Sub-Rayleigh resolution by phase imaging

• Yann Cotte, M. Fatih Toy, Etienne Shaffer, Nicolas Pavillon, and Christian Depeursinge
• received 03/29/2010; accepted 06/07/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 126139
• [full text: PDF (780) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (030.1670) Coherence and statistical optics : Coherent optical effects
• (100.5070) Image processing : Phase retrieval
• (100.6640) Image processing : Superresolution
• (110.0180) Imaging systems : Microscopy
• (090.1995) Holography : Digital holography

Visualization of electromagnetic-wave polarization evolution using the Poincare sphere

• Ivan Rukhlenko, Chethiya Dissanayake, and Malin Premaratne
• received 04/13/2010; accepted 06/07/2010; posted 06/11/2010; Doc. ID 126839
• [full text: PDF (243) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (120.2130) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Ellipsometry and polarimetry
• (260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
• (260.7120) Physical optics : Ultrafast phenomena

Management of the high-order mode content in large (40 �m) core photonic bandgap Bragg fiber laser

• Sebastien F�vrier, Dmitry Gaponov, Philippe Roy, Mikhail Likhachev, Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Salganskii, Mikhail Yashkov, and Aleksei Guryanov
• received 04/19/2010; accepted 06/06/2010; posted 06/11/2010; Doc. ID 127236
• [full text: PDF (273) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
• (060.4005) Fiber optics and optical communications : Microstructured fibers

Flow Cytometry using Spectrally Encoded Confocal Microscopy

• Lior Golan and Dvir Yelin
• received 03/31/2010; accepted 06/06/2010; posted 06/09/2010; Doc. ID 126326
• [full text: PDF (523) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (170.0110) Medical optics and biotechnology : Imaging systems
• (170.1470) Medical optics and biotechnology : Blood or tissue constituent monitoring
• (170.1530) Medical optics and biotechnology : Cell analysis

Angular-Dispersion�Induced Spatiotemporal Aberrations in Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifiers

• Jake Bromage, Christophe Dorrer, and Jonathan Zuegel
• received 03/30/2010; accepted 06/04/2010; posted 06/11/2010; Doc. ID 126285
• [full text: PDF (347) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (190.4970) Nonlinear optics : Parametric oscillators and amplifiers
• (320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements

Maskless photolithography via holographic optical projection

• Christoph Bay, Nils H�bner, Jon Freeman, and Tim Wilkinson
• received 04/02/2010; accepted 06/04/2010; posted 06/11/2010; Doc. ID 126418
• [full text: PDF (266) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (090.1760) Holography : Computer holography
• (110.5220) Imaging systems : Photolithography
• (230.3720) Optical devices : Liquid-crystal devices
• (230.6120) Optical devices : Spatial light modulators

A Dual Encryption Scheme of Images Using Polarized Light

• Christian Brosseau and Al Falou
• received 03/31/2010; accepted 06/03/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 126260
• [full text: PDF (277) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.2960) Image processing : Image analysis
• (260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

Sub-picosecond fiber-based soliton-tuned mid infrared source in the 9.7--14.9mm wavelength region

• David Winters, Randy Bartels, and Philip Schlup
• received 04/06/2010; accepted 06/03/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 126628
• [full text: PDF (451) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.2380) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sources and detectors
• (060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
• (320.7140) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast processes in fibers
• (190.4223) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear wave mixing

Mitigation of Si nanocrystal free carrier absorption loss at 1.5 ?m in a concentric microdisk structure

• Elton Marchena, Brandon Redding, Tim Creazzo, and Dennis Prather
• received 04/16/2010; accepted 06/03/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 127143
• [full text: PDF (322) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (160.3380) Materials : Laser materials
• (230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators

Kalman Filter Carrier and Polarization State Tracking

• Todd Marshall, Bogdan Szafraniec, and Bernd Nebendahl
• received 04/21/2010; accepted 06/02/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 127247
• [full text: PDF (259) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.4230) Fiber optics and optical communications : Multiplexing
• (120.3930) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Metrological instrumentation

Microaxicave: inverted microaxicon to generate hollow beam

• Dengfeng Kuang and Zhiliang Fang
• received 04/08/2010; accepted 06/02/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 126656
• [full text: PDF (696) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
• (220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication
• (230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices

