1. Hexagonal waveguide arrays written with fs-laser pulses

   • A. Szameit
   • D. Blömer
   • A. Tünnermann

   Rapid communication 25 January 2006 Pages: 507 - 512

2. Compression of the pulses of a Ti:sapphire laser system to 5 femtoseconds at 0.2 terawatt level

   • A.J. Verhoef
   • J. Seres
   • F. Krausz

   Rapid communication 13 January 2006 Pages: 513 - 517

3. Convergent-beam diffraction of ultra-short hard X-ray pulses focused by a capillary lens

   • R. Tommasini
   • R. Bruch
   • A. Bjeoumikhov

   Rapid communication 14 January 2006 Pages: 519 - 522

4. Nanoscale laser-induced spallation in SiO₂ films containing gold nanoparticles

   • S.I. Kudryashov
   • S.D. Allen
   • A.W. Schmid

   Rapid communication 19 January 2006 Pages: 523 - 527

5. Strong temperature effect on X-ray photo-etching of polytetrafluoroethylene using a 10 Hz laser-plasma radiation source based on a gas puff target

   • A. Bartnik
   • H. Fiedorowicz
   • M. Szczurek

   Rapid communication 25 January 2006 Pages: 529 - 532

6. Bose–Einstein condensation in a mm-scale Ioffe–Pritchard trap

   • K.L. Moore
   • T.P. Purdy
   • D.M. Stamper-Kurn

   OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 533 - 538

7. Lasing action in two-dimensional organic photonic crystal lasers with hexagonal symmetry

   • K. Forberich
   • M. Diem
   • K. Busch

   OriginalPaper 25 January 2006 Pages: 539 - 541

8. Optical switching in metallic photonic crystal slabs with photoaddressable polymers

   • D. Nau
   • R.P. Bertram
   • H. Giessen

   OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 543 - 547

9. Effect of refractive index of environment medium on electromagnetic mode density in photonic band gaps

   • Z. Wang
   • D. Liu

   OriginalPaper 25 January 2006 Pages: 549 - 553

10. Robust and precise length stabilization of a 25-km long optical fiber using an optical interferometric method with a digital phase-frequency discriminator

    • M. Musha
    • Y. Sato
    • M. Ishiguro

    OriginalPaper 18 January 2006 Pages: 555 - 559

11. Influence of negative leader propagation on the triggering and guiding of high voltage discharges by laser filaments

    • R. Ackermann
    • G. Méchain
    • J.-P. Wolf

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2005 Pages: 561 - 566

12. Hollow-fiber pulse compressor for KrF lasers

    • J.-H. Klein-Wiele
    • T. Nagy
    • P. Simon

    OriginalPaper 21 December 2005 Pages: 567 - 570

13. Suppression of pre- and post-pulses in a multipass Ti:sapphire amplifier

    • J. Wang
    • M. Weinelt
    • T. Fauster

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2006 Pages: 571 - 574

14. Plasma effects and the modulation of white light spectra in the propagation of ultrashort, high-power laser pulses in barium fluoride

    • A.K. Dharmadhikari
    • F.A. Rajgara
    • D. Mathur

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 575 - 583

15. Matching of both group-velocity and pulse-front for ultrabroadband three-wave-mixing with noncollinear angularly dispersed geometry

    • H. Liu
    • W. Zhao
    • G. Chen

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 585 - 594

16. Metal film effect on performance of very-small-aperture lasers

    • Q. Gan
    • G. Song
    • L. Chen

    OriginalPaper 12 January 2006 Pages: 595 - 598

17. Neodymium concentration dependence of 0.94-, 1.06- and 1.34-μm laser emission and of heating effects under 809- and 885-nm diode laser pumping of Nd:YAG

    • N. Pavel
    • V. Lupei
    • H. Kan

    OriginalPaper 13 January 2006 Pages: 599 - 605

18. Spectral properties and energy transfer of Yb,Er:GdVO₄ crystal

    • N.F. Zhuang
    • X.L. Hu
    • J.Z. Chen

    OriginalPaper 11 January 2006 Pages: 607 - 613

19. Effects of two-photon absorption on carrier dynamics in quantum-dot optical amplifiers

    • H. Ju
    • A.V. Uskov
    • H.J.S. Dorren

    OriginalPaper 12 January 2006 Pages: 615 - 620

20. Generation of a uniform high-density microwave plasma for CO₂ lasers using orthogonal electric fields

    • K. Saito
    • M. Kimura
    • T. Uchiyama

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2006 Pages: 621 - 625

21. Improvement of the direct optical transition probability in Si by wavefunction engineering

    • R. Stömmer

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2006 Pages: 627 - 631

22. Quantum magnetic flux through helical molecules in optically active media

    • C.Z. Tan

    OriginalPaper 12 January 2006 Pages: 633 - 636

23. 16 × 1 integrated filter array in the MIR region prepared by using a combinatorial etching technique

    • S.-W. Wang
    • D. Liu
    • W. Lu

    OriginalPaper 11 January 2006 Pages: 637 - 641

24. A real time method for surface cleanliness measurement

    • G.M. Bilmes
    • D.J.O. Orzi
    • A. Lencina

    OriginalPaper 18 January 2006 Pages: 643 - 648

25. Quantum cascade laser-based carbon monoxide detection on a second time scale from human breath

    • B.W.M. Moeskops
    • H. Naus
    • F.J.M. Harren

    OriginalPaper 18 January 2006 Pages: 649 - 654

26. Femtosecond laser-induced nonlinear spectroscopy for remote sensing of methane

    • H.L. Xu
    • J.F. Daigle
    • S.L. Chin

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 655 - 658

27. Molecular oxygen detection in low pressure flames using cavity ring-down spectroscopy

    • A. Goldman
    • I. Rahinov
    • S. Cheskis

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2006 Pages: 659 - 663

28. Optical parametric oscillator-based photoacoustic detection of CO₂ at 4.23 μm allows real-time monitoring of the respiration of small insects

    • M.M.J.W. van Herpen
    • A.K.Y. Ngai
    • F.J.M. Harren

    OriginalPaper 13 January 2006 Pages: 665 - 669