IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP07CLE-PRT 978-1-4244-3590-6

2007 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics (CLEO 2007)

Baltimore, MD 6 – 11 May 2007

Pages 1-561

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CLEO - MONDAY

CMA SHORT WAVELENGTH

CMA1 Tunable Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator in the Vacuum Ultraviolet ...........................1Jiaan Zheng

CMA2 Optimum Laser and Plasma Conditions for Achieving High-Order Harmonic Generation from Manganese Plume in the Range of 8.4nm ............................................................................3

Luc Bertrand, Elouga Bom

CMA3 Achromatic and Single-Beam Pulse Characterization Technique for Visible-UV Pulses Based on Direct UV Pulse Shaping and Cross-Polarized Wave Generation ......................................5

Nicolas Forget

CMB ULTRAFAST PROCESSES

CMB1 Frequency Doubling in Femtosecond-Written Periodically-Poled Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Waveguides .......................................................................................................................................7

Stuart Campbell

CMB2 Efficient High-Energy Femtosecond Pulse Compression in Quadratic Media with Flattop Beams ......................................................................................................................................................9

Jeffrey Moses

CMB3 Direct Time-Domain Measurements of the Pulse Amplitude Statistics of a Fiber Supercontinuum Source ...................................................................................................................................11

Daniel Solli

CMB4 All-Optical Delay of Images Using Slow Light ...................................................................................13Ryan Camacho

CMB5 Ultrafast Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator in Periodically Poled KTiOPO4 via Extended Phase Matching ..........................................................................................................................15

Ye Pu

CMB6 Group Velocity Control by Atomic Nonlinear Response in a Laser Cavity ....................................17Laden Arissian

CMB7 High Pulse Energy Supercontinuum Radiation Generated in a Single-Mode Fibre and Its Application to Near-IR Absorption Spectroscopy .............................................................................19

Rosalynne Watt

CMC FIBER LASERS I

CMC1 Towards the Short-Wavelength Limit at 1450 nm in a Widely Tunable Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser.............................................................................................................................................21

Nan-Kuang Chen

CMC2 396 fs, 2.5-12 GHz Asynchronous Mode-Locking Erbium Fiber Laser...........................................23Eunezio De Souza

CMC3 Mode-Locked, Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser with 25 GHz Spacing ...................25Lawrence Chen

CMC4 Dynamics of All-Fiber Self-Q-switched Ytterbium/Samarium Laser ..............................................27Andrei Fotiadi

CMC5 Linearly-Polarized Yb-Doped Fiber Laser in an All-Fiber Configuration......................................29Akira Shirakawa

CMC6 Phase Locking of Nanosecond Pulses of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a Two-Element Fiber Laser Array ..............................................................................................................................31

Fanting Kong

CMC7 Spectral Beam Combining of Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers with Excellent Beam Quality................................................................................................................................................................33

Sandro Klingebiel

CMD SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT LASERS I

CMD1 Three-Dimensional Quantization from an Ordered Nanopore Array Diode Laser .......................35V. Elarde

CMD2 Ground State Lasing at 1.34 µm from InAs Quantum Dots Grown on GaAs Substrate by Antimony-Mediated Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition ..........................................37

Denis Guimard

CMD4 Ultra-Low Threshold Lasing in a Quantum Dot Microdisk Cavity .................................................39Glenn Solomon

CMD5 Low-Threshold Current-Injection Single-Mode Lasing in T-Shaped Quantum Wires with Parallel Doping Layers..................................................................................................................41

Shu-man Liu

CMD6 InP / AlGaInP on GaAs Quantum Dot Lasers ...................................................................................43Peter Smowton

CME UV AND VISIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONIC MATERIALS

CME1 Highly Efficient Resonance Energy Transfer in Ultrathin Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Hybrid Films ...........................................................................................................................45

Qiang Zhang

CME2 Near Field Optical Spectroscopy Studies of Carrier Localization in AlxGa1-xN Alloys ..................................................................................................................................................................47

Pavel Capek

CME3 MOCVD Epitaxy and Optical Properties of Self-Assembled InGaN Quantum Dots via Stranski-Kastranow Growth Mode Emitting at 520-nm .........................................................................49

Yik-Khoon Ee

CME4 High Resolution Utraviolet to Visible Image Conversion Using Self-Assembled CdSe/ZnCdMgSe Quantum Dots Photoluminescence ...................................................................................51

Iosif Zeylikovich

CME5 Angle Resolved Transmission Spectroscopy of ZnSe Based Microcavities Fabricated Using Epitaxial Liftoff Technique ................................................................................................53

Arran Curran

CME6 Nanophotonic Switch Using One-Dimensional ZnO Double-Quantum-Well Structures...........................................................................................................................................................55

Takashi Yatsui

CME7 ZnO p-n Junction Photodetectors .......................................................................................................57Ping Yu

CMF 100 YEARS OF LEDS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

CMF1 Visible LEDs: Past, Present, and Future.............................................................................................59George Craford

CMF2 Micro-Pixellated Flip-Chip InGaN and AlInGaN Light-Emitting Diodes.......................................61Chris Griffin

CMF3 HVPE-Grown n-InGaN/p-GaN Single Heterostructure LED With p-Side down ...........................63Meredith Reed

CMF4 The Characteristics of a High-Q GaN Micro-Cavity Light Emitting Diode ....................................65Chih-Chiang Kao

CMF5 Enhancement of Radiative Efficiency of Nitride-Based LEDs via Staggered InGaN Quantum Wells Emitting at 420-500 nm.........................................................................................................67

Ronald Arif

CMF6 Influence of the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect of an InGaN/GaN Quantum Well on Its Coupling with Surface Plasmons for Emission Enhancement ............................................................69

Cheng-Yen Chen

CMG FILTERS

CMG1 Low Loss and Low Crosstalk Multimode Polymer Waveguide Crossings for High-Speed Optical Interconnects.............................................................................................................................71

Nikolaos Bamiedakis

CMG2 Wavelength-Independent Bent-Fiber Coupler to an Ultra-High Q Cavity Demonstrated over 850 nm Span .....................................................................................................................73

Steven Wang

CMG3 Active Narrowband Multiple Wavelength Filters and Frequency Doublers in Aperiodically Poled Lithium Niobates ............................................................................................................75

Chao-Hung Lin

CMG4 Bandwidth-Tunable Add-Drop Filters Based on MEMS-Actuated Single-Crystalline Silicon Microtoroidal Resonators.................................................................................................77

Jin Yao

CMG5 Synthesis of the Transfer Function of a Spectral Bragg Filter Using Electro-Optical Phase-Shift Keying ............................................................................................................................................79

Poonam Arora

CMG6 Group Delay Ripple in Fiber Bragg Gratings: Electronic Equalization .........................................81Kasyapa Balemarthy

CMG7 Apodisation of Photo-Induced Waveguide Gratings with Double-Exposure of Reversely Varied Duty Cycles ..........................................................................................................................83

Xuewen Shu

CMG8 Analysis of Filter-Assisted 160 Gb/s Wavelength Converter Using a Single Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ....................................................................................................................85

Zhonggui Li

CMH ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS

CMH1 Advanced LiNbO3 Modulation ............................................................................................................87Tetsuya Kawanishi

CMH2 Performance Comparison of Duobinary and DQPSK Modulation Formats for Mixed 10/40-Gbit/s WDM Transmission on SMF and LEAF Fibers ...........................................................89

Erwan Pincemin

CMH3 Bi-Directional DPSK Transmission over 230-km SSMF Employing Innovative Bi-Directional Amplification .................................................................................................................................91

Ming Fang Huang

CMH4 QPSK-Homodyne Transmission Using a Multi-Wavelength Fabry-Perot Laser Diode...................................................................................................................................................................93

Moriya Nakamura

CMH5 Parameters Affecting the Performance of WDM-DPSK Systems Based on SOA Amplifiers ..........................................................................................................................................................95

Ernesto Ciaramella

CMH6 Noise-Induced Spectral Shifts in Pseudo-Linear Fiber-Optic Communication Systems ...............................................................................................................................................................97

Armando Pinto

CMI PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY I

CMI1 Optical Clocks Based on Single Ions and Atoms .................................................................................99Fritz Riehle

CMI2 Experimental Study Comparing EIT in V and ? Schemes in Acetylene-Filled HC-PCF...................................................................................................................................................................101

Philip Light

CMI3 High Accuracy Photon-Counting Detector Calibration and Independent Verification of a Correlated-Photon Calibration Technique.......................................................................103

Sergey Polyakov

CMI4 Magnetic Field-Induced Spectroscopy of Optical Clock Transitions in an Elliptically Polarized Lattice Field ....................................................................................................................................105

Valeriy Yudin

CMI5 Optical Frequency Measurements in the Far- and Mid-infrared Range ........................................107Peter Gaal

CMI6 A Broadband Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy Using a Femtosecond White-Light Continuum .......................................................................................................................................................109

Anton Trifonov

CMJ PARAMETRIC DEVICES

CMJ1 New Light from Gallium Arsenide: Micro-Structured GaAs for Mid-IR and THz-Wave Generation.............................................................................................................................................111

Konstantin Vodopyanov

CMJ2 GaAs Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Circularly Polarized Pump........................................113Paulina Kuo

CMJ3 Energy Scaling of a White-Light-Seeded Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier.................115Jiaan Zheng

CMJ4 A Very Simple and Versatile Dual-Signal Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator ...........................117Luca Tartara

CMJ5 Deep Domain Inversions in X-Cut MgO:LiNbO3 for Efficient Infrared Generation....................119Francis Genereux

CMJ6 Ultrafast Pump-Probe Experiment Based on Extremely Broadband Second-Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................121

Yen-Cheng Lu

CMK ULTRAFAST PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION I

CMK2 Development of a Few-Cycle Infrared OPCPA System and Its Use in High-Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................123

Xun Gu

CMK3 1.2-mJ, 1-kHz OPCPA System toward Few-Cycle Pulse ................................................................125Shunsuke Adachi

CMK4 Generation of High Repetition Rate Few-Cycle Pulses from a Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................................127

Andy Steinmann

CML FIBER LASERS II

CML1 Synchronised Pulsed Pumped Fiber Amplifiers...............................................................................129Christian Bohling

CML2 Pulsed, Fiber-Based Laser with Widely Tunable Repetition Rate, Fixed Pulse Duration, and Minimal Nonlinear Effects.....................................................................................................131

Dahv Kliner

CML3 Shot Noise Limited Fiber Laser Source by Frequency Locking to a Fiber Ring Cavity ...............................................................................................................................................................133

Jong Chow

CML4 Dye-Doped Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre Laser with High Numerical Aperture Air-Clad...........................................................................................................................................135

Kang Li

CML5 Dynamic Surface Emitting Fiber Laser ............................................................................................137Ofer Shapira

CML6 Evanescent-Wave Pumped Microfiber Knot Laser .........................................................................139Limin Tong

CML7 2.1 µm CW Raman Source in GeO2 Fiber ........................................................................................141B. Cumberland

CMM SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT LASERS II

CMM1 Two-Section Quantum Dot Lasers with 20-dB Modulation Efficiency Improvement.................143Yan Li

CMM2 Dynamics of Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Lasers ......................................................................145Bryan Ellis

CMM3 Characterization of the Static and Dynamic Parameters in a 1.3-µm Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Laser ........................................................................................................................................147

Yongchun Xin

CMM4 Gain Dynamics after Ultrashort Pulse Trains in Quantum Dot Based Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ................................................................................................................149

Sabine Dommers

CMM5 All-Epitaxial VCSELs with Tunnel-Coupled QDs-QW InAs-InGaAs Active Medium ............................................................................................................................................................151

Vadim Tokranov

CMM6 Selectively Populating a Quantum Dot Ensemble Using a Tunnel Injection Structure ..........................................................................................................................................................153

Adrian George

CMM7 Y-Junction-Coupled S-Section InAs/InGaAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Ring Lasers with High Unidirectionality ....................................................................................................................................155

Marek Osinski

CMN NEAR-INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS

CMN1 Angle-Resolved Entanglement Spectroscopy for Semiconductor Applications ............................157Walter Hoyer

