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CThA1 • 8:00 a.m. Tutorial CThB1 • 8:00 a.m. JThA1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited CThC1 • 8:00 a.m. CThD1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited CThE1 • 8:00 a.m. QThA1 • 8:00 a.m. Tutorial QThB1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited Ultrafast Micro and Nanomachining, Nanoscale Semiconductor Plasmon La- Probing Proton Dynamics in Molecules Parametric Generation in AlGaAs/AlOx Biomimetic Optical Polymers, James Widely Tunable Yb:KYW Laser Locked Ultrafast on Photonic Nano-Particle Ions and Atoms, Nabil Gerard Mourou; Ecole Polytechnique de sers, Farhan Rana1, Christina Manolatou1, on an Attosecond Time Scale, Sarah Waveguides: Performances and Perspec- Shirk1, Guy Beadie1, Richard S. Lepkowicz1, by a Volume Bragg Grating, Björn Metamaterials, Martin Wegener1, Stefan Lawandy1,2; 1Solaris Nanosciences, USA, Paris, France. Abstract not available. Steven G. Johnson2; 1Cornell Univ., USA, Baker1, Joseph S. Robinson1, Manfred Lein2, tives, Marco Ravaro, Jean-Pierre Likforman, Y. Jin2, E. Baer2, A. Hiltner2; 1NRL, USA, 2Dept. Jacobsson, Jonas E. Hellström, Valdas Linden1, Costas Soukoulis2; 1Karlsruhe Univ., 2Div. of Engineering and Dept. of Physics, 2MIT, USA. We present several designs for Ciprian C. Chirila2, Heidi C. Bandulet3, Sara Ducci, Vincent Berger, Giuseppe Leo; of Macromolecular Science and Engineer- Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell; Laser Physics, Germany, 2Ames Lab and Dept. of Physics Brown Univ., USA. Charged particles at- surface-plasmon confined electrically Daniel Comtois3, David Villeneuve4, Jean- Lab Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, ing, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA. A new KTH, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden. We and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ., USA. We tracted to metallic nano-particles via radial pumped nanoscale semiconductor lasers. We Claude Kieffer3, John WG Tisch1, Jonathan UMR, Univ. Paris 7-Denis Diderot, France. class of nanostructured polymer optical demonstrate a technique for laser tuning review recent progress in the emerging field potentials exhibit hydrogenic quantum show that low-loss laser nanocavities with P. Marangos1; 1Imperial College, UK, 2Univ. Highly efficient frequency up- and down- materials can mimic biological optical ma- based on a volume Bragg grating. A peak of photonic metamaterials, emphasizing two states. Two-particle electronic states exist subwavelength cavity sizes in all three di- of Kassel, Germany, 3Advanced Laser Light conversion are performed in low-loss bire- terials. Application to gradient refractive in- power of 4.7 W, a bandwidth <0.1 nm and highlights connected with femtosecond with different correlations energies and tun- mensions are feasible. Source, Canada, 4Natl. Res. Council of fringent AlGaAs waveguides, obtained by dex (GRIN) lenses with an unprecedented a 1000-1050 nm tuning range is achieved in pulses: time-of-flight experiments on nega- ing of plasmon resonance to the electronic Canada, Canada. A technique for probing AlAs selective wet oxidation. The perspec- variety of index gradients and a nonlinear an Yb:KYW laser. tive-index metamaterials and harmonic gen- transitions results in large radiative effects. ultrafast (attosecond) structural rearrange- tive of a semiconductor integrated paramet- 1-D photonic crystal are described. eration on magnetic metamaterials. ment in molecules following laser ioniza- ric oscillator is quantitatively discussed. tion is discussed. The temporal window accessible has recently been extended be- yond that previously reported by employ- ing a driving field in the mid-IR. CThB2 • 8:15 a.m. CThC2 • 8:15 a.m. CThE2 • 8:15 a.m. Polarization Controlled 0.85 µm VCSELs Enhancement Due to Transverse Monolithic Bragg-Locked Nd-Laser, Ida with Plasmonic Nanorods, Babu Dayal Effects in Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Häggström, Björn Jacobsson, Fredrik Laurell; Padullaparthi, Koyama Fumio; Tokyo Inst. Optical Parametric Amplifiers, Mathieu Laser Physics, KTH, Royal Inst. of Technol- of Technology, Japan. We demonstrate the Charbonneau-Lefort1, Bedros Afeyan2, Mar- ogy, Sweden. We demonstrate a monolithic 1 1 polarization control of single transverse tin M. Fejer ; Stanford Univ., USA, Nd:GdVO4 laser, operating in a single lon- mode 0.85 µm VCSELs using plasmonic gold 2Polymath Res. Inc., USA. We investigate gitudinal mode by wavelength restriction nanorods fabricated on the top surface. The transverse effects in chirped QPM gratings from a volume Bragg grating. With tempera- large anisotropy of gold nanorods enables such as cascaded phase shifts and non-col- ture, the laser could be tuned continuously stable polarization control with suppressing linear interactions. We find enhanced growth over 80 GHz. metal absorption. over a wide bandwidth with gains much larger than in the 1-D limit.

Thursday, May 10 Thursday, CThB3 • 8:30 a.m. JThA2 • 8:30 a.m. CThC3 • 8:30 a.m. CThD2 • 8:30 a.m. CThE3 • 8:30 a.m. QThB2 • 8:30 a.m. χ(3) Ultraviolet Lasing Characteristics of a Attosecond Two-Slit Interference Con- Pulsed Picosecond UV Source by Fre- Processible Polyacetylene-Based Lasing Action of Nd:GdVO4 at 1070 nm Surface Plasmon Assisted GaN Photonic Crystal Defect Emitter, trolled by Carrier-Envelope Phase, quency Quadrupling, Onur Kuzucu1, Materials for Photonic Applications, by Volumetric Bragg Grating, Chien-Jung of Solids, Jacob B. Khurgin; Johns Hopkins Chun-Feng Lai1, Peichen Yu1, Te-Chung Mahendra M. Shakya, Steve M. Gilbertson, Franco N.C. Wong1, David E. Zelmon2, San-Hui Chi1, Joel M. Hales1, Jian-Yang Cho1, Liao1, Yu-Hung Lien1, Te-yuan Chung2, Univ., USA. Threshold and efficiency of la- Wang1, Hao-Chung Kuo1, Tien-Chang Lu1, Hiroki Mashiko, Christopher M. Nakamura, Shrikrishna M. Hegde2, Tony D. Roberts3, Susan Odom1, Qing Zhang1, Richard R. Sidney S. Yang1, Jow-Tsong Shy1; 1Natl. Tsin ser cooling can be significantly improved Shing-Chung Wang1, Chao-Kuei Lee2; 1Dept. Chengquan Li, Eric Moon, Zuoliang Duan, Philip Battle3; 1MIT, USA, 2AFRL, USA, 3AdvR, Schrock2, Seth R. Marder1, Joseph W. Perry1; Hua Univ., Taiwan, 2Natl. Central Univ., due to rapid energy transfer from semicon- of Photonics and Inst. of Electro-Optical Jason Tackett, Zenghu Chang; Kansas State Inc., USA. We report efficient picosecond UV 1Georgia Tech, USA, 2MIT, USA. A number Taiwan. The 1070 nm lasing action of ductor to metal heat sink via excitation of

Engineering, Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ., Tai- Univ., USA. High harmonics generation was generation by means of frequency quadru- of processing variations were carried out to Nd:GdVO4 is demonstrated for the first time surface plasmon polaritons and their subse- wan, 2Natl. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan. The polarization gated with few-cycle laser pling of an amplified picosecond fiber la- optimize the morphology, third-order to our knowledge. Using a volumetric Bragg quent decay in the metal. fabricated GaN photonic crystal defect emit- pulses to produce two attosecond pulses ser. This narrowband 390-nm source with nonlinearity, and processability of substi- grating, the 1063 nm lasing action is sup- ter demonstrated multimode lasing with a with 104 XUV photons.The spectrum inter- 250 mW is suitable for a number of quan- tuted polyacetylene polymers. This allowed pressed and the 1070 nm lasing is gener- low optical pumping threshold of pulse ference of the two pulses is affected by the tum information processing tasks. for spin coating of optical quality films with ated. engergy~0.15µJ. The device exhibited high carrier-envelope phase like in Young’s ex- large nonlinearities. spectral purity and enhanced spontaneous periments. emission factor, β~0.045.

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CThF1 • 8:00 a.m. CThG1 • 8:00 a.m. CThH1 • 8:00 a.m. CThI1 • 8:00 a.m. QThC1 • 8:00 a.m. Invited 320 Gbit/s DQPSK All-Optical Wave- Development of an Analog-to-Digital All-Fiber-Integrated Mid-Infrared Detection of Pulsed Terahertz Waves Cooling of a Micro-Mechanical Oscilla- length Conversion Using Periodically Converter Using Photonic Crystals, Supercontinuum System with 0.7 Watts Using Ambient Air as the Sensor, tor Using Radiation-Pressure Induced Poled LiNbO , Bernd Huettl1, Alexandre Ahmed Sharkawy1, Caihua Chen2, Binglin Time-Averaged Power, Chenan Xia1, Jianming Dai, Xu Xie, X.-C. Zhang; Dynamical Backaction, Albert Schliesser1, 3 Gual i Coca1, Hubertus Suche2, Reinhold Miao2, Shouyuan Shi2, Dennis Prather2; 1EM Malay Kumar1, Mohammed N. Islam1, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA. We report Nima Nooshi1, Pascal Del’Haye1, Kerry Ludwig1, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst1, Hans Photonics, USA, 2Univ. of Delaware, USA. In Almantas Galvanauskas1, Fred L. Terry1, the first demonstration of both incoherent Vahala2, Tobias J. Kippenberg1; 1Max- Georg Weber1, Wolfgang Sohler2, Colja this paper, we present novel designs for all Mike J. Freeman2; 1Dept. of Electrical Engi- and coherent detection of pulsed terahertz Planck-Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany, Schubert1; 1Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommu- optical analog-to-digital converters simulated neering and Computer Science, Univ. of waves using ambient air or laser-induced 2Caltech, USA. We demonstrate how dynami- nications, Germany, 2Univ. of Paderborn, and realized in photonic crystal platforms. Michigan, USA, 2Omni Sciences Inc., USA. air plasma as the sensor through a third- cal backaction of radiation pressure can be Dept. Applied Physics, Germany. We dem- Numerical simulation results as well as fab- All-fiber-integrated supercontinuum genera- order nonlinear optical process with exploited for passive laser-cooling of high- onstrate wavelength conversion of 160Gbit/ rication and characterization results are also tion is demonstrated from ~0.9-3.6 µm with femtosecond laser pulses. frequency (>50 MHz) mechanical oscillation s DPSK and 320Gbit/s DQPSK data signals included. ~0.7 W time-averaged power by using a tele- modes of ultra-high-finesse optical by cascaded second-harmonic and differ- communication , amplified by an microcavities from room temperature to ence frequency generation in a periodically erbium/ytterbium co-doped cladding- 11 K. poled LiNbO3 waveguide. Error free opera- pumped fiber amplifier, and coupled into tion with negligible penalty is obtained. 35 m ZBLAN fluoride fiber.

CThF2 • 8:15 a.m. CThG2 • 8:15 a.m. CThH2 • 8:15 a.m. CThI2 • 8:15 a.m. Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Manipulation of Dielectric Particles Us- Bragg Gratings as Phase Matching Ele- Generation of 5 µJ Broadband THz Conversion of DPSK Signal Using Four- ing Photonic Crystal Cavities, Michael ments to Extend Continuum Generation Pulses by Tilted Pulse Front Excitation, Wave Mixing in 32-cm Bismuth-Oxide Barth, Oliver Benson; Humboldt-Univ. Ber- at Short Wavelengths, Paul Westbrook, Jef- Matthias Hoffmann, Ka-Lo Yeh, János

Highly Nonlinear Fiber, Mable P. Fok, lin, Germany. A theoretical study of the frey Nicholson, Kenneth Feder; OFS Labs, Hebling, Keith A. Nelson; MIT, USA. Genera- Thursday, May 10 Chester Shu; Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, optical trapping forces on dielectric particles USA. We show that a Bragg grating can act tion of sub-µJ and 5 µJ single-cycle THz Hong Kong. We demonstrate polarization- in the highly localized field of planar pho- as a phase matching element allowing a pulses is demonstrated through optical rec- insensitive wavelength conversion of 10-Gb/ tonic crystal cavities is presented. Intricate continuum pulse to generate light in nar- tification of ultrashort pulses from 1 kHz and s DPSK signal using a polarization-diversity phenomena such as self-induced trapping row bandwidth beyond the short wavelength 10 Hz laser systems, respectively. Further scheme for four-wave mixing in 32-cm bis- and optical transport are investigated. edge determined by fiber dispersion. scaling-up to 10 µJ levels is in progress. muth-oxide highly nonlinear fiber. The po- larization dependence is <1 dB and the power penalty is 3 dB.

QThC2 • 8:30 a.m. CThF3 • 8:30 a.m. Invited CThG3 • 8:30 a.m. CThH3 • 8:30 a.m. CThI3 • 8:30 a.m. Laser Cooling of a Microcantilever Us- Parametric Amplification and Process- What is the Velocity of Slow Light in Tunable Spectral Enhancement in Intense Coherent THz Pulse Generation ing a Medium Finesse , ing in High-Confinement Optical Fibers, Weakly Disordered Optical Slow-Wave Supercontinuum with a Long-Period Fi- by Two-Color Photoionization in Air, Ki- Benjamin Zwickl, Andrew Jayich, Jack G. Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Di- Structures? Shayan Mookherjea, Andrew ber Grating, Dong-Il Yeom1, Jeremy A. Yong Kim, Balakishore Yellampalle, James E. Harris; Physics Dept., Yale Univ., USA. A ego, USA. Recent advances in parametric Oh; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA. Bolger1, Graham D. Marshall2, Dane R. Aus- H. Glownia, Antoinette J. Taylor, George 75mm optical cavity was formed using a amplification and processing in high-con- In an optical slow wave structure, even small tin1, Boris T. Kuhlmey1, C. Martijn de Sterke1, Rodriguez; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA. In- microcantilever for one mirror. A finesse of finement fibers are reviewed. Selected dem- disorder (few nanometer roughness) can Michael J. Withford2, Benjamin J. Eggleton1; tense coherent terahertz radiation via two- 55 was achieved, not limited by diffraction onstrations of advanced signal processing greatly limit by how much the light velocity 1CUDOS, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, color photoionization in air is examined around the cantilever. The microcantilever in near-infrared and distant optical bands is reduced, for which we derive an analyti- Australia, 2CUDOS, Dept. of Physics, experimentally and interpreted as a photo- was passively laser cooled from 300K to 50K. are described. cal expression in agreement with experimen- Macquarie Univ., Australia. A tunable nar- current effect by the symmetry-broken la- tal observations. row-band enhancement of supercontinuum ser field. THz power scalability is also tested generated in a microstructured fiber is cre- experimentally. ated by modifying the broadened spectrum in a long-period fiber grating followed by propagation with self-phase modulation.

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CThB4 • 8:45 a.m. JThA3 • 8:45 a.m. Invited CThC4 • 8:45 a.m. CThD3 • 8:45 a.m. CThE4 • 8:45 a.m. QThB3 • 8:45 a.m. Room-Temperature InAs/InP Quantum- All-Optical Quasi-Phase Matching and Tunable Blue/Green Light Source by Integrated Active and Passive Polymer Wavelength Tunable Single Mode Plasmon Enhancement of Photoinduced χ2 Dot Photonic Crystal Microlasers Using Quantum Path Control by Counter Self-Cascaded Nonlinearity in Optical Components with nm to mm Nd:GdVO4 Laser Using a Volume Bragg Resistivity Changes in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 Thin Cavity-Confined Slow Light, Frederic Propagating Pulse Trains, Xiaoshi Zhang, ZnO:PPLN Crystal Fiber, Shan-Chuang Features, Mads B. Christiansen, Mikkel Grating Fold Mirror, Te-yuan Chung1, Films, Vera N. Smolyaninova, E. Talanova, Bordas1, Christian Seassal1, Emmanuel Amy Lytle, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Pei1,2, Li-Min Lee3, Der-Fong Lin4, Mon- Schøler, Anders Kristensen; Technical Univ. Sidney S. Yang2, Cheng-Wen Chen2, Hung- Rajeswari Kolagani, G. Yong, R. Kennedy, Dupuy1, Philippe Regreny1, Michel Gendry1, Murnane, Oren Cohen; Univ. of Colorado, Chang Tsai3, De-Hao Sun1, Sheng-Lung of Denmark, Denmark. We present wafer- Chih Yang2, Chien-Ron Liao2, Yu-Hung M. Steger, K. Wall; Towson Univ., USA. Con- Michael J. Steel2, Adel Rahmani3; 1Inst. des USA. We enhance high-order harmonic gen- Huang1,5, A. H. Kung2,6; 1Graduate Inst. of scale fabrication of integrated active and Lien3, Jow-Tsong Shy3; 1Dept. of Optics and siderable increase of the photoinduced re- 2 Nanotechnologies de Lyon - CNRS, France, eration at 70eV in argon and 145eV in he- Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan passive polymer optics with nm to mm fea- Photonics, Taiwan, Inst. of Photonics Tech- sistivity changes was found in Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 2RSoft Design Group, Inc. and CUDOS Univ. lium by orders of magnitude using Univ., Taiwan, 2Inst. of Atomic and Molecu- tures. First order DFB lasers, defined in dye nologies, Taiwan, 3Dept. of Physics, Taiwan. thin films after depositing gold nanoparticles 3 of Sydney, Australia, CUDOS and CLA, counterpropagating pulsetrains. We also lar Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, doped SU-8 resist are integrated with SU-8 A Nd:GdVO4 laser was built with a volume on the surface due to resonant enhancement Macquarie Univ., Australia. We achieved demonstrate coherent control on attosecond 3Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. waveguides. Bragg grating as the fold mirror, wavelength of local electromagnetic field in the vicinity room temperature laser operation, around timescales by selective enhancement of dif- Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan, 4Inst. of Com- selector and spectral narrowing element. of the gold nanoparticles. 1.5 mm, with a single layer of InAs/InP quan- ferent quantum trajectories. munications Engineering, Natl. Sun Yat-Sen Over 2 nm tuning with wavelength centered tum dots in a photonic crystal structure us- Univ., Taiwan, 5Dept. of Electrical Engineer- at 1063.39 nm was achieved by angular tun- ing confined slow light. The lasing thresh- ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 6Dept. of ing. old is a few hundred microW. Photonics and Inst. of Electro-Optical Engi- neering, Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan. A novel self-cascaded first-order SHG and third-order SFG in ZnO:PPLN crystal fiber for the generation of tunable blue/green light source is demonstrated. About 700-µW out- put power at 477.1-nm was measured with tuning range of 35-nm.

CThA2 • 9:00 a.m. Invited CThB5 • 9:00 a.m. CThC5 • 9:00 a.m. CThD4 • 9:00 a.m. CThE5 • 9:00 a.m. QThA2 • 9:00 a.m. QThB4 • 9:00 a.m. Subcellular Surgery and Nano- Electrically Pumped, Edge-Emitting, Ultrashort Pulse Cascaded Third-Har- Demonstration of Polymer-Based Direc- Spectral Narrowing in a Dual Volume Blue-Shifting of Coherent Plasmon Ra- Experimental Measurement of the Dis- neurosurgery, Samuel H. Chung, Iva Z. Large-Area Photonic Crystal Lasers with monic Generation in Two-Dimensional tional Coupler Modulator with High Lin- Bragg Grating Ti:Sapphire Oscillator, diation Due to Landau Damping, Denis persion Relations of Gold Nanoparticle Maxwell, Eric Mazur; Harvard Univ., USA. Straight and Angled Facets, Lin Zhu, Quasi-Phase-Matching Structure, earity, Yu-Chueh Hung1, SeongKu Kim1, Michael Hemmer, TeYuan Chung, Ying Seletskiy1, Michael P. Hasselbeck1, Mansoor Chains, Kenneth B. Crozier, Emre Togan; We use femtosecond laser pulses to probe Philip Chak, Joyce K.S. Poon, Guy A. DeRose, Nobuhide Fujioka1, Satoshi Ashihara1,2,3, Harold R. Fetterman1, Jingdong Luo2, Alex Chen, Vadim Smirnov, Leonid Glebov, Mar- Sheik-Bahae1, L. R. Dawson2; 1Univ. of New Harvard Univ., USA. The dispersion relations the mechanical properties of the actin net- Amnon Yariv, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA. Kengo Hayashi1, Hidenobu Ono1, Tsutomu Jen2; 1Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA, tin Richardson, Michael Bass; CREOL, Col- Mexico, USA, 2Ctr. for High Technology Ma- of plasmon modes of gold nanoparticle work in live cells and to probe cell regen- We propose and demonstrate electrically Shimura1, Kazuo Kuroda1; 1Inst. of Indus- 2Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, lege of Optics and Photonics, USA. Spectral terials, Univ. of New Mexico, USA. Restrict- chains are measured, and compared with eration and the neurological basis of behav- pumped, edge-emitting, large-area photo- trial Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2Dept. Univ. of Washington, USA. A linearized poly- narrowing of Ti:Sapphire down to two lon- ing the wave vector of coherent plasmons quasistatic theory. In addition to one longi- ior in C. elegans. nic crystal lasers. Effective index-guided and of Applied Physics, Tokyo Univ. of Agricul- mer-based directional coupler modulator is gitudinal modes has been achieved in the excited by ultrashort laser pulses results in tudinal and one transverse mode, the re- Bragg-guided lasing modes are obtained ture and Technology, Japan, 3PRESTO, Ja- presented. The linearity was obtained by 3W pump power range and 200mW output a frequency blue-shift of the emitted THz sults reveal a third mode, not previously depending on the design of photonic crys- pan Science and Technology Corp., Japan. tailoring the coupling coefficient using using a compact design. Further improve- radiation, consistent with the onset of observed. tal and facets. We propose and demonstrate group-veloc- photobleaching. A two-tone test of the de- ments leading to single mode operation are Landau damping. Thursday, May 10 Thursday, ity mismatch compensation in cascaded vice demonstrated an enhancement in discussed. third-. Second- and intermodulation distortion compared with third-harmonic generation efficiency of 25% Mach-Zehnder modulator. and 7%, respectively, were experimentally obtained for femtosecond pulses by use of two-dimensionally periodically-poled lithium niobate.

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QThC3 • 8:45 a.m. CThG4 • 8:45 a.m. CThH4 • 8:45 a.m. CThI4 • 8:45 a.m. Radiation-Pressure Effects upon a Micro- Experimentally Demonstrated High Nonlinearity Glass Photonic Crys- Strong THz-Field-Induced Nonlinear Mirror in a High-Finesse Optical Cavity, Waveguide-Coupled Corner-Cut Micro- tal Nanowires, Natalie A. Wolchover1, Pe- Optical Effects in Electro-Optical Crys- Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Olivier Arcizet, cavities, Elton Marchena, Shouyuan Shi, ter Domachuk1, Mark Cronin-Golomb1, Feng tals, Yuzhen Shen, Takahiro Watanabe, Chiara Molinelli, Tristan Briant, Michel Dennis Prather; Univ. of Delaware, USA. We Luan2, Alan K. George2, Jonathan Knight1, Dario Arena, G. L. Carr, Chi-Chang Kao, Pinard, Antoine Heidmann; Lab Kastler report the design and fabrication of Fiorenzo G. Omenetto1; 1Tufts Univ., USA, James B. Murphy, Thomas Tsang, Xijie Brossel, France. We present an experiment waveguide-coupled corner-cut square 2Univ. of Bath, UK. We present the tapering Wang; Brookhaven Natl. Lab, USA. We dem- where the motion of a micro-mechanical microcavities in silicon. Potential applica- of photonic crystal fibers formed from SF6 onstrate that time-dependent electric field resonator is optically monitored with a quan- tions for this microcavity include sensors, glass to 400 nm core diameter. We generate associated with intense single-cycle THz tum-limited sensitivity. Directs effects of filters, and optically pumped lasers. supercontinuum in the tapers using pump pulses can induce nonlinear phase modula- intracavity radiation pressure are experimen- pulse energies as low as 65 picojoules. tion in electro-optical crystals, leading to tally demonstrated. Applications to quantum spectral shift, broadening and modulation optics are discussed. of co-propagating laser pulses.

QThC4 • 9:00 a.m. CThF4 • 9:00 a.m. CThG5 • 9:00 a.m. CThH5 • 9:00 a.m. CThI5 • 9:00 a.m. Observation of Radiation-Pressure Ef- Low-Penalty Raman-Assisted XPM Wave- Optical Add-Drop Filter Design Based on Generation of Supercontinuum in a Generation of High Power Terahertz fects and Back-Action Cancellation in length Conversion at 320 Gb/s, Michael Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators, Waveguide with Slow Nonlinearity Re- Pulses at Advanced Laser Light Source Thursday, May 10 Interferometric Measurements, Tristan Galili, Hans C. Hansen Mulvad, Leif K. Weidong Zhou1, Zexuan Qiang1, Richard A. lated to Shock Formation, Anton (ALLS), Francois Blanchard1, Luca Briant, Thomas Caniard, Pierre Verlot, Oxenløwe, Anders T. Clausen, Palle Jeppesen; Soref2; 1Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA, Husakou, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Razzari1, Gargi Sharma1, Roberto Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Michel Pinard, COM-DTU, Denmark. We report on an ex- 2AFRL, USA. We report an optical add-drop Herrmann; Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Morandotti1, Jean-Claude Keiffer1, Antoine Heidmann; Lab Kastler Brossel, perimental demonstration and optimization filter based on photonic crystal ring resona- Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Ger- Tsuneyuki Ozaki1, Matt Reid2, Henry F. Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France. We re- of cross-phase modulation-based wave- tors. Both backward- and forward-dropping many. We predict the generation of octave- Tiedje3, Harold K. Haugen3, Denis Morris4, port the first experimental demonstration of length conversion at 320 Gb/s assisted by were achieved in dual-ring PCRRs with dif- broad supercontinua in a waveguide with Frank A. Hegmann5; 1Inst. Natl. de la Re- back-action cancellation of radiation pres- Raman gain. Error free operation is demon- ferent modal symmetry. The scalability and slow nonlinearity such as a photorefractive cherche Scientifique, Univ. du Quebec, sure, with a setup based upon a high-finesse strated with low penalty. tunability were also analyzed for waveguide. In contrast to the case of in- Canada, 2Univ. of Northern British Colum- optical cavity with movable mirrors. Further electrooptical switches. stantaneous nonlinearity, the spectral broad- bia, Canada, 3McMaster Univ., Canada, improvement will allow us to probe the ening mechanism is related to shock forma- 4Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada, 5Univ. of quantum effects of radiation pressure. tion. Alberta, Canada. We report on terahertz pulse generation by optical rectification in a large aperture ZnTe single-crystal wafer. Terahertz pulse energies up to 0.76 µJ are measured, the highest ever observed from an optical rectification source.

