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8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. CTuA • Applications of CTuB • Optical Packet CTuC • Ultrafast Sources I CTuD • Ultraviolet, Visible CTuE • Quantum and CTuF • Nonlinear CTuG • Nanophotonic QTuA • Nonlinear Nonlinear Optical Switching Lawrence Shah; IMRA and Q-Switched Lasers Interband Cascade Lasers Microscopy I Waveguide Technologies Phenomena and Spectroscopy P.K.A. Wai; Hong Kong America, Inc., USA, Martin Ostermeyer; Univ. Daniel Wasserman; Sunney Xie; Harvard Presider to Be Announced Localization Vladislav V. Yakovlev; Polytechnic Univ., China, Presider of Potsdam, Germany, Princeton Univ., USA, Univ., USA, Presider Stephen C. Rand; Div. of Univ. of Wisconsin at Presider Presider Presider Applied Physics, Univ. of Milwaukee, USA, Presider Michigan, USA, Presider

CTuA1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuB1 • 8:00 a.m. Tutorial CTuC1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuD1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuE1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuF1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited CTuG1 • 8:00 a.m. QTuA1 • 8:00 a.m. Second-Harmonic Generation from Scaling Packet Networks and Routers High Power and High Repetition Rate 12 W Continuous-Wave 266-nm Deep-UV Quantum Cascade Lasers Emitting below Two-Photon Absorption Imaging of He- Efficient, Broadband and Compact Metal Conical Diffraction and Gap Solitons in Aligned and Mono-Sized Single-Walled Using Optics, David T. Neilson; Bell Labs, Pulse Generation Using Self Injection- Generation through 24 W Single-Fre- 3 µm, Jan Devenson, Roland Teissier, Olivier moglobin, Dan Fu1, Thomas E. Matthews2, Grating Couplers for Silicon-on-Insula- Honeycomb Photonic Lattices, Or Peleg1, Carbon Nanotubes, Huimin Su, Jianting Alcatel-Lucent, USA. Data networks face sig- Locking in Fabry-Perot Laser Diode, quency 1064-nm Light from a Fiber Cathabard, Alexei N. Baranov; Ctr. Tong Ye2, Gunay Yurtsever2, Warren S. War- tor Waveguides, Stijn Scheerlinck, Jonathan Guy Bartal1, Barak Freedman1, Ofer Ye, Zhikang Tang, Kam Sing Wong; Hong nificant scaling challenges. We will discuss Xiaohui Fang1, P. K. A. Wai1, C. Lu1, H. Y. MOPA, Thomas Sudmeyer1,2, Yutaka Imai1, d’Electronique et de Microoptoélectronique ren2; 1Princeton Univ., USA, 2Duke Univ., Schrauwen, Dirk Taillaert, Dries Van Manela1, Mordechai Segev1, Demetrios Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong how fast optical switching can both enhance Tam2, Xingyong Dong2; 1Photonics Res. Ctr. Hisashi Masuda1, Naoya Eguchi1, Masaki de Montpellier, Univ. Montpellier, France. USA. We demonstrated that both oxyhemo- Thourhout, Roel Baets; IMEC, Ghent Univ., Christodoulides2; 1Technion, Israel, 2College Kong. Second-harmonic generation (SHG) the scalability of core routers and allow and Dept. of Electronic and Information Saito1, Shigeo Kubota1; 1Sony Corp., Japan, First quantum cascade lasers emitting be- globin and deoxyhemoglobin has sequen- Belgium. Metal grating couplers for Silicon- of Optics and Photonics, CREOL, USA. We uesday, May 8 uesday, 2 T from monosized, and aligned single-walled adaptive bandwidth circuit switching for Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic ETH, Switzerland. We present resonator- low 3 µm are demonstrated. The lasers based tial two-photon absorption properties that on-Insulator waveguides are proposed. A predict and present the first observation of carbon nanotubes is measured and the more efficient use of the optical network. Univ., Hong Kong, 2Photonics Res. Ctr. and enhanced frequency conversion of a mas- on the InAs/AlSb material system emit at can serve as endogenous contrasts in mi- silver grating coupler with 33% coupling conical diffraction arising from k-space anisotropic dependence of SHG on the ex- Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The Hong ter-oscillator fiber power amplifier. 88%-ef- 2.95-2.97 µm at 83 K and operate up to room crovasculature imaging. They can also be efficiency is designed. A gold grating cou- singularities in the band-structure of a peri- citation polarizations are investigated. The Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong. A 139.6 ficient 2nd harmonic generation results in > temperature. differentiated through their different excited pler prototype is fabricated using Focused odic potential. The experiments are carried results are in excellent agreement with the GHz transform limited pulse train with peak 20W at 532nm. A low loss Czochralski-grown state dynamics. Ion Beams demonstrating over 10% coupling out in honeycomb lattices, where we also theory. power of 120 mW is generated using self BBO generates record-high, > 12-W con- efficiency. generate “honeycomb gap-solitons.” injection-locking of a Fabry-Perot Laser di- tinuous-wave, 4th-harmonic radiation at ode. The pulsewidth is 1.6 ps and the time- 266nm. bandwidth product is 0.34.

CTuA2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuC2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuD2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuE2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuG2 • 8:15 a.m. QTuA2 • 8:15 a.m. Second-Harmonic Imaging of ZnO 77-GHz Pulse Train at 1.5 µm Directly Development of a Single-Frequency InGaAs-AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: Polysilicon-on-Insulator Photonic De- Observation of Embedded Lattice Soli- Nanoparticles, Elder de la Rosa1, Miguel Generated by a Passively Mode-Locked Nanosecond Pulsed Deep-UV Coherent Towards 3 µm Emission, Dmitry G. Revin1, vices, Kyle Preston, Michal Lipson; School tons, Xiaosheng Wang1,2, Zhigang Chen1,2, Yacaman1, Liangfeng Sun2, Michael C. High Repetition Rate Er:Yb:Glass Laser, Light Source for Manipulating Silicon John W. Cockburn1, Luke R. Wilson1, Mat- of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jianke Yang3; 1San Francisco State Univ., Downer2, Luis A. Diaz Torres3, Pedro Salas4; Simon C. Zeller1, Thomas Südmeyer1, Ursula Atoms, Yasutomo Shiomi, Takeshi thew J. Steer2, Robert J. Airey2, Mark Cornell Univ., USA. We demonstrate ring USA, 2Nankai Univ., China, 3Univ. of Ver- 1Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Keller1, Kurt J. Weingarten2; 1Swiss Federal Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kumagai, Ataru Hopkinson2, Andrey B. Krysa2; 1 Dept. of resonators with Q = 4,000 using polycrys- mont, USA. We report the first demonstra- Texas at Austin, USA, 2Dept. of Physics, Univ. Inst. of Technology, ETH Zürich, Switzer- Kobayashi; Osaka City Univ., Japan. A Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Sheffield, talline silicon annealed at a low tempera- tion of embedded lattice soliton trains. Such of Texas at Austin, USA, 3Ctr. de land, 2Time-Bandwidth Products, Switzer- single-frequency nanosecond pulsed deep- UK, 2EPSRC Natl. Ctr. for III-V Technologies, ture of 600°C, which is compatible with stan- solitons arise from the X-symmetry points Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico, 4Inst. land. We demonstrate a passively mode- ultraviolet coherent light source consisting Univ. of Sheffield, UK. We report the first dard CMOS processes. in the first Bloch band but still reside (em-

Mexicano del Petroleo, Mexico. ZnO locked Er:Yb:glass laser operating at a record of a frequency-tripled nanosecond pulsed realization of lattice matched In0.53Ga0.47As/ bedded) in the first band of a 2-D photonic nanocrystals with average crystallite size high repetition rate of 77 GHz. Its compact- Ti:sapphire laser injection-seeded by a AlAs0.56Sb0.44/InP quantum cascade lasers lattice. 20nm forming irregular nanoparticles with ness and stability are attractive for future single-frequency cw Ti:sapphire laser was emitting close to 3 µm and first demonstra- average size ~300nm were prepared. Strong high-speed data transmission systems in the developed successfully for manipulating sili- tion of strain balanced InGaAs/AlAsSb/InP brilliant second-harmonic generation from 1.5 µm telecom window. con atoms. quantum cascade lasers operating at wave- nanoparticles was obtained and imaged lengths near 4 µm. showing 5µm spots suggesting good potential for biomedical applications.

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8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. QTuB • Fundamental QTuC • Spontaneous CTuH • Integrated Optics CTuI • Advanced Concepts CTuJ • Control and Nonlinear Optics Parametric Down John M. Fini; OFS Labs, for LED Lighting and Characterization of Jacob B. Khurgin; Johns Conversion USA, Presider Communications Frequency Combs Hopkins Univ., USA, Ian Walmsley; Univ. of Mary Crawford; Sandia Brian H. Kolner; Univ. of Presider Oxford, UK, Presider Natl. Labs, USA, Presider California at Davis, USA, Presider

uesday, May 8 QTuB1 • 8:00 a.m. QTuC1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuH1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited CTuI1 • 8:00 a.m. CTuJ1 • 8:00 a.m. Cascade-Like Nonlinearity Caused by Narrowband Pulsed Polarization-En- InP Waveguide Optical Isolator for Pho- Enhancement of Light Extraction in Residual Stability of a Fiber-Based Fre- Local-Field Effects: Extending tangled Photon Source for Free-Space tonic Integrated Circuits, Yoshiaki GaInN Light-Emitting Diodes with quency Comb, William C. Swann, Ian Bloembergen’s Result, Ksenia Dolgaleva1, Quantum Key Distribution, Onur Nakano; RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Ab- Graded-Index Indium Tin Oxide Layer, Coddington, Luca Lorini, Jim Bergquist, Scott Robert W. Boyd1, John E. Sipe2; 1Inst. of Op- Kuzucu, Franco N.C. Wong; MIT, USA. We stract not available. Jong Kyu Kim, Martin F. Schubert, J.-Q. Xi, A. Diddams, Nate R. Newbury; NIST, USA. tics, USA, 2Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, demonstrate a narrowband pulsed source Frank W. Mont, E. Fred Schubert; Rensselaer We present measurements of the residual Canada. We treated the saturation effect in of polarization-entangled photons based on Polytechnic Inst., USA. Enhancement of light frequency stability across a fiber frequency a dense medium up to the fifth order of parametric downconversion in a phase- extraction in a GaInN light-emitting diode comb by comparison through a Ti:sapphire nonlinearity, and discovered that the expres- stable Sagnac interferometer that is suitable employing a graded-refractive index ITO frequency comb. We find 6 ×10-17 stability sion for the local-field-corrected fifth-order for free-space quantum key distribution with anti-reflection coating deposited by oblique- at one second and 1 ×10-18 at 1000 seconds. susceptibility disagrees with what was un- high key generation rates. angle electron-beam evaporation is pre- derstood to be Bloembergen’s prediction. sented.

QTuB2 • 8:15 a.m. QTuC2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuI2 • 8:15 a.m. CTuJ2 • 8:15 a.m. Multi-Photon Route to Ultraviolet Joint Spectrum Mapping of Polarization Enhanced Light-Extraction from InGaN Quantum-Noise Limit on the Linewidth Nanowire Lasers, Chunfeng Zhang, Zhiwei Entanglement in Parametric Down-Con- Quantum Wells Using Refractive-Index- of Frequency Combs, Boaz Ilan1, Mark J. Dong, Kangjun Liu, Guanjun You, Shixiong version, Hou Shun Poh1, Chune Yang Lum1, Matched TiO2, Arthur J. Fischer1, Frank Ablowitz2, Steven T. Cundiff3; 1Univ. of Cali- Qian; Physics Dept., Fudan Univ., China. Ivan Marcikic2, Antía Lamas-Linares1, Chris- Mont2, Jong Kyu Kim2, E. Fred Schubert2, fornia at Merced, USA, 2Univ. of Colorado Multi-photon absorption pumped ultravio- tian Kurtsiefer1; 1Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Daniel D. Koleske1, Mary H. Crawford1; at Boulder, USA, 3JILA, NIST and Univ. of let ZnO nanolasers were demonstrated with Singapore, 2Temasek Labs, Singapore. Spec- 1Sandia Natl. Labs, USA, 2Rensselaer Poly- Colorado at Boulder, USA. The linewidth of femtosecond pulses at room temperature. tral mapping of the polarization correlations technic Inst., USA. Enhancement of the over- a mode-locked laser’s frequency comb in- Time resolved photoluminescence revealed of photon pairs from down-conversion in all luminescence efficiency in InGaN quan- duced by spontaneous emission, or quan- that the exciton collision effect played an femtosecond regime reveals an imbalance tum wells by increasing the light-extraction tum noise, is shown to obey different scal- important role in the nonlinear lasing mecha- between contributions from the two pos- efficiency is demonstrated by lateral patterning laws in the linear-dispersionless, i.e.,

nisms. sible decay paths as the cause of low en- ing of refractive-index-matched TiO2 films Schawlow-Townes, nonlinear-dispersive, or tanglement quality. on InGaN quantum well samples. pure soliton, and intermediate operating regimes.

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CTuA3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuC3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuD3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuE3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuF2 • 8:30 a.m. CTuG3 • 8:30 a.m. QTuA3 • 8:30 a.m. 3+ Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Time-Re- Sub 6-fs Pulses Penerated from a Broad- Powerful Pr :LiLuF4-Laser in the Visible Cascaded Emission from a Dual-Wave- Rapid Detection of Cryptosporidium Ultra-Compact Silicon WDM Optical Fil- Nonlinearity and Localization in Disor- solved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman band 1-GHz Ti:sapphire Oscillator, Yohei and Ultraviolet Spectral Range, André length Quantum Cascade Laser, Kale J. Parvum Oocysts Using Coherent Anti- ters with Flat-Top Response for On-Chip dered Lattices, Tal Schwartz, Guy Bartal, Scattering Spectroscopy, Arthur Dogariu1, Kobayashi1, Dai Yoshitomi1, Kenji Torizuka1, Richter1, Vasiliy Ostroumov2, Ernst Franz1, Daniel Wasserman1, Anthony J. Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Micros- Optical Interconnects, Fengnian Xia, Shmuel Fishman, Mordechai Segev; Yu Huang1, Marlan O. Scully1,2; 1Princeton Tara Fortier2, Scott Diddams2; 1Natl. Inst. of Heumann1, Wolf Seelert2, Günter Huber1; Hoffman1, Claire Gmachl1, Kuen-Ting copy, Sangeeta Murugkar1, Silvia Carrasco2, Michael Rooks, Lidija Sekaric, Yurii Vlasov; Technion, Israel. We present the first experi- Univ., USA, 2Texas A&M Univ., USA. We dem- Advanced Industrial Science and Technol- 1Univ. of Hamburg, Germany, 2Coherent Shiu1,2, Stephen R. Forrest1,2; 1Princeton Conor Evans2, X. Sunney Xie2, Hanan Anis1; IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA. Ultra-com- mental study of Anderson Localization ef- onstrate a novel technique for three-color ogy (AIST), Japan, 2NIST, USA. We demon- Lübeck GmbH, Germany. Visible lasing and Univ., USA, 2Univ. of Michigan at Ann Ar- 1Univ. of Ottawa, Canada, 2Harvard Univ., pact flat-top optical filters using cascaded fects in a periodic potential in the presence time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman strate 5.6 fs pulses from an compact and frequency doubling of semiconductor and bor, USA. We present evidence for “cas- USA. We demonstrate the application of micro-rings based on submicron silicon pho- of both disorder and nonlinearity, demon- 3+ scattering using a Ti:Sapphire oscillator and simple 1-GHz Ti:sapphire ring laser. These diode laser pumped Pr :LiLuF4 will be pre- caded” laser emission in Quantum Cascade CARS microscopy for the rapid, label-free tonic wires are reported. 300GHz-wide pass- strating that self-focusing enhances localiza- four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fi- are the shortest pulses generated at such a sented. Output powers of 550 mW in the lasers, demonstrating a dual wavelength detection of water-borne pathogen, band with a flat-top response with over 30dB tion effects driven by disorder. ber. We measure vibrational coherence de- high repetition rate. visible spectral region and 261 mW at 320 (~9.6 µm and ~8.2 µm) laser with two con- Cryptosporidium parvum at the single oo- out-of-band rejection are realized with a

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T cays in calcite and several molecules. nm are demonstrated. secutive optical transitions in each active cyst level. Polarization sensitivity in E-CARS device footprint below 0.0007mm2. region. images can be used to positively identify the oocysts.

CTuA4 • 8:45 a.m. Invited CTuC4 • 8:45 a.m. CTuD4 • 8:45 a.m. CTuE4 • 8:45 a.m. CTuF3 • 8:45 a.m. CTuG4 • 8:45 a.m. QTuA4 • 8:45 a.m. New Nonlinear Electronic and Vibra- Pulse-Quasi-Crystal Formation in Mode- 218 W, M2 = 20.2 Green Beam Genera- Current Injection Spiral-Shaped Chaotic Flexible Scanning MicroEndoscope for Investigation of Group Delay and Dis- Phasons and Pure Phason Strain in Non- tional Spectroscopy to Study Liquid In- Locked Lasers, Amir Rosen, Rafi Weill, tion by Intracavity- Frequency-Doubled Microcavity Quantum Cascade Lasers, Two-Photon Fluorescence and SHG Im- order in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide linear Photonic Quasicrystals, Barak terfaces, Tahei Tahara; RIKEN, Japan. New Alexander Bekker, Vladimir Smulakovsky, Diode-Pumped Nd:YAG Laser, Yong Bo, Ross M. Audet1,Mikhail A. Belkin1, Jonathan aging, Xiaoli Li, Yuxin Leng, Daniel Using Low-Coherence Reflectometry, Freedman1, Ron Lifshitz2, Mordechai Segev1; types of interface-specific even-order non- Naum K. Berger, Omri Gat, Baruch Fischer; Qianjin Cui, Aicong Geng, Xiaodong Yang, A. Fan1, Federico Capasso1, Evgenii MacDonald, Danling Wang, Michael Cobb, Philippe Hamel1, Yves Jaouën1, Renaud 1Technion, Israel, 2Tel Aviv Univ., Israel. We linear spectroscopy, multiplex electronic Technion, Israel. Many-pulse formation in Qinjun Peng, Yuanfu Lu, Dafu Cui, Zuyan Narimanov2, D. Bour3, S. Corzine3, J. Zhu3, Addie Warsen, Xingde Li; Dept. of Bioengi- Gabet1, Sylvain Combrié2, Nguyen-Vi-Quynh study defect dynamics in nonlinear photo- sum-frequency generation (ESFG) and fre- passively mode-locked fiber lasers is shown Xu; Inst. of Physics, Chinese Acad. of Sci- G. Höfler3; 1DEAS, USA, 2Electrical Engineer- neering, Univ. of Washington, USA. We re- Tran2, Evelin Weidner2, Alfredo De Rossi2,3, nic quasicrystals, and demonstrate experi- quency-domain χ(4) Raman spectroscopies, to exhibit self pulse-crystallization phenom- ences, China. By employing a thermally ing Dept., Princeton Univ., USA, 3Agilent port an all-fiber-optic approach for beam Anne Talneau3; 1GET Telecom Paris, France, mentally that phasons survive longer than have been developed. They provide elec- ena. We present experimental demonstra- near-unstable cavity design with two-rod Labs, USA. We report room temperature delivery, collection, scanning and dispersion 2Thales Res. and Technology, France, 3CNRS, phonons. We show that nonlinear interac- tronic and vibrational spectra of molecules tions and theoretical thermodynamic-like birefringence compensation, average power operation of current-injection quantum cas- management in a microendoscope for non- Lab de Photonique et de Nanostructures, tions in photonic quasicrystals can reduce adsorbed at interfaces with unprecedented modeling. of 218 W with beam quality of M2 = 20.2 cade lasers with spiral-shaped chaotic linear optical imaging. Preliminary result of France. The Optical Low-Coherence Reflec- the phason strain within the structure. high qualities. was achieved by intracavity frequency dou- microresonators, capable of directional, ex vivo rat tail tendon imaging is presented. tometry technique is proposed for investi- bling a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser. single mode emission, operating in pulsed gating photonic crystal slab waveguides. We mode with peak optical power in excess of show its ability of providing a direct mea- 10 mW. surement of the group delay and highlight the structural disorder resulting into TE/TM scattering.

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QTuB • Fundamental QTuC • Spontaneous CTuH • Integrated Optics— CTuI • Advanced Concepts CTuJ • Control and Nonlinear Optics— Parametric Down Continued for LED Lighting and Characterization of Continued Conversion—Continued Communications— Frequency Combs— Continued Continued

QTuB3 • 8:30 a.m. Invited QTuC3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuH2 • 8:30 a.m. CTuI3 • 8:30 a.m. CTuJ3 • 8:30 a.m. Quantum Limit in Nonlinear Optics, A Bright and Compact Source of Polar- Single Mode Operation of 1.5 µm TM- Enhancement of Light Extraction Effi- Spectral Line-by-Line Processing on an 1 1

Gerd Leuchs , Joel Heersink , Dominique ization-Entangled Photons, Marco Mode Waveguide Optical Isolators Based ciency of InGaN Quantum Wells LEDs Optical Frequency Comb Generator, Zhi T

1 1 1 1 1 1 uesday, May 8 Elser , Josip Milanovic , Alexander Huck , Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil; Hewlett on the Nonreciprocal-Loss Phenom- Using SiO2 Microspheres, Yik-Khoon Ee, Jiang , Chen-Bin Huang , Daniel E. Leaird , Rui-Fang Dong1, Ulrik L. Andersen2, Joel F. Packard Co., USA. We present a source of enon, Tomohiro Amemiya1,2, Hiromasa Pisist Kumnorkaew, Ronald A. Arif, James Andrew M. Weiner1, Motonobu Kourogi2, Corney3, Peter D. Drummond3; 1Inst. fur polarization entangled photons that uses Shimizu1,2, Masafumi Yokoyama2,3, P. N. F. Gilchrist, Nelson Tansu; Lehigh Univ., USA. Kazuhiro Imai2; 1Purdue Univ., USA, 2Opti- Optik, Information und Photonik, Germany, periodically poled potassium titanyl phos- Hai2,3, Masaaki Tanaka2,3, Yoshiaki Novel approach to improve the light extrac- cal Comb, Inc, Japan. We report spectral 2Dept. of Physics, Technical Univ. of Den- phate and interferometers based on polar- Nakano1,2; 1Res. Ctr. for Advanced Science tion efficiency of InGaN quantum wells light line-by-line processing of 64 frequency lines 3 2 mark, Denmark, ARC Ctr. of Excellence for ization beam displacers to achieve stable and Technology, Japan, Solution Oriented emitting diodes (LEDs) using SiO2 from an optical frequency comb generator. Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Physical operation with few critical alignments. Res. for Science and Technology, Japan Sci- microspheres was presented, leading to Transform-limited 1.6 ps pulses at 10 GHz Sciences, Univ. of Queensland, Australia. ence and Technology Agency, Japan, 3Dept. ~232% increase of the LEDs output power. rate are obtained. Arbitrary generated wave- Optical non linear interactions changing the of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. We forms spanning the full time period are dem- statistics of a light field are often counter- developed a 1.5-µm-band, TM-mode onstrated. acted by dissipative processes. Artificial waveguide optical isolator consisting of a structuring of the non linear medium can semiconductor ridge waveguide combined reduce dissipation and enhance the effect with a ferromagnetic MnAs layer. The de- of the non linearity. vice shows single mode operation with an isolation ratio of 7.2dB/mm at 1.53-1.55µm wavelength.

QTuC4 • 8:45 a.m. CTuH3 • 8:45 a.m. CTuI4 • 8:45 a.m. CTuJ4 • 8:45 a.m. Experimental Production of Pure Single- Enabling Technologies for the Mono- High Light-Extraction GaN-Based Verti- Injection-Locked Femtosecond Photon States, Peter J. Mosley, Jeff S. lithic Integration of Semiconductor La- cal LEDs with Double Diffuse Surfaces, Ti:sapphire Lasers, Qudsia Quraishi1, Leo Lundeen, Piotr Wasylczyk, Hendrik sers and Waveguide Optical Isolators, Ya-Ju Lee, H. C. Kuo, T. C. Lu, S. C. Wang; Hollberg1, Scott Diddams1, Yohei Kobayashi2, Coldenstrodt-Ronge, Christine Silberhorn, Barry M. Holmes, Josef J. Bregenzer, David Dept. of Photonics and Inst. of Electro-Opti- Kenji Torizuka2; 1NIST, USA, 2AIST, Japan. Ian A. Walmsley; Univ. of Oxford, UK. Para- C. Hutchings; Univ. of Glasgow, UK. Tech- cal Engineering, Taiwan. High light-extrac- We demonstrate injection locking of 1 and metric downconversion in KDP provides a nologies to implement a waveguide optical tion (external quantum efficiency ~40%) 465- 1.5 GHz femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers by method of producing heralded single pho- isolator, containing a continuous III-V semi- nm GaN-based vertical light-emitting diodes a second, physically separate and indepen- tons in pure states. We present the theory conductor core, with a laser diode are de- (LEDs) employing double diffuse surfaces dent 1 GHz laser. In some cases, both the behind this technique and our most recent veloped. High efficiency, low-loss were fabricated. The high scattering effi- pulse envelopes and optical carriers are experimental results. nonreciprocal and reciprocal mode convert- ciency of double diffused surfaces could be locked. ers are fabricated and characterised. responsible for the high light output power.

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CTuB2 • 9:00 a.m. CTuC5 • 9:00 a.m. CTuD5 • 9:00 a.m. CTuE5 • 9:00 a.m. CTuF4 • 9:00 a.m. CTuG5 • 9:00 a.m. QTuA5 • 9:00 a.m. Instantaneous-Locking 8-Channel Ar- Resonant Saturable Absorbers for Dis- Watt-Level Single-Frequency Tunable Quantum Cascade Microdisk Lasers for In vivo Molecular-Resonant Third Har- Metallic-Contamination-Induced Optical Dispersive Shock Waves in Optical Lat- rayed 10 Gbps Burst-Mode Optical persion Compensation in Compact Nd:YLF/PPKTP Red Laser for Silver Atom Mid Infrared Intra-Cavity Sensing, Raviv monic Generation Microscopy of Hemo- Loss in Silicon Microphotonic tices, Shu Jia, Wenjie Wan, Jason W. Packet Receiver and 80 (8λ x 10) Gbps Femtosecond Lasers, Günter Steinmeyer1, Cooling, Rodolphe Sarrouf, Virginie Souza, Perahia1, Oskar Painter1, Virginie Moreau2, globin, Shih-Peng Tai1, Che-Hang Yu1, Tze- Waveguides, Tymon Barwicz, Charles W. Fleischer; Princeton Univ., USA. We study Wide-Colored Optical Packet Transmit- Uwe Griebner1, Florian Saas1, Mathias Thomas Badr, Guibao Xu, Jean-Jacques Michael Bahriz2, Raffaele Colombelli2, Ming Liu1, Yu-Chiech Wen1, Chi-Kuang Holzwarth, Peter T. Rakich, Milos A. Popovic, dispersive shock waves in optical lattices. ter, Hideaki Furukawa1, Naoya Wada1, Moenster1, Wolfgang Richter2; 1Max-Born- Zondy; Inst. Natl. de Metrologie-CNAM, Andrey Krysa3, John Cockburn3, Luke Wil- Sun1,2,3; 1Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Erich P. Ippen, Henry I. Smith; MIT, USA. We We characterize shock propagation as a func- Hiroshi Fujinuma2, Hatsushi Iiduka2, Inst., Germany, 2BATOP GmbH, Germany. France. Intracavity second-harmonic genera- son3, J. S. Roberts3; 1Caltech, USA, 2Univ. Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, report on optical loss reaching 100 dB/cm tion of lattice depth and observe nonlinear Tetsuya Miyazaki1; 1Natl. Inst. of Informa- We theoretically analyze and experimentally tion of a diode-pumped unidirectional Paris-Sud, France, 3Univ. of Sheffield, UK. 2Res. Ctr. for Applied Sciences, Academia observed in Si wire waveguides defined by coupling between different Bloch modes of δ 3 tion and Communications Technology, Ja- demonstrate a semiconductor device that Nd:YLiF4 ring laser oscillating on the -po- The design, fabrication, and testing of sur- Sinica, Taiwan, Dept. of Electrical Engi- reactive-ion etching in the proximity of the array. 2 4 4 λ pan, NTT Electronics Co., Japan. We de- simultaneously acts as a mode-locker and larized F3/2 - I13/2 transition ( ~1314nm) with face sensitive quantum cascade microdisk neering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. metals with a low temperature of silicide velop novel instantaneous-locking (<1 ns) provides substantial dispersion compensa- a temperature-tuned PPKTP crystal is re- lasers in the mid-infrared for intra-cavity Through molecular-resonant third-harmonic- formation.