CMN2 Strong Lateral Confinment in Ga(AsSb)/GaAs/(AlGa)As Heterostructures ................................159Swantje Horst

CMN3 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Nitrogen-Cluster States in Diluted Ga(NAs)/GaAs Heterostructures ...................................................................................................................161

Kristian Hantke

CMN4 N-Rich and Dilute-Nitride GaNx(AsSb)1-x on InP Substrates .......................................................163Luke Mawst

CMN5 Photovoltaic Detectors in the GaN/AlN Intersubbandsystem Operating at 1.55 µm....................165Esther Baumann

CMN6 Sub-Band Energy Level Controlling of QDs Using InGaAs Gradient Composition Strain-Reducing Layer ...................................................................................................................................167

Takeru Amano

CMN7 InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Saturable Absorber Mirror for Passive Mode-Locking of Nd:YVO4 Lasers at 1064 nm .........................................................................................................................169

C. Scurtescu

CMO NANOCRYSTALLINE AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTERS

CMO1 Efficient All-Inorganic Colloidal Quantum Dot LEDs....................................................................171Vanessa Wood

CMO2 Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Colloidal Nanocrystals ....................................................173Marek Osinski

CMO3 InGaN/GaN MQW Nanorods LED Fabricated by ICP-RIE and PEC Oxidation Processes ..........................................................................................................................................................175

Fang-I Lai

CMO4 Recent Progress in Phosphorescent White Organic Light-Emitting Devices for Displays and Lighting .....................................................................................................................................177

Vadim Adamovich

CMO5 White Light Generation with Azide Functionalized Polyfluorene Hybridized on Near-UV Light Emitting Diode ......................................................................................................................179

Ozge Huyal

CMO6 Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Optical Upconversion Device...............................................................181Dayan Ban

CMP SWITCHES AND MODULATORS

CMP1 Novel Si-Based Optoelectronic Switching Device: Light to Latch ..................................................183Ali Okyay

CMP2 High-Speed MEMS Micromirror Switching.....................................................................................185Gregory Nielson

CMP3 GaAs/AlGaAs Five-Layer Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Well (FACQW) Mach-Zehnder Modulator.........................................................................................................................................187

Taro Arakawa

CMP4 1.3 µm Quantum-Dot Electro-Absorption Modulator .....................................................................189Yuanliang Chu

CMP5 Duty-Cycle and Chirp Diagnosis of All-Optical Format Conversion Data in Multi- and Single-Wavelength Inverse Optical Comb Injected Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ....................191

Gong-Ru Lin

CMP6 High Speed Response of Optical Nonlinear Phase Shifter Based on 1.55 µm VCSEL..................193Satoshi Suda

CMP7 Electro-Optic Ti:PPLN Waveguides as Efficient Optical Wavelength Filters and Mode Polarization Converters .......................................................................................................................195

Yen-Hung Chen

CMQ SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

CMQ1 First 10Gb/s Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) Optical Transceiver for 140km DWDM Transmission .....................................................................................................................................197

Sunil Priyadarshi

CMQ2 Advanced Modulation Formats and Digital Signal Processing in Optical Communications..............................................................................................................................................199

Joseph Kahn

CMQ3 PMD Compensation Using LDPC Coding Based Turbo Equalization ..........................................201Ivan Djordjevic

CMQ4 Massively Parallel Transmission over Multimode Fiber Applied to 100 Gigabit Ethernet with Random-Coding ......................................................................................................................203

Maxim Greenberg

CMQ5 Optical Error Correction Using Passive Optical Logic Gates Demodulators in Differential Demodulation ..............................................................................................................................205

Yannick Lize

CMR PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY II

CMR2 A 4-Hz Fundamental Linewidth On-Chip Microlaser ....................................................................207Lan Yang

CMR3 Low Phase Noise 250 MHz Repetition Rate Fiber fs Laser for Frequency Comb Applications .....................................................................................................................................................209

Tobias Wilken

CMR4 Laser-Mode Dynamics Measurement and Control of Mode-Locked Er-Fiber Lasers.................211Yohei Kobayashi

CMR5 Terahertz Frequency Comb for High-Accuracy, High-Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy ....................................................................................................................................................213

Shuko Yokoyama

CMR6 Doubly Modulated Interferometry for Trace Gas Detection ..........................................................215Steven Hughes

CMS CUBIC NONLINEARITY AND APPLICATIONS

CMS1 Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing with Defocusing Nonlinearity .......................................................217Shu Jia

CMS2 Transient Two-Wave Mixing via Dynamic Phase Gratings in Yb-Doped Fibers with Saturable Absorption......................................................................................................................................219

Serguei Stepanov

CMS3 2-kW Average Power CW Phase-Conjugate Solid-State Laser ......................................................221David Rockwell

CMS4 Stability of Polarization Vortices in Self-Focusing Kerr Media ......................................................223Amiel Ishaaya

CMS5 Nonlinear Diffractive Optical Elements ............................................................................................225Ofer Manela

CMS6 Optical Limiting in Solid-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers .................................................................227James Butler

CMS7 Dynamics of Thermally Induced Optical Bistability in Yb3+-Er3+ Co-Doped Phosphate Glass Microspherical Lasers........................................................................................................229

Danny O'Shea

CMT ULTRAFAST PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION II

CMT1 Generation of Terawatt Sub-8 fs Laser Pulses Using Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification .........................................................................................................................................231

Kjeld Eikema

CMT2 1 mJ, Multi-kHz, Sub-500 fs Diode-Pumped Ytterbium Laser Amplifier .....................................233Clemens Hönninger

CMT3 Ultrabroadband Femtosecond Continuum Amplification in Crystals of Bismuth Triborate ..........................................................................................................................................................235

Valentin Petrov

CMT4 Tunable Phase-Stable Few-Optical-Cycle Visible Pulses by Parametric Amplification of a Self-Phase-Stabilized Seed ..............................................................................................237

Giulio Cerullo

CMT5 Tunable 20 fs Red Pulses with up to 200 nJ Energy from a 2 MHz Yb-Doped Fiber Oscillator/Amplifier System ...........................................................................................................................239

Christian Schriever

CMT6 An 11-fs, 5-kHz Optical Parametric/Ti:sapphire Hybrid Chirped Pulse Amplification System ......................................................................................................................................241

Xiangyu Zhou

CMU FEMTOSECOND FIBER OSCILLATORS AND APPLICATIONS

CMU1 Fiber Laser Frequency Combs ..........................................................................................................243Nathan Newbury

CMU2 Self-Referenced Yb-Fiber-Laser Frequency Comb Using a Dispersion Micromanaged Tapered Holey Fiber ............................................................................................................245

Ingmar Hartl

CMU3 91 fs Pulses from an Yb-Doped Figure-Eight Fiber-Laser Dispersion Compensated with Higher-Order-Mode Fiber .....................................................................................................................247

Jeffrey Nicholson

CMU4 Properties of All-Normal-Dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Lasers...................................................249Andy Chong

CMU5 Subpicosecond Soliton Outputs from an Entirely Normal-Dispersion Fiber Laser .....................251Janet Lou

CMU6 Optically Assisted Deposition of Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorbers ....................................253Jeffrey Nicholson

CMV SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASERS

CMV1 Electrically Pumped Photonic Crystal Lasers..................................................................................255Yong Hee Lee

CMV2 Room-Temperature CW Lasing Characteristics in Photonic Crystal Nanolasers and Their Thresholdless Behavior.................................................................................................................257

Kengo Nozaki

CMV3 60 MicroWatts of Fiber-Coupled Peak Output Power from an Edge-Emitting Photonic Crystal Heterostructure Laser .......................................................................................................259

Ling Lu

CMV4 Radially Polarized Doughnut Beam Emitted by a Two-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Laser ...................................................................................................................................................261

Kyosuke Sakai

CMV5 Experimental Observation of Band-Edge Lasing in Broad Planar 2D Photonic Crystal Waveguides ........................................................................................................................................263

Cyril Cambournac

CMV6 Single Mode Operation of Integrated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Coupled Surface Emitting Lasers .................................................................................................................................265

Shih-Chieh Huang

CMW LASERS AND LASER MATERIALS

CMW1 All Taper Coupled Novel Fluoride Glass Microspherical Light Source for Microphotonics ................................................................................................................................................267

Danny O'Shea

CMW2 Rare Earth Doped Silver Halide Crystals: A New Candidate for Mid-IR Solid State Lasers and Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers .............................................................................................269

Ofer Gayer

CMW3 Energy Transfer Analysis between Tb3+ and Yb3+ Codoped in Silicate Glasses under the 0.98 µm Excitation .........................................................................................................................271

Tatsuya Yamashita

CMW4 Confocal Micro-Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy across Grain Boundaries in Transparent Nd:YAG Ceramics Laser Gain Media................................................................................273

Mariola Ramirez

CMW5 Low-Loss Al2O3 Waveguides for Active Integrated Optics............................................................275Markus Pollnau

CMW6 Ultraviolet Emission in Doped α-Nano-Alumina ............................................................................277Samuel Oliveira

CMW7 NaLa(WO4)2 and NaY(WO4)2 Raman Converters for Picosecond Pulses ....................................279Valdas Pasiskevicius

CMX ATTOSECOND METROLOGY AND WAVEPACKET DYNAMICS

CMX1 Attosecond Metrology ........................................................................................................................281Paul Corkum

CMX2 Rydberg Wavepacket Metrology and Dynamics..............................................................................282Robert Jones

CMX3 Table Top Extreme Ultraviolet Holography ....................................................................................283Randy Bartels

CMY PHOTODETECTORS

CMY1 Characterization of a Sub-THz Photonic Transmitter Based on a Separated-Transport-Recombination Photodiode..........................................................................................................285

Jin-Wei Shi

CMY2 High Gain ZnO Nanowire Phototransistor ......................................................................................287Arthur Zhang

CMY3 Silicon-Germanium p-i-n Photodetectors at Telecommunication Wavelengths Grown Directly on Silicon ..............................................................................................................................289

Dyan Ali

CMY4 Si/SiGe-Based Photodiode on a Standard Silicon Substrate for 10-Gbit/s Short-Reach Fiber Communication at 830nm Wavelength ...................................................................................291

Jin-Wei Shi

CMY5 Germanium-on-SOI Photo-Detector Based on an FET Structure .................................................293Subal Sahni

CMY6 Enhancing Infrared Photodetection with a Circular Metal Grating..............................................295Ravi Bhat

CMZ OPTICAL REGENERATION

CMZ1 Regeneration Using an SOA-MZI in a 100-Pass 10,000-km Recirculating Fiber Loop..................................................................................................................................................................297

Jade Wang

CMZ2 Coherent Interference 2R Regeneration of Optical CDMA Based on MZI SOA .........................299Tiago Silveira

CMZ3 Recirculating-Loop Study of Dispersion-Managed 2R Regeneration ............................................301Michael Vasilyev

CMZ4 Phase Regeneration of DPSK Signals Based on Symmetric-Pump Phase-Sensitive Amplification in Bismuth Oxide Highly Nonlinear Fiber............................................................................303

Kevin Croussore

CMZ5 Using a Newly Developed Long-Period Grating Filter to Improve the Timing Tolerance of a 320 Gb/s Demultiplexer .........................................................................................................305

Leif Oxenlowe

CMZ6 Experimental Demonstration of Optical TTL Based Selective-3R in OLS Network Testbed with Label Rewriting ........................................................................................................................307

Bo Xiang

CMAA OPTICAL MANIPULATION OF CELLS

CMAA1 The Guiding Light: Holographic Manipulation of Mesoscopic Systems ....................................309David Grier

CMAA2 Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers ..................................................311Sudeep Mandal

CMAA3 Mega-Pixel Laser Chips of Photonic Quantum Ring Holes for Optical Manipulation of Biological Cells ....................................................................................................................313

S. E. Lee

CMAA4 Circulating Optical Particle Trapping through the Integration of Fiber Optics and Microfluidics ............................................................................................................................................315

J. Thomas Blakely

CMAA5 Integrated, All-Optical, Particle Characterization and Sorting in Microfluidic Systems .............................................................................................................................................................317

Robert Applegate

CMAA6 Fiber Optical Tweezers for Cell Manipulation and Force Sensing .............................................319Yuxiang Liu

