{"title":"Cloaking: A New Phenomenon in Electromagnetism and Elasticity","authors":"G. Milton","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431725","url":null,"abstract":"We show how collections of polarizable dipoles become cloaked (invisible) to time harmonic electromagnetic fields when placed in the proximity of a low loss superlens, and how transformation based approaches to cloaking extend to elasticity.","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":"129162728","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}
V. Raghunathan, H. Renner, R. Rice, M. Krauss, E. Brinkmeyer, B. Jalali
{"title":"Multimode silicon raman amplifier","authors":"V. Raghunathan, H. Renner, R. Rice, M. Krauss, E. Brinkmeyer, B. Jalali","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453648","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel multimode silicon waveguide Raman amplifier consisting of collinearly propagating pump and amplified Stokes beams with self-imaging of Stokes beam due to Talbot effect. Application of this device as image pre-amplifier is discussed.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"102 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":"124670995","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. Huang, K. Hsu, R. Shr, Y. Huang, S. L. Huang, Y. S. Lin
{"title":"Uniform growth of 10-μm-core double-clad Cr4+:YAG crystal fiber","authors":"K. Huang, K. Hsu, R. Shr, Y. Huang, S. L. Huang, Y. S. Lin","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431199","url":null,"abstract":"An auxiliary sapphire tube serving as a heat capacitor was used in the co-drawing laser-heated pedestal growth system for fabricating small core crystal fibers. A factor of 3 improvement was achieved. Uniform 10-μm-core double-clad Cr4+:YAG crystal fibers were successfully fabricated as a result.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"31 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":"126666559","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":"Quantum entanglement and metrology","authors":"C. Caves","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431814","url":null,"abstract":"For linear couplings of N systems to a parameter, quantum entanglement can improve the precision of parameter estimation from the 1/¿N shot-noise limit to the 1/N Heisenberg limit. Intrinsic ¿-body couplings improve this scaling further to 1/N¿.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"141 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":"129299111","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}
Yu-hsin Chen, Sanjay Varma, V. Kumarappan, H. Milchberg
{"title":"Asymmetric explosion of laser-irradiated hydrogen clusters","authors":"Yu-hsin Chen, Sanjay Varma, V. Kumarappan, H. Milchberg","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431078","url":null,"abstract":"Under conditions of small hydrogen cluster size, where we expected angular-dependent time-of-flight (TOF) proton spectra consistent with isotropic coulomb explosions, we instead found strong explosion asymmetry with fast protons emitted preferentially in the direction of the laser polarization.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"71 3 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":"130679981","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. Tochitsky, C. Sung, S. Reiche, J. Rosenzweig, C. Pellegrini, C. Joshi
{"title":"THz modulation of relativistic electrons using a vacuum laser beat-wave","authors":"S. Tochitsky, C. Sung, S. Reiche, J. Rosenzweig, C. Pellegrini, C. Joshi","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431188","url":null,"abstract":"It is proposed to modulate electrons longitudinally by the ponderomotive force of a CO2 laser beat-wave. For the 9.3 and 10.6 ¿tm laser lines, the beam injected into the undulator radiates at ~ 77 ¿m.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"84 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":"124108042","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":"Experimental comparison of circular, elliptical and rectangular (fishnet) negative index metamaterials","authors":"Zahyun Ku, S. Brueck","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431824","url":null,"abstract":"Negative index materials consisting of Au-Al2O3-Au films with a 2D array of apertures have been fabricated. Circular, elliptical and rectangular apertures are compared. Comparable figures of merit [-Re(n)/Im(n)] are observed for all three geometries.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"110 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":"123357727","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":"Wavelength exchange with enhanced extinction ratio in highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber","authors":"R.W.L. Fung, H.K.Y. Cheung, B. Kuo, K. Wong","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453491","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a simple approach to enhance the extinction ratio of wavelength exchange with a polarization-diversity technique. Over 25 dB of extinction ratio is attained with 6 dB improvement over that of the conventional configuration.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"145 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":"123371560","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. Hazu, Keisuke Narita, Y. Sakakibara, Kazuhiko Oka, T. Sekikawa, Mikio Yamashita
{"title":"Development of a spatial light modulator with an over-two-octave bandwidth from ultraviolet to near-infrared","authors":"K. Hazu, Keisuke Narita, Y. Sakakibara, Kazuhiko Oka, T. Sekikawa, Mikio Yamashita","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431103","url":null,"abstract":"A spatial light phase modulator with a high transmission> 85% (260¿1100 nm) and a phase modulation capability of 53 radian at 260 urn and 12 radian at 1100 nm has been developed for the first time.","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":"123529173","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":"Collapse and stability of necklace beams in Kerr media","authors":"T. Grow, A. A. Ishaaya, L. Vuong, A. Gaeta","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2007.4431600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2007.4431600","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally investigate necklace beams in Kerr media. For powers greater than one critical power for self-focusing per bead, we observe a transition from collective behavior to independent collapse of each of the beads.","PeriodicalId":152616,"journal":{"name":"2007 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"40 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":"123661483","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}