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T optical burst-mode receiver and wide-col- tion, enabling the construction of extremely ported, yielding up to 0.92W tunable (656- spectroscopy and integration with generation (THG) in hemoglobin, in vivo ored 80-Gbps (8λ x 10-Gbps) packet trans- compact femtosecond lasers. 658nm) single-frequency output. microfluidic delivery is presented. molecular THG microscopy of erythrocytes mitter. Truly asynchronous optical packet- can be realized without using fluorescence stream with 80-Gbps payload-data and ar- and exogenous contrast agents. Studies in bitrary intervals is generated and received live hamster oral cavity indicate its superi- with low packet-loss-rate (<10-5). ority to image angiogenesis.

CTuA5 • 9:15 a.m. CTuB3 • 9:15 a.m. CTuC6 • 9:15 a.m. CTuD6 • 9:15 a.m. CTuF5 • 9:15 a.m. CTuG6 • 9:15 a.m. QTuA6 • 9:15 a.m. Single Pulse Time Resolved Coherent Binary-Encoded Address for All-Optical Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Yb:KYW CW 795 nm Rb Vapor Laser Pumped by Selective Two-Photon Excitation for Bio- Breaking the Tradeoff between Speed Exact Dynamic Localization in Curved Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering, Yuri Packet Switching, C. C. Lee1, L. F. K. Lui1, Laser Incorporating a Quantum-Dot Volume Transmission Grating-Stabilized medical Imaging, Lindsay R. Weisel, and Extinction Ratio in Silicon Electro- AlGaAs Optical Waveguide Arrays, Rajiv Paskover, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Yehiam Prior; Lixin Xu1,2, P. K. A. Wai1, H. Y. Tam1; 1Hong Saturable Absorber, Alexander A. Diode Bar, Randall J. Lane, Alan B. Rebekah M. Martin, Laura T. Schelhas, Peng Optic Modulators, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Iyer1, Jun Wan2, Marc M. Dignam2, C. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. We dem- Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, 2Univ. Lagatsky1, Fiona Bain1, C.T.A. Brown1, Wil- Petersen, John Gloyd; Spectra Physics Lasers, Xi, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., Qianfan Xu, Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., Martijn de Sterke3, J. Stewart Aitchison1; onstrate single-pulse retrieval of coherent of Science and Technology of China, China. son Sibbett1, D.A. Livshits2, G. Erbert3, E.U. USA. We have constructed an atomic Rb USA. Shaped dispersion-compensated ul- USA. We propose a new silicon electro-op- 1Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2Queen’s Univ., vibrational evolution of molecules by geo- We experimentally demonstrated the feasi- Rafailov4; 1Univ. of St Andrews, UK, 2NL- vapor laser operating at 795 nm. The laser trashort laser pulses are used to produce tic device that breaks the tradeoff between Canada, 3Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We metrical space-time mapping combined with bility of binary-encoded packet address Nanosemiconductor GmbH, Germany, is optically pumped by a CW laser diode selective excitation for biological imaging. extinction ratio and speed in silicon devices present the first experimental observations non-linear signal imaging. The method is header in all-optical packet switching using 3Ferdinand-Braun-Inst., Germany, 4Univ. of bar, wavelength-controlled by a volume Matrix diagonalization is used to optimize and enables operation at 40 Gbps with high of exact dynamic localization of an optical tested experimentally to yield spectrum of Fabry-Perot laser diodes. The address length Dundee, UK. Efficient passive mode lock- transmission grating. Output power is 260 contrast making it possible to image sub- extinction ratios (>15dB). beam in periodically-curved strongly- 3+ simple liquids. of a network with N output ports is reduced ing of a diode-pumped Yb :KY(WO4)2 la- mW. cellular components. coupled waveguide arrays. Spatial and spec- from N to log2N bits. ser using a quantum-dot saturable absorber tral measurements of two and four period is demonstrated. Pulses of 114fs centered devices agree well with theory. around 1040nm were generated with an average output power of 0.5W.

CTuA6 • 9:30 a.m. CTuB4 • 9:30 a.m. CTuC7 • 9:30 a.m. CTuD7 • 9:30 a.m. CTuE7 • 9:30 a.m. CTuF6 • 9:30 a.m. CTuG7 • 9:30 a.m. QTuA7 • 9:30 a.m. Remote Chemical Detection Using SU- Independent Delay Control and Syn- A Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Single-Frequency, 55 W Average Power, High-Power/High-Temperature CW Nar- Upconversion Fiber-Optic Confocal Mi- Chiral 3-D Photonic Crystals as Compact Coupled-Cavity QED Using Planar Pho- PER-CARS, D. Ahmasi Harris, Janelle C. chronization of Multiple 2.5-Gb/s Chan- Method for Computing Stationary Pulse 1-kHz Pulse Rate Nd:YLF MOPA System, row-Ridge Mid-Infrared Interband Cas- croscopy Using a Near-Infrared Light Optical Isolators, Michael Thiel1, Martin tonic Crystals, Stephen Hughes; Queen’s Shane, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus; nels within a Single SBS Slow-Light Me- Solutions of Mode-Locked Lasers, Yelena Isyanova, Peter F. Moulton; Q-Peak, cade Lasers, William W. Bewley, Chadwick Source, Do-Hyun Kim1, Jin U. Kang2, Wegener1, Sean Wong2, Georg v. Freymann2; Univ., Canada. A new technique for con- Michigan State Univ., USA. We introduce a dium, Bo Zhang1, L.-S. Yan2, J.-Y. Yang1, Jonathan R. Birge, Franz X. Kärtner; MIT, Inc., USA. We report on a single-frequency, L. Canedy, Chul S. Kim, Mijin Kim, Diane Ronald W. Waynant1, Ilko K. Ilev1; 1US Food 1Inst. für Angewandte Physik, Univ. trolling cavity-QED by indirectly coupling method for remote chemical detection that Irfan Fazal1, Alan E. Willner1; 1Univ. of USA. We solve the periodic boundary value Nd:YLF laser system producing 55-mJ, 10- C. Larrabee, Jill A. Nolde, J. R. Lindle, Igor and Drug Administration, Ctr. for Devices Karlsruhe, Germany, 2Inst. für Nano- two planar-photonic-crystal nanocavities utilizes Single Ultrafast Pulse Excitation for Southern California, USA, 2General problem for a mode-locked laser cavity us- nsec pulses at a 1-kHz rate. The system in- Vurgaftman, Jerry R. Meyer; NRL, USA. Mid- and Radiological Health, USA,2Johns technologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, through an integrated waveguide is pre- Remote Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spec- Photonics, USA. We demonstrate indepen- ing a preconditioned matrix-implicit New- cludes a passively Q-switched oscillator with infrared interband cascade lasers with a 12- Hopkins Univ., USA. An upconversion con- Germany. We present a novel photonic sented. The resulting optical response of a troscopy (SUPER-CARS). dent delay control and bit-level synchroni- ton-Krylov solver. Solutions are obtained two a final amplifier employing a three-bar, 285- µm-wide ridge and Au electroplating oper- focal microscope was developed and stud- heterostructure based on chiral 3-D photo- single-quantum-dot is shown to be pro- zation of multiple 2.5-Gb/s NRZ-OOK chan- to three orders of magnitude faster than with W, linear diode pump array. ated cw up to 257 K and produced 100 mW/ ied using rare-earth-doped glass sample nic crystals allowing for non-reciprocal trans- foundly influenced by a distant cavity. nels through a single broadband SBS-based standard tools. facet at 80 K. A distributed-feedback laser powder. The process was highly efficient mission of light. We fabricate various corre- slow-light element. Error free transmission emitted 40 mW of single-mode cw power. with upconversion efficiency of 2% with the sponding structures by means of direct la- on all synchronized channels with up to 112- pumping wavelength at 1550 nm and en- ser writing. ps delay is achieved. sured high lateral resolution.

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Effect in a Laser Gyro, Petr G. Eliseev, Parametric Downconversion, Kevin A. tion Mirrors in Indium Phosphide for Refractive Indices of Gases Using Fre- T

Marek Osinski; Univ. of New Mexico, USA. O’Donnell, Alfred B. U’Ren; CICESE Applied High Fabrication Tolerance, Joseph A. shows that visible LED for lighting or indi- quency Comb, Jie Zhang, Zehuang Lu, uesday, May 8 The classical Fresnel form of optical drag Physics Dept., Mexico. We consider collinear Summers, Vikrant Lal, Milan L. Masanovic, cating can be used for ubiquitous commu- Lijun Wang; Inst. of Optics, Information and coefficient is rederived for rotating disper- downconversion in a type-1 configuration Nadir Dagli, Daniel J. Blumenthal; Univ. of nication applications, for example, position Photonics, Germany. We report improved sive media. Implications for the active ring with degeneracy near the crystal’s zero California at Santa Barbara, USA. We report finding, intelligent transport systems, and high precision refractive index measurement advertisement. laser gyro are considered, with strong en- group-velocity dispersion frequency. A frac- on a novel concave total internal reflection of air and CO2 using a Michelson interfer- hancement of sensitivity near the points of tional frequency bandwidth of 0.53 is ob- mirror fabricated in InP that allows larger ometer setup with frequency combs as the critical anomalous dispersion. served, corresponding to a 1080nm range mirror size and mask alignment tolerance. light source. Our experiment has a sensitiv- about the 1885nm degenerate wavelength. Average mirror loss measured was 0.56dB/ ity of 9.6×10-9. mirror with a standard deviation of 0.14 dB/ mirror.

QTuB5 • 9:15 a.m. QTuC6 • 9:15 a.m. CTuH5 • 9:15 a.m. Invited CTuJ6 • 9:15 a.m. Four-Wave Mixing in a Diamond Con- Analysis of Entanglement in the Double Advances in Monolithic Integration of Analysis of Comb Frequency Offset figuration: Experiments with Rubidium Slit Interference Patterns of down Con- InP-Based Optoelectronics, David Variations via Phase-Only Line-by-Line Vapor, R. T. Willis, F. E. Becerra, L. A. verted Photon Pairs, Gen Taguchi, Takako Robbins; Bookham Technology, UK. The Pulse Shaping, José Caraquitena, Zhi Jiang, Orozco, S. L. Rolston; Univ. of Maryland, Hirama, Katsuya Kasai, Tatsuo maturity of design and processing tech- Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner; School USA. We investigate four-wave mixing in Dougakiuchi, Holger F. Hofmann, Yutaka niques for the fabrication of photonic inte- of Electrical and Computer Engineering, rubidium vapor using a diamond configu- Kadoya; Hiroshima Univ., Japan. We inves- grated circuits in InP is discussed. Manufac- Purdue Univ., USA. We investigate the ef- ration that includes the 5s, 5p and 6s levels. tigate the non-classical correlation of two turing state-of-the-art is illustrated through fect of optical frequency comb shifts on time- A model that includes Doppler broadening entangled photons passing through a pair examples in broadband tuneable lasers and domain and RF-domain signals generated qualitatively explains some of the observa- of double slits. The quantum state is recon- broadband 10GBit/s transmitters. using phase-only line-by-line pulse shaping. tions. structed using quantum tomography based As an application, we estimate the comb on the correlated interference patterns and frequency offset fluctuations of a harmoni- slit images. cally mode-locked laser.

QTuB6 • 9:30 a.m. QTuC7 • 9:30 a.m. CTuI6 • 9:30 a.m. CTuJ7 • 9:30 a.m. Characterizing a Bright Two-Photon Stopping Single Photons in One-dimen- High-Efficiency Light Emitters Using Self-Zooming Stable Stage with Sub-nm Source Using a Polarization-Maintaining sional Circuit Quantum Electrodynam- Gallium-Arsenide Deep-Centers for Resolution Using Femtosecond Comb, Microstructure Fiber, Jingyun Fan, Alan ics Systems, Jung-Tsung Shen, M. L. Long-Distance Fiber-Optics, Janet Pan; Mariko Kajima, Hirokazu Matsumoto; Natl. Migdall; NIST, USA. After characterizing the Povinelli, Sunil Sandhu, Shanhui Fan; Yale Univ., USA. We demonstrate the first Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Raman scattering spectrum of a polarization- Stanford Univ., USA. We propose a mecha- LEDs at 1.3-1.5µm using GaAs deep-centers Technology (AIST), Japan. A positioning sys- maintaining microstructure fiber, we pro- nism to stop single photons in one-dimen- having higher (70%) efficiencies, lower ab- tem based on self-zooming laser interfer- duced a high brightness two-photon source sional quantum electrodynamics systems. sorption loss, more temperature-insensitive ometer is presented. It uses diode lasers with a two-photon coincidence/accidental The circuit can be of deep sub-wavelength luminescence, larger Einstein B-coefficient locked on two lines of fs-comb. It provides (C/A) ratio of 1000 at 100 Hz. scale, and can stop and store two photons than bulk InGaAs. This is an enabling tech- sub-nm resolution and sub-nm accuracy. in the system at the same time. nology.

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CTuK1 • 10:30 a.m. CTuL1 • 10:30 a.m. Tutorial CTuM1 • 10:30 a.m. CTuN1 • 10:30 a.m. CTuO1 • 10:30 a.m. CTuP1 • 10:30 a.m. CTuQ1 • 10:30 a.m. Invited QTuD1 • 10:30 a.m. Invited Efficient Generation of Tunable CW OLEDs Based on Quantum Dots, Vladmir High Energy and High Repetition Rate Ultra-Low-Photon-Defect Cryo-Laser Narrow STRIPE-Width, Low-Ridge Con- Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging of Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Photonic In- Cloaking: A New Phenomenon in Elec- Single Frequency Green Radiation by Bulovic; MIT, USA. Abstract not available. Diode-Pumped Solid-State Oscillator Performance of Resonantly Diode- figuration for High Power Quantum Cas- NADH to Investigate Metabolic Changes tegrated Circuit Technology, John Bow- tromagnetism and Elasticity, Graeme W. 3+ 1 1 ers1, Alexander W. Fang1, Hyundai Park1, Milton; Univ. of Utah, USA. We show how uesday, May 8 uesday, Second Harmonic Generation in Peri- Enhances High-Field Physics Measure- Pumped Er :YAG, Mark Dubinskii, Nikolay cade Lasers, Arkadiy Lyakh , Peter Zory , in Human Epileptic Tissue in vitro, Tho-

T 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 odically-Poled KTiOPO4, Zhipei Sun , ments, T. Südmeyer , S.V. Marchese , S. Ter-Gabrielyan, Marly Camargo, George A. Daniel Wasserman , Gary Shu , Claire mas H. Chia, Anne Williamson, Dennis D. Richard Jones , Oded Cohen , Mario J. collections of polarizable dipoles become Goutam Kumar Samanta1, G. R. Fayaz1, Hashimoto1, U. Keller1, G. Lépine2, G. Newburgh, Larry D. Merkle; ARL, USA. We Gmachl2, Mithun D’Souza3, Dan Botez3, Spencer, Michael J. Levene; Yale Univ., USA. Paniccia2; 1Univ. of California at Santa Bar- cloaked (invisible) to time harmonic elec- Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh1, C. Canalias2, V. Gingras2, B. Witzel2; 1ETH Zurich, Switzer- report what is believed to be the first ultra- Dave Bour4; 1Univ. of Florida, USA, NADH is an intrinsic fluorophore that pro- bara, USA, 2Intel Corp., USA, 3Intel Corp., tromagnetic fields when placed in the prox- Pasiskevicius2, F. Laurell2; 1ICFO-The Inst. of land, 2Génie Physique et Optique, Univ. low-photon-defect resonantly diode- 2Princeton Univ., USA, 3Univ. of Wisconsin vides cellular metabolic information. Abnor- Israel. The hybrid silicon evanescent device imity of a low loss superlens, and how trans- Photonic Sciences, Spain, 2Royal Inst. of Laval, Canada. Passively modelocked thin pumped Er:YAG cryo-laser. Quasi-CW laser at Madison, USA, 4BRIDGELUX Inc, USA. mal neuronal-astrocytic metabolic coupling platform utilizes III-V gain materials bonded formation based approaches to cloaking Technology, Sweden. Tunable continuous- disk lasers can drive and even enhance high performance at 85°K in this initial experi- Low-ridge-configuration, quantum-cascade is hypothesized in temporal lobe epilepsy. to passive silicon waveguides. In this pa- extend to elasticity. wave single-frequency green radiation from field physics measurements at >10-MHz rep- ment was found to be 58% efficient. Quasi- lasers operating at 5.3µm provide, at 80K, We investigate metabolic pathologies in per, we discuss this device platform, and 511.9 nm to 517.3 nm has been obtained by etition rate. Electron spectroscopy images CW power of ~22W was achieved. 12W peak-pulsed power at 14A drive. A human and rodent epilepsy models using present hybrid silicon evanescent laser and single-pass second harmonic generation in in xenon confirm high signal-to-noise ratio model of current spreading that takes into multiphoton microscopy of NADH. amplifier device results. 13 2 periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP). A and peak intensities of up to 6·10 W/cm . account the lateral variation in transverse maximum output power of 1.2 W was conductivity adequately explains the results. achieved.

CTuK2 • 10:45 a.m. CTuM2 • 10:45 a.m. Invited CTuN2 • 10:45 a.m. CTuO2 • 10:45 a.m. CTuP2 • 10:45 a.m. Octave-Level Spectral Broadening in RPE Actively Mode-Locked Optical Paramet- Development of a 1.5µm Er:Yb:Glass Analysis of the Thermal Roll-over of Molecular Imaging of Central Nervous PPLN Waveguides, Carsten Langrock1, ric Oscillator, Nicolas Forget1, Jean-Michel Laser for Use in a Coherent Laser Radar, Quantum Cascade Lasers, Scott S. Howard, System with Multi-Modal Nonlinear Op- Martin M. Fejer1, Ingmar Hartl2, Martin E. Melkonian2, Cyril Drag3, Fabien Matthew C. Heintze, Jesper Munch, Peter J. Zhijun Liu, Claire F. Gmachl; Princeton tical Microscopy, Haifeng Wang, Yan Fu, Fermann2; 1Edward L. Ginzton Lab, USA, Bretenaker3,4, Michel Lefebvre2, Emmanuel Veitch; Univ. of Adelaide, Australia. We de- Univ., USA. A description of thermal roll- Riyi Shi, Ji-Xin Cheng; Purdue Univ., USA. 2IMRA America, Inc., USA. We demonstrate Rosencher2,4; 1Fastlite, France, 2ONERA, scribe an injection-seeded Q-switched over in room temperature continuous-wave Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering octave-level spectral broadening of mode- France, 3Lab Aimé Cotton, CNRS, France, Er:Yb:glass laser that uses a novel resonator operating quantum cascade lasers is pre- (CARS) and sum-frequency generation (SFG) locked Er- and Yb-doped femtosecond fi- 4Dept. de Physique, Ecole Polytechnique, and produces transform-limited 500ns sented. Models predicting maximum oper- microscopy are combined on the same plat- ber lasers inside constant-period and chirped France. Continuous-wave active mode-lock- pulses. Experimental results of the laser ating temperature and the power-current form. Simultaneous SFG imaging of astroglial RPE PPLN waveguides. Chirped QPM grating of near degenerate singly and doubly performance and its suitability for use in characteristics in their entirety are in excel- filaments and CARS imaging of myelin ings greatly improve spectral broadening of resonant OPOs is reported. Transient and coherent laser radar will be presented. lent agreement with experimental results. sheath in spinal cord are shown. Yb-fiber lasers. steady-state regimes are explored.

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QTuE2 • 10:45 a.m. QTuF2 • 10:45 a.m. CTuS2 • 10:45 a.m. CTuT2 • 10:45 a.m. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Few-Cycle Optical Bullets with Stable Biphoton in a Two-Level Cooled Atomic Energy Storage Saturation in Large Mode Enhancing the Spectral Sensitivity and 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Carrier-Envelope Phase in a Two-Com- Ensemble, Jianming Wen1, Shengwang Area Fiber Lasers, Ramatou Bello Doua1, Resolution of Interferometers Using 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 ponent Medium, Herve Leblond1, Igor V. Du2, Morton H. Rubin1; 1Univ. of Maryland, Julien Saby1, François Salin1, Johan Boullet2, Slow-Light Media, Zhimin Shi1, Robert W. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Mel’nikov2,3, Dumitru Michalache4, Francois USA, 2Stanford Univ., USA. The temporal Inka Manek-Hönninger2; 1Eolite, France, Boyd1, Daniel J. Gauthier2, C. C. Dudley3; 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Sanchez1; 1Lab POMA, Univ. d’Angers, correlation of biphotons, generated from a 2CELIA-PALA, France. We study the limita- 1Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA, 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 France, 2High Q Labs, Inc, Canada, two-level cooled atomic system, displays a tion in energy storage of LMA Yb-doped fi- 2Dept. of Physics and The Fitzpatrick Ctr. for 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 3Optolink, Ltd, Russian Federation, 4Horia photon anti-bunching effect, which corre- bers and show the importance of the gain Photonics and Communications Systems, 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Hulubei Natl. Inst. for Physics and Nuclear sponds to the interference between two recovery time for high power nanosecond Duke Univ., USA, 3NRL, Remote Sensing Div., 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Engineering, Romania. We show how such types of nonlinear four-wave mixing pro- laser and amplifier design. Code 7211, USA. We demonstrate experi- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 backbone notions as carrier, envelope, phase cesses occurring in such a medium. mentally that the spectral sensitivity and 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 and group velocities can be extended be- resolution of an interferometer can be greatly 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 yond the SVEA approximation. A two-cycle enhanced by introducing a slow-light me- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 pulse is able to evolve into an optical bullet dium into it with an enhancement factor 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123

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CTuK3 • 11:00 a.m. Invited CTuN3 • 11:00 a.m. CTuO3 • 11:00 a.m. CTuP3 • 11:00 a.m. CTuQ2 • 11:00 a.m. QTuD2 • 11:00 a.m. Nano- and Microdomain Engineering in High-Brightness, Pulsed, Cladding- Photon-Driven Transport in Quantum Detecting the Optical Signature of Ma- 12.5 Gbit/s Silicon Micro-Ring Silicon Design of Non-Magnetic Optical Cloak, KTP and Its Application, Fredrik Laurell; Pumped Raman Fiber Source at 1660 Cascade Lasers, Hyunyong Choi1, Zong- lignancy with Second Harmonic Imag- Modulators, Qianfan Xu, Sasikanth Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden. Abstract nm, Christophe A. Codemard1,2, Johan Kwei Wu1, Theodore B. Norris1, Laurent ing, Karen M. Reiser1, Carlos Rodriguez2; Manipatruni, Brad Schmidt, Jagat Shakya, V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue not available. Nilsson1,2, Jayanta Sahu1,2; 1Optoelectronics Diehl2, Federico Capasso2, Marcella 1Dept. of Neurological Surgery, Univ. of Cali- Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., USA. We show Univ., USA. We present the design and analy- Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK, 2SPI Giovannini3, Jérôme Faist3; 1Univ. of Michi- fornia at Davis, USA, 2Dept. of Surgical and experimentally a scheme for achieving high- sis of a non-magnetic cloak operating at Lasers, UK. We report the first demonstra- gan at Ann Arbor, USA, 2Harvard Univ., USA, Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary speed operation for a carrier-injection based optical frequencies. The general recipe for tion of a pulsed cladding-pumped Raman 3Univ. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Ultrafast Medicine, Univ. of California at Davis, USA. silicon micro-ring modulator. The perfor- the implementation of such a device is pro- fiber source, delivering up to 10µJ diffrac- mid-infrared pump-probe experiments are Since SHG is generated by specific macro- mance of the modulator is analyzed theo- vided. The cloaking performance is illus- tion-limited pulses at 1660nm. The pulses used to study gain and transport dynamics molecules, it can potentially detect early retically and a 12.5-Gbit/s modulation with trated with finite-element simulations. are 620ns long with 16W peak-power and in quantum cascade lasers below and above disruptions of stromal architecture. Recent 9-dB extinction ratio is demonstrated experi-

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T the pump-signal conversion efficiency is threshold. We observe for the first time how pilot data suggest that neoplastic changes mentally. 36%. stimulated emission drives the current in feline skin can be identified based on through cascade heterostructure. their SHG optical signature.