CMBB SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION

CMBB1 Ultraviolet Second Harmonic Generation in β-BaB2O4 Waveguides...........................................321Riccardo Degl'Innocenti

CMBB2 Observation of Second-Harmonic Generation from Wurzite AlxGa1-xN Multilayers in Reflection Geometry ..............................................................................................................323

Zhan Fu

CMBB3 Widely Tunable SHG in a PPLN Using a Low Voltage ................................................................325Francis Genereux

CMBB4 Bandwidth Control of Second Harmonic Generation through Chirped Period Poling of Optical Fibres ..................................................................................................................................327

Albert Canagasabey

CMBB5 Thermal Managements for Highly Efficient SHG with Linear Input/Output Characteristics Using Periodically Poled Stoichiometric LiTaO3 ...............................................................329

Hideki Hatano

CMBB6 Broadband Frequency Doubling in Unpoled SBN Crystals in the Thermal Focusing Regime..............................................................................................................................................331

Robert Fischer

CMBB7 Three-Primary-Color Laser Efficiently Generated from the Second Harmonic Emission of a Nd:YAG Laser .........................................................................................................................333

Totaro Imasaka

CMCC NANOPARTICLES AND RHEOLOGY

CMCC2 Molecular Imaging of EGFR Expression in Live Cancer Cells Using Immunotargeted Nanoparticles .....................................................................................................................335

Matthew Crow

CMCC3 Measuring Gold Nanoparticle Concentrations in Tissue Using Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy ....................................................................................................................................................337

Raiyan Zaman

CMCC4 Molecular Imaging Using CdSe/ZnS/Lipid Quantum Dots as Contrast Agents of Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy .....................................................................................................339

Shih-Peng Tai

CMDD NONLINEAR ULTRAFAST PROPOGATION

CMDD1 Generation of 5fs, 0.7mJ Two-Cycle Pulses at 1kHz with CEP Controlled through Cascade Filamentation....................................................................................................................................341

Xiaowei Chen

CMDD2 Spatio-Temporal Structure of Sub-10-fs Pulses Generated in a Self-Compressed White-Light Filament .....................................................................................................................................343

Günter Steinmeyer

CMDD3 Ultrafast Imaging of Wakefields.....................................................................................................345Michael Downer

CMDD4 Angle-Dispersion Compensation of Multiple CARS Signals in LiNbO3 towards Extremely-Short Optical Pulse Generation ..................................................................................................347

Eiichi Matsubara

CMDD5 Pulse Polarization Splitting in a Transient Wave Plate................................................................349Klaus Hartinger

CMDD6 High-Order Enhancement of Multi-Frequency Raman Generation in a Hollow Fibre .................................................................................................................................................................351

Fraser Turner

CMEE ULTRASHORT PULSE FIBER AMPLIFICATION

CMEE1 Bi2O3-Based Erbium Doped Double Core Fiber for Short Pulse Amplification .........................353Seiki Ohara

CMEE2 Diffraction Limited Amplification of Picosecond Pulses at 1.55 µm Wavelength to 14 kW Peak Power in a Single Stage Core-Pumped Er Fiber Amplifier ...................................................355

Jayesh Jasapara

CMEE3 Direct Amplification of 3-ps Pulses to 80 nJ at 50-MHz Repetition Rate in Large-Mode-Area Yb-Fiber ......................................................................................................................................357

Dimitre Ouzounov

CMEE4 50-W Chirped-Volume-Bragg-Grating Based Fiber CPA at 1055-nm........................................359Guoqing Chang

CMEE5 High Average Power, High Energy, Femto-second Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System ......................................................................................................................................361

Fei He

CMEE6 High Quality Fiber CPA-System at a B-Integral of 16 .................................................................363Damian Schimpf

CMEE7 Chirped-Pulse Amplification near the Gain-Narrowing Limit of an Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier Using a Reflection Grism Compressor ..............................................................................365

Lyuba Kuznetsova

CMFF GAINNAS AND INTERBAND CASCADE AND GASB-BASED LASERS

CMFF1 GaInNAs Distributed Feedback (DFB) Laser Diode .....................................................................367Jun-ichi Hashimoto

CMFF2 Tunable Red Laser Emission by Intra-Cavity Frequency-Doubling of a GaInNAs VECSEL...........................................................................................................................................................369

Stephane Calvez

CMFF3 Interband Cascade Lasers: From Concept to Devices and Applications.....................................371Rui Yang

CMFF4 CW, High Power, Single-Longitudinal-Mode Operation of an Optically Pumped Mid-IR DFB Laser ..........................................................................................................................................372

Liang Xue

CMFF5 Pulsed Pumping of a 2.3µm InGaAsSb Semiconductor Disk Laser .............................................374David Burns

CMFF6 Resonant In-Well Pumping of GaSb-Based VECSELs Emitting in the 2.X µm Wavelength Regime ........................................................................................................................................376

Nicola Schulz

CMGG ELECTRO-OPTIC AND NONLINEAR OPTIC MATERIALS

CMGG1 Large-Angle, Low-Voltage Electro-Optic Beam Scanner by Kerr Effect and Space-Charge-Controlled Electrical Conduction in KTa1-xNbxO3..............................................................378

Koichiro Nakamura

CMGG2 Highly Electro-Optical Calcium Barium Niobate Thin Films .....................................................380Luca Razzari

CMGG3 Submerged Waveguide Constructed by the Implantation of 12C Ions in Electrooptic Crystals.......................................................................................................................................382

Harel Ilan

CMGG4 Transparent Conducting Oxide (TCO) Electrode Based High-Speed Organic Electro-Optic (EO) Modulator.......................................................................................................................384

Shuai Wu

CMGG5 Higher Raman Scattering Cross-Sections, Bandwidths and Nonlinear Indices in the TeO2-ZnO-Nb2O5-Mo2O3 Quarternary Glass System ...........................................................................386

Yasutake Ohishi

CMGG6 Solvent-Casting of Photo-Refractive Chalcogenide Glasses and Their Applications in Quantum Cascade Laser Tuning ........................................................................................388

Shanshan Song

CMGG7 Optical Properties and Structural Transitions in Ge-As-Se Glasses Barry ...............................390Luther-Davies

CMHH NONLINEARITIES IN PHOTONIC STRUCTURES

CMHH1 All-Optical Nonlinear Switching in Active Microdisks ................................................................392Kuldeep Amarnath

CMHH2 Integrated Optical Regenerator on a Silicon Chip .......................................................................394Reza Salem

CMHH3 Anisotropic Nonlinear Response of Silicon in the Near-Infrared Region...................................396Jidong Zhang

CMHH4 Determination of Third-Order Dispersion Coefficient and Observation of Soliton Radiation in Si-Wire Waveguides..................................................................................................................398

I-Wei Hsieh

CMHH5 Spectral Measurements of the Third-Order Nonlinearity of Bulk Silicon in the Near-Infrared Region .....................................................................................................................................400

Jidong Zhang

CMHH6 Pulse Compression and Modelocking by Using TPA in Silicon Waveguides .............................402En-Kuang Tien

CMHH7 Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystal in KTiOPO4 for CW Second Harmonic Blue Light Generation ..................................................................................................................404

Carlota Canalias

CMII SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS

CMII1 Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes for Near-Infrared Photon Counting .................................406Mark Itzler

CMII2 High Uniformity, Stability, and Reliability Large-Format InGaAs APD Arrays.........................408Yonglin Gu

CMII3 InGaAsP/InP Single Photon Avalanche Photodetectors for 1.06 µm Free-Running Photon Counting..............................................................................................................................................410

Michael Krainak

CMII4 Demonstration of a Wavelength-Converter-Based 1550-nm Photon-Counting Receiver with Better than 2 Incident Photon/Bit Sensitivity .......................................................................412

Matthew Grein

CMJJ ADVANCED OPTICAL RECEIVERS AND TRANSMITTERS

CMJJ1 Optimization of Receiver Filter Bandwidth for Externally Modulated Optical MSK Data ........................................................................................................................................................414

Jinyu Mo

CMJJ2 Stabilization of a 40 Gb/s DPSK Delay-Line Interfering Using Half Bit-Rate AM Pilot Tone Monitoring.....................................................................................................................................416

Louis Christen

CMJJ3 Simultaneous Balanced DPSK Demodulation of Multiple 40 Gbit/s WDM Channels Using a Single Periodic FBG .........................................................................................................418

Louis Christen

CMJJ4 Low-Loss S-, C- and L-Band Differential Phase Shift Keying Demodulator ...............................420Yannick Lize

CMJJ5 Automatic All-Optical Detection in Polarization-Division-Multiplexing System Using Power Unbalanced Transmission........................................................................................................422

Lianshan Yan

CMJJ6 Polarization-Based 43 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Receiver Design Employing a Single Delay-Line Interferometer .............................................................................................................................424

Louis Christen

CMJJ7 Multi-Channel High-Speed Optical Pulse Train Generation Based on Phase Modulation at Half Frequency.......................................................................................................................426

Changyuan Yu

CMKK TIMING STABILIZATION AND TRANSFER

CMKK1 Transmission of an Optical Carrier Frequency over a Telecommunication Fiber Link ..................................................................................................................................................................428

Gesine Grosche

CMKK2 Long-Term Femtosecond Timing Link Stabilization Using a Single-Crystal Balanced Cross-Correlator.............................................................................................................................430

Jungwon Kim

CMKK3 Multi-Octave Optical Coherence Spanning Hundreds of Meters ...............................................432Ian Coddington

CMKK4 Attosecond Timing Jitter Actively Modelocked Semiconductor Fiber Ring Laser with Normal Net Cavity Dispersion...............................................................................................................434

Sangyoun Gee

CMKK5 Long-Term Stable Microwave Signal Extraction from Mode-Locked Lasers...........................436Jungwon Kim

CMKK6 Ultralow-Litter Passive Timing Stabilization of a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser by Injection of Reference Pulses .........................................................................................................................438

Dai Yoshitomi

CMKK7 Phase-Stabilized Prism Based Cr:Forsterite Laser Frequency Comb for Absolute Frequency Measurements...............................................................................................................................440

Rajesh Thapa

CLEO - TUESDAY

CTUA APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY

CTuA1 Second-Harmonic Generation from Aligned and Mono-Sized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes ..........................................................................................................................................442

Huimin Su

CTuA2 Second-Harmonic Imaging of ZnO Nanoparticles .........................................................................444Elder de la Rosa

CTuA3 Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Time-Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................446

Arthur Dogariu

CTuA4 New Nonlinear Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy to Study Liquid Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................................448

Tahei Tahara

CTuA5 Single Pulse Time Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering .........................................450Yehiam Prior

CTuA6 Remote Chemical Detection Using SUPER-CARS .........................................................................452D. Harris

CTUB OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING

CTuB1 Scaling Packet Networks and Routers Using Optics.......................................................................454David Neilson

CTuB2 Instantaneous-Locking 8-Channel Arrayed 10 Gbps Burst-Mode Optical Packet Receiver and 80 (8? x 10) Gbps Wide-Colored Optical Packet Transmitter .............................................456

Hideaki Furukawa

CTuB3 Binary-Encoded Address for All-Optical Packet Switching ..........................................................458C. C. Lee

CTuB4 Independent Delay Control and Synchronization of Multiple 2.5-Gb/s Channels within a Single SBS Slow-Light Medium ......................................................................................................460

Bo Zhang

CTUC ULTRAFAST SOURCES I

CTuC1 High Power and High Repetition Rate Pulse Generation Using Self Injection-Locking in Fabry-Perot Laser Diode.............................................................................................................462

Xiaohui Fang

CTuC2 77-GHz Pulse Train at 1.5 µm Directly Generated by a Passively Mode-Locked High Repetition Rate Er:Yb:Glass Laser......................................................................................................464

Ursula Keller

CTuC3 Sub 6-fs Pulses Penerated from a Broadband 1-GHz Ti:sapphire Oscillator ..............................466Yohei Kobayashi

CTuC4 Pulse-Quasi-Crystal Formation in Mode-Locked Lasers...............................................................468Amir Rosen

CTuC5 Resonant Saturable Absorbers for Dispersion Compensation in Compact Femtosecond Lasers ........................................................................................................................................470

