{"title":"Unique clinical niches for the Er:YAG laser","authors":"C. Cozean","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379060","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. This presentation focuses on some of the unique aspects of Premier's research and clinical trials with erbium:YAG lasers including: ophthalmology-anterior capsulotomy, phacoemulsification, sclerostomy and refractive; dentistry-prevention of cavities, periodontal surgery and hard tissue; orthopedics-bone recontouring; neurosurgery and other specialities; fiberoptic delivery systems, angled probes and specialized tips which allow the laser to interact with tissue by multiple mechanisms (e.g. acoustic, thermal, optical, plasma) are presented with scientific studies demonstrating these various effects.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115464032","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 measurement for fluid displacement by IR-sensors","authors":"L. Leija, C. Matamoros, P. Martinez, C. Alvarado","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379125","url":null,"abstract":"The instrument determines a liquid's consistency indirectly in a short-time period. It consist of a two-section container, three IR-sensors, and a processing and displaying module. Three known points exist in the container, and at these points the time is measured and recorded in digital memories when the fluid arrives.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123088915","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":"Super-dressed two-level atom: Very high harmonic generation and related phenomena","authors":"A. Kaplan, P. Shkolnikov","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379035","url":null,"abstract":"We present here a two-level model that not only reproduces experimentally observed plateau, but also allows us to evaluate its characteristics in explicit analytic form and predict new dramatic effects. Rare gases and rare-gas like ions in which high order odd harmonic generation (HHG) has been observed so far, may not be inconsistent with two-level description as far as HHG is concerned.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114668719","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":"15-Gbit/s high-speed monolithically integrated pin-HEMT photoreceiver","authors":"Y. Akatsu, Y. Miyamoto, Y. Akahori, M. Ikeda","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379063","url":null,"abstract":"In summary a high-speed monolithically integrated photoreceiver composed of a InGaAs pin PD and InAlAs-InGaAs HEMT's (pin-HEMT) was constructed. Its sensitivity is -23.4 dBm in conjunction with an erbium-doped fiber pre-amplifier for a 15 Gbit/s NRZ lightwave signal. This is the first demonstration of the successful operation of a monolithically integrated photoreceiver at speeds beyond 10 Gbit/s.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121114794","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}
C. Barron, C. Mahon, T.J. Thibeault, G. Wang, J. Karin, L. Coldren, J. Bowers
{"title":"High-speed III-V asymmetric Fabry-Perot modulators","authors":"C. Barron, C. Mahon, T.J. Thibeault, G. Wang, J. Karin, L. Coldren, J. Bowers","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379361","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed asymmetric Fabry-Perot modulators (AFPMs) could make extremely high-aggregate-bandwidth photonic switching systems a reality. Here I review our work on the design, fabrication, and mm-wave electrical and optical characterization of AFPMs with >35-GHz frequency response.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"278 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127438764","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}
B. Luther-Davies, Xiaoping Yang, W. Krolikowski, M. Samoć, A. Samoć, A. Snyder, J. Mitchell, D. Fotheringham
{"title":"Prospects for photonic circuits written by dark spatial solitons in defocussing non-linear materials","authors":"B. Luther-Davies, Xiaoping Yang, W. Krolikowski, M. Samoć, A. Samoć, A. Snyder, J. Mitchell, D. Fotheringham","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379034","url":null,"abstract":"In this talk I will discuss the use of dark spatial solitons to write reconfigurable waveguide devices into defocusing non-linear media. Compared with bright spatial solitons, dark solitons are particularly simple optical structures characterised by an abrupt change in the transverse phase structure of an optical wave at some boundary. Dark spatial solitons are simply regions of total or partial destructive interference between the waves on either side of this boundary, with the size of the structure being stabilised by the non-linear propagation within the medium in which they are created.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124858278","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":"Self focusing in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes","authors":"G. C. Wilson, D. Kuchta, J.D. Walker, J.S. Smith","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379302","url":null,"abstract":"High multimode CW powers have been achieved from vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSEL's). However, due to the problems of thermal lensing and spatial hole burning, single mode powers have been limited to several mW. We show experimentally and with a simple model that, in weakly index guided VCSEL's, self focusing causes the fundamental mode width to decrease with increasing power in the mode, resulting in a rapid transition to multimode operation and limiting the maximum single fundamental mode power.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124893853","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":"Holographic pulse shaping in organic media","authors":"D. Brady, K. Hill, S. Basinger","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379106","url":null,"abstract":"The broad bandwidth of a mode-locked laser pulse can be used to create optical signals of unprecedented time and space complexity. The number of degrees of freedom which can be controlled in a 1-D temporal signal is equal to the ratio of the maximum differential delay encountered by fields transiting the pulse shaper to the size of the minimum temporal feature controlled. This ratio is optimal in reflection holographic pulse shapers.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"996 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123317664","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":"Current spreading and series resistance in proton-implanted top-surface-emitting lasers","authors":"W. Nakwaski, M. Osiński","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379315","url":null,"abstract":"Proton-implanted top-surface-emitting lasers (PITSELs) are known to exhibit relatively high electrical series resistances. Initially, these were attributed to the high series resistance of p-type Bragg mirrors with abrupt interfaces. However, even in the case of devices with stepped, graded-superlattice, linearly graded or sinusoidally graded mirrors, the series resistance still remains high in comparison to common stripe-geometry lasers. Recently, we have obtained analytical solutions for spreading resistance in the top section of surface-emitting lasers, assuming a uniform current","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115201828","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}
L. J. Irakliotis, P. Mitkas, D.P. Maniatis, A. Jayasumana
{"title":"A fiber optic local area network based on soliton-dragging gates","authors":"L. J. Irakliotis, P. Mitkas, D.P. Maniatis, A. Jayasumana","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1993.379223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1993.379223","url":null,"abstract":"As fiber optics become the dominant physical medium for high-performance communication networks, several protocols have been suggested to exploit the advantages offered by this transmission medium. The Register Insertion Bus (RIB) access scheme has been demonstrated as a folded-bus topology network, similar to C-Net and D-Net. By exploiting the buffer scheme found in the Register Insertion Ring, RIB manages to reduce overhead which is present in a train-type protocol. In this paper we present an all-optical implementation for a RIB interface using control logic implemented by soliton-dragging gates.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":153785,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of LEOS '93","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116114827","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}