CTuM3 • 11:15 a.m. CTuN4 • 11:15 a.m. CTuO4 • 11:15 a.m. CTuP4 • 11:15 a.m. CTuQ3 • 11:15 a.m. QTuD3 • 11:15 a.m. Intracavity Pumped Picosecond Optical Asymmetric Time Constants, Norman P. Temperature-Dependent Gain and Loss In vivo Continuous Imaging of Verte- Silicon Modulator Based on Anti-Cross- Optical “Hyperlens”: Far-field Imaging Parametric Oscillator for Intracavity In- Barnes, Brian M. Walsh, Donald J. Reichle; in High Performance Quantum Cascade brate Cardiac Valves for Congenital ing between Paired Amplitude and beyond the Diffraction Limit, Zubin terferometry, Andreas Velten1, Jean- NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA. Time constants Lasers at 8.2 and 10.3µm, Zhijun Liu1, Heart Disease Study and Medical Drug Phase Tunable Microring Resonators, Jacob, Leonid V. Alekseyev, Evgenii Claude Diels1, Vaclav Kubecek2, Alena for population density rise and decay are Grace Silva1,2, Jayson J. Paulose1, Claire F. Screening Using Third Harmonic Gen- William M.J. Green, Michael J. Rooks, Lidija Narimanov; Princeton Univ., USA. We pro- Zavadilova2; 1Univ. of New Mexico, USA, often unequal. Asymmetric time constants Gmachl1, Liwei Cheng2, Fow-Sen Choa2, Rich eration Microscopy, Chun-Ta Kung1, Sekaric, Yurii A. Vlasov; IBM Thomas J. pose a system for far-field optical imaging 2Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic. A result from: ground state depletion, up con- Leavitt3, Fred J. Towner3, Xiaojun Wang4, Chung-Cheng Chuang1, Yu-Kai Huang2, Watson Res. Ctr., USA. A modulator design below the diffraction limit. As opposed to picosecond pulse circulating inside a mode- version, and amplified spontaneous emis- Jenyu Fan4; 1Princeton Univ., USA, 2Univ. of Huai-Jen Tsai2, Chi-Kuang Sun3,4; 1Gradu- based upon anti-crossing between coupled the “superlens” based on negative index locked vanadate laser, pumps twice/round- sion. All these effects were modeled and Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, 3Maxion ate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. silicon microrings with independent ampli- materials, our approach allows image mag- 4 2 trip a LiNbO3 crystal, creating two non-in- Tm:germanate experiments support model. Technologies Inc., USA, AdTech Optics, USA. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, Inst. of Molecular tude-phase functionality, is presented. The nification and is robust with respect to ma- teracting signal pulses circulating in a reso- Temperature-dependent optical gain and and Cellular Biology, Natl. Taiwan Univ., device has a footprint of 0.003mm2, exhib- terial losses. nant cavity. This configuration is ideal for waveguide loss were measured for Quan- Taiwan, 3-Dept. of Electrical Engineering and its over 10x improvement in modulation intracavity interferometry applications. tum Cascade lasers with wavelengths of ~8.2 Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- sensitivity, and 14 dB extinction. and ~10.3µm. The nature of the tempera- ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 4Res. Ctr. ture dependence of the loss indicates an for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tai- extra mechanism of resonant intersubband wan. Cr:forsterite-based third-harmonic-gen- absorption. eration microscopy can easily provide in vivo continuous observation of cardiac valves in zebrafish embryos, which provides an ideal research model for human congenital heart diseases and for drug screening.

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QTuE3 • 11:00 a.m. QTuF3 • 11:00 a.m. CTuR2 • 11:00 a.m. CTuS3 • 11:00 a.m. CTuT3 • 11:00 a.m. Invited 1PTuA22345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 • 11:00 a.m. Invited PTuB2 • 11:00 a.m. Invited PTuC2 • 11:00 a.m. Invited 3 Observation of Polychromatic Gap Soli- Strong Relative Intensity Squeezing by Time-Stretched Photonic Analog-to-Digi- Resistance of Higher Order Modes to Laser Interferometric Gravitational 1Technological2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Platform for Cell Micro Photonics for Biological-Agent Sensors, Moving Research into Practice, Pat Jones;3 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012Tom Jeys; MIT, USA. The performance of real- 3 tons Generated by Supercontinuum Four-Wave Mixing in Rb Vapor, Colin F. tal Sampling Using a CW Multi-Wave- Bend-Induced Mode Coupling and Dis- Wave Detectors on the Ground and in Array Based Biochips, Udo Klotzbach; Univ. of Arizona, USA. Abstract not avail- T

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Initial Dynamics of Supercontinuum Quantum Telecommunication with At- All-Optical NRZ-OOK to RZ-QPSK Con- Beam Quality and Modal Content for 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Generation in Highly Nonlinear Photo- oms and Photons, Dzmitry Matsukevich, version Using Parallel SOA-MZI OOK/ LMA Fiber Sources, Stephan Wielandy; 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 nic Crystal Fiber, Jamison T. Moeser, Stewart Jenkins, Thierry Chaneliere, O. Aus- BPSK Converters, Ken Mishina1, Suresh Lucent Technologies, USA. It is shown that 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Natalie Wolchover, Fiorenzo Omenetto; Tufts tin Collins, Shau-Yu Lan, Corey Campbell, Malinda Nissanka1, Akihiro Maruta1, good beam quality in LMA fibers support- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 Univ., USA. We analyze supercontinuum Ran Zhao, T. A. Brian Kennedy, Alex Shunsuke Mitani2, Kazuyuki Ishida2, ing several guided modes does not imply 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 generation in photonic crystal fibers (PCF) Kuzmich; Georgia Tech, USA. For long dis- Katsuhiro Shimizu2, Tatsuo Hatta2, Ken-ichi low Higher-Order-Mode content, and that 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 composed of Schott-SF6 glass with experi- tances direct quantum communication via Kitayama1; 1Osaka Univ., Japan, 2Mitsubishi this HOM content can lead to uncontrol- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 ments and simulation. We present for the optical fiber is not viable, due to fiber losses. Electric Corp., Japan. We propose a novel lable phase-dependent beam quality and 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 first time the Raman response function of We will outline our program on the use of all-optical NRZ-OOK/RZ-QPSK modulation pointing uncertainty. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 SF6 and validate theory with experimental atomic ensembles for long distance quan- format converter using parallelized SOA- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 data. tum networks. MZIs and demonstrate the proof-of-the-prin- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 ciple experiment at 10.7 GSymbol/s by us- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 ing the test parallel SOA-MZI OOK/BPSK 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 converters. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123

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CTuK4 • 11:30 a.m. CTuL2 • 11:30 a.m. CTuM4 • 11:30 a.m. CTuN5 • 11:30 a.m. CTuO5 • 11:30 a.m. CTuP5 • 11:30 a.m. CTuQ4 • 11:30 a.m. QTuD4 • 11:30 a.m. 1.5 W, Green-Pumped, Continuous- Gallium Nitride LEDs Incorporating Or- Spectral Phase and Amplitude Measure- Highly Efficient Q-Switched Ho:YLF La- Low-Threshold-Current-Density Room- Noninvasive Long Term Observation Inducing Photonic Transitions between Image Inversion and Magnification by Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Paramet- ganic Semiconductor Heterojunctions, ments of Parametric Transfer in a Syn- ser Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser, Yingxin Temperature Continuous-Wave Quan- and Evaluation of Mammal Oocytes and Discrete Modes in a Microcavity, Po Negative Index Prisms, Qi Wu, Ethan ric Oscillator Based on MgO:sPPLT, Hyunjin Kim1, Cuong Dang1, Yoon-Kyu chronously Pumped OPO, Hazel S. S. Bai1, Jirong Yu2, Mulugeta Petros3, Paul J. tum-Cascade-Lasers Grown by Metal Embryos with a 3-D Subcellular Spatial Dong, Stefan F. Preble, Jacob T. Robinson, Schonbrun, Wounjhang Park; Univ. of Colo- Goutam K. Samanta, Gholam Reza Fayaz, Song1, Qiang Zhang1, Kristina Davitt1, Arto Hung, Jerry Prawiharjo, David C. Hanna, Petzar4, Bo C. Trieu2, Hyung R. Lee4, U. Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition, Resolution, Cho-Shuen Hsieh1, Shee-Uan Sasikanth Manipatruni, Michal Lipson; rado at Boulder, USA. Prism structures with Zhipei Sun, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh; ICFO - V. Nurmikko1, Soon-Yong Kwon2, K.-K. Kim2, David P. Shepherd; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Singh2; 1Science Systems and Applications, Xiaojun Wang1, Jenyu Fan1, Tawee Tanbun- Chen2, Yu-Shih Yang2, Chi-Kuang Sun1; School of Electrical and Computer Engineer- negative index materials were investigated The Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain. A con- Jung Han2; 1Brown Univ., USA, 2Yale Univ., Univ. of Southampton, UK. The sonogram Inc., USA, 2NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA, 3Sci- Ek1, Fow-sen Choa2; 1Adtech Optics, Inc., 1Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- ing, Cornell Univ., USA. We demonstrate that for their novel focusing properties such as tinuous-wave, singly-resonant optical para- USA. We report on incorporation of thin or- technique is used to investigate the fidelity ence and Technology Corp., USA, 4Natl. Inst. USA, 2Dept. of Computer Science and Elec- ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 2Dept. of transitions between discrete cavity modes image inversion and magnification. They metric oscillator based on MgO:sPPLT is ganic layers in InGaN blue LEDs. The inte- of near-infrared to mid-infrared parametric of Aerospace, USA. A highly efficient Q- trical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland, USA. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Natl. Taiwan in optical microcavities can be induced when reinforce the functions of flat lens and reported. Pumped at 532nm, the oscillator gration of such contrasting classes of mate- transfer of ultrashort pulse characteristics via switched Ho:YLF laser pumped by a We report Buried-heterostructure QCLs of Univ. Hospital and College of Medicine, Tai- the resonance of cavity is tuned on a time broaden the applications of negative index can provide 1.51 W of idler power tunable rials in a single device may offer new op- difference frequency generation in a syn- Tm:fiber laser has been designed and dem- λ~5µm, grown by MOCVD, with extremely wan. By using harmonic generation micros- scale shorter than the inverse of the fre- materials.

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T over 848-1430nm at 25.2% extraction effi- portunities in the design of flexible opto- chronously pumped optical parametric os- onstrated. When the pump power is 30 W, low CW room-temperature threshold-cur- copy, we are able to noninvasive evaluate quency difference between modes. ciency and 56.7% photon conversion effi- electronics. cillator. the pulse energy is 30mJ at the repetition rent-density of 0.75kA/cm2. Slope efficien- the health of pre-implantation mammalian ciency. rate of 100Hz. cies of 1079mW/A, output power of 116mW embryos after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and at 288K and internal loss of 1.84cm-1 have before transferring to a mother with a high been achieved. 3-D resolution.

CTuK5 • 11:45 a.m. CTuL3 • 11:45 a.m. Invited CTuM5 • 11:45 a.m. CTuN6 • 11:45 a.m. CTuO6 • 11:45 a.m. CTuP6 • 11:45 a.m. CTuQ5 • 11:45 a.m. QTuD5 • 11:45 a.m. High-Energy Periodically Poled Recent Advances in Polymer Lasers and Group-Velocity-Matched Noncollinear CW Single-Frequency Tunable, CW Nonlinear Quantum Cascade Lasers: Development of Multiphoton Scanning Demonstration of 300 Gbps Error-Free Super Resolution Fourier Microscopy in 1 MgO:LiNbO3 Optical Parametric System Optical Amplifiers, A. E. Vasdekis, G. Optical Parametric Oscillation in Quasi- Multi-Watt Polycrystalline, and CW Hot- Toward Broad Tunability and Short- Microscope for Simultaneous Imaging of Transmission of WDM Data Stream in MID-IR, Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii with a Bragg Grating, Jiro Saikawa1, Tsiminis, D. Amarasinghe, A. Ruseckas, M. Phase Matched Gratings, Ye Liu, Jean- Pressed-Ceramic Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers, Igor S. Wavelength Operation, Feng Xie1, Don Multiple Depths, Ramon Carriles, Wafa Silicon Photonic Wires, Xiaogang Chen1, Narimanov1, Jacob Khurgin2; 1Princeton Masaaki Fujii1, Hideki Ishizuki2, Takunori Goossens, L. O’Faolain, T. F. Krauss, G. A. Claude Diels; Univ. of New Mexico, USA. We Moskalev, Vladimir V. Fedorov, Sergey B. Smith1, Venkata R. Chaganti1, Alexey Amir, Erich E. Hoover, Thomas A. Planchon, Benjamin G. Lee1, Xiaoping Liu1, Benjamin Univ., USA, 2Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. We Taira2; 1Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan, Turnbull, Ifor Samuel; Univ. of St. Andrews, propose a novel scheme of noncollinear Mirov; Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Belyanin1, Dan Wasserman2, Claire Jeff A. Squier; Colorado School of Mines, USA. A. Small1, Iwei Hsieh1, Jerry Dadap2, Keren propose a novel scheme for subwavelength- 2Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan. We re- UK. Advanced polymer photonic devices are phase matching for femtosecond optical USA. We demonstrate CW ultrafast-tunable Gmachl2, Junichiro Kono3, Mikhail Belkin4, We present a two-photon absorption scan- Bergman1, Richard M. Osgood1, Fengnian resolved imaging in the mid-IR. Our ap- port a large aperture periodically poled reported. These include a directly diode- parametric oscillation in periodically poled (4 µm/s), 150 mW, single-longitudinal-mode Federico Capasso4; 1Texas A&M Univ., USA, ning microscope capable of imaging two or Xia3, William Green3, Lidija Sekaric3, Yurii proach relies on scattering from an acoustic 2 3 1 1 MgO:LiNbO3 optical parametric system with pumped polymer laser, a femtosecond poly- gratings. Consequently, the parametric gain (120 MHz); and CW multi-watt (2.7 W at 2.5 Princeton Univ., USA, Rice Univ., USA, more focal planes simultaneously. We Vlasov ; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, grating and allows far-field detection of high Bragg grating. Narrow bandwidth pulses of mer laser, and a broadband solid state poly- is enhanced by orders of magnitude and the µm), highly efficient (39% real efficiency) 4Harvard Univ., USA. We propose new de- modify the microscope’s excitation path, and Columbia Univ., USA, 2Dept. of Applied Phys- spatial frequency Fourier components of the <1nm at degeneracy point (2128nm) were mer optical amplifier. threshold for oscillation reduced signifi- polycrystalline Cr2+:ZnSe lasers; and CW hot- signs for quantum-cascade lasers integrated use photon counting, to separate different ics, Columbia Univ., USA, 3IBM T. J. Watson object under study. amplified up to 30mJ. cantly. pressed ceramic Cr2+:ZnSe laser. with resonant intersubband nonlinearities, depth images through their relative timing. Res. Ctr., USA. We present the first experi- which promise ultra-broad spectral tuning mental demonstration of error-free (bit er- and room-temperature operation in the hard- ror rates < 10-12) transmission of a 300-Gbps to-reach short-wavelength range λ ~2.5-4 WDM data stream through a 2-cm-long sili- µm. con photonic wire using 24 C-band channels, each modulated at 12.5 Gbps.

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CTuK6 • 12:00 p.m. CTuM6 • 12:00 p.m. CTuN7 • 12:00 p.m. CTuO7 • 12:00 p.m. CTuP7 • 12:00 p.m. CTuQ6 • 12:00 p.m. QTuD6 • 12:00 p.m. Engineered Quasi-Phase Matching De- Divided-Pulse Amplification of Ul- Tm:ZBLAN Fiber Lasers and Their Use Comparative Analysis of THz Quantum Enhanced Two-Photon in vivo Flow Compact, Low-Power, High-Speed Sili- Gain-Assisted Dispersion Management vice for Unequally Spaced Multiple trashort Pulses, Shian Zhou, Dimitre G. for Gain-Switched Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers, Marc Cascade Lasers, Christian Jirauschek1, Cytometry with an Extended Cavity La- con Electro-Optic Modulator, Fuwan in Negative-Index Materials, Viktor A. Wavelength Generation, Masaki Asobe, Ouzounov, Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., Eichhorn; French-German Res. Inst. of Saint- Giuseppe Scarpa1, Paolo Lugli1, Miriam S. ser, Eric R. Tkaczyk, Jing Yong Ye, Steve Gan1, Steven J. Spector2, Michael W. Geis2, Podolskiy, Alexander A. Govyadinov; Or- Osamu Tadanaga, Takeshi Umeki, Tsutomu USA. We demonstrate an approach to avoid Louis, France. Highly efficient cw (49 % opt.- Vitiello2, Gaetano Scamarcio2; 1TU München, Katnik, Kathryn Luker, Gary Luker, James Matthew E. Grein2, Robert T. Schulein2, Jung egon State Univ., USA. We demonstrate that Yanagawa, Yoshiki Nishida, Katsuaki nonlinear effects in the amplification. The opt., 20 W) and Q-switched (9 W average) Germany, 2Univ. Degli Studi di Bari, Italy. R. Baker, Ted B. Norris; Univ. of Michigan, UK Yoon2, Theodore M. Lyszczarz2, Franz relatively weak material gain can be utilized Magari, Hiroyuki Suzuki; NTT Photonics initial pulse is divided into a sequence of Tm:ZBLAN fiber lasers are reported. Used We present a comparative Monte-Carlo USA. We use multiphoton in vivo flow X. Kärtner1; 1MIT, USA, 2Lincoln Lab, MIT, as an effective tool to manipulate disper- Labs, NTT Corp., Japan. We propose a novel lower-energy identical pulses. The low-infor pumping Cr2+:ZnSe, 65 ns gain-switched analysis of a set of GaAs-based THz quan- cytometry to monitor multiple cell lines. With USA. A 250 µm long, CMOS-compatible, PIN sion of negative index materials achieving, quasi-phase matched device that can gen- tensity pulses are amplified and recombined pulses were achieved around 2.3 µm (1 W tum cascade lasers, allowing us to identify a reduced-repetition-rate (20-MHz) mode- diode Mach-Zehnder modulator has been in particular, broadband impedance- or in- erate unequally spaced multiple wave- to create a final pulse. average). the effects limiting the device performance locked oscillator, the signal is enhanced four- fabricated with response extending to dex-matching. Finite-size and unbounded lengths. Utilizing 3.2-3.4 µm band differ- in the threshold region. Reasonable agree- fold, enabling detection in blood of mul- 13GHz. Modeling shows that pre- media are discussed.

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T ence frequency generation in a LiNbO3 ment with experiment is found. tiple cell lines expressing different GFP vari- compensation enables the fabrication of waveguide, we demonstrate the measure- ants. ultracompact 10GHz 3-DB-bandwidth, op-

ment of multiple absorption lines of CH4. tically broadband modulators.

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Kaplan , Kenzo Miyazaki ; ing Single Photon Detectors, Carl Zinoni , gular Spectrum, Makoto Naruse , Tetsuya High Power Applications, Adrian Carter , Intensity Equation, Christophe Dorrer, Murawski, Ariunbold Gombojav, Xi Wang, uesday, May 8 1 2 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Kyoto Univ., Ja- Blandine Alloing , Lianhe Li , Francesco Inoue , Hirokazu Hori ; Natl. Inst. of Infor- Julia Farroni , Kanishka Tankala , Bryce Jonathan D. Zuegel; Lab for Laser Energet- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012Miaochan Zhi, Alexei V. Sokolov, Vladimir and lasers are key components of Florida’s3 1 1 2 1 1 1 pan. We developed a physical model of re- Marsili , Andrea Fiore , Lambertp Lunghi , mation and Communications Technology, Samson , David Machewirth , Nils Jacobson , ics, USA. The transport-of-intensity equation 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012A. Sautenkov, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Marlan O. tech-based economy. This talk discusses the3 2 2 3 2 2,3 cently discovered sub-wavelength nano- Annamaria Gerardino , Yuri B. Japan, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Yamanashi William Torruellas , Youming Chen , Ming- is used to describe the influence of small- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012Scully; Inst. for Quantum Studies and Depts. University of Central Florida’s focused edu-3 3 3 4 3 3,4 ripples formed by fs pulses on solid-state Vakhtomin , K. V. Smirnov , G. N. Industrial Technology College, Japan, Univ. Yuan Cheng , Almantas Galvanauskas , scale phase fluctuations present on the sur- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012of Physics and Chemical Engineering, Texas cation, research, commercialization, and in-3 3 1 4 1 2 surfaces. It predicts surface nano-stratifica- Gol’tsman ; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de of Yamanashi, Japan. We theoretically ana- Anthony Sanchez ; Nufern, USA, Fibertek, face of optical elements, which can be char- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012A&M Univ., USA. We report the first obser- dustry partnership programs to support and3 2 3 tion on the scale of a few tens of nanom- Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Inst. of lyze the hierarchical coarse graining process, USA, EECS Dept., Univ. of Michigan, USA, acterized from the diffraction-induced modi- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012vation of endospores via a new technique, grow this economic sector. 3 eters due to dipole-dipole electron interac- Photonics and Nanotechnology, CNR, Italy, or hierarchical interconnects, using optical 4AFRL/DELO, USA. Demonstrate a large core fications of the intensity of a coherent source. 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012hybrid CARS, which identifies the endospore 3 tion. 3Moscow State Pedagogical Univ., Russian near-fields based on an angular spectrum diameter PM Er/Yb fiber incorporating 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012marker molecules by simultaneous measure- 3 Federation. Single-photon detectors based representation, which allows explicit treat- unique raised inner-cladding which facili- 12345678901234567890123456789012123456789012ment of several vibrational modes. The 3 on NbN superconducting nanostructures ment in the sub-wavelength regime. 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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. JTuA • Poster Session I

JTuA1 JTuA4 JTuA7 JTuA10 JTuA13 JTuA17 JTuA21 JTuA25 Power Dissipation Requirements in Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Pho- All-Optical Switching at Ultra-Low Light Giant Kerr Effect in Degenerate Closed High-Visibility Classical Multi-Photon Is Entanglement Dispensable in Quan- Realization of Loschmidt Echo in Atom Two-Photon Based Semiconductor En- Slow Light Devices, Jacob B. Khurgin; tons, Joachim von Zanthier1, Christoph Levels, Jiepeng Zhang, Gessler Hernandez, Transitions, Luca Spani Molella1,2, Gerrit Interference, Ivan N. Agafonov, Maria V. tum Lithography? Milena D’Angelo1, Optics Billiard, Tzahi Grunzweig, Yoav tanglement-Source for Quantum Com- Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. Various slow light Thiel1, Thierry Bastin2, Enrique Solano3, Yifu Zhu; Florida Intl. Univ., USA. We re- Kühn1,2, Rolf-Hermann Rinkleff1,2, Karsten Chekhova, Timur Sh. Iskhakov; Lomonosov Giuliano Scarcelli2, Yanhua Shih3; 1Euro- Sagi, Yanbang Wang, Yoni Hertzberg, munications, Alex Hayat, Pavel Ginzburg, schemes are analyzed to determine power Girish S. Agarwal4; 1Inst. for Optics, Infor- port an experimental demonstration of all- Danzmann1,2; 1Max-Planck-Inst. für Moscow State Univ., Russian Federation. pean Lab for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Armin Ridinger, Nir Davidson; Weizmann Meir Orenstein; Technion, Israel. We pro- dissipation per stored bit. It is shown that mation and Photonics, Germany, 2Inst. for optical switching with the signal and con- Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Inst., High-visibility multi-photon interference is Italy, 2Harvard Medical School, USA, 3Univ. Inst. of Science, Israel. Loschmidt echo of pose a compact efficient room-temperature required dissipated power increases quite Optics, Information and Photonics, Belgium, trol light pulses containing about 20 pho- Germany, 2Inst. für Gravitationsphysik, usually considered as a signature of non- of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Can atoms trapped in atom optics billiards with polarization-entangled photons source based nonlinearly reaching unsustainably high 3Physics Dept., ASC and CeNS, Ludwig- tons each, corresponding to a control en- Leibnitz Univ. Hannover, Germany. Giant classical light. We show, theoretically and classical light simulate the effect of quan- chaotic and mixed dynamics is realized by on two-photon spontaneous emission from values for the storage capacities needed for Maximilians-Univ., Germany, 4Dept. of ergy density of ~10-5 photons per atomic Kerr nonlinearities about twelve orders of experimentally, that three-photon interfer- tum lithography? The analysis of the two- performing a microwave Ramsey sequence semiconductor quantum wells in a optical buffers. Physics, Oklahoma State Univ., USA. We pro- cross section λ2/(2π). magnitudes greater than in glass were mea- ence visibility can be as high as 81.8% for photon image generated both by entangled to to their internal state. microcavity. Pair generation rate in GaInP/ pose a technique to obtain sub-wavelength sured under negligible absorption conditions coherent light and 60% for thermal light. two-photon and by chaotic radiation indi- AlGaInP is O(103) higher than for PDC JTuA2 resolution in imaging with 100% visibility JTuA8 within two different closed transitions of the cates that only entanglement can double the JTuA22 sources. Spectral Properties of Entangled-Pho- using incoherent light. We can in principle Narrow Linewidth Diode Laser System cesium D2 line characterized by electromag- JTuA14 resolution of an image. Violation of Bell’s Inequality with Con- uesday, May 8 uesday, tons Generated via Type-I Spontaneous obtain a resolution of λ/N using coincidence- for Coherent Precision Spectroscopy, netically induced transparency or absorp- Quantum-Dot-Photon Dynamics in a tinuous Spatial Variables, Ayman F. JTuA26 T Parametric Downconversion, So-Young detection of N photons emitted from N ex- Andreas Wicht1, Nadine Strauss1, Klaus tion. Coupled-Cavity Waveguide: A Platform JTuA18 Aboouraddy1, Timothy Yarnall2, Bahaa E. Generation of Photon Pairs with Engi- Baek, Yoon-ho Kim; Pohang Univ. of Science cited atoms. Döringshoff1, Ingo Ernsting1, Bernhard for Bandedge Quantum Optics, David P. Two-Photon Spectral Coherency Matrix a. Saleh2, Malvin C. Teich2; 1MIT, USA, 2Bos- neered Spectral Properties by Spontane- and Technology, Republic of Korea. Com- Roth1, Jeroen Koelemeij1, Stephan Schiller1, JTuA11 Fussell, Marc M. Dignam; Queen’s Univ., and Multi-Parameter Optical Entangle- ton Univ., USA. We demonstrate an approach ous Four-Wave Mixing, Karina Garay- plete measurement of single-photon and JTuA5 Rolf-Herman Rinkleff2, Karsten Danzmann2; Compact and Robust Laser System for Canada. We examine the strong-coupling ment, Cristian Bonato1,2, Alexander V. to violating Bell’s inequality with the con- Palmett, Raul Rangel-Rojo, Rodger Evans, two-photon joint spectral properties of en- 1.5-µm Band Hong-Ou-Mandel Experi- 1Univ. of Duesseldorf, Germany, 2MPI for Rubidium Laser Cooling Based on Fi- quantum-dot-photon dynamics at the Sergienko1, Bahaa E. A. Saleh1, Malvin C. tinuous spatial variables of entangled-pho- Santiago Camacho-López, Alfred B. U’Ren; tangled-photon pairs generated via type-I ment Using Photon Pairs Generated in Gravitational Physics, Germany. A new type bered Technology at 1560 nm and Sec- bandedge of a realistic, lossy, coupled-cav- Teich1; 1Boston Univ., USA, 2CNR-INFM ton pairs using simple optical components CICESE, Mexico. We study the generation of spontaneous parametric down-conversion Two Independent Optical Fibers, Hiroki of diode laser system for precision spectros- ond Harmonic Generation, Fabien ity waveguide and show that the signatures LUXOR, Dept. of Information Engineering, that manipulate the spatial parity of the trans- photon pairs by spontaneous four-wave under different phase-matching conditions Takesue1,2; 1NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan, copy is presented. Its excellent passive sta- Lienhart1, Salah Boussen2, Olivier Carraz1, of bandedge coupling and Rabi oscillations Univ. of Padua, Italy. We introduce the con- verse coordinate in one dimension. mixing in microstructured optical fibers. We are reported. A theoretical model is devel- 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology bility eases locking to fs-frequency combs, Nassim Zahzam1, Yannick Bidel1, Alexandre are transmitted down the waveguide. cept of two-photon spectral coherency ma- show that it is possible to engineer states oped to explain the observed spectral prop- Agency, Japan. I report the first Hong-Ou- which is demonstrated with high resolution Bresson1; 1ONERA, France, 2Faculte de trix and spectral two-photon Stokes param- JTuA23 with specific spectral entanglement proper- erties. Mandel experiment using two photon pairs spectroscopy of cold HD+ ions. Medecine de Lyon Nord, France. We pro- JTuA15 eters as a counterpart to the classical coher- Long-Range Spin-Qubit Interaction in ties suitable for quantum information pro- in the 1.5-µm band that are generated in pose a compact and robust laser system for Coherent Association of Two-Compo- ency matrix of broadband polarized light. Planar Microcavities, Carlo Piermarocchi1, cessing applications. JTuA3 two independent dispersion shifted fibers. JTuA9 onboard laser cooling experiments like nent Atomic Condensate into We discuss its use for characterizing fre- Guillermo F. Quinteiro1, Joaquin Magneto-Optical Resonance in A quantum interference with 53% visibility Entangled Photon Generation from a atomic clocks or atomic inertial sensors. Our Heteronuclear Molecular Condensate, quency-polarization optical entanglement. Fernandez-Rossier2; 1Michigan State Univ., JTuA27 Counterpropagating Waves, Sergei A. was observed. Single Quantum Dot in Microcavity, system is based on the frequency doubling Lu Zhou1, Weiping Zhang1, Hong Y. Ling2, USA, 2Univ. of Alicante, Spain. We study Propagation of Two Photon States Zibrov1,2, Yaroslav O. Dudin1,2, Alexander Hiroshi Ajiki1,2, Hajime Ishihara2,3; 1Dept. of of a fiber bench at 1560 nm. Lei Jiang3, Han Pu3; 1East China Normal JTuA19 theoretically the coupling between localized through Dispersive Media and Spectral G. Radnaev1,2, Vitali V. Vasiliev1, Vladimir JTuA6 Materials Engineering Science, Osaka Univ., Univ., China, 2Rowan Univ., USA, 3Rice Exploring Non-Conservation of Angular spins mediated by itinerant polaritons in a Entanglement Migration, Yasser Jeronimo- L. Velichansky1, Denis V. Brazhnikov3, Negative Bi-Exciton Binding Energy in Japan, 2CREST, Japan Science and Technol- JTuA12 Univ., USA. We study the dynamics of asso- Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric planar micro-cavity. Due to their photon- Moreno, Alfred B. U’Ren; CICESE, Mexico. Alexey V. Taichenachev3,4, Anatoliy M. (211)B InAs/GaAs Piezoelectric Quan- ogy Agency, Japan, 3Dept. of Physics and Mesoscopic Entanglement of Atomic ciating a two-component atomic condensate Down-Conversion, Sheng Feng, Chao- like mass, polaritons provide an extremely We study entanglement migration between Tumaikin3, Valeriy I. Yudin3; 1P.N. Lebedev tum Dots, Giorgos Dialynas1, Christina Electronics, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan. Ensembles through Non-Resonant into a condensate of heteronuclear mol- Hsiang Chen, Geraldo A. Barbosa, Prem long spin-coupling range, useful for the re- modulus and phase for parametric down- Physical Inst. Russian Acad. of Sciences, Xenogianni1,2, Emmanouil Trichas1,2, Pavlos A biexciton plays only a minor role in en- Stimulated Raman Scattering, Wenhai Ji, ecules. We compare the mean-field results Kumar; Northwestern Univ., USA. We pro- alization of two-qubit operations. conversion photon pairs which propagate Russian Federation, 2Moscow Engineering Savvidis1,2, Zacharias Hatzopoulos1,3, tangled photon generation from a quantum Chunbai Wu, Steven J. van Enk, Michael G. with a full quantum mechanical treatment, pose an efficient method to measure the total through dispersive media. In addition, we Physics Inst. State Univ., Russian Federation, Nikolaos Pelekanos1,2, Giorgos dot in microcavity. The rate of entangled Raymer; Oregon Ctr. for Optics, USA. Atomic emphasizing the effects of atomic popula- angular momentum of the down-converted JTuA24 discuss a related dispersion suppression ef- 3Inst. of Laser Physics SB Russian Acad. of Constantinidis1; 1IESL-FORTH, Greece, 2Dept. photons becomes almost 100% due to the ensemble entanglement can be generated tion imbalance. beams in the case that the angular momen- Integrated Optics Technology for Quan- fect which occurs for factorable, highly Sciences, Russian Federation, 4Novosibirsk of Materials Science and Technology, Univ. photon blockade in the strong-coupling re- by measuring the Stokes fields and verified tum is not conserved due to azimuthal asym- tum Information Processing in Atomic asymmetric states. State Univ., Russian Federation. Electromag- of Crete, Greece, 3Physics Dept., Univ. of gime. by measuring the readout anti-Stokes fields. JTuA16 metry in spontaneous parametric down-con- Systems, Jungsang Kim, Changsoon Kim, netically-induced absorption resonances in Crete, Greece. We report on isolated dot We model the effects of practical factors and Effects of Polarization-Dependent Loss version. Caleb Knoernschild, Bi Liu, Kyle S. McKay, JTuA28 Hanle-configuration are experimentally and spectroscopy of polar (211)InAs/GaAs quan- find achievable entanglement regimes at and Fiber Birefringence on Photon-Pair Felix Lu; Duke Univ., USA. Scalable quan- Optimized Photon Pair Generation by theoretically studied in the case of tum dots grown by MBE. Exciton and mesoscopic-level excitation. Entanglement in Fiber-Optic Channels, JTuA20 tum information processing in ion traps or Parametric Downconversion in Nonlin- counterpropagating waves. A backward biexciton peaks have been identified, re- Milja Medic, Prem Kumar; Northwestern Velocity-Selective Two-Photon Reso- neutral atoms requires highly integrated and ear Photonic Crystals, Maria Corona- wave presence provides a significant in- vealing a negative biexciton binding energy Univ., USA. Quantum communication re- nances with Blue and Red Detunings in functional optical systems for qubit manipu- Garcia-Cabral, Alfred B. U’Ren; CICESE, crease of the amplitude. The results may be attributed to the presence of strong piezo- quires that photon-pair entanglement be a Cold Atomic Sample, Matthew L. lation and detection. We discuss and dem- Mexico. We explore the generation of pho- useful for precision magnetometry. electric field. preserved as the photons are distributed to Terraciano, Spencer E. Olson, Mark onstrate integrated optics technologies that ton pairs by the process of parametric remote locations. We model the effects of Bashkansky, Zachary Dutton, Fredrik K. are relevant for this application. downconversion in nonlinear photonic crys- loss and birefringence on polarization-en- Fatemi; NRL, USA. We explore a cooling tals. In particular, we show that careful de- tangled photon pairs propagating in optical mechanism that results from a two-photon sign of the photonic crystal, can lead to fibers. Raman process resonant with a particular nearly-factorable two-photon states. velocity class of atoms. We have seen evidence for cooling with both red and blue detuned light.