Günter Steinmeyer

CTuC6 Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Yb:KYW Laser Incorporating a Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber .........................................................................................................................................472

Alexander Lagatsky

CTuC7 A Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Method for Computing Stationary Pulse Solutions of Mode-Locked Lasers..................................................................................................................474

Jonathan Birge

CTUD ULTRAVIOLET, VISIBLE AND Q-SWITCHED LASERS

CTuD1 12 W Continuous-Wave 266-nm Deep-UV Generation through 24 W Single-Frequency 1064-nm Light from a Fiber MOPA...........................................................................................476

Thomas Sudmeyer

CTuD2 Development of a Single-Frequency Nanosecond Pulsed Deep-UV Coherent Light Source for Manipulating Silicon Atoms ........................................................................................................478

Yasutomo Shiomi

CTuD3 Powerful Pr3+:LiLuF4-Laser in the Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Range ...............................480Ernst Heumann

CTuD4 218 W, M2 = 20.2 Green Beam Generation by Intracavity- Frequency-Doubled Diode-Pumped Nd:YAG Laser ......................................................................................................................482

Yong Bo

CTuD5 Watt-Level Single-Frequency Tunable Nd:YLF/PPKTP Red Laser for Silver Atom Cooling .............................................................................................................................................................484

Jean-Jacques Zondy

CTuD6 CW 795 nm Rb Vapor Laser Pumped by Volume Transmission Grating-Stabilized Diode Bar .........................................................................................................................................................486

Alan Petersen

CTuD7 Single-Frequency, 55 W Average Power, 1-kHz Pulse Rate Nd:YLF MOPA System.................488Yelena Isyanova

CTUE QUANTUM AND INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS

CTuE1 Quantum Cascade Lasers Emitting below 3 µm .............................................................................490Alexei Baranov

CTuE2 InGaAs-AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: Towards 3 µm Emission ..........................................492Dmitry Revin

CTuE3 Cascaded Emission from a Dual-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Laser ......................................494Kale Franz

CTuE4 Current Injection Spiral-Shaped Chaotic Microcavity Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................496Ross Audet

CTuE5 Quantum Cascade Microdisk Lasers for Mid Infrared Intra-Cavity Sensing .............................498Raviv Perahia

CTuE7 High-Power/High-Temperature CW Narrow-Ridge Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................................................................500

Igor Vurgaftman

CTUF NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY I

CTuF1 Two-Photon Absorption Imaging of Hemoglobin ...........................................................................502Dan Fu

CTuF2 Rapid Detection of Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts Using Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy.........................................................................................................504

Sangeeta Murugkar

CTuF3 Flexible Scanning MicroEndoscope for Two-Photon Fluorescence and SHG Imaging ............................................................................................................................................................506

Xiaoli Li

CTuF4 In vivo Molecular-Resonant Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy of Hemoglobin......................................................................................................................................................508

Shih-Peng Tai

CTuF5 Selective Two-Photon Excitation for Biomedical Imaging .............................................................510Lindsay Weisel

CTuF6 Upconversion Fiber-Optic Confocal Microscopy Using a Near-Infrared Light Source...............................................................................................................................................................512

Do-Hyun Kim

CTUG NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGIES

CTuG1 Efficient, Broadband and Compact Metal Grating Couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides .....................................................................................................................................514

Stijn Scheerlinck

CTuG2 Polysilicon-on-Insulator Photonic Devices ......................................................................................516Kyle Preston

CTuG3 Ultra-Compact Silicon WDM Optical Filters with Flat-Top Response for On-Chip Optical Interconnects......................................................................................................................................518

Fengnian Xia

CTuG4 Investigation of Group Delay and Disorder in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide Using Low-Coherence Reflectometry.......................................................................................................................520

Philippe Hamel

CTuG5 Metallic-Contamination-Induced Optical Loss in Silicon Microphotonic Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................522

Tymon Barwicz

CTuG6 Breaking the Tradeoff between Speed and Extinction Ratio in Silicon Electro-Optic Modulators ............................................................................................................................................524

Sasikanth Manipatruni

CTuG7 Chiral 3-D Photonic Crystals as Compact Optical Isolators .........................................................526Michael Thiel

CTUH INTEGRATED OPTICS

CTuH2 Single Mode Operation of 1.5 µm TM-mode Waveguide Optical Isolators Based on the Nonreciprocal-Loss Phenomenon ............................................................................................................528

Tomohiro Amemiya

CTuH3 Enabling Technologies for the Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguide Optical Isolators ...................................................................................................................530

David Hutchings

CTuH4 Concave Low-Loss Total Internal Reflection Mirrors in Indium Phosphide for High Fabrication Tolerance ...........................................................................................................................532

Joseph Summers

CTuH5 Advances in Monolithic Integration of InP-Based Optoelectronics ..............................................534David Robbins

CTUI ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR LED LIGHTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

CTuI1 Enhancement of Light Extraction in GaInN Light-Emitting Diodes with Graded-Index Indium Tin Oxide Layer ......................................................................................................................536

Jong Kyu Kim

CTuI2 Enhanced Light-Extraction from InGaN Quantum Wells Using Refractive-Index-Matched TiO2 ..................................................................................................................................................538

Arthur Fischer

CTuI3 Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency of InGaN Quantum Wells LEDs Using SiO2 Microspheres...........................................................................................................................................540

Yik-Khoon Ee

CTuI4 High Light-Extraction GaN-Based Vertical LEDs with Double Diffuse Surfaces ........................542Ya-Ju Lee

CTuI5 Visible Light Communications ..........................................................................................................544Masao Nakagawa

CTuI6 High-Efficiency Light Emitters Using Gallium-Arsenide Deep-Centers for Long-Distance Fiber-Optics .....................................................................................................................................546

Janet Pan

CTUJ CONTROL AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FREQUENCY COMBS

CTuJ1 Residual Stability of a Fiber-Based Frequency Comb ....................................................................548William Swann

CTuJ2 Quantum-Noise Limit on the Linewidth of Frequency Combs ......................................................550Boaz Ilan

CTuJ3 Spectral Line-by-Line Processing on an Optical Frequency Comb Generator ............................552Zhi Jiang

CTuJ4 Injection-Locked Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Lasers ........................................................................554Qudsia Quraishi

CTuJ5 Improved Precision Measurement of the Refractive Indices of Gases Using Frequency Comb .............................................................................................................................................556

Zehuang Lu

CTuJ6 Analysis of Comb Frequency Offset Variations via Phase-Only Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping.............................................................................................................................................................558

José Caraquitena

CTuJ7 Self-Zooming Stable Stage with Sub-nm Resolution Using Femtosecond Comb..........................560Mariko Kajima

CTUK QPM DEVICES

CTuK1 Efficient Generation of Tunable CW Single Frequency Green Radiation by Second Harmonic Generation in Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4 ...............................................................................562

Zhipei Sun

CTuK2 Octave-Level Spectral Broadening in RPE PPLN Waveguides ....................................................564Carsten Langrock

CTuK4 1.5 W, Green-Pumped, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on MgO:sPPLT...................................................................................................................566

Goutam Samanta

CTuK5 High-Energy Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Optical Parametric System with a Bragg Grating..................................................................................................................................................568

Jiro Saikawa

CTuK6 Engineered Quasi-Phase Matching Device for Unequally Spaced Multiple Wavelength Generation ..................................................................................................................................570

Masaki Asobe

CTUL ORGANIC LEDS AND LASERS

CTuL2 Gallium Nitride LEDs Incorporating Organic Semiconductor Heterojunctions .........................572Hyunjin Kim

CTuL3 Recent Advances in Polymer Lasers and Optical Amplifiers ........................................................574Ifor Samuel

CTUM ULTRAFAST SOURCES II

CTuM1 High Energy and High Repetition Rate Diode-Pumped Solid-State Oscillator Enhances High-Field Physics Measurements ...............................................................................................576

T. Südmeyer

CTuM2 Actively Mode-Locked Optical Parametric Oscillator ..................................................................578Nicolas Forget

CTuM3 Intracavity Pumped Picosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator for Intracavity Interferometry .................................................................................................................................................580

Andreas Velten

CTuM4 Spectral Phase and Amplitude Measurements of Parametric Transfer in a Synchronously Pumped OPO.........................................................................................................................582

Hazel Hung

CTuM5 Group-Velocity-Matched Noncollinear Optical Parametric Oscillation in Quasi-Phase Matched Gratings.................................................................................................................................584

Ye Liu

CTuM6 Divided-Pulse Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses .........................................................................586Shian Zhou

CTUN EYESAFE LASERS

CTuN1 Ultra-Low-Photon-Defect Cryo-Laser Performance of Resonantly Diode-Pumped Er3+:YAG .........................................................................................................................................................588

Mark Dubinskii

CTuN2 Development of a 1.5µm Er:Yb:Glass Laser for Use in a Coherent Laser Radar .......................590Matthew Heintze

CTuN3 High-Brightness, Pulsed, Cladding-Pumped Raman Fiber Source at 1660 nm ...........................592Christophe Codemard

CTuN4 Asymmetric Time Constants ............................................................................................................594Norman Barnes

CTuN5 Highly Efficient Q-Switched Ho:YLF Laser Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser...................................596Yingxin Bai

CTuN6 CW Single-Frequency Tunable, CW Multi-Watt Polycrystalline, and CW Hot-Pressed-Ceramic Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers ...............................................................................................................598

Igor Moskalev

CTuN7 Tm:ZBLAN Fiber Lasers and their Use for Gain-Switched Cr2+:ZnSe Lasers ...........................600Marc Eichhorn

CTUO QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS

CTuO1 Narrow Stripe-Width, Low-Ridge Configuration for High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................................................................602

Arkadiy Lyakh

CTuO2 Analysis of the Thermal Roll-over of Quantum Cascade Lasers ..................................................604Scott Howard

CTuO3 Photon-Driven Transport in Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................606Hyunyong Choi

CTuO4 Temperature-Dependent Gain and Loss in High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers at 8.2 and 10.3µm ................................................................................................................................608

Zhijun Liu

CTuO5 Low-Threshold-Current-Density Room-Temperature Continuous-Wave Quantum-Cascade-Lasers Grown by Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition ..................................610

Xiaojun Wang

CTuO6 Nonlinear Quantum Cascade Lasers: Toward Broad Tunability and Short-Wavelength Operation....................................................................................................................................612

Alexey Belyanin

CTuO7 Comparative Analysis of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers..............................................................614Christian Jirauschek

CTUP NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY II

CTuP1 Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging of NADH to Investigate Metabolic Changes in Human Epileptic Tissue in vitro ....................................................................................................................616

Thomas Chia

CTuP2 Molecular Imaging of Central Nervous System with Multi-Modal Nonlinear Optical Microscopy .........................................................................................................................................618

Haifeng Wang

CTuP3 Detecting the Optical Signature of Malignancy with Second Harmonic Imaging........................620Karen Reiser

CTuP4 In vivo Continuous Imaging of Vertebrate Cardiac Valves for Congenital Heart Disease Study and Medical Drug Screening Using Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy.................622

Chun-Ta Kung

CTuP5 Noninvasive Long Term Observation and Evaluation of Mammal Oocytes and Embryos with a 3-D Subcellular Spatial Resolution ....................................................................................624

Cho-Shuen Hsieh

CTuP6 Development of Multiphoton Scanning Microscope for Simultaneous Imaging of Multiple Depths ...............................................................................................................................................626

Ramon Carriles

CTuP7 Enhanced Two-Photon in vivo Flow Cytometry with an Extended Cavity Laser........................628Eric Tkaczyk

CTUQ ACTIVE SILICON PHOTONICS

CTuQ1 Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology ...........................................630John Bowers

CTuQ2 12.5 Gbit/s Silicon Micro-Ring Silicon Modulators ........................................................................632Qianfan Xu

CTuQ3 Silicon Modulator Based on Anti-Crossing between Paired Amplitude and Phase Tunable Microring Resonators ......................................................................................................................634

William Green

CTuQ4 Inducing Photonic Transitions between Discrete Modes in a Microcavity ..................................636Po Dong

CTuQ5 Demonstration of 300 Gbps Error-Free Transmission of WDM Data Stream in Silicon Photonic Wires ....................................................................................................................................638

