7 (2013).

August (2013)

Compact high-repetition-rate source of coherent 100 eV radiation Nat. Photon. 7, 608–612 (2013).

Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light Nat. Photon. 7, 613–619 (2013).

Quantum-dense metrology Nat. Photon. 7, 626–630 (2013).

Photonic streaking of attosecond pulse trains Nat. Photon. 7, 651–656 (2013).

Fabrication of metal-oxide nano-hairs for effective index optical elements Opt. Ex. 21, 18733-18741 (2013).

Stable radio-frequency transfer over optical fiber by phase-conjugate frequency mixing Opt. Ex. 21, 18754-18764 (2013).

Para-magneto- and electro-optic microcavities for blue wavelength modulation Opt. Ex. 21, 19648-19656 (2013).

Widely tunable Vernier ring laser on hybrid silicon Opt. Ex. 21, 19718-19722 (2013).

Sub-100 attosecond timing jitter from low-noise passively mode-locked solid-state laser at telecom wavelength Opt. Lett. 38, 2650-2653 (2013).

High energy and average power femtosecond laser for driving mid-infrared optical parametric amplifiers Opt. Lett. 38, 2746-2749 (2013).

Generation of sub-20-fs deep-ultraviolet pulses by using chirped-pulse four-wave mixing in CaF2 plate Opt. Lett. 38, 2938-2940 (2013).

July (2013)

Experimental boson sampling Nat. Photon. 7, 540–544 (2013).

Towards isolated attosecond pulses at megahertz repetition rates Nat. Photon. 7, 555–559 (2013).

Nanoimprinted plasmonic nanocavity arrays Opt. Ex. 21, 15081-15089 (2013).

Integrated multi vector vortex beam generator Opt. Ex. 21, 16130-16141 (2013).

Mass-producible and efficient optical antennas with CMOS-fabricated nanometer-scale gap Opt. Ex. 21, 16561-15569 (2013).

Portable, miniaturized, fibre delivered, multimodal CARS exoscope Opt. Ex. 21, 17161-17175 (2013).

On-chip optical phase locking of single growth monolithically integrated slotted fabry perot lasers Opt. Ex. 21, 17315-17323 (2013).

530 W, 1.3 mJ, four-channel coherently combined femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system Opt. Lett. 38, 2283-2285 (2013).

Power scalable >25 W supercontinuum laser from 2 to 2.5 µm with near-diffraction-limited beam and low output variability Opt. Lett. 38, 2292-2294 (2013).

Laser cooling of beryllium ions using a frequency-doubled 626 nm diode laser Opt. Lett. 38, 2370-2372 (2013).

Seventh-harmonic generation from tightly focused 2 µm ultrashort pulses in air Opt. Lett. 38, 2560-2562 (2013).

Ramsey spectroscopy with squeezed light Opt. Lett. 38, 2563-2565 (2013).

Laser cooling to quantum degeneracy Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 263003 (2013).

June (2013)

Heraclenin: a potential optoelectronic device material from prangos pabularia J. Electron. Mat. 42 (2013).

Enhanced energy storage in chaotic optical resonators Nat. Photon. 7, 473–478 (2013).

Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: a route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip Opt. Ex. 21, 13333-13341 (2013).

On-chip low loss heralded source of pure single photons Opt. Ex. 21, 13522-13532 (2013).

III-V-on-silicon multi-frequency lasers Opt. Ex. 21, 13675-13683 (2013).

An optimized photon pair source for quantum circuits Opt. Ex. 21, 13975-13985 (2013).

Sub-nanosecond pulse, single longitudinal mode Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser controlled by reflecting Bragg gratings Opt. Laser Technol. 48, 475-479 (2013).

Experimental generation of partially coherent beams with different complex degrees of coherence Opt. Lett. 38, 1814-1816 (2013).

Tunable MEMS axicon mirror arrays Opt. Lett. 38, 1939-1941 (2013).

