{"title":"High-peak power output from a waveguide dye laser based on a random active layer","authors":"H. Watanabe, Y. Oki, M. Maeda, T. Omatsu","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628770","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated a high-peak power output from a distributed feedback waveguide laser with a random scattering active media by using a pico-second pulse pumping. A maximum peak power of >150 kW was achieved.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115117099","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. Kuo, V. Van, K. Amarnath, T. Ding, W. Astar, G. Carter, P. Ho
{"title":"Cascaded integrated photonic AND gates based on GaAs ring resonators","authors":"L. Kuo, V. Van, K. Amarnath, T. Ding, W. Astar, G. Carter, P. Ho","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627776","url":null,"abstract":"Cascade of two photonic AND gates integrated on one chip was realized using symmetric GaAs microrings. Successive switching of an input signal by the two gates was achieved, demonstrating multi-stage operation of microring logic circuits.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115368201","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":"Phase and group index of the second photonic crystal band","authors":"E. Schonbrun, W. Park, T. Yamashita, C. Summers","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629062","url":null,"abstract":"Light propagation in slab photonic crystals can have a negative phase velocity and accumulate a negative optical path length. We present experimental results on guiding and dispersion properties when the phase index is approximately -1.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115598712","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. Tien, Hong-Wei Chen, Wen-Fung Liu, Yung‐Sen Lin
{"title":"Side-polished fiber Bragg gratings coated with thin palladium film for hydrogen sensing device","authors":"C. Tien, Hong-Wei Chen, Wen-Fung Liu, Yung‐Sen Lin","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628661","url":null,"abstract":"A new type of hydrogen sensor with a side-polished fiber Bragg grating coated with thin palladium film was demonstrated with the Bragg wavelength shift of 0.12 nm in the case of 99% hydrogen concentrations.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115609174","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":"Progress on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)","authors":"E. Moses","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628360","url":null,"abstract":"NIF is a 192-beam ultraviolet laser facility under construction at LLNL. NIF will produce 1.8 MJ, 500 TW it the worldpsilas largest and most powerful laser system and preeminent ICF facility for ignition.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115620617","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":"Plasmon-resonant field enhancement metallic tip-substrate systems","authors":"R. Roth, N. Panoiu, M. Adams, R. Osgood","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628721","url":null,"abstract":"Optical field enhancement (~70times) for light incident on a nanoscopic Au probe tip suspended over a Au substrate is investigated numerically. The spectral response and effect of system geometry are examined using 3D-FDTD.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123131001","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. Prade, M. Franco, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, H. Buersing, B. Eberle, M. Krenz, D. Seiffer, O. Vasseur
{"title":"Spatial mode cleaning by femtosecond filamentation","authors":"B. Prade, M. Franco, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, H. Buersing, B. Eberle, M. Krenz, D. Seiffer, O. Vasseur","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629081","url":null,"abstract":"We study the characteristic conical emission of a blue femtosecond filament in air. A significant improvement of the beam quality is obtained during the filamentation process.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114644052","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}
R. Maulini, A. Mohan, M. Giovannini, J. Faist, E. Gini
{"title":"External cavity quantum-cascade laser tunable from 8.2 to 10.4 μm using an inhomogenously broadened gain element","authors":"R. Maulini, A. Mohan, M. Giovannini, J. Faist, E. Gini","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628190","url":null,"abstract":"An inhomogenous quantum-cascade structure based on two bound-to-continuum designs was used as gain element in a grating-coupled external cavity laser. This laser was tunable from 8.2 to 10.4 mum in pulsed mode on a thermoelectric cooler.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"308 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116756408","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":"Enhanced stimulated raman scattering in hollow core photonic crystal fiber by use of Fiber Bragg Grating","authors":"F. Couny, F. Benabid, O. Carraz","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627629","url":null,"abstract":"The combined use of fiber-Bragg-gratings and H2-filled HCPCF-based gas cells is reported to enhance the Raman conversion into the first Stokes by 13 dB and reduce the threshold of other Raman lines, making all-fiber-CW-Raman gas-laser possible.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116954579","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}
T. Jones, A. Ting, J. Peano, P. Sprangle, G. DiComo
{"title":"Remote underwater ultrashort pulse laser acoustic source","authors":"T. Jones, A. Ting, J. Peano, P. Sprangle, G. DiComo","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627917","url":null,"abstract":"An appropriately tailored laser pulse can propagate many meters underwater at moderate intensity, then quickly converge to an intense focus at a controlled location. Optical breakdown can then generate an acoustic pulse at this location.","PeriodicalId":394830,"journal":{"name":"2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117131454","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}