Xiaogang Chen

CTuQ6 Compact, Low-Power, High-Speed Silicon Electro-Optic Modulator ..........................................640Fuwan Gan

CTUR SIGNAL PROCESSING

CTuR1 Artificial Compound-Eye Camera and Its Application to Visual Information Processing ........................................................................................................................................................642

Jun Tanida

CTuR2 Time-Stretched Photonic Analog-to-Digital Sampling Using a CW Multi-Wavelength Source and Phase Modulation ..................................................................................................644

Bartosz Bortnik

CTuR3 All-Optical NRZ-OOK to RZ-QPSK Conversion Using Parallel SOA-MZI OOK/BPSK Converters ..................................................................................................................................646

Suresh Nissanka

CTuR4 10 Gb/s Wavelength Transparent All-Optical Memory Using PCF-Based Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror .....................................................................................................................648

C. C. Lee

CTuR5 Implementation of Molecular Addressing Technique Based on Photoinduced Cleavage Reaction ...........................................................................................................................................650

Naoya Tate

CTuR6 Analysis of Hierarchical Interconnects Using Optical Near-Fields Based on Angular Spectrum ...........................................................................................................................................652

Makoto Naruse

CTUS LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS

CTuS1 SBS Gain Efficiency Measurements in a 1714 µm2 Effective Area LP08 Higher Order Optical Fiber ........................................................................................................................................654

Marc Mermelstein

CTuS2 Energy Storage Saturation in Large Mode Area Fiber Lasers ......................................................656Ramatou Bello Doua

CTuS3 Resistance of Higher Order Modes to Bend-Induced Mode Coupling and Distortion .........................................................................................................................................................658

John Fini

CTuS4 Beam Quality and Modal Content for LMA Fiber Sources ...........................................................660Stephan Wielandy

CTuS5 Ultra-Large Mode-Area Fibers .........................................................................................................662Siddharth Ramachandran

CTuS6 Robustly Single-Mode Polarization Maintaining Er/Yb Co-Doped LMA Fiber for High Power Applications ................................................................................................................................663

Adrian Carter

CTUT OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY

CTuT1 Real-Time Optical Frequency-Domain Reflectometry ...................................................................665Yongwoo Park

CTuT2 Enhancing the Spectral Sensitivity and Resolution of Interferometers Using Slow-Light Media .....................................................................................................................................................667

Zhimin Shi

CTuT4 An Ultra-High Resolution Spectrometer with Successive Combination of a Fabry-Perot Etalon and a Cylindrical Beam Volume Hologram ...........................................................................669

Majid Badieirostami

CTuT5 Improved Method for Two-Dimensional Determination of the Magnitude and Orientation of Weak Birefringence ...............................................................................................................671

François Busque

CTuT6 Characterization of High-Frequency Surface Modulation Using the Transport-of-Intensity Equation ...........................................................................................................................................673

Christophe Dorrer

CTUU NLO DEVICES

CTuU1 Efficient Single-Pass Optical Parametric Generator for Environmental Gas Sensing Based on Periodically Poled Stoichiometric Lithium Tantalate....................................................675

Nan Ei Yu

CTuU2 Fibered Laser System for Rubidium Laser Cooling Based on Telecom Technology at 1560 nm and Frequency Doubling.............................................................................................................677

Yannick Bidel

CTuU3 Compact, All Solid-State, High Repetition Rate Intracavity Optical Parametric Oscillator and Its Application to the Spectroscopic Imaging of Gases and Liquids..................................679

David Stothard

CTuU4 Mid-Infrared Generation by Wavelength Conversion of a 10W, Linearly-Polarized, ns-Pulse Eye-Safe Fiber Source ...................................................................................................681

Fabio Di Teodoro

CTuU5 InGaAs/GaAs QD-Based 100 nm Bandwidth Electro-Optic Modulator for 1.55 µm Applications ....................................................................................................................................................N/A

Gautier Moreau

CTuU6 Progress in High Sensitivity Electro-Optic Field Sensors ..............................................................683Anthony Garzarella

CTuU7 Noise Elimination of Intracavity Doubled Lasers by Single-Mode Operation with Volumetric Bragg Grating..............................................................................................................................685

Sidney Yang

CTUV NOVEL MICROSCOPY

CTuV1 The Role of Amplitude and Phase in Fluorescence Coherence Imaging: From Wide Field to Nanometer Depth Profiling ..............................................................................................................687

Alberto Bilenca

CTuV2 Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Asynchronous Digital Holography System .......................689Kevin Chalut

CTuV3 Quantitative Phase Microscopy by Multi-Wavelength Phase-Shifting Interference Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................691

Nilanthi Warnasooriya

CTuV4 Bio-Imaging with Femtosecond Laser Induced Ionization Microscopy .......................................693Youbo Zhao

CTuV5 Three-Dimensional Brillouin Confocal Microscopy .......................................................................695Giuliano Scarcelli

CTuV6 Very Efficient Fluorescent Background Suppression in Confocal Raman Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................697

Vladislav Yakovlev

CTuV7 High-Throughput Endpoint and Real-Time Detection of Biochemical Reactions in Microarrays Using Label-Free Oblique-Incidence Reflectivity Difference Microscopes .........................699

James Landry

CTUW SHORT WAVELENGTH GENERATION AND APPLICATIONS

CTuW1 Grating-Assisted Phase Matching in Extreme Nonlinear Optics .................................................701Oren Cohen

CTuW2 Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Coupling of Extreme Ultraviolet Ultrashort Pulses from High Harmonic Generation.......................................................................................................703

Adam Wyatt

CTuW3 Complete Temporal Reconstruction of Attosecond Harmonic Pulses .........................................705Chang Hee Nam

CTuW4 Tabletop Lensless Imaging Using Coherent High Harmonic Beams ...........................................707Richard Sandberg

CTuW5 Soft X-Ray Contact Imaging of Thin Films by a Laser Plasma Source.......................................709Salvatore Stagira

CTuW6 Generation of Intense Deep-Ultraviolet 10-fs Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing through Flamentation in Gases ......................................................................................................................711

Takao Fuji

CTUX NOVEL VCSELS

CTuX1 Transverse Mode Control in High-Contrast Subwavelength Grating VCSEL............................713Michael Huang

CTuX2 Two-Dimensional Electronic Beam-Steering with Implant-Defined VCSEL Arrays..................715Dominic Siriani

CTuX3 Beam Switching and Steering in VCSEL-Based Photonic Crystal Coupled Heterostructures..............................................................................................................................................717

Lars D. Lundeberg

CTuX4 Characterization of Micro-Fluidic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers .............................719Ansas Kasten

CTuX5 Modulation Characteristics of Single-Mode Implant-Confined Photonic Crystal VCSELs............................................................................................................................................................721

Paul Leisher

CTuX6 Optical Decoupling in a Loss-Modulated Dual-Cavity VCSEL ....................................................723Jobert van Eisden

CTuX7 Nano Electromechanical Optoelectronic Tunable VCSEL ............................................................725Michael Huang

CTUY SILICON-BASED OPTICAL MATERIALS

CTuY1 Neodymium Doped Ultrathin Sol-Gel Tapered Channel Waveguide Amplifier on Silicon Substrate..............................................................................................................................................727

Asher Peled

CTuY2 Buried As2S3 Strips for High-Mode-Confinement Optical Waveguiding .....................................729Mehmet Solmaz

CTuY3 Directly Pumped Silicon Lasing .......................................................................................................731Jimmy Xu

CTuY4 Spatial Characterization of Germanium-on-Silicon C-Band PIN Photodiodes ...........................733Jason Orcutt

CTuY5 Wavelength Dependence of the Ultrafast Third-Order Nonlinearity of Silicon ..........................735Mark Foster

CTuY6 Fabrication of Silicon Inverse Woodpile Photonic Crystals ..........................................................737Martin Hermatschweiler

CTUZ PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FOR EMISSION AND DETECTION

CTuZ1 Nano-Scale Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Photodetectors..................................................................739Michael Hegg

CTuZ2 Photonic Crystal Infrared Photodetectors.......................................................................................741Werner Schrenk

CTuZ3 CMOS-Compatible High Frequency Infrared Photodiodes ..........................................................743Michael Geis

CTuZ4 Monolithic Integrated SiGe Optical Receiver and Detector ..........................................................745Paul Chen

CTuZ5 Thermal Microphotonic Focal Plane Array (TM-FPA) for Uncooled High Sensitivity Thermal Imaging ..........................................................................................................................747

Michael Watts

CTuZ6 Local Fields of Optical Antenna Structures ....................................................................................749Bradley Deutsch

CTuZ7 Widely-Tunable Nanostructured Leaky-Mode Resonant Pixels for the Visible Spectral Region................................................................................................................................................751

Robert Magnusson

CTUAA MICROWAVE PHOTONICS

CTuAA1 Microwave Photonic Signal Processing.........................................................................................753Robert Minasian

CTuAA2 Photonic Downconversion and Linearization of an X-Band Fiber Optic Link Using Optical I/Q Demodulation ...................................................................................................................755

Michael Dennis

CTuAA3 Multi-Tap RF Transversal Filter Using AOTF Double Diffraction ...........................................757Farzan Ghauri

CTuAA4 Coherence Free High-Resolution RF Photonic Filter..................................................................759Cibby Pulikkaseril

CTUBB NOVEL FIBER DESIGNS

CTuBB1 Er-Yb-Doped LMA Fiber Structures for High Energy Amplification of Narrow Linewidth Pulses at 1.5µm..............................................................................................................................761

Guillaume Canat

CTuBB2 Gain Interaction in the Design of Bend-Resistant Large Mode Area Amplifier Fibers................................................................................................................................................................763

John Fini

CTuBB3 Chirally Coupled Core Fibers at 1550-nm and 1064-nm for Effectively Single-Mode Core Size Scaling ..................................................................................................................................765

Chi-Hung Liu

CTuBB4 Radial Index Tailoring for Reduced Intermodal Coupling in Large-Mode-Area Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers...........................................................................................................................767

John Marciante

CTuBB5 Atomic Layer Deposition as a New Method for Rare-Earth Doping of Optical Fibers................................................................................................................................................................769

Lars Norin

CTuBB6 Bandwidth Performance of W-Shaped Plastic Optical Fiber and Its Stability under Static Microbending.............................................................................................................................771

Kenichi Aoyagi

CTUCC THZ METAMATERIALS AND PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

CTuCC1 Terahertz Switch/Modulator Based on Metamaterials ...............................................................773Hou-Tong Chen

CTuCC2 Properties of Novel Terahertz Electric Metamaterials................................................................775John O'Hara

CTuCC3 The Superprism Effect in a Metal-Clad Terahertz Photonic Crystal Slab................................777Tushar Prasad

CTuCC4 A New Method for the Realization of a Tunable Terahertz Photonic Bandgap .......................779Daniel Grischkowsky

CTuCC5 An Optically Controlled Modulator of Terahertz Radiation Based on 1-D Photonic Crystal ..............................................................................................................................................781

Filip Kadlec

CTuCC6 Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Periodic Metal Arrays .............................................783Juraj Darmo

CTuCC7 Frequency Selective Surface for High-Sensitivity Terahertz Sensors ........................................785Christian Debus

CTUDD SILICON PHOTONICS

CTuDD1 Silicon Nanophotonics and Its Applications in Sensing...............................................................787Roel Baets

CTuDD2 All Optical Ultrafast Broadband Silicon Switch ..........................................................................789Po Dong

CTuDD3 High Directivity, Vertical Fiber-to-Chip Coupler with Anisotropically Radiating Grating Teeth ..................................................................................................................................................791

Mingyan Fan

CTuDD4 Low-Loss Silicon Wire Waveguides with 3-D Tapered Couplers Fabricated by Self Profile Transformation............................................................................................................................793

Wei-Chao Chiu

CTUEE CELLULAR IMAGING

CTuEE1 Three-Dimensional in vivo Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging by a Handheld Dual-Axes Confocal Microscope ....................................................................................................................795

Hyejun Ra

CTuEE2 Endoscopic Fiber Confocal Microscopy Using a GRIN Lens......................................................797Abner Rodriguez