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JTuA29 JTuA33 JTuA37 JTuA41 JTuA45 JTuA48 JTuA52 JTuA56 Multipartite Atom(s)-Field Entanglement Laser-Assisted Electrical Gating in a Two- Add-Drop Filters Based on Mode Con- Development of Planar Waveguide Based Broadband, Low Intensity Noise Source A Novel Confocal Fiber-Optic Laser Quantitative Phase Contrast Imaging of Optode Design on Flexible Print Circuit in Cavity QED, Perry Rice1, James P. Terminal Device Based on Vanadium version Cavities, Jacob B. Khurgin1, Marcel Integrated Optic SPR (Surface Plasmon for Optical Coherence Tomography at Method for Exact Intraocular Lens Di- Cells by Multi-Wavelength Digital Holog- Board for a Portable Diffuse Optical To- Clemens1, Luis A. Orozco2; 1Miami Univ., Dioxide Thin Film, Yong Wook Lee, Bong- Pruessner2, Todd Stievater2, William S. Resonance) Sensor Array, Hyungseok 1.8µm, A. A. Ferin, A. B. Rulkov, J. C. optric Power Measurement, Ilko K. Ilev, raphy, Alexander Khmaladze, Myung Kim; mography System, Chun-Ming Wu1,2, USA, 2Univ. of Maryland, USA. We consider Jun Kim, Sungyoul Choi, Byung-Gyu Chae, Rabinovich2; 1Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Pang, Patrick L. Likamwa, Hyoung J. Cho; Travers, S. V. Popov, J. R. Taylor; Robert Faaland, Don Calogero; U.S. Food Univ. of South Florida, USA. Quantitative Zong-Han Yu1,2, Chia-Wei Sun1, Cho-Pei

the entanglement between a multi-level Hyun-Tak Kim, In Gyoo Kim, Gyungock 2NRL, USA. A resonator defined by mode- Univ. of Central Florida, USA. An integrated Femtosecond Optics Group, Imperial College, and Drug Administration, Ctr. for Devices phase contrast images of cells are gener- Jiang1, Kuo-Tong Ma1, Jui-Che Tsai1; 1Indus- T atom and two cavity modes for a cavity QED Kim; Electronics and Telecommunications converting gratings in a waveguide is pro- optic SPR biosensor array with on-substrate UK. We report on a fibre-system, based on and Radiological Health, USA. Based on a ated by multi-wavelength phase imaging trial Technology Res. Inst., Taiwan, 2Natl. uesday, May 8 system, find that cross-correlations between Res. Inst., Republic of Korea. In a two-termi- posed. This resonator can exhibit narrow integrated photodetectors has been devel- CW Er-ASE-source-pumped highly nonlin- fiber-optic confocal design, we have devel- digital holography. Two or more wave- Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. The optode scheme the two modes are witness to atom-field nal electrical device based on vanadium di- resonances similar to Fabry-Perot with an oped. The device is able to generate SPR ear fibre. As low as -120dBc/Hz intensity oped a simple, accurate, objective and quick lengths are used for simultaneous illumina- of DOT is designed for tissue oxygenation entanglement. Concurrences and log- oxide thin film, electrical gating has been advantage of being a four-port device ca- electrical signal directly and has the poten- noise of the near-Gaussian >200nm band- method for exact focal length measurement tion of the cells and real-time acquisition of probing. The multiplexing illumination and negativities are also calculated. demonstrated by illuminating a focused la- pable of serving as an add-drop filter. tial for high throughput optical sensing. width was obtained. The source can enable of both positive and negative intraocular holographic images. image acquisition are operated with DAQ ser beam with a wavelength of ~1550 nm micron-scale OCT around low-scatter 1.8µm lenses providing a spatial resolution exceed- card interface. In experiments, the hemo- JTuA30 onto the selectively etched thin film. JTuA38 JTuA42 region. ing 1 µm. JTuA53 dynamic images are observed with in vivo A New Scheme of Birefringent Optical Modelling Intersubband Speckle Mechanism in Optical Coher- Characterization of Skin Incision Clo- measurements. Interleaver Employing Ring Cavity as JTuA34 Electroabsorption Modulation, Kuan- ence Imaging, Haibo Lin, Ping Yu; Dept. JTuA46 JTuA49 sure Using Diode Laser and ICG - Albu- Phase-Dispersion Element, Chao-Wei Monitoring of Optical Signal-to-Noise Meng Wong, Duncan W. Allsopp; Univ. of of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Missouri Enhancement of Fluorescence and Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter-Based min Protein Solder, Mohammad E. JTuA57 Lee1, Ruibo Wang2, Pochi Yeh3, Wood-Hi Ratio Using Polarization Maintaining Bath, UK. The scope for using intersubband at Columbia, USA. Relation between holo- Raman Scattering in a Liquid-Core Opti- Spectropolarimetric Imagers for Bio- Khosroshahi, Mohammad Sadegh Cascaded Two Wavelength Lasers and Cheng1; 1Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, Fiber Bragg Grating, Khurram Karim absorption for electroabsorption modulation graphic speckle size and mean free path of cal Fiber Based on Hollow-Core Photo- medical Applications, Neelam Gupta; ARL, Nourbakhsh; Amirkabir Univ. of Technology, Their Effects on C-Band Amplification Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan, 2Accumux Qureshi, Lu Chao, Ping Kong Wai, Xinyong has been investigated. Rapid changes in milk is studied in a holographic OCI sys- nic-Crystal Fibers, Li Huo1, Chinlon Lin1, USA. Optical imagers that can detect both Iran. The optical and thermal parameters Performance for Er3+-Doped Fluoride Technologies, USA, 3Dept. of Electrical and Dong, Hwa Y. Tam; Hong Kong Polytechnic intersubband absorption coefficient with tem. Results indicate that speckle size is lin- Yick Keung Suen2, Siu Kai Kong2, Lei Jin3, spectral and polarization signatures are are optimized for an invitro skin closure Fiber, Guanshi Qin, Tatsuya Yamashita, Computer Engineering, Univ. of California Univ., China. We present a simple all-opti- electric field are predicted for modulation early depends on the mean free path of the Guillaume Vienne4; 1Dept. of Information needed in biomedical applications. Acousto- using a 10W diode laser at 800 nm. The Yasutake Ohishi; Toyota Technological Inst.,

at Santa Barbara, USA. A new scheme of cal in-band optical signal-to-noise ratio doped In0.53Ga0.47As/AlAs deep single and turbid media. Engineering, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, optic tunable filter (AOTF) based imagers results showed the effects of static and dy- Japan. We report cascaded two-wavelength an optical interleaver using a ring cavity is (OSNR) monitor based on orthogonal po- coupled quantum wells. Hong Kong, 2Dept. of Biochemistry, Chinese are described that are ideally suited to pro- namic modes on tissue tensile strength. 853nm and 1533nm lasing from Er3+-doped proposed. A wide 0.5dB passband larization detection using a polarization JTuA43 Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 3D ept. of vide both agile spectral and polarization sig- fluoride fiber pumped at 974nm. A new way (0.91xbandwidth), a large 25dB stopband maintaining fiber Bragg grating. JTuA39 Detection of Bacillus thuringiensis Electrical Engineering, Chinese Univ. of natures. JTuA54 to get high efficiency and low noise C-band- (0.78xbandwidth), and a high channel iso- Wavelength Exchange with Enhanced Spore Germination via CaDPA Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4Dept. of Optical Linear, Spatio-Temporal Characteriza- amplifier is suggested for Er3+-doped fibers lation (45dB) are obtained. JTuA35 Extinction Ratio in Highly Nonlinear Biomarker Using Laser Tweezers Raman Engineering, Zhejiang Univ., China. Fluo- JTuA50 tion of UV Microscope Objectives for with low phonon energy. Multimode SCM-Based PON Architecture Dispersion-Shifted Fiber, Rebecca W.L. Spectroscopy, Shu-shi Huang, De Chen, rescence/Raman scattering in a liquid-core Single-Shot Two-Photon Action Cross Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy, JTuA31 for Computer Network Applications Fung, Henry K.Y. Cheung, Bill P.P. Kuo, Ken- Yong-qing Li; East Carolina Univ., USA. We optical fiber waveguide based on hollow- Section Measurement, Kebin Shi, Ahmed Dawn N. Schafer1, Wafa Amir1, Charles G. JTuA58 General Two-Dimensional Coupled-Cav- Using a Low-Cost Polymer 1x8 Splitter/ neth K.Y. Wong; Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong report real-time observation of nutrient- core photonic-crystal fibers was demon- A. Heikal, Zhiwen Liu; Pennsylvania State Durfee1, Jeff Squier1, Emily A. Gibson2, Experimental Demonstration of Raman ity Microring Filter Architectures, Ashok Combiner, Nikolaos Bamiedakis1, Jin Yong Kong. We demonstrate a simple approach trigged germination process of single Bacil- strated. 10 times of signal enhancement in a Univ., USA. We report on a one-shot ap- Lauren Kost2, Ralph Jimenez2; 1Colorado Gain Efficiency and Chromatic Disper- P. Masilamani, Vien Van; Univ. of Alberta, Ha1, Fan Yang1, Adrian Wonfor1, Richard to enhance the extinction ratio of wavelength lus thuringiensis spores by detection of 6-cm long fiber was achieved. Different PCFs proach for measuring two-photon action School of Mines, USA, 2JILA, NIST and Dept. sion of Hole-Assisted Fiber: Influence of Canada. Two-dimensional coupled- V. Penty1, Ian H. White1, Jon V. Degroot Jr.2, exchange with a polarization-diversity tech- CaDPA biomarker using laser tweezers showed different enhancement factors. cross section without tuning the excitation of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Bend, Shailendra K. Varshney, Yukihiro microring arrays of the most general topol- Terry V. Clapp2; 1Univ. of Cambridge, UK, nique. Over 25 dB of extinction ratio is at- Raman spectroscopy. The time-to-germina- wavelength. The results obtained by this Colorado, USA. Spectral interferometry Tsuchida, Kazuya Sasaki, Kunimasa Saitoh, ogy are proposed for realizing optical filters 2Dow Corning Corp., USA. A low-cost PON tained with 6 dB improvement over that of tion was heterogeneous for spores and the JTuA47 method show good agreement with that coupled to numerical wave propagation is Masanori Koshiba; Hokkaido Univ., Japan. with arbitrary spectral responses. A method architecture based on sub-carrier multiplex- the conventional configuration. distribution was measured. Cancer Detection Using Infrared Tran- obtained by conventional methods using used to extract the spatial and temporal The Raman gain efficiency and chromatic- for synthesizing these filters with optimal ing and an 8-way low loss multimode poly- sillumination, Sanhita Dixit1, Theresamai tunable lasers. characteristics of an ultraviolet objective used dispersion of a hole-assisted fiber with and design is presented along with numerical mer splitter/combiner is presented operat- JTuA40 JTuA44 Le1, Khalid Amin1, Christopher Comstock2, for nonlinear imaging and spectroscopy. without minimum allowable bending radius examples. ing at 850nm. Two-channel error-free op- Fiber-Free Characterization of Photonics High-Resolution Swept-Source Optical Gregory Faris1; 1SRI Intl., USA, 2Univ. of Cali- JTuA51 are measured. Numerical predictions from eration with a Q-factor greater than 8 is Integrated Circuits by Coherence Tomography with the Fre- fornia at San Diego, USA. The viability of a An All-Fiber-Optic Confocal Interference JTuA55 the theory are shown to be in good agree- JTuA32 observed. Thermoreflectance Microscopy, Maryam quency-Sweeping the Broadened Spec- new infrared imaging modality for the de- Microscope Using Low-Coherence Near- Fourier Domain Common-Path Fiber ment with the experimental results. Polymer Waveguide with 4-Channel Cir- Farzaneh1, Janice A. Hudgings1, Rajeev J. trum of a fs Cr:forsterite Laser, Chih-Wei tection of breast cancer is tested via whole Infrared Light Source, Do-Hyun Kim1, OCT with Tunable Reference: Analysis cular GI Cores toward High-Speed Opti- JTuA36 Ram2; 1Mount Holyoke College, USA, 2MIT, Lu, Meng-Tsan Tsai, Yih-Ming Wang, Cheng- animal imaging studies. The potential of this Ronald W. Waynant1, Ilko K. Ilev1, Jin U. and Optimization, Jin U. Kang, Abner cal Interconnects, Yusuke Takeyoshi, Strain Induced Waveguide Electro-Optic USA. We demonstrate the use of amplified Kuang Lee, Yean-Woei Kiang, C. C. Yang; technique for imaging human breast tissue Kang2; 1U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rodríguez; John Hopkins Univ., USA. We Takaaki Ishigure; Faculty of Science and Modulators in Barium Titanate Crystal, spontaneous emission in thermoreflectance Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. We demon- is also demonstrated. Ctr. for Devices and Radiological Health, have built a Fourier-domain, fiber-optic, Technology, Keio Univ., Japan. We fabricate Jiansheng Tang1, Shujun Yang2, Apichai imaging of photonic integrated circuits for strate a spectral-domain optical coherence USA, 2Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. An all-fi- common-path OCT system with a tunable polymer waveguides with 4-channel circu- Bhatranand3; 1Hunan First Normal College, fiber-free characterization of the integrated tomography system, including a broadband ber-optic confocal interference microscope reference. We report our initial investiga- lar graded-index cores for the first time by China, 2Applied Materials, Inc., USA, 3King cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers. frequency sweeping light source with the using a broadband near-infrared light source tion of the performance of the system and the preform method. The new waveguide Mongkut’s Univ. of Technology Thonburi, central wavelength around 1250 nm, to is demonstrated. Detection of interference analyze the results. exhibits very low-loss (0.029dB/cm), high Thailand. Strain-induced waveguide electro- achieve an axial resolution of 2.4 µm in tis- fringes increases sensitivity and usage of a bandwidth (estimated 60Gbps for 1m) and optic phase modulators in barium titanium sue. broadband source reduces undesirable in- low inter-channel crosstalk. (BaTiO3) crystal are demonstrated. Low loss terference between optical components. waveguide and low half-wave voltage length product are achieved at 1550nm wavelength regime.

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JTuA59 JTuA63 JTuA66 JTuA70 JTuA74 JTuA77 JTuA80 JTuA83 Radiation Dose Enhancement in Photo- Optimizing Raman/EDFA Hybrid Ampli- FM Laser Operation in SOA Based Fiber High-Repetition-Rate Passively Q- The Fabrication of Laser Array by Holo- One Centimeter Resolution Tempera- Ultra-Flat Spectrum, Multiwavelength A Volume Bragg Grating Locked Nd:Fiber nic Crystal Fiber Bragg Gratings: To- fier Based on Dual-Order Stimulated Ring Lasers, Simon Lambert Girard1, Switched Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser graphic Interference Lithography, Chuli ture Measurements from 25 to 850°C Operation in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser, Fredrik Laurell, Valdas Pasiskevicius, wards Photo-Ionization Monitoring of Raman Scattering of a Single Pump, Hongxin Chen2, Gregory W. Schinn2, Michel with Cr4+:YAG Saturable Absorber, Lei Chao1,2, Chi-Yu Ni1, Rong Xuan1,2, Hao- Using Rayleigh Scatter in Gold Coated Laser Using Power-Clamping Effect, Pär Jelger; Royal Inst. of Technology, Swe- Irradiation Sources in Harsh Nuclear Zhaohui Li1, Yang Jing Wen2, Changyuan Piché1; 1Univ. Laval, COPL, Canada, 2EXFO Pan, Ilya Utkin, Robert Fedosejevs; Univ. of Chung Kuo3; 1Dept. of Electrophysics, Natl. Fiber, Alexander K. Sang, Mark E. Froggatt, Xinhuan Feng1, H.Y. Tam1, Chao Lu2, P. K. den. A Neodymium doped LMA fiber is Power Reactors, Nikolaos J. Florous, Yu3, Weifeng Rong1, Yixin Wang2, Tee Hiang Electro-Optical Engineering Inc., Canada. Alberta, Canada. We demonstrate a pas- Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, 2Industrial Tech- Dawn K. Gifford, Bryan D. Dickerson; Luna A. Wai2, D.Y. Tang3; 1Photonics Res. Ctr. and locked with a volume Bragg grating for the Kunimasa Saitoh, Tadashi Murao, Masanori Cheng1; 1School of Electrical and Electronic We present methods for controlling both sively Q-switched ytterbium doped double- nology Res. Inst., Taiwan, 3Dept. of Photonics Technologies Inc., USA. We present high Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong first time, and compared to a conventional Koshiba; Div. of Media and Network Tech- Engineering, Nanyang Technological Univ., laser linewidth and lineshape via FM laser clad fiber laser with Cr4+:YAG saturable ab- and Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, resolution temperature measurements of up Polytechnic Univ., China, 2Photonics Res. Ctr. fiber laser setup. The efficiency is improved nologies, Hokkaido Univ., Japan. Using ki- Singapore, 2Lightwave Dept., Inst. for operation for tunable single frequency os- sorber. At a pump power of 9.8W, 143ns Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan. We have to 850°C over a fiber. The interrogation tech- and Dept. of Electronics and Information and the linewidth is drastically reduced. netic-based models we show that photonic Infocomm Res. (I2R), A-Star, Singapore, cillated SOA-based fiber ring lasers, using duration output pulses with 18.5µJ energy developed a novel method to produce dif- nique is based on measuring the spectral Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., crystal fiber Bragg gratings (PCF-BGs) can Singapore, 3Dept. of Electrical and Computer either phase modulation, or amplitude are obtained at a repetition rate of 253KHz. ferent grating periods in one chip and ap- shift of the intrinsic Rayleigh backscatter sig- China, 3School of Electrical and Electronic JTuA84 exhibit enhanced dose-rate absorption ca- Engineering, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, modulation, or current modulation of SOA. plied this in the fabrication for laser array. nal along the optical fiber. Engineering, Nanyang Technological Univ., EDFA Gain Stabilization with Fast Tran- pabilities, in comparison to conventional Singapore. Based on dual-order stimulated- JTuA71 The result shows accurate controllability of Singapore. A novel mechanism which uti- sient Behavior by Use of a Semiconduc- BGs. The modeling aims to assess the physi- Raman-scattering of single pump laser, hy- JTuA67 Paradoxical Features of Monochromatic lasing wavelength and low threshold cur- JTuA78 lizes power-clamping effect to realize stable tor Optical Amplifier, Roger Ibrahim,

