1. Hundred mJ, sub-picoseconds, high temporal contrast OPCPA/Yb:YAG ceramic thin disk hybrid laser system

   • M. Suzuki
   • H. Kiriyama
   • S. Kawanishi

   Rapid communication 09 September 2011 Pages: 181 - 184

2. A stochastic modeling of morphology formation by optical near-field processes

   • M. Naruse
   • T. Kawazoe
   • M. Ohtsu

   OriginalPaper 09 September 2011 Pages: 185 - 190

3. Characterization of nanodiamonds for metamaterial applications

   • M. Y. Shalaginov
   • G. V. Naik
   • V. M. Shalaev

   OriginalPaper 11 September 2011 Pages: 191 - 195

4. Measurement schemes for the spin quadratures on an ensemble of atoms

   • R. Namiki
   • S.-I.-R. Tanaka
   • Y. Takahashi

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2011 Pages: 197 - 201

5. Stimulated Raman rotational photoacoustic spectroscopy using a quartz tuning fork and femtosecond excitation

   • W. Schippers
   • E. Gershnabel
   • W. Schade

   OriginalPaper 11 September 2011 Pages: 203 - 211

6. Phase-locked supermode emissions from a dual multicore fiber laser

   • B. M. Shalaby
   • V. Kermene
   • A. Barthélémy

   OriginalPaper 23 August 2011 Pages: 213 - 217

7. Detection of parametric resonance of trapped ions for micromotion compensation

   • Y. Ibaraki
   • U. Tanaka
   • S. Urabe

   OriginalPaper 16 March 2011 Pages: 219 - 223

8. Electromagnetic detection of a perfect cloak based on the material nonlinear response

   • J. Shi
   • Z. Wang
   • Y. Su

   OriginalPaper 08 July 2011 Pages: 225 - 229

9. Investigation of plasmonics resonance infrared bowtie metal antenna

   • W. Zhong
   • Y. Wang
   • X. Zhou

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2011 Pages: 231 - 237

10. A narrowband optical parametric oscillator tunable over 6.8 THz through degeneracy with a transversely-chirped volume Bragg grating

    • N. Thilmann
    • B. Jacobsson
    • F. Laurell

    OriginalPaper 23 August 2011 Pages: 239 - 244

11. Optical pump concepts for highly efficient quasi-three-level lasers

    • K. Albers
    • U. Wittrock

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2011 Pages: 245 - 254

12. Direct shaping of picosecond high energy deep ultraviolet pulses

    • A. Trisorio
    • C. Ruchert
    • C. P. Hauri

    OriginalPaper 20 August 2011 Pages: 255 - 261

13. High-energy Q-switched operation of a fiber-laser-pumped Er:YAG laser

    • J. W. Kim
    • J. K. Sahu
    • W. A. Clarkson

    OriginalPaper 13 May 2011 Pages: 263 - 267

14. Experimental study of an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser based on in-fiber amplitude modulation

    • M. Bello-Jiménez
    • C. Cuadrado-Laborde
    • M. V. Andrés

    OriginalPaper 13 May 2011 Pages: 269 - 276

15. Design and fabrication of Gires–Tournois interferometers for Yb-doped photonic crystal fiber laser system

    • Q. Ma
    • Y.-g. Zhang
    • X. Liu

    OriginalPaper 26 February 2011 Pages: 277 - 284

16. Target-in-the-loop high-power adaptive phase-locked fiber laser array using single-frequency dithering technique

    • R. Tao
    • Y. Ma
    • Z. Liu

    OriginalPaper 01 September 2011 Pages: 285 - 291

17. Control of chirped pulse trains: a speedway for free-optimization experiments

    • N. X. Truong
    • J. Tiggesbäumker
    • K.-H. Meiwes-Broer

    OriginalPaper 31 August 2011 Pages: 293 - 300

18. Electro-optic coefficient and wavelength dispersion in sillenite crystals

    • I. de Oliveira
    • T. O. dos Santos
    • J. Frejlich

    OriginalPaper 13 May 2011 Pages: 301 - 304

19. Cross-spectral purity of the Stokes parameters

    • T. Hassinen
    • J. Tervo
    • A. T. Friberg

    OriginalPaper 03 August 2011 Pages: 305 - 308

20. Laser-plasma electron acceleration in dielectric capillary tubes

    • G. Genoud
    • K. Cassou
    • C.-G. Wahlström

    OriginalPaper Open access 29 July 2011 Pages: 309 - 316

21. Investigation on competition between the input signal and noise in a Brillouin amplifier

    • W. Gao
    • Z. W. Lu
    • C. Y. Zhu

    OriginalPaper 13 May 2011 Pages: 317 - 321

22. Bistability and spatial hysteresis in an Nd:GdVO₄ laser with an intracavity twisted-nematic liquid crystal

    • M.-D. Wei
    • D.-Y. Huang
    • J.-H. Lin

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 323 - 327

23. Antiresonant guiding photonic crystal fibers for distributed temperature gradient measurements

    • R. Biswas
    • J. Zeng
    • N. M. Litchinitser

    OriginalPaper 23 February 2011 Pages: 329 - 333

24. Bioinspired Si subwavelength gratings by closely-packed silica nanospheres as etch masks for efficient antireflective surface