CTuEE3 Analysis and Measurement of Light Propagation in Coherent Fiber Bundles ..........................799Chris Xu

CTuEE4 Fiber Optic Guided Functional Electrical Stimulation with Microscale Photovoltaic Neurostimulator Devices ..........................................................................................................801

Yoon-Kyu Song

CTuEE5 Fluorescence Microscopic Mapping of Electrical Wave Propagation in an in-vitro Model of Skeletal Myoblast Cell Transplantation........................................................................................803

Yibing Zhang

CTuEE6 Cancer Cell Filopodia Characterized by Super-Resolution Bright-Field Optical Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................805

Chau-Hwang Lee

CTuEE7 Depolarized Raman Spectroscopy of Optically Trapped Cells for Rapid Identification of Microorganisms...................................................................................................................807

De Chen

CTUFF ULTRAFAST PULSE SHAPING

CTuFF1 All-Optical Dynamic Chirp Compensation of Few-Cycle Optical Pulses by Frequency-Domain Phase Conjugator ..........................................................................................................809

Hajime Nishioka

CTuFF2 Semiconductor Waveguide Device for Picosecond Pulse Amplification and Spectral Shaping at 1560 nm..........................................................................................................................811

Erwin Bente

CTuFF3 Efficient Temporal Shaping of Ultrashort Pulses with Birefringent Crystals............................813Shian Zhou

CTuFF4 Birefringent Nonlinear Polarization Rotation Mirror for Pedestal Suppression of Ultrashort Pulse...............................................................................................................................................815

Norihiko Nishizawa

CTuFF5 Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using a 2-D Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator...................817Eugene Frumker

CTuFF6 Pulse Shaping of Octave Spanning Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...................................................819Bingwei Xu

CTuFF7 Phase Characterization and Adaptive Pulse Compression Using MIIPS in Air ........................821D. Harris

CTUGG VCSELS AND INTEGRATION

CTuGG1 Monolithically Integrated III-Sb Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes on Si (100) Substrates ...............................................................................................................................................823

Diana Huffaker

CTuGG2 High Power Single Mode VCSELs Emitting at 1320nm Wavelength........................................825Vladimir Iakovlev

CTuGG3 Scaling Rules for High-Power 1.55 µm VCSEL Arrays..............................................................827Werner Hofmann

CTuGG4 Low Threshold VCSELs Recess-Integrated on Si-CMOS ICs ...................................................829James Perkins

CTuGG5 Integrated Waveguide-Grating-Coupled VCSEL/Photodetector Arrays with High-Coupled Power for Dense High-Speed Interconnects.........................................................................831

Kai Yang

CTuGG6 Shift Register Function in Optical Buffer Memory Using Polarization Bistable VCSELs............................................................................................................................................................833

Takashi Mori

CTUHH HIGH POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS

CTuHH1 Progress on the Development of High-Power Solid-State Lasers for Directed Energy Applications........................................................................................................................................835

Mark Neice

CTuHH2 A Highly Efficient Quasi-Continuous-Wave Diode-Pumped Nd: YAG Rod Laser with a 3.8 kW Output......................................................................................................................................837

Qinjun Peng

CTuHH3 Measurement of the Self-Phase-Modulation-Induced Bandwidth in a 30-kJ-Class Laser-Amplifier Chain....................................................................................................................................839

William Donaldson

CTuHH4 High-Power CW Yb:YAG Cryogenic Laser ................................................................................841David Brown

CTuHH5 15 kW Near-Diffraction-Limited Single-Frequency Nd:YAG Laser.........................................843Shawn Redmond

CTUII WAVEGUIDE DEVICES

CTuII1 High-Speed Data Amplification Using Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Amplifier .............................845Ying-hao Kuo

CTuII2 Dynamic Range Studied for a Monolithic 2x2 Quantum Dot Switch ...........................................847Eng Tin Aw

CTuII3 Mode-Locked and Single-Longitudinal-Mode Waveguide Lasers Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Er:Yb-Doped Phosphate Glass.....................................................................849

Roberto Osellame

CTuII4 Photoluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots at 1550 nm Wavelength in the Core of Photonic Bandgap Fiber....................................................................................851

Satoki Kawanishi

CTuII5 Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Optical Waveguides in Bismuth Ion Doped Glass .................................................................................................................................................................853

Nicholas Psaila

CTuII6 KY(WO4)2:Tm3+ Planar Waveguide Laser .....................................................................................855Uwe Griebner

CTuII7 Tunable Photonic Crystal Fiber Couplers Infiltrated with Highly-Thermo-Responsive Liquid Crystal Substances ..........................................................................................................857

Kunimasa Saitoh

CTUJJ TERAHERTZ SURFACE PLASMONS AND NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY

CTuJJ1 Frequency-Dependent Radiation Patterns Emitted by THz Plasmons on Cylindrical Metal Wires .................................................................................................................................859

Jason Deibel

CTuJJ2 Terahertz Near-Field Imaging of Subwavelength One-Dimensional Plasmonic Structures.........................................................................................................................................................861

M. A. Seo

CTuJJ3 Resonantly Enhanced Terahertz Transmission through Aperiodic Arrays of Subwavelength Apertures...............................................................................................................................863

Amit Agrawal

CTuJJ4 Surface Plasmon Polariton-Based Coaxial Probe for Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy.......................................................................................................................................................865

Dustin Surawicz

CTuJJ5 Plasmon-Enhanced Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy .................................................................867Victoria Astley

CTuJJ6 Terahertz Apertureless Near-Field Aicroscopy of a Vanadium Dioxide Thin Film ...................869Hui Zhan

CLEO – WEDNESDAY

CWA MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS I

CWA1 Monolithic Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Lasers ..............................................................................871Ian White

CWA2 High Repetition Rate Monolithic Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Quantum-Dot Laser: Investigation of the Locking Regimes and the RF Linewidth.................................873

Fabien Kéfélian

CWA3 High-Power and Low-Noise 10-GHz All-Active Monolithic Mode-Locked Lasers with Surface Etched Bragg Grating ..............................................................................................................875

David Larsson

CWA4 Linewidth Enhancement Factor Reduction on the Blue Side of the Gain Peak from a Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Laser.............................................................................................................877

Jimyung Kim

CWB ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS

CWB1 Variational and WKB Descriptions of Laterally Localized Eigenmodes in Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplifiers ......................................................................................................879

Bedros Afeyan

CWB2 A Simple Scalable Solid-State 589nm Laser Guide Star Source Based on Optical Parametric Amplifiers ....................................................................................................................................881

Barry Luther-Davies

CWB3 Multi-kHz Operation of Cr:Forsterite Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier .................883Fabian Rotermund

CWB4 Highly Efficient, Widely Tunable, Picosecond Optical Parametric Generation and Amplification in BiB3O6..................................................................................................................................885

Zhipei Sun

CWB5 High-Power Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Near-IR Based on BiB3O6 ..............................................................................................................................................................887

Valentin Petrov

CWB6 Optical Pulse Generation Using Two-Stage Compression Based on Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................................889

Henry Cheung

CWB7 PPLN OPCPA Based on Spectrally Addressed Amplification .......................................................891Eric Freysz

CWC PLASMONICS AND METAMATERIALS

CWC1 Metamaterial Nanophotonics ............................................................................................................893Nader Engheta

CWC2 Compact Couplers between Dielectric and Metal-Dielectric-Metal Plasmonic Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................895

Georgios Veronis

CWC3 Enhanced Optical Trapping through Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au Nanoparticle Array .........................................................................................................................................897

Xiaoyu Miao

CWC4 High Quality 3-D Virtual Nanocavity by Fringing Near-Fields of a Plasmonic Cylinder............................................................................................................................................................899

David Arbel

CWC5 Focusing of Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Surface Parabolic Dielectric Gratings.....................901Yu-Ju Hung

CWC6 Guided Modes in Arrays of Metallic Nanowires..............................................................................903Christopher Poulton

CWD BEAM COMBINATION AND REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS

CWD1 First Experimental Demonstration of Fiber Amplifier Array Phase Locking without an External Reference Beam ............................................................................................................905

Thomas Shay

CWD2 Theoretical Model for Self-Synchronous Locking of Optical Coherence by Single-Detector Electronic-Frequency Tagging .......................................................................................................907

Thomas Shay

CWD3 Laser Beam Combing for High-Power, Broadband Sources, Using Two-Step Refractive Grating ..........................................................................................................................................909

Mona Mayeh

CWD4 Upscaling Coherent Addition of Laser Distributions ......................................................................911Liran Shimshi

CWD5 High Average Power Phase-Coded Laser System for the CTF3 Photoinjector ............................913Ian Musgrave

CWD6 High-Energy, Diode-Pumped, Picosecond Yb:YAG Chirped-Pulse Regenerative Amplifier as a Pump Source for Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification .................................915

Yutaka Akahane

CWD7 Multi-Millijoule, Diode-Pumped, Chirped-Pulse Yb:KY(WO4)2 Regenerative Amplifier ..........................................................................................................................................................917

Kanade Ogawa

CWE CAVITY-BASED OPTICAL SENSING

CWE1 Stimulated Raman Gain Spectroscopy with Continuous-Wave Cavity Ringdown Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................919

Brian Orr

CWE2 Sensitive Trace Gas Detection in a Jet Expansion Using cw OPO-Based Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................921

Anthony Ngai

CWE4 Optical Microring Resonator Sensors with Selective Membrane Surface Customization ..................................................................................................................................................923

Sang-Yeon Cho

CWE5 Enhancing the Sensitivity Limit of a Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensor through Sub-Wavelength Confinement of Light.........................................................................................................925

Stephen Arnold

CWE6 Prism-Coupled Silica Micro-Tube Resonator as a Bio-Sensor .......................................................927Tao Ling

CWF PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS

CWF1 Large Pitch Kagome-Structured Hollow-Core PCF ........................................................................929Francois Couny

CWF2 Control of Dispersion in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers......................................................931Peter Roberts

CWF3 Bandwidth Enhancement by Differential Mode Attenuation in Multimode Photonic Crystal Bragg Fibers.......................................................................................................................................933

Maksim Skorobogatiy

CWF4 Transmission of Different Angular-Momentum Modes in Cylindrically Symmetric Photonic Bandgap Fibers in the Near-Infrared............................................................................................935

Ayman F. Abouraddy

CWF5 Fresnel Zone Imaging of Bloch-Modes from a Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Cladding ...........................................................................................................................................................937

Francois Couny

CWF6 Sub-Wavelength Intensity Profiles and Field Enhancement within an Optical Fiber ..................939Gustavo Wiederhecker

CWF7 Numerical Study of Heterogeneously-Indexed Photonic Bandgap Fibers .....................................941Tsinghua Her

CWG JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ QCLS I

CWG1 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................................943Benjamin Williams

CWG2 Limiting Factors for High Temperature Operation of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................945

Christian Jirauschek

CWG3 Thermally Activated Absorption in Terahertz Semiconductor Heterostructure Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................947

J. Kröll

CWG4 Experimental Measurement of the Wall-Plug Efficiency in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................949

Miriam Vitiello

CWG5 Low-Divergence Surface-Emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................................951Jonathan Fan

CWG6 High-Power Metal-Metal Waveguide Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser with a Hyperhemispherical Lens...............................................................................................................................953

Alan W. Lee

CWH ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS

CWH1 Organic Photovoltaics ........................................................................................................................955Bernard Kippelen

CWH2 High External Quantum Efficiency from Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photodetectors .................................................................................................................................................957

Younggu Kim

CWH3 Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficient of 170pm/V and Low Vπ of 1V at 1.55µm in Hybrid Polymer/Sol-Gel Waveguide Modulators ........................................................................................959

Yasufumi Enami

CWH4 Photoconductive Properties of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) ...........................................961Jonathan Laib

CWI MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS II

CWI1 First Demonstration of a Modelocked Integrated External-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (MIXSEL)..............................................................................................................................................963

Aude-Reine Bellancourt

CWI2 Injection Locking of a Broad Area Laser Diode by Use of Holographic Four-Wave Mixing in a Photorefractive Polymer ............................................................................................................965

Peter van Voorst

CWI3 Self-Injection Locking on Brillouin-Amplified Radiation in Long Optical Fiber Feedback ..........................................................................................................................................................967

