{"title":"Spectral phase control of remote surface-plasmon-mediated two-photon-induced luminescence","authors":"J. M. Gunn, M. Ewald, M. Dantus","doi":"10.1364/META.2007.TUB31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/META.2007.TUB31","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate the use of spectral phase modulation as a mechanism for control over surface-plasmon-mediated two-photon-induced luminescence at distances tens of microns from the focal spot of a femtosecond laser.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122908333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Zibrov, Y. Dudin, A. G. Radnaev, V. V. Vasil'ev, V. Velichansky, D. Brazhnikov, A. Taichenachev, A. Tumaikin, V. Yudin
{"title":"Magneto-optical resonance in counterpropagating waves","authors":"S. Zibrov, Y. Dudin, A. G. Radnaev, V. V. Vasil'ev, V. Velichansky, D. Brazhnikov, A. Taichenachev, A. Tumaikin, V. Yudin","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431258","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetically-induced absorption resonances in Hanle-configuration are experimentally and theoretically studied in the case of counterpropagating waves. The presence of a backward wave provides a significant increase of the amplitude. The results may be useful for magnetometry.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123079530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Taguchi, T. Hirama, K. Kasai, T. Dougakiuchi, H. F Hofmann, Y. Kadoya
{"title":"Analysis of entanglement in the double slit interference patterns of down converted photon pairs","authors":"G. Taguchi, T. Hirama, K. Kasai, T. Dougakiuchi, H. F Hofmann, Y. Kadoya","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431723","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the non-classical correlation of two entangled photons passing through a pair of double slits. The quantum state is reconstructed using quantum tomography based on the correlated interference patterns and slit images.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114658930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Miyajima, Y. Kagotani, K. Sakurai, S. Saito, M. Ashida, T. Itoh
{"title":"Superfluorescence of biexcitons in CuCl quantum dots under two-photon resonant excitation","authors":"K. Miyajima, Y. Kagotani, K. Sakurai, S. Saito, M. Ashida, T. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431591","url":null,"abstract":"Time-resolved photoluminescence of biexcitons in CuCl quantum dots has been performed by optical Kerr-gate method. Pulse-shaped luminescence like superfluorescence has been observed under resonant two-photon excitation of the biexcitons.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116916418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carmel Rotschildl, T. Schwartz, O. Cohen, M. Segev
{"title":"Incoherent solitons in effectively-instantaneous nonlocal nonlinear media","authors":"Carmel Rotschildl, T. Schwartz, O. Cohen, M. Segev","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431577","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate incoherent spatial solitons in effectively instantaneous nonlocal nonlinear-media. This new kind of ¿ensemble-averaged solitons¿ has profound new features (e.g., random soliton¿s deflection) making it different than all previously observed coherent and incoherent solitons.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117260779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical probing of laser-produced plasmas for laboratory simulations of magnetic astrophysical jets","authors":"P. Brady, P. Valanju, R. Bengtson, T. Ditmire","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431077","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate laboratory simulations of magnetic astrophysical jets using optical probing. We have observed differences in laser-produced plasmas with and without a magnetic field using interferometric measurements.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127270945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time-resolved third harmonic generation from laser- melted semiconductors","authors":"W. Grigsby, M. Downer, T. Ditmire","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453635","url":null,"abstract":"To develop shock melting diagnostics, we are studying laser melted semiconductors using nonlinear optical probes. We find a rapid response in THG from Si and GaAs, with both linearly and circularly polarized incident radiation.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125008905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of a negative-index photonic metamaterial with three functional layers","authors":"S. Linden, G. Dolling, M. Wegener, C. Soukoulis","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431628","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the fabrication and characterization of negative-index photonic metamaterials with up to three functional layers. The effective material properties of the photonic metamaterials do not change significantly with the number of functional layers.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125037862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New developments in strongly interacting fermi gases","authors":"R. Grimm","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431789","url":null,"abstract":"We present new results on collective excitation modes of a gas of 6Li atoms in the BEC-BCS crossover, and we report on our first results on interactions in a Fermi-Fermi mixture of 6Li and 40K atoms.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125906908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical jitter due to refractive index variations in slow-light photonic crystal MZI switches","authors":"A. Shroff, P. Fauchet","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453289","url":null,"abstract":"High effective index waveguides can reduce the size of integrated active MZIs significantly. We demonstrate numerically that they have high sensitivity to variations in material refractive index leading to significant pulse distortion due to jitter.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126936770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}