OPN December 2003
Cover Story
Optics in 2003

T he December Optics & Photonics News (OPN) is aspecial issue that highlights the most exciting researchto emerge in the preceding 12 months in the fast paced world of optics. “Optics in 2003” offers readers a unique opportunity to... more>>
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Biophotonics
Raktim Dasgupta, Samarendra Kumar Mohanty and Pradeep Kumar Gupta
Rotating Line Optical Tweezers
Enables Controlled Intracellular Rotation of Microscopic Objects. more>>
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Microscopy
Weilun Chao, Erik Anderson, Gregory Denbeaux, Bruce Harteneck, J. Alexander Liddle, Angelic Pearson, Deirdre Olynick, Farhad Salmassi, Cheng Yu Song and David Attwood
Photon-Based Microscopy With 20-nm
Spatial Resolution. more>>
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Nano Optics
A. V. Maslov and C. Z. Ning
Modal Properties of Semiconductor
Nanowire Lasers. more>>
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Nonlinear Optics
Ladislav Jankovic, Hongki Kim, George Stegeman, Silvia Carrasco, Lluis Torner and Mordechai Katz
Self-Reflection and Routing of Multicolor Solitons. more>>
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Photonic Structures
Walter D. Furlan, Genaro Saavedra and Juan A. Monsoriu
Fractal Zone Plates
Produce Axial Irradiance
With Fractal Profile more>>
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Polarization
Erez Hasman, Gabriel Biener, Vladimir Kleiner and Avi Niv
Spatial Fourier-Transform Polarimetry By Use of Space-Variant
Subwavelength Gratings more>>
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Quantum Information
Rainer Dumke, Tobias Müther, Michael Volk, Wolfgang Ertmer and Gerhard Birkl
Micro-Optics Advances Quantum Computing and Integrated Atom Optics. more>>
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Terahertz Optics
Yun-Shik Lee, Naaman Amer and Walter C. Hurlbut
Terahertz Pulse Shaping in Time Domain Via Optical Rectification in Poled Lithium Niobate Crystals. more>>
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Ultrafast Technology
Rick Trebino, John Dudley and Xun Gu
Measuring and Understanding the
Most Complex Ultrashort Pulse Ever Generated. more>>
OSA Today
OFC 2004 Targets Service Providers with Focused Summit
Colleen Morrison
The Service Provider Summit (SPS),
a unique, day-long meeting aimed
at telecom service provider and carrier
industry professionals, will be held during
the Optical Fiber Communication
Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2004.
Ninety-six percent of those surveyed
rated the first Service Provider Summit,
held at OFC 2003, as “good,” “very
good” or “excellent.” Nearly all those
surveyed said it should be a feature
event in 2004. more>>