1. Photoswitching microscopy with standard fluorophores

   • S. van de Linde
   • R. Kasper
   • M. Sauer

   Rapid communication Open access 19 October 2008 Pages: 725 - 731

2. Modelocked quantum dot vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

   • M. Hoffmann
   • Y. Barbarin
   • U. Keller

   Rapid communication Open access 25 October 2008 Pages: 733 - 736

3. EUV emission from solids illuminated with a laser-plasma EUV source

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

   Rapid communication 19 October 2008 Pages: 737 - 741

4. Ab initio description of the first stages of laser-induced ultra-fast nonthermal melting of InSb

   • E. S. Zijlstra
   • J. Walkenhorst
   • M. E. Garcia

   Rapid communication 11 November 2008 Pages: 743 - 747

5. Efficient generation of orange light in a quasi-periodically poled LiTaO₃ crystal

   • S. D. Pan
   • X. Q. Yu
   • S. N. Zhu

   Rapid communication 31 October 2008 Pages: 749 - 752

6. Sub-90 fs pulses from a passively mode-locked Yb:YAl₃(BO₃)₄ laser

   • S. Rivier
   • U. Griebner
   • J. Liu

   Rapid communication 06 November 2008 Pages: 753 - 757

7. Remote filament-induced fluorescence spectroscopy from thin clouds of smoke

   • J.-F. Daigle
   • Y. Kamali
   • S. L. Chin

   Rapid communication 06 November 2008 Pages: 759 - 762

8. Experimental implementation of ultrashort laser pulses in the von Neumann picture

   • A. Rodenberg
   • S. Fechner
   • T. Brixner

   OriginalPaper 25 October 2008 Pages: 763 - 772

9. High-power resonantly diode-pumped CW Er³⁺:YAG laser

   • M. Eichhorn

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 773 - 778

10. Thermal analysis of InP-based quantum cascade lasers for efficient heat dissipation

    • H. K. Lee
    • K. S. Chung
    • J. S. Yu

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2008 Pages: 779 - 786

11. Diode-pumped Tm:KY(WO₄)₂ laser passively Q-switched with PbS-doped glass

    • M. S. Gaponenko
    • I. A. Denisov
    • K. V. Yumashev

    OriginalPaper 01 November 2008 Pages: 787 - 791

12. The formation of relativistic electromagnetic solitons in plasma Bragg gratings induced by two counter-propagating laser pulses

    • S.-X. Luan
    • Q.-J. Zhang
    • Z.-M. Sheng

    OriginalPaper 25 October 2008 Pages: 793 - 799

13. Upconversion in Ho³⁺-doped YbF₃ particle prepared by coprecipitation method

    • X. Wang
    • Y. Bu
    • J. W. Ding

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2008 Pages: 801 - 807

14. Initial state-resolved excited state absorption spectroscopy of ZBLAN:Ho³⁺ glass

    • D. Piatkowski
    • K. Wisniewski
    • M. Malinowski

    OriginalPaper 19 October 2008 Pages: 809 - 816

15. First investigations on an Er³⁺:YAG SSHCL

    • M. Eichhorn

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2008 Pages: 817 - 822

16. 400 mW and 16.5% wavelength conversion efficiency at 488 nm using a diode laser and a PPLN crystal in single pass configuration

    • M. Uebernickel
    • C. Fiebig
    • G. Erbert

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 823 - 827

17. A tunable green alkaline-earth silicon-oxynitride solid solution (Ca_1−x Sr _x )Si₂O₂N₂:Eu²⁺ and its application in LED

    • M. Zhang
    • J. Wang
    • Q. Su

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 829 - 835

18. Intermodulation distortion of the single-mode laser-diode

    • M. Schetzen
    • R. Yildirim
    • F. Çelebi

    OriginalPaper 21 October 2008 Pages: 837 - 847

19. Improved directional emission by resonant defect cavity modes in photonic crystal waveguide with corrugated surface

    • D. Gan
    • Y. Qi
    • X. Luo

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 849 - 852

20. High transmission with narrow bandwidth of metallic defect mode in 1-D dielectric photonic crystals

    • R. Zhao
    • T. Zhai
    • D. Liu

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 853 - 857

21. Optical parameters of nanostructured thin films of electromagnetite Pb_1−x Sr _x (Fe_0.012Ti_0.988)O₃

    • K. C. Verma
    • P. Sharma
    • N. S. Negi

    OriginalPaper 21 October 2008 Pages: 859 - 864

22. New χ ⁽³⁾-nonlinear-laser manifestations in tetragonal LuVO₄ crystal: more than sesqui-octave Raman-induced Stokes and anti-Stokes comb generation and cascaded self-frequency “tripling”

    • A. A. Kaminskii
    • H. Rhee
    • H. Shibata

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 865 - 872

23. Anisotropy of photocurrent for two-photon absorption photodetector made of hemispherical silicon with \((\overline{1}10)\) plane

    • B. Shi
    • X. Liu
    • J. Zhao

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2008 Pages: 873 - 877

24. Thermal lens spectrometry in pyroelectric lithium niobate crystals

    • M. R. R. Gesualdi
    • C. Jacinto
    • V. Pilla

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2008 Pages: 879 - 883

25. Fringe waves radiated by a half-plane for the boundary conditions of Neumann

    • Y. Z. Umul

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 885 - 889

26. Analytical vectorial structure of a Lorentz–Gauss beam in the far field

    • G. Zhou

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 891 - 899

27. Propagation characteristics of stochastic electromagnetic array beams

    • X. Du
    • D. Zhao

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 901 - 905

28. Diode laser atomic fluorescence temperature measurements in low-pressure flames

    • I. S. Burns
    • N. Lamoureux
    • P. Desgroux

    OriginalPaper 31 October 2008 Pages: 907 - 914

29. Angular spread of Gaussian Schell-model array beams propagating through atmospheric turbulence

    • X. Ji
    • Z. Pu

    OriginalPaper 28 October 2008 Pages: 915 - 923