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T cal-mechanisms defining the response to brid Raman/EDFA is realized by introduc- All-Fiber Integrated Assemblies Based on Light Amplification in Multicore Fibers, rents. Microjoule Supercontinuum Generation and uniform multiwavelength oscillations in Yaneck Gottesman, Badr-Eddine Benkelfat, nuclear-radiation. ing Erbium doped fiber (EDF) within the the Resonant Tunneling Effect in Multi- Anatoly P. Napartovich, Nikolay N. Elkin, by Prechirped Laser Pulses in a Large- an EDFL is proposed and demonstrated. Up Qin Zou; Inst. Natl. des Télécommunications, span. Gain and noise performance can be Core Photonic Band-Gap Fibers, Vera N. Troshchieva, Dmitry V. Vysotsky; JTuA75 Mode-Area Photonic-Crystal Fiber, to 50 wavelengths oscillations with wave- France. We propose a solution to improve JTuA60 improved by optimizing the position of EDF. Kunimasa Saitoh, Nikolaos J. Florous, Troitsk Inst. for Innovation, Russian Federa- Bandwidth Tunable Band Rejection Fil- Aleksei Zheltikov, Aleksandr Mitrofanov, length spacing of 0.8 nm has been achieved. gain-clamped EDFA stabilization time by A New Compact Polarization Beam Split- Shailendra K. Varshney, Masanori Koshiba; tion. It is numerically revealed and prop- ter Based on Helicoidal Fiber Grating Aleksei Podshivalov, Anatoly Ivanov; Moscow inserting in the conventional laser loop con- ter Based on Dual-Elliptical-Core Photo- JTuA64 Hokkaido Univ., Japan. We demonstrate the erly interpreted a phenomenon of predomi- Pair of Opposite Hellicity, Woojin Shin1, State Univ., Russian Federation. A photo- JTuA81 figuration an extra SOA. Experimental re- nic Crystal Fiber, Jung-Sheng Chiang; Dept. Er:Yb-Doped Waveguide Amplifier Fab- possibility of designing compact ultra-nar- nant amplification of an optical mode with B.-A Yu1, Y.L. Lee1, T.J. Eom1, Y.C. Noh1, D.K. nic-crystal fiber with a mode area of 380 Competition between 20th-Order Ratio- sults demonstrate stabilization time as short of Electrical Engineering, I-Shou Univ., Tai- ricated in Oxyfluoride Silicate Glass Us- row band-pass filters to split four different lower modal gain in 7-core fiber laser. Mode Ko1, J. Lee1, K. Oh2; 1Advanced Photonics Res. µm2 transforms amplified prechirped Cr: nal Harmonic Mode-Locking and Gain- as 0.2µs in a purposely-considered critical wan. Based on a vectorial boundary ele- ing Femtosecond Laser Inscription, wavelengths based on the phenomenon of beating is a key factor responsible for this Inst., Republic of Korea, 2Yonsei Univ., Re- forsterite laser pulses into a supercontinuum Switching in Inverse Optical Comb In- situation. ment method and the normal mode coupled Nicholas D. Psaila1, Robert R. Thomson1, non-proximity resonant tunneling in multi- effect. public of Korea. We propose a new type of spanning from 700 to 1800 nm with a total jected Semiconductor Optical Amplifier theory, there is an optimum design for Henry T. Bookey1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Nicola core photonic band-gap fibers for resonance- all-fiber bandwidth tunable rejection filter energy of 1.15 µJ. Fiber Ring Laser, Jung-Jui Kang1, Chao- JTuA85 achieving a compact polarization splitter Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio Cerullo2, sensing and wavelength-selective filtering JTuA72 using cascaded helicoidal long-period fiber Kuei Lee1, Gong-Ru Lin2,3; 1Inst. of Electro- Power Scaling of Laser Systems Using with broad extinction ratio bandwidth by Animesh Jha3, Shaoxiong Shen3; 1Heriot-Watt applications. Extending S-band of EDFA to 1450 nm, gratings in single-mode optical fiber and JTuA79 Optical Engineering, Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Spectral Beam Combining with Volume adjusting only one parameter. Univ., UK, 2Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Charu Kakkar1, K. Thyagarajan2; 1Dept. of report controllable broadband rejection char- Dispersion Tuning of Chirped Sampled Taiwan, 2Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass, Oleksiy 3Univ. of Leeds, UK. We report for the first JTuA68 Physics, Kirori Mal College, Univ. of Delhi, acteristic with low insertion loss and polar- Fiber Bragg Gratings by Controlling only Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, Andrusyak1, Igor Ciapurin1, Armen Sevian1, JTuA61 time, net gain from a channel waveguide Optical Amplification at 0.54 µm by Er3+- India, 2Dept. of Physics, Indian Inst. of Tech- ization dependent loss. Duty Ratios, Kien T. Dinh1, Shinji 3Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Natl. Tai- Vadim Smirnov2, George Venus1, Leonid Divalent Ytterbium in Ytterbium Doped fabricated in Er:Yb doped oxyfluoride sili- Doped Fluoride Fiber, Guanshi Qin, nology Delhi, India. We show that it is pos- Yamashita2; 1Deparment of Frontier wan Univ., Taiwan. 20th-order rational har- Glebov1; 1CREOL, USA, 2OptiGrate, USA. La- Aluminosilicate Glass: Aspects on cate glass using femtosecond waveguide Tatsuya Yamashita, Yasutake Ohishi; Toyota sible to extend the operation of an erbium JTuA76 Informatics, Graduate School of Frontier monic mode-locked (RHML) pulses are dem- ser system power can be increased using Photodarkening in Fiber Lasers, Magnus inscription. Waveguides were fabricated us- Technological Inst., Japan. We demonstrate doped fiber amplifier to amplify in the con- Photodarkening and Photobleaching of Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2Dept. of onstrated by using 1 GHz backward dark- volume Bragg gratings in PTR glass to com- Engholm, Lars Norin; Acreo FiberLab, Swe- ing the multi-scan technique to control the a 16.5 dB all-fiber optical amplifier at 546 ventionally inaccessible wavelength band of an Ytterbium-Doped Silica Double-Clad Electronics Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo, Ja- optical comb injection semiconductor opti- bine multiple beams into a near-diffraction- den. We show that divalent ytterbium ions waveguide cross-section. nm using Er3+-doped fluoride fiber for -30 (1450-1480) nm, with >20 dB gain using LMA Fiber, Johan Boullet1, Inka Manek- pan. We show that the in-channel disper- cal amplifier. A less pronounced high-order limited beam. We present results of com- are present in ytterbium doped aluminosili- dBm signal powerby forward upconversion reasonable pump power. Hönninger1, Thierry Cardinal2, François sion of the chirped sampled fiber Bragg grat- RHML mechanism than gain-switching is bining five fiber lasers and show cate glass. The presence of Yb2+ions may JTuA65 pumping of a 974 nm laser diode with power Guillen2, Michael Podgorski3, Sébastien ings can be tuned by controlling the duty observed from red-shifted wavelength and achievability of multi-kW-level systems. influence the formation of induced color Photonic Bandgaps in Photonic Crystal of 225mW. JTuA73 Ermeneux3, Ramatou Bello Doua3, François ratio, thus various in-channel dispersion reduced linewidth. centers in ytterbium doped fiber lasers lead- Fibers with Coated High-Index Inclu- Optical Comb Filter Based on the Spec- Salin3; 1CELIA-PALA, France, 2ICMCB-CNRS, values can be realized using a single chirped JTuA86 ing to reduced performance. sions, Markus Hautakorpi, Hannu Hoffrén, JTuA69 tral Talbot Effect in Uniform Fiber Bragg France, 3Eolite, France. We studied the tem- phase mask. JTuA82 Gain Filtering for Single-Spatial-Mode Jouni Tiilikainen, Hanne Ludvigsen; Suppression of Stimulated Brillouin Gratings, Naum K. Berger, Boris Levit, poral behaviour of photodarkening in an Collision of Orthogonally Polarized Soli- Operation of Large-Mode-Area Fiber JTuA62 Micronova, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Scattering in a Photonic/Phononic Crys- Baruch Fischer; Technion–Israel Inst. of Yb-doped LMA fiber and show tons in Photonic Crystal Fiber, Alexander Amplifiers, John R. Marciante; Univ. of 6.4W, Narrowline CW Bismuth-Doped Finland. We investigate the photonic tal Fiber, Ravi S. Hegde, Herbert G. Winful, Technology, Israel. We numerically and ex- photobleaching of the same fiber. The ab- Podlipensky, Przemyslaw Szarniak, Nicolas Rochester, USA. Gain filtering of higher-or- Fiber Laser for Frequency Doubling to bandgaps in photonic crystal fibers coated Almantas Galvanauskas; Univ. of Michigan, perimentally demonstrate a comb filter based sorption spectra and the influence on the Joly, Chris Poulton, Philip St. J. Russell; Inst. der modes in large-mode-area fibers is an 590nm, Andrey B. Rulkov1, Anton A. Ferin1, with cylindrical high-index inclusions. Be- USA. Analytical model has been developed, on the analogy between the compression lasing properties are shown. of Optics, Information and Photonics, Max extremely robust method for providing dif- Sergei V. Popov1, James R. Taylor1, I. sides numerical modeling, we are studying which predicts significant suppression of of phase modulated pulse trains and grat- Planck Res. Group, Germany. We study ex- fraction-limited performance regardless of Razdobreev2, L. Bigot2, G. Bowmans2; the feasibility of the atomic layer deposi- stimulated Brillouin scattering in a fiber struc- ing spectrum formation. Unchirped uniform perimentally the propagation and collision core diameter or input-beam quality. These 1Femtosecond Optics Group, Imperial College tion technique for producing the inclusions. ture, which provides photonic-bandgap fiber Bragg gratings are sufficient for imple- of two orthogonally polarized solitons in a predictions extend to 100-µm cores to the London, UK, 2Univ. des Sciences et Technolo- guidance for optical waves and, simulta- menting this filter. weakly-birefringent photonic crystal fiber. 10-kW level. gies de Lille, France. 6.4W lasing output at neously, phononic-bandgap suppression of The collision occurs at a particular power 1178nm is obtained from a Bismuth-doped electrostrictively driven acoustic waves. and initiates energy transfer between the fiber laser pumped by 50W CW Ytterbium colliding solitons. fiber laser. Narrow, below 0.2nm, linewidth shows a potential for frequency doubling to 589.

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JTuA87 JTuA91 JTuA95 JTuA98 JTuA101 JTuA104 JTuA107 JTuA110 3+ Rare Event Simulation of the Perfor- Emission Intensity Improvement of Efficient Point Defect Engineered Si Patterning and Integration of Impulse-Response Reconstruction of a Nd : (La1-x,Bax)F3-x as Vacuum Ultravio- Strong Nuclear Contribution to the Op- Estimation of Refractive Index Distribu- mance of an Actively Mode-Locked Fi- InGaN Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes Light-Emitting Diode at 1.218 µm, Jiming Polyfluorene Polymers on Scattering Medium with the Kramers- let Scintillator and New Laser Material, tical Kerr Effect in Niobium Oxide Con- tion inside Transparent Materials by Use ber Laser Model, Graham M. Donovan, Grown on Wet-Etched Sapphire Sub- Bao1, Malek Tabbal1,2, Taegon Kim1, Supakit Micropixellated UV AlInGaN Light Emit- Kronig Method, Yossi Ben-Aderet, Er’el Marilou M. Cadatal1,2, Young-Seok Seo3, taining Glasses, Arnaud Royon1,2, Lionel of Four-Wave Mixing Process, Takehito William L. Kath; Northwestern Univ., USA. strates, Chang-Chi Pan, Chi-Hsun Hsieh, Charnvanichborikarn3, James S. Williams3, ting Diodes, Benoit Guilhabert1, Zheng Granot, Shmuel Sternklar; College of Judea Toshihiro Tatsumi3, Minh Pham1,2, Carlito Canioni1, Bruno Bousquet1, Vincent Kawasumi, Keisuke Isobe, Takayuki Tamaki, 1 1 1 2 3 1,2 4 3 3 3 2,4

We demonstrate the application of impor- Jen-Inn Chyi; Dept. of Electrical Engineer- Michael J. Aziz , Federico Capasso ; Gong , Colin Belton , Allan Mackintosh , and Samaria, Israel. The Kramers-Kronig Ponseca , Shingo Ono , Elmer Estacio , Rodriguez , Michel Couzi , Clara Rivero , Shogo Kataoka, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Kazuyoshi T tance sampling to Monte Carlo simulations ing, Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan. 400 nm UV 1Harvard Univ., USA, 2American Univ. of Erdan Gu1, Paul Stavrinou2, Donal Brad- (KK) algorithm is implemented for the first Yusuke Furukawa3, Hidetoshi Murakami3, Thierry Cardinal4, Evelyne Fargin4, Martin Itoh; Osaka Univ., Japan. By focusing a uesday, May 8 of an actively mode-locked laser model. The LEDs with output power enhancement as Beirut, Lebanon, 3Australian Natl. Univ., ley2, Dick Pethrick3, Martin Dawson1; 1Inst. time to obtain the optical impulse response Yasushi Fujimoto3, Nobuhiko Sarukura1,2, 3, Richardson2, Kathleen Richardson5; femtosecond laser pulse and measuring the method computes the probability of errors much as 87% have been demonstrated on Australia. We have demonstrated a Si LED of Photonics, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK, 2Ex- of a diffusive medium and detect a concealed Masahiro Nakatsuka3, Kentaro Fukuda5, 1CPMOH Univ. Bordeaux 1, France, 2College resultant four-wave mixing (FWM) signal, due to both amplitude drop-outs and pulse the wet-etching stripe-PSSs, which is attrib- with an internal quantum efficiency ~ 10 % perimental Solid State Physics, Imperial Col- object. We achieve sub-picosecond resolu- Rayko Simura5, Toshihisa Suyama6, Akira of Optics and Photonics, CREOL, Univ. of we successfully estimate refractive index position shifts. uted to the reduction of dislocation density using a novel approach to enhance light lege, UK, 3Pure and Applied Chemistry Dept., tion with simple fiber-optic (c-band) test Yoshikawa5, Tsuguo Fukuda5; 1Laser Res. Ctr. Central Florida, USA, 3LPCM Univ. Bordeaux distribution inside a transparent sample as well as increased light extraction effi- emission based on point defect engineer- Univ. of Strathclyde, UK. The integration of equipment. Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan, 2Gradu- 1, France, 4ICMCB-CNRS, France, 5School of based on the analytical expression for FWM JTuA88 ciency. ing, which uses state-of-the art technology. polyfluorene polymer micro-pixels onto ate Univ. for Advanced Studies, Japan, 3Inst. Material Science and Engineering, Clemson intensity and refractive index. High Order-Mode Coupling in a Fiber GaN-based micropixellated UV Light Emit- JTuA102 of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., Japan, Univ., USA. Electronic and nuclear contri- Bragg Grating by Flexural Acoustic-Wave JTuA92 JTuA96 ting Diodes is demonstrated. Polymer down- Uniform Growth of 10-µm-Core Double- 4Opto-electronics Lab, Nagoya Inst. of Tech- butions to nonlinear optical properties of JTuA111 Modulations, Ming-Yue Fu1, Wen-Fung Multiple Wavelength Emission from Enhanced ZnO Band-Gap Emission of converted visible emission from these hy- Clad Cr4+:YAG Crystal Fiber, Kuang-Yao nology, Japan, 5Inst. of Multidisciplinary Res. niobium oxide-based glasses have been Determination of Interband Transition Liu2, Lung Ai3; 1R.O.C. Air Force Acad., Tai- Semipolar InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells Electroluminescence from ZnO brid organic/inorganic electroluminescent Huang1, Kuang-Yu Hsu2, Ren-Chin Shr1, Yi- for Advanced Materials, Tohoku Univ., Ja- measured using THG and pump-probe tech- Dipole Moment of InAs/InGaAs Quan- 2 3 2 2,3 6 3+ wan, Feng-Chia Univ., Taiwan, Chung Selectively Grown by MOCVD, Hongbo Nanoparticles/Organic Nanocomposites micro-arrays is achieved. Da Huang , Sheng-Lung Huang , Yan- pan, Tokuyama Corp., Japan. Nd : (La1- niques. Discrepancies with theory have been tum Dots from Modal Absorption Spec- 4 1 Cheng Inst. of Technology, Natl. Defense Yu, Taeil Jung, L. K. Lee, P. C. Ku; Univ. of Using a Hole-Transporting Material, Sheng Lin ; Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- x,Bax)F3-x as new scintillator and laser mate- evidenced for niobium oxide concentrations tra, Der Chin Wu, J. K. Kao, M. H. Mao, F. Univ., Taiwan. When two acoustic flexural Michigan, USA. Multiple wavelength emis- Chun-Yu Lee1, Yau-Te Haung2, Wei-Fang JTuA99 ing, Natl. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan, rial is explored using efficient micro-PD above 30 mol%. Y. Chang, H. H. Lin; Graduate Inst. of Elec- waves with appropriate frequencies are sion is experimentally observed from Su3,4, Ching-Fuh Lin1,2,5; 1Graduate Inst. of Deep Ultraviolet Light Generation at 266 2Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- method. Fluorescence peak located at 175 tronics Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., 3 3+ launched to a tilted fiber Bragg grating, high- semipolar InGaN/GaN quantum wells selec- Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan nm by Quasi-Phase-Matched Quartz, ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, Dept. of nm is better compared to Nd :LaF3 due to JTuA108 Taiwan. Interband-transition dipole moment order acousto-optic modulations can be tively grown by MOCVD. Selective growth Univ., Taiwan, 2Graduate Inst. of Electron- Muneyuki Adachi1,2, Sunao Kurimura1, Len- Electrical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., broader fluorescence and shorter VUV trans- Evidence of Periodic Electric Fields Gen- of InAs/InGaAs quantum dots is determined greatly improved by superimposing high- rates on different mask opening areas re- ics Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Tai- ichi Hayashi2, Kenji Kitamura1; 1Natl. Inst. Taiwan, 4Dept. of Electronic Engineering, I- mission edge. erated by Spatial Separation of for the first time by the segmented-modal- order harmonic acoustic waves. sult in a multiple wavelength emission from wan, 3Graduate Inst. of Materials Science for Materials Science, Japan, 2Nidek Co., Ja- Shou Univ., Taiwan. An auxiliary sapphire Photogenerated Electron-Hole Pairs in absorption method. The extracted dipole the same wafer. Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, pan. We demonstrated the finest twin struc- tube serving as a heat capacitor was used in JTuA105 Short-Period InAs/GaSb Type-II moment near 1.3µm wavelength is 32±2 JTuA89 4Dept. of Materials Science Engineering, Natl. ture ever reported in crystal quartz with a the co-drawing laser-heated pedestal growth Efficient CW Optical Limiting in a Nem- Superlattices, Xiaodong Mu1, Yujie J. Ding1, Debye consistent with those reported in the Low-Loss Splicing Small-Core Photonic JTuA93 Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 5Dept. of Electrical period of 17.8-mm. Second harmonic 266- system for fabricating small core crystal fi- atic Liquid Crystal Twist Cell, Kenneth D. Stefan P. Svensson2, John Little2, V. literature. Crystal Fibers and Single-Mode Fibers by Carrier Concentration and Junction Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. nm light of 0.10-mW was obtained by the bers. A factor of 3 improvement was Singer, Jessica Merlin, Katherine Poseidon; Swaminathan2; 1Lehigh Univ., USA, 2ARL, Repeated Arc Discharges, Limin Xiao, Wei Temperature Dependencies of Illumina- We report electroluminescence from ZnO third-order QPM in quartz. from a ns-pulsed achieved in 10-µm-core double-clad fibers. Case Western Reserve Univ., USA. Highly ef- USA. Under relatively high pump intensities, JTuA112

Jin, M. Suleyman Demokan; Hong Kong tion Efficiency of GaN Power Light-Emit- nanoparticle-based devices prepared by the doubled Nd:YVO4. ficient optical limiting is observed in a nem- photoluminescence intensities across the Doping Effect on Carrier Occupation Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong. We demon- ting Diodes, Michael Liao; DaYeh Univ., spin-coating process. The TPD enhances JTuA103 atic liquid crystal twist cell constructed with miniband were greatly reduced, which was and Transport in InAs/GaAs Quantum strated low-loss splicing small-core photo- Taiwan. Pulsed drive currents have helped electrons and holes to recombine in the ZnO JTuA100 Nondestructive Internal Device Charac- photoconducting alignment surfaces. Limit- attributed to the existence of periodic elec- Dot Infrared Photodetectors: A Capaci- nic crystal fibers (PCFs) and single-mode us separate the effects that junction tempera- nanoparticles. The optimal device exhibits Fluorescent and Photoconductive Prop- terization of an Oxide-Confined Vertical- ing at the submilliwatt level is obtained. The tric fields caused by spatially-separated tance-Voltage Spectroscopy Study, Zhiya fibers by repeated arc discharges applied ture and carrier concentration have on cur- a narrow spectrum at 392 nm. erties of Anthradithiophene and Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser, Victoria de effective optical Kerr coefficient is approxi- photogenerated electrons and holes in short- Zhao, Kevin R. Lantz, Changhyun Yi, over the splicing joint to gradually collapse rent-induced efficiency degradation of GaN Pentacene Derivatives, Andrew D. Platt1, Lange, Kuei Sun, Reuven Gordon; Univ. of mately 10cm2/W. period type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices. Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts; Duke Univ., USA. the air holes of the small-core PCF. Power LEDs. Carrier concentration and junc- JTuA97 Jonathan Day1, Mark J. Kendrick1, Sankar Victoria, Canada. A nondestructive method Impurity centers induced by dopants in tion temperature dependencies of illumina- Light Emission from Size Reduced Subramanian2, John E. Anthony2, Oksana is presented to determine the internal prop- JTuA106 JTuA109 InAs/GaAs quantum-dot systems affect en- JTuA90 tion efficiency are presented. Nanocrystal Silicon Quantum Dots, Hea- Ostroverkhova1; 1Oregon State Univ., USA, erties of vertical-cavity surface-emitting la- Investigating Charge Carrier Mobilities Shape Analysis of Laser Deformed Me- ergy level occupation and carrier transport Discrimination between Strain and Tem- Jeong Cheong, Atsushi Tanaka, Daihei 2Univ. of Kentucky, USA. We present opti- sers. The refractive index and oxide radius in Nanocrystal-Polymer Hybrid Photo- tallic Nanoparticles, Heinrich Graener1, in multi-layer QDIPs. In order to better un- perature by Using Holey Fibers-Based JTuA94 Hippo, Kouichi Usami, Yoshishige Tsuchiya, cal, fluorescent and photoconductive prop- are extracted from the laser modes and agree voltaic Devices, Fan Zhang, Jian Xu, Ting Gerhard Seifert1, Alexander Podlipensky2, derstand doping effects and to optimize Long-Period Fiber Gratings with Differ- Electronically Tunable Photonic Crys- Hiroshi Mizuta, Shunri Oda; Tokyo Inst. of erties of high-performance well with independently determined values. Zhu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Osama Bogdan Sepiol3, Michael Leitner3; 1Martin- device performance, capacitance-voltage ent Air Hole Size, Suho Song1, Young-Geun tals, David R.E. Snoswell1, Pavel Ivanov1, Technology, Japan. We performed HF treat- anthradithiophene and functionalized Awadelkarim, S. Ashok; Penn State Univ., Luther-Univ. Halle, Germany, 2Univ. spectra are investigated. Han1, Gil Hwan Kim1, Je-Myung Jeong1,2, Ju Martin Cryan1, Nils Elsner1, John G. Rarity1, ment to silicon quantum dots with diameter pentacene derivatives. Fluorescence emis- USA. We investigate the properties of charge Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 3Univ. Han Lee1, Sang Bae Lee1, Chang Hyun Chris Bower2, Brian Vincent1; 1Univ. of of 8nm±1nm fabricated by VHF plasma de- sion with lifetimes around or longer than separation and photo-carrier transport in Wien, Austria. High-intensity fs-laser pulses JTuA113 Jeong3, Chi Hwan Oh3, Hee Jeon Kang3; Bristol, UK, 2Kodak European Res., UK. Elec- composition process. We observed PL wave- ~10 ns is observed at visible and near-infra- P3HT/PbSe composites by employing ToF permanently change the form of silver Fabrication of Photonic Crystal by Two- 1KIST, Republic of Korea, 2School of ECE Div., tronically tunable diffraction gratings based length shift from 750nm to 620nm for 8nm red wavelengths, depending on the mol- method under selective excitation conditions nanoparticles in glass and result in optical Photon Single-Beam Laser Holographic Hanyang Univ., Republic of Korea, on 2-D arrays of colloidal particles are pre- to 2.5nm diameter nc-Si dots. ecule. to study the ligand-effect on the dichroism. Optical and small angle X-ray Lithography, Kam Sing Wong, Yongchun 3Optomagic Co. Ltd., Republic of Korea. We sented and measured and modelled results photocarrier-trapping kinetics at the P3HT/ scattering experiments are shown which Zhong; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and propose and experimentally demonstrate a show good agreement. Modelled results for PbSe interfaces. clarify the 3-dimensional shape of the re- Technology, Hong Kong. In this report, we simple and flexible scheme for simultaneous 3-D arrays show tunable reflectivity is pos- sulting particles. demonstrate the fabrication of photonic crys- measurement of strain and temperature sible the visible wavelength range. tals by two-photon holographic lithography based on long-period fiber gratings inscribed through a single laser beam by introducing in versatile holey fibers with various air-hole a specially designed prism. sizes.

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JTuA114 JTuA117 JTuA120 JTuA123 JTuA126 JTuA130 JTuA134 JTuA138 Linear Electro-Optic Coefficient in Mul- Fabrication of PPLT Crystal Fiber by the Study of Transient Effects in Photo-Ex- Multiple-Wavelength Transmission Us- All-Optical ASK-DPSK Signal Regenera- Theoretical Study on the Performance Suppression of Phase Noise Induced by Depolarization of External Optical Feed- tilayer Self-Organized InAs Quantum Dot Method of Laser Heated Pedestal cited Semiconducting Polymer and Bulk ing FP-LD for Increasing Upstream Ca- tion Using a Semiconductor Optical of Optical Phase Conjugation for Ultra Intrachannel Four-Wave Mixing Using back on VCSEL and Variation of Relative Structures, Imran Akca1, Aykutlu Dana1, Growth, Ta-Min Tai1, Shan-Chuang Pei2,3, Heterojunctions, Yi-Hsing Peng, Weilou pacity in Asymmetric TDM-PON, Manik Amplifier, Mable P. Fok1, Chester Shu1, Long-Haul Differential Phase-Shift- Phase Noise Averagers, Chia Chien Wei, Intensity Noise, Shinyoung Yoon1, Dong- Atilla Aydinli1, Marco Rossetti2, Lianhe Li2, Li-Min Lee1, Sheng-Lung Huang2,4, A. H. Cao, Min Du, Danilo Romero, Warren N. Attygalle1,2, Yang Jing Wen2, Jaya Shankar2, Daniel J. Blumenthal2; 1Chinese Univ. of Keyed Transmission, Nat Sarapa, Pasu Jason (Jyehong) Chen; Inst. of Electro-Opti- soo Lee1, Youngsoon Heo1, Shinwook Lee2, Nadir Dagli3, Andrea Fiore2; 1Bilkent Univ., Kung3,5; 1Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- Herman, Chi H. Lee; Lab for Physical Sci- Thas Nirmalathas1, Xiaofei Cheng2, Yixin Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2Univ. of Califor- Kaewplung; Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand. cal Engineering, Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ., Byong-seong Ham3; 1ETRI, Republic of Ko- Turkey, 2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de ing, Natl. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan, ences, Univ. of Maryland, USA. Transient Wang2; 1Natl. ICT Australia, Australia, 2Inst. nia at Santa Barbara, USA. We demonstrate The performances of optical phase conju- Taiwan. This work investigates a novel rea, 2CREOL and FPCE, Univ. of Central Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland, 3ECE Dept., 2Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- dynamics of photoexcited carriers in MEH- for Infocomm Res., Singapore. We propose 10-Gb/s and 20-Gb/s DPSK and ASK-DPSK gation (OPC) in reducing the nonlinear phase noise averagers to suppress IFWM- Florida, USA, 3Graduate School of Informa- 3 Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA. ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, Inst. of PPV, PCBM-C60 and their blend is investi- a new technique for multiple-wavelength signal regeneration based on cross-phase phase noise accumulation in DPSK trans- induced phase noise of RZ-DPSK signals. tion and Communications, Inha Univ., Re- The electro optic properties of three and Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia gated by THz-TDS using a 400nm pump and upstream transmission in time division mul- modulation in a SOA. The amplitude noise mission is theoretically analyzed and com- Both analytical and simulation results con- public of Korea. By using of optical depo- five layers of self-organized InAs quantum Sinica, Taiwan, 4Dept. of Electrical Engineer- terahertz probe. Free and bound carriers are tiplexed-passive optical networks using FP- is reduced and the receiver sensitivity is pared with that in the periodic dispersion- firm that the IFWM-induced phase noise will larizer, polarization dependence of external dot lasers which were grown by molecular ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 5Dept. of revealed in the measurement of the com- LDs at optical network units. The scheme improved by 3 dB. compensated (DC) system. be converged, even after an ultra-long trans- optical feedback on VCSEL is drastically re- beam epitaxy have been investigated. En- Photonics and Inst. of Electro-Optical Engi- plex conductivity. increases upstream capacity without the use mission. duced. Relative intensity noise and trans- hanced electro-optic coefficients compared neering, Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan. of costly higher speed burst-mode transceiv- JTuA127 JTuA131 mission characteristics of VCSEL are experi-