Understanding Raman-shifting multipeak states in photonic crystal fibers: two convergent approaches

• Alexander Hause, Truong Tran, Fabio Biancalana, Alexander Podlipensky, Philip Russell, and Fedor Mitschke
• received 04/23/2010; accepted 06/01/2010; posted 06/08/2010; Doc. ID 127409
• [full text: PDF (1130) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
• (190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
• (190.5650) Nonlinear optics : Raman effect

Observation of bandgap guidance of optical vortices in a tunable negative defect

• Zhigang Chen, Daohong Song, Xiaosheng Wang, Daniel Shuldman, Jiandong Wang, Liqin Tang, Jianke Yang, Cibo Lou, and Jingjun Xu
• received 03/12/2010; accepted 06/01/2010; posted 06/03/2010; Doc. ID 125310
• [full text: PDF (530) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (050.4865) Diffraction and gratings : Optical vortices
• (050.5298) Diffraction and gratings : Photonic crystals

Numerical analysis of long-range SPP modes in nanoscale plasmonic waveguides

• Alexey Krasavin and Anatoly Zayats
• received 03/12/2010; accepted 06/01/2010; posted 06/03/2010; Doc. ID 125450
• [full text: PDF (541) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.0130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics
• (250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics

Photorefractive effect in undoped aluminum nitride

• Toru Nagai, Ryushi Fujimura, Tsutomu Shimura, and Kazuo Kuroda
• received 04/02/2010; accepted 05/31/2010; posted 06/03/2010; Doc. ID 126319
• [full text: PDF (316) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (130.5990) Integrated optics : Semiconductors
• (160.5320) Materials : Photorefractive materials
• (190.5330) Nonlinear optics : Photorefractive optics
• (190.7070) Nonlinear optics : Two-wave mixing

Complementary Ultrashort Laser Pulse Characterization using MOSAIC and SHG FROG

• Daniel Bender and Mansoor Sheik-Bahae
• received 03/17/2010; accepted 05/31/2010; posted 06/07/2010; Doc. ID 125649
• [full text: PDF (2136) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
• (320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements

A Wide Field-of-View Microscope based on Holographic Focus Grid Illumination

• Jigang Wu, Xiquan Cui, Guoan Zheng, Ying Min Wang, Lap Man Lee, and Changhuei Yang
• received 03/22/2010; accepted 05/29/2010; posted 06/07/2010; Doc. ID 125762
• [full text: PDF (729) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (090.2890) Holography : Holographic optical elements
• (170.0110) Medical optics and biotechnology : Imaging systems
• (170.5810) Medical optics and biotechnology : Scanning microscopy

Multi-scale stereo analysis based on local color phase congruency in the color monogenic signal framework

• Jinjun Li, Hong Zhao, Kejian Jiang, Xiang Zhou, and Xingmin Tong
• received 04/26/2010; accepted 05/28/2010; posted 06/07/2010; Doc. ID 127513
• [full text: PDF (1992) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (100.3010) Image processing : Image reconstruction techniques
• (330.1400) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision - binocular and stereopsis
• (150.1135) Machine vision : Algorithms

Trapping a single atom in a blue detuned optical bottle beam trap

• Mingsheng Zhan, Peng Xu, Xiaodong He, and Jin Wang
• received 03/16/2010; accepted 05/28/2010; posted 06/07/2010; Doc. ID 125435
• [full text: PDF (529) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (020.7010) Atomic and molecular physics : Laser trapping
• (090.2890) Holography : Holographic optical elements
• (270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing
• (020.3320) Atomic and molecular physics : Laser cooling

Experimental demonstration of continuously variable optical encoding in a hybrid imaging system

• Mads Demenikov, Gonzalo Muyo, and Andrew Harvey
• received 02/03/2010; accepted 05/28/2010; posted 06/03/2010; Doc. ID 123728
• [full text: PDF (1300) KB)]

Keywords (OCIS):

• (110.4850) Imaging systems : Optical transfer functions
• (110.1758) Imaging systems : Computational imaging
• (110.7348) Imaging systems : Wavefront encoding