1. Electronic states in hyperbolic-boundary crescent-shaped quantum wires

   • C. J. Fall
   • M.-A. Dupertuis
   • E. Kapon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 213

2. High-power laser structures incorporating novel curved-gratings

   • G. S. Sokolovskii
   • E. U. Rafailov
   • W. Sibbett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 221

3. Degree of polarization of non-uniformly partially polarized beams: a proposal

   • G. Piquero
   • J. M. Movilla
   • R. Martínez-herrero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 226

4. Transmission passband, optical crosstalk and cascadability of free-space concave grating demultiplexer for dense WDM networks

   • F. N. Timofeev
   • E. G. Churin
   • J. E. Midwinter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 236

5. Analytical model for the calculation of the optical signal-to- noise ratio (SNR) of WDM EDFA chains

   • R. Schober
   • P. Bayvel
   • F. Di Pasquale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 241

6. Dispersion supported transmissionwith a binary optical signal at the receiver

   • K. Perlicki
   • J. Siuzdak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 247

7. Measurement of the energy transfer and upconversion constants in Er–Yb-doped phosphate glass

   • S. Taccheo
   • G. Sorbello
   • P. Laporta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 262

8. Multiphoton parametric processes during interaction of counterpropagating light pulses with sodium vapour

   • V. Vaičaitis
   • V. Smilgevičius
   • A. Piskarskas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 267

9. Two-photon absorption and two-photon-induced absorption of some organic liquids at 347.15 nm

   • S.-H. Gong
   • A. Penzkofer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 290

10. Distributed feedback semiconductor lasers John Carroll, James Whiteway and Dick Plumb

    • Polina Bayvel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 292