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CThA • Fundamentals of CThB • Novel JThA • Attosecond CThC • χ2/Cascaded χ2 CThD • Optical Polymers— CThE • Spectral Control of QThA • Novel Dynamic QThB • Plasmonics I— Femtosecond Laser/ Semiconductor Laser Dynamics—Continued Devices—Continued Continued Solid-State Lasers— Measurements in Metals— Continued Material Interactions— Cavities—Continued Continued Continued Continued

CThB6 • 9:15 a.m. JThA4 • 9:15 a.m. CThC6 • 9:15 a.m. CThD5 • 9:15 a.m. CThE6 • 9:15 a.m. Invited QThA3 • 9:15 a.m. Invited QThB5 • 9:15 a.m. Vertically-Coupled Microring Laser Ar- Attosecond Pulse Compression in the High Efficiency Third Harmonic Genera- Linear and Nonlinear Absorption Stud- Solid-State Laser Development Activities Adaptive Sub-Wavelength Control of Slow Propagation, Anomalous Absorp- ray for Dual-Wavelength Generation, Extreme Ultraviolet Region by Conical tion in PPMgLN Disk Resonator, Kiyotaka ies of Polymethine, Squaraine and in China, Jianqiang Zhu; Shanghai Inst. of Nanoscopic Fields, Martin Aeschlimann1, tion and Total External Reflection of Chyng W. Tee1, Kevin A. Williams2,1, Rich- Diffraction, Luca Poletto1, Fabio Frassetto1, Sasagawa, Masahiro Tsuchiya; Natl. Inst. of Tetraone Dyes, Scott Webster1, Jie Fu1, Olga Optics and Fine Mechanics, China. Solid- Michael Bauer2, Daniela Bayer1, Tobias Surface Plasmon Polaritons in ard V. Penty1, Ian H. White1, Michael Paolo Villoresi2; 1CNR - Natl. Inst. for the Information and Communications Technol- V. Przhonska2,1, Lazaro A. Padilha1, David state lasers have been progressing rapidly Brixner3, F. Javier García de Abajo4, Walter Nanolayer Systems, Mark I. Stockman1,2; Hamacher3, Ute Troppenz4, Helmut Physics of Matter, Italy, 2Dept. of Informa- ogy, Japan. High efficiency generation of J. Hagan1, Eric W. Van Stryland1, Mikhail in China in recent years. Several joint projects Pfeiffer5, Martin Rohmer1, Christian 1Georgia State Univ., USA, 2Lab de Heidrich4; 1Ctr. for Photonic Systems, Cam- tion Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy. A third-harmonics of 1562 nm light is observed V. Bondar1, Yuriy L. Slominsky3, Alexei D. sponsored by the government have been Spindler3, Felix Steeb1; 1Univ. Kaiserslautern, Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, Inst. bridge Univ., UK, 2Eindhoven Univ. of Tech- grating compressor for attosecond pulses in in a PPMgLN disk. The blue-green emission Kachkovski3; 1Univ. of Central Florida, USA, started to enhance the capabilities of inno- Germany, 2Univ. Kiel, Germany, 3Univ. d’Alembert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de nology, Netherlands, 3Fraunhofer Inst. for the extreme-ultraviolet region is presented. is ascribable to cascaded parametric pro- 2Inst. of Physics, Natl. Acad. of Sciences, vation and development in high-power Würzburg, Germany, 4Inst. de Optica, Spain, Cachan, France. We predict that a Telecomminucations, Heindrich Hertz Inst.., The instrument design and the phase prop- cesses of second-harmonic and sum-fre- Ukraine, 3Inst. of Organic Chemistry, Natl. solid-state lasers. 5Univ. Bielefeld, Germany. We combine two nanoscopic, high-permittivity layer on the Germany, 4Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommu- erties are discussed. quency generations in whispering gallery Acad. of Sciences, Ukraine. To understand previously separated research fields, adap- surface of a plasmonic metal can cause to- nications, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany. modes. the effects of electron accepting bridges on tive control and nano-optics, to achieve tal external reflection of surface plasmon We report the first demonstration of con- the nonlinear absorption, we characterized dynamic localization of electromagnetic in- polaritons (SPPs). The slow propagating and tinuous-wave operation of a tunable, com- both two-photon and excited-state absorp- tensity at sub-wavelength nanoscopic spa- negative refracting SPP modes are highly pact microring laser array based on a verti- tion spectra of three cyanine dyes of increas- tial resolution. This is demonstrated experi- damped. cal-coupling architecture, well suited to ing electron acceptor strength. mentally with femtosecond polarization larger-scale integration. Wavelength separa- shaping and photoemission electron micros- tion tunability from 4.9 to 6.3nm is observed. copy.

CThA3 • 9:30 a.m. CThB7 • 9:30 a.m. JThA5 • 9:30 a.m. CThC7 • 9:30 a.m. CThD6 • 9:30 a.m. QThB6 • 9:30 a.m. Temperature Measurement of Alumi- Integrated 10th Order Fresnel Lens De- Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Few- Tunable Ring Optical Parametric Oscil- Carbon Nanotube/Conducting Polymer Engineering the Decay Rates and Quan- num Nanoparticles in Femtosecond La- sign for Beam Quality Enhancement in Cycle Regime, Giuseppe Sansone1, Enrico lator with a Volume Bragg Grating, Björn Addressable Interconnects, Seon Woo tum Efficiency of Emitters Coupled to ser Ablation Plume Using Spatiotempo- Tapered Laser Diode, F. K. Lau1, C. W. Tee1, Benedetti1, Francesca Calegari1, Caterina Jacobsson, Carlota Canalias, Valdas Lee1, Haim Grebel1, David Katz1, D. Lopez2, Gold Nanoantennae, Mario Agio, rally Resolved XAFS Technique, Katsuya C. H. Kwok1, R. V. Penty1, I. H. White1,2, N. Vozzi1, Salvatore Stagira1, Sandro De Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell; Laser Physics, A. Kornblit2; 1New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Franziska Kaminski, Lavinia Rogobete, Oguri, Yasuaki Okano, Tadashi Nishikawa, Michel2, M. Krakowski2; 1Cambridge Univ. Silvestri1, Mauro Nisoli1, Lorenzo Avaldi2, KTH, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden. We USA, 2Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA. Sergei Kühn, Giorgio Mori, Vahid Hidetoshi Nakano; NTT Basic Res. Labs, Ja- Engineering Dept., UK, 2Alcatel-Thales III-V Roberto Flammini2, Luca Poletto3, Paolo demonstrate a new technique for locking We have grown individual carbon nanotube Sandoghdar; ETH Zurich, Switzerland. We pan. We investigated the temperature of alu- Lab, France. An integrated 10th order Fresnel Villoresi3, Carlo Altucci4, Raffaele Velotta4; and narrowing the wavelength of a ring interconnects between pre-determined and study the enhancement of radiative rate and minum nanoparticles in a femtosecond la- lens capable of improving the laser beam 1ULTRAS CNR-INFM Dept. di Fisica optical parametric oscillator with a volume addressable electrode tips and wrapped quantum efficiency of a single emitter ser ablation plume with a spatiotemporally quality is reported. The far-field divergence Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2CNR-IMIP Area Bragg grating at an angle in a retroreflector these interconnects with conducting poly- coupled to a nanoantenna. We show that resolved XAFS system. From the feature of is narrowed by an average of 1.9° (29%) della Ricerca di Roma 1, Italy, 3LUXOR CNR- design. mers. by proper choice of the parameters quench- the L-absorption edge of liquid nano- and an overall M2-factor improvement of INFM D.E.I., Univ. di Padova, Italy, 4CNISM- ing can be to a large extent avoided. particles, we successfully estimated their 15% is recorded. Dept. di Scienze Fisiche, Univ. di Napoli, temperature distribution. Italy. We present the generation of isolated attosecond pulses using phase-stabilized 5- fs pulses with time dependent ellipticity. Using a complete temporal characterization Thursday, May 10 Thursday, technique, we demonstrate compression of the pulses down to 130 as (<1.2 optical cycles).

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QThC • Laser Cooling of CThF • Nonlinear Optical CThG • Photonic Crystals— CThH • Continuum CThI • Terahertz Generation Mechanical Systems and Processing for Continued Generation and SBS in and Detection—Continued Molecules—Continued Communications— Fibers—Continued Continued

QThC5 • 9:15 a.m. CThF5 • 9:15 a.m. CThG6 • 9:15 a.m. CThH6 • 9:15 a.m. CThI6 • 9:15 a.m. Rotationally-Resolved Depletion Spec- Wavelength Conversion Using Multi- Group Delay Measurements of High Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Assisted Intracavity Terahertz Generation in a troscopy of Ultracold KRb Molecules, Pump Raman-Assisted Four-Wave Mix- Quality GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities, Slow Light Generation in Single Mode Synchronously Pumped Optical Para- Dajun Wang, Jin-Tae Kim, Court Ashbaugh, ing, S. H. Wang1, Lixin Xu1,2, P. K. A. Wai1, Thomas Sünner, Magdalena Gellner, Tellurite Fiber, Kazi S. Abedin, Guo-Wei metric Oscillator Using Quasi- Edward E. Eyler, Phillip L. Gould, William H. Y. Tam3; 1Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Andreas Löffler, Martin Kamp, Alfred Lu, Tetsuya Miyazaki; Natl. Inst. of Informa- Phasematched GaAs, Joseph E. Schaar, C. Stwalley; Univ. of Connecticut, USA. We Hong Kong, 2Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Sci- Forchel; Univ. Würzburg, Germany. The tion and Connunications Technology, Ja- Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, Martin M. Fejer; use photoassociation of ultracold atoms to ence and Technology of China, China, group delay of light propagating through pan. Efficient slow light generation is dem- Stanford Univ., USA. We generated 1 mW produce ultracold KRb molecules in high 3Photonics Res. Ctr. and Dept. of Electrical photonic crystal cavities was measured by onstrated in single mode tellurite fiber. Pulses of average power at 2.9 THz (540 GHz band- vibrational levels of the ground state. Deple- Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic the phase shift technique. The largest ob- of 60 ns width can be delayed by 67 ns in a width) in a nearly-diffraction-limited beam tion spectroscopy is employed to detect Univ., Hong Kong. We proposed to use served group delay was 132 ps for a cavity 2-m-long fiber with a pump power of by placing a room-temperature quasi- these molecules with both vibrational and multi-pump Raman amplifier to assist four- with a quality factor of 82 000. 630 mW. phasematched GaAs crystal inside the cav- rotational resolution. wave-mixing based wavelength conversion. ity of a synchronously pumped optical para- We achieved a conversion efficiency band- metric oscillator. width of 10 nm and power penalty of 1 dB at BER of 10–9 at 10 Gb/s.

QThC6 • 9:30 a.m. CThF6 • 9:30 a.m. CThG7 • 9:30 a.m. CThH7 • 9:30 a.m. CThI7 • 9:30 a.m. Electrostatic Surface Guiding of Super- Power Equalization for the Optical Sub- Silicon Based Photonic Crystal Electro- Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in Generation of Terahertz Radiation from sonic D2O Molecular Beam, Yong Xia, systems Based on the SOA Polarization Optic Modulator Utilizing the Plasma Small Core Photonic Crystal Fibers a New InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs Double Grat- Yaling Yin, Haibo Chen, Lianzhong Deng, Rotation, Wu Chongqing1, Li Yajie1, Dispersion Effect, Timothy Hodson, B. (PCF), Jean Toulouse, Radha K. Pattnaik, ing Gate HEMT Device, Yahya M. Jianping Yin; East China Normal Univ., Songnian Fu2, Dong Hui2, Zhou Junqiang2, Miao, C. Chen, A. Sharkawy, Dennis W. John McElhenny; Lehigh Univ., USA. SBS is Meziani1, Mitsuhiro Hanabe1, Akira China. We demonstrate the electrostatic sur- P. Shum2; 1Inst. of Optical Information, Prather; Univ. of Delaware, USA. We present studied in four different photonic crystal fi- Koizumi1, Takuma Ishibashi1, Tomohiro µ 1 1 2 1 face guiding of cold heavy-water (D2O) School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., developments in the design and fabrication bers with core diameters ranging from 8 m Uno , Taiichi Otsuji , Eiichi Sano ; Tohoku molecules by using a 2-D hollow electro- China, 2Network Technology Res. Ctr., School of a photonic crystal based electro-optic to 1.7µm. Of particular interest is the obser- Univ., Japan, 2Hokkaido Univ., Japan. We Thursday, May 10 static field generated by the combination of of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, modulator which operates using the plasma vation of several peaks and their strong observed a generation of terahertz radiation two parallel charged-poles and a grounded Singapore. We demonstrate two aligned dispersion effect of free carriers injected from polarization dependence in small core PCFs. from different grating gate devices. The de- metal-plate. principal states of polarizations for the bias a PIN diode. vices are subjected to the CW laser and then current variation or optical control pulse to the impulsive laser at room temperature. injection, thus power equalization is achieved for the SOA polarization rotation based subsystem with less than 0.3dB fluc- tuation.

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CThJ1 • 10:30 a.m. Invited CThK1 • 10:30 a.m. JThB1 • 10:30 a.m. Tutorial CThL1 • 10:30 a.m. CThM1 • 10:30 a.m. CThN1 • 10:30 a.m. QThD1 • 10:30 a.m. QThE1 • 10:30 a.m. Femtosecond Laser Nanomachining Linewidth Enhancement Factor of Semi- Attosecond Technology and Enhancement of Phase-Matched Second- Multiphoton Ionization in Dielectrics: Advances in Two-Photon 3-D Micro- Laser-Assisted Photoemission from Sur- Coupled Metallic Antenna Nanorod Ar- Applications in Fused Silica, Rod S. Tay- conductor Lasers: Results from Round- Wavefunction Tomography, Mauro Harmonic Generation at 10.6 µm in an Competition of Circular and Linear Po- fabrication, Joseph W. Perry1, Vincent W. faces, Luis Miaja-Avila1, Guido Saathoff1, rays, Elizabeth J. Smythe, Ertugrul Cubukcu, 1 1 1 1 1 1 lor, Cyril Hnatovsky, Eli Simova, Rajeev Robin Measurements in COST 288 Ac- Nisoli; Politecnico di Milano, Italy. We will Annealed ZnGeP2 Crystal, Yi Jiang, Yujie larization, Vasily V. Temnov , Klaus Chen , Wojciech Haske , Joel M. Hales , Margaret M. Murnane , Henry C. Kapteyn , Federico Capasso; Harvard Univ., USA. We Pattathil, Jiaren Liu, David M. Rayner, Paul tion, Asier Villafranca1, Javier Lasobras1, review recent experimental progress in the J. Ding; Lehigh Univ., USA. Phase-matching Sokolowski-Tinten2, Ping Zhou2, Abdalla El- Wenting Dong1, Jian Zhou1, Yadong Zhang2, Martin Aeschlimann2; 1JILA, Univ. of Colo- investigate coupling effects in arrays of gold B. Corkum; Natl. Res. Council, Canada. Fo- Ignacio Garces1, Guido Giuliani2, Silvano generation and characterization of angle for second-harmonic generation in an Khamhawy2, Dietrich von der Linde2; Kelly Perry2, Stephen Barlow1, Seth R. rado, USA, 2Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Ger- nanorods, studying both strongly and weakly 2 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 cused femtosecond laser light can produce Donati , Marek Chacinski , Richard Schatz , attosecond pulses, and in wavefunction to- annealed ZnGeP2 crystal from a CO2 laser Experimentelle Physik IIb, Germany, Univ. Marder ; Georgia Tech, USA, Focal Point many. Using femtosecond time-resolved coupled regimes, with the ultimate goal of beautifully arrayed self-organized Christos Kouloumentas4, Ioannis Tomkos4, mography using re-collision electron at 10.6 µm decreases as the pump power is Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Ultrafast time- Microsytems, USA. The development of two- photoelectron spectroscopy, we present incorporating these arrays onto a compact nanocracks inside fused silica. These Pascal Landais5, Judy Rorison6, Jose Pozo6, wavepackets produced by tunnel ionization increased. Such a dependence is used to resolved interferometry was used to inves- photon materials for the fabrication of fea- experimental measurements that distinguish fiber device. nanocracks provide a unique capability for Andrea Fiore7, Pablo Moreno7, Wolfgang in a strong laser field. significantly enhance the second-harmonic tigate the six-photon ionization in dielec- tures with 80 nm resolution in 3-D the laser-assisted photoelectric effect from nanomachining arrays of micro- and Elsässer8, Guillaume Huyet9, Mika power. trics irradiated by linearly and circularly microfabrication and the fabrication of a other inherent surface processes, such as nanofluidic channels, nanoporous capillar- Saarinen10, Markus Pessa10, Marc polarized femtosecond laser pulses. The range of photonic crystals with mid-IR stop above threshold photoemission, space- ies and rewritable data storage elements. Sciamanna11, Jan Danckaert12, Krassimir theoretically predicted dominance of linear bands will be discussed. charge acceleration and hot electron excita- Panajotov12, Thomas Fordell13, Asa polarization in high-order multiphoton ion- tion. Lindberg13, Pascal Besnard14, Frédéric ization is demonstrated. Grillot15; 1Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain, 2Univ. di Pavia, Italy, 3Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden, 4Athens Information Technology Ctr. (AIT), Greece, 5Dublin City Univ., Ire- land, 6Univ. of Bristol, UK, 7Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swit- zerland, 8Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Ger- many, 9Natl. Univ. of Ireland, Univ. College, Cork, Ireland, 10Tampere Univ. of Technol- ogy, Finland, 11SUPELEC, France, 12Vrije Univ. Brussel, Belgium, 13Univ. of Helsinki, Finland, 14FOTON-ENSSAT, France, 15FOTON-INSA, France. Round-Robin mea- surements on the linewidth enhancement factor are carried out within several labora- tories participating to EU COST 288 Action. The alpha-factor is measured by applying Thursday, May 10 Thursday, up to 7 different techniques. Obtained re- sults are compared.

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CThJ • Nanostructures in CThK • Near IR Diode JThB • Attosecond Laser CThL • Mid-IR Generation— CThM • Ultrafast Beams CThN • Nanofabrication— QThD • High-Field and QThE • Plasmonics II— Femtosecond Laser Lasers—Continued Pulses—Continued Continued and Materials Processing— Continued Molecular Dynamics— Continued Processing—Continued Continued Continued

CThK2 • 10:45 a.m. CThL2 • 10:45 a.m. CThM2 • 10:45 a.m. CThN2 • 10:45 a.m. QThD2 • 10:45 a.m. QThE2 • 10:45 a.m. µ Linewidth Enhancement Factors in 1.55 SHG of CO2 Laser Radiation at 10.6 m Spatio-Spectral Analysis and Encoding Large-Area Metal Grid Ultraviolet Filter Measuring Attosecond Ionization Dy- Ellipsometrically Probed Plasmonic µm Quantum Dot, Quantum Dash, and in the Highly Nonlinear Chalcopyrite of Ultrashort Pulses with Higher-Order Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithogra- namics inside Dielectrics, Marina Resonances in a Square Array of Au 1 1 1,2 1 1 Quantum Well Amplifiers, A. J. Zilkie , J. LiGaTe2, Jean-Jacques Zondy , Franck Statistical Moments, Ruediger Grunwald, phy, Wen-Di Li, Stephen Y. Chou; Princeton Gertsvolf , Rajeev P. Pattathil , David M. Nanocubes, Yi-Hao Chen , Brandon D. Meier1, P. W. E. Smith1, M. Mojahedi1, J. S. Bielsa2, Albane Douillet2, Laurent Hilico2, Martin Bock; Max-Born-Inst., Germany. Univ., USA. For the first time, a wafer-scale Rayner1, Paul B. Corkum1; 1Natl. Res. Coun- Lucas2, L. Jay Guo1,2; 1Dept. of Electrical En- Aitchison1, P. J. Poole2, P. Barrios2, D. Ouali Acef3, Valentin Petrov4, Alexander Spatio-spectral analysis of femtosecond la- metal grid UV filter is fabricated by cil of Canada, Canada, 2Univ. of Ottawa, gineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Poitras2, R. H. Wang3, T. J. Rotter3, C. Yang3, Yelisseyev5, Ludmila Isaenko5, Pavel ser pulses using higher order statistical mo- nanoimprint lithography and demonstrates Canada. We resolve attosecond dynamics Michigan, USA, 2Applied Physics, Univ. of A. Stintz3, K. J. Malloy3; 1Univ. of Toronto, Krinitsin5; 1CNAM, France, 2Univ.d’Evry, ments is presented. Exploiting skewness and cut-off wavelength of 350nm, peak trans- of multiphoton ionization in solids. We sub- Michigan, USA. Localized Surface Plasmon Canada, 2Natl. Res. Council Canada, France, 3Observatoire de Paris, France, kurtosis parameters of local spectra, we mission of 27% at 285nm and rejection ratio divide the laser cycle using differential ab- Resonance (LSPR) of metallic nanoparticles Canada, 3Univ. of New Mexico, USA. We 4Max-Born-Inst., Germany, 5Inst. of Geology obtain an effective data reduction and in- of 20dB at visible wavelength. sorption between the major and the minor has been widely studied for sensing appli- compare the α-factor of a QD amplifier and Mineralogy, Russian Federation. Type- formation transfer at discriminated lower axes of elliptically polarized beam. cations. We propose an ellipsometry-based operating at 1.55 µm to a quantum dash and I phase-matching for second harmonic gen- moments. configuration for sensing exploiting the po- µ µ quantum well amplifier at 1.55 m. The QD eration at 10.6 m in LiGaTe2 is demonstrated larization dependent LSPR excited on aniso- has the lowest α-factor with a minimum α and the effective nonlinearity (34.5 pm/V) tropic and uniformly oriented Au of 1. for this process is estimated by comparison nanostructures.

with AgGaSe2 using a tunable single-fre- quency continuous-wave CO2 laser.

CThJ2 • 11:00 a.m. CThK3 • 11:00 a.m. CThL3 • 11:00 a.m. Invited CThM3 • 11:00 a.m. CThN3 • 11:00 a.m. QThD3 • 11:00 a.m. QThE3 • 11:00 a.m. “Quill” Writing with Ultrashort Light Experimental Modulation Response be- Advances in Mid-IR Materials, Peter G. Dual Wavelength Femtosecond Laser 2-Photon Polymerization for Plasmonic Direct Measurement of Intense Field Effective Optical Response of Noble Pulses in Transparent Optical Materials, yond the Relaxation Oscillation Fre- Schunemann; BAE Systems, USA. Improved Materials Processing, Masanao Kamata, Applications, Sven Passinger, Roman Ionization Rates in Sapphire and Water Metal Nanoparticle Arrays and Photonic Peter G. Kazansky1, Weijia Yang1, Erica quency in a Multiple-Spatial-Mode Laser processing continues to reduce absorption Susumu Tsujikawa, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Kiyan, Andrey Stepanov, Carsten Reinhardt, during Short Pulse Laser Propagation, Crystals with Embedded Nanoparticles, Bricchi1, James Bovatsek2, Alan Arai2; 1Op- Diode Based on Active Spatial Mode Cou- losses in new and old bulk birefringent non- Hitoshi Sekita; Cyber Laser Inc., Japan. Boris Chichkov; Laser Zentrum Hannover Georgia C. Modoran, Douglass Schumacher; Elefterios Lidorikis1, Shunji Egusa2, John D. toelectronics Res. Ctr., UK, 2IMRA America, pling, Weiguo Yang1, Lawrence L. Buhl1, linear optical crystals, while advances in all- Femtosecond using the com- e.V., Germany. We present investigations on Ohio State Univ., USA. We describe a pump- Joannopoulos2; 1Univ. of Ioannina, Greece, Inc, USA. Writing in silica glass in opposite Matthew R. Fetterman2; 1Bell Labs, USA, epitaxial grown QPM GaAs promises to ex- bination of 260 nm pulses and 780 nm pulses dielectric 2-D surface-plasmon-polariton- probe experiment that directly measures 2MIT, USA. We numerically extract the ef- directions can be different. The phenom- 2Penn State Electro-Optics Ctr., USA. Single- tend efficient, high-power frequency con- is explored for the high speed and high (SPP)-structures on metal surfaces and their electron ionization rates via plasma-induced fective optical constants of noble metal enon resembles quill writing and is inter- section multiple-spatial-mode passively version to longer wavelengths. quality selected removal of insulating lay- characterization. Line-, dot-, and waveguide- blue-shifting during filamentation of a short nanoparticle arrays and use them to study preted in terms of anisotropic trapping of mode-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes are ers. structures are fabricated by two-photon laser pulse. We compare to Keldysh and photonic crystals with embedded electron plasma by a tilted front of the ul- demonstrated to have resonant modulation polymerization (2PP) of high refractive in- Thornber theory. nanaparticles. We find sharp resonant fea- trashort laser pulse. responses between the relaxation oscillation dex inorganic-organic hybrid polymer. tures such as absorption doubling per na- resonance and the mode-locking frequency. nometer wavelength. The effect is attributed to the intra-cavity active spatial mode coupling.

CThJ3 • 11:15 a.m. CThK4 • 11:15 a.m. CThM4 • 11:15 a.m. CThN4 • 11:15 a.m. QThD4 • 11:15 a.m. QThE4 • 11:15 a.m. Thursday, May 10 Thursday, Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Transient Gain Spectroscopy of Low Insertion Loss Waveguides in Novel Shadow Mask Structure for Using High-Order Harmonics with Mo- Surface Plasmons in Ordered and Dis- Two-Plasmon Decay in Femtosecond (GaIn)As Quantum Well Structures, Lithium Niobate Using Multi-Scan Sampled Bragg Gratings in Chalcogenide mentum Imaging Techniques to Study ordered Chains of Metal Nanospheres, 1 1 1 2 Processing of Transparent Materials, Christoph Lange , Sangam Chatterjee , Femtosecond Waveguide Inscription, (As2S3) Planar Waveguides, DukYong Atomic and Molecular Dynamics, Etienne Vadim A. Markel , Andrey K. Sarychev ; Peter G. Kazansky1, Erica Bricchi1, Yasuhiko Christoph Schlichenmaier1, Angela Henry T. Bookey1, Robert R. Thomson1, Choi1, Steve Madden1, Andrei Rode1, Gagnon, Margaret Murnane, Henry 1Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Shimotsuma2, Kazuyuoki Hirao2; 1Optoelec- Thränhardt1, Stephan W. Koch1, Wolfgang Nicholas D. Psaila1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Nicola Rongping Wang1, Barry Luther-Davies1, Neil Kapteyn, Arvinder Sandhu; JILA, Univ. of USA, 2Ethertronics, Inc., USA. We describe tronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK, W. Rühle1, Galina Khitrova2, Hyatt M. Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio Cerullo2; J. Baker2, Benjamin J. Eggleton2; 1Laser Phys- Colorado and NIST, USA. We use high har- two types of surface plasmons in ordered 2Kyoto Univ., Japan. Self-assembled Gibbs2; 1Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Germany, 1School of Engineering and Physical Sci- ics Ctr./RSPhysse, Australia, 2School of Phys- monics in conjunction with coincidence and disordered chains. The second kind is nanostructures in transparent materials irra- 2Univ. of Arizona, USA. Transient gain mea- ences, Heriot Watt Univ., UK, 2Inst. di ics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We report a momentum imaging (COLTRIMS) techniques mediated by far-field interaction and is af-

diated by ultrashort light pulses reveal two- surements are performed for (GaIn)As quan- Fotonica e Nanotechnologie del CNR - Dept. new shadow mask structure for writing to study simple molecules like CO, CO2 and fected by Ohmic and radiative losses much dimensional periodicity. The mechanism of tum well structures. Gain up to 2000/cm on di Fisica del Politecnico di Milano, Italy. We sampled Bragg gratings into chalcogenide N2. We explore the dynamics near the double less than the first kind. the phenomenon based on interference of a timescale of several hundred ps is ob- have fabricated waveguides in z-cut lithium (As2S3) planar waveguides. This allows long ionization threshold using EUV/IR pump/ bulk plasma waves excited via two plasmon served. A microscopic model quantitatively niobate using multi-scan femtosecond in- gratings to be written without tilt to pro- probe techniques. parametric decay is proposed. provides theoretical support without intro- scription of the bulk material. Insertion losses duce a grating response with narrow rejec- ducing fit parameters. as low as 3.5 dB have been measured cou- tion peaks. pling to single mode fibre at 1550 nm.