Vasily Spirin

CWI4 Monolithic 1.55-µm GaInNAsSb Quantum Well Mode-Locked Lasers .........................................969Yongchun Xin

CWI5 Optically Injection-Locked Optoelectronic Oscillators with Low RF Threshold Gain .................971Hyuk-Kee Sung

CWI6 Bistable Lasing Wavelength in a Mode-Locked Two-Section Quantum-Dot Diode Laser.................................................................................................................................................................973

Mingming Feng

CWJ ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS AND OPTICAL SWITCHING

CWJ1 Quantum Interference Control of Electrical Currents in Silicon....................................................975Henry van Driel

CWJ2 Ultrafast Optical Response of InAs Quantum Dots for Photoconductive Applications .....................................................................................................................................................977

Amartya Sengupta

CWJ3 Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in an InAs/InGaAs Quantum-Dots-in-a-Well Mid-Infrared Photodetector ...................................................................................................................................979

Rohit Prasankumar

CWJ4 Ultra High Bandwidth THz Tunable Delays Using Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................981

Bala Pesala

CWJ5 Multi-Fiber-Channel, Ultrafast, All-Optical Switch Utilizing a 2-D Fresnel Lens Array ................................................................................................................................................................983

Darren Wu

CWJ6 Ultrafast Organic Photonic Crystal Optical Switching....................................................................985Gong Qihuang

CWJ7 Optical Spatially Quantized High Performance Analog-to-Digital Conversion ............................987Mona Jarrahi

CWK BIOSENSORS

CWK1 Molecular Interferometric Imaging Biosensor ................................................................................989Ming Zhao

CWK2 Virus Detection on a Planar Optofluidic Chip.................................................................................991Mikhail Rudenko

CWK3 Optical Characterization and Sensitivity Evaluation of Guided-Resonances in Photonic Crystal Slabs for Biosensing Applications ....................................................................................993

Ofer Levi

CWK4 Protein Microarray Analysis Using Surface Optical Wave Resonance in Photonic Band Gap Multilayers.....................................................................................................................................995

William Robertson

CWK5 Biological Life Signs Detection Using High Sensitivity Pulsed Laser Vibrometer........................997Chen-Chia Wang

CWK6 Multilayer Polymer Optical Backplanes for Frequency Multiplexed Phase Fluorometry Arrays ........................................................................................................................................999

Kevin Lee

CWK7 Single Molecule Pulsed Interleaved Excitation Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (PIE-FRET) inside Nanometer-Scale Apertures at Biologically Relevant Concentration ................................................................................................................................................1001

Samantha Fore

CWM FREE-SPACE AND MULTI-MODE FIBER TRANSMISSION

CWM1 Ultra-Long Distance Free Space Laser Communications ............................................................1003David Caplan

CWM2 Receiver Sensitivity Improvement of Optical Wireless Channels with Delayed-Diversified Pulse-Position Modulation ........................................................................................................1005

C. H. Kwok

CWM3 Optimized Multi-Emitter Beams for Free-Space Optical Communications through Atmospheric Turbulence ..............................................................................................................................1007

Pavel Polynkin

CWM4 Simple SBS-Mitigating Waveforms for High-Power PPM Transmitters for Space Laser Communications .................................................................................................................................1009

Neal Spellmeyer

CWM5 Mode Coupling: Why POF Supports 40Gbps...............................................................................1011Arup Polley

CWM6 Twin-Spot Launch for Enhancement of Multimode-Fiber Communication Links ...................1013Qing Sun

CWN III-IV NANOPHOTONICS

CWN1 Integration of an Electrically Driven InGaAsP Based Microdisk Laser with a Silicon Based Passive Photonic Circuit .......................................................................................................1015

Pedro Rojo-Romeo

CWN2 Temperature Insensitive Ultra Low Threshold Lasing in Quantum-Dot Photonic-Crystal Nanocavities .....................................................................................................................................1017

Takehiko Tawara

CWN3 High Quality Factor with Fundamental Resonant Mode near the Bandedge of GaN Triangular Submicron Laser Cavity ...........................................................................................................1019

C. M. Lai

CWN4 Growth of Localized InAs/InP Quantum Dots on Nano-Holes for Quantum Photonic Sources ...........................................................................................................................................1021

Pedro Rojo-Romeo

CWN5 Local On-Chip Temperature Tuning of InGaAs Quantum Dots .................................................1023Andrei Faraon

CWN6 Littrow Lasing in Photonic Crystal Waveguides ...........................................................................1025Cyril Cambournac

CWN7 Topology Optimization for Photonic Crystal Waveguide Bends with Wide and Flat Bandwidths in Air-Bride Type Photonic Crystal Slabs .............................................................................1027

Yoshinori Watanabe

CWO MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS AND APPLICATIONS

CWO1 Control of the Transient Regime of Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................1029

Francois Couny

CWO2 Side Coupling Light into the Core of Photonic Crystal Fiber ......................................................1031Graham Marshall

CWO3 Quantum Optics in Microstructured Fibers ..................................................................................1033John Rarity

CWO4 Practical Design of Microstructured Optical Fibers for Surface Plasmon Resonance Excitation ....................................................................................................................................1035

Maksim Skorobogatiy

CWO5 Index-Guiding, Single-Mode, Liquid-Core, Liquid-Cladding Photonic Crystal Fibers..............................................................................................................................................................1037

Christiano de Matos

CWO6 IR Supercontinuum in Compact Tellurite PCFs ...........................................................................1039Peter Domachuk

CWP JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ QCLS II

CWP1 Quantum-Cascade Lasers with One-Well Injector Operating at 1.59 THz (λ = 188.5 µm)..................................................................................................................................................................1041

Sushil Kumar

CWP2 Long Wavelength Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers, Emitting down to 1.2 THz..................1043Christoph Walther

CWP3 Optically-Assisted Electrically-Driven THz Generation: A New Approach for Efficient THz Quantum Cascade Lasers.....................................................................................................1045

Ines Waldmueller

CWP4 Integrated Horn Antenna for Microstrip Waveguide THz Quantum Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................1047

Stefano Barbieri

CWP5 Electrical and Optical Characterization of Microdisk Quantum Cascade Lasers emitting at Terahertz Frequencies...............................................................................................................1049

L. Andrea Dunbar

CWP6 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Novel Resonators and Linewidth Properties ..................1051Lukas Mahler

CWP7 Ultra-Low Threshold THz Microcavity Lasers with Sub-Wavelength Mode Volumes..........................................................................................................................................................1053

Yannick Chassagneux

CLEO - THURSDAY

CTHA FUNDAMENTALS OF FEMTOSECOND LASER/MATERIAL INTERACTIONS

CThA2 Subcellular Surgery and Nanoneurosurgery.................................................................................1055Eric Mazur

CThA3 Temperature Measurement of Aluminum Nanoparticles in Femtosecond Laser Ablation Plume Using Spatiotemporally Resolved XAFS Technique.......................................................1057

Yasuaki Okano

CTHB NOVEL SEMICONDUCTOR LASER CAVITIES

CThB1 Nanoscale Semiconductor Plasmon Lasers....................................................................................1059Farhan Rana

CThB2 Polarization Controlled 0.85 µm VCSELs with Plasmonic Nanorods ........................................1061Babu Dayal Padullaparthi

CThB3 Ultraviolet Lasing Characteristics of a GaN Photonic Crystal Defect Emitter ..........................1063Chun-Feng Lai

CThB4 Room-Temperature InAs/InP Quantum-Dot Photonic Crystal Microlasers Using Cavity-Confined Slow Light .........................................................................................................................1065

Frederic Bordas

CThB5 Electrically Pumped, Edge-Emitting, Large-Area Photonic Crystal Lasers with Straight and Angled Facets ..........................................................................................................................1067

Lin Zhu

CThB6 Vertically-Coupled Microring Laser Array for Dual-Wavelength Generation .........................1069Chyng Tee

CThB7 Integrated 10th Order Fresnel Lens Design for Beam Quality Enhancement in Tapered Laser Diode.....................................................................................................................................1071

F. K. Lau

CTHC X(2)/CASCADED X(2) DEVICES

CThC1 Parametric Generation in AlGaAs/AlOx Waveguides: Performances and Perspectives....................................................................................................................................................1073

Marco Ravaro

CThC2 Gain Enhancement Due to Transverse Effects in Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Amplifiers.....................................................................................................................1075

Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort

CThC3 Pulsed Picosecond UV Source by Frequency Quadrupling .........................................................1077Onur Kuzucu

CThC4 Tunable Blue/Green Light Source by Self-Cascaded χ(2) Nonlinearity in ZnO:PPLN Crystal Fiber .............................................................................................................................1079

Shan-Chuang Pei

CThC5 Ultrashort Pulse Cascaded Third-Harmonic Generation in Two-Dimensional Quasi-Phase-Matching Structure ................................................................................................................1081

Satoshi Ashihara

CThC6 High Efficiency Third Harmonic Generation in PPMgLN Disk Resonator...............................1083Kiyotaka Sasagawa

CThC7 Tunable Ring Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Volume Bragg Grating.............................1085Björn Jacobsson

CTHD OPTICAL POLYMERS

CThD1 Biomimetic Optical Polymers .........................................................................................................1087James Shirk

CThD2 Processible Polyacetylene-Based χ(3) Materials for Photonic Applications .................................1089San-Hui Chi

CThD3 Integrated Active and Passive Polymer Optical Components with nm to mm Features..........................................................................................................................................................1091

Mads Christiansen

CThD4 Demonstration of Polymer-Based Directional Coupler Modulator with High Linearity.........................................................................................................................................................1093

Yu-Chueh Hung

CThD5 Linear and Nonlinear Absorption Studies of Polymethine, Squaraine and Tetraone Dyes ................................................................................................................................................................1095

Scott Webster

CThD6 Carbon Nanotube/Conducting Polymer Addressable Interconnects ..........................................1097Seon Woo Lee

CTHE SPECTRAL CONTROL OF SOLID-STATE LASERS

CThE1 Widely Tunable Yb:KYW Laser Locked by a Volume Bragg Grating ......................................1099Björn Jacobsson

CThE2 Monolithic Bragg-Locked Nd-Laser ..............................................................................................1101Björn Jacobsson

CThE3 Lasing Action of Nd:GdVO4 at 1070 nm by Volumetric Bragg Grating ....................................1103Yu-Hung Lien

CThE4 Wavelength Tunable Single Mode Nd:GdVO4 Laser Using a Volume Bragg Grating Fold Mirror .....................................................................................................................................1105

Te-yuan Chung

CThE5 Spectral Narrowing in a Dual Volume Bragg Grating Ti:Sapphire Oscillator ..........................1107Michael Hemmer

CThE6 Solid-State Laser Development Activities in China ......................................................................1109Jianqiang Zhu

CTHF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS

CThF1 320 Gbit/s DQPSK All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Periodically Poled LiNbO3 ...........................................................................................................................................................1111

Bernd Huettl

CThF2 Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion of DPSK Signal Using Four-Wave Mixing in 32-cm Bismuth-Oxide Highly Nonlinear Fiber .........................................................................1113

Mable P. Fok

CThF3 Parametric Amplification and Processing in High-Confinement Optical Fibers .......................1115Stojan Radic

CThF4 Low-Penalty Raman-Assisted XPM Wavelength Conversion at 320 Gb/s .................................1117Michael Galili

CThF5 Wavelength Conversion Using Multi-Pump Raman-Assisted Four-Wave Mixing ....................1119S. H. Wang

CThF6 Power Equalization for the Optical Subsystems Based on the SOA Polarization Rotation..........................................................................................................................................................1121

Songnian Fu

CTHG PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

CThG1 Development of an Analog-to-Digital Converter Using Photonic Crystals ................................1123Ahmed Sharkawy

CThG2 Manipulation of Dielectric Particles Using Photonic Crystal Cavities .......................................1125Michael Barth

CThG3 What is the Velocity of Slow Light in Weakly Disordered Optical Slow-Wave Structures?.....................................................................................................................................................1127

Shayan Mookherjea

CThG4 Experimentally Demonstrated Waveguide-Coupled Corner-Cut Microcavities .......................1129Elton Marchena