    • B. D. Park
    • J. W. Leem
    • J. S. Yu

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2011 Pages: 335 - 342

25. Design of a spectrum-periodized polymer optical filter using arc-type Mach–Zehnder interferometer and Nth order phase-generating couplers

    • C.-T. Zheng
    • C.-S. Ma
    • D.-M. Zhang

    OriginalPaper 15 April 2011 Pages: 343 - 352

26. Systematic investigation of silicon digital 1×2 electro-optic switch based on a microdisk resonator through carrier injection

    • Q. Huang
    • X. Zhang
    • J. Yu

    OriginalPaper 29 July 2011 Pages: 353 - 361

27. Stimulated Raman scattering in natural crystals of SrSO₄, BaSO₄ and PbSO₄: High-order Stokes and anti-Stokes generation with single-wavelength UV, visible, and near-IR excitation, as well as cascaded up-conversion nonlinear χ ⁽³⁾↔χ ⁽³⁾ lasing effects under dual-wavelength picosecond collinear coherent pumping

    • A. A. Kaminskii
    • L. Bohatý
    • V. V. Koltashev

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2011 Pages: 363 - 378

28. Fabrication of hollow optical waveguides in fused silica by three-dimensional femtosecond laser micromachining

    • F. He
    • J. Lin
    • Y. Cheng

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2011 Pages: 379 - 384

29. High-power Q-switched laser with high-order Laguerre–Gaussian modes: application for extra-cavity harmonic generations

    • Y. J. Huang
    • P. Y. Chiang
    • Y. F. Chen

    OriginalPaper 15 April 2011 Pages: 385 - 390

30. Hyperfine coupling constants of cesium 7D states using two-photon spectroscopy

    • Y.-C. Lee
    • Y.-H. Chang
    • H.-C. Chui

    OriginalPaper 09 April 2011 Pages: 391 - 397

31. Intrinsic axes of partially coherent light beams and their invariance through rotationally symmetric ABCD optical systems

    • R. Martínez-Herrero
    • P. M. Mejías
    • A. Manjavacas

    OriginalPaper 29 July 2011 Pages: 399 - 403

32. Degree of polarization of a tightly focused partially coherent dark hollow beam

    • Y. Dong
    • Y. Cai
    • C. Zhao

    OriginalPaper 11 May 2011 Pages: 405 - 414

33. Spectral changes in stochastic light beams propagating in turbulent ocean

    • E. Shchepakina
    • N. Farwell
    • O. Korotkova

    OriginalPaper 09 July 2011 Pages: 415 - 420

34. Precise measurement of Brillouin scattering spectrum in the ocean using F–P etalon and ICCD

    • K. Liang
    • Y. Ma
    • Y. Yu

    OriginalPaper 11 September 2011 Pages: 421 - 425

35. Detection of acetylene impurities in ethylene and polyethylene manufacturing processes using tunable diode laser spectroscopy in the 3-μm range

    • P. Kluczynski
    • M. Jahjah
    • S. Lundqvist

    OriginalPaper 30 July 2011 Pages: 427 - 434

36. Measurements of local mixture fraction of reacting mixture in swirl-stabilised natural gas-fuelled burners

    • M. Orain
    • Y. Hardalupas

    OriginalPaper 08 July 2011 Pages: 435 - 449

37. Flame temperature trends in reacting vanadium and tungsten ethoxide fluid sprays during CO₂-laser pyrolysis

    • B. W. Mwakikunga
    • A. E. Mudau
    • C. J. Willers

    OriginalPaper Open access 10 September 2011 Pages: 451 - 462

38. Sensitive measurements of stable carbon isotopes of CO₂ with wavelength modulation spectroscopy near 2 μm

    • K. Tanaka
    • K. Tonokura

    OriginalPaper 30 July 2011 Pages: 463 - 469

39. Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy measurements of carbon dioxide isotopic ratios

    • D. A. Long
    • M. Okumura
    • J. T. Hodges

    OriginalPaper 15 May 2011 Pages: 471 - 477

40. Combustion synthesis of YAG:Ce and related phosphors

    • K. V. K. Gupta
    • A. Muley
    • S. V. Moharil

    OriginalPaper 19 August 2011 Pages: 479 - 484

41. The potential use of plume imaging for real-time monitoring of laser ablation cleaning of stonework

    • A. Khedr
    • V. Papadakis
    • M. A. Harith

    OriginalPaper 12 April 2011 Pages: 485 - 492