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Walter Margulis , Valdas Pasiskevicius , Pär Ethan Schonbrun , Qi Wu , Wounjhang on LT-InGaAs Photoconductive Anten- 123456789012345678901234567890 1 2 3 1 2 2 µ Jelger , Åsa Claesson , Anders Engström ; Park , Tsuyoshi Yamashita , John Blair , nas Exited by a 1.55 m Fibre Laser, Rafal 123456789012345678901234567890 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden, Acreo Christopher Summers ; Univ. of Colorado at Wilk , Martin Mikulics , Klaus Biermann , 123456789012345678901234567890 3 2 2 3 AB, Sweden, Acreo Ab, Sweden. A novel all- Boulder, USA, Georgia Tech, USA. We Harald Künzel , Ida Z. Kozma , Ronald 123456789012345678901234567890 3 2 3 fiber spliced microcavity for chemical and present a photonic crystal cube-like polar- Holzwarth , Bernd Sartorius , Michael Mei , 123456789012345678901234567890 1 1 biological optical studies is described. Its ization beam splitter and total internal re- Martin Koch ; Inst. fuer Hochfrequenz- 123456789012345678901234567890 2 design allows coupling with low loss light flection prism. By controlling diffraction, we technik, Germany, Fraunhofer Inst. für 123456789012345678901234567890

from a fiber into a liquid or gas contained experimentally show that free space optical Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., 123456789012345678901234567890 3 in a capillary or PCF. prisms can now be implemented onto a pla- Germany, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany. 123456789012345678901234567890 nar silicon platform. We present a THz time-domain spectrom- 123456789012345678901234567890 eter based on a 1.55 µm fibre laser and 123456789012345678901234567890 LTInGaAs/InAlAs MQW photoconductive 123456789012345678901234567890 antennas. We discuss the system stability and 123456789012345678901234567890 present first spectroscopic data taken with 123456789012345678901234567890 the system. 123456789012345678901234567890

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Entanglement and Rapid Measurement Mid-Infrared Methane Sensing Using an Tunable Fabry-Perot Waveguide Enhancement of Self Phase Modulation Excitation Wavelength Dependence of Upcoming Commercial Applications of 1Deep2345678901234567890123456789 UV Lasers for UV Resonance Fluo- The Big Bang Observer: High Laser0

of Clock-State Qubits in Yb or Sr for Optical Parametric Oscillator and a Pho- Microcavities with High Index Contrast Induced Spectral Broadening in Silicon Terahertz Emission from Indium Nitride Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy: Appli- 1rescence2345678901234567890123456789 and of Power for Gravitational Wave Astro-0 1 1 2 Quantum Information Processing, tonic Bandgap Fiber as a Gas Cell, Lukasz Mirrors, Marcel W. Pruessner, Todd H. Waveguides by Ion Implantation, Yang Multiple Quantum Wells, Grace D. Chern , cations to Heart Disease and Gynecol- 1Biological2345678901234567890123456789 and Chemical Agents, William physics, G. M. Harry , William Folkner ,0 1 1 1 1 1 3 Nathan S. Babcock, René Stock, Barry C. W. Kornaszewski , Nicolas Gayraud , Will- Stievater, William S. Rabinovich; NRL, USA. Liu, C. W. Chow, H. K. Tsang, S. P. Wong; Hongen Shen , Michael Wraback , Gregor ogy, Andres F. Zuluaga; Remicalm LLC, USA. 1F. 2345678901234567890123456789 Hug, Ray D. Reid; Photon Systems, Inc., Peter Fritschel , E. Sterl Phinney , Daniel A.0 2 1 2 Sanders; Inst. for Quantum Information iam N. MacPherson1, Duncan P. Hand1, Tunable micromachined SOI Fabry-Perot Dept. of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese Koblmüller2, Chad Gallinat2, James Speck2; Abstract not available. 1USA.2345678901234567890123456789 We review the status of deep UV la- Shaddock ; LIGO Lab, USA, JPL, USA,0 3 Science, Univ. of Calgary, Canada. We de- Derryck T. Reid1, James M. Stone2, Alan K. waveguide cavities with high-index-contrast Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. We experi- 1US ARL, USA, 2Univ. of California at Santa 1sers2345678901234567890123456789 for use in miniature UR resonance Caltech, USA. The Big Bang Observer is a0

2 2 1 123456789012345678901234567890 vise protocols for entangling and rapidly George , Jonathan C. Knight ; Heriot-Watt silicon/air Bragg mirrors are demonstrated. mentally demonstrated that helium-ion-im- Barbara, USA. We report the excitation Raman sensors for trace levels of biological proposed space-based gravitational-wave Thursday, May 10 measuring qubits encoded in the clock tran- Univ., UK, 2Univ. of Bath, UK. Mid-infrared The devices can be tuned thermo-optically plantation can reduce the optical loss due wavelength dependence of terahertz emis- 1and2345678901234567890123456789 chemical agents. Our focus will be on detector which will utilize two 300 W, 3550 sitions in Yb or Sr. Our work provides con- methane sensing is demonstrated using a or using integrated micro-electro-mechani- to free carriers produced by two photon sion from N-face InN/InGaN multiple quan- 1lasers2345678901234567890123456789 emitting at wavelengths below 250nm. nm wavelength lasers on each of three0 crete guidelines for experimental realizations photonic bandgap fiber-based gas cell and cal systems. Device fabrication, experimen- absorption and enhance self-phase-modu- tum wells relative to that from bulk N-face 12345678901234567890123456789spacecraft. This wavelength will be achieved0 of quantum computing and fundamental broadband idler pulses from a periodically- tal data, and simulation results will be pre- lation in silicon waveguide. InN when excited by femtosecond optical 12345678901234567890123456789by frequency tripling Nd:YAG lasers. 0 tests of quantum mechanics. poled lithium niobate femtosecond optical sented. pulses tunable from 800 nm to 1700 nm. 123456789012345678901234567890 parametric oscillator as the light source for 123456789012345678901234567890 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567890

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QThF3 • 11:15 a.m. CThO4 • 11:15 a.m. Invited CThP4 • 11:15 a.m. CThQ3 • 11:15 a.m. CThR4 • 11:15 a.m. Invited 123456789012345678901234567890 Spins in Quantum Dot Molecules, Mat- Geometry and Structure of Multimaterial NRZ-to-PRZ Format Conversion Using Parabolic Pulse Generation in Disper- Measurement of the Carrier-Envelope 123456789012345678901234567890 thew Doty1, Michael Scheibner1, Eric Stinaff1, Photodetecting Fibers: A Comparative Silicon Second-Order Coupled- sion Decreasing Fiber Amplifier, Stefan Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by THz- 123456789012345678901234567890 Ilya Ponomarev1, Allan Bracker1, Vladimir Study, Fabien Sorin, Ayman F. Aboura, Nick Microring Resonator-Based Notch Fil- Wabnitz1, Christophe Finot1, Alexej Emission Spectroscopy, Markus Kreß1, 123456789012345678901234567890 Korenev2, Tom Reinecke1, Dan Gammon1; D. Orf, Ofer Shapira, Jeff Viens, John D. ters, Linjie Zhou, Hui Chen, Andrew W. Sysoliatin2; 1Univ.de Bourgogne, France, 2Fi- Torsten Löffler1, Mark D. Thomson1, Hartmut 123456789012345678901234567890 1NRL, USA, 2Ioffe Physical Technical Inst., Joannopoulos, Yoel Fink; MIT, USA. We re- Poon; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech- ber Optics Res. Ctr., Russian Federation. We G. Roskos1, Reinhard Dörner1, H. Gimpel2, 123456789012345678901234567890 Russian Federation. Through optical spec- port on the influence of geometrical and nology, Hong Kong. We demonstrate NRZ- obtain an exact dispersion profile that per- K. Zrost2, T. Ergler2, R. Moshammer2, U. 123456789012345678901234567890 troscopy of Quantum Dot Molecules we structural changes on the performance of to-PRZ format conversion by using silicon mits for the analytical description of self- Morgner2, J. Ullrich2; 1Johann Wolfgang 123456789012345678901234567890 observe spin interactions and g-factors that one dimensional distributed photodetecting second-order coupled-microring resonator- similar pulse amplification and Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany, 2Max- 123456789012345678901234567890 depend on electric field. We describe how fibers for applications in large area opto- based notch filters. Our experiments show supercontinuum generation in tapered non- Planck-Inst. für Kernphysik, Germany. THz- 123456789012345678901234567890 these effects could be used to control spin electronic systems, remote sensing of that 3.6-Gbps NRZ signals are converted to linear fiber amplifiers. emission from laser-generated plasmas 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567890 states and optically gate spin interactions. analytes and functional fabrics. PRZ pulses with 40-ps width and 8-dB ex- opens a way to measure the carrier-enve- 123456789012345678901234567890 tinction ratio. lope phase of few-cycle optical pulses, a parameter of critical significance for numer- 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567890 ous experiments with sub-10-fs light pulses. 123456789012345678901234567890

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CThJ • Nanostructures in CThK • Near IR Diode JThB • Attosecond Laser CThL • Mid-IR Generation— CThM • Ultrafast Beams CThN • Nanofabrication— QThD • High-Field and QThE • Plasmonics II— Femtosecond Laser Lasers—Continued Pulses—Continued Continued and Materials Processing— Continued Molecular Dynamics— Continued Processing—Continued Continued Continued

CThJ4 • 11:30 a.m. CThK5 • 11:30 a.m. JThB2 • 11:30 a.m. CThL4 • 11:30 a.m. CThM5 • 11:30 a.m. CThN5 • 11:30 a.m. QThD5 • 11:30 a.m. QThE5 • 11:30 a.m. Single and Multi-Scan Femtosecond La- Integrated Chirped Bragg Gratings on Observation of Interferometric Femotsecond Mid-Infrared Difference- Ultrafast p-Si Field Emitter Array Photo- Fabrication of Garnet Waveguides and 30-fs Ultra Sensitive Absorption Spec- Fluorescence Enhancement by Surface ser Writing for Selective Chemical Etch- Deeply Etched Tapered III-V Waveguides, Autocorrelation Trace of an Attosecond Frequency-Gneration Tunable between cathode, Chin-Jen Chiang1, Kendrick X. Polarizers for Integrated Optical Isola- troscopy of Low Vapor Pressure Mol- Gratings, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Yu-Ju Hung, ing of Glass Micro-Channels, Stephen Ho, Michael J. Strain, Marc Sorel; Univ. of Pulse Train, Toshihiko Shimizu1, Tomoya 3.2 µm and 4.8 µm from a Compact Fi- Liu2, Jonathan P. Heritage1; 1Univ. of Cali- tors, Sang-Yeob Sung, Xiaoyuan Qi, ecules: Proton Transfer in the Gas Phase, Christopher C. Davis; Univ. of Maryland, Mi Li Ng, Shane M. Eaton, Peter R. Herman, Glasgow, UK. Novel tapered deeply etched Okino1,2, Hirokazu Hasegawa1,3, Kentaro ber Source, Christian Erny1, Konstantinos fornia at Davis, USA, 2NRL, USA. The tran- Bethanie J. H. Stadler; Univ. of Minnesota, Christian Schriever1, Stefan Lochbrunner1, USA. Enhancement of fluorescence from James S. Aitchison; Univ. of Toronto, Chirped Bragg Grating devices are pre- Furusawa1, Yasuo Nabekawa1, Kaoru Moutzouris1, Jens Biegert1, Ursula Keller1, sient photo-field emission from p-type Si USA. YIG waveguides and photonic crystal David J. Nesbitt2, Eberhard Riedle1; 1LS Rhodamine6G molecules near a dielectric Canada. High aspect-ratio micro-channels sented. Arbitrary chirp and coupling coeffi- Yamanouchi1,2, Katsumi Midorikawa1; 1La- Dietrich Kühlke2, Florian Adler3, Alfred Field Emitter Array optically modulated by polarizers were successfully integrated with BioMolekulareOptik, LMU München, Ger- grating deposited onto a gold film is ob- 2 3 1 2 were fabricated in fused silica using a high- cient profiles may be implemented and fab- ser Technology Lab, RIKEN, Japan, Dept. of Leitenstorfer ; ETH Zurich, Switzerland, a mode-locked laser results in 130 ps dura- Si using SiO2 claddings. The films were many, Joint Inst. for Lab Astrophysics, NIST, served. The enhancement mechanism is repetition-rate 522-nm femtosecond laser ricated fully post-growth. Simulation and Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Univ. 2Furtwangen Univ. of Applied Sciences, Ger- tion electron bunch, demonstrating FEAs as grown by room temperature reactive RF Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. consistent with excitation of surface plas- and selective chemical etching with diluted experimental results are presented for pas- of Tokyo, Japan, 3Inst. for Molecular Science, many, 3Univ. of Konstanz, Germany. We promising photocathode for next generation sputtering and rapid thermal annealing. Fara- of Colorado, USA. Our transient absorption mon polaritons on the film surface. hydrofluoric acid. Single and multi-scanning sive gratings and DFB lasers. Japan. We report the direct observation of demonstrate a mid-infrared laser source tun- Microwave Vacuum Electronic Devices. day rotations of 0.2°/µm were achieved. spectrometer for gas phase and solution writing is compared for controlling cross- phase locking between adjacent pulses in able between 3.2 µm and 4.8 µm with an samples can resolve changes of 2x10-6 in sectional profile and wall roughness. an attosecond pulse train via interferomet- average output power of more than 1 mW. optical density. This allows the first direct ric autocorrelation, using the Coulomb ex- The spectral bandwidth of up to 325 nm comparison of ultrafast proton transfer at

plosion of N2 caused by two-photon absorp- supports sub- 60-fs pulses. low vapor pressure and in solution. tion. CThJ5 • 11:45 a.m. CThK6 • 11:45 a.m. JThB3 • 11:45 a.m. CThL5 • 11:45 a.m. CThM6 • 11:45 a.m. CThN6 • 11:45 a.m. QThD6 • 11:45 a.m. QThE6 • 11:45 a.m. Solid-Phase Generation of Silicon 1.55 µm GaSb/AlGaSb MQW Diode La- Single-Shot Observation of Quasi-Con- Mid-IR OPO Operating near Room Tem- Ultrashort Lagguere-Gaussian Pulses Three-Dimensional Laser Nano-Structur- Measurement of Transient Susceptibil- Role of Radiation and Surface Plasmon Nanoparticles by Ultrafast Laser Irradia- sers Grown on GaAs Substrates Using tinuum High-Harmonic Spectrum Gen- perature Based on Vapor-Transport with Angular and Group Velocity Disper- ing: Contrast in Three-Photon and Two- ity Tensor Created by Rotational Wave in Optical Interactions between Nano- tion, Amir H. Nejadmalayeri1, Philip Interfacial Misfit (IMF) Arrays, Manish erated in a Two-Color Driving Field, Equilibrated Periodically Poled Stoichio- sion Compensation, Iosif Zeylikovich, Photon Polymerization of SU-8, Ladan E. Packets Excited by Arbitrarily Polarized Objects on Metal Surface, Long Chen, 1 1 1 1 1 Scrutton , Jacky Mak , Amr S. Helmy , Peter Mehta, Ganesh Balakrishnan, Maya N. Masanori Kaku , Akira Suda , Samuel metric LiTaO3, Mordechai (Moti) Katz, Henry Sztul, Vladimir Kartazaev, Tuan Le, Abolghasemi, Shane Eaton, Abbas Hosseini, Femtosecond Laser Pulses, Klaus K. Jacob T. Robinson, Michal Lipson; School of R. Herman1, Jonas Burghoff2, Stefan Nolte2, Kutty, Pravin Patel, Larry R. Dawson, Diana Bohman1,2, Shigeru Yamaguchi2, Katsumi Pinhas Blau; SOREQ NRC, Israel. A vapor- R. R. Alfano; Inst. for Ultrafast Spectroscopy Peter R. Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. Hartinger, Randy A. Bartels; Colorado State Electrical and Computer Engineering, Andreas Tuennermann2, Joerg Kaspar3; L. Huffaker; Univ. of New Mexico, USA. We Midorikawa1; 1RIKEN, Japan, 2Tokai Univ., transport equilibrated (VTE) periodically- and Lasers. Dept. of Physics, City College and A femtosecond fiber laser with 100-kHz rep- Univ., USA. Transient susceptibility tensors Cornell Univ., USA. It was recently suggested 1 2 Univ. of Toronto, Canada, Friedrich- report a GaSb/AlGaSb multi-quantum well Japan. We report the single-shot observa- poled near-stoichiometric LiTaO3 based OPO Graduate Ctr. of the City Univ. of New York, etition rate was optimized for 3-D produced by rotational wavepackets formed that both radiation and surface plasmon Schiller Univ., Germany, 3Fraunhofer-Inst. diode laser emitting at 1550 nm at 77 K. tion of quasi-continuum high-harmonic was demonstrated. 1.0-Watt of average out- USA. Coherent optical vortices are gener- nanostructuring of photoresist. Contrasts by femtosecond laser pulses with arbitrary participate in optical interactions between für Werkstoff und Strahltechnik, Germany. The laser is grown directly on a GaAs sub- spectrum with a harmonic energy of 10 nJ put power at 4.03-µm under 10.2-Watt of ated from ultrashort 6.4 fs pulses with car- in.three-photon (1045nm) and two-photon polarization are shown to be biaxial or nano-objects on metal surface. We investi- Ultrashort-laser irradiation of silica-silicon strate using interfacial misfit (IMF) arrays in the XUV region by using a two-color la- 1.064-µm pumping was obtained. Simulta- rier envelope phase control. The properties (522nm) resolution are presented together uniaxial. Single-shot measurements of the gate their individual contributions and dem- interfaces is presented as new means for rather than thick metamorphic buffer lay- ser field. It indicates a possibility of gener- neously, 0.2-Watt at 4.685-µm was gener- of angular dispersion and temporal chirp with prospects for creating photonic crystal phase modulation of a probe pulse are dem- onstrate the substantial role of radiation for ‘all solid-phase’ formation of high-purity sili- ers. ating single attosecond pulses. ated due to secondary OPO. compensated pulses are consistent with a templates and optical phasemasks. onstrated. nano-objects with subwavelength-spacing. con-nanoparticles in a silica host. Compres- monochromatic Laguerre-. sive stress measured in the silicon substrate is associated with positive refractive index modification. CThJ6 • 12:00 p.m. CThK7 • 12:00 p.m. JThB4 • 12:00 p.m. CThL6 • 12:00 p.m. CThM7 • 12:00 p.m. CThN7 • 12:00 p.m. QThD7 • 12:00 p.m. QThE7 • 12:00 p.m. Tunable Tungsten Nano-Gratings Depos- 480-mW DBR Laser Integrated with Mi- Broadband Attosecond Pulse Shaping, Mid-IR Entangled-Cavity Doubly Reso- Young’s Interference Experiment with Electron-Beam Lithography Techniques Strong Field Coherent Control with Hyperspectral Imaging of Plasmonic ited by a Single Femtosecond Laser Beam cro Heaters for Wavelength Tuning, Marko Swoboda1, Erik Gustafsson1, Thierry nant OPO Pumped by a Micro-Laser, Ultrashort-Pulsed Bessel Beams, Ruediger for Micro- and Nano-Scale Surface Struc- Simple Pulse Shapes: Towards Shaped Excitations Induced by an Electron

Thursday, May 10 Thursday, on Dielectrics, Mingzhen Tang, Haitao Martin H. Hu, Nick J. Visovsky, Sean Ruchon1, Thomas Remetter1, Emilie Pourtal1, Antoine Berrou1, Antoine Godard1, Grunwald, Uwe Neumann, Martin Bock, ture Current Injection Lasers, Guy A. Pulse Spectroscopy, Carlos A. Trallero, Beam, Maxim Bashevoy, Fredrik Jonsson, Zhang, Jerry McCoy, Tsing-Hua Her; Univ. Coleman, Yabo Li, Kechang Song, Hong K. Anne L’Huillier1, Rodrigo López-Martens2, Emmanuel Rosencher1, Michel Lefebvre1, Günter Steinmeyer; Max-Born-Inst., Ger- DeRose, Lin Zhu, Joyce K. S. Poon, Amnon Brett Pearson, Thomas C. Weinacht; Stony Nikolay Zheludev; Univ. of Southampton, of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Sub- Nguyen, Chung-en Zah; Corning Inc, USA. Philippe Balcou2; 1Dept. of Physics, Lund Stefan Spiekermann2; 1Office Naitonal many. Young’s experiment was performed Yariv, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA. We dem- Brook Univ., USA. We measure the depen- UK. We report on the first realization of a wavelength nano-gratings of tungsten were We fabricated 1060-nm DBR lasers with 480- Univ., Sweden, 2Lab d’Optique Appliquée, d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, with multiple ultrashort-pulsed Bessel-like onstrate nanoscale patterning and overlay dence of molecular fragmentation on a hyperspectral imaging technique of surface grown using a single femtosecond laser mW output power and integrated micro Ecole Natl.e Supérieure des Techniques France, 2LUMA , Germany. By pump- beams. The pseudo-nondiffracting nature of of two-dimensional gratings and waveguides simple pulse shape parameterization at dif- plasmon polaritons using a scanning elec- beam on many substrates. Period of the grat- heaters. A 20-nm discrete wavelength tun- Avancées, France. We present experiments ing a mid infrared entangled cavity doubly such beams is confirmed in a self-apodizing with accuracy better than 45nm using elec- ferent intensities. The results indicate that tron beam. The technique provides for plas- ings can be tuned through managing the ing using Bragg-section heater alone and a on the control over spectral amplitude and resonant optical parametric oscillator with setup, with aperture diameters matched to tron-beam lithography for surface structure dynamic Stark shifts of intermediate reso- mon imaging and information on decay laser power and scanning speed of substrate. 1-nm continuous tuning using both Bragg- phase of attosecond pulses, using metallic a micro-laser, we demonstrate the full po- the first field minimum and significantly re- lasers with large areas. nances play an important role in closed loop lengths with nanometer resolution. and phase-section heaters are demonstrated. and semiconductor thin-film dispersive fil- tentialities of this widely tunable source: high duced diffraction contrast. learning control. ters. A pulse duration as short as 130 as is spectral purity, compactness and low thresh- obtained. old of oscillation.

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QThF5 • 12:00 p.m. CThO6 • 12:00 p.m. CThP7 • 12:00 p.m. CThQ6 • 12:00 p.m. CThR6 • 12:00 p.m. JThC4 • 12:00 p.m. Invited 1PThA42345678901234567890123456789 • 12:00 p.m. Invited PThB4 • 12:00 p.m. Invited 0 Multipartite Entanglement in Non-Equi- Simplified Brillouin Optical Correlation Single-Film Broadband Photonic Crys- Coexistence and Competition between Energy-Scalable THz-Wave Parametric Laser Capture Microdissection in Pros- 1Photonic2345678901234567890123456789 Crystal Components: New High Power Lasers for Generation of0 librium Quantum Phase Transition in a Domain Analysis System with Optimized tal Micro-Mirror with Large Angular Different Soliton Shaping Mechanisms Oscillator and Its Application to Scan- tate Cancer, Angelo De Marzo; Johns 1Tools2345678901234567890123456789 for Stand-off Detection and Track- EUV Light, Vivek Bakshi; Sematec, USA.0 Collective Atomic System, Kishor T. Time-Gating Scheme, Kwang-Yong Song, Range and Low Polarization Depen- in a Laser, Dingyuan Tang1, Luming Zhao1, ning-Beam Terahertz-Wave Reflection Hopkins Univ., USA. Abstract not available. 1ing,2345678901234567890123456789 Ed Johnson; ICx Ion Optics, USA. Pho- High power lasers (1-10 ns pulse width, 10-0 Kapale1, Girish S. Agarwal2; 1JPL, USA, 2Dept. Kazuo Hotate; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. We dence, Sora Kim1, Sanja Hadzialic2, G. Q. Xie2, Liejia Qian2; 1School of Electrical Imaging, Tomofumi Ikari1, Hiroaki 1tonic2345678901234567890123456789 crystals provide strong distinctive re- 20 kW) are needed for laser-produced0 of Physics, Oklahoma State Univ., USA. We report a simplified Brillouin optical correla- Aasmund Sudbo2, Olav Solgaard1; 1Stanford and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Tech- Minamide1, Hiromasa Ito2,1; 1RIKEN Sendai, 1flection2345678901234567890123456789 and emission spectra in the infra- plasma (LPP)-based EUV sources to support0 study multipartite entanglement in non-equi- tion domain analysis system with an opti- Univ., USA, 2Univ. of Oslo, Norway. We ex- nological Univ., Singapore, 2Dept. of Opti- Japan, 2Tohoku Univ., Japan. We describe 1red.2345678901234567890123456789 Specific patterns with strong infrared extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. The0 librium quantum phase transition in a co- mized time-gating scheme for noise suppres- perimentally demonstrate a photonic crys- cal Science and Engineering, Fudan Univ., an energy-scalable surface-emitted terahertz- 1resonances2345678901234567890123456789 inside (or just outside) traditional requirements and status of high power la-0 123456789012345678901234567890 herently driven atomic ensemble undergo- sion. Distributed strain sensing with 7 cm tal (PC) slab dielectric mirror with reflectivity China. There exist two distinctive soliton wave parametric oscillator (TPO) with out- infrared imaging bands, offer unique oppor- ser technology will be reviewed. 123456789012345678901234567890 ing collective decay. spatial resolution and 1 km measurement higher than 90% at optical communication shaping mechanisms in the mode-locked put energy that was six times higher than tunities for remote sensing, tagging, and 123456789012345678901234567890 range is successfully demonstrated. wavelengths. The mirror shows low sensi- fiber lasers. Depending on the laser opera- that of the conventional TPO. Scanning- tracking. 123456789012345678901234567890 tivity to polarization and incident angle of tion, either of them could dominate the pulse beam reflection imaging at the resolution of λ 123456789012345678901234567890 the input beam. shaping in a laser when cavity dispersion is ca. 2 was also demonstrated. 123456789012345678901234567890 near zero.

