December 2005 Issue
Feature Articles
Special Issue: Optics in 2005 Introduction
The topics covered in this special issue cover a wide breadth, ranging from photonic structures to quantum information, and from optical engineering to ultrafast technology.
by Bob D. Guenther, Bob Jopson, R. John Koshel, Barbara PaldusAll Optical Control
Coherent Control of Emitters in a Photonic Crystal Environment.
by Dmitri Mogilevtsev and Solange Bessa CavalcantiBiophotonics
Micro-biologic Applications of Real-Time Interactive 3D Optical Manipulation.
by Jesper Glückstad, Ivan Perch-Nielsen and Peter John RodrigoCooling and Trapping
Optically Trapped Fermi Gases Model Strong Interactions in Nature.
by Joseph Kinast, Andrey Turlapov and John E. ThomasImaging
Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging: Efficient Detection of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
by Daniel L. Marks, Claudio Vinegoni, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt and Stephen A. BoppartLasers
High Repetition Rate Tabletop Soft X-ray Lasers with Saturated Output at Wavelengths down to 13.2 nm
by Yong Wang, Miguel A. Larotonda, Bradley M. Luther, David Alessi, Mark Berrill, Mario C. Marconi, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev and Jorge J. RoccaNonlinear Optics
Nonlinear Spectrometer Using a White-Light Continuum Z scan
by Mihaela Balu, Joel Hales, David J. Hagan and Eric W. Van StrylandOptical Engineering
Lately, the optical research community has shown considerable interest in wave propagation phenomena in discrete structures. Arrays or lattices of evanescently coupled waveguides or chains of coupled microresonators are prime examples of structures where discrete optical wave dynamics can be observed. One question that has naturally arisen is whether the Talbot effect is also possible in discrete systems.
by Robert Iwanow, Daniel May-Arrioja, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, George I. Stegeman, Yoohong Min and Wolfgang SohlerOptical Switching
All-Optical Switch Controls Strong Beams with Weak Ones.
by Andrew M. C. Dawes, Lucas Illing, Susan M. Clark and Daniel J. GauthierPhotonic Structures
A new type of tunable optical fiber is based on photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), which have a cross-section that usually consists of an air/silica microstructure that is invariant along the fiber axis.
by Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Jesper Lægsgaard, Anders Bjarklev, David Sparre Hermann, Anawati Anawati, Jes Broeng, Jun Li and Shin-Tson WuQuantum Information
In a recent experiment, we demonstrated the transfer of a qubit from a photon at the telecom wavelength of 1312 nm to another photon around 712 nm, a wavelength close to that of alkaline atomic transitions.
by Nicolas Gisin, Sébastien Tanzilli, Wolfgang Tittel, Matthäus Halder, Olivier Alibart, Pascal Baldi and Hugo ZbindenSlow Light
All-Optical Tunable Slow-Light Delays via Stimulated Scattering.
by Yoshitomo Okawachi, Jay E. Sharping, Alexander L. Gaeta, Matthew S. Bigelow, Aaron Schweinsberg, Robert W. Boyd, Zhaoming Zhu and Daniel J. GauthierSolitons
Spatial Kerr Solitons as Exact Solutions of Maxwell’s Equations
by Alessandro Ciattoni, Bruno Crosignani, Paolo Di Porto and Amnon YarivDepartments and Columns
Launch of JOSA A: Optics and Imaging Science
As the Journal of the Optical Society grew, it became clear that one journal was not enough to capture what was happening in the field.
I Read It in OPN ...
Excerpts and highlights from the 2005 issues of OPN
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