A. Unterhuber, B. Povazay, B. Hermann, H. Sattmann, W. Drexler, D. Kaplan, T. Le, A. Stingl
{"title":"Three dimensional, time encoded frequency domain optical coherence tomography","authors":"A. Unterhuber, B. Povazay, B. Hermann, H. Sattmann, W. Drexler, D. Kaplan, T. Le, A. Stingl","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568403","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-broadband, high spectral resolution acousto-optically tunable light-source for the near infrared has been developed for high acquisition speed, ultrahigh-resolution frequency domain optical coherence tomography. Performance and imaging results are compared with different tuning methods","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129028342","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":"High-brightness diode sources for waveguide laser pumping","authors":"J. F. Monjardin, K. Nowak, H. Baker, D. Hall","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568316","url":null,"abstract":"A key design requirement for the realisation of high power solid-state planar waveguide lasers is the power-efficient usage of beams from multiple diode laser bars. Such bars are commercially available as stacks, providing up to 80 W per bar, with integrated fast axis collimation lenses on each bar. In principle, with good collimation and aberration-free relay optics, a high fraction of the power from the diode laser stack may be coupled into a waveguide of given core height and NA","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132683189","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":"Compact slot-waveguide/channel-waveguide mode-converter","authors":"J. Blasco, C. Barrios","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568383","url":null,"abstract":"A compact structure for highly efficient optical coupling to/from slot-waveguide from/to channel-waveguide is presented. The mode-converter permits an achievement of coupling efficiency as high as 99.3% for a 3-mum-long coupler","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132931190","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":"Surface modes in photonic bandgap structures for lasing and sensing applications: the recursive Greens-function technique","authors":"I. Zozoulenko, A. Rahachou","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568352","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new computational method based on the recursive Green function technique for calculation of light propagation and band structure of photonic crystal structures is reported. The advantage of this method in comparison to the conventional finite-difference time domain (FDTD) technique is that it computes Greens function of the photonic structure recursively by adding slice by slice on the basis of Dyson equation. In the present work a detailed study of the surface modes residing on a termination of a photonic crystal with a corrugated boundary is conducted. A particular attention has been paid to the effect of surface modes on the performance of a lasing cavity defined in a band-gap photonic structure. Based on the developed recursive Greens function technique we calculate a Q factor of a cavity situated in the crystal in the vicinity of a photonic structure termination","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133297097","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}
M. Costa e Silva, J. Freitas, C. D. de Matos, A. Gomes
{"title":"Analysis of the signal polarization evolution with pump power in a fibre optical parametric amplifier","authors":"M. Costa e Silva, J. Freitas, C. D. de Matos, A. Gomes","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568314","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyse the evolution with pump power of the FOPA output signal polarization and discuss its implications. The FOPA comprises a typical configuration, in which signal and pump are semiconductor lasers. It can be theoretically shown that both cross-phase modulation (XPM) and parametric amplification can cause the signal polarization change with pump power. It is important to note that, if two orthogonally polarized signals are inserted into the FOPA, any source of birefringence will maintain their orthogonality while the parametric gain will tend to make their polarization parallel","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122372302","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":"Influence of thermal stresses in modelling the lap welding of thermoplastic films","authors":"J. Coelho, M. Abreu, F. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568434","url":null,"abstract":"Our study has shown that the influence of the thermal stresses and expansion and contraction forces acting during and after laser action plays an ultimate role on the achievement of strong welds, that is, weld with tensile strength higher than 80% of that of the original thermoplastic. This has direct influence on engineering parameters, making necessary to have a minimum laser beam diameter on the welding volume. Introduction of this factor on the model allowed the achievement of lap welding speeds up to 14 m s-1, as well as cutting with welding through this new transmission welding technique","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122949673","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. Sumimura, H. Okada, H. Yoshida, H. Fujita, M. Nakatsuka, M. Murayama, H. Sawada, M. Yoshida
{"title":"Self-control nano second pulse generation for Yb fiber laser","authors":"K. Sumimura, H. Okada, H. Yoshida, H. Fujita, M. Nakatsuka, M. Murayama, H. Sawada, M. Yoshida","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568328","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on a simple ytterbium-doped-fiber (YDF) pulse laser with a Fabry-Perot resonator. This fiber laser oscillator consisted of FBGs (fiber Bragg gratings) instead of conventional mirrors. This pulse laser requires neither polarization control nor compensation of birefringence and intracavity dispersion. To our knowledge, the YDF oscillator described here is the simplest composition","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128985095","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}
M. Castillejo, E. Rebollar, M. Oujja, G. Bounos, S. Georgiou
{"title":"Fundamental studies of the effect of molecular weight on the UV laser ablation of polymers","authors":"M. Castillejo, E. Rebollar, M. Oujja, G. Bounos, S. Georgiou","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568424","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we present a systematic study on the effect of MW on UV laser ablation of two polymers, poly(methyl methacrylate) PMMA and polystyrene, PS, doped with the iodo-derivatives of the aromatics naphthalene (Napl) and phenanthrene (Phenl). To this purpose we have examined the processes induced in the films of the doped polymers following ablation and the properties of the ejecta by using a number of different techniques","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114505778","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. Sansone, E. Benedetti, J. Caumes, S. Stagira, C. Vozzi, S. De Silvestri, M. Nisoli, M. Pascolini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi
{"title":"As carrier-envelope phase contributes to high-order harmonic phase: effects on the electric field of attosecond pulses","authors":"G. Sansone, E. Benedetti, J. Caumes, S. Stagira, C. Vozzi, S. De Silvestri, M. Nisoli, M. Pascolini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568468","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we report on a self-referencing technique for the measurement of the effect of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the driving pulses on the phase difference between consecutive harmonics. By using a numerical model based on the nonadiabatic saddle-point method we demonstrate that, in particular experimental conditions, it is possible to directly control the electric field of the attosecond pulses by controlling the electric field of the driving pulses. In conclusion, using a self-referencing technique, we have experimentally demonstrated that the harmonic phase is directly affected by the CEP of the driving pulses","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"130 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115351443","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":"Improvement in encrustation removal from artworks using multi pulse Q-switch laser","authors":"A. Sarzyński, J. Marczak, K. Jach","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568459","url":null,"abstract":"Laser pulse duration and its temporal shape are essentials parameters characterizing laser as a heat source used for artworks cleaning. In order to decrease damaging effects of laser cleaning of artworks it is suggested to use laser generation in multipulse Q-switch mode, in which laser emits a sequence of pulses. Then during single pump pulse the transmission of laser generator rises and drops many times, thus generating from several to a dozen or so Q-switched laser pulses, so called burst mode","PeriodicalId":354643,"journal":{"name":"CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005.","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127163086","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}