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T to bulk GaAs were obtained. The fabrication of a periodic poled Lithium JTuA121 ers. Biasing a Diode Laser at the Self-Mixing Sub-Clock Extraction of Optical Signals JTuA135 mentally investigated under various polar- Tantalate single crystal fibers were firstly A Novel Anti-Reflecton Coated FP Laser Crossover Improves Immunity to at High Rates Using an Opto-Electronic Multi-Uplink Passive Optical Networks, ization states of external optical feedback. JTuA115 achieved in-situ via the laser heated pedes- Amplifier for 2.5Gbit/s DWDM-PON JTuA124 Backreflection, Silvano Donati, Enrico Phase-Locked Loop Based on Three- C.- Y. Li, P. K.A. Wai; Photonics Res. Ctr. and Threshold Analysis of Longitudinal tal growth method. The spectrum of sec- Transmission, Yu-Sheng Liao1, Yung-Jui 40 GHz All-Optical Clock Recovery Us- Randone; Dept. Elettronica, Italy. Effects of Wave Mixing in Periodically-Poled Dept. of Electronic and Information Engi- JTuA139 Modes in Surface Emitting Organic Dis- ond harmonic generation was characterized. Chen2, Yin-Hsun Huang3, Hai-Lin Wang3, ing Cross-Absorption in an Electro-Ab- back-reflection in diode lasers is substan- Lithium Niobate, Fausto Gómez Agis, neering, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong High Repetition Rate Passively Q- tributed Feedback Lasers, Sidney S. Yang, Sun-Chien Ko3, Gong-Cheng Lin3, Gong-Ru sorption Modulator Inside a Fiber Ring tially mitigated biasing the device at the self- Cédric Ware, Didier Erasme; École Natl. Kong. We propose to use multiple uplinks Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser In- Yun-Ching Chang; Inst. of Photonics Tech- JTuA118 Lin4; 1Dept. of Photonics and Inst. of Electro- Laser , L. F. K. Lui1, Lixin Xu1,2, C C Lee1, P. mixing crossover, which is found by a simple Supérieure des Télécommunications, France. in passive optical networks (PONs) to incorporating an Electro-Absorption nologies, Natl. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan. We Novel Full-Color Photorefractive Poly- Optical Engineering, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., K. A. Wai1, C. Lu1, H. Y. Tam1; 1Hong Kong setup. De-sesitization of reflection effects by Sub-clock extraction and clock synchroni- crease the optical transmission power from Modulator, Lixin Xu1,2, L. F. K. Lui1, P.K.A. present theoretical analysis of the mode dis- mer for Photonics Applications, Peng Taiwan, 2Dept. of Computer Science and Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, 2Dept. of a factor of 25 dB is reported. zation of signals, at rates of 30 GHz and 10 users to central office. The requirement of Wai1, H.Y. Tam1, Chao Lu1; 1Hong Kong crimination and threshold gain of multiple Wang1, Tao Gu1, Shuji Rokutanda1, Electrical Engineering Univ. of Maryland, Physics, Univ. of Science and Technology of Gbps, by an opto-electronic phase locked- the PON receiver at the central office is dis- Polytechnic Univ., China, 2Dept. of Physics, longitudinal modes observed from a surface- Michiharu Yamamoto1, Robert Norwood2, Baltimore County, USA, 3Telecommunica- China,, China. We demonstrated 40 GHz JTuA128 loop based on three-wave mixing in peri- cussed. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, emitting organic DFB laser. Based on the Nasser Peyghambarian2; 1Nitto Denko Tech- tion Labs Advanced Technology Lab, Tai- all-optical clock recovery system using an A Fully Bi-Directional 2.4GHz Wireless- odically-poled lithium niobate, are demon- China. We report a novel passively Q- individual pumping threshold energy, the nical Corp., USA, 2College of Optical Sciences, wan, 4Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical En- erbium-doped fiber laser that incorporates Over-Fibre System Using Photonic Ac- strated. JTuA136 switched fiber laser using an electro-absorp- corresponding extraction ratio is estimated. Univ. of Arizona, USA. Full-color sensitive gineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. A a 10 GHz electro-absorption modulator and tive Integrated Antennas (PhAIAs), High Density FTTH Network Utilizing tion modulator (EAM) as a saturable ab- (488nm, 532nm, 633nm) photorefractive novel anti-reflection coated Fabry-Perot la- a linear optical amplifier. Stable pulses with Vitawat Sittakul, Martin Cryan; Univ. of JTuA132 Asymmetric Data Transmission, Tak- sorber. The fast response time of the EAM JTuA116 polymer system based on hole-transport ser amplifier under side-mode injection-lock- pulsewidth of 6 ps are obtained. Bristol, UK. A Low cost Wireless-over-fibre PMD Compensation with Coherent Re- Chuen Luk, Ozdal Boyraz; Univ. of Califor- enables the Q-switched fiber laser to oper- Polarization Dependence of SHG Effi- polytetraphenyldiaminobiphenyl (TPD) is ing for 2.5Gbit/s DWDM-PON is demon- system has been demonstrated over 300m ception and Digital Signal Processing, nia at Irvine, USA. A WDM-PON recycling ate at high repetition rate. ciency in Periodically-Twinned QPM present. Several novel dynamic holographic strated with SMSR >35dB, Q-factor 9.2, lock- JTuA125 of MMF. Throughput and SNR as a function Stefan Boehm, Knut Schumacher, Daniel incoming light to transmit upload stream has Quartz, Masaki Harada1, Sunao Kurimura1, applications have been demonstrated based ing range of 30nm, power penalty of -0.7dB, Pulse Limiting Amplification by Satura- of RF propagation distance are shown and Goelz, Peter Meissner; TU Darmstadt, Ger- been proposed. Effect of Rayleigh scatter- JTuA140 Kenji Kitamura1, Ken-ichi Muramatsu2, on these materials. and BER of 10-12 at -23.7dBm. tion Effects in an SOA, Giampiero successful streaming of video is achieved many. Coherent reception in optical coming and uneven energy distribution are Uncompensated 20 Gb/s Duobinary Po- Motoi Ueda2; 1Natl. Inst. for Materials Sci- Contestabile, Marco Presi, Roberto Proietti, over a 10m range. munication systems enables PMD compen- evaluated to achieve >60km bidirectional larization Division Multiplexing Trans- ence, Japan, 2Nikon Corp., Japan. We ex- JTuA119 JTuA122 Nicola Calabretta; Scuola Superiore sation by digital signal processing. An ap- communication carrying 10Gb/s download mission over 200 km, Paolo Martelli1, amined second harmonic generation effi- Excited State Absorption Cross-Section Real-Time PMD Monitoring Using a DOP Sant’Anna Pisa (Italy), Italy. We study the JTuA129 proach for broadband compensation is pre- and >300Mb/s upload data traffic. Pierpaolo Boffi1,2, Maddalena Ferrario1, ciency depending on input polarization state Spectrum of Chlorophyll A, Daniel S. Ellipsoid Based on PSO Technique, limiting-amplification capability of a satu- High Spectral Efficiency Phase Diversity sented and the required oversampling ratio Lucia Marazzi1, Paola Parolari1, Aldo of the fundamental wave in crystal-quartz Corrêa, Leonardo De Boni, Felippe J. Xiaoguang Zhang1,2, Lixia Xi1,2, Gaoyan rated SOA followed by an optical filter in Coherent Optical CDMA with Low MAI, and resolution of the analog-digital conver- JTuA137 Righetti1, Rocco Siano1, Mario Martinelli1,2; wavelength converter. We found the opti- Pavinatto, David S. dos Santos, Cleber R. Duan1,2, Bojun Yang1,2; 1Beijing Univ. of case of amplitude-modulated 20GHz pulses. A Brinton Cooper, Jacob B. Khurgin, sion is examined. Impact of Facet Reflectivity and Opera- 1CoreCom, Italy, 2Politecnico di Milano, mum polarization state for efficient SHG at Mendonça; Inst. de Física de São Carlos, Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2Key We report more than 25 dB amplitude-modu- Shuangmei Xu, Jin U. Kang; Johns Hopkins tion Condition on Injection-Locking Dept. di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy. 532 nm. Univ. de São Paulo, Brazil. This paper re- Lab of Optical Communications and lation-reduction for input modulating fre- Univ., USA. Spectrally phase-coded optical JTuA133 Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes with Spectrum Transmission of 20 Gb/s optical signal over ports on the nonlinear absorption (reverse Lightwave Technologies, Ministry of Educa- quencies in the range 100KHz-3GHz. code division multiple access (OCDMA), Mitigation of Transient Response of Er- Sliced ASE Noise in WDM-PON, Xiao-Fei 200 km of uncompensated SMF fiber is saturation of absorption and saturation of tion, China. DOP ellipsoid can be used as demodulated with phase and polarization bium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Burst Cheng, Yang Jing Wen, Zhaowen Xu, Yixin achieved. The duobinary format dispersion absorption) spectrum of Chlorophyll A so- PMD monitoring signal for automatic PMD diversity devices, exhibits high spectral effi- Traffic of High Speed Optical Packets, Wang, Jaya Shankar; Inst. for Infocomm robustness has been exploited together with lution obtained through the white light con- compensation. We introduced the particle ciency and low Multiple Access Interference Yoshinari Awaji1, Hideaki Furukawa1, Res., Singapore. We evaluate performance polarization division multiplexing to signifi- tinuum Z-scan technique. swarm optimization algorithm into obtain- (MAI). Use in a passive optical network Naoya Wada1, Peter Chan2, Ray Man2; 1Natl. of Fabry-Perot laser diodes (FPLDs) injec- cantly increase the maximum uncompen- ing real-time DOP ellipsoid with high pre- (PON) is discussed. Inst. of Information and Communications tion locked by spectrum sliced ASE noise. sated reach. cision only by 100 sampling SOP data. Technology, Japan, 2AMONICS Ltd., China. Results show that performance of injection We found that an EDFA which adopted the locked FPLDs is significantly improved by EDF with enhanced active erbium area can optimizing their front-facet reflectivity, op- mitigate short-term transient response for eration temperature and bias. sub-micro seconds caused by the traffic of high speed optical packets without any external controlling.

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2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CTuU • NLO Devices JTuB • Symposium on Self- CTuV • Novel Microscopy CTuW • Short Wavelength CTuX • Novel VCSELs CTuY • Silicon-Based CTuZ • Photonic Structures QTuG • Micro-Cavities and Presider to Be Announced Phase Modulation I Adam Wax; Dept. of Generation and Kent D. Choquette; Univ. Optical Materials for Emission and Detection Random Media William Bischel; Gemfire Biomedical Eng., Duke Applications of Illinois, USA, Presider Mihaela Dinu; Bell Labs, Roel Baets; Univ. of Ghent, Vasily N. Astratov; Univ. of Corp., USA, Presider Univ., USA, Presider Randy Bartels; Colorado Lucent Technologies, USA, IMEC, Belgium, Presider North Carolina at State Univ., USA, Presider Presider Charlotte, USA, Presider

CTuU1 • 2:30 p.m. JTuB1 • 2:30 p.m. Invited CTuV1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuW1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuX1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuY1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuZ1 • 2:30 p.m. QTuG1 • 2:30 p.m. Efficient Single-Pass Optical Parametric Self-Phase Modulation: The Formative The Role of Amplitude and Phase in Grating-Assisted Phase Matching in Ex- Transverse Mode Control in High-Con- Neodymium Doped Ultrathin Sol-Gel Nano-Scale Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Relaxation Oscillations in Neodymium Generator for Environmental Gas Sens- Years, T. K. Gustafson; Univ. of California Fluorescence Coherence Imaging: From treme Nonlinear Optics, Oren Cohen, trast Subwavelength Grating VCSEL, Ye Tapered Channel Waveguide Amplifier Photodetectors, Michael C. Hegg, Lih Y. Random Lasers, G. Zhu, M. Bahoura, M. ing Based on Periodically Poled Stoichio- at Berkeley, USA. An overview will be pre- Wide Field to Nanometer Depth Profil- Xiaoshi Zhang, Amy Lytle, Tenio Zhou, Michael C.Y. Huang, Connie J. Chang- on Silicon Substrate, Asher Peled, Lin; Univ. of Washington, USA. We present A. Noginov; Norfolk State Univ., USA. Using metric Lithium Tantalate, Nan Ei Yu1, sented covering early initial observations and ing, Alberto Bilenca, Chulmin Joo, Aydogan Popmintchev, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry Hasnain; Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Menachem Nathan, Alexander Tsukernik, the design, fabrication and testing results of the developed analytical model, we ad- Yonghoon Lee1, Yeung Lak Lee1, Changsoo interpretation of self phase modulation in Ozcan, Johannes F. de Boer, Brett E. Bouma, C. Kapteyn; JILA, Univ. of Colorado at Boul- Computer Sciences, Univ. of California at Shlomo Ruschin; Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel. We a nano-scale quantum dot photodetector equately describe relaxation oscillations in Jung1, Do-Kyeong Ko1, Jongmin Lee1, Kenji self-trapped filaments of light and mode- Guillermo J. Tearney; Harvard Medical der, USA. We propose a new technique for Berkeley, USA. We present the experimental report on a fully monolithic Neodymium composed of quantum dots that are posi- the Nd La Al (BO ) random laser. Anoma- uesday, May 8 uesday, 0.5 0.5 3 3 4

T Kitamura2, Shunji Takekawa2, Jung Hoon locked laser pulses, the subsequent evolu- School and Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine, phase-matching frequency upconversion study on transverse mode control in VCSEL doped sol-gel tapered rib waveguide am- tioned between a nano-gap in electrodes lously long series of stimulated emission Ro3; 1Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technol- tion of the basic concepts, and various for- USA. We investigate the amplitude and phase into the X-ray region. High harmonic gen- utilizing finite-area single-layer high-index- plifier. Signal and pump were coupled by and optically excited with CW light. pulses are observed in the 2 ogy, Republic of Korea, Natl. Inst. for Mate- mative applications. of fluorescence self-interference fields and eration in the presence of a weak counter- contrast subwavelength grating. A 2mW, grating couplers. A gain of 4.8dB (3.75dB (Nd:BFAP)0.75(Cr:YAG)0.25 random laser. rials Science, Japan, 3Dept. of Biomedical their implication for new imaging strategies. propagating quasi-CW beam is equivalent single transverse mode (30dB) emission can net gain) was obtained from a 1cm long Engineering, Pusan Nat’l Univ., Republic of Wide-field (y > 1mm, z > 100µm) high-reso- to low-order harmonic generation via grat- be obtained for HCG-VCSEL with oxide ap- device. Korea. An efficient 1064 nm-pumped OPG lution (micron-scale) imaging and phase- ing-assisted phase-matching. erture up to 10µm. that could be operated at room tempera- contrast profiling with nanometer sensitiv- ture using a PPMgSLT crystal is presented. ity are demonstrated. 1.6 W total output for a 4.8 W input, power conversion of 50% was achieved.

CTuU2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuV2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuW2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuX2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuY2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuZ2 • 2:45 p.m. QTuG2 • 2:45 p.m.

Fibered Laser System for Rubidium La- Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Cou- Two-Dimensional Electronic Beam- Buried As2S3 Strips for High-Mode-Con- Photonic Crystal Infrared Photodetec- Liquid Crystals Based Tunable High-Q ser Cooling Based on Telecom Technol- Asynchronous Digital Holography Sys- pling of Extreme Ultraviolet Ultrashort Steering with Implant-Defined VCSEL finement Optical Waveguiding, Mehmet tors, Stephan Schartner, Werner Schrenk, Directional Random Laser from a Pla- ogy at 1560 nm and Frequency Dou- tem, Kevin J. Chalut, William J. Brown, Neil Pulses from High Harmonic Generation, Arrays, Ann C. Lehman, Dominic F. Siriani, Solmaz, Robert Atkins, Jim Gardner, Christi Sebastian Golka, Maximilian Austerer, Pavel nar Random Microcavity, Qinghai Song1, 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 bling, Fabien Lienhart , Salah Boussen , Terry, Adam Wax; Duke Univ., USA. We Adam S. Wyatt , Tobias Witting , Antoine Kent D. Choquette; Univ. of Illinois at Ur- K. Madsen; Texas A&M Univ., USA. As2S3 Klang, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Gottfried Shumin Xiao , Xinchuan Zhou , Liying Liu , Olivier Carraz1, Nassim Zahzam1, Yannick demonstrate a new method of measuring Monmayrant1, Ian A. Walmsley1, Charles bana-Champaign, USA. By controlling in- strips were fabricated on thermal oxide us- Strasser; Ctr. for Micro- and Nanostructures, Lei Xu1, Yonggang Wu1, Zhanshan Wang2; Bidel1, Alexandre Bresson1; 1ONERA, France, quantitative phase in biological materials. Haworth2, Joseph S. Robinson2, John W. G. jection current to each of three elements in ing a lift-off procedure. Buried structures are TU Wien, Austria. The photonic crystal en- 1Fudan Univ., China, 2Tongji Univ., China. 2 2 2 1 Faculté de Medecine de Lyon Nord, France. The method utilizes asynchronous digital Tisch , Jonathon P. Marangos ; Univ. of a coherently coupled implant-defined trian- formed by covering the strips with SiO2, and ables response to surface incident radiation Temperature tunable directional laser emis- We propose a new compact and reliable holography, which uses a moving fringe Oxford, UK, 2Imperial College London, UK. gular vertical cavity laser array, we are able initial optical testing confirms waveguiding. for intersubband-based QWIPs. The angu- sion from a liquid crystal based planar ran- laser system for rubidium laser cooling in created by acousto-optic modulators. Results We demonstrate a tool for performing mea- to steer the main lobe of emission in two lar and polarization dependence of the spec- dom cavity laser is presented. The emitted onboard experiments. Our system is based are demonstrated on live cell samples. surements of space-time coupling of ul- dimensions. tral photocurrent is used to map the photo- laser is an ultra high Q factor (Q>20000), on the frequency doubling of a telecom fi- trashort, extreme ultraviolet pulses from high nic band structure and to investigate polar- highly directional, and temperature depen- ber bench at 1560 nm. harmonic generation which can be used to ization conversion effects. dent single mode laser. study propagation and phasematching effects during the generation process.

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2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. QTuH • Slow and Fast Light QTuI • Entanglement and CTuAA • Microwave CTuBB • Novel Fiber CTuCC • THz Metamaterials and Other Phenomena Squeezing II Photonics Designs and Photonic Crystals Presider to Be Announced Presider to Be Announced Paul W. Juodawlkis; MIT Siddharth Ajay Nahata; Univ. of Lincoln Lab, USA, Presider Ramachandran; OFS Utah, USA, Presider

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uesday, May 8 QTuH1 • 2:30 p.m. QTuI1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuAA1 • 2:30 p.m. Tutorial CTuBB1 • 2:30 p.m. CTuCC1 • 2:30 p.m. Observation of Subluminal and Teleporting below the Vacuum-Noise Microwave Photonic Signal Processing, Er-Yb-Doped LMA Fiber Structures for Terahertz Switch/Modulator Based on Superluminal Regimes in Coupled Mode Level: Non-Local Transfer of Squeezing Robert A. Minasian; Univ. of Sydney, Aus- High Energy Amplification of Narrow Metamaterials, Hou-Tong Chen1, Willie J. Optical Propagation, Francesco and Entanglement, Hidehiro Yonezawa1,2, tralia. Photonic signal processing offers a Linewidth Pulses at 1.5µm, Guillaume Padilla2, Joshua M. Zide3, Art C. Gossard3, Morichetti1,2, Andrea Melloni2, Mario Samuel L. Braunstein3, Akira Furusawa1,2; new, powerful paradigm for processing high Canat1, Laurent Lombard1, Sylvia Jetschke2, Richard D. Averitt1, Toni J. Taylor1; 1Los Martinelli1,2; 1CORECOM, Italy, 2Politecnico 1Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2CREST, Japan Sci- bandwidth signals. This overview presents Sonja Unger2, Johan Kirchhof2, Hans-Reiner Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 2Boston College, USA, di Milano, Italy. Attraction and repulsion of ence and Technology Agency, Japan, 3Univ. recent new methods in wideband signal Müller2, Anne Durécu1, Véronique Jolivet1, 3Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA. coupled modes with swinging subluminal of York, UK. We demonstrate the uncondi- processing using optical delay lines, includ- Pierre Bourdon1; 1ONERA/DOTA, France, Real-time control of terahertz metamaterial and superluminal group velocity is directly tional quantum teleportation of a squeezed ing state-of-the-art results, and capabilities 2IPHT, Germany. A high-energy (0.6mJ), has been experimentally demonstrated observed, for the first time, at optical fre- state of light. We observe -0.8 ± 0.2dB of for high-resolution processing. narrow-linewidth fiber MOPA is built using through an electrical approach. The THz quencies. The measurement technique com- squeezing in the teleported state. Our ex- Erbium-Ytterbium doped large-mode-area switching and modulation capabilities are bines polarization-sensitive low-coherence periment also demonstrates the first uncon- fibers. Pedestal and multifilament core fiber realized by the external voltage bias to a interferometry with light-trapping in a ring- ditional quantum teleportation of entangle- structures are compared. The multifilament planar hybrid metamaterial-miconductor resonator. ment. fiber shows the best beam quality (M2~1.9) structure. and stability.

QTuH2 • 2:45 p.m. QTuI2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuBB2 • 2:45 p.m. CTuCC2 • 2:45 p.m. Pulse Propagation near Exciton Reso- 9 dB Quadrature Squeezing at 860 nm Gain Interaction in the Design of Bend- Properties of Novel Terahertz Electric 1 nance: Anomalous Transition between with Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4, Yuishi Resistant Large Mode Area Amplifier Fi- Metamaterials, John F. O’Hara , Evgenya Slow and Fast Light, Yan Guo, Susanta Takeno1,2, Mitsuyoshi Yukawa1,2, Hidehiro bers, John M. Fini; OFS Labs, USA. Fibers Smirnova1, Hou-Tong Chen1, Antoinette J. Sarkar, Hailin Wang; Univ. of Oregon, USA. Yonezawa1,2, Akira Furusawa1,2; 1Univ. of with very large mode area see degraded gain Taylor1, Richard D. Averitt1, Clark Experimental studies of optical pulse propa- Tokyo, Japan, 2CREST, Japan Science and competition when bent for spooled-fiber Highstrete2, Mark Lee2, Willie J. Padilla3; 1Los gation near exciton absorption resonance Technology Agency, Japan. We generate a operation. Simulations demonstrate that re- Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 2Sandia Natl. Labs, in an optically thick GaAs quantum well squeezed vacuum state at 860 nm with a cently proposed bend-distortion-resistant USA, 3Boston College, USA. Planar electric reveal an anomalous transition between re- periodically-poled KTiOPO4 crystal as a designs are immune to gain degradation, as metamaterials are studied with terahertz gimes of slow and fast light. nonlinear medium of an optical parametric well as effective area reduction. time-domain spectroscopy in transmission oscillator. We observe -9.0±0.2 dB of squeez- and reflection. Energy absorption of 5-20% ing with local oscillator phase locked. due to Ohmic losses within the metal patterning is observed at resonant frequencies. Finite-element simulations verify experimental results.

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CTuU • NLO Devices— JTuB • Symposium on Self- CTuV • Novel Microscopy— CTuW • Short Wavelength CTuX • Novel VCSELs— CTuY • Silicon-Based CTuZ • Photonic Structures QTuG • Micro-Cavities and Continued Phase Modulation I— Continued Generation and Continued Optical Materials— for Emission and Random Media—Continued Continued Applications—Continued Continued Detection—Continued

CTuU3 • 3:00 p.m. JTuB2 • 3:00 p.m. CTuV3 • 3:00 p.m. CTuW3 • 3:00 p.m. Invited CTuX3 • 3:00 p.m. CTuY3 • 3:00 p.m. Invited CTuZ3 • 3:00 p.m. QTuG3 • 3:00 p.m. Compact, All Solid-State, High Repetition Multi-Watt Supercontinuum Generation Quantitative Phase Microscopy by Multi- Complete Temporal Reconstruction of Beam Switching and Steering in VCSEL- Directly Pumped Silicon Lasing, Sylvain CMOS-Compatible High Frequency In- Multiple Input and Random Medium Rate Intracavity Optical Parametric Os- from 0.3 to 2.4 µm in PCF Tapers, J. C. wavelength Phase-Shifting Interference Attosecond Harmonic Pulses, Chang Hee Based Photonic Crystal Coupled G. Cloutier, Chih-Hsun Hsu, Pavel Kossyrev, frared Photodiodes, Michael W. Geis1, Information Retrieval from Second Or- cillator and Its Application to the Spec- Travers1, A. B. Rulkov1, S. V. Popov1, J. R. Microscopy, Nilanthi Warnasooriya, Nam, Kyung Taec Kim, Kyung Sik Kang, Heterostructures, Lars D. A. Lundeberg, Eli Efi Rotem, Jeffrey Shainline, Jimmy Xu; Steven J. Spector1, Matthew E. Grein1, Robert der Intensity Correlations, Zhenyu Wang, troscopic Imaging of Gases and Liquids, Taylor1, A. Kudlinski2,3, A. K. George2, J. C. Myung K. Kim; Univ. of South Florida, USA. Dong Hyuk Ko, Ju Yun Park; KAIST, Repub- Kapon; Lab of Physics of Nanostructures, Brown Univ., USA. Enhanced photolumines- T. Schulein1, Jung U. Yoon1, Donna M. Andrew M. Weiner, Kevin J. Webb; Purdue David J. Stothard, Cameron F. Rae, Mark Knight2; 1Femtosecond Optics Group, Dept. The phase-shifting interference microscopy lic of Korea. Using the FROG CRAB method, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne cence and 1.28µm laser emission from nano- Lennon1, Sandra Deneault1, Theodore M. Univ., USA. We demonstrate that relative Ross, Malcolm H. Dunn; Univ. of St. of Physics, Imperial College, UK, 2Ctr. for is combined with the multi-wavelength op- complete temporal reconstruction of (EPFL), Switzerland. We demonstrate elec- engineered silicon originating respectively Lyszczarz1, Fuwan Gan2, Franz X. delay and intensity information with two Andrews, UK. We describe a compact pulsed Photonics and Photonic Materials, Dept. of tical phase unwrapping to obtain quantita- attosecond harmonic pulses was achieved. trically controlled beam switching and steer- from phonon k-selection rule breaking and Kaertner2; 1MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, 2MIT, USA. sources incident on a random medium can optical parametric oscillator based upon Physics, Univ. of Bath, UK, 3Lab PhLAM, tive phase profiles of microscopic objects The compensation of intrinsic attosecond ing in separate-contact photonic crystal point defect-mediated phononless recom- CMOS-compatible, silicon waveguide pho- be retrieved from second order frequency room-temperature MgO:PPLN operating in- IRCICA, Univ. des Sciences et Technologies without 2π discontinuities. Due to broad- chirp was also demonstrated in the harmonic heterostructures implemented with arrays of bination in an array of Emissive Structural todiodes, responding to radiation from 1270 intensity correlations. This interferometer ternal to a Q-switched Nd:YVO mini-laser. de Lille, France. Supercontinua spanning band light sources, images are less affected generation medium itself, thereby achiev- VCSELs. Switching from mutually incoher- Deformation zones in a SOI wafer are re- to 1740 nm (0.8 A W-1 at 1550 nm) with a 3 may prove important in imaging applica- uesday, May 8 uesday, 4

T Repetition rates of >300kHz were achieved 320-2400nm have been generated in long by coherent noise. ing transform-limited attosecond pulses. ent to coherent operation is accompanied ported. dB bandwidth of 10 to 20 GHz were formed tions. at 150mW mean tuneable mid-infrared out- photonic-crystal-fiber tapers. Total average by wavelength tuning of the array elements. by Si ion implantation. put power for 3W pump. powers of over 3.5W and spectral-power- densities in the blue of over 5mW/nm are demonstrated. Use as a broadly-tunable pulse source is proposed.