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CLEO/QELS and PhAST 2007, May 6–11, 2007 • Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland EXHIBIT HALL, 100 LEVEL JOINT

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. JThD • Poster Session III

JThD1 JThD4 JThD8 JThD11 JThD14 JThD18 JThD22 JThD25 Optical Parametric Amplification of The Noise Effect on Pulses in Passive Numerical Simulations of the Ultra- Coherent Phonons Imprinted into Pulse Compression by Coherent Raman Scaling Features in Passively Mode- Pulse Shaping Using Binary Sequences Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Optical Pulses with a Nearly One-Octave Mode-Locking with Unrestricted Disper- simple Ultrashort-Laser-Pulse Measure- Reflectivity Oscillations of Laser-Excited Scattering, Yuichiro Kida, Shin-ichi Zaitsu, Locked Inhomogeneously Broadened Designed with Error Diffusion, Intersubband Lasers—Role of Motional Bandwidth from a Hollow Fiber, Keisaku sive and Dissipative Parameters, Michael ment Technique, GRENOUILLE, Xuan Bi through Electron-Phonon Coupling, Totaro Imasaka; Kyushu Univ., Japan. The Lasers, Li Yan, Song Han; Univ. of Mary- Christophe Dorrer; Lab for Laser Energetics, Narrowing, Jacob B. Khurgin1, H. C. Liu2; Yamane1,2, Atsushi Iwasaki1,2, Takashi Katz1, Ariel Gordon2, Omri Gat3, Baruch Liu1, Rick Trebino1, Arlee V. Smith2; 1Geor- Davide Boschetto1, Eugene G. Gamaly2, width of an ultraviolet pulse is compressed land, Baltimore County, USA. Passive model- Univ. of Rochester, USA. Continuous optical 1Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, 2Natl. Res. Coun- Tanigawa1,2, Taro Sekikawa1,2, Mikio Fischer1; 1Technion, Israel, 2MIT, USA, 3He- gia Tech, USA, 2Sandia Natl. Labs, USA. Our Andrei V. Rode2, Barry Luther-Davies2, to sub-20 fs from 100 fs using a prism com- locking of inhomogeneously broadened la- and electrical pulse shaping is obtained by cil, Canada. We have developed a theory Yamashita1,2; 1Hokkaido Univ., Japan, 2Core brew Univ., Israel. We study the statistical simulations show that accurate David Glijer1, Thomas Garl1, O. Albert1, pressor by compensating the group delay sers is studied in three regimes: pure SAM, spectral filtering of binary discrete sequences of polariton scattering in the Res. Evolutional Science and Technology, properties of pulses in passive mode-lock- GRENOUILLE measurements are easily ob- Antoine Rousse1, Jean Etchepare1; 1Lab dispersion among the Raman sidebands soliton mode-locking, and with SPM and of pulses designed with the deterministic inhomogeneously broadened intersubband Japan Science and Technology Agency, Ja- ing with noise for unrestricted dispersive and tained. The FROG algorithm further im- d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA/Ecole generated by coherent Raman scattering. positive GDD. Scaling features of mode-lock- error-diffusion algorithm. Experimental dem- transitions and have shown that motional pan. We developed an angularly dispersed dissipative parameters. We find exact gen- proves performance because it “sees Polytechmique, France, 2Australian Natl. ing characteristics with the gain linewidth, onstration to RF pulse shaping is presented. narrowing plays important role. This ex- noncollinear optical parametric amplifier eral expressions for the pulse power and through” distortions. We also obtain Univ., Australia. We show that the reflectivity JThD15 dispersion, and nonlinearities are presented. plains abnormally high gain of the experi- with a 300-THz bandwidth (550 - 1000 nm) the time and phase jitters. GRENOUILLE’s spectral response, allowing of laser-excited solid relates to phonons, Supercontinuum Generation Using Im- JThD23 mentally observed parametric process. for the first time. To the best of our knowl- spectral deconvolution for even better per- driven by thermal forces, through the elec- aging Taper, Kebin Shi1, Fiorenzo G. JThD19 Polarization-Dependence of Ultrafast edge, this is the broadest parametric gain. JThD5 formance. tron-phonon coupling rate. Controlled ex- Omenetto2, Zhiwen Liu1; 1Dept. of Electrical Turn-On Dynamics of Semiconductor Optical Nonlinearities of Bragg-Spaced JThD26 Ultrafast Dynamics of Sub-Threshold citation of phonons is available by the opti- Engineering, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA, Quantum Dot Lasers, Ermin Malíc, Moritz Quantum Wells, Nai H. Kwong1, Dan T. Direct Dissociation and Laser Modulated JThD2 Modes in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emit- JThD9 mum combination of laser and material pa- 2Tufts Univ., USA. We investigate super- Bormann, Philipp Hövel, Matthias Kuntz, Nguyen1, Rolf Binder1, Arthur L. Smirl2; Predissociation of N2+, Ryan N. Coffee1, Femtosecond Time-Resolved Imaging ting Lasers, Botao Zhang1, Albert P. Ultrashort Pulse Electric-Field Recon- rameters. continuum generation from a Schott imag- Dieter Bimberg, Andreas Knorr, Eckehard 1Univ. of Arizona, USA, 2Univ. of Iowa, USA. Phil H. Bucksbaum1, Li Fang2, George N. Interferometry: A Technique to Investi- Heberle1,2; 1Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, struction Using Only One ing fiber taper. Supercontinua simulta- Schöll; Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany. We present a microscopic theory for the Gibson2; 1Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr., gate Ultrafast Phenomena in Solids, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, 2Dept. of Electrical Autocorrelator, Daniel A. Bender1, Michael JThD12 neously generated from two fibers of an We present a theoretical approach includ- polarization dependence of the nonlinear USA, 2Univ. of Connecticut, USA. We com- Vasily V. Temnov1, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten2, and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Pitts- P. Hasselbeck1, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae1, Molecular Control of the Evolution of imaging taper were demonstrated. ing Coulomb scattering to InAs/GaAs quan- reflection of Bragg-spaced quantum wells. pare the dissociation energy of N2+ in 800 Ping Zhou2, Dietrich von der Linde2; burgh, USA. We investigate sub-threshold Balakishore Yellampalle2, Antoinette J. Tay- Capillary-Generated Soft X-Ray High tum dot lasers. In agreement with experi- Our theory includes polariton correlations nm and 400 nm ultrafast laser fields. This 1Experimentelle Physik IIb, Germany, 2Univ. modes in single-mode vertical-cavity surface- lor2; 1Univ. of New Mexico, USA, 2Los Alamos Harmonics, Sarah L. Stebbings1, Edward T JThD16 ments we find strongly damped relaxation beyond third order. Comparisons with ex- comparison not only exposes multiphoton Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Capabilities of mitting lasers (VCSEL’s). These modes pro- Natl. Lab, USA. Full-field reconstruction of f Rogers1, Ana M. De Paula2, Matthew Pulse Characterization Using Hilbert oscillations. We show the crucial importance perimental results show reasonably good resonance but also reveals ionization into a time-resolved interferometry to study duce beating in the emission of VCSEL’s af- ultrashort laser pulses can be obtained us- Praeger1, Chris A. Froud1, Ben Mills1, David Transformation Temporal Interferom- of Coulomb interaction for this characteris- agreement. Floquet manifold. ultrafast phenomena in solids are explored ter femtosecond optical pulse injection. The ing Modified spectrum auto-interferometric C. Hanna1, Jeremy J. Baumberg1, William etry (HTTI), Tae-Jung Ahn, Yongwoo Park, tic feature. by measuring nanometer-scale transient results provide information on the stability correlation (MOSAIC) traces and the pulse S. Brocklesby1, Jeremy G. Frey1; 1Univ. of José Azaña; Inst. Natl. de la Recherche JThD24 JThD27 deformations on laser-excited surfaces and of the single-mode regime. spectrum. This technique is implemented Southampton, UK, 2Univ. Federal de Minas Scientifique - Énergie, Matériaux et JThD20 Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Cross- Ultrafast Intervalley Transitions in GaN ultrafast evolution of small refractive index using only a single interferometric Gerais, Brazil. High harmonic generation Télécommunications, Canada. We propose Robustness Enhancement of Iteration- over in the Current-Driven Vortex State Single Crystals, Shuai Wu1, P. Geiser2, J. 2 2 1 changes in the bulk of dielectrics. JThD6 autocorrelator. from targets of Ar, N2 and N2O in a gas- a simple ultra-short optical pulse reconstruc- Free Spectral Phase Retrieval by Inter- in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Probed by the Joseph- Jun , Janusz Karpinski , Roman Sobolewski ; Broadband 2 GHz Femtosecond filled capillary has been studied. A clear shift tion method based on Hilbert transform tem- ferometric Second-Harmonic Trace, son Plasma Resonance, Verner K. 1Univ. of Rochester, USA, 2Solid State Physics JThD3 Ti:Sapphire Laser, Flavio C. Cruz, Giovana JThD10 in the weighting of the harmonic intensity poral interferometry. The complex profile Chen-Shao Hsu, Shang-Da Yang; Inst. of Thorsmølle1, Richard D. Averitt2, Takasada Lab, ETH, Switzerland. We have studied Development of a Spatial Light Modula- T. Nogueira; Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Improved Acousto-Optic Modulator for distribution with decreasing ionization en- of a weak picosecond pulse after disper- Photonics Technologies, Taiwan. We theo- Shibauchi3, Michael F. Hundley2, Antoinette time-resolved intervalley transitions of elec- tor with an Over-Two-Octave Bandwidth Brazil. We report a 2.12 GHz prismless Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping, Chien- ergy is reported. sion by a 100-m SMF is accurately recon- retically demonstrated a new multi-slice J. Taylor2; 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de trons between the conduction band Γ and from Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared, Kouji femtosecond Ti:sapphire ring laser with a Hung Tseng1, Martin G. Cohen2, Thomas C. structed using this technique. scheme that could suppress the noise-in- Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Los Alamos Natl. L valleys in bulk GaN crystals using a two- Hazu1,2, Keisuke Narita1,2, Yu Sakakibara1, broadband spectrum extending from 635 to Weinacht1; 1Physics Dept., SUNY at Stony JThD13 duced spectral phase error in measurement Lab, USA, 3Kyoto Univ., Japan. Employing color, femtosecond, pump-probe technique. Kazuhiko Oka1, Taro Sekikawa1,2, Mikio 1060 nm, and with an average power of 0.93 Brook, USA, 2Laser Teaching Ctr., SUNY at Reducing the Fast Carrier-Envelope JThD17 of electric field by interferometric spectral terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, we The transition threshold and intervalley scat- Yamashita1,2; 1Hokkaido Univ., Japan, 2Core W for 8 W of pump power. Stony Brook, USA. We demonstrate an im- Phase Jitter of Amplified Femtosecond Filtered SOA De-Multiplexer Structure trace observation (MEFISTO) by eightfold have measured the Josephson plasma reso- tering times were determined.

Res. for Evolutional Science and Technology, proved acousto-optic modulator for ultrafast Laser Pulses, Eric W. Moon, Chengquan Li, with Pattern Independence at 0.1 THz or better without measuring additional data. nance in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 high-Tc thin films, Japan. A spatial light phase modulator with JThD7 optical pulse shaping making use of a dia- Zuoliang Duan, Jason Tackett, Kristan L. Repetition Rate, Claudio Crognale1, and studied the current-driven coupling- JThD28 a high transmission>85% (260-1100 nm) and A Total Internal Reflection Technique mond shaped transducer. Measurements of Corwin, Brian R. Washburn, Zenghu Chang; Stefano Caputo2, Sante Saracino3; JThD21 decoupling crossover in the driven vortex Probing Photoconductivity in Discotic Thursday, May 10 Thursday, a phase modulation capability of 53 radian for Time Resolved Measurements of In- the spatial profile of the diffracted light beam Kansas State Univ., USA. Stabilizing the in- 1Technolabs S.p.A., Italy, 2SMD Elettronica, Intersubband Transition of AlN/GaN lattice. Liquid Crystals by Terahertz Time-Do- at 260 nm and 12 radian at 1100 nm has dex of Refraction, John R. Houser, Aaron agree well with Fresnel diffraction calcula- terference signal obtained from co-propa- Italy, 3Siemens S.p.A., Italy. We present the Quantum Wells in Optimized AlN-Based main Spectroscopy, Chen Xia, Volodimyr been developed for the first time. C. Bernstein, Todd Ditmire; Univ. of Texas tions. gating a HeNe beam in the f-to-2f interfer- numerical analysis of the performances of a Waveguide Structure, Toshimasa Duzhko, Hefei Shi, Kenneth D. Singer, Jie at Austin, USA. We present a method using ometer used for carrier-envelope phase sta- SOA-based architecture performing, with a Shimizu1, Chaiyasit Kumtornkittikul1, Norio Shan; Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve total-internal reflection for measuring small bilization of a femtosecond laser oscillator simple optical filtering operation, the all- Iizuka2, Masakazu Sugiyama1, Yoshiaki Univ., USA. Optical pump/terahertz probe index-of-refraction changes (∆n=1x10-5). The reduced the fast phase jitter of the ampli- optical channel extraction from a 0.1THz, Nakano1,3; 1Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2Toshiba spectroscopy was employed to investigate technique overcomes requirements of dif- fied pulses by 40%. 1ps FWHM pulses sequence without any Corp., Japan, 3JST-SORST, Japan. We electronic charge trasport in discotic liquid fraction-limited laser performance, is auto- pattern-dependence. achieved low-power saturation of crystals. Frequency dependent complex con- calibrating, and paves the way for sensitive intersubband absorption at 1.5 µm with AlN- ductivity was observed in phthalocyanines single-shot ultrafast measurements of mate- based AlN/GaN quantum wells. By optimiz- for a few hundred of picoseconds follow- rial dynamics. ing the etching condition of waveguides, the ing a femtosecond photoexcitation. saturation energy was reduced by a factor of 3.

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JThD29 JThD33 JThD37 JThD41 JThD45 JThD49 JThD53 JThD57 All-Optical Generation and Detection of Dissociative Ionization of an Aligned Time- and Spectrally-Resolved PL Study Full Dispersion Characterization Using The Bragg Side-Band BioCD, Xuefeng Real-Time 3-D Shape Measurement with Chirality Dependence of Absorption in Lithography, Plasmonics and Sub-Wave- Coherent Acoustic Phonons in GaN Molecular Sample, Sarah R. Nichols1, Brett of a Regular Array of InP/InAs/InP Core- Single-Arm Interferometry on a mm- Wang, David Nolte; Physics Dept., Purdue High Accuracy and Low Cost, Hua Du, Carbon Nanotubes, Ermin Malic1,2, length Aperture Exposure Technology, Single Crystals, Shuai Wu1, P. Geiser2, J. J. Pearson1, George Gibson2, Thomas C. Multishell Nanowires, Bipul Pal1, Ken Length Fiber, Waleed S. Mohammed, Univ., USA. We present the interferometric Zhaoyang Wang; Catholic Univ. of America, Matthias Hirtschulz1, Frank Milde1, Andreas Mario Dagenais1, Yves Ngu1,2, Marty Jun2, Janusz Karpinski2, Roman Sobolewski1; Weinacht1; 1Stony Brook Univ., USA, 2Univ. Goto1, Michio Ikezawa1, Yasuaki Masumoto1, Michael Galle, Joachim Meier, Chris Sapiano, detection of antibody binding using high- USA. A real-time 3-D full-field shape mea- Knorr1, Stephanie Reich2; 1Technische Univ. Peckerar1, Xiaoping Liu1, Mike Messina2, 1Univ. of Rochester, USA, 2Solid State Physics of Connecticut, USA. We investigate disso- Premila Mohan2, Junichi Motohisa2, Takashi Li Qian, Peter W. Smith; Univ. of Toronto, speed spinning-disk interferometry in the surement technique based on a generalized Berlin, Germany, 2MIT, USA. We present an John Barry1; 1Univ. of Maryland, USA, 2 1 2 2 Lab, ETH, Switzerland. We report experi- ciative ionization of aligned N2 molecules Fukui ; Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan, Hokkaido Canada. We measure linear and quadratic Bragg sideband of a dielectric disc in a fringe projection profilometry is presented. analytical approach to the optical absorp- ASML, USA. We report enhanced transmis- β β mental and theoretical studies on time-re- using intense ultrafast laser pulses. We find Univ., Japan. Time- and spectrally-resolved dispersion parameters ( 1 and 2) on a 6- BioCD format, enabling 4-channel detection The technique has the following features: tion in arbitrary carbon nanotubes. We show sion of 250 nm radiation by sub-wavelength solved generation and detection of coher- surprising differences in the yields of N2++, PL from a periodic array of InP/InAs/InP mm twin-hole fiber using a single-arm in- through independent in-line, phase-contrast, high accuracy, real-time measurement, low the chirality dependence of the absorption square aperture arrays on silver and dem- + + ent acoustic phonons in bulk GaN single N (1,0) and N (1,1) as a function of molecu- core-multishell nanowires is presented. InAs terferometric technique. Furthermore, ?0 is light-scattering and fluorescence channels. cost, and easy implementation. coefficient to be the result from both the onstrate its use in optical lithography with β β crystals with an ultrafast two-color pump- lar axis-laser polarization angle. layer shows multipeak PL spectra. PL decay extracted from the measured 1 and 2 JDOS and the optical matrix element. far-reduced number of addressed pixels to probe technique. Optically-induced elec- is nonexponential and very slow, with de- through an optimization algorithm. JThD46 JThD50 produce very good edge acuity. tronic stress is responsible for the phonon JThD34 cay rate depending on energy. Reflected Pump Technique for Saturated Absolute Surface Displacement Measure- JThD54 generation. Monitoring Vibrational Wave Packet JThD42 Absorption Spectroscopy inside Photo- ment Using Pulsed Photo-Electromotive- Terahertz Electric Polarizability of Mul- JThD58 Dynamics via Direct Femtosecond JThD38 Absolute Mode Number Determination nic Bandgap Fibers, Kevin Knabe, Rajesh Force Laser Vibrometer, Zhongyang tiple Excitons in CdSe Quantum Dots, An Offset Apertured Probe: A Hybrid JThD30 Pump-Probe Measurements, Dmitry Characterication of the Complex Noise Using Two Er:Fiber Laser Combs for Thapa, Brian R. Washburn, Kristan L. Chen1, Jacob Khurgin1, Ponciano Georgi L. Dakovski, Brian Kubera, Harsh Apertured and Scattering-Type Near- Analytic Model of Rotational Wave Pestov, Ariunbold Gombojav, Xi Wang, Rob- Transfer Function of a Modelocked Optical Frequency Metrology, Jin-Long Corwin; Kansas State Univ., USA. Saturated Rodriguez2, Jose Lorenzo3, Sudhir Trivedi3, Mathur, Jie Shan; Case Western Reserve Field Scanning Optical Probe, Michael C. Packet Excitation with Arbitrary Pump ert K. Murawski, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Yuri Ti:Sapphire Laser, Theresa D. Mulder, Peng, Ren-Hui Shu; Ctr. for Measurement absorption spectroscopy in acetylene-filled Feng Jin3, Chen-Chia Wang3, Brad Libbey4, Univ., USA. Dependence of the polarizabil- Quong, Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi; Univ. of Polarization in the Impulsive Limit, V. Rostovtsev, Anil Patnaik, Alexei V. Sokolov, Ryan P. Scott, Katherine A. Baker, Brian H. Standards, Taiwan. We uniquely determine photonic bandgap fibers is investigated. A James Habersat4; 1Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, ity of a QD on the number of excitons in it Alberta, Canada. We present the results of Randy Bartels1, Mark Baertschy2, Omid Marlan O. Scully; Inst. for Quantum Stud- Kolner; Univ. of California, USA. We mea- the mode number using two erbium-doped new simplified technique for saturated ab- 2INAOE, Mexico, 3Brimrose Corp, USA, 4US was investigated. A simple model of weakly simulations performed to characterize the Masihzadeh1; 1Colorado State Univ., USA, ies and Depts. of Physics and Chemical En- sured the complex amplitude and phase fiber laser combs operating in different rep- sorption spectroscopy is described, where Army, S&T Div. NVESD, USA. We demon- interacting charge carriers in an infinite influence of various factors on energy 2Univ. of Colorado at Denver, USA. An ana- gineering, Texas A&M Univ., USA. noise transfer functions of a KLM Ti:sapphire etition rates for optical frequency measure- pressure and power parameters have been strate experimentally a new technique for spherical potential well agrees well with the throughput and resolution of a NSOM tip lytic model for non-resonant rotational wave Femtosecond pump-probe measurements laser by modulating the pump laser from ment with no dependence on the frequency optimized for use as a frequency reference. measuring unambiguously the surface dis- experiment. having a subwavelength aperture offset from packet excitation in linear molecules by in- are shown to reveal the evolution of ex- 0.1 Hz to 10 MHz. The frequency depen- fluctuation of the laser under measurement. placement of a vibrating surface, indepen- the apex. tense ultrafast elliptically polarized laser cited vibrational wave packets in Cs2 through dence is in good agreement with theory. JThD47 dent of speckles and power fluctuations, JThD55 pulses in the impulsive limit is presented. the probe transmission modulation. Fre- JThD43 Diode-Pumped Solid-State Ring Laser using a high sensitivity pulsed laser Analysis of the Spontaneous Emission JThD59 quency-resolved acquisition allows for se- JThD39 High-Resolution Mode-Spacing Measure- Gyroscope, Sylvain Schwartz, Gilles vibrometer based on the photo-electromo- Rate Enhancement by Surface Plasmons Design and Analysis of Surface Plasmon- JThD31 lective monitoring of different subsets of the A Compact Annular Beam Generator ment of the Blue-Violet Diode Laser Us- Feugnet, Jean-Paul Pocholle; Thales Res. and tive-force (photo-EMF) sensors. in a Thin Metallic Layer Embedded in Enhanced Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Identification in the Frequency Domain Raman transitions excited. Based on a Laser Diode Pumped Power ing Interference of Fields Created with Technology, France. We report achievement Semiconductor, Hideo Iwase1, Jelena Traveling Wave Photodetectors, Tzeng F. of Molecular Dissociation Fragments Build-up Cavity for , Time Delays Greater than the Coherence of a novel gyroscope based on CW diode- JThD51 Vuckovic2; 1Canon Inc., Japan, 2Stanford Kao1, Hung-Ping Chen1, Chi-Kuang Sun1,2; Detected by a Wavepacket, Yan Xiao, JThD35 Jun-ichi Sato, Masamori Endo, Shigeru Time, So-Young Baek, Yoon-ho Kim; Pohang pumped Nd-YAG crystal ring laser with po- DAVLL with Absolute Frequency Refer- Univ., USA. We study the modification of 1Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineer- Thursday, May 10 Brian Ricconi, Ju Gao, J. Gary Eden; Lab for Mechanistic Comparison of Different Yamaguchi, Kenzo Nanri, Tomoo Fujioka; Univ. of Science and Technology, Republic larimetric stabilization of bidirectional emis- ence, Christopher Lehman, Ethan Elliott, spontaneous emission rates from multi-quan- ing, Taiwan, 2Res. Ctr. for Applied Sciences, Optical Physics and Engineering, Dept. of Solutions Found in Closed-Loop Quan- Tokai Univ., Japan. We report on a novel, of Korea. Multi-mode cw blue-violet diode- sion. Experimental datas will be presented Frank Narducci; Naval Air Systems Com- tum wells beneath a thin metallic layer em- Academia Sinica, Taiwan. We propose and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. tum Control Simulations, James L. White, very simple mode selective annular beam lasers exhibit interference revival when the together with theoretical analysis. mand, USA. We report on a simple addition bedded in semiconductor. analyze the bandwidth and efficiency issues of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Co- David Cardoza, Philip H. Bucksbaum; generator with a laser diode pumped power interferometric path-length-difference is to the standard DAVLL that combines the of surface-plasmon-resonance (SPR) en- herent control of Rb2 predissociation by Stanford Univ., USA. We investigate how build-up cavity and cylindrical lens based much greater than the self-coherence time. JThD48 large frequency capture range of the DAVLL JThD56 hanced metal-semiconductor-metal travel- chirped femtosecond laser pulses is detected variable number affects mechanistic com- mode converter. The system can readily be Using the equally-spaced and recurring in- Beam Characteristics of Mid-IR Quantum and the precision structure information avail- Transmission through Composite Nano ing-wave photodetectors. With strong field by a wavepacket probe. Specific atomic frag- plexity in solutions found using closed-loop available for optical tweezers. terference envelopes, high-resolution mode- Cascade Lasers, Kannan Krishnaswami, able from standard saturated absorption. Aperture and Effects of Surface Plasmon confinement near the nano-sized metal fin- ments of molecular dissociation are identi- learning control. We find that we can facili- spacing measurement is possible without Bruce Bernacki, Bret Cannon, Mark Phillips, Experimental measurements are presented. Resonance, Shih-Wei Yin1, Pi-Ju Cheng1, gers, SPR-effect is found to greatly enhance fied by viewing the wavepacket dynamics tate our mechanistic understanding by ini- JThD40 using high-resolution spectrometers. Nicolas Ho, Paul Allen, Norman Anheier; Chung-Hao Tien2; 1Dept. of Photonics and the device’s highspeed performance. _ in the spectral domain. tially using fewer variables for the optimi- Cesium 6S1/2 >8S1/2 Two-Photon Transi- Pacific Northwest Natl. Lab, USA. We report JThD52 Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, Taiwan, zation. tion Stabilized 822.5 nm Diode Laser, JThD44 divergence, astigmatism, and M2 for 8.77µm Optical Studies of Individual Single- 2Dept. of Photonics and Display Inst., Tai- JThD60 JThD32 Wang-Yau Cheng, Chien-Ming Wu; Inst. of Fiber-Optic Voltage Sensor Using a Hy- quantum cascade lasers. Divergence of Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Axial wan. Utilizing the characteristics of surface Local Field Enhancement and Spectral Intra-Molecular Dynamics Probed Using JThD36 Atomic and Molecular Science, Taiwan. brid Laser Interferometer, Hyoung-Jun 62°x32° FWHM and M2 of 1.81 and 1.22 were Strain, Yang Wu, Mingyuan Huang, plasmon effect, we proposed a new design Response of Resonant Nanostructures, _ 1 1 High-Harmonic Generation, Xibin Zhou, Femtosecond Dynamics of the Laser-In- Cesium 6S1/2 >8S1/2 two-photon transition Park, Hyun-Jin Kim, Minho Song; Chonbuk measured for fast and slow axes, respec- Christophe Voisin, Hugen Yan, Bhupesh of metallic nano-aperture exhibits higher C. Dineen , Matthias Reichelt , Armis R. Wen Li, Robynne Hooper, Nick Wagner, duced Solid-to-Liquid Phase Transition stabilized 822.5 nm diode laser (CTSDL) is Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea. A hybrid in- tively, with an astigmatism of ~4µm. Chandra, James Hone, Tony F. Heinz; Co- power throughput at 1.40x and similar spot Zakharian1, Jerome V. Moloney1, Stephan W. Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane; JILA in Aluminum, Maria Kandyla, Tina Shih, reported for the first time to our knowledge. terferometer, a Michelson and a Mach- lumbia Univ., USA. The effect of axial strain size, in comparison with the proposed opti- Koch2; 1Univ. of Arizona, USA, 2Univ. of and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, USA. Eric Mazur; Harvard Univ., USA. We present We demonstrate that the CTSDL could be a Zehnder combined, is proposed to demodu- on individual single-walled carbon mal performance of a C-aperture. Marburg, Germany. Resonant behavior of High-harmonic generation is used to probe femtosecond time-resolved broadband mea- reliable frequency reference. late a fiber-optic voltage sensor. By using nanotubes has been investigated experimen- metallic nanostructures is simulated using vibrational and electronic dynamics in small surements of the reflectivity of aluminum quadrature sampling with internal triggers, tally. Changes in the optical transition ener- local mesh refinement of the FDTD method molecules. We impulsively excite vibrations during the laser-induced solid-to-liquid optical path difference can be obtained and gies reflect both the nature of the transition in 3-D. Influence of shape and tip geometry

in CF3Cl and observe oscillations in harmonic phase transition. Our experiments show that translated into voltage output. being probed and crystallographic structure on the resonant structure and intensity of emission. We electronically excite CF3I and this transition is a thermal process, settling of the nanotube. the optical fields is examined. observe changes in the yield. an existing controversy.

