{"title":"Thermally induced local-depolarization in thin YAG ceramics for high-power lasers","authors":"Y. Oishi, T. Dascălu, K. Midorikawa, T. Taira","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551041","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a spatially-distributed local-depolarization induced by thermal-birefringence for the power scaling in Nd:YAG ceramics. We found the variation of local-depolarization was dramatically increased when the thickness of ceramics becomes comparable to the grain size.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78167149","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":"Band structure of terahertz metallic photonic crystals with high metal filling factor","authors":"B. Reinhard, G. Torosyan, R. Beigang","doi":"10.1063/1.2929376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2929376","url":null,"abstract":"The band structure of two-dimensional photonic crystals consisting of metallic cylinders is investigated both experimentally and by numerical simulations. The crystals show large photonic band gaps in the terahertz spectral range.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80073348","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":"Inherent enhancement of nonlinear generation terms in DC-induced three wave mixing coupled mode equations","authors":"C. Sapiano, J. Aitchison, L. Qian","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551121","url":null,"abstract":"Coupled mode equations are derived for three wave mixing processes induced in centrosymmetric materials by thermal poling. It is found that degeneracy of the DC field involved inherently doubles terms associated with nonlinear generation.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"228 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80211168","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}
D. Pestov, Xi Wang, D. Cristancho, K. Hall, A. Sokolov, M. Scully
{"title":"Real-time sensing of gas phase mixtures via coherent Raman spectroscopy","authors":"D. Pestov, Xi Wang, D. Cristancho, K. Hall, A. Sokolov, M. Scully","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551672","url":null,"abstract":"Hybrid CARS experiments on ambient air and gas mixtures suggest that the technique, developed initially for biohazard detection, might become indispensable for local sensing of gas composition, e.g. real-time quality control of pipeline natural gas.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"117 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80493889","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}
Tetsuya Kawanishi, T. Sakamoto, A. Chiba, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Toda
{"title":"Ultra high extinction-ratio and ultra low chirp optical intensity modulation for pure two-tone lightwave signal generation","authors":"Tetsuya Kawanishi, T. Sakamoto, A. Chiba, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Toda","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4550935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4550935","url":null,"abstract":"Pure two-tone signal generation with spurious suppression ratio of 47 dB was demonstrated by using an optical Mach-Zehnder modulator with precisely balanced operation, where extinction ratio and chirp parameter were respectively 64 dB and 0.0099.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79046032","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. Murnane, J. Rocca, J. Miao, Ronggui Yang, K. Nelson, E. Anderson, M. Aeschlimann, C. Menoni, M. Marconi, H. Kapteyn
{"title":"Harnessing attosecond science for visualizing the nanoworld","authors":"M. Murnane, J. Rocca, J. Miao, Ronggui Yang, K. Nelson, E. Anderson, M. Aeschlimann, C. Menoni, M. Marconi, H. Kapteyn","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2008.4553041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2008.4553041","url":null,"abstract":"New science and technology is enabled by manipulating and controlling electrons on attosecond timescales. Applications range from new table-top sources of coherent x-rays, to high-resolution tabletop coherent imaging of molecules, nanostructures, and materials.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79121099","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. Fu, C. Santori, S. Spillane, D. Fattal, Qianfan Xu, Marco Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil, P. Barclay, O. Painter
{"title":"Coupling single NV centers in diamond to optical microcavities","authors":"K. Fu, C. Santori, S. Spillane, D. Fattal, Qianfan Xu, Marco Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil, P. Barclay, O. Painter","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551957","url":null,"abstract":"Coupling of the NV- ZPL to a silica microcavity and tapered fiber is demonstrated at cryogenic temperatures. Coupling to a high-Q cavity should enhance the usefulness of the NV- for quantum information applications.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81436449","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-power widely-tunable thulium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier around 2 mm","authors":"L. Pearson, D. Shen, J. Sahu, W. Clarkson","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4550961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4550961","url":null,"abstract":"We report a high power, widely-tuneable Tm-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier system generating over 100 W of linearly-polarized output with a >190 nm tuning range. The output power is limited only by the available pump power.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84253174","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. Siviloglou, R. El-Ganainy, D. Christodoulides, C. Rotschild, M. Segev
{"title":"Self-induced transparency in nano-dispersions: Formation and instabilities","authors":"G. Siviloglou, R. El-Ganainy, D. Christodoulides, C. Rotschild, M. Segev","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2008.4553213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2008.4553213","url":null,"abstract":"We show that light scattering from a cloud of nano-particles dispersed in a host medium can lead to the formation of self-induced transparent waveguides. The stability properties of these nonlinear propagation channels are examined.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84372893","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}
J. Nunn, K. Surmacz, F. Waldermann, K. C. Lee, K. Reim, V. O. Lorenz, Zhongyang Wang, Dieter Jaksch, I. Walmsley
{"title":"Multimode memories with longitudinally broadened ensembles","authors":"J. Nunn, K. Surmacz, F. Waldermann, K. C. Lee, K. Reim, V. O. Lorenz, Zhongyang Wang, Dieter Jaksch, I. Walmsley","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2008.4553210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2008.4553210","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum storage of multiple optical modes affords improved performance for quantum repeaters. We present new analytic and numerical results unifying the scaling of the multimode storage capacity for various memory protocols in artificially broadened ensembles.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84475041","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}