CTuU4 • 3:15 p.m. JTuB3 • 3:15 p.m. CTuV4 • 3:15 p.m. CTuX4 • 3:15 p.m. CTuZ4 • 3:15 p.m. QTuG4 • 3:15 p.m. Mid-Infrared Generation by Wavelength Self-Steepening without Self-Phase Bio-Imaging with Femtosecond Laser Characterization of Micro-Fluidic Verti- Monolithic Integrated SiGe Optical Re- Possible Evidence for a Mobility Edge for Conversion of a 10W, Linearly-Polarized, Modulation, Jeffrey Moses, Frank W. Wise; Induced Ionization Microscopy, Youbo cal-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers, Ansas ceiver and Detector, Paul C. P. Chen, Photons in Two Dimensions, Ara A. ns-Pulse Eye-Safe Fiber Source, Fabio Di Cornell Univ., USA. A first optical manifes- Zhao, Yanmei Liang, Jianjun Yang, Mingwei M. Kasten, Joshua D. Sulkin, Paul O. Leisher, Anand M. Pappu, Alyssa B. Apsel; Cornell Asatryan1, Lindsay C. Botten1, Michael A. Teodoro, Sebastien Desmoulins; Aculight tation of the Chen-Lee-Liu-type derivative Wang, Xiaonong Zhu; Inst. of Modern Op- Kent D. Choquette; Univ. of Illinois at Ur- Univ., USA. We present a monolithically in- Byrne1,2, Ross C. McPhedran2, Carell M. de Corp., USA. Average power in excess of 1W nonlinear Schrodinger equation results in tics, Nankai Univ., China. Bio-imaging with bana-Champaign, USA. Micro-fluidic tegrated photodetector and optical receiver Sterke2; 1Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Aus- (at pulse repetition rate ~100 kHz) in the self-steepening of ultrashort pulses and the recently proposed femtosecond laser VCSELs are fabricated using a novel fluidic in a commercial SiGe process. Fabricating tralia, 2Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We have 3.8-4micron wavelength range was obtained shock formation without simultaneous self- induced ionization microscopy is introduced. channel structure with etched trenches and the receiver and detector on the same die, applied a renormalization group analysis to by pumping an optical parametric oscillator phase modulation and spectral broadening. This new nonlinear imaging technique fluid reservoirs surrounding each VCSEL. with a single low supply voltage, enables the study of Anderson localization of light with a 1545nm-wavelength pulsed fiber Experiments verify theory. shows the advantage of being highly sensi- Pulsed and continuous wave measurements lower cost interchip optical interconnects. in 2-D disordered PCs. Contrary to common source. tive to the internal microstructure or the demonstrated a fluid induced lasing wave- belief, we find possible evidence of a mo- surface profile of biological samples. length shift of 0.3 nm. bility edge in two dimensions.

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QTuH3 • 3:00 p.m. QTuI3 • 3:00 p.m. CTuBB3 • 3:00 p.m. Invited CTuCC3 • 3:00 p.m. Superluminal Brillouin Amplification Nonclassicality and Decoherence of Chirally Coupled Core Fibers at 1550-nm The Superprism Effect in a Metal-Clad

for Sub-Cycle Interactions of Modulated Photon-Subtracted Squeezed States, and 1064-nm for Effectively Single-Mode Terahertz Photonic Crystal Slab, Tushar T

Light, Shmuel Sternklar, Tal Arditi, Er’el Asoka Biswas1, G. S. Agarwal2; 1Univ. of Core Size Scaling, Chi-Hung Liu1, Guoqing Prasad, Vicki L. Colvin, Zhongping Jian, uesday, May 8 Granot; College of Judea and Samaria, Is- Southern California, USA, 2Oklahoma State Chang1, Natasha Litchinister1, Doug Daniel M. Mittleman; Rice Univ., USA. We rael. Superluminal Brillouin amplification is Univ., USA. We discuss nonclassical proper- Guertin2, Nick Jacobson2, Kanishka demonstrate the superprism effect in a pho- predicted and demonstrated for modulated ties of single-photon subtracted squeezed Tankala2, Almantas Galvanauskas1; 1EECS tonic crystal slab at terahertz frequencies. pump and Stokes waves, for interaction vacuum states and study its decoherence Dept., Univ. of Michigan, USA, 2NUFERN, The observed angular dispersion cannot be lengths less than half the modulation wave- under different models. We find that the state USA. Novel index-guiding-core single-mode explained unless the finite slab thickness and length. The group velocity increases by a is especially robust under phase diffusion fibers with V >> 2.405 are demonstrated at its metal cladding boundary conditions are factor G, the Brillouin exponential gain pa- model though its phase properties are lost. 1550-nm and 1064-nm wavelengths. This taken into account. rameter. fiber design is based on chirally-coupled core concept, which enables a new type of index-guiding and photonic-crystal fiber structures.

QTuH4 • 3:15 p.m. QTuI4 • 3:15 p.m. CTuCC4 • 3:15 p.m. Pulse Broadening or Compression in Generation of Telecom-Band Indistin- A New Method for the Realization of a Fast-Light Pulse Propagation through an guishable Photon Pairs in Dispersion- Tunable Terahertz Photonic Bandgap, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier, Heedeuk Shifted Fiber, Jun Chen, Kim Fook Lee, Yuguang Zhao, Daniel Grischkowsky; Okla- Shin1, Aaron Schweinsberg1, George Prem Kumar; Ctr. for Photonic Communi- homa State Univ., USA. We report the ex- Gehring1, Katie Schwertz1, Hye Jeong cation, Dept. of EECS, Northwestern Univ., perimental realization of a tunable terahertz Chang1,2, Q-Han Park3, Daniel J. Gauthier4, USA. We use a 50/50 Sagnac-loop configu- photonic bandgap structure. The bandgap Robert W. Boyd1; 1Inst. of Optics, Univ. of ration to spatially separate degenerate pho- can be linearly controlled by adjusting the Rochester, USA, 2Korean Intellectual Prop- ton pairs created via four-photon scattering air gap between the top of the metallic pho- erty Office, Republic of Korea, 3Dept. of Phys- in dispersion-shifted fiber. A Hong-Ou- tonic crystals and the cover plate. ics, Korea Univ., Republic of Korea, 4Dept. Mandel dip with visibility > 94% is observed. of Physics, Duke Univ., USA. Pulse broadening or compression in an Er3+-doped fiber amplifier is observed, and explained by gain recovery and pulse spectrum broadening effects. Maximal pulse advancement and minimal pulse distortion are obtained by optimizing these competing effects.

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CTuU5 • 3:30 p.m. JTuB4 • 3:30 p.m. CTuV5 • 3:30 p.m. CTuW4 • 3:30 p.m. CTuX5 • 3:30 p.m. CTuY4 • 3:30 p.m. CTuZ5 • 3:30 p.m. QTuG5 • 3:30 p.m. InGaAs/GaAs QD-Based 100 nm Band- Narrow-Band Spectral Enhancement of Three-Dimensional Brillouin Confocal Tabletop Lensless Imaging Using Coher- Modulation Characteristics of Single- Spatial Characterization of Germanium- Thermal Microphotonic Focal Plane Ar- Optical Whispering Gallery Mode Reso- width Electro-Optic Modulator for 1.55 a Self-Phase Modulated Pulse, Dane R. Microscopy, Giuliano Scarcelli, Seok H. ent High Harmonic Beams, Richard Mode Implant-Confined Photonic Crys- on-Silicon C-Band PIN Photodiodes, Ja- ray (TM-FPA) for Uncooled High Sensi- nators with Q>1011 and F>107 , Andrey B. µm Applications, Gautier Moreau, An- Austin, Jeremy A. Bolger, C. Martijn de Yun; Harvard Medical School and Wellman Sandberg1, Ariel Paul1, Daisy Raymondson1, tal VCSELs, Paul O. Leisher1, Chen Chen1, son S. Orcutt, Oluwamuyiwa O. Olubuyide, tivity Thermal Imaging, Michael R. Watts, Matsko, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Vladimir thony Martinez, Kamel Merghem, Audrey Sterke, Dong-Il Yeom, Thomas G. Brown, Ctr. for Photomedicine, Massachusetts Gen- David Gaudiosi1, James Holtsnider1, Marga- Joshua D. Sulkin1, Mohd Sharizal Alias2, Judy L. Hoyt, Rajeev J. Ram; MIT, USA. Spa- Michael J. Shaw, Gregory N. Nielson, Jeremy S. Ilchenko, Lute Maleki; JPL, USA. We show Miard, Aristide Lemaitre, Paul Voisin, Benjamin J. Eggleton; CUDOS, School of eral Hospital, USA. We present Brillouin con- ret Murnane1, Henry Kapteyn1, Changyong Khairul Anuar Sharif2, Kent D. Choquette1; tially-resolved photoresponse and modula- B. Wright, Karl Westlake, Igal Brener, Jeffery that a proper thermal annealing leads to a uesday, May 8 uesday, Abderrahim Ramdane; Lab for Photonics Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We de- focal microscopy for non-invasively measur- Song2, Jianwei Miao2; 1JILA, USA, 2Univ. of 1Univ. of Illinois, USA, 2Telekom Res. & De- tion measurements of vertically-illuminated L. Rienstra, Frederick B. McCormick; Sandia significant increase of the quality factors of

T and Nanostructures, CNRS UPR, France. We velop a simple physical model to describe ing mechanical properties of material with California at Los Angeles, USA. We present velopment, Malaysia. Implant-confined germanium-on-silicon photodiodes are pre- Labs, USA. We report on a new crystalline whispering gallery mode resona- demonstrate the potential of InGaAs/GaAs narrow-band enhancement of spectrally fil- three-dimensional spatial resolution and high the first demonstration of lensless imaging VCSELs are fabricated with coplanar con- sented. It is shown that, even in a planar microphotonic technique for high-sensitiv- tors. We have demonstrated a fluoride reso- Quantum Dot-based Electro-optic modula- tered ultrashort pulses in the presence of sensitivity. using coherent high harmonic beams. This tacts on polyimide. Photonic crystals are device, localized traps at the perimeter limit ity, uncooled, thermal imaging. The tech- nator with Q exceeding 1011 using the tor for broadband (>100nm) applications at self-phase modulation. An experiment us- coherent imaging technique avoids tradi- etched into the top facet to stabilize the fun- both quantum efficiency and modulation nique, based on the massive thermo-optic method. 1.55 µm. ing pulse shaping and propagation in pho- tional diffractive optics, and is transparently damental mode and improve performance. bandwidth. effect in thermally isolated micro-resonators tonic crystal fibre confirms this model. extendable to shorter wavelengths without Optimized devices exhibit a record 15 GHz offers potential for significantly higher sen- aberrations. small-signal modulation bandwidth. sitivity than bolometric techniques.

CTuU6 • 3:45 p.m. JTuB5 • 3:45 p.m. Invited CTuV6 • 3:45 p.m. CTuW5 • 3:45 p.m. CTuX6 • 3:45 p.m. CTuY5 • 3:45 p.m. CTuZ6 • 3:45 p.m. QTuG6 • 3:45 p.m. Progress in High Sensitivity Electro-Op- Self-Phase Modulation in Optical Fiber Very Efficient Fluorescent Background Soft X-Ray Contact Imaging of Thin Optical Decoupling in a Loss-Modulated Wavelength Dependence of the Ultrafast Local Fields of Optical Antenna Struc- Direct Visualization of Stationary Inter- tic Field Sensors, Anthony Garzarella1, Communications: Good or Bad? Govind Suppression in Confocal Raman Micros- Films by a Laser Plasma Source, Salvatore Dual-Cavity VCSEL, Jobert van Eisden1, Third-Order Nonlinearity of Silicon, tures, Bradley M. Deutsch1, Lukas Novotny1, ference Patterns of Several Running Dong Ho Wu1, Randall J. Hinton2; 1NRL, USA, Agrawal; Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, copy, Vladislav V. Yakovlev; Univ. of Wis- Stagira1, Francesca Calegari1, Enrico Michael Yakimov1, Vadim Tokranov1, Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta; Cornell Ertugrul Cubukcu2, Elizabeth J. Smythe2, Whispering Gallery Modes, Anatoliy A. 2Temple Univ., USA. Compact Electro-optic USA. Self-phase modulation is often regarded consin at Milwaukee, USA. Time-gated opti- Benedetti1, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez1, Manasa Varanasi1, Serge R. Oktyabrsky1, Univ., USA. We measure the wavelength Federico Capasso2, Rainer Hillenbrand3; Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, Vladimir S. 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 (EO) sensors for nonperturbative electric as being harmful for optical communication cal imaging is employed for the first time to Mauro Nisoli , Giuseppe Sansone , Gianluca Edris M. Mohammed , Ian A. Young ; Col- dependence of the nonlinear index n2 and Univ. of Rochester, USA, Harvard Univ., Ilchenko, Dmitry Strekalov, Lute Maleki; JPL, field detection are described, along with systems. Here, I discuss its impact on such achieve confocal Raman microscopy. The Valentini1, Caterina Vozzi1, Sandro De lege of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, two-photon absorption coefficients of bulk USA, 3Max Planck Inst. Fur Biochemie, Ger- USA. We report on the direct observation of several interesting parasitic effects which can systems and focus on its useful applications innovative laser design and a careful selec- Silvestri1, Luca Poletto2, Paolo Villoresi2, Univ. at Albany, USA, 2Intel Corp., USA. We silicon below the band edge. In contrast to many. Resonantly excited optical antennas stationary interference patterns of several be suppressed or exploited to enhance the related to signal processing, soliton formation of the Kerr-gate material allows to re- Anatoly Faenov3, Tatiana Pikuz3; 1ULTRAS, have demonstrated the principle of optical direct-bandgap semiconductors, silicon are studied with near-field optical micros- running optical whispering gallery modes

sensor responsivity. tion, and optical regeneration. duce fluorescent background by 1000 times. CNR-INFM, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, decoupling in a loss-modulated VCSEL by shows a positive n2 throughout the band copy. The locally enhanced fields associ- in an experiment with a fused silica 2Univ. di Padova, Italy, 3MISDC of VNIIFTRI, use of a dual-cavity geometry. Adjusting gap. ated with antenna resonances are imaged microsphere immersed into a dye solution. Russian Federation. Quantitative analysis of detuning between cavities controls the by using a sharp metallic tip acting as a lo- nanometric films is achieved by soft X-ray decoupling amount. Flat (+/-3-Db) response cal scattering center. imaging using a laser-plasma source and LiF up to 20 GHz is demonstrated. crystals as detectors. Excitation of color center fluorescence in exposed LiF allows image detection with submicron resolution.

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The Case of Ortho and Para Nitrogen, tion Measurement of Triphoton, Yu AOTF Double Diffraction, Farzan N. Method for Rare-Earth Doping of Opti- on Periodic Metal Arrays, Michael Martl, 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 1 2 2 1 2 Sharly Fleischer, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Yehiam Zhou , Ping Xu , Shining Zhu , Yanhua Ghauri, Nabeel A. Riza; College of Optics, cal Fibers, Lars Norin , Evgeny Vanin , Juraj Darmo, Josef Kroell, Karl Unterrainer; 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 1 1 3 3,4 1 Prior; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. Shih ; Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland, CREOL, USA. A programmable, broadband Pekka Soininen , Matti Putkonen ; Acreo Photonik Inst., Austria. We studied coupling 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 2 2 3 Double pulse excitation of fractional reviv- Baltimore County, USA, Natl. Lab of Solid Radio Frequency transversal filter architec- FiberLab, Sweden, Acreo, Sweden, Beneq of the terahertz radiation to periodically 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 4 als of rotational wavepackets is demon- State Microstructures, Nanjing Univ., China. ture is proposed and implemented using an Oy, Finland, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, structured metal arrays. The role of polar- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123

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T onstrated. The noise reduction by enforc- free detection of biochemical reactions in compressor. emission with continuously wavelength tun- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Germany. We fab- lated to the surface phonon-polariton co- ing a single-mode operation by Volumetric microarrays. Configurations enabling high- ing range of 6.5nm was experimentally ob- ricate silicon inverse woodpile structures for herence of a flat surface. Bragg Grating in a V-shaped cavity is first throughput endpoint and real-time detec- tained. the first time. Direct laser writing of poly- time reported. tion on glass substrates are discussed. meric templates and a novel silicon-single- inversion procedure lead to structures with gap/midgap ratios of 14.2 % centered at 2.5 µm wavelength.

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Tutorial CTuDD1 • 4:45 p.m. Tutorial JTuC1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited CTuEE1 • 4:45 p.m. CTuFF1 • 4:45 p.m. CTuGG1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited CTuHH1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited QTuJ1 • 4:45 p.m. QTuK1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited Silicon Nanophotonics and Its Applica- From Supercontinuum Generation to Three-Dimensional in vivo Reflectance All-Optical Dynamic Chirp Compensa- Monolithically Integrated III-Sb Progress on the Development of High- Fundamental Physics and Applications A High-Intensity Bowtie Nano-Aperture tions in Sensing, Roel Baets, D. Taillaert, Carrier Shocks: Extreme Nonlinear and Fluorescence Imaging by a tion of Few-Cycle Optical Pulses by Fre- Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes Power Solid-State Lasers for Directed of Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, K. De Vos, P. Propagation in Photonic Crystal Fiber, Handheld Dual-Axes Confocal Micro- quency-Domain Phase Conjugator, on Si (100) Substrates, Diana Huffaker, Energy Applications, Mark Neice; High Lute Maleki; JPL, USA. This tutorial will fo- for Near-Field Optics, Zhilong Rao, Joseph Debackere, S. Scheerlinck, D. Van John Dudley1, Bertrand Kibler1, Goery scope, Hyejun Ra1, Wibool Piyawat— Hajime Nishioka, Keisuke Hayakawa, Syuji G. Balakrishnan, M. Mehta, M. N. Kutty, P. Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (HEL- cus on a discussion of the fundamentals and A. Matteo, Lambertus Hesselink, James S. uesday, May 8 uesday, Genty2, Stephane Coen3, Paul Kinsler4; 1Univ. 1,2 1 Harris; Stanford Univ., USA. We demon- T Thourhout; Ghent Univ.-IMEC, Belgium. We tanametha , Michael J. Mandella , Ohta, Hitoshi Tomita, Ken-ichi Ueda; Inst. Rotella, S. Krishna, L. R. Dawson; Ctr. for JTO), USA. The progress of Nd:YAG solid applications of whispering gallery mode present photonic wire waveguides and ba- de Franche-Comte, France, 2Helsinki Univ. Jonathan T. C. Liu1, Larry K. Wong1, Tho- for Laser Science, Japan. All-optical phase- High Technology Materials, USA. We report state lasers in the multi-tens of kilowatts resonators, with an emphasis on recent de- strated a record-high-intensity bowtie nano- sic components in Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI). of Technology, Finland, 3Univ. of Auckland, mas D. Wang1, Christopher H. Contag1, Gor- correction of few-cycle optical pulse has on recent monolithically integrated III-V on power range with good beam quality is pre- velopments in the field. aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting la- A large number of these compact SOI de- New Zealand, 4Imperial College London, UK. don S. Kino1, Olav Solgaard1; 1Stanford been demonstrated by a frequency-domain Si device developments including a room- sented in this presentation. ser (VCSEL) with near-field spot size of 65 vices fit on a single chip. We describe pos- We review supercontinuum generation in Univ., USA, 2Natl. Electronics and Computer phase conjugator (FDPC). Temporally vary- temperature, superluminescent light emit- nm. The bowtie aperture VCSEL is very sible applications in biochemical sensing and photonic crystal fiber and discuss the un- Technology Ctr., Thailand. We demonstrate ing group-delay-dispersion is dynamically ting diode. The integration scheme is en- promising to realize near-field applications strain sensing. derlying spectral broadening processes from reflectance and fluorescence imaging with compensated by two-photon formed grat- abled by spontaneously-formed, interfacial such as ultradense optical data storage. the femtosecond to the continuous wave a handheld dual-axes confocal microscope ings in a highly transparent photo-refrac- misfit arrays (IMF). regime. We also describe a new propaga- based on a two-dimensional microelectro- tive material. tion model that integrates carrier dynamics. mechanical system scanner. Three-dimensional imaging capability is shown in tissue, and in vivo imaging of a mouse is performed.

CTuEE2 • 5:00 p.m. CTuFF2 • 5:00 p.m. Endoscopic Fiber Confocal Microscopy Semiconductor Waveguide Device for Using a GRIN Lens, Abner Rodriguez, Do- Picosecond Pulse Amplification and Hyun Kim, Jin U. Kang; Johns Hopkins Univ., Spectral Shaping at 1560 nm, Martijn USA. We have built and analyzed the per- Heck, Erwin A. Bente, Yohan Barbarin, formance of a near-IR all-fiber confocal mi- Antigone Fryda, Hyun-Do Jung, Siang Oei, croscope with a flexible probe using a GRIN Richard Notzel, Daan Lenstra, Meint K. Smit; lens. This device operates at 1550 nm and Technische Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands. exhibits ~2 µm lateral resolution. Amplification of picosecond pulses with greatly reduced amplified spontaneous emission compared to a standard semiconductor amplifier (up to 30dB) and a large increase in coherent spectral bandwidth is demonstrated in devices we have fabricated.

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Mid-IR Luminescence of Nanocrystalline Spatial Selection of Atoms in Optical Bil- Practical Method for Calculating the In- High Speed Data Amplification Using Frequency-Dependent Radiation Pat- 1High2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Speed Production of Periodical Elastic-Light Scattering for the Charac- 3 II-VI Semiconductors Doped with Tran- liard, Yoni Hertzberg, Tzahi Grunzweig, terferometric Autocorrelation Trace of Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Amplifier, terns Emitted by THz Plasmons on Cy- 1Nanostructures2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Using Femtosecond La- terization of Respirable Aerosols, 3 sition Metal Ions, Changsu Kim, Dmitri V. Armin Ridinger, Yoav Sagi, Nir Davidson; an Attosecond Pulse Train, Yasuo Ying-hao Kuo1, Hyundai Park1, Alexander lindrical Metal Wires, Jason A. Deibel1, 1ser2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Radiation, Dirk Wortmann, Ralph Gustavo E. Fernandes1, Yong-Le Pan1, Kevin 3 Martyshkin, Vladimir V. Fedorov, Sergey B. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. By releas- Nabekawa, Katsumi Midorikawa; RIKEN, Fang1, John Bowers1, Richard Jones2, Mario Nicholas Berndsen1, Kanglin Wang1, Daniel 1W2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012agner, Jens Gottmann; Lehrstuhl für B. Aptowicz2, Jean-Claude Auger1, Richard 3 Mirov; Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, ing ultra-cold atoms from a small red Japan. We show how to calculate the Paniccia2, Oded Cohen2; 1Univ. of Califor- Mittleman1, Nick C. J. van der Valk2, Paul C. 1Lasertechnik,2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Germany. Subwavelength K. Chang1; 1Yale Univ., USA, 2West Chester 3 USA. A novel method of transition metal detuned Gaussian trap to an optical wedge interferomtric autocorrelation trace of the nia at Santa Barbara, USA, 2Intel Corp., USA. M. Planken2; 1Rice Univ., USA, 2Univ. of Tech- 1Ripples2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 (spacing < λ/4) are obtained by scan- Univ., USA. The latest technologies for mea- 3 (TM) (Cr, Co and Fe) doped II-VI billiard we reduce the energy broadening attosecond pulse train (APT). Nonlinear in- Data amplification using hybrid silicon eva- nology Delft, Netherlands. We report on the 1ning2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 femtosecond laser radiation (τ=100fs suring the elastic-light scattering patterns of 3 nanocrystalline quantum dots (NCD) fabri- of the atoms and perform spatial selection terference fringes on the spatial profile of nescent amplifier is demonstrated at bit rates emission patterns from THz plasmons propa- 1& 2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012400fs, λ=800nm & 1045nm) over various respirable aerosols in real time are discussed. 3 cation based on laser ablation was demon- on the initial occupied phase space. the spatially divided two replicas of the APT up to 40Gbps. The amplifier exhibits 13- gating along wire waveguides. Experimen- 1materials2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 surfaces. The ripple patterns ex- A technique for post-processing the data is 3 strated. For the first time mid-IR lumines- is essential. DB on-chip gain with low power penalty tal results and numerical simulations show 1tend2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 coherently over many overlapping la- presented which is useful in distinguishing 3 cence from TM:II-VI NCD is reported. of 0.5dB. Pattern effects due to carrier life- frequency-dependent diffraction occurring 1ser2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 pulses and scanning tracks. among certain types of aerosols. 3 time are investigated. at the end of the cylindrical waveguide. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123

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Raman Scattering from Individual, Iso- Spin Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic In-situ Probing of Coherence in Hollow Dynamic Range Studied for a Monolithic Terahertz Near-Field Imaging of 1Advanced2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 Femtosecomd Lasers in Manu- Practical Anti-Microbial Surfaces on 3 1 lated Metallic Carbon Nanotubes, Yang Spin-1 Condensate, Adam T. Black, Lin- Waveguide High-Order Harmonic Gen- 2x2 Quantum Dot Switch , Eng Tin Aw , Subwavelength One-Dimensional 1facturing2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 , Hitoshi Sekita; Cyber Laser, Inc., Nylon and Polyester by UV Photochem- 3 1 1 1 Wu, Janina Maultzsch, Ernst Knoesel, coln D. Turner, Eduardo Gomez, Sebastian eration, Amy L. Lytle, Xiaoshi Zhang, Mar- Yuanliang Chu , Shidai Liu , Mark G. Th- Plasmonic Structures, M. A. Seo , A. J. L. 1Japan.2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 We solved the stability, life-time and istry, Michael J. Kelley, Zhengmao Zhu; 3 Bhupesh Chandra, Mingyuan Huang, Mat- Jung, Paul D. Lett; NIST, USA. We observe garet M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Oren ompson1, Adrian Wonfor1, Roman L. Seillin1, Adam2, S. C. Jeoung3, Paul C. m. Planken2, 1cost2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 problems of femtosecond lasers and Jefferson Lab, USA. Surface radicals gener- 3 thew Y. Sfeir, Louis Brus, James Hone, Tony coherent spin dynamics and measure ground Cohen; JILA/ Univ. of Colorado, USA. We use Richard V. Penty1, Ian H. White1, Alexey R. D. S. Kim1; 1Seoul Natl. Univ., Republic of 1opened2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 the door to their huge commercial ated by deep UV light afford strongly anti- 3 F. Heinz; Columbia Univ., USA. We have state populations in an antiferromagnetic counterpropagating light to observe the co- Kovsh2; 1Univ. of Cambridge, UK, 2NL Korea, 2Delft Univ. of Technology, Nether- 1market2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 in near future. Femtosecond lasers microbial amine functionality by grafting or 3 obtained Raman spectra of the high-energy spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. At a criti- herent buildup of harmonic generation in a Nanosemiconductor GmbH, Germany. The lands, 3Korea Res. Inst. of Standard and Sci- 1will2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 be used in the semiconductor and LCD transformation. They are broadly effective 3 (or G) modes from individual metallic car- cal value of the quadratic Zeeman shift, the hollow waveguide. By measuring the phase robustness of an integrated 2x2 quantum- ence, Republic of Korea. We have developed 1manufacturing2345678901234567890123456789012123456789012 factory. in the lab and significantly viable in the field. 3 bon nanotubes. The Raman lines are broad- oscillations display a resonance in oscilla- mismatch, we probe pressure-tuned phase dot switch is investigated for low penalty a terahertz near-field imaging system detect- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 ened to widths up to 100 cm-1, indicating tion period. matching and determine ionization levels at operation. Near penalty free operation of ing both amplitude and phase of the elec- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 strong phonon damping by electron-hole which harmonics are generated. <0.2dB is demonstrated for IPDR of over tric field spatiotemporally. Imaging one-di- 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 pairs. 8dB, highlighting its potential for systems mensional slits on metal substrate reveals 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 applications. both propagating and surface-bound waves, 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 strongly dependent on the frequency. 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123 123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123