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JThD61 JThD64 JThD67 JThD70 JThD74 JThD77 JThD81 JThD85 Nonlinear Optical Probe of a Singly- Electromagnetic Interaction between Second-Harmonic Generation Driven by Thermo-Plasmonic Resonances in Hy- AIRIS Remote Detection for Chemical 15 mW, Tunable Difference Frequency An Optical Fiber for Brillouin-Based Dis- Compact Slit-Less Spectrometer Using Charged Stranski-Krastanow Quantum Nanoparticles and Optical Local Field Asymmetry in Noncentro- brid Metallo-Dielectric Nano-Particles: Vapor Clouds: Systems Design and De- Generation Source for Absorption Spec- criminative Sensing of Strain and Tem- Cylindrical Beam Volume Holograms, Dot, Bo Sun1, Xiaodong Xu1, Jun Cheng1, Subwavelength Devices, Matthias symmetric Gold Nano-Ts, Brian K. Towards Tunable Standalone Nano-Sen- tection Algorithms, A. Peter Snyder1, James troscopy, Dirk Richter1, Petter Weibring1, perature, Weiwen Zou, Zuyuan He, Kazuo Chaoray Hsieh, Omid Momtahan, Ali Adibi; Yanwen Wu1, Duncan G. Steel1, Allan S. Reichelt1, Colm Dineen1, Armis R. Canfield1, Hannu Husu1, Janne sors, Nikolaos J. Florous, Kunimasa Saitoh, O. Jensen1, Waleed M. Maswadeh1, Louis Alan Fried1,2, O. Tadanaga2, Y. Nishida2, M. Hotate; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. A single mode Georgia Tech, USA. We present compact slit- 2 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 Bracker , Dan Gammon , Wang Yao , Lu Zakharian , Jerry V. Moloney , Tineke Laukkanen , Benfeng Bai , Markku Tadashi Murao, Masanori Koshiba; Div. of Anderson , Bogdan R. Cosofret , Tracey E. Asobe , H. Suzuki ; NCAR, USA, NTT fiber with a highly GeO2-doped core and less spectrometers using cylindrical beam Sham3; 1Univ. of Michigan, USA, 2NRL, USA, Stroucken2, Stephan W. Koch2; 1Arizona Ctr. Kuittinen2, Jari Turunen2, Martti Media and Network Technologies, Graduate Janov2, Harry S. Kindle2, Daisei Konno2, Rex Photonics Labs, Japan. A novel waveguide an F-doped inner-cladding is designed for holograms with several advantages over 3Univ. of California at San Diego, USA. We for Mathematical Sciences, USA, 2Dept. of Kauranen1; 1Tampere Univ. of Technology, School of Information Science and Technol- Miyashiro2, William J. Marinelli2; 1US Army, periodically poled lithium niobate crystal for Brillouin-based discriminative sensing of conventional spectrometers. We demonstrate demonstrate coherent nonlinear response Physics and Materials Sciences Ctr., Phillips Finland, 2Univ. of Joensuu, Finland. We ogy, Hokkaido Univ., Japan. We theoretically USA, 2Physical Sciences, Inc., USA. Detection difference frequency generation in the mid- strain and temperature. The conditions to large spectral range spectrometers using from a singly-charged self assembled quan- Univ., Germany. A general approach to self- demonstrate that second-harmonic genera- investigate the intense nano-focusing of light and tracking of chemical vapors at kilome- IR region at 3.52microns is characterized. control high-order longitudinal acoustic spatially multiplexed cylindrical beam ho- tum dot. A degenerate differential transmis- consistently describe the electromagnetic tion from noncentrosymmetric gold nano- through a novel family of metallo-dielectric ter distances constitute an important com- Mid-IR power of 15mW and a conversion modes are investigated. lograms without adding any moving part in sion spectrum shows carrier tunneling, lead- field in a nanophotonic environment is pre- Ts with nanogaps is governed by asymmet- nano-particles mediated by thermo- ponent in early warning for the US military. efficiency of up to 19%/W have been ob- spectroscopic systems. ing to a Fano profile. sented. It is applied to dielectric particles ric distribution of the local fundamental field, plasmonic resonances. The results show a The Adaptive Infrared Imaging tained. JThD82 and quantum-dots in the optical and not strictly according to field enhance- significant sensitivity of the plasmonic reso- Spectroradiometer (AIRIS) passively interro- Optical Reflectometry for in-situ Moni- JThD86 JThD62 subwavelength-limit and also yields the ra- ment in small nanogaps. nance to temperature and environmental gates chemical vapor infrared emission spec- JThD78 toring of Carbon Nanotubes Deposition Phase Detection Based Surface Plasmon 1 Observation of the Dark States of Near- diative force on them. fluctuations. tra. H2S Trace Detection Using Off-Axis In- by Optical Tweezers, Ken Kashiwagi , Resonance Biosensor in Infrared with Field Coupled InAs Quantum Dots Us- JThD68 tegrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy in Shinji Yamashita1, Sze Y. Set2; 1Dept. of Elec- Increased Sensitivity and Dynamic ing Optical Near-Field Microscopy, JThD65 Spectral Phase Control of Remote Sur- JThD71 JThD75 the Near-Infrared, Weidong Chen1, tronic Engineering, Graduate School of En- Range, Aykut Koc, Xiaobo Yin, Lambertus Tadashi Kawazoe1, Kazuhiro Nishibayashi2, Transition between Rydberg 1s and 2p face-Plasmon-Mediated Two-Photon-In- Double Nanohole-Enhanced Raman Free Spectral Range Matched Scanning Anatoliy A. Kosterev2, Frank K. Tittel2; 1Lab gineering, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2Alnair Hesselink; Stanford Univ., USA. A novel Kouichi Akahane3, Naokatsu Yamamoto3, Exciton States of Biexcitons in Semicon- duced Luminescence, Jess M. Gunn, Spectroscopy, Antoine Lesuffleur1, L.K.S Interrogator, Fengguo Sun1, Patrick Tsai2, de Physicochimie de l’Atmosphère, Univ. du Labs Corp., Japan. Reflectometry is adopted method of phase-detection in the infrared Motoichi Ohtsu2,1; 1Japan Science and Tech- ductor Quantum Dots, Kensuke Miyajima, Melinda Ewald, Marcos Dantus; Michigan Kumar2, Alexander G. Brolo3, Karen L. Gaozhi Xiao1, Zhiyi Zhang1, Dayan Ban2; Littoral Côte d’Opale, France, 2Rice Quan- for in-situ monitoring of carbon nanotubes is proposed to enhance the sensitivity and 2 4 2 1 1 nology Agency, Japan, Univ. of Tokyo, Ja- Hiroaki Sawada, Masaaki Ashida, Tadashi State Univ., USA. We demonstrate the use of Kavanagh , Reuven Gordon ; Dept. of Elec- Photonic Systems Group, Inst. for Micro- tum Inst., USA. H2S trace detection has been deposition to fiber end by optical tweezers. dynamic range of a single-wavelength Sur- pan, 3Natl. Inst. of Information and Com- Itoh; Graduate School of Engineering Sci- spectral phase modulation as a mechanism trical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of structural Science, Canada, 2Dept. of Elec- performed by means of DFB diode laser- Reflectivity increases drastically once CNTs face Plasmon Resonance biosensor. A struc- munications Technology, Japan. We ob- ence. Osaka Univ., Japan. In CuCl quantum for control over surface-plasmon-mediated Minnesota, USA, 2Dept. of Electrical and trical and Computer Engineering,Univ. of based off-axis integrated cavity output spec- are deposited, and enhancement of layer ture is also proposed to prevent the sensi- served the dark states of coupled InAs quan- dots, we have measured transient absorp- two-photon-induced luminescence at dis- Computer Engineering, Univ. of Victoria, Waterloo, Canada. A free spectral range troscopy (OA-ICOS) near 1571.6 nm. A mini- uniformity is observed through damping of tivity degradation. tum dots via an optical near-field. The ex- tion spectra attributed mainly to transition tances tens of microns from the focal spot Canada, 3Dept of Chemistry, Univ. of matched scanning interrogator has been mum detectable concentration of 700 ppb reflectivity flucutuation. perimental results show that the dipoles of from Rydberg 1s to 2p states of excitons of a femtosecond laser. Victoria, Canada, 4Dept of Physics, Simon proposed and demonstrated with an ultra (3σ) was obtained. JThD87 near-field coupled InAs quantum dots are and biexcitons, respectively. The dot size Fraser Univ., Canada. The cusps formed by high wavelength resolution of 5pm. This JThD83 A Chaotic Optical Cavity Combined with distributed with an anti-parallel configura- dependence of their transition energies is JThD69 two barely overlapping nanoholes in a metal system has great applications for wave- JThD79 Multi-Species Trace Gas Detection by a Quantum Cascade Laser for Chemical tion. observed. Dynamics of Exciton Recombination in film enhance the local field and allow for length-modulated distributed sensors and Continuous Long-Term Observations of Rapidly Swept Cavity Ringdown Spec- Vapor Sensing, Abhishek Agrawal, Allen InAs Quantum Dots Embedded in order of magnitude surface-enhanced Raman multiple temperature/stress sensor arrays. UV Laser- and LED-Induced Fluores- troscopy, Yabai He, Florian V. Englich, Hsu, Pat Whitworth, Evgenii Narimanov, JThD63 JThD66 InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well, Xiaodong over single holes. cence of Processed Drinking Water, Brian J. Orr; Macquarie Univ., Australia. A Claire Gmachl; Princeton Univ., USA. A Optical Linewidth and Dephasing in Optimizing Contrast of Tip-Enhanced Mu1, Yujie J. Ding1, Boon S. Ooi1, Mark JThD76 Anna V. Sharikova, Dennis K. Killinger; cavity ringdown spectrometer, based on a novel multi-pass optical cavity with partially- Single InAs Quantum Dots and Coupled Fluorescence Microscopy for Imaging Hopkinson2; 1Lehigh Univ., USA, 2Univ. of JThD72 The Study on 3-D Image Laser Sensing Univ. of South Florida, USA. We have used rapidly swept optical cavity and multiple- chaotic ray dynamics has been combined Dot-Microcavity Systems, Sergey Rudin1, High-Density Samples, Chun Mu, Sheffield, UK. Using time-resolved pump- Surface Enhanced Raman with Nano- Technology of Welding Seam, Yinqi Feng, a deep-UV laser-induced fluorescence sys- wavelength coherent radiation, detects sev- with a Quantum Cascade laser for sensing Thomas L. Reinecke2; 1ARL, USA, 2NRL, USA. Jonathan R. Cox, Changan Xie, Jordan M. probe differential photoluminescence tech- Holes, Chichang Zhang, H. Grebel; New Minshuang Huang, Junfen Huang, Lipei tem to monitor in real time organic species eral gas-phase molecules simultaneously. of ethanol. The 4-cm diameter cavity shows We study effects of carrier-phonon interac- Gerton; Univ. of Utah, USA. Quantum dots nique, exciton decay time was measured to Jersey Inst. of Technology, USA. We have Jiang; Beijing Inst. of Petrochemical Tech- present in tap water. We have also tested a This comprises a compact, high-performance an optical path length in the mid-infrared tions on the optical spectra of single quan- are imaged using tip-enhanced fluorescence significantly increase as temperature was demonstrated Surface Enhanced Raman with nology, China. Using Moiré Pattern technol- 265nm UV-LED as an excitation source for instrument for efficient spectroscopic sens- of ~4.5-m. tum dots in mesas and dots imbedded in microscopy. Optimization of the operation increased in InAs quantum dots embedded array of nano-holes on aluminum substrate. ogy, a 3-D image laser sensing system of our system. ing of gases. cavities. The temperature dependence of the parameters leads to high-contrast images of in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum well. weld seam was introduced. The realization JThD88

Thursday, May 10 Thursday, linewidths in single dots is compared with high-density samples and a novel photon JThD73 method of the system and its image pro- JThD80 JThD84 A Mid-IR DIAL System Using Interband experimental results. analysis improves contrast further. Ultra-Long Range Surface Plasmon cessing were explained. 3-D weld seam I/Q Data Processing Techniques for the Techniques Based on Digital Multiplex- Cascade Laser Diodes, Marcus Schuetz, Structures for Plasmonic Devices, images were obtained with experiments. Analysis of an Amplitude Modulated La- ing Holography for Three-Dimensional Jack Bufton, Coorg R. Prasad; Science And Charles G. Durfee1, Reuben T. Collins1, P. ser Imaging System, Alan E. Laux, Linda Object Tracking, Jose A. Dominguez-Ca- Engineering Services, Inc, USA. A compact, David Flammer1, Thomas E. Furtak1, Russell J. Mullen, Brandon M. Cochenour; ballero, Nick Loomis, George Barbastathis, portable mid-IR differential absorption lidar E. Hollingsworth2; 1Colorado School of Mines, NAWCAD, USA. I/Q data processing tech- Jerome Milgram; MIT, USA. Three techniques system was built using Interband Cascade USA, 2ITN Energy Systems, USA. Our com- niques utilizing the individual I & Q com- based on digital multiplexing holography for Lasers operating at 3.38 µm and 3.54 µm putations show that adding a thin, low-in- ponents are applied to the analysis of an tracking objects in three-dimensional space and its operation was demonstrated by mea- dex dielectric adjacent to a thin metal layer amplitude modulated laser imaging system are presented. Multiple holograms were suring absorption of vapor phase ethanol. dramatically increases the surface plasmon and shown to have advantages over the tra- combined into a single camera frame with propagation length. This geometry allows ditional magnitude only approach. high spatio-temporal resolution. Practical the integration of plasmonic waveguides limitations and experiments are shown. with metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures.

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JThD89 JThD93 JThD97 JThD101 JThD105 JThD108 JThD112 JThD116 Synthesis of Monodispersed DLC Inscription of Optical Waveguides with The Application of Laser-Driven Acous- Increase of Ablation Rate Using Burst Monolithic Integration of Semiconduc- Tip-to-Sample Distance Control in Super Mode Propagation in Low Index Spiral-Shaped Microdisk Resonator Nanoparticles in Intense Optical Field by Ultrafast Bessel Beams, Véronique tic Waves in Modern Mass Spectrometry, Mode Femtosecond Pulses, Jiyeon Choi, tor and Photodiode Apertureless Near-Field Optical Micros- Medium, M. Z. Alam, J. Meier, J. S. Aitchison, Channel Drop/Add Filters: Asymmetry Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Liquid Zambon, Rosalie Forest, Nathalie McCarthy, Alexander V. Zinovev1, Jerry F. Moore2, Robert Bernath, Mark Ramme, Martin through Quantum Well Intermixing, copy, Alexander A. Milner, Kaiyin Zhang, M. Mojahedi; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. We in Modal Distributions, Jonathan Y. Lee, Benzene, Takahiro Nakamura, Yuzuru Michel Piché; Univ. Laval, Canada. Optical Michael J. Pellin1, Igor V. Veryovkin1,2; Richardson; College of Optics/CREOL, Univ. Jiansheng Tang1, Shujun Yang2, Apichai Yehiam Prior; Weizmann Inst. of Science, investigate a novel waveguide geometry Xianshu Luo, Andrew W. Poon; Hong Kong Mochidzuki, Shunichi Sato; Inst. of waveguides have been inscribed in fused 1Argonne Natl. Lab, USA, 2MassThink, USA. of Central Florida, USA. We investigate the Bhatranand3; 1Hunan First Normal College, Israel. Novel mode of AFM operation is pro- consisting of a high dielectric medium adja- Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Multidisciplinary Res. for Advanced Materi- silica by focusing femtosecond pulses with The generation of the acoustic vibration of ablation rates of metals and dielectrics us- China, 2Applied Materials, Inc., USA, 3King posed providing the small, few nanometers cent to a metal plane with a thin low dielec- Kong. We report experiments and simula- als, Tohoku Univ., Japan. We demonstrated an axicon. The waveguides so fabricated laser back-irradiated thin metal foils and their ing a Ti:Sapphire oscillator. Prior work on Mongkut’s Univ. of Technology Thonburi, tip to sample gap, appropriate for the tric spacer. The mechanism of operation is tions of spiral-shaped microdisk resonator a noble fabrication technique of highly exhibit low losses and no detectable bire- influence on desorption of organic mol- burst ablation has been performed using Thailand. Monolithic integration of semicon- ANSOM experiments. A set-up open for the explained and simulation results are pre- channel drop/add filters with a non- monodispersed diamond-like carbon (DLC) fringence due to their excellent circular sym- ecules from the foil’s front surface were stud- high-power lasers and significant increases ductor optical preamplifier and photodiode run-time adjustments, working at ambient sented. evanescently-coupled waveguide at the spi- nanoparticles in intense optical field (≈1018 metry. ied. The possible mechanisms of this phe- were observed. These two modalities will is demonstrated through a two-stage laser- conditions is considered. ral notch. We observe asymmetry in modal W/cm2) by femtosecond pulsed laser abla- nomenon are discussed. be compared. induced quantum well intermixing process. JThD113 distributions between the drop/add filters tion (PLA) directly from the liquid benzene. JThD94 The integrated device has a peak JThD109 Geometric Optics for Surface Plasmon at the same resonance wavelengths. Photonic Torque Microscope, Giovanni JThD98 JThD102 responsivity of 5.7A/W and a 3-dB band- Demonstration of a Two Color 320 x 256 Integrated Circuits, Fatemeh Eftekhari1, JThD90 Volpe1, Giorgio Volpe1, Dmitri Petrov1,2; Toward 3-D Microfluidic Structures Fab- Multiscale Bessel Beams from Tunable width of 14.7GHz. Quantum Dots-in-a-Well Focal Plane Ar- Rashid Zia2, Reuven Gordon1; 1Univ. of JThD117 Microbend Gratings Fabricated in Glass 1ICFO, Spain, 2ICREA, Spain. A statistical ricated with Two-Photon Laser Machin- Acoustic Gradient Index of Refraction ray, Eric S. Varley1, David Ramirez1, Jay S. Victoria, Canada, 2Brown Univ., USA. We Nonlinear Resonance Broadening and Substrates via Direct Writing with Near- analysis of the movement of an optically ing, Yihong Liu, Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte, David Lenses, Euan McLeod, Craig B. Arnold; JThD106 Brown1, Sang Jun Lee1, Andreas Stintz1, use an analytic geometric optics method to Shift Due to Thermo-Optical Instability Infrared Femtosecond Pulses, Jung-Ho trapped sub-micron sphere in an external Nolte; Dept. of Physics, Purdue Univ., USA. Princeton Univ., USA. A device that uses Single Water Microdroplets Resting on Sanjay Krishna1, Axel Riesinger2, Mani solve for the cut-off, propagation and dis- in Microsphere Resonators, Arkadi Chung, Yu Gu, James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. rotational force field permits us to measure We have developed a method to fabricate acoustic waves within a fluid to phase modu- a Superhydrophobic Surface: Largely Sundaram2; 1Ctr. for High Technology Ma- persion of surface plasmon stripe Chipouline1, Carsten Schmidt1, Thomas Microbend gratings were fabricated inside the torque exerted on the sphere. 3-D microfluidic systems with two-photon late an incident laser beam and form tun- Tunable Optical Microcavities, Alper terials, Univ. of New Mexico, USA, 2QmagiQ waveguides. Comprehensive computations Pertsch1, Oleg Egorov2, Falk Lederer2, bulk glass via direct writing with polymerization in SU-8 photoresist. This able multiscale Bessel beams is presented. Kiraz, Adnan Kurt, Mehmet Ali Dündar, LLC, USA. We report the first successful dem- are used to validate the method, which may Andreas Tuennermann3, Lev Deych4; 1Ultra femtosecond pulses from a multi-pass-cav- JThD95 approach will be an easy and accurate way This device is both modelled and experi- Adem Levend Demirel; Koç Univ., Turkey. onstration of a two color, co-located infra- be applied to other devices. Optics Ctr., Germany, 2Friedrich-Schiller ity Ti:S laser. Critical periods, with maximum Design and Application of Circular to fabricate microfluidic systems simulating mentally characterized. More than 9 nm tunability of the whisper- red focal plane array based on novel InAs/ Univ., Germany, 3Fraunhofer Inst. of Optics transmission loss, existed and shifted with Dammann Grating, Shuai Zhao, Fung complex microstructures. ing gallery modes of water microdroplets InGaAs quantum dots-in-a-well photodetec- JThD114 and Fine Mechanics, Germany, 4Queens waveguide refractive index, like fiber Jacky Wen, Po Sheun Chung; Dept. of Elec- JThD103 resting on a superhydrophobic surface is tors. Two distinct responses (λ1~4.5um and Non-Evanescently Pumped Raman Sili- College, USA. Broadening of the resonance microbend gratings. tronic Engineering, City Univ. of Hong Kong, JThD99 SOI Ridge Waveguide Incorporating a demonstrated. Tunability was achieved by λ2~8.5um) were observed under 300K f2 con Lasers Using Spiral-Shaped coupling peaks and their shifting have been Hong Kong. A novel circular Dammann grat- Application of Near-Field Optical Mi- Photonic Crystal Microcavity Multi- introducing evaporation or condensation in irradiance. Microdisks, Hui Chen1, Jonathan Y. Lee1, observed in the tests of light coupling into JThD91 ing is proposed to generate uniform-inten- croscopy to the Study of Femtosecond Channel Filter, Xiaohua Shi, Wei Ding, microdroplets in a mini humidity chamber. Andrew W. Poon1, H. K. Tsang2; 1Hong Kong the high-Q microspherical resonators. The In-situ Pulse Characterization for Silicon sity impulse rings corresponding to differ- Laser Micro-Structured Nd:YAG Crystals, Duncan W. Allsopp; Univ. of Bath, UK. A JThD110 Univ. of Science and Technolgy, Hong Kong, both effects have been explained by thermo- Micromachining, Xin Zhu, Tissa C. ent diffraction orders in the far field. Ex- Jorge Lamela1, Francisco Jaque1,2, Gustavo one-dimensional photonic crystal JThD107 Dispersion Inversion in High Index 2Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. optical nonlinearity causing resonance in- 2 2 2 2 Gunaratne, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State perimental demonstration and some appli- Torchia , C. Mendez , I. Arias , L. Roso , microcavity filter that transmits light simul- Random Laser Action inside a Photonic Contrast AlGaAs-Nanowires, Joachim We propose non-evanescently pumped stability. Thursday, May 10 Univ., USA. Femtosecond pulse character- cations are also presented. Airan Ródenas1, Daniel Jaque1; 1Univ. taneously at several wavelengths has been Crystal Fiber, Christiano J.S. de Matos1, Meier, Mo Mojahedi, J. Stewart Aitchison; Raman silicon lasers using spiral-shaped ization and adaptive pulse compression is Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 2Grupo de designed and fabricated. Transmission peaks Leonardo de S. Menezes2, Antonio M. Silva2, Univ. of Toronto, Canada. We present nu- microdisks. Our simulations suggest that JThD118 demonstrated using surface second har- JThD96 Optica, Dept. de Física Aplicada, Facultad occurred at 1168, 1321 and 1562 nm wave- Maria Alejandrina Martinez Gamez3, merical simulations of the temporal disper- pump lightwave can be seamlessly butt- Silicon Depletion-Type Microdisk monic generation from a silicon wafer us- Photonic Force Microscopy with Back- de Ciencias Físicas, Spain. The micro-struc- lengths, meeting the design specification. Anderson S.L. Gomes2, Cid B. de Araujo2; sion in high contrast AlGaAs nanowires, and coupled at the spiral notch, whereas the Electro-Optic Modulators Using Selec- ing multiphoton intrapulse interference Scattered Light, Giovanni Volpe1, Gregory tural modifications induced by femtosecond 1Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil, predict the inversion of the group velocity Stokes lightwave can be out-coupled either tively Integrated Schottky Diodes, Nick phase scan (MIIPS). Kozyreff1,2, Dmitri Petrov1,3; 1ICFO, Spain, laser ablation of Nd:YAG crystals has been JThD104 2Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, 3Ctr. dispersion for sub-micron sized wires. evanescently or non-evanescently. K. Hon, Linjie Zhou, Andrew W. Poon; Hong 2Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Univ. Libre studied by Near Field Optical Microscopy. NOEMS Devices Based on Slot- de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico. Quasi- Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong JThD92 de Bruxelles, Belgium, 3ICREA, Spain. We Results have been compared to those ob- Waveguides, Vilson R. Almeida1,2, Roberto 1-D random laser action is obtained in the JThD111 JThD115 Kong. We report a design and analysis of Temperature Dependence of Ultrafast compare the sensitivity of the Photonic Force tained from micro-luminescence experi- R. Panepucci3; 1Inst. de Estudos Avancados liquid core of a photonic crystal fiber com- Microring Resonators Using Multipho- Silicon Electro-Optic Switching Based on silicon depletion-type microdisk electro- Laser Ablation Efficiency of Crystalline Microscope for the forward-scattering and ments. (IEAv-CTA), Brazil, 2Inst. Tecnologico de posed of a rutile-particle suspension in a ton Absorption Polymerization, L. Li1,2, Coupled-Microring Resonators, Chao Li, optic modulator with selectively integrated Silicon, Ji Sang Yahng, Sae Chae Jeoung; backward-scattering geometries, calculating Aeronautica, Brazil, 3Florida Intl. Univ. rhodamine solution. Substantial improve- W.-Y. Chen1,2, T. N. Ding1,2, W. N. Herman1, Andrew W. Poon; Hong Kong Univ. of Sci- Schottky diodes. Our analysis suggests that KRISS, Republic of Korea. Ultrafast laser ab- the total-scattered electromagnetic field from JThD100 (FIU), USA. We present device applications ment in efficiency is demonstrated in this P.-T. Ho1,2, J. T. Fourkas1,2; 1Lab for Physical ence and Technology, Hong Kong. We ana- the bandwidth is limited by the cavity life- lation of crystalline silicon was investigated a dielectric bead in an optical trap using a The Creation of Gaussian Beams with for Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical System novel laser geometry. Sciences, USA, 2Univ. of Maryland, USA. We lyze silicon coupled-microring resonators- time rather than by the electrical perfor- as a function of temperature. The ablation Mie-Debye approach. Extremely High Orbital Angular Momen- (NOEMS) structures based on the evanes- demonstrate the fabrication of polymer based electro-optic switching using injec- mance. efficiency is slightly enhanced with an ap- tum, Yana V. Izdebskaya, Vladlen Shvedov, cent-wave bonding acting on silicon slot- microring add-drop filter using multiphoton tion-type p-i-n diodes. Numerical simulations parent decrease in ablation threshold and Alexander Volyar; Taurida Natl. V. waveguides. Useful all-optical or absorption polymerization and present the and modeling suggest electronic-logic surface roughness at a high substrate tem- Vernadsky Univ., Ukraine. We consider theo- electrooptical functionalities include: phase characterization of these devices. lightwave switching by applying two elec- perature. retically and experimentally an array of modulation, polarization mode dispersion, trical data streams. We observe non-reciproc- Gaussian beams whose axes lie on the sur- near-field probing and reconfigurable opti- ity between states (0, 1) and (1, 0). face of a hyperboloid of revolution. We show cal delay. that such beams array can carry very high orbital angular momentum.

