1. Integrated Optics

   Editorial 23 April 2014 Pages: 431 - 431

2. Planar Er- and Yb-doped amplifiers and lasers

   • J. Hübner
   • S. Guldberg-Kjaer
   • T. Feuchter

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 435 - 438

3. Single-frequency Ti:Er:LiNbO3 distributed Bragg reflector waveguide laser with thermally fixed photorefractive cavity

   • B.K. Das
   • H. Suche
   • W. Sohler

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 439 - 442

4. Spectral line broadening mechanism of Er3+ transitions in Er:Ti:LiNbO3 channel waveguides

   • V. Dierolf
   • A.B. Kutsenko
   • Chr. Sandmann

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 443 - 448

5. Structural and optical characterization of Er3+/Yb3+-doped LiNbO3

   • V.A. Fedorov
   • Yu.N. Korkishko
   • F. Cussó

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 449 - 451

6. Optical characterization of Cr3+ centers in LiNbO3

   • S.A. Basun
   • A.A. Kaplyanskii
   • K. Polgar

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 453 - 461

7. Photoluminescence of terbium-organic complex in aerosol–gel-derived planar waveguides

   • P. Jenouvrier
   • E. Cela
   • J. Fick

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 463 - 466

8. Hybrid polymer/silica thermo-optic vertical coupler switches

   • N. Keil
   • H.H. Yao
   • M. Bauer

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 469 - 473

9. Intensity modulation in two Mach–Zehnder interferometers using plasma dispersion in silicon-on-insulator

   • P. Dainesi
   • L. Thevenaz
   • Ph. Robert

   OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 475 - 478

10. Optimization of TE–TM mode converters on X-cut, Y-propagation LiNbO3 used for PMD compensation

    • S. Bhandare
    • R. Noé

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 481 - 483

11. Comparison of the electro-optic coefficient r33 in well-defined phases of proton exchanged LiNbO3 waveguides

    • A. Méndez
    • G. de la Paliza
    • J.M. Cabrera

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 485 - 488

12. Design, realisation and analysis of an apodised, film-loaded acousto-optic tunable filter

    • H. Mendis
    • A. Mitchell
    • O.A. Peverini

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 489 - 493

13. A new type of small size acousto-optic tunable filter with super narrow optical linewidth

    • A. Tsarev

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 495 - 498

14. Efficient cascaded difference frequency conversion in periodically poled Ti:LiNbO3 waveguides using pulsed and cw pumping

    • G. Schreiber
    • H. Suche
    • W. Sohler

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 501 - 504

15. Integrated all-optical nonlinear device for re- configurable add/drop and wavelength shifting of WDM signals

    • R. Osellame
    • R. Ramponi
    • P. Bassi

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 505 - 509

16. Analysis of THz-wave surface-emitted difference-frequency generation in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

    • Y. Avetisyan
    • Y. Sasaki
    • H. Ito

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 511 - 514

17. Second-harmonic generation in Zn-diffused periodically poled LiNbO3 channel waveguides

    • E. Cantelar
    • R.E. Di Paolo
    • F. Cussó

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 515 - 517

18. Second-order optical non-linearity of proton exchanged lithium tantalate waveguides

    • Y.N. Korkishko
    • V.A. Fedorov
    • F. Laurell

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 519 - 522

19. Nondestructive remote imaging of ferroelectric domain distributions with high three-dimensional resolution

    • A. Rosenfeldt
    • M. Flörsheimer

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 523 - 529

20. All-optical power limiting in waveguides with periodically distributed Kerr-like non-linearity

    • E.V. Becker
    • E.A. Romanova
    • P. Sewell

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 531 - 534

21. M-waveguide structures for direct phase matching in AlGaAs

    • B. Oster
    • H. Fouckhardt

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 535 - 540

22. Abnormal reflecting mirror structures for intra-cavity Čerenkov second-harmonic generation

    • I.F. Salakhutdinov
    • L. Kotačka
    • O. Parriaux

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 541 - 545

23. Origin of reciprocal circular birefringence observed in X-cut, Z-propagation LiNbO3 polarization transformers

    • S. Bhandare
    • R. Noé
    • D. Sandel

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 549 - 553

24. Compositional characterisation of Zn-diffused lithium niobate waveguides

    • R. Nevado
    • C. Sada
    • G. Lifante

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 555 - 558

25. Metastable phases in HxLi1-xTaO3 waveguide layers and pure LiTaO3

    • V.V. Atuchin
    • D. Dimova-Malinovska
    • C.C. Ziling

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 559 - 563

26. Raman characterization of H:LiNbO3 waveguides

    • I. Savova
    • I. Savatinova
    • E. Liarokapis

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 565 - 568

27. Single-transverse-mode active multi-mode- interferometer 1.45 μm high power laser diode

    • K. Hamamoto
    • E. Gini
    • H. Melchior

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 571 - 574

28. Tunable laser with partial reflectors

    • L. Ponnampalam
    • R.G.S. Plumb
    • S. Naseem

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 575 - 579

29. Analysis of optical crosstalk within optoelectronic integrated circuits including lasers and photodetectors

    • H. Heidrich
    • R. Kaiser
    • W. Rehbein

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 581 - 583

30. Modeling of InGaAsP–InP 1.55 μm lasers with integrated mode expanders using fiber-matched leaky waveguides

    • M. Galarza
    • K. De Mesel
    • M. López-Amo

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 585 - 588

31. Observations of band structure and reduced group velocity in epitaxial GaN–sapphire 2D photonic crystals

    • D. Coquillat
    • A. Ribayrol
    • J.P. Albert

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 591 - 593

32. Impact of the cell geometry on the spectral properties of photonic crystal structures

    • A. Cucinotta
    • S. Selleri
    • M. Zoboli

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 595 - 600

33. Vertically and laterally waveguide-coupled cylindrical microresonators in Si3N4 on SiO2 technology

    • D.J.W. Klunder
    • E. Krioukov
    • A. Driessen

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 603 - 608

34. An in-depth analysis of reflections in MMI couplers using optical low-coherence reflectometry: design optimization and performance evaluation

    • Y. Gottesman
    • E.V.K. Rao
    • B. Dagens

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 609 - 612

35. Design of optical polarization splitters in a single-section deeply etched MMI waveguide

    • B.M.A. Rahman
    • N. Somasiri
    • K.T.V. Grattan

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 613 - 618

36. Athermal polarisation-independent arrayed- waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer using an all-polymer approach

    • N. Keil
    • H.H. Yao
    • C. Zawadzki

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 619 - 622

37. Metallic waveguide mirrors in polymer film waveguides

    • S. Wolff
    • A.R. Giehl
    • H. Fouckhardt

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 623 - 627

38. New silicon-based fibre assemblies for applications in integrated optics and optical MEMS

    • M. Hoffmann
    • E. Voges

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 629 - 633

39. Multiple-order adaptive dispersion compensation using polynomially-chirped grating devices

    • M.C. Parker
    • S.D. Walker

    OriginalPaper 23 April 2014 Pages: 635 - 645