CThG5 Optical Add-Drop Filter Design Based on Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators ..........................1131Weidong Zhou

CThG6 Group Delay Measurements of High Quality GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities.........................1133Thomas Sünner

CThG7 Silicon Based Photonic Crystal Electro-Optic Modulator Utilizing the Plasma Dispersion Effect ...........................................................................................................................................1135

Timothy Hodson

CTHH CONTINUUM GENERATION AND SBS IN FIBERS

CThH1 All-Fiber-Integrated Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum System with 0.7 Watts Time-Averaged Power ............................................................................................................................................1137

Chenan Xia

CThH2 Bragg Gratings as Phase Matching Elements to Extend Continuum Generation at Short Wavelengths ........................................................................................................................................1139

Paul Westbrook

CThH3 Tunable Spectral Enhancement in Supercontinuum with a Long-Period Fiber Grating ...........................................................................................................................................................1141

Dong-Il Yeom

CThH4 High Nonlinearity Glass Photonic Crystal Nanowires .................................................................1143Fiorenzo Omenetto

CThH5 Generation of Supercontinuum in a Waveguide with Slow Nonlinearity Related to Shock Formation ...........................................................................................................................................1145

Anton Husakou

CThH6 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Assisted Slow Light Generation in Single Mode Tellurite Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................1147

Kazi Abedin

CThH7 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in Small Core Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCF) ..............................................................................................................................................................1149

Jean Toulouse

CTHI TERAHERTZ GENERATION AND DETECTION

CThI1 Detection of Pulsed Terahertz Waves Using Ambient Air as the Sensor .....................................1151Jianming Dai

CThI2 Generation of 5 µJ Broadband THz Pulses by Tilted Pulse Front Excitation .............................1153Matthias Hoffmann

CThI3 Intense Coherent THz Pulse Generation by Two-Color Photoionization in Air .........................1155Ki-Yong Kim

CThI4 Strong THz-Field-Induced Nonlinear Optical Effects in Electro-Optical Crystals ....................1157Yuzhen Shen

CThI5 Generation of High Power Terahertz Pulses at Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS)............................................................................................................................................................1159

Francois Blanchard

CThI6 Intracavity Terahertz Generation in a Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator Using Quasi-Phasematched GaAs ..............................................................................................1161

Joseph Schaar

CThI7 Generation of Terahertz Radiation from a New InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs Double Grating Gate HEMT Device.........................................................................................................................1163

Yahya Meziani

CTHJ NANOSTRUCTURES IN FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING

CThJ1 Femtosecond Laser Nanomachining Applications in Fused Silica ...............................................1165Rod Taylor

CThJ2 “Quill” Writing with Ultrashort Light Pulses in Transparent Optical Materials ......................1167Peter Kazansky

CThJ3 Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Two-Plasmon Decay in Femtosecond Processing of Transparent Materials ..........................................................................................................1169

Peter Kazansky

CThJ4 Single and Multi-Scan Femtosecond Laser Writing for Selective Chemical Etching of Glass Micro-Channels ..............................................................................................................................1171

Stephen Ho

CThJ5 Solid-Phase Generation of Silicon Nanoparticles by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation ......................1173Amir Nejadmalayeri

CThJ6 Tunable Tungsten Nano-Gratings Deposited by a Single Femtosecond Laser Beam on Dielectrics .................................................................................................................................................1175

Mingzhen Tang

CTHK NEAR IR DIODE LASERS

CThK1 Linewidth Enhancement Factor of Semiconductor Lasers: Results from Round-Robin Measurements in COST 288 Action .................................................................................................1177

Asier Villafranca

CThK2 Linewidth Enhancement Factors in 1.55 µm Quantum Dot, Quantum Dash, and Quantum Well Amplifiers ............................................................................................................................1179

A. Zilkie

CThK3 Experimental Modulation Response beyond the Relaxation Oscillation Frequency in a Multiple-Spatial-Mode Laser Diode Based on Active Spatial Mode Coupling ................................1181

Weiguo Yang

CThK4 Transient Gain Spectroscopy of (GaIn)As Quantum Well Structures .......................................1183Christoph Lange

CThK5 Integrated Chirped Bragg Gratings on Deeply Etched Tapered III-V Waveguides .................1185Michael Strain

CThK6 1.55 µm GaSb/AlGaSb MQW Diode Lasers Grown on GaAs Substrates Using Interfacial Misfit (IMF) Arrays ...................................................................................................................1187

Manish Mehta

CThK7 480-mW DBR Laser Integrated with Micro Heaters for Wavelength Tuning...........................1189Martin Hu

CTHL MID-IR GENERATION

CThL1 Enhancement of Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation at 10.6 µm in an Annealed ZnGeP2 Crystal ............................................................................................................................1191

Yi Jiang

CThL2 SHG of CO2 Laser Radiation at 10.6 µm in the Highly Nonlinear Chalcopyrite LiGaTe2 ..........................................................................................................................................................1193

Valentin Petrov

CThL3 Advances in Mid-IR Materials .......................................................................................................1195Peter Schunemann

CThL4 Femotsecond Mid-Infrared Difference-Frequency-Generation Tunable between 3.2 µm and 4.8 µm from a Compact Fiber Source ...........................................................................................1197

Christian Erny

CThL5 Mid-IR OPO Operating near Room Temperature Based on Vapor-Transport Equilibrated Periodically Poled Stoichiometric LiTaO3............................................................................1199

Mordechai Katz

CThL6 Mid-IR Entangled-Cavity Doubly Resonant OPO Pumped by a Micro-Laser ..........................1201Michel Lefebvre

CTHM ULTRAFAST BEAMS AND MATERIALS PROCESSING

CThM1 Multiphoton Ionization in Dielectrics: Competition of Circular and Linear Polarization....................................................................................................................................................1203

Vasily Temnov

CThM2 Spatio-Spectral Analysis and Encoding of Ultrashort Pulses with Higher-Order Statistical Moments .......................................................................................................................................1205

Ruediger Grunwald

CThM3 Dual Wavelength Femtosecond Laser Materials Processing ......................................................1207Masanao Kamata

CThM4 Low Insertion Loss Waveguides in Lithium Niobate Using Multi-Scan Femtosecond Waveguide Inscription...........................................................................................................1209

Henry Bookey

CThM5 Ultrafast p-Si Field Emitter Array Photocathode........................................................................1211Chin-Jen Chiang

CThM6 Ultrashort Lagguere-Gaussian Pulses with Angular and Group Velocity Dispersion Compensation .............................................................................................................................1213

Iosif Zeylikovich

CThM7 Young's Interference Experiment with Ultrashort-Pulsed Bessel Beams..................................1215Ruediger Grunwald

CTHN NANOFABRICATION

CThN1 Advances in Two-Photon 3-D Microfabrication ...........................................................................1217Joseph Perry

CThN2 Large-Area Metal Grid Ultraviolet Filter Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography ...............1219Wen-Di Li

CThN3 2-Photon Polymerization for Plasmonic Applications ..................................................................1221Sven Passinger

CThN4 Novel Shadow Mask Structure for Sampled Bragg Gratings in Chalcogenide (As2S3) Planar Waveguides...........................................................................................................................1223

DukYong Choi

CThN5 Fabrication of Garnet Waveguides and Polarizers forIntegrated Optical Isolators .................1225Sang-Yeob Sung

CThN6 Three-Dimensional Laser Nano-Structuring: Contrast in Three-Photon and Two-Photon Polymerization of SU-8 ....................................................................................................................1227

Ladan Abolghasemi

CThN7 Electron-Beam Lithography Techniques for Micro- and Nano-Scale Surface Structure Current Injection Lasers .............................................................................................................1229

Guy DeRose

CTHO FIBER-BASED OPTICAL SENSING

CThO1 Selectively Infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fibers for Fluorescence Sensing ..................................1231Michael Barth

CThO2 An In-Fibre Microcavity .................................................................................................................1233Fredrik Laurell

CThO3 Mid-Infrared Methane Sensing Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator and a Photonic Bandgap Fiber as a Gas Cell ........................................................................................................1235

Lukasz Kornaszewski

CThO4 Geometry and Structure of Multimaterial Photodetecting Fibers: A Comparative Study...............................................................................................................................................................1237

Fabien Sorin

CThO5 A 100 km Ultra-High Performance Fiber Sensing System ..........................................................1239Jong Chow

CThO6 Simplified Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis System with Optimized Time-Gating Scheme.....................................................................................................................................1241

Kwang-Yong Song

CTHP PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND MICROCAVITIES

CThP1 Novel Design to Increase the Angular Tolerance of Grating Resonance Devices at Oblique Incidence..........................................................................................................................................1243

Sakoolkan Boonruang

CThP2 Photonic Crystal Reflection Prisms ................................................................................................1245Ethan Schonbrun

CThP3 Tunable Fabry-Perot Waveguide Microcavities with High Index Contrast Mirrors ................1247Marcel Pruessner

CThP4 NRZ-to-PRZ Format Conversion Using Silicon Second-Order Coupled-Microring Resonator-Based Notch Filters ....................................................................................................................1249

Linjie Zhou

CThP5 Flattened Broadband Filters with Strongly Modulated Gratings with Two Distinct Filling Factors within One Identical Period................................................................................................1251

YunChih Lee

CThP6 Sharply-Defined Optical Filters and Dispersionless Delay Lines Based on Loop-Coupled Resonators and “Negative” Coupling ..........................................................................................1253

Milos Popovic

CThP7 Single-Film Broadband Photonic Crystal Micro-Mirror with Large Angular Range and Low Polarization Dependence ..............................................................................................................1255

Sora Kim

CTHQ NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION AND SHAPING IN FIBERS

CThQ1 Pulse Compression Techniques Using Highly Nonlinear Fibers .................................................1257Takashi Inoue

CThQ2 Enhancement of Self-Phase Modulation Induced Spectral Broadening in Silicon Waveguides by Ion Implantation.................................................................................................................1259

Yang Liu

CThQ3 Parabolic Pulse Generation in Dispersion Decreasing Fiber Amplifier .....................................1261Stefan Wabnitz

CThQ4 Soliton Compression to Few-Cycle Pulses Using Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers: A Design Study....................................................................................................................1263

Frank Wise

CThQ5 Long Range Soliton Interaction Related to Sidebands Generation in Mode-Locked lasers...............................................................................................................................................................1265

Rafi Weill

CThQ6 Coexistence and Competition between Different Soliton Shaping Mechanisms in a Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1267

Luming Zhao

CTHR TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGIES

CThR1 InGaAs Photoconductive Antennas for THz Emission and Detection with 1.56 µm Excitation .......................................................................................................................................................1269

Yutaka Kadoya

CThR2 THz Time-Domain Spectrometer Based on LT-InGaAs Photoconductive Antennas Exited by a 1.55 µm Fibre Laser ..................................................................................................................1271

Rafal Wilk

CThR3 Excitation Wavelength Dependence of Terahertz Emission from Indium Nitride Multiple Quantum Wells ..............................................................................................................................1273

Grace Chern

CThR4 Measurement of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by THz-Emission Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................1275

Hartmut Roskos

CThR5 THz Radiation Transfer onto a Telecom Optical Carrier ...........................................................1277Sukhdeep Dhillon

CThR6 Energy-Scalable THz-Wave Parametric Oscillator and Its Application to Scanning-Beam Terahertz-Wave Reflection Imaging................................................................................1279

Tomofumi Ikari

CTHS WAVEGUIDE WRITING WITH ULTRASHORT LASERS

CThS1 Writing High-Strength Bragg Grating Waveguides in Bulk Glasses with Picosecond Laser Pulses................................................................................................................................1281

Haibin Zhang

CThS2 Integration of Optical Waveguides and Microfluidic Channels Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation....................................................................................................................1283

Valeria Maselli

CThS3 Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Directional Couplers and Mach-Zehnder Interferometers..............................................................................................................................................1285

Yu Gu

CThS4 Submicron-Period Waveguide Bragg Gratings Direct Written by an 800-nm Femtosecond Oscillator ................................................................................................................................1287

Jung-Ho Chung

CThS5 Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguide Arrays with Tailored Supermodes .............................1289Michael Nguyen

CThS6 Refractive Index Modifications in Chalcogenide