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JThD119 JThD123 JThD126 JThD130 JThD133 JThD140 Coupled-Mode Theory Analysis of Opti- Transient Thermal Lensing at 1kHz Rep- Chirp-Dependent Above-Threshold Ion- Pump Beams Homogenization for Asymmetric Explosion of Laser-Irradi- JThD137 High Sensitive THz Faraday Rotation cal Bistability Involving Fano Reso- etition Rate in a Cryogenically-Cooled ization, Takashi Nakajima; Inst. of Ad- Terawatt/Petawatt Class Ti:Sapphire ated Hydrogen Clusters, Yu-hsin Chen, High-Dynamic-Range, 200-ps Window, Measurements in Doped Semiconduc- nances in High-Q/Vm Silicon Photonic High Average Power Ti:Sapphire Ampli- vanced Energy, Kyoto Univ., Japan. By solv- Amplifiers, Federico Canova1, Jean-Paul Sanjay Varma, Vinod Kumarappan, Single-Shot Cross-Correlator for Ultra- tors, Yohei Ikebe1,2, Ryo Shimano1,2; 1Dept. Crystal Nanocavities, Xiaodong Yang, fier, Charles G. Durfee1, Colby Childress1, ing the three-dimensional Schrödinger equa- Chambaret1, Fabien Reversat2, Stephane Howard M. Milchberg; Inst. for Physical Sci- high Intensity Laser Characterization, of Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2PRESTO Chad Husko, Chee Wei Wong; Columbia Wafa Amir1, Thomas Planchon1, Jeff A. tion for the sodium and hydrogen atoms we Tisserand2, Fabien Plé3, Moana Pittman3; ence and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, Igor Jovanovic, Curtis Brown, Constantin (JST), Japan. We present a highly sensitive Univ., USA. We study optical bistability as- Squier1, Geoffrey H. Zeamer2; 1Colorado demonstrate that the above-threshold ion- 1Lab d’Optique Appliquee - LOA, France, USA. Under conditions of small hydrogen Haefner, Miroslav Shverdin, Michael terahertz Faraday measurement scheme with sociated with Fano resonances in high-Q/ School of Mines, USA, 2Abbess Instruments ization spectra strongly depend on the chirp- 2SILIOS Technologies, France, 3LIXAM, cluster size, where we expected angular- Taranowski, C. P. J. Barty; Lawrence the detection sensitivity of Faraday rotation Vm silicon photonic crystal nanocavities and Systems, USA. With 2-D spectral inter- rates of fs laser pulses. France. Our goal is to design robust con- dependent time-of-flight proton spectra con- Livermore Natl. Lab, USA. A novel high-dy- as small as 1 mrad. The scheme was ap- through the nonlinear coupled-mode theory ferometry we characterize the transient ther- figurations for Terawatt/Petawatt-class sistent with isotropic coulomb explosions, namic-range cross-correlator is presented plied to n-doped Si to examine the carrier framework. The χ(3) effects, free-carrier dy- mal lensing in a liquid-nitrogen cooled cry- JThD127 power amplifiers. We investigate the pro- we found explosion asymmetry with fast that enables single-shot characterization of density and mobility. namics, thermal effects, and linear losses are ostat designed for high thermal load. Even Spatially Shaping the Longitudinal Fo- cesses involved in Ti:Sa pumping: damage protons emitted preferentially in the direc- pulse contrast for ultrahigh intensity lasers included and investigated numerically. though the repetition rate is 1kHz, we ob- cal Distribution into a Horseshoe- threshold of amplifying material, beam trans- tion of the laser polarization. in the temporal region up to 200 ps. serve substantial cooling between shots. Shaped Profile, P. Brijesh, Terry J. Kessler, port (relay-image or homogenization) and JThD120 Jonathan D. Zuegel, David D. Meyerhofer; coherence properties of pump lasers. JThD134 JThD138 All-Optical Switching in Microring- JThD124 Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, Optical Measurements of Heat and Spectral Broadening of Femtosecond Loaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometer High Current Permanent Discharges in USA. A novel three-dimensional laser focus, JThD131 Shock Waves in a Dense Plasma, Irina V. Laser Pulses Using a Hollow Fiber with Fabricated from Perfluorocyclobutyl Air Induced by Femtosecond Laser with a horseshoe-shaped longitudinal inten- Coherent Contrast Improvement by Churina, Daniel R. Symes, Aaron C. Symmetric Pressure Gradient, Samuel (PFCB), Younggu Kim1, Wei-lou Cao1, Filamentation, Aurelien Houard1, Ciro sity profile, was realized experimentally from Cross-Polarized Wave Generation, Bernstein, Byoung-ick Cho, Todd Ditmire; Bohman1,2, Masanori Kaku1, Akira Suda1, Shengrong Chen2, Dennis W. Smith2, War- D’Amico1, Yi Liu1, Yves-Bernard Andre1, a single laser beam by the incoherent co- Lorenzo Canova1, Michele Merano1, Aurélie Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. The dynam- Shigeru Yamaguchi2, Katsumi Midorikawa1; ren N. Herman1, Chi H. Lee1; 1Lab for Physi- Michel Franco1, Bernard Prade1, Estelle axial combination of Laguerre-Gaussian and Jullien1, Gilles Chériaux1, Rodrigo Lopez ics of heat and shock waves in a dense 1RIKEN, Japan, 2Tokai Univ., Japan. We pro- cal Sciences, USA, 2Tetramer Technologies, Salmon2, Pascal Pierlot3, Louis-Marie Cleon3, Gaussian modes generated from segmented Martens1, Olivier Albert1, Nicolas Forget2, plasma were studied using time-resolved pose and demonstrate a pulse compression L.L.C, USA. We demonstrate that all-optical Andre Mysyrowicz1; 1Lab d’Optique optical elements. Stoyan Kourtev3, Nikolay Minkovsky3, reflectivity measurements of the rear surface technique using a symmetric pressure-gra- switching in a microring-loaded Mach- Appliquée, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique, Solomon M. Saltiel3; 1LOA, France, of an aluminum foil following femtosecond dient hollow fiber. This technique improves Zhender interferometer fabricated from France, 2LASIM, Univ. Lyon 1, CNRS, France, JThD128 2FASTLITE, France, 3Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria. irradiation at ~5x1013 W/cm2. the spatial and spectral qualities of multi-mJ PFCB is possible, and obtained a response 3Agence d’Essai Ferroviaire, SNCF, France. Generation of Isolated Sub-100-as XUV Contrast improvement filter based on cross- femtosecond laser pulses spectrally-broad- pulse width of about 30ps and a maximum Filaments created in air by an intense Pulses Using Time-Gate Assisted Few- polarized wave generation is addressing the JThD135 ened by self-phase modulation. modulation depth of 3.8 dB. femtosecond laser pulse in the presence of Cycle Driving Pulses, Ya Cheng, Zhinan coherent contrast issue by flattening the The Effect of Focal Geometry on Radia- an electric field generate a highly conduc- Zeng, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu; State Lab spectral phase of the pulse. Theoretical and tion from Atomic Ionization in JThD139 JThD121 tive permanent plasma column. of High Field Laser Physics, SIOM, China. experimental evidence of this effect on pulse Ultrastrong/Ultrafast Laser Field, Isaac Accurate Contrast-Ratio Characteriza- Design of Gradient Index (GRIN) Lens We propose a new approach to generating spectrum are presented. Ghebregziabiher, Barry C. Walker; Univ. of tion of Femtosecond and Chirped Pico- Using Photonic Non-Crystals, Paul JThD125 sub-100-as XUV pulses using time-gate as- Delaware, USA. Larmor radiation calculated second Pulses Using the Decorrelation Stellman1, Kehan Tian2, George Wavefront Correction and Aberrations sisted few-cycle driving pulses. Simulations JThD132 with non-paraxial approximation to the la- of Third-Order Correlation Trace, Kyung- Barbastathis1; 1MIT, USA, 2IBM Semiconduc- Pre-Compensation in the Middle of show that the gate beam suppresses one Optical Probing of Laser-Produced Plas- ser field peaks away from the laser propa- Han Hong, Jae Hee Sung, Tae Jun Yu, Il Woo tor Res. and Development Ctr., USA. We use Petawatt-Class CPA Laser Chains, electron trajectory, resulting in single elec- mas for Laboratory Simulations of Mag- gation direction and has larger angular Choi, Hyung Taek Kim, Young-Chul Noh, analytical and numerical techniques to de- Federico Canova1, Lorenzo Canova1, Jean- tron trajectory in one driving cycle. netic Astrophysical Jets, Parrish C. Brady, spread when compardd to the calculation Do-Kyeong Ko, Jongmin Lee; Advanced sign a cylindrical lens with a gradient index Paul Chambaret1, Xavier Levecq2, Emeric Prashant Valanju, Roger Bengtson, Todd with plane wave approximation. Photonics Res. Inst., GIST, Republic of Ko- of refraction. In our device, we design the Lavergne2, Guillaume Dovillaire2, Thomas JThD129 Ditmire; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. We rea. We present the accurate characteriza- index distribution by using a photonic crys- Planchon3; 1Lab d’Optique Appliquee - LOA, Pulse Shape Control of a High-Energy investigate laboratory simulations of mag- JThD136 tion of the pulse contrast ratio using the tal with slowly-varying lattice parameters. France, 2Imagine Optic, France, 3Colorado PW Laser for Fast Ignition of Laser Fu- netic astrophysical jets using optical prob- Destructive Interference of High Har- decorrelation of high-dynamic-range third- 1 2 Thursday, May 10 Thursday, School of Mines, USA. We describe prelimi- sion, Keiichi Sueda , J. Lu , Kiminori ing. We have observed differences in laser- monics Generated in Mixed Gases, order correlation traces. Experimental mea- JThD122 nary experiences to validate correction of Kondo1, R. Mizoguchi1, K. Tauchi1, Noriaki produced plasmas with and without a mag- Tsuneto Kanai, Eiji J. Takahashi, Yasuo surements with femtosecond and chirped Optical Jitter Due to Refractive Index wavefront aberrations in middle of laser Miyanaga1; 1Inst. of Laser Engineering, netic field using interferometric measure- Nabekawa, Katsumi Midorikawa; RIKEN, picosecond pulses confirm the necessity of Variations in Slow-Light Photonic Crys- chain. This technique allows correction of Osaka Univ., Japan, 2Yokogawa Electric ments. Japan. We demonstrate destructive interfer- this method. tal MZI Switches, Ashutosh R. Shroff, aberrations from first part, and the pre-com- Corp., Japan. A laser-pulse shaping system ence of high harmonics generated in a He- Philippe M. Fauchet; Univ. of Rochester, USA. pensation of aberrations built in second part of a high-energy PW laser has been devel- Ne mixed gas, which offers novel methods High effective index waveguides can reduce of laser. oped for fast ignition of laser fusion. We for observing the underlying attosecond the size of integrated active MZIs signifi- have demonstrated flat-top pulses of 10 ps electron dynamics as well as shaping har- cantly. We demonstrate numerically that they with a rise time of 1 ps. monic pulses and measuring harmonic have high sensitivity to variations in mate- phases. rial refractive index leading to significant pulse distortion due to jitter.

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CThS1 • 2:30 p.m. CThT1 • 2:30 p.m. Invited CThU1 • 2:30 p.m. Tutorial CThV1 • 2:30 p.m. JThF1 • 2:30 p.m. CThW1 • 2:30 p.m. Invited CThX1 • 2:30 p.m. QThG1 • 2:30 p.m. Invited Writing High-Strength Bragg Grating Synthesis and Performance of Advanced Terahertz Technology in Outer and In- Carbon Nanotube-Polyimide Saturable Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons in Nanofabricated Negative Permeability Nearly Three-Octave-Spanning Fre- Metal Strips and Wires as Plasmonic Waveguides in Bulk Glasses with Pico- Ceramic Lasers, Akio Ikesue; World Lab Co., ner Space, Peter Siegel; Caltech and JPL, Absorbing Waveguide Made by Simple the Corrugated Plasma Waveguide, An- Media, Alex Grigorenko; Univ. of Manches- quency Comb from a Phase-Controlled Waveguides for Integrated-Optics Com- second Laser Pulses, Haibin Zhang, Shane Ltd., Japan. We demonstrated not only high- USA. After 30 years of niche applications in Photolithography, Toshiyuki Oomuro1,2, drew G. York, Brian Layer, Howard M. ter, UK. We describe negative index optical Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser and Syn- ponents, Alexandra Boltasseva1, Kristjan M. Eaton, Jianzhao Li, Amir H. efficiency laser generation from polycrys- space science, the field of Terahertz Tech- Ryousaku Kaji1, Tarou Itatani1, Hiroyuki Milchberg; Inst. for Physical Science and media produced by pairs of gold nanopillars. chronously Pumped Optical Parametric Leosson2, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi3, Thomas Nejadmalayeri, Peter R. Herman; Univ. of talline Nd:YAG ceramics for the first time, nology is entering a true Renaissance. This Ishii1, Emiko Itoga1, Hiromichi Kataura1, Technology, USA. Direct electron accelera- We demonstrate new phenomena of opti- Oscillator, Jinghua Sun, Barry J. S. Gale, Søndergaard3, Kasper B. Jørgensen4, Rasmus Toronto, Canada. Strong >30-dB first-order but succeeded in fabrication of high-func- talk surveys terahertz technology and ap- Masafumi Yamashita2, Masahiko Mori1, tion by a radially polarized laser pulse can cal impedance matching, negative optical Derryck T. Reid; Heriot-Watt Univ., UK. A H. Pedersen4, Anders Kristensen4; Bragg-gratings were inscribed inside boro- tional ceramic lasers such as composite, fi- plications from space science and spectros- Youichi Sakakibara1; 1Natl. Inst. of Ad- be quasi-phase matched in a corrugated path length and discuss possible applica- repetition-rate-stabilized frequency comb 1COM•DTU, Denmark, 2Univ. of Iceland, silicate glasses in a single laser waveguide- ber, micro-sphere, and single crystal by sin- copy to recent biomedical uses. vanced Industrial Science and Technology, plasma channel [1]. Modest laser pulses (1 tions of the media for biosensing and ranging from the violet to the mid-infrared Iceland, 3Aalborg Univ., Denmark, 4MIC, writing step driven by type-II photosensi- tering method, etc. Japan, 2Tokyo Univ. of Science, Japan. Us- mJ, 100fs) could give large gradients (> 10 nanotweezing. is obtained by phase-locking a femtosecond DTU, Denmark. Propagation of long-range tivity response. Mode profiles, propagation ing photosensitive polyimide, we fabricated MV/cm) over many centimeters. Ti:sapphire laser and synchronously surface plasmon polaritons in different losses, waveguide birefringence, and grat- a buried waveguide containing carbon pumped optical parametric oscillator to a waveguide components based on nm-thin ing responses were optimized for the nanotubes by a simple photolithography common supercontinuum reference. and µm-wide metal strips and symmetrical Telecom band. process. Anisotropic linear absorption and sub-wavelength metal nanowires embedded saturable absorption due to the alignment in a uniform dielectric is experimentally stud- of nanotubes were observed in the guided ied at telecom wavelengths. transmission.

CThS2 • 2:45 p.m. CThV2 • 2:45 p.m. JThF2 • 2:45 p.m. Invited CThX2 • 2:45 p.m. Integration of Optical Waveguides and Resonant Nonlinear Optical Properties Injection of Electrons into Plasma Waves Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement MicrofluidicChannels Fabricated by of CdSe Quantum Dots, Gero Nootz, by Colliding Laser Pulses into an and Control of Sub-10fs Laser Pulse at Femtosecond Laser Irradiation, Valeria Lazaro A. Padilha, Scott Webster, David J. Underdense Plasma, Jerome Faure, High Repetition Rate with Difference Maselli1, Roberto Osellame2, Rebeca Martinez Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland; Univ. of Cen- Clément Rechatin, Andreas Norlin, Agustin Frequency Technique, Yangying Zhao, Vazquez2, Paolo Laporta1, Giulio Cerullo1; tral Florida, USA. We report theoretical and Lifschitz, Victor Malka; Lab d’Optique Wei Zhang, Hainian Han, Qiang Du, Zhiyi 1Dept. di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy, experimental results of nonlinear absorption Appliquee, France. Controlled injection of Wei; Beijing Natl. Lab for Condensed Matter 2Inst. di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie - CNR, and refraction in a series of colloidal CdSe electrons into a laser-plasma accelerator is Physics, Inst. of Physics, Chinese Acad. of Italy. We use a femtosecond laser to fabri- quantum-dots. A two-level-model is used to achieved by colliding two counter- Sciences, China. 6~8fs laser pulses at rep- cate on a glass substrate both microfluidic describe the nonlinearities when quantum- propagating laser pulses into a plasma. It etition rates of 160MHz and 350MHz were channels and high quality optical dots are excited close to their first resonance. results in monoenergetic, high quality, stable generated from Ti:sapphire oscillators with waveguides, intersecting each other. and tuneable electron beams (from 15 to unprecedented simplicity. By difference fre- Waveguide-channel integration opens new 300 MeV). quency the ultrabroaden spectrum with

Thursday, May 10 Thursday, prospects for in-situ sensing in lab-on-chip PPLN crystal, we measured and locked the devices. carrier-envelope phase.

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CThS • Waveguide Writing CThT • Ceramic Lasers— CThU • THz Imaging and CThV • Nonlinear Optics of JThF • Laser Wakefield and CThW • Fabrication of CThX • Optical Combs QThG • Plasmonics III— with Ultrashort Lasers— Continued Applications—Continued Nanostructures—Continued Relativistic Plasma Periodic Nanostructures— Technology I—Continued Continued Continued Interactions—Continued Continued

CThS3 • 3:00 p.m. CThT2 • 3:00 p.m. CThV3 • 3:00 p.m. CThW2 • 3:00 p.m. CThX3 • 3:00 p.m. Invited QThG2 • 3:00 p.m. Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Direc- Brightness Enhancement Using Core Hierarchy in Optical Near-Fields by Enhanced Aspect Ratio of Focused Ion High-Resolution Spectroscopy with Coupling of Nano-Stripe and Nano-Slot tional Couplers and Mach-Zehnder In- Doped Nd:YAG Ceramic Rods for Side Nano-Scale Shape Engineering and its Beam Nanopatterning Technique in Femtosecond Optical Combs, Jason Plasmonic Waveguides, Yinon Satuby, terferometers, Yu Gu, Jung-Ho Chung, Pumped Laser Heads in Laser Amplifi- Application to Traceable Memory, Semiconductors, Alex Hayat1, Meir Stalnaker1, S. A. Diddams1, T. M. Fortier1,2, Nikolai Berkovitch, Meir Orenstein; James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. Spectral be- ers and Oscillators, Alexander Sträßer, Makoto Naruse1,2, Takashi Yatsui3, Jun Orenstein1, Alex Lahav2; 1Dept. of Electrical V. Gerginov1, Y. Le Coq1, V. Mbele1,3, C. W. Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel. havior of directional couplers and unbal- Martin Ostermeyer, Abdulrahman Scheikh Hyoung Kim2, Motoichi Ohtsu2; 1Natl. Inst. Engineering, Technion, Israel, 2Nano-Elec- Oates1, D. Ortega4, C. E. Tanner5, L. Coupling effects between two types of sur- anced Mach-Zehnder interferometers fabri- Obeid; Univ. of Potsdam / Inst. of Physics, of Information and Communications Tech- tronics Ctr., Technion, Israel. We demon- Hollberg1; 1NIST, USA, 2Los Alamos Natl. Lab, face-plasmon-polariton waveguides in the cated in glass with a MPC Ti:Sapphire laser Germany. Core doped Nd:YAG ceramic rods nology, Japan, 2Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 3Ja- strate a more than 10 aspect-ratio FIB semi- USA, 3School of Physics, Univ. of the subwavelength regime (stripes and slots) are is characterized. Spectral features can be are employed in amplifier and oscillator pan Science and Technology Agency, Japan. conductor nanopatterning technique. The Witwatersrand, South Africa, 4Gleb measured experimentally at λ = 1.55µm us- controlled by controlling physical device setups. SBS-phase conjugating mirrors are We numerically and experimentally studied undesired semiconductor material decom- Wataghin Physics Inst., State Univ. of ing near field microscopy and validated by parameters as well as writing speed. applied to compensate for the rod’s refrac- the hierarchy of optical near-fields by engi- position by the beam-tail ions is prevented Campinas, Brazil, 5Univ. of Notre Dame, finite element modal calculations. tive index step. Brightness enhancement of neering the shape of metal plates at nanom- by a protective Ti layer acting as a mask for USA. A stabilized femtosecond frequency 2 is demonstrated compared to conventional eter-scale. Combined with localized energy- the semiconductor. comb has ~106 stable optical modes span- rod. dissipation, this hierarchy should enable ning hundreds of terahertz, making it an novel functionality, such as traceability of ideal tool for high-resolution spectroscopy. optical memories. We demonstrate some features of frequency- comb spectroscopy using experiments in- CThS4 • 3:15 p.m. CThT3 • 3:15 p.m. CThV4 • 3:15 p.m. JThF3 • 3:15 p.m. CThW3 • 3:15 p.m. volving calcium and cesium. QThG3 • 3:15 p.m.

Submicron-Period Waveguide Bragg Oscillation Property of Rod-Type Nd/ Reducing Feature-Sizes of Two-Photon Wakefield Acceleration of Quasi- Wafer Scale Texturing of LiNbO3, Vijay P. Measuring Group Velocity of Surface Gratings Direct Written by an 800-nm Cr:YAG Ceramic Lasers with Quasi-Solar Polymerized Lines by Re-Polymerization Monoenergetic 200MeV Electrons in Ni- Sivan1, Anthony Holland1, Lam Bui1, Timo- Plasmons by Surface Plasmon Interfer- Femtosecond Oscillator, Jung-Ho Chung, Pumping, Taku Saiki, Shinji Motokoshi, in SCR500, Yan Li, Fengjie Qi, Dengfeng trogen and Helium Gas Targets, Zheng L. thy Priest2, Arnan Mitchell1; 1RMIT Univ., ometry, Vasily V. Temnov1, Ulrike Woggon1, Yu Gu, James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. Using Kazuo Imasaki, Hisanori Fujita, Masahiro Tan, Hong Yang, Qihuang Gong; Peking Chen, Ying Y. Tsui, Neda Naseri, Wojciech Australia, 2Defence Science Technology José Dintinger2, Eloise Devaux2, Thomas W. femtosecond pulses from a multi-pass-cav- Nakatsuka, Yasukazu Izawa, Chiyoe Univ., China. Based on re-polymerization Rozmus, Robert Fedosejevs; Univ. of Alberta, Organisation, Australia. We report a novel Ebbesen2; 1Experimentelle Physik IIb, Ger- 2 ity Ti:S oscillator, submicron-period Bragg Yamanaka; Inst. for Laser Technology, Ja- between two structures close to each other, Canada. Quasi-monoenergetic electron technique for micro texturing of LiNbO3. many, Univ. Louis Pasteur, France. Broad- gratings were fabricated inside waveguides pan. We observed laser oscillations of rod- the feature-sizes of two-photon polymerized beams of energies over 200MeV with high Well-defined raised ridges and etched band optical transmission spectra of metal in bulk glasses without any phase masks. type Nd/Cr:YAG ceramics experimentally lines using SCR500 were reduced to wave- flux are generated from both nitrogen and trenches are demonstrated. This technique films with subwavelength slit-groove pairs Transmission spectra with resonance wave- pumped using an arc-metal-halide lamp length/50, which demonstrated the poten- helium gas with a modest laser power of is suitable for the realization of surface re- show pronounced interference fringes by lengths in the optical communication band having a similar spectrum to solar light. An tial for high resolution three-dimensional 6.5TW. 2-D PIC simulations are in progress lief gratings and photonic crystals. surface plasmons travelling between slits and were successfully observed. high optical-optical conversion efficiency of nanofabrication. to compare to experiments. grooves. Interferometric fringe analysis pro- 43% was obtained by Cr ions co-doping. vides accurate values for group velocity of surface plasmons.

CThS5 • 3:30 p.m. CThT4 • 3:30 p.m. CThU2 • 3:30 p.m. CThV5 • 3:30 p.m. JThF4 • 3:30 p.m. CThW4 • 3:30 p.m. CThX4 • 3:30 p.m. QThG4 • 3:30 p.m. Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguide Specificity of Thermal Lensing in Laser Continuous-Wave Terahertz Imaging Parametric Oscillation via Dispersion- Coherence-Based Transverse Measure- Diffractive Optical Elements Based Controlling Carrier-Envelope Phase of Metal-Less Optical Surface Plasmon Arrays with Tailored Supermodes, Ceramics, Ilya Snetkov, Ivan Mukhin, Oleg with a Hybrid System, Torsten Löffler, Thilo Compensation in High-Q Microspheres, ment of Synchrotron X-Ray Radiation Single-Step Fabrication of 3-Dimen- Grating-Based Chirped Pulse Amplifiers, Polariton, Pavel Ginzburg, Meir Orenstein; Michael N. Nguyen, Kenneth H. Church; Palashov, Efim A. Khazanov; Inst. of Applied May, Ali Alcin, Bernd Hils, Christian am Imad H. Agha, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Mark from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interac- sional Photonic Crystal Templates, Chengquan Li, Eric Moon, Zenghu Chang; Technion, Israel. We propose a Surface Plas-

Thursday, May 10 Thursday, Oklahoma State Univ., USA. Evanescently Physics, Russian Federation. We developed Weg, Hartmut G. Roskos; Johann Wolfgang A. Foster, Jay E. Sharping, Alexander L. tion and of Laser-Accelerated Electrons, Debashis Chanda, Peter R. Herman; Univ. J.R.Macdonald Lab, Dept. of Physics, Kan- mon Polarition based guiding at the inter- coupled waveguide arrays are written in a model of thermal lens in laser ceramics, Goethe-Univ., Germany. A hybrid system for Gaeta; School of Applied Physics, Cornell Rahul C. Shah1, F. Albert1, K. Ta Phuoc1, F. of Toronto, Canada. A single laser expo- sas State Univ., USA. It was demonstrated face of a dielectric and semiconductor quan- fused silica using femtosecond laser pulses. which takes into account random nature of THz reflectometric imaging at 0.6 THz syn- Univ., USA. We demonstrate theoretically and Burgy1, J.-P. Rousseau1, O. Shevchenko1,2, D. sure method of forming three-dimensional that the carrier-envelope phase is sensitive tum well structure, exhibiting a negative Array supermodes are tailored by adjusting grains orientation. Analytical equations for chronizes a multiplied Gunn source with a experimentally that parametric oscillation via Boschetto1, A. Rousse1, A. Pukhov3, S. Kiselev3; photonic crystal templates in photoresist has to the variation of stretcher grating separa- electrical permeability and possible gain in the writing conditions of a common central thermally induced phase predict phase femtosecond lasers for electro-optic detec- phase-matched four-wave mixing can be 1Lab d’Optique Appliquée, France, 2Budker been demonstrated with multi-layer tion. By feedback controlling the grating the vicinity of optical transition resonance. core and agree with Scattering Matrix modulation with characteristic scale of about tion and reaches 60 db dynamic range and achieved in silica microspheres by suitable Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Russian Federation, diffractive optical elements. Several photo- separation, the phase of the amplified laser Method simulations. grain size. 25 ms measurement time per pixel. choice of size and pump power. 3Inst. fur Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich- nic stopbands are identified in the near-in- pulses is stabilized without disturbing the Heine-Univ., Germany. Fresnel diffraction frared spectrum along multiple crystallo- oscillator. of X-ray beam from laser-plasma interaction graphic directions. shows incoherent-source diameter <8 µm. Analysis shows this corresponds to acceler- ated electron profile in plasma agreeing with simulation.

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CLEO/QELS and PhAST 2007, May 6–11, 2007 • Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland ROOM 318-320 ROOM 321-323 ROOM 324-326 ROOM 314 ROOM 315 ROOM 316 ROOM 317 ROOM 336

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CThS • Waveguide Writing CThT • Ceramic Lasers— CThU • THz Imaging and CThV • Nonlinear Optics of JThF • Laser Wakefield and CThW • Fabrication of CThX • Optical Combs QThG • Plasmonics III— with Ultrashort Lasers— Continued Applications—Continued Nanostructures—Continued Relativistic Plasma Periodic Nanostructures— Technology I—Continued Continued Continued Interactions—Continued Continued

CThS6 • 3:45 p.m. CThT5 • 3:45 p.m. CThU3 • 3:45 p.m. CThV6 • 3:45 p.m. JThF5 • 3:45 p.m. CThW5 • 3:45 p.m. CThX5 • 3:45 p.m. QThG5 • 3:45 p.m. Refractive Index Modifications in Chal- Core-Doped Ceramic Nd:YAG Laser with Real-Time, Transmission-Mode, Tera- Exact Optimization-Based Analysis Imaging Electron Trajectories in Laser Photonic Band Gap Syntheis by Optical Efficient Compression of Carrier-Enve- Polariton Emission from an Electrically cogenide Films Induced by Sub-Bandgap Sm:YAG Cladding, Dietmar Kracht, Rafael hertz Imaging over a 25-Meter Distance, Method Applied to Nonlinear Processes Wakefield Cavity Using Betatron X-Ray Phase Mask Lithography, Timothy Y. M. lope Phase-Locked Laser Pulses to 5 fs Injected Semiconductor Device, Luca Near-IR Femtosecond Pulses, Troy P. Huß, Ralf Wilhelm, Jörg Neumann; Laser Alan W.m. Lee1, Qi Qin1, Sushil Kumar1, in a Multi-Cavity Micro-Resonator, Guy Radiation, Kim Ta Phuoc, Sébastien Corde, Chan, Ovidiu Toader, Sajeev John; Univ. of Using an Aluminum-Coated Hollow Fi- Sapienza1, Raffaele Colombelli2, Cristiano Anderson1, Nathan Carlie2, Laeticia Petit2, Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany. A core- Benjamin S. Williams1, Qing Hu1, John L. Klemens, Yeshaiahu Fainman; Univ. of Cali- Rahul Shah, Félicie Albert, Romuald Fitour, Toronto, Canada. We provide a simple and ber, Eisuke Haraguchi, Takashi Tanigawa, Ciuti1, Angela Vasanelli1, Ulf Gennser3, Carlo Juejun Hu3, A. Agarwal3, J.J. Viens3, Jiyeon doped ceramic Nd:YAG laser with a Sm:YAG Reno2; 1MIT, USA, 2Sandia Natl. Labs, USA. fornia at San Diego, USA. An optimization- Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Fréderic Burgy, efficient approach for fabricating diamond Eiichi Matsubara, Keisaku Yamane, Mikio Sirtori1; 1Lab Matériaux et Phénomènes Choi1, L. C. Kimmerling3, Kathleen cladding is presented. Applying q-cw pump- We demonstrate transmission-mode imag- based analysis method is used to calculate Brigitte Mercier, Antoine Rousse; LOA, architecture photonic crystals using single- Yamashita, Taro Sekikawa; Hokkaido Univ., Quantiques, Univ. Paris Diderot, France, Richardson2, Martin Richardson1; 1Univ. of ing with a laser diode stack, a pulse energy ing over a 25 meter distance using a ~4.9- the electric fields within a nonlinear reso- France. We demonstrate that betatron X-ray exposure, single-beam, optical interference Japan. Carrier-envelope phase-lacked 0.13- 2Inst. d’Electronique Fondamentale, Paris- Central Florida, USA, 2Clemson Univ., USA, of 5.9mJ in 3.9ns was achieved by passive THz quantum-cascade laser, frequency-op- nant cavity made up of multiple coupled radiation provides a direct imaging of elec- lithography based on diffraction of light TW, 5.2-fs laser pulses were generated by Sud, France, 3Lab Photonique et 3MIT, USA. Refractive index modifications of Q-switching with Cr4+:YAG. timized for a low-loss (~0.5 dB/m) atmo- dielectrics. Unlike previous approximate, ad trons trajectories accelerated in laser through an optical phase mask. using a 56-cm-long aluminum-coated hol- Nanostructures, France. We report on the

film Ge0.23Sb0.07S0.7 induced by 800nm spheric window. The ~17-mW peak power hoc calculation methods, this method is wakefields. Electron excursions down to 0.7 low fiber with an efficiency of 66 %, im- first observation of polariton emission from femtosecond laser irradiation are studied for allows real-time imaging with a 320x240 el- exact and general. +/- 0.2 micrometers have been measured in proved by coating aluminum inside the fi- an electrically pumped semiconductor de- laser repetition rates of 1kHz and 80MHz. ement microbolometer camera. our parameter regime. ber with a core diameter of 500-µm. vice, operating up-to room temperature. The Measurements are taken using an interfero- system is a quantum cascade electrolumi- metric method and analysis of the transmis- nescent structure, embedded in a planar sion spectra. microcavity.

