{"title":"Pump Spectral Bandwidth, Birefringence, and Entanglement in Type-II Parametric Down Conversion","authors":"D. Erenso","doi":"10.1155/2009/387580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/387580","url":null,"abstract":"The twin photons produced by a type-II spontaneous parametric down conversion are well know as a potential source of photons for quantum teleportation due to the strong entanglement in polarization. This strong entanglement in polarization, however, depends on the spectral composition of the pump photon and the nature of optical isotropy of the crystal. By exact numerical calculation of the concurrence, we have shown that how pump photons spectral width and the birefringence nature of the crystal directly affect the degree of polarization entanglement of the twin photons.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121138030","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 Plasmons and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra of Aggregated and Alloyed Gold-Silver Nanoparticles","authors":"Y. Fleger, M. Rosenbluh","doi":"10.1155/2009/475941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/475941","url":null,"abstract":"Effects of size, morphology, and composition of gold and silver nanoparticles on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) are studied with the purpose of optimizing SERS substrates. Various gold and silver films made by evaporation and subsequent annealing give different morphologies and compositions of nanoparticles and thus different position of the SPR peak. SERS measurements of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid obtained from these films reveal that the proximity of the SPR peak to the exciting laser wavelength is not the only factor leading to the highest Raman enhancement. Silver nanoparticles evaporated on top of larger gold nanoparticles show higher SERS than gold-silver alloyed nanoparticles, in spite of the fact that the SPR peak of alloyed nanoparticles is narrower and closer to the excitation wavelength. The highest Raman enhancement was obtained for substrates with a two-peak particle size distribution for excitation wavelengths close to the SPR.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527222","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":"Optimization of Multiple Active Ion Doped Fiber Amplifiers for Three Communication Windows","authors":"Chun Jiang, Li Jin","doi":"10.1155/2009/276538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/276538","url":null,"abstract":"We present for the first time a theoretical model of E r 3 + - T m 3 + - P r 3 + codoped fiber pumped with both 800 nm and 980 nm lasers to explore possibility of this co-doped system as all-wave fiber amplifier. The rate and power propagation equations of the model are solved numerically and the dependence of the gains at 1310, 1470, 1530, 1600, 1650 nm windows on fiber length is calculated. The results show that with pump power of 200 mW/200 mW, when the concentrations of P r 3 + , T m 3 + , E r 3 + are around 1 . 7 × 1 0 2 4 , 3 . 9 × 1 0 2 4 , 1 . 2 × 1 0 2 4 (ions/ m 3 ), respectively, the signals at 1310, 1470, 1530, 1600, 1650 nm may be nearly equally amplified with gain of 13–16.0 dB in the active fiber with length of 23.5 m; the co-doping concentrations and fiber length and pump powers may be further optimized to reduce the ripple.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126357938","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":"Demonstration of an All-Optical 2-to-4 Level Encoder Based on an Optical Parametric Amplifier","authors":"Yu Liang, P. C. Chui, K. Wong","doi":"10.1155/2009/981620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/981620","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrated a novel technique for all-optical 2-to-4 level amplitude-shift keying (ASK) coding based on a fiber optical parametric amplifier. A 20-Gb/s signal is realized by multiplexing two 10-Gb/s data streams.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127126374","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":"Analytical Structuring of Periodic and Regular Cascading Solutions in Self-Pulsing Lasers","authors":"B. Meziane, A. Aissani","doi":"10.1155/2008/163937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/163937","url":null,"abstract":"A newly proposed strong harmonic-expansion method is applied to the laser-Lorenz equations to analytically construct a few typical solutions, including the first few expansions of the well-known period-doubling cascade that characterizes the system in its self-pulsing regime of operation. These solutions are shown to evolve in accordance with the driving frequency of the permanent solution that we recently reported to illustrate the system. The procedure amounts to analytically construct the signal Fourier transform by applying an iterative algorithm that reconstitutes the first few terms of its development.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115816440","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":"The Role of Fermi Resonance in Formation of Valence Band of Water Raman Scattering","authors":"S. Burikov, T. Dolenko, V. Fadeev","doi":"10.1155/2008/204828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/204828","url":null,"abstract":"The role of Fermi resonance in formation of valence band of water Raman scattering was investigated. Simultaneous measurement of characteristics of bending and valence bands of water in D2O solutions, KBr, and KCl and using genetic algorithms in conjunction with variation methods allowed increasing accuracy of estimation of Fermi resonance coupling constant and of Fermi resonance contribution into formation of water Raman valence band.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125259669","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 Even-Order Dispersion on Super-Sech Soliton Transmission Quality under Coherent Crosstalk","authors":"A. Panajotovic, D. Milovic, A. Biswas, E. Zerrad","doi":"10.1155/2008/613986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/613986","url":null,"abstract":"The transmission speed of optical network strongly depends on the impact of higher order dispersion. In presence of coherent crosstalk, which cannot be otherwise controlled by optical filtering, the impact of higher order dispersions becomes more pronounced. In this paper, the general expressions, that describe pulse deformation due to second- and fourth-order dispersions in a single-mode fiber, are given. The responses for such even-order dispersions, in presence of coherent crosstalk, are characterized by waveforms with long trailing edges. The transmission quality of optical pulses, due to both individual and combined influence of second- and fourth-order dispersions, is studied in this paper. Finally, the pulse shape and eye diagrams are obtained.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133350517","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}
Wenhai Li, X. Bao, V. Kalosha, Liang Chen, Ming-Jun Li
{"title":"Using Nonuniform Fiber to Generate Slow Light via SBS","authors":"Wenhai Li, X. Bao, V. Kalosha, Liang Chen, Ming-Jun Li","doi":"10.1155/2008/253634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/253634","url":null,"abstract":"The data pulse delay based on slow light induced by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a nonuniform dispersion decreasing fiber (DDF) is demonstrated experimentally, and the distortions of data pulses at different beat frequencies are studied. We found that a delay exceeding a pulse width can be achieved at particular beat frequency, and the DDF has larger delay versus gain slope coefficient with much better output pulse quality than single-mode fiber.","PeriodicalId":429008,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Optics","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116782417","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}