Modulation properties of optically injection-locked quantum cascade lasers Opt. Lett. 38, 1975-1977 (2013).

Ultrashort slot polarization rotator with double paralleled nonlinear geometry slot crossings Opt. Lett. 38, 1984-1986 (2013).

Comb-calibrated frequency-modulated continuous-wave ladar for absolute distance measurements Opt. Lett. 38, 2026-2018 (2013).

Optical feedback stabilized laser tuned by single-sideband modulation Opt. Lett. 38, 2062-2064 (2013).

Full C-band tunable laser based on electroholography Opt. Lett. 38, 2131-2133 (2013).

May (2013)

A quantum logic gate between a solid-state quantum bit and a photon Nat. Photon. 7, 373–377 (2013).

Air-to-ground quantum communication Nat. Photon. 7, 382–386 (2013).

Direct and full-scale experimental verifications towards ground–satellite quantum key distribution Nat. Photon. 7, 387–393 (2013).

Nanocavities at the surface of three-dimensional photonic crystals Opt. Ex. 21, 10590-10596 (2013).

Widely tunable single photon source with high purity at telecom wavelength Opt. Ex. 21, 10659-10666 (2013).

Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs in a Bragg reflection waveguide Opt. Ex. 21, 10841-10849 (2013).

Nonlinear amplification of side-modes in frequency combs Opt. Ex. 21, 11670-11687 (2013).

Ultra-low crosstalk, CMOS compatible waveguide crossings for densely integrated photonic interconnection networks Opt. Ex. 21, 12002-12013 (2013).

Quantum-enhanced micromechanical displacement sensitivity Opt. Lett. 38, 1413-1415 (2013).

Microchip solid-state cylindrical vector lasers with orthogonally polarized dual laser-diode end pumping Opt. Lett. 38, 1434-1436 (2013).

Low-threshold whispering-gallery-mode microlasers fabricated in a Nd:glass substrate by three-dimensional femtosecond laser micromachining Opt. Lett. 38, 1458-1460 (2013).

Self-curable solid-state elastic dye lasers capable of mechanical stress probing Opt. Lett. 38, 1627-1629 (2013).

Lasing in hybrid metal-Bragg nanocavities Opt. Lett. 38, 1694-1696 (2013).

April (2013)

Efficient broadband Raman pulses for large-area atom interferometry J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 922-927 (2013).

Transmission of tunable diode laser emission, through rubidium vapor, as a function of laser intensity J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 945-949 (2013).

Quantum teleportation using a light-emitting diode Nat. Photon. 7, 311–315 (2013).

Full characterization of polarization states of light via direct measurement Nat. Photon. 7, 316-321 (2013).

Tunable lenses using transparent dielectric elastomer actuators Opt. Ex. 21, 8669-8676 (2013).

2.1-watts intracavity-frequency-doubled all-solid-state light source at 671 nm for laser cooling of lithium Opt. Ex. 21, 9091-9102 (2013).

Full color natural light holographic camera Opt. Ex. 21, 9636-9642 (2013).

Generation of high-fidelity few-cycle pulses at 2.1 µm via cross-polarized wave generation Opt. Ex. 21, 9711-9721 (2013).

99 W mid-IR operation of a ZGP OPO at 25% duty cycle Opt. Ex. 21, 10062-10069 (2013).

Optical modulation of quantum cascade laser with optimized excitation wavelength Opt. Lett. 38, 1200-1202 (2013).

Purity of partial polarization in the frequency and time domains Opt. Lett. 38, 1221-1223 (2013).

March (2013)

Diffractive patterns superimposed over propagating N-slit interferograms J. Mod. Opt. 60, 136-140 (2013).

Anderson localization of light Nat. Photon. 7, 197-204 (2013).

Quantum-state transfer from an ion to a photon Nat. Photon. 7, 219-222 (2013).

Wide-field optical detection of nanoparticles using on-chip microscopy and self-assembled nanolenses Nat. Photon. 7, 240-247 (2013).