CThS7 • 4:00 p.m. CThT6 • 4:00 p.m. CThU4 • 4:00 p.m. CThV7 • 4:00 p.m. JThF6 • 4:00 p.m. CThW6 • 4:00 p.m. CThX6 • 4:00 p.m. QThG6 • 4:00 p.m. Depth-Independent, Low-Loss Wave- Ceramic YAG Composite with Nd Gradi- Terahertz Imaging with Compressed Interband Second-Order Susceptibility THz Modulation of Relativistic Electrons Orthorhombic or Tetragonal Woodpile- Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilized 5.6 fs, Optical Isolators Based on Surface Mag- guides Formed by High-Repetition Rate ent Structure for Homogeneous Absorp- Sensing and Phase Retrieval, Wai Lam Enhancement in Strained GaInP/ Using a Vacuum Laser Beat-Wave, Sergei Type Photonic Crystals Template Fabri- 1.2 mJ Pulses, Hiroki Mashiko, Christopher neto Plasmon Polaritons, Jacob B. Femtosecond Fiber Laser, Shane M. Eaton, tion of Pump Power, Tomosumi Chan, Matthew L. Moravec, Richard G. AlGaInP Quantum Wells, Alex Hayat, Meir Tochitsky1, Chieh Sung1, Sven Reiche2, James cated by Laser Phase Mask Lithography, M. Nakamura, Chengquan Li, Eric Moon, Khurgin; Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. Strong Wei-Jen Chen, Haibin Zhang, Mi Li Ng, Pe- Kamimura1, Takayuki Okamoto2, Yan Lin Baraniuk, Daniel M. Mittleman; Rice Univ., Orenstein; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Rosenzweig2, Claudio Pellegrini2, Chan Yuankun Lin1, Jorge Quintero1, Zsolt Poole2, He Wang, Jason Tackett, Zenghu Chang; nonreciprocal phase shift is attainable when ter R. Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. Aung3, Akio Ikesue3; 1Dept. of Electronics, USA. We describe a new terahertz imaging Technion, Israel. We present a significant Joshi1; 1Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. Di Xu2, Kevin P. Chen2; 1Univ. of Texas at Kansas State Univ., USA. Carrier-envelope plasmon polariton propagates on the inter- Effects of repetition rate, numerical aper- Information and Communication Engi- method for high-speed image acquisition interband second-order susceptibility en- of California at Los Angeles, USA, 2Dept. of Pan American, USA, 2Univ. of Pittsburgh, phase stabilized 1.2 mJ pulses with dura- face between metal and magneto-optical ture, and focus depth on femtosecond laser neering,Osaka Inst. of Technology, Japan, using a compressed sensing phase retrieval hancement in strained GaInP/AlGaInP QWs Physics, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA. Face-centered-orthorhombic and face- tion of 5.6 fs were obtained from a Ne filled material in presence of transverse magnetic writing of buried waveguides were system- 2Okamoto Optics Co. Ltd., Japan, 3World Lab algorithm. This technique permits image at telecommunication wavelengths. More USA. It is proposed to modulate electrons centered-tetragonal woodpile-type photonic hollow-core fiber. With power locking the field. This effect is a basis for short low loss atically studied in borosilicate glass to en- Co. Ltd., Japan. Ceramic YAG composite reconstruction using a limited and randomly than order of magnitude increase in x(2) over longitudinally by the ponderomotive force crystal templates have been fabricated with phase is controlled to 370 mrad measured nanoplasmonic isolators.

able shallow and deep writing of low-loss with Nd gradient configuration was fabri- chosen subset of a Fourier image. the bulk value is shown by SHG measure- of a CO2 laser beat-wave. For the 9.3 and laser phase mask holographic lithography. by an out-loop f-to-2f interferometer. waveguides with full 3-D functionality. cated successfully for thermal management ments in two-dimensional waveguides. 10.6 um lines, the beam injected into Photonic band gap calculation predicts the of absorbed pump power. Higher laser out- undulator radiates at ~ 77 um. existence of full band gap in those crystals. put was achieved as compared with that of the conventional composite (YAG-Nd:YAG- YAG) structure.

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QThH • Quantum CThY • Remote Sensing I— CThZ • Applications of CThAA • Optical Fiber CThBB • Security Issues in Communication—Continued Continued Photonic Crystals— Applications—Continued Optical Networking— Continued Continued QThH5 • 3:45 p.m. CThY5 • 3:45 p.m. CThZ6 • 3:45 p.m. CThAA5 • 3:45 p.m. Invited CThBB5 • 3:45 p.m. Experimental Implementation of Non- Long Range Trace Detection in Aqueous High NA Fourier Space Imaging of Pla- Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML) Design of a Virtual Quadrant Receiver Gaussian Attacks on a Continuous-Vari- Aerosol Using Remote Filament-Induced nar Photonic Crystals, Nicolas Le Thomas1, in the Non-Zero Dispersion Regime: A for 4-ary Pulse Position Modulation/ able Quantum Key Distribution System, Breakdown Spectroscopy (R-FIBS), Jean- Romuald Houdre1, Maria V. Kotlyar2, Tho- Laser for Ultrahigh-Speed Retinal OCT Optical Code Division Multiple Access Jérôme Lodewyck1,2, Thierry Debuisschert1, François Daigle1, Guillaume Méjean1, W. mas F. Krauss2; 1Ecole Polytechnique Imaging at 236kHz Line Rate, Robert (4-ary PPM/O-CDMA), Vincent J. Raul Garcia-Patron3, Rosa Tualle-Brouri2, Liu1, F. Théberge1, H. L. Xu1, Y. Kamali1, J. Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Huber1, Vivek J. Srinivasan2, Desmond C. Hernandez1,2, Antonio J. Mendez3, Corey V. Nicolas J. Cerf3, Philippe Grangier2; 1THALES Bernhardt1, A. Azarm1, Q. Sun1, P. Mathieu2, 2Univ. of St. Andrews, UK. Fourier space Adler2, Iwona Gorczynska2, James G. Bennett2, Robert M. Gagliardi4; 1Univ. of Res. and Technology, France, 2Lab Charles G. Roy2, J. R. Simard2, See Leang Chin1; imaging is used to retrieve the intrinsic prop- Fujimoto2; 1Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Ger- California at Davis, USA, 2LLNL, USA, Fabry de l’Inst. d’Optique, France, 3QuIC, 1COPL, Univ. Laval, Canada, 2Defense Res. erties of planar photonic crystal structures. many, 2Res. Lab of Electronics, MIT, USA. 3Mendez R&D Associates, USA, 4Univ. of Ecole Polytechnique, Univ. Libre de and Development Ctr.-Valcartier, Canada. A superresolution technique based on size Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML) in Southern California, USA. We propose a Bruxelles, Belgium. An intercept-resend at- R-FIBS is used for probing salt water aero- effects of the structures gives access to the the 1070nm wavelength range is investi- virtual quadrant receiver for 4-ary PPM/O- tack on a continuous-variable quantum key sol. We demonstrate experimentally that it dispersion curves below the light cone. gated. Problems, design rules and the per- CDMA. Numerical simulations determine the distribution protocol is investigated experi- can be used to sense ppm level concentra- formance of an FDML laser with a disper- impact of multi-access interference and op- mentally. The users and eavesdropper avail- tions up to 70 m away and shows potential sive cavity are discussed. Retinal OCT im- tical beat interference on correct symbol able information rates are consistent with for kilometer range applications. aging at 236kHz is demonstrated. detection versus the number of concurrent, the optimality of Gaussian attacks resulting asynchronous users. from the security proofs.

QThH6 • 4:00 p.m. CThY6 • 4:00 p.m. CThZ7 • 4:00 p.m. CThBB6 • 4:00 p.m. Polarization Transformations Induced Hybrid of Frequency and Time Resolved Optical and Local Tuning of Planar Pho- Improving Transmission Privacy Using on Qubits Transmitted in a Space-to- CARS, Dmitry Pestov, Robert K. Murawski, tonic Crystals Infiltrated with Organic Optical Layer XOR, Ivan Glesk, Y.-K. Earth Quantum Communication Link, Ariunbold Gombojav, Xi Wang, Miaochan Molecules, Pascale El-Kallassi1, Rolando Huang, C.-S. Brès, P.R. Prucnal; Princeton Cristian Bonato1,2, Markus Aspelmeyer3,4, Zhi, Alexei V. Sokolov, Vladimir A. Ferrini1, Libero Zuppiroli1, Nicolas Le Tho- Univ., USA. We built novel “dual code” Thomas Jennewein4, Claudio Pernechele5, Sautenkov, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Marlan O. mas2, Romuald Houdré2, Audrey Berrier3, OCDMA transmitter and receiver with opti- Paolo Villoresi2, Anton Zeilinger3,4; 1Boston Scully; Inst. for Quantum Studies and Depts. Srinivasan Anand3, Anne Talneau4; 1Lab cal layer XOR, thus achieving data privacy Univ., USA, 2CNR-INFM LUXOR, Dept. of Elec- of Physics and Chemical Engineering, Texas d’Optoélectronique des Matériaux approaching One-time Pad security. En- trical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of A&M Univ., USA. We introduce a novel tech- Moléculaires, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale hanced secure communication among us- 3 2 Padova, Italy, Inst. fuer Experimental nique that elegantly combines frequency- de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Inst. de ers was demonstrated at OC-24 with raw Thursday, May 10 Physik, Austria, 4Inst. für Quantenoptik und and time-resolved CARS spectroscopy. The Photonique et Electronique Quantique, Ecole BER < 10-12. Quanteninformation (IQOQI), Austria, proposed scheme is tested in back-scattered Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 5INAF, Italy. We analyze the sources of po- CARS experiments on a powder of sodium Switzerland, 3Dept. of Microelectronics and larization transformation for single photons dipicolinate, holding promise for remote/ Applied Physics, Royal Inst. of Technology in a Space-to-Earth quantum communica- stand-of detection applications. (KTH), Sweden, 4CNRS-Lab de Photonique tion link, particularly the satellite pointing et de Nanostructures (LPN), France. We re- system, giving an estimate of the effect and port on the optical tuning of InP-based pla- discussing possible compensation tech- nar photonic crystals (PhCs) infiltrated with niques. a photoresponsive liquid crystal system. Pre- liminary results on the local tuning of PhC devices are also presented.

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4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CThCC • Laser Processing CThDD • Novel Designs for CThEE • High-Power CThFF • Spatial Nonlinear JThG • Laser Plasmas and CThGG • Nanowires and CThHH • Optical Combs QThI • Meta-Optics and Measurements Solid-State Lasers Semiconductor Lasers Effect Particle Acceleration Nanorods Technology II Vladimir M. Shalaev; Detao Du; General Markus Pollnau; Univ. of George W. Turner; MIT Prem Kumar; Michael Downer; Univ. of Venkatraman Gopalan; Presider to Be Announced Purdue Univ., USA, Atomics, USA, Presider Twente & Swiss Fed. Inst. Lincoln Lab, USA, Presider Northwestern Univ., USA, Texas at Austin, USA, Pennsylvania State Univ., Presider of Tech., Netherlands, Presider Presider USA, Presider Presider

CThCC1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited CThDD1 • 4:45 p.m. CThEE1 • 4:45 p.m. CThFF1 • 4:45 p.m. JThG1 • 4:45 p.m. CThGG1 • 4:45 p.m. CThHH1 • 4:45 p.m. QThI1 • 4:45 p.m. Invited Microfluidic Bead Array Device Using Cross Sections for Room and Low Tem- High-Brightness Wavelength-Beam- Photonic Crystal Fiber Based 10 GHz Proton Acceleration from Thin Foils Effects of V/III Ratios for InP Nanowires Determining Phase-Energy Coupling Subwavelength Focusing of Light with- Laser-Machined Surface Microstructures perature Operation of Er-Doped Combined Eyesafe Diode Laser Stacks, Optical Clock Recovery Using an Opti- Using Ultraintense, High-Contrast Grown on Si Substrates, Linus C. Chuang1, Coefficient in Carrier-Envelope Phase out Evanescent Waves by an Array of on Silica Glass, Tadatake Sato, Thomas Sesquioxide Lasers, Larry D. Merkle1, Juliet T. Gopinath, Bien Chann, T. Y. Fan, cal Parametric Oscillator, Ailing Zhang, Pulses, Stephen A. Reed1, Takeshi Michael Moewe1, Shanna Crankshaw2, Measurements, Chengquan Li, Eric Moon, Nanoholes, Fu M. Huang1, Yifang Chen2, Gumpenberger, Ryozo Kurosaki, Yoshizo Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan1, Mark Dubinskii1, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio; MIT Lincoln Lab, H. Y. Tam, C. Lu, M. S. Demokan, P. K. A. Matsuoka1, Stepan Bulanov1, Vladimir Connie Chang-Hasnain1; 1Dept. of Electri- He Wang, Hiroki Mashiko, Christopher M. F. Javier Garcia de Abajo3, Nikolay I. Kawaguchi, Aiko Narazaki, Hiroyuki Niino; Akio Ikesue2; 1ARL, USA, 2World Lab Co., Ltd., USA. At 1450 nm, we have demonstrated Wai; Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Chvykov1, Andrei Brantov2, Valery Yu cal Engineering and Computer Sciences, Nakamura, Jason Tackett, Zenghu Chang; Zheludev1; 1Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK, Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science Japan. Sesquioxides are attractive solid-state 20-W wavelength-beam-combined output Kong. We demonstrate a 10GHz optical clock Bychenkov2, Galina Kalinchenko1, Pascal Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA, 2Ap- J.R. Macdonald Lab, Dept. of Physics, Kan- 2Central Microstructure Facility, Rutherford and Technology (AIST), Japan. Laser-in- laser hosts, and Er3+ is an important ion for from a 25-element single bar (M2 ~ 1.9 x recovery scheme based on optical paramet- Rousseau1, Victor Yanovsky1, Dale plied Science and Technology Group, Univ. sas State Univ., USA. By using two f-to-2f Appleton Lab, UK, 3Inst. de Optica, Spain. duced backside wet etching (LIBWE) eyesafe lasers. Using high-resolution spec- 10), and 80-W cw from a 6-bar diode stack ric oscillator, in which the gain results from Litzenberg3, Karl Krushelnick1, Anatoly of California at Berkeley, USA. We report the interferometers, we measured the phase- We provide the first evidence of free-space method can be applied for fabricating novel tra, absorption and stimulated emission cross (M2 ~ 36 x 68). the Kerr nonlinearity in the highly nonlin- Maksimchuk1; 1FOCUS Ctr. and Ctr. for effects of V/III ratio on the structural and energy coupling coefficient for the first time. subwavelength focusing without evanescent microfluidic devices. We have fabricated a sections of Er:sesquioxides are determined ear photonic crystal fiber. Ultrafast Optical Science, USA, 2P. N. Lebedev optical properties for InP nanowires (NWs) The results reveal that a 1% in-loop laser fields using a photonic nano-structure. Hot- microfluidic device incorporating two-di- for both room temperature and 77K. Physics Inst., Russian Acad. of Sciences, grown on Si substrates. Non-tapered NWs energy change causes a 160 mrad carrier- spots smaller than half of the wavelength mensional array of microbeads with 10 µm Russian Federation, 3Dept. of Radiation with a sharp photoluminescence peak and envelope phase shift to output pulses. were observed at distances of tens of wave- diameter for selective DNA capturing. Oncology, USA. Proton production from ul- intense emission are achieved. lengths from the structure. trathin foils using 3x1020 W/cm2 and 10-11 ASE contrast is explored. Maximum proton energy and laser transmittance for ultrathin foils are studied to achieve ion acceleration within the Directed Coulomb Explosion re- gime.

CThDD2 • 5:00 p.m. CThEE2 • 5:00 p.m. CThFF2 • 5:00 p.m. JThG2 • 5:00 p.m. CThGG2 • 5:00 p.m. CThHH2 • 5:00 p.m. Numerical Simulation and Optimization High-Brightness, Fiber-Coupled Diode Controlling Acousto-Optic Interactions Single-Shot Time Resolved Expansion Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Epitaxial Coherent Synthesis Using Carrier-Enve- of Giant Pulse Generation in 2 Microns Laser System for Fiber Laser Pumping, in Photonic Crystal Fiber with Sub-Wave- and Emission Measurements of Proton- InP Nanowires, Shanna Crankshaw1, lope Phase Controlled Pulses from a Tm,Ho Lasers, Oleg A. Louchev1, Yoshiharu S. David Roh, Daniel M. Grasso, Nels P. length Core-Hole, Gustavo S. Heated Warm Dense Matter, Gilliss Dyer1, Stephan Reitzenstein2, Linus C. Chuang1, Dual-Color Femtosecond Optical Para- Urata1, Satoshi Wada2; 1Megaopto Co., Ltd., Ostrom, Brian O. Faircloth; Nuvonyx, Inc., Wiederhecker1,2, Andre Brenn2, Holger Byoung-Ick Cho1, Aaron Bernstein1, Todd Michael Moewe1, S. Münch2, C. Hofman2, M. metric Oscillator, Jinghua Sun, Barry J. S. Japan, 2RIKEN, Japan. Numerical simulation USA. The operation of a very high-bright- Hundertmark2, Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro1, Ditmire1, Ronnie Shepherd2, Hui Chen2, Lam2, Alfred Forchel2, Connie Chang- Gale, Derryck T. Reid; Heriot-Watt Univ., UK. suggests two ways for optimizing giant pulse ness diode laser system for fiber laser pump- Jonathan C. Knight3, Philip St. J. Russell2, Yuan Ping2, Pravesh K. Patel2, Lee Elberson3; Hasnain1; 1Univ. of California at Berkeley, A coherent waveform is synthesized from of solid state Tm,Ho: YLF laser by using: (i) ing with over 1.7 kW of output power from Hugo L. Fragnito1; 1Inst. de Fisica Gleb 1Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, 2LLNL, USA, USA, 2Univ. Würzburg, Am Hubland, Ger- two co-resonant optical parametric signal 1 % Ho doping and (ii) 0.7 ms delay in Q- a 400 µm core, 0.22 NA fiber is reported. Wathagin, Brazil, 2Max-Planck Res. Group 3Univ. of Maryland, USA. We report the si- many. We report time-resolved photolumi- pulses with different center wavelengths and switch opening after 0.5 ms LD pumping. (IOIP), Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Ger- multaneous, single shot, time-resolved mea- nescence measurements on epitaxial (111) independent carrier-envelope phase-slip fre- many, 3Ctr. for Photonics and Photonic surements of self-emission and free expan- InP nanowires up to 110 K. The observed quencies. XFROG measurements confirm the Thursday, May 10 Thursday, Materials, Univ. of Bath, UK. The quasi- sion of aluminum isochorically heated by decay times increase with longer emission synthesized waveform is a train of high-con- Raman interaction between confined acous- laser generated MeV protons. In this way wavelengths, indicating the importance of trast 30 femtosecond pulses. tic phonons and light in PCF is strongly al- we measure the equation of state along an surface effects on narrow InP wires. tered by the introduction of a sub-wave- isochore. length hole running axially through the core. Coupling calculations and forward scatter- ing spectra illustrate the effect.

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QThJ1 • 4:45 p.m. CThII1 • 4:45 p.m. CThJJ1 • 4:45 p.m. CThLL1 • 4:45 p.m. Improving Fidelity of Skewed Output Pushbroom Laser Altimetry Using Fiber Multi-Axis Electrothermal Scanning A Terahertz Dual Wire Waveguide, Marx States of Optical Zeno Gates, Patrick M. Lasers and Photon Counting Detectors, Micromirror with Low Driving Voltage, Mbonye, Victoria Astley, Wai Lam Chan, Ja- Leung, Timothy C. Ralph; Univ. of James B. Abshire, David J. Harding, Xiaoli Kemiao Jia, Huikai Xie; Univ. of Florida, son Deibel, Daniel Mittleman; Rice Univ., Queensland, Australia. We have shown that Sun, Michael A. Krainak, Antonios A. Seas, USA. This paper presents the design, fabri- USA. We numerically model the propaga- high two-photon to one-photon absorption Philip W. Dabney; NASA-Goddard, USA. We cation and measurement results of a low tion of terahertz radiation along a double ratios are needed for a high fidelity free- report on progress in developing a new operating voltage, multi-degree-of-freedom wire waveguide using finite element analy- standing Zeno CZ gate. Nevertheless, using swath mapping laser altimeter measurement electrothermal micromirror. This micromirror sis. This is a promising alternative configu- this gate with distillation for cluster fusion approach using multiple laser measurement employs unique bimorph actuators to ration for terahertz waveguiding. can outperform linear optics fusion gate. beams, modulated fiber lasers, photon achieve one-dimensional piston motion and counting detectors, and event timers for fu- two-dimensional rotation. ture space missions.

QThJ2 • 5:00 p.m. CThII2 • 5:00 p.m. CThJJ2 • 5:00 p.m. CThKK2 • 5:00 p.m. CThLL2 • 5:00 p.m. Fast Spin State Initialization of a Single The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and Fiber-Coupled Γ-point Photonic Crystal Two-Photon Long-Period Grating In- Missing Conductivity in the THz Skin- Thursday, May 10 Quantum Dot Electron, Xiaodong Xu1, the Laser Ranging System on the Lunar Bandedge Laser, Yeonsang Park, scription in Pure-Fused-Silica Photonic Depth Layer of Metals, Norman Laman, Yanwen Wu1, Bo Sun1, Jun Cheng1, Qiong Reconnaissance Orbiter, Xiaoli Sun1, Sunghwan Kim, Chaeyoung Moon, Heonsu Crystal Fiber, Gilberto Brambilla1, Andrei Daniel R. Grischkowsky; Oklahoma State Huang1, Duncan Steel1, Allan Bracker2, Dan Haris Riris1, John F. Cavanaugh1, Jan F. Jeon; Seoul Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea. Fotiadi2, Stephen Slattery3, David Univ., USA. The conductivity of the THz skin- Gammon2, Clive Emary3, L. J. Sham3; 1Univ. McGarry1, Glenn B. Jackson1, Ronald S. We demonstrate a fiber coupling scheme Nikogosyan4; 1Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. depth layer of Al films in contact with sili- of Michigan, USA, 2NRL, USA, 3Univ. of Cali- Zellar1, David E. Smith1, Maria T. Zuber2; suitable for vertically emitting photonic crys- of Southampton, UK, 2Faculté Polytechnique con was measured via a parallel plate fornia at San Diego, USA. We report the 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA, 2MIT, tal lasers. The device, capable of efficiently de Mons, Belgium, 3Univ. College Cork, Ire- waveguide. The increase of conductivity at demonstration of fast spin state initializa- USA. The design of Lunar Orbiter Laser Al- launching and collecting photons from/into land, 4Photonics Res. Group, Electronic En- lower temperatures is extremely sensitive tion with near unity efficiency in a singly- timeter on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter a single mode fiber, produced fiber output gineering, Aston Univ., UK. Photochemical to the surface quality. charged quantum dot by optically cooling is presented. The one-way laser ranging close to 100 µW. inscription of a long-period grating in a pure an electron spin. system that provides precision tracking of fused silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is the spacecraft position from Earth is also reported. The inscription in PCF is found to described. be ten times more efficient than in a stan- dard telecom fiber.

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CThCC • Laser Processing CThDD • Novel Designs for CThEE • High-Power CThFF • Spatial Nonlinear JThG • Laser Plasmas and CThGG • Nanowires and CThHH • Optical Combs QThI • Meta-Optics— and Measurements— Solid-State Lasers— Semiconductor Lasers— Effect—Continued Particle Acceleration— Nanorods—Continued Technology II—Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued CThCC2 • 5:15 p.m. Invited CThDD3 • 5:15 p.m. CThEE3 • 5:15 p.m. CThFF3 • 5:15 p.m. JThG3 • 5:15 p.m. CThGG3 • 5:15 p.m. CThHH3 • 5:15 p.m. QThI2 • 5:15 p.m. Nanometer-Scale Imaging and Ablation High-Power CW Operation and Beam High Power 7-GHz Bandwidth External- Power Threshold of Discrete Surface Streaking Transient Electric Fields with Photoluminescence of GaInAsP/InP High Repetition Rate, Low Jitter, Funda- Explaining Enhanced Optical Transmis- with Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers, C. S. Quality of a Diode Edge-Pumped, Com- Cavity Diode Laser Array, Lei S. Meng, Solitons, Sergiy Suntsov1, Konstantinos Laser Accelerated Proton Beams, Thomas Single Quantum Wires with Lateral mentally Mode-Locked Soliton Er-Fiber sion through Sub-Wavelength Apertures: Menoni1, Fernando Brizuela1, C. Brewer1, posite All-Ceramic Yb:YAG Microchip Boris Nizamov, Pratheepan Madasamy, Ja- Makris1, Demetrios N. Christodoulides1, Sokollik1, Matthias Schnuerer1, Sargis Ter- Widths down to 6 nm Fabricated by Dry Laser, Jian Chen, Jason W. Sickler, Erich P. Surface Plasmon Polaritons vs. Compos- H. Bravo1, B. Langdon1, M. Berrill1, D. Laser, Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira; son K. Brasseur, Tom Henshaw, David K. George I. Stegeman1, Alain Hache2, Roberto Avetisyan1, Peter Viktor Nickles1, Gerd Etching and Regrowth, Hirotake Itoh1, Ippen, Franz X. Kaertner; MIT, USA. Gen- ite Diffracted Evanescent Waves, Philip Martz1, G. Vaschenko1, M. C. Marconi1, J. J. Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan. >400W Neumann; Directed Energy Solutions, USA. Morandotti3, Haeyeon Yang4, Gregory Priebe2, Enrico Risse1, Mikhail Kalashnikov1, Masahiro Yoshita1, Hidefumi Akiyama1, eration of low jitter 167fs pulses at a funda- Flammer1, Reuben Collins1, Ian Schick1, Rocca1, W. Chao2, E. H. Anderson2, D. T. CW operation of a diode edge-pumped, Spectral bandwidth of a diode laser array is Salamo4, Marc Sorel5; 1College of Optics and Munib Amin3, Toma Toncian3, Oswald Dhanorm Plumwongrot2, Takeo mental repetition rate of 194MHz from a Russell Hollingsworth2; 1Colorado School of Attwood2, A. V. Vinogradov3,4, I. A. composite all-ceramic Yb:YAG microchip narrowed to 7 GHz FWHM by using a thick Photonics, CREOL & FPCE, Univ. of Central Willi3, Wolfgang Sandner1,4; 1Max-Born- Maruyama2, Shigehisa Arai2; 1Inst. for Solid passively mode-locked Er-fiber soliton la- Mines, USA, 2ITN Energy Systems, USA. Sur- Artioukov3,4, Y. P. Pershyn3,4, V. V. (3mm-diameter core with a 200µm thick- volume Bragg grating. Total output power Florida, USA, 2Univ. de Moncton, Canada, Inst., Germany, 2CCLRC Daresbury Lab, UK, State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, and CREST JST, ser via nonlinear polarization rotation is re- face plasmon polaritons’ (SPPs) and com- Kondratenko3,4, O. Hemberg5, B. Frazer5, S. ness) laser was successfully demonstrated. reaches 13.5 W cw, of which 86% is in the 3Univ. du Quebec, Canada, 4Univ. of Arkan- 3Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf, Germany, Japan, 2Res. Ctr. for Quantum Effect Elec- ported. Performance of the laser and po- posite diffracted evanescent waves’ (CDEWs) Bloom5; 1Colorado State Univ., USA, 2LLNL, The M2 factor less than 7 up to 200 W CW 7-GHz band. sas, USA, 5Univ. of Glasgow, UK. We have 4Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany. A long tronics, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, and tential applications are discussed. role in enhanced optical transmission are USA, 3P. N. Lebedev Physical Inst., Russian was obtained. investigated the power threshold of discrete range electric field with nanosecond dura- CREST JST, Japan. We measured photolu- reviewed experimentally, via numerical Federation, 4Natl. Technical Univ., Ukraine, Kerr surface solitons at the interface between tion and a localized field at the rear side of minescence of GaInAsP/InP single quantum modeling, and theoretically. All results sup- 5JMAR Technologies, Inc., USA. The short discrete and continuous 1-D AlGaAs me- a laser irradiated foil have been investigated. wires with lateral widths down to 6 nm fab- port involvement of SPPs and contradict the wavelength and high brightness of compact dium. Distinct thresholds were measured for This scenario was recorded with a newly ricated by dry etching and regrowth. Lateral existence of CDEWs. extreme ultraviolet lasers is shown to en- interface solitons localized at different sites developed streak measurement setup. quantum confinement energies up to 90 meV able the development of microscopes with from the interface. were systematically observed. spatial resolution of tens of nanometers and new types of nanoprobes. CThDD4 • 5:30 p.m. Tutorial CThEE4 • 5:30 p.m. CThFF4 • 5:30 p.m. JThG4 • 5:30 p.m. Invited CThGG4 • 5:30 p.m. CThHH4 • 5:30 p.m. QThI3 • 5:30 p.m. Rod-Slab-Disc-Fiber, Design and Perfor- High-Power (14 W CW), Narrow Far- Observation of Two-Dimensional Dis- Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysi- Second- and Third-Order Nonlinear Synchronizing Lasers over Fiber by Magnetic Plasmon Resonances and Op- mance Comparison of High Power La- Field (3° FWHM) 920 nm Quantum-Dots crete Surface Solitons and Surface Gap cal Blastwaves Using Intense Laser In- Optical Properties of Arrayed ZnO Transmitting Continuous Waves, Russell tical Activity, Dentcho A. Genov1, H. Liu2, ser Architectures, Dieter Hoffmann; Tapered Laser Mini-Bar, Nicolas Michel1, Solitons, Xiaosheng Weng1,2, Anna teractions, Todd Ditmire1, D. Symes1, A. Nanorods, Hwang Woon Lee, Jong Taek Wilcox, John Staples; Lawrence Berkeley Natl. D. W. Wu1, Y. M. Liu1, C. Sun1, S. N. Zhu2, X. Fraunhofer Inst. Lasertechnik ILT, Germany. Michel Calligaro1, Michel Krakowski1, Bezryadina1, Zhigang Chen1,2, K. G. Makris3, Edens2, J. Osterhoff1, R. Fäustlin1, M. Kim, Kyung Moon Lee, Ken Ha Koh, Soonil Lab, USA. We have developed an interfero- Zhang1; 1Univ. of California at Berkeley, An overview on the fundamental potentials Wolfgang Kaiser2, Stefan Deubert2, Alfred D. N. Christodoulides3, G. I. Stegeman3; 1San Maurer1, A. S. Moore3, A. C. Bernstein1; Lee, Fabian Rotermund; Ajou Univ., Repub- metric method of delivering optical phase USA, 2Nanjing Univ., China. Novel type of and limitations of the different solid state Forchel2, Johann-Peter Reithmaier3, Benoît Francisco State Univ., USA, 2Nankai Univ., 1Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, 2Sandia Natl. lic of Korea. We performed second harmonic information over kilometers of fiber with optical activity due to magnetic plasmon laser architectures is given and compared Boulant4, Thierry Fillardet4; 1Alcatel-Thales China, 3CREOL & FPCE, Univ. of Central Lab, USA, 3Imperial College, UK. Using high generation using Maker fringe technique and sub-10fs long term stability. This enables resonances is demonstrated for a first time. with the data demonstrated. Scaling laws and 3-5 Lab, France, 2Technische Physik, Univ. Florida, USA. We report the first observa- energy nanosecond and femtosecond lasers, z-scan measurement to determine macro- temporal synchronization of pulsed lasers A linearly polarized light is shown to change limits for CW and pulsed operation are dis- Würzburg, Germany, 3Technische Physik, tion of two-dimensional surface solitons at we have studied the hydrodynamics of high scopic second- and third-order nonlinear by transmission of CW signals. polarization after passing through a cussed. Univ. Kassel, Germany, 4Nuvonyx Europe, the first bandgap with a self-defocusing Mach number, laser-driven radiative blast optical susceptibilities of vertically well-ori- metamaterial made of coupled magnetic France. We have realised the first high- nonlinearity and at the semi-infinite gap with waves. These waves can be used to study ented ZnO nanorods of different diameters, dimers. power quantum-dots tapered laser mini-bar, a self-focusing nonlinearity. Experimental various astrophysically relevant hydrody- grown by a hydrothermal process. which delivers 14 W CW, with a narrow far- results are in agreement with theoretical namic phenomena and instabilities. field angle of 3° FWHM, and a reduced predictions. wavelength shift of 0.21 nm/K.