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JTuC2 • 5:15 p.m. CTuEE3 • 5:15 p.m. CTuFF3 • 5:15 p.m. CTuGG2 • 5:15 p.m. CTuHH2 • 5:15 p.m. QTuK2 • 5:15 p.m. Cross-Phase Modulation in AlGaAs Pho- Analysis and Measurement of Light Efficient Temporal Shaping of Ul- High Power Single Mode VCSELs Emit- A Highly Efficient Quasi-Continuous- Single Molecule Fluorescence Decay tonic Nanowires, David Duchesne1, Propagation in Coherent Fiber Bundles, trashort Pulses with Birefringent Crys- ting at 1320nm Wavelength, Vladimir Wave Diode-Pumped Nd: YAG Rod Laser Rate Fluctuations in Complex Media, Luis Roberto Morandotti1, Georgios Siviloglou2, Kristen P L Reichenbach, Chris Xu; Cornell tals, Shian Zhou, Dimitre G. Ouzounov, Iakovlev1, Andrei Mircea1, Andrei Caliman1, with a 3.8 kW Output, Qinjun Peng, S. Froufe1, J.J. Saenz2, Rémi Carminati1; 1Lab Ramy El-Ganainy2, George Stegeman2, Univ., USA. We show numerically and ex- Frank W. Wise, Ivan Bazarov, Charles Alexandru Mereuta1, G. Suruceanu1, Xiaodong Yang, Yong Bo, Qianjin Cui, d’Energetique Moléculaire et Macroscopique, Demetrios Christodoulides2, Daniele perimentally that strong core coupling that Sinclair; Cornell Univ., USA. A novel tech- Claude-Albert Berseth1, Paul Royo1, Alexei Hongbo Zhang, Yuanpu Lu, Xiaofu Zhang, Combustion, Ecole Centrale Paris, CNRS, Modotto3, Andrea Locatelli3, Costantino De is dependent on the wavelength and the nique is demonstrated for temporal shap- Syrbu1, Eli Kapon1,2; 1BeamExpress S.A., Jialin Xu, Dafu Cui, Zuyan Xu; Inst. of Phys- France, 2Dept. Fisica de la Materia Angelis3, Francesca Pozzi4, Marc Sorel4; polarization can be observed in image fi- ing for femtosecond and picosecond pulses Switzerland, 2Ecole Polytechnique Federale ics, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China. A Condensada, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, 1Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique, bers commonly used in endoscopes. with high efficiency. The pulse is divided De Lausanne, Switzerland. We demonstrate Quasi-Continuous-Wave (QCW) Nd:YAG- Spain. Statistics of fluorescence decay-rate Univ. du Quebec, Canada, 2CREOL, Univ. into numerous pulses by a designed bire- polarization stable record high single mode rod laser with a 3.8kW output and a 54% of single emitters in disordered clusters of of Central Florida, USA, 3Inst. Nazionale per fringent-crystal set. These divided pulses power of 5.4mW and 3.1mW at 25° and 75°C optical-optical efficiency is demonstrated by nanoparticles are theoretically analyzed. We

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T la Fisica della Materia, Italy, 4Univ. of produce various shapes. wafer fused VCSELs operating at 1320nm the stable zone control of resonator, which show how fluctuations depend on the local Glasgow, UK. Cross-Phase modulation (XPM) wavelength with open eye diagrams show- overcomes the limitations of thermal lens environment of the emitter, and are sensi- is investigated in AlGaAs nanowires by way ing 40ps fall time at 10Gb/s modulation. effect of Nd: YAG rod. tive to local absorption and structure. of cross-polarised co-propagating pulses. A XPM to SPM (Self-Phase Modulation) ratio of 0.92 is determined at 1557 nm.

JTuC3 • 5:30 p.m. CTuEE4 • 5:30 p.m. CTuFF4 • 5:30 p.m. CTuGG3 • 5:30 p.m. CTuHH3 • 5:30 p.m. QTuK3 • 5:30 p.m. 160-Gbit/s Optical Time-Division Fiber Optic Guided Functional Electri- Birefringent Nonlinear Polarization Ro- Scaling Rules for High-Power 1.55 µm Measurement of the Self-Phase-Modula- Differential Near-Field Scanning Optical Demultiplexing Based on Cross-Phase cal Stimulation with Microscale Photo- tation Mirror for Pedestal Suppression VCSEL Arrays, Werner H. E. Hofmann1, tion-Induced Bandwidth in a 30-kJ-Class Microscopy, Aydogan Ozcan1, Ertugrul Modulation in a 2-m-Long Dispersion- voltaic Neurostimulator Devices, Yoon- of Ultrashort Pulse, Norihiko Nishizawa, Gerhard Böhm1, Markus Ortsiefer2, Markus- Laser-Amplifier Chain, William R. Cubukcu2, Alberto Bilenca1, Ken Crozier2, 1 1 1 2 Shifted Bi2O3 Photonic Crystal Fiber, Koji Kyu Song, William R. Patterson, Christopher Atsushi Murayama; Nagoya Univ., Japan. Christian Amann ; Walter Schottky Inst., Donaldson, Drew N. Maywar, John H. Kelly; Brett E. Bouma , Federico Capasso , Igarashi1, Kazuhiro Katoh1, Kazuro W. Bull, Jiayi Zhang, Candice R. Sheldon, Pedestal elimination of ultrashort pulse is Germany, 2Vertilas GmbH, Germany. Vari- Univ. of Rochester, USA. Self-phase modula- Guillermo J. Tearney1; 1Harvard Medical Kikuchi1, Tatsuo Nagashima2, Tomoharu Arto V. Nurmikko, John J. Stein, Mijail D. demonstrated using a new scheme of non- ous 1.55 µm vertical-cavity surface-emitting tion in a multikilojoule laser system was School, USA, 2Div. of Engineering and Ap- Hasegawa2, Seiki Ohara2, Naoki Sugimoto2; Serruya, John P. Donoghue; Brown Univ., linear polarization rotation mirror. Almost lasers (VCSEL) and two-dimensional VCSEL detected spectroscopically and correlated plied Sciences, Harvard Univ., USA. A new 1Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2Res. Ctr., Asahi Glass USA. We report on study of optically acti- transform limited 143 and 318 fs ultrashort arrays with output powers up to 100 mW with the time derivative of the intensity. An aperture-type near-field-scanning-optical- Co., Ltd., Japan. Optical time-division vated functional electrical stimulation using pulses without pedestal are successfully are presented. In a detailed investigation we integrated nonlinear index of refraction was microscopy (NSOM) technique, termed dif- demultiplexing of 160-Gbit/s optical signals a high efficiency microscale photovoltaic generated with high efficiency. derive scaling rules for high-power arrays. determined that facilitated improved mod- ferential NSOM (DNSOM) is illustrated. is demonstrated by using a 2-m-long dis- device as a neurostimulator, integrated with eling of the system. DNSOM utilizes sharp corners of an aper-

persion-shifted Bi2O3-based photonic crys- a biocompatible, lossless, interference-free ture to beat diffraction-limit, and unlike con- tal fiber. Power penalties are less than 6 dB glass optical fiber for signal and energy trans- ventional-NSOM, the size of the aperture for all 10-Gbit/s tributaries. port. does not determine the resolution.

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CTuDD2 • 5:45 p.m. JTuC4 • 5:45 p.m. CTuEE5 • 5:45 p.m. CTuFF5 • 5:45 p.m. CTuGG4 • 5:45 p.m. CTuHH4 • 5:45 p.m. QTuJ2 • 5:45 p.m. QTuK4 • 5:45 p.m. All Optical Ultrafast Broadband Silicon Kerr Nonlinearity Induced Optical Fre- Fluorescence Microscopic Mapping of Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using a 2- Low Threshold VCSELs Recess-Inte- High Power CW Yb:YAG Cryogenic La- Observation of the Direct Evidence of Nanoscale Fluorescence Imaging Using Switch, Po Dong, Stefan F. Preble, Michal quency Comb Generation in Electrical Wave Propagation in an in- D Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modula- grated on Si-CMOS ICs, James M. Perkins, ser, David C. Brown, Joseph M. Singley, E. Wave Interference in Chaotic a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube, Changan Lipson; School of Electrical and Computer Microcavities, Pascal Del’Haye, Albert vitro Model of Skeletal Myoblast Cell tor, Eugene Frumker, Yaron Silberberg; Clifton G. Fonstad; MIT, USA. VCSELs have Yager, Jerry W. Kuper, Brett J. Lotito, Lonnie Microlasers, Wei Fang1,2, Hui Cao2; 1NIST, Xie, Chun Mu, Jonathan R. Cox, Jordan M. Engineering, Cornell Univ., USA. We dem- Schliesser, Tobias Wilken, Ronald Holzwarth, Transplantation, Yibing Zhang, Rajesh B. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. We dem- been integrated as individual pills within the L. Bennett; Snake Creek Lasers LLC, USA. We USA, 2Northwestern Univ., USA. We observed Gerton; Dept. of Physics, Utah Univ., USA. A onstrate 1X2 all-optical broadband switches Tobias Kippenberg; Max Planck Inst. of Sekar, Roselle M. Abraham, Leslie Tung; onstrate a new scanning femtosecond pulse dielectric stack of commercially produced describe the operation of a compact CW liq- the lasing emission intensity oscillates with single-wall carbon nanotube attached to an using 200-µm-diameter ring resonators on a Quantum Optics, Germany. It is shown that Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. Electrical wave shaping technique that enables modulation Si ICs. 1 mA threshold currents and thermal uid nitrogen cooled Yb:YAG laser with near wavelength in polymer micro-stadium lasers. AFM probe is used for near-field optical silicon chip with a rise time of 100 ps. The optical sidebands generated via optical para- propagation at a multicellular level was of pulse-shapes at hundred of kilohertz rates. characteristics similar to those of native diffraction-limited output > 200W and slope Our simulation results indicate that such imaging of 20 nm diamete fluorescent device can switch a large number (>10) of metric oscillations in a monolithic silica mapped in an in-vitro model of skeletal This technique is particularly useful for lock- substate devices are reported. efficiency > 63%. oscillation is coming from the wave inter- spheres and 5 nm diameter CdSe quantum channels spaced by 0.9 nm. microcavity are equidistant thus overcom- myoblast cell transplantation using a fluo- in on the pulse shape measurements. ference induced quality factor changes in dots. ing the cavity dispersion. This leads to the rescence micromapping system; chaotic system.

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T generation of optical frequency combs. microheterogeneity of electrical conduction was observed, which may induce arrhythmias inside hearts.

CTuDD3 • 6:00 p.m. JTuC5 • 6:00 p.m. Invited CTuEE6 • 6:00 p.m. CTuFF6 • 6:00 p.m. CTuGG5 • 6:00 p.m. CTuHH5 • 6:00 p.m. Invited QTuJ3 • 6:00 p.m. QTuK5 • 6:00 p.m. High Directivity, Vertical Fiber-to-Chip Bigger and Better: The Critical Role of Cancer Cell Filopodia Characterized by Pulse Shaping of Octave Spanning Integrated Waveguide-Grating-Coupled 15 kW Near-Diffraction-Limited Single- Percolation of Light in 3-D Lattices of Near-Field Imaging of the Evanescent Coupler with Anisotropically Radiating Self-Phase Modulation in Ultraprecise Super-Resolution Bright-Field Optical Femtosecond Laser Pulses, Bingwei Xu, VCSEL/Photodetector Arrays with High Frequency Nd:YAG Laser, Shawn Coupled Microspheres, Vasily N. Astratov, Electric Field on the Surface of a Quan- Grating Teeth, Mingyan Fan, Milos Optical Frequency Combs, Scott Diddams; Microscopy, Chau-Hwang Lee1, Tsi-Hsuan Yves Ceollo, Vadim V. Lozovoy, D.Ahmasi Coupled Power for Dense High-Speed Redmond, S. McNaught, J. Zamel, L. Iwaki, Shashanka P. Ashili; Univ. of North Caro- tum Cascade Laser, Virginie Moreau1, Popovic, Franz X. Kaertner; MIT, USA. Ver- NIST, USA. Self-phase modulation (SPM) is Hsu2, Wei-Yu Liao3, Pan-Chyr Yang3, Chun- Harris, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Interconnects, Kai Yang, Julian Cheng, S. Bammert, R. Simpson, S. B. Weiss, J. Szot, lina at Charlotte, USA. The propagation of Paul-Arthur Lemoine2, Michael Bahriz1, tical grating-coupler designs based on an- crucial to the production and expansion of Chieh Wang4, Jian-Long Xiao1; 1Academia Univ., USA. Phase characterization, correc- Ketan M. Patel, Tyler J. Eustis, Duane A. B. Flegal, T. Lee, H. Komine, H. Injeyan; light in systems of disordered coupled cavi- Yannick De Wilde2, Raffaele Colombelli1, tenna theory are proposed that allow near optical frequency combs based on mode- Sinica, Taiwan, 2Inst. of Biophotonics Engi- tion and shaping of an ultra-broad-band- Louderback, Xiaojun Jin, Jeff Schoengarth, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, USA. ties with whispering gallery resonances is Raviv Perahia3, Oskar Painter3, Luke Wil- 50:1 up/down directivity using only two locked lasers. I will review how SPM makes neering, Natl. Yang-Ming Univ., Taiwan, width femtosecond laser were achieved us- Chung-yen Chao, Min-yi Shih, Peter S. Northrop Grumman has developed a com- interpreted in terms of percolation theory. son4, Andrey Krysa5; 1Inst. d’Electronique lithographic layers in high-index-contrast bigger and better frequency combs and dis- 3Dept. of Internal Medicine, Natl. Taiwan ing a grating-based pulse shaper. By using Guilfoyle; OptiComp Corp., USA. Integrated pact high power near-diffraction-limited The existence of well connected clusters is Fondamentale, France, 2Lab d’Optique Phy- silicon waveguides. FDTD simulations pre- cuss some of their applications. Univ. Hospital and Natl. Taiwan Univ. Col- MIIPS, the compensated pulses generated a waveguide-grating-coupled VCSEL/RCEPD single frequency Nd:YAG laser. The laser demonstrated in scattering spectra of such sique - ESPCI, France, 3Caltech, USA, 4Dept. dict single-mode-fiber-coupling efficiencies lege of Medicine, Taiwan, 4Graduate Inst. second harmonic spectrum spanning over arrays with >1.4 mW/facet output power and achieved 15 kW with a beam quality <1.3xDL lattices. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Sheffield, of 75% even for non-apodized gratings. of Physics, Natl. Chung Cheng Univ., Tai- 12,260 cm-1. VCSEL-to-photodetector data communica- and a continuous runtime over 22 minutes UK, 5EPSRC Natl. Ctr. for III-V Technologies, wan. We use super-resolution bright-field tion at >1.25 Gbps through integrated on a ~1 m2 bench. Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineer- optical microscopy of lateral resolution ~ waveguide have been demonstrated. This ing, Univ. of Sheffield, UK. We observed by 120 nm to measure the filopodium dynam- technology will enable practical applications scanning-near-field-optical-microscopy the ics of lung cancer cells. The effects of epi- using VCSEL-based photonic integrated cir- evanescent electric field on the surface of a dermal growth factor on filopodium dynam- cuits. quantum-cascade mid-infrared laser. The ics are characterized. devices are designed to let a consistent por- tion of the optical mode to leak-out of the top surface.

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QTuL5 • 5:45 p.m. QTuM5 • 5:45 p.m. Invited JTuD5 • 5:45 p.m. CTuII5 • 5:45 p.m. CTuJJ4 • 5:45 p.m. CdTe Quantum Dot in Tunable Hydro- Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattice: From 97% Top Hat Efficiency, 4 J/cm2 Dam- Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Opti- Surface Plasmon Polariton-Based Co-

gel Nanocrystals, Arup Neogi, Santaneel Precision Measurement to Quantum age Threshold Compression Gratings, cal Waveguides in Bismuth Ion Doped axial Probe for Terahertz Near-Field Mi- T

Ghosh, Brett Garner, Jianyou Li, Tong Cai, Optics, Jun Ye; JILA, Univ. of Colorado and Federico Canova1, Jean-Paul Chambaret1, Glass, Nicholas D. Psaila1, Robert R. croscopy, Dustin Surawicz1, Peter Haring uesday, May 8 Zhibing Hu; Univ. of North Texas, USA. Op- NIST, USA. Ultracold atoms confined in an Olivier Uteza2, Philippe Delaporte2, Marc Thomson1, Henry T. Bookey1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Bolivar1, Heungjoo Shin2, Boris Mizaikoff2; tical emission from CdTe quantum dots optical lattice offer an ideal platform for Tondusson3, Eric Freysz3, Olivier Parriaux4, Nicola Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio 1Siegen Univ., Germany, 2Georgia Tech, USA. (QDs) embedded in poly-N-iso- quantum manipulation and precison mea- Manuel Flury4, Svetlen Tonchev4, Nikolai Cerullo2, Graeme Brown3, Shaoxiong Shen4, An enhanced sensitivity near-field Terahertz propylacrylamide hydrogel nanocrystallites surement. We report our latest results using Lyndin5; 1Lab d’Optique Appliquee - LOA, Animesh Jha4; 1Heriot-Watt Univ., UK, microscope concept is presented based on can be enhanced over 100% using thermal fermionic isotope of Sr. France, 2LP3, France, 3CPMOH, France, 4Lab 2Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 3Gemfire Eu- Surface Plasmon Polariton assisted tunnel- and electrical stimulus. Relative distance Hubert Curien, France, 5Inst. of General rope, UK, 4Univ. of Leeds, UK. We report on ing through a sub-wavelength coaxial probe. amongst QDs was modified tuning the hy- Physics, Russian Federation. High diffraction the fabrication of high quality embedded A concentric metallo-dielectric coupling drogel facilitating resonant energy transfer. efficiency all-dielectric pulse compression channel waveguides inside Bi-doped silicate structure yields a field enhancement by two grating is reported with a close to 100% flat glass using femtosecond waveguide inscrip- orders of magnitude. top over more than 20 nm spectral width tion. When optically pumped, ultra-broad- around 800 nm wavelength and more than band fluorescence emission of 500 nm 4 J/cm2 damage threshold. (FWHM) is detected, centered at 1.3 µm.

QTuL6 • 6:00 p.m. JTuD6 • 6:00 p.m. CTuII6 • 6:00 p.m. CTuJJ5 • 6:00 p.m. 3+ CdSe Quantum Dots in Single Plasmonic Stable Long-Cavity Regenerative Ampli- KY(WO4)2:Tm Planar Waveguide Laser, Plasmon-Enhanced Terahertz Near-Field Nanocavities, Yurij Fedutik1, Vasily V. fier with 10-11 ASE Contrast, James Easter, Simon Rivier1, Xavier Mateos1, Valentin Microscopy, Victoria Astley, Hui Zhan, Temnov1, Ulrike K. Woggon1, Mikhail V. Bixue Hou, Erik Power, John Nees; Ctr. for Petrov1, Uwe Griebner1, Yaroslav E. Daniel Mittleman, Feng Hao, Peter Artemyev2; 1Univ. of Dortmund, Germany, Ultrafast Optical Science, Univ. of Michigan, Romanyuk2, Camelia N. Borca2, Florent Nordlander; Rice Univ., USA. Using terahertz 2Inst. for Physico-Chemical Problems, USA. Design and measurements of a high- Gardillou2, Markus Pollnau2; 1Max-Born- apertureless near-field microscopy, we ob- Belorussian State Univ., Belarus. A silver- contrast millijoule regenerative amplifier are Inst., Germany, 2EPFL, Switzerland. serve an electromagnetic field enhancement wire nanocavity with CdSe quantum dots presented. Coupled with a preamplifier and Waveguide lasing of monoclinic produced by a broadband plasmon reso- 3+ (QD) is optimized towards cavity-QED by saturable absorber, the amplifier and subse- KY(WO4)2:Tm grown by liquid-phase epi- nance localized in the junction between a varying cavity length and QD-wire distance. quent compressor produce 3.7 mJ, 33 fs taxy is demonstrated in the 2 µm spectral metal probe tip and a sub-micron-thick QD-plasmon coupling, enhancement of pulses with nanosecond ASE contrast of 10-11. range. The maximum continuous-wave out- metallic substrate. spontaneous emission and group velocities put power achieved was 32 mW in the fun- in the nanocavity of vG~0.5c are observed. damental mode.

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CTuDD • Silicon CTuEE • Cellular Imaging— CTuFF • Ultrafast Pulse CTuGG • VCSELs and QTuJ • Micro-Resonators— QTuK • Near-Field Optics— Photonics—Continued Continued Shaping—Continued Integration—Continued Continued Continued

CTuDD4 • 6:15 p.m. CTuEE7 • 6:15 p.m. CTuFF7 • 6:15 p.m. CTuGG6 • 6:15 p.m. QTuJ4 • 6:15 p.m. QTuK6 • 6:15 p.m. Low-Loss Silicon Wire Waveguides with Depolarized Raman Spectroscopy of Phase Characterization and Adaptive Shift Register Function in Optical Buffer Observations of Whispering Gallery Strong Light Extinction by a Single Mol- 3-D Tapered Couplers Fabricated by Self Optically Trapped Cells for Rapid Iden- Pulse Compression Using MIIPS in Air, Memory Using Polarization Bistable Modes in Asymmetric Optical Resona- ecule, Gert Wrigge, Ilja Gerhardt, Jaesuk Profile Transformation, Ming-Chang M. tification of Microorganisms, De Chen, D. Ahmasi Harris, Janelle C. Shane, Vadim VCSELs, Takashi Mori1,2, Yuuki Sato1, tors with Rational Caustics, Jie Gao1, Pas- Hwang, Vahid Sandoghdar; ETH Zurich, Lee1, Wei-Chao Chiu1, Tse-Ming Yang1, Chin- Changan Xie, Yong-qing Li; East Carolina V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Hitoshi Kawaguchi1,2,3; 1CREST, Japan Sci- cal Heider2, Charlton Chen1, Xiaodong Switzerland. We present cryogenic experi- Hung Chen1, Ming C. Wu2; 1Inst. of Photonics Univ., USA. Depolarized Raman spectros- Univ., USA. We introduce a noninter- ence and Technology Agency, Japan, 2Nara Yang1, Chad Husko1, Chee Wei Wong1; 1Co- ments where the direct signature of a single Technologies, Natl. Tsing Hua Univ., Tai- copy of single optically trapped cells is used ferometric single beam method for accurate Inst. of Science and Technology, Japan, 3Op- lumbia Univ., USA, 2Ctr. of Mathematics Res., molecule on an incident laser beam is dem- wan, 2Dept. of Electrical Engineering and for rapid identification of microorganisms characterization and adaptive compression toelectronic Industry and Technology Devel- Bell Labs, USA. We investigate experimen- onstrated. Strong extinction larger than 10% Computer Sciences, Univ. of California at in aqueous solution. Depolarization ratios of amplified femtosecond pulses. This new opment Association, Japan. Shift register tally and numerically resonant whispering is achieved in near and far-field geometries. Berkeley, USA. A novel low-loss silicon wire provide new parameters for better discrimi- method, air-MIIPS, exploits the third har- function in optical buffer memory was ex- gallery modes of billiard-type optical reso- waveguide and 3-D tapered couplers are nation of bacterial species, comparing with monic generation in air to measure and com- perimentally demonstrated using polariza- nators with rational caustics. Measurements

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T demonstrated by self profile transformation the normal Raman spectroscopy. pensate high-order phase distortions. tion bistable VCSELs. Input data stored as observe distinct families and asymmetric for the first time. The experimental results the polarization state of the first VCSEL were emission; simulations highlight novel inner show the propagation loss is 2dB/cm and transferred to the polarization state of the higher-periodic orbits for microcavity laser the coupler loss is 1.2dB. second VCSEL. and CQED applications.

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QTuL7 • 6:15 p.m. QTuM6 • 6:15 p.m. JTuD7 • 6:15 p.m. CTuII7 • 6:15 p.m. CTuJJ6 • 6:15 p.m. Laser Emission from Quantum Dots in The Difference between a Photon’s Mo- Probing Attosecond Kinetic Physics in Tunable Photonic Crystal Fiber Cou- Terahertz Apertureless Near-Field

High-Q Micropillar Cavities, Stephan mentum and an Atom’s Recoil, Kurt Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Lora plers Infiltrated with Highly-Thermo- Aicroscopy of a Vanadium Dioxide Thin T

Reitzenstein1, Carolin Hofmann1, Anatoli Gibble; Penn State Univ., USA. We analyze Ramunno1, Christian Jungreuthmayer1, Responsive Liquid Crystal Substances, Film, Hui Zhan1, Michael Hvasta1, Victoria uesday, May 8 Bazhenov2, Alexander Gorbunov2, Steffen the recoil shift for atoms in Gaussian laser Heidi Reinholz2, Thomas Brabec1; 1Univ. of Kunimasa Saitoh, Nikolaos Florous, Astley1, Jason A. Deibel1, Daniel M. Münch1, Andreas Löffler1, Martin Kamp1, beams and microwave cavities. The fre- Ottawa, Canada, 2Univ. Rostock, Germany. Shailendra Varshney, Masanori Koshiba; Mittleman1, Y. S. Lim2; 1Rice Univ., USA, Vladimir Kulakovskii2, Alfred Forchel1; quency shifts from the transverse photon We investigate intense laser-cluster interac- Hokkaido Univ., Japan. We theoretically 2Konkuk Univ., Republic of Korea. We re- 1Technische Physik, Univ. Würzburg, Ger- recoils must be understood for the most tion via molecular dynamics, finding that address the thermo-optical response of port the application of terahertz apertureless many, 2Inst. for Solid State Physics, Russian accurate atom interferometers and atomic laser intensity controls the plasma coupling multi-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) cou- near-field microscopy to vanadium dioxide Acad. of Science, Russian Federation. We fountain clocks. strength. By observing the destruction of plers infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals thin films. We observe a enhancement of report on laser emission from a low num- collective effects, we determined sub- (LCs). The enhanced thermo-optical prop- the terahertz amplitude due to the metal- ber of InGaAs quantum dots embedded in femtosecond collision frequencies for erties of LC-based PCF couplers are highly insulator transition induce by voltage. high-Q micropillar laser structures. Reso- strongly coupled plasmas. attractive for photo-thermal sensing appli- nance tuning of single quantum dots allows cations. the observation of pronounced single dot lasing effects.

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CLEO/QELS and PhAST 2007, May 6–11, 2007 • Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland