OPN December 2005
Cover Story
Special Issue: Optics in 2005 Introduction
Bob D. Guenther, Bob Jopson, R. John Koshel, Barbara Paldus
The topics covered in this special issue cover a wide breadth, ranging from photonic structures to quantum information, and from optical engineering to ultrafast
technology. more>>
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All Optical Control
Dmitri Mogilevtsev and Solange Bessa Cavalcanti
Coherent Control of Emitters in a
Photonic Crystal Environment. more>>
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Biophotonics
Jesper Glückstad, Ivan Perch-Nielsen and Peter John Rodrigo
Micro-biologic Applications of Real-Time Interactive 3D Optical Manipulation. more>>
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Cooling and Trapping
Joseph Kinast, Andrey Turlapov and John E. Thomas
Optically Trapped Fermi Gases
Model Strong Interactions in Nature. more>>
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Imaging
Daniel L. Marks, Claudio Vinegoni, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt and Stephen A. Boppart
Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging:
Efficient Detection of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering more>>
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Lasers
Yong Wang, Miguel A. Larotonda, Bradley M. Luther, David Alessi, Mark Berrill, Mario C. Marconi, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev and Jorge J. Rocca
High Repetition Rate Tabletop Soft
X-ray Lasers with Saturated Output
at Wavelengths down to 13.2 nm more>>
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Nonlinear Optics
Mihaela Balu, Joel Hales, David J. Hagan and Eric W. Van Stryland
Nonlinear Spectrometer Using a White-Light Continuum Z scan more>>
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Optical Engineering
Robert Iwanow, Daniel May-Arrioja, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, George I. Stegeman, Yoohong Min and Wolfgang Sohler
Lately, the optical research community has shown considerable interest in wave propagation phenomena in discrete structures.
Arrays or lattices of evanescently
coupled waveguides or chains of coupled microresonators are prime examples of structures where discrete optical wave dynamics can be observed. One question
that has naturally arisen is whether the Talbot effect is also possible in discrete systems. more>>
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Optical Switching
Andrew M. C. Dawes, Lucas Illing, Susan M. Clark and Daniel J. Gauthier
All-Optical Switch Controls Strong Beams with Weak Ones. more>>
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Photonic Structures
Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Jesper Lægsgaard, Anders Bjarklev, David Sparre Hermann, Anawati Anawati, Jes Broeng, Jun Li and Shin-Tson Wu
A new type of tunable optical fiber is based on photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), which have a cross-section that usually consists of an air/silica microstructure that is invariant along the fiber axis. more>>
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Quantum Information
Nicolas Gisin, Sébastien Tanzilli, Wolfgang Tittel, Matthäus Halder, Olivier Alibart, Pascal Baldi and Hugo Zbinden
In a recent experiment, we demonstrated the transfer of a qubit from a photon at the telecom wavelength of 1312 nm to another photon around 712 nm, a wavelength close to that of alkaline atomic transitions. more>>
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Slow Light
Yoshitomo Okawachi, Jay E. Sharping, Alexander L. Gaeta, Matthew S. Bigelow, Aaron Schweinsberg, Robert W. Boyd, Zhaoming Zhu and Daniel J. Gauthier
All-Optical Tunable Slow-Light
Delays via Stimulated Scattering. more>>
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Solitons
Alessandro Ciattoni, Bruno Crosignani, Paolo Di Porto and Amnon Yariv
Spatial Kerr Solitons as Exact
Solutions of Maxwell’s Equations more>>