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QThJ • Quantum CThII • Remote CThJJ • Nanophotonic CThKK • Fiber Devices for CThLL • Terahertz Computing—Continued Sensing II—Continued Structures and Devices— Sensing and Metrology— Waveguides—Continued Continued Continued

QThJ3 • 5:15 p.m. Invited CThII3 • 5:15 p.m. CThJJ3 • 5:15 p.m. CThKK3 • 5:15 p.m. CThLL3 • 5:15 p.m. Tolerable Noise in Scalable Quantum Phase Insensitive Frequency Modulation Micromachined Quantum-Well Air-Clad First and Higher-Order All-Optical Tem- Silver/Polystyrene Coated Hollow Glass 1 Computing, Manny Knill; NIST Boulder, Sensor for Long Distance CO2 Monitor- Waveguides, Todd H. Stievater , William S. poral Differentiators Based on Fiber Waveguides for the Transmission of THz USA. Abstract not available. ing, Sheng Wu, Andrei Deev; PEER Ctr., Rabinovich1, Doewon Park1, Jacob B. Bragg Gratings, Luis M. Rivas1,2, Kanwarpal Radiation, Bradley Bowden1, James A. 2 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 Caltech, USA. We report a long distance CO2 Khurgin , Subramaniam Kanakaraju ; Singh , Alejandro Carballar , José Azaña ; Harrington , Oleg Mitrofanov ; Rutgers monitoring LIDAR using phase insensitive 1NRL, USA, 2Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, 3Lab 1Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique Univ., USA, 2Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Two-Tone Frequency Modulation (TTFM) for Physical Sciences, USA. We have used (INRS), Canada, 2Dep. Ingeniería USA. We report on the design theory and over 1.4km. We could detect 1ppm single surface micromachining to fabricate sus- Electrónica, Escuela Técnica Superior de fabrication of silver/polystyrene(PS) coated

pass CO2 changes, and could detect CO2 pended InGaAs quantum well waveguides Ingenieros, Univ. Sevilla, Spain. We intro- hollow glass waveguides (HGWs) for THz leaks the open air. that are supported by lateral tethers. Their duce a general approach for Nth-order all- radiation. We find that Ag/PS coated HGWs enhanced electro-optical and nonlinear-op- optical time differentiation using fiber Bragg have significantly lower attenuation for 119 tical properties will be discussed. gratings (FBGs). Arbitrary signals with band- micrometer radiation than Ag-only HGWs. widths up to a few hundreds GHz can be accurately and efficiently processed using readily feasible FBGs.

CThII4 • 5:30 p.m. CThJJ4 • 5:30 p.m. CThKK4 • 5:30 p.m. CThLL4 • 5:30 p.m.

Remote Detection of Breath CO2 with Polarization Effect in the Transmission Low Insertion-Loss (1.8 dB) and Vacuum- Ferroelectric All-Polymer Hollow Bragg Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spec- through a Single Nanoscopic Aperture, Pressure All-Fiber Acetylene Cell Based Fibers for THz, Maksim Skorobogatiy; Ecole troscopy, Andrew Wright, M. B. Frish; Jochen Mueller, Peter Banzer, Susanne on Hollow-Core PCF, Philip S. Light, Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Hol- Physical Sciences Inc, USA. Remote detec- Quabis, Gerd Leuchs; Inst. of Optics, Infor- Francois Couny, Fetah Benabid; Univ. of low Bragg fiber operating near ferroelectric tion of vital signs is useful in various mili- mation and Photonics, Max Planck Res. Bath, UK. A novel hollow-core-PCF acety- resonance of one of its reflector materials is tary and security scenarios. We describe a Group, Germany. Transmission of a strongly lene-cell fabrication technique based on considered. Depending upon operating fre-

sensor measuring CO2 in exhaled breath to focused light beam through a nanoscopic helium-diffusion through silica is reported. quency, lowest loss design is: a band gap 35 meters using an eye-safe tunable diode aperture differs for radial and azimuthal The gas cell combines low insertion loss (1.8 fiber, fiber with metamaterial reflector or a

laser, for standoff respiration detection. polarization and for holes and coaxial struc- dB) and low pressure (0.001 mbar). Elec- ferroelectric tube. Thursday, May 10 tures. Experimental results are compared tromagnetically-induced-transparency was with FDTD-calculations showing the rel- used to determine the final acetylene-pres- evance of surface plasmons. sure.

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CThCC • Laser Processing CThDD • Novel Designs for CThEE • High-Power CThFF • Spatial Nonlinear JThG • Laser Plasmas and CThGG • Nanowires and CThHH • Optical Combs QThI • Meta-Optics— and Measurements— Solid-State Lasers— Semiconductor Lasers— Effect—Continued Particle Acceleration— Nanorods—Continued Technology II—Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued CThCC3 • 5:45 p.m. CThEE5 • 5:45 p.m. CThFF5 • 5:45 p.m. CThGG5 • 5:45 p.m. Invited CThHH5 • 5:45 p.m. QThI4 • 5:45 p.m. Arrays of Sub-100 nm Features Fabri- Investigation of Catastrophic Optical Nonreciprocal Transmission and Low- Trapping and Transport of Silicon Pulse to Pulse Frequency Skew by Modu- Non-Local Effects in Effective Medium cated with Table Top Extreme Ultravio- Mirror Damage in High Power Single- Threshold Bistability in Strongly Modu- Nanowires Using Lateral-Field Optoelec- lated Composite Cavity Structure for Response of Nanolayered Meta- let Interferometric Laser Lithography, Mode InGaAs-AlGaAs Strained Quantum lated Asymmetric Nonlinear WBGs, tronic Tweezers, Aaron T. Ohta, Arash Range Detection, Sarper Ozharar, materials, Viktor A. Podolskiy1, Justin Elser1, Przemyslaw W. Wachulak1, Maria G. Well Lasers with Focused Ion Beam and Masafumi Fujii1, Tetsuya Takashima1, Ayan Jamshid, Peter J. Pauzauskie, Hsan-Yin Hsu, Sangyoun Gee, Franklyn Quinlan, Peter J. Ildar Salakhutdinov2, Ivan Avrutsky2; 1Or- Capeluto2, Mario C. Marconi1, Carmen S. HR-TEM Techniques, Yongkun Sin, Maitra2, Juerg Leuthold2, Wolfgang Freude2, Peidong Yang, Ming C. Wu; Univ. of Cali- Delfyett; CREOL, USA. We propose and ex- egon State Univ., USA, 2Wayne State Univ., Menoni1, Jorge J. Rocca1; 1Colorado State Nathan Presser, Brendan Foran, Maribeth Christopher Poulton3; 1Univ. of Toyama, Ja- fornia at Berkeley, USA. We present a new perimentally demonstrate a novel intracavity USA. We demonstrate that the majority of Univ., USA, 2Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argen- Mason, Steven C. Moss; Aerospace Corp., pan, 2Inst. of High-Frequency and Quantum optoelectronic tweezers device that pro- modulation scheme to generate frequency plasmonic nanolayered composites, despite tina. Arrays of nano-dots were demonstrated USA. We report our investigation of cata- Electronics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, duces electric fields parallel to the plane of shifted coherent pulses from a repetition rate being subwavelength, are not described by by multiple exposure interferometric lithog- strophic optical mirror damage (COMD) in 3Max-Planck Res. Group for Optics, Univ. the device. This device is capable of trap- multiplied harmonically mode-locked ring effective medium theory and develop an raphy using a table top λ=46.9 nm wave- 980nm high power single spatial mode Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Non- ping and transporting p-type silicon laser for range detection applications. adequate description of electromagnetism length laser. Patterns of different geometries InGaAs-AlGaAs strained quantum well (QW) reciprocal optical bistability is numerically nanowires at velocities of 20 micrometers/s. in these systems. with features ~ 60 nm FWHM were printed lasers using focused ion beam (FIB) and investigated in InGaAsP/InP nonlinear controlling the exposure dose. high-resolution transmission electron micro- waveguide Bragg gratings having a strong scope (HR-TEM) techniques. and asymmetric sidewall modulation. Mini- mum switching power as low as 77 mW is predicted by choosing optimal switching conditions.

CThCC4 • 6:00 p.m. CThEE6 • 6:00 p.m. CThFF6 • 6:00 p.m. JThG5 • 6:00 p.m. CThHH6 • 6:00 p.m. QThI5 • 6:00 p.m. Highly Sensitive Asymmetric Long Pe- Power Scalable Semiconductor Disk La- Polarization Instability in a Long Period Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Mediated Frequency Stabilized Low Timing Jitter Negative Meta-Magnetism in the Visible riod Fiber Grating over 1545 ~ 1650 nm ser Using Multiple Gain Cavity, Esa J. Grating of χ(3), Nicolas Belanger, Jacques by Ponderomotive-Force-Driven Plasma Mode-Locked Laser with an Intracavity Range, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan1, Uday K. Using Optical Polymer on Deep-Ablated Saarinen, Antti Härkönen, Soile M. Laniel, Alain Villeneuve; INRS, Énergie, Gratings, Kan-Hua Lee1, Chih-Hao Pai1,2, Etalon, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Sangyoun Gee, Chettiar1, Wenshan Cai1, Alexander V. Cladding, Nan-Kuang Chen1, Der-Yi Hsu2, Suomalainen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov; Optoelec- Matériaux et Télécommunications, Canada. Ming-Wei Lin1, Li-Chuang Ha1,2, Jyhpyng Sarper Ozharar, Peter Delfyett; College of Kildishev1, Alexandra Boltasseva2, Vladimir Sien Chi1,3; 1Dept. of Photonics and Inst. of tronics Res. Ctr., Tampere Univ. of Technol- We present a novel type of mode coupling Wang1,2,3, Szu-Yuan Chen1,3, Jiunn-Yuan Optics and Photonics/CREOL, Unviersity of P. Drachev1, Vladimir M. Shalaev1; 1Electri- Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Chiao ogy, Finland. We report on power scaling phase matched by a long period grating of Lin4; 1Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Central Florida, USA. A low noise, semicon- cal and Computer Engineering Dept., Tung Univ., Taiwan, 2Inst. of Photonics Tech- of optically-pumped semiconductor disk χ(3) with no coupling due to the linear grat- Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2Dept. of Phys- ductor based, frequency stabilized, 10.24 Purdue Univ., USA, 2Dept. of Communica- nologies, Natl. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan, laser using multiple gain scheme. Increased ing. We demonstrate its use for polarization ics, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 3Dept. of GHz mode-locked laser with a pulse timing tions, Optics and Materials, Technology Univ. 3Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze power and threshold of rollover have been switching. Physics, Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan, 4Dept. jitter and pulse amplitude jitter (1 Hz -100 of Denmark, Denmark. Arrays of silver nano- Univ., Taiwan. We demonstrate high tem- achieved in dual-gain configuration owing of Physics, Natl. Chung Cheng Univ., Tai- MHz) of 7.5 fs and 0.04%, respectively, is strips reveal negative effective permeabilities perature-sensitive, wideband-tunable, laser- to reduced thermal load for each gain ele- wan. Degenerate four-wave mixing medi- demonstrated. of -1 and -1.7 at 770 nm and 725 nm. We ablated asymmetric long period fiber grat- ment. ated by ponderomotive-force-driven plasma show that lower silver deposition rate re- ings with optical polymer overlay. The tem- gratings is demonstrated in the near-infra- sults in stronger magnetic resonances. perature sensitivity can be as high as 15.8 red regime, which may be used to compen- nm/°C over a wide spectral range from 1545 sate for wavefront distortion occurring in to 1650 nm. various laser-plasma-based devices.

Thursday, May 10 Thursday,

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QThJ • Quantum CThII • Remote CThJJ • Nanophotonic CThKK • Fiber Devices for CThLL • Terahertz Computing—Continued Sensing II—Continued Structures and Devices— Sensing and Metrology— Waveguides—Continued Continued Continued

QThJ4 • 5:45 p.m. CThII5 • 5:45 p.m. CThJJ5 • 5:45 p.m. CThKK5 • 5:45 p.m. CThLL5 • 5:45 p.m.

Kerr-Induced Phase Noise in Quantum Lidar Approach for Measuring the CO2 Circularly Polarized Emission from Col- Nonlinear Phenomena in the Response Air-Core Microstructure Fiber for Parity Gates, Mohsen Razavi, Jeffrey H. Concentrations in the Troposphere loidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Con- of Interferometric Fiber-Optic Current Terahertz Radiation Waveguiding, Ja-Yu Shapiro; MIT, USA. Quantum parity gates that from Space, James B. Abshire1, Haris Riris1, fined in Sculptured Thin Film Based Sensors, Klaus Bohnert, Philippe Gabus, Lu1, Chin-Ping Yu1, Hung-Chung Chang1, use weak nonlinearity between single pho- Xiaoli Sun1, Michael A. Krainak1, Stephan Microcavities, Jian Xu1, Fan Zhang1, Samuel Wiesendanger, Jürgen Nehring, Hung-Wen Chen1, Yu-Tai Li2, Ci-Ling Pan2, tons and intense coherent pulses are ana- R. Kawa1, Jian-Ping Mao2, Pey-Schuan Jian2, Akhlesh Lakhtakia1, Sean Pursel1, Michael Hubert Brändle; ABB Ltd, Switzerland. The Chi-Kuang Sun3; 1Graduate Inst. of Electro- lyzed using a continuous-time model for John F. Burris1; 1NASA-Goddard, USA, 2Sci- Gerhold2; 1Pennsylvania State Univ., USA, nonlinearities in the response of an inter- Optical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ., cross-phase modulation. An inevitable phase ence Systems and Applications Inc., USA. We 2Engineering Sciences Directorate, Army Res. ferometric fiber-optic current sensor associ- Taiwan, 2Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical noise is shown to degrade gate fidelity. report progress in assessing the feasibility Office, USA. We report the simultaneous ated with inherent temperature compensa- Engineering, Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ., Tai- of a new satellite-based laser-sounding in- control of the polarization state and emis- tion of the Faraday effect are investigated at wan, 3Graduate Inst. of Electro-Optical En-

strument to measure CO2 concentrations in sion bandwidth of colloidal nanocrystal- currents up to several 100 kA and tempera- gineering and Dept. of Electrical Engineer- the lower troposphere from space. quantum-dots by embedding them in chiral tures between -40 and 80°C. ing, Natl. Taiwan Univ., and Res. Ctr. for reflector-based microcavities, which arises Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. from the enhanced coupling between the We demonstrate a simple and low-loss THz NQD-excitons and the confined-electromag- microstructure fiber for broadband THz netic-field. waveguiding, which is constructed by us- ing the highly flexible and readily available materials. Substantially low attenuation con- stant less than 0.01cm-1 has been achieved.

QThJ5 • 6:00 p.m. CThII6 • 6:00 p.m. CThJJ6 • 6:00 p.m. CThKK6 • 6:00 p.m. CThLL6 • 6:00 p.m. Minimum Energy Pulses for Quantum Infrared Heterodyne Radiometry Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Stud- Multimode Fiber Loop Ring down Spec- 1-D THz Photonic Waveguides, Adam L. Logic Cannot Be Shared, Julio Gea- Quantum Cascade Laser as Tunable Lo- ies and Spectral Narrowing in ZnO troscopy for Pressure Measurement, Bingham, Daniel R. Grischkowsky; Okla- Banacloche1, Masanao Ozawa2; 1Univ. of cal Oscillator: Application to Atmo- Nanostructures, Gregory A. Garrett1, Huiye Qiu1, Yishen Qiu2, Zhihao Chen3, homa State Univ., USA. 1-D, lithographically Arkansas, USA, 2Tohoku Univ., Japan. If an spheric Studies, Damien Weidmann, Wil- Hongen Shen1, Michael Wraback1, Loucas Baoyu Fu2, Xiyao Chen2, Gaoming Li2; fabricated, grooved (with and without de- electromagnetic pulse with average photon liam J. Reburn, Kevin M. Smith; CCLRC Ru- Tsakalakos2, Steven F. LeBoeuf2; 1US ARL, 1Fujian Normal Univ., China, 2Fujian Nor- fects) chips are inserted into a metal paral- number n is used to carry out the same quan- therford Appleton Lab, UK. QCLs offer an USA, 2General Electric—Global Res. Ctr., mal Univ, China, 3Inst. for Infocomm Res., lel plate waveguide. THz time-domain spec- tum logical operation on a set of N atoms, alternative to gas lasers as local oscillators USA. Pulsed-excitation photoluminescence Singapore. We demonstrate a multimode fi- troscopy is used to characterize these Thursday, May 10 the worst-case overall error probability scales in infrared laser heterodyne radiometers studies of ZnO nanostructures show spec- ber loop ring down spectroscopy for pres- waveguides. A good match between theory as N2/n. (LHRs). A QCL-based LHR operating in fre- tral narrowing and a corresponding decrease sure measurement with higher sensitivity and experiment is shown. quency-sweep mode has been developed in lifetime with an increase in pump fluence. over larger dynamic range of measurement and deployed in laboratory and field mea- Results for structures grown on sapphire and compared with single mode fiber counter- surements. silicon are presented. part.

CLEO/QELS and PhAST 2007, May 6–11, 2007 • Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland ROOM 318-320 ROOM 321-323 ROOM 324-326 ROOM 314 ROOM 315 ROOM 316 ROOM 317 ROOM 336

CLEO JOINT CLEO QELS

CThCC • Laser Processing CThDD • Novel Designs for CThEE • High-Power CThFF • Spatial Nonlinear JThG • Laser Plasmas and CThHH • Optical Combs QThI • Meta-Optics— and Measurements— Solid-State Lasers— Semiconductor Lasers— Effect—Continued Particle Acceleration— Technology II—Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued Continued CThCC5 • 6:15 p.m. CThEE7 • 6:15 p.m. CThFF7 • 6:15 p.m. JThG6 • 6:15 p.m. CThHH7 • 6:15 p.m. QThI6 • 6:15 p.m. Transparent Thin-Film Characterization Etched Micro-Structures for Control of Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Second-Har- Study of Hot Electron Transportation in Octave-Spanning Optical Waveform Syn- The Influence of Granularity on the by Using Differential Optical Sectioning Optical Mode Distribution for Improved monic Imaging of Ferroelectric Domain Foils and Wedge Targets Irradiated with thesizer for Coherent Control Experi- Subwavelength Performance of a Nega- 1 1 Interference Microscopy, Chun-Chieh Broad Area Laser Performance, Paul A. Structure of YMnO3, Corneliu Catalin Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Byoung-ick Cho, ments, Stefan Rausch , Thomas Bin- tive Refractive Index Lens, Kevin J. Webb , Wang1, Hong-Jhang Jian2, Chau-Hwang Crump1, Tristan Matson1, Victor Anderson1, Neacsu1, Bas B. Van Aken2,1, Manfred Jens Osterholz, Gilliss Dyer, Stefan Kneip, hammer1, Volker Scheuer2, Franz X. Jia-Han Li2; 1Purdue Univ., USA, 2Natl. Tai- Lee3; 1Graduate Inst. of Physics, Natl. Chung Derek Schulte1, Jake Bell1, Jason Farmer1, Fiebig2,1, Markus B. Raschke3; 1Max-Born- Daniel Symes, A. Bernstein, Todd Ditmire; Kaertner3, Uwe Morgner1; 1Univ. Hannover, wan Univ., Taiwan. A model for a discrete Cheng Univ., Taiwan, 2Graduate Inst. of Mark DeVito1, Rob Martinsen1, Y. K. Kim2, Inst. für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeit- Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. We investi- Germany, 2Nanolayers GmbH, Germany, negative refractive index slab lens is used Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, K. D. Choquette2; 1nLight Photonics Corp., spektroskopie, Germany, 2HISKP,Univ. Bonn, gated the hot electron transport in foil and 3MIT, USA. We present a unique combina- to evaluate the impact of granularity on Natl. Taiwan Ocean Univ., Taiwan, 3Res. Ctr. USA, 2Univ. of Illinois, USA. Etching micro- Germany, 3Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of wedge shaped targets irradiated with ultra- tion of an improved octave-spanning laser image resolution, in particular, on the eva- for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tai- structures into broad area diode lasers leads Washington, USA. The spatially resolved intense laser pulses. The results suggest that oscillator and prism-based pulse shaper al- nescent field transfer function. wan. Differential optical sectioning interfer- allows for independent control of the opti- imaging of ferroelectric domain structure of the electrons are guided by the strong quasi- lowing for the generation of various pulse

ence microscopy is proposed for measur- cal modes. Appropriately designed micro- unpoled YMnO3 was achieved combining static electromagnetic fields at the wedge shapes and sequences for coherent control ing the refractive index (n) and thickness structures are found to lead to more uni- second-harmonic generation with tip-en- boundary. experiments. (d) of transparent thin films with sub-mi- form near field and increased power con- hanced near-field optical microscopy. Do- crometer lateral resolution. We demonstrate version efficiency. mains elongated along the hexagonal axis

this technique with a 100-nm SiO2 layer on with dimensions of several 100 nm were Si. observed.

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. DINNER BREAK (on your own)

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. CLEO/QELS POSTDEADLINE PAPER SESSIONS

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QThJ • Quantum CThII • Remote CThJJ • Nanophotonic CThKK • Fiber Devices for CThLL • Terahertz Computing—Continued Sensing II—Continued Structures and Devices— Sensing and Metrology— Waveguides—Continued Continued Continued

QThJ6 • 6:15 p.m. CThII7 • 6:15 p.m. CThJJ7 • 6:15 p.m. CThKK7 • 6:15 p.m. CThLL7 • 6:15 p.m. Simple Experimental Generation of a Tunable Diode Laser Wavelength Modu- Performance Limits to Waveguide Isola- Novel Optical Frequency Domain Reflec- THz Fiber Directional Coupler, Hung- Four-Photon Cluster State and Distin- lation Spectroscopy (TDL-WMS) Using a tors in InP, Tauhid R. Zaman, Rajeev J. tometry with Measurement Range be- Wen Chen1, Ja-Yu Lu1, Li-Jin Chen1, Po-Jui guishing Classes of Genuine Four-Qubit Fiber-Amplified Source, Richard Wainner, Ram; MIT, USA. Limits of isolation and band- yond Laser Coherence Length Realized Chiang1, Hung-Chun Chang1, Yu-Tai Li2, Ci- Entanglement Using Witness Operators, Michael Frish, Mark Allen, Matthew Laderer, width for existing waveguide isolators in InP Using Concatenatively Generated Refer- Ling Pan2, Chi-Kuang Sun1; 1Graduate Inst. Yuuki Tokunaga1,2,3, Shin Kuwashiro2,3, David Green; Physical Sciences Inc., USA. are analyzed. A new integrated waveguide ence Signal, Xinyu Fan, Fumihiko Ito; NTT of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Takashi Yamamoto2,3, Masato Koashi2,3, The potential for extended-range remote isolator design is proposed which achieves Access Network Service Systems Labs, NTT Univ., Taiwan, 2Dept. of Photonics and Inst. Nobuyuki Imoto2,3; 1NTT, Japan, 2Osaka sensing of methane is examined, utilizing a an isolation greater than 38 dB and a loss of Corp., Japan. We have developed a novel of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Chiao Univ., Japan, 3CREST-JST, Japan. We experi- fiber-amplified source. Details of WMS ab- 1.4 dB. optical frequency domain reflectometry Tung Univ., Taiwan. We demonstrated a mentally demonstrate a simple scheme for sorption signal characteristics and output (OFDR) technique with a measurement THz subwavelength fiber coupler for future generating a four-photon cluster state. We laser characteristics are presented for an range beyond the laser coherence length millimeter wave applications. Unlike tradi- show that the produced state has genuine EDFA-amplified tunable DFB diode laser. by using concatenatively generated refer- tional optical fiber couplers, its coupling ratio four-qubit entanglement which is discrimi- ence signal from an auxiliary interferometer. is independent of the length of the coupling nated from a class including GHZ and W region because of the anti-symmetric mode types of entanglement. cutoff.

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. DINNER BREAK (on your own)

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. CLEO/QELS POSTDEADLINE PAPER SESSIONS

Thursday, May 10

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