Imaging live humans through smoke and flames using far-infrared digital holography Opt. Ex. 21, 5379-5390 (2013).

170 W, single-frequency, single-mode, linearly-polarized, Yb-doped all-fiber amplifier Opt. Ex. 21, 5456-5462 (2013).

The Fiber Fuse - from a curious effect to a critical issue: A 25th year retrospective Opt. Ex. 21, 6422-6441 (2013).

Highly efficient heralding of entangled single photons Opt. Ex. 21, 6707-6717 (2013).

Generalized Jones matrices for anisotropic media Opt. Ex. 21, 6895-6900 (2013).

Super-thin Mikaelian’s lens of small index as a beam compressor with an extremely high compression ratio Opt. Ex. 21, 7328-7336 (2013).

Heralded single-photon source in a III–V photonic crystal Opt. Lett. 38, 649-651 (2013).

Adiabatic thermo-optic Mach–Zehnder switch Opt. Lett. 38, 733-735 (2013).

Generation of diffraction-free plasmonic beams with one-dimensional Bessel profiles Opt. Lett. 38, 905-907 (2013).

High-efficiency frequency conversion in the single-photon regime Opt. Lett. 38, 947-949 (2013).

High efficiency amplified spontaneous emission from a fluorescent anticancer drug–dye complex Org. Electron. 14 (2013).

February (2013)

Marker-free phase nanoscopy Nat. Photon. 7, 113-117 (2013).

Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’ Nat. Photon. 7, 123-127 (2013).

Limits on classical communication from quantum entropy power inequalities Nat. Photon. 7, 142–146 (2013).

Experimental demonstration of a receiver beating the standard quantum limit for multiple nonorthogonal state discrimination Nat. Photon. 7, 147-142 (2013).

Countermeasure against tailored bright illumination attack for DPS-QKD Opt. Ex. 21, 2667-2673 (2013).

Enhancing entangled-state phase estimation by combining classical and quantum protocols Opt. Ex. 21, 2816-2822 (2013).

A Bragg beam splitter for hard x-ray free-electron lasers Opt. Ex. 21, 2823-2831 (2013).

A 340-nm-band ultraviolet laser diode composed of GaN well layers Opt. Ex. 21, 3133-3137 (2013).

From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism Opt. Lett. 38, ED1 (2013).

Graphene mode-locked femtosecond Cr:ZnSe laser at 2500 nm Opt. Lett. 38, 341-343 (2013).

Two-dimensional single-shot measurement of angular dispersion for compressor alignment Opt. Lett. 38, 410-412 (2013).

Red and orange Pr3+:LiYF4 planar waveguide laser Opt. Lett. 38, 455-457 (2013).

January (2013)

Photoluminescence from quasi-type-II spherical CdSe-CdS core-shell quantum dots Appl. Opt. 52, 105-109 (2013).

Diffractive patterns superimposed over propagating N-slit interferograms J. Mod. Opt. 60 (2013).

Spatial and spectral coherent control with frequency combs Nat. Photon. 7, 38-42 (2013).

Focusing of X-ray free-electron laser pulses with reflective optics Nat. Photon. 7, 43-47 (2013).

Direct determination of the transition to localization of light in three dimensions Nat. Photon. 7, 48-52 (2013).

Direct optical measurements of the evolving spatio-temporal charge density in ultrashort electron pulses Opt. Ex. 21, 21-29 (2013).

An autocorrelator based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer Opt. Ex. 21, 70-78 (2013).

High performance terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity difference frequency generation Opt. Ex. 21, 968-976 (2013).

Microelectromechanically-driven miniature adaptive Alvarez lens Opt. Ex. 21, 1226-1233 (2013).

Watt-level ultrahigh-optical signal-to-noise ratio single-longitudinal-mode tunable Brillouin fiber laser Opt. Lett. 38, 19-21 (2013).

Generation of high-purity entangled photon pair in a short highly nonlinear fiber Opt. Lett. 38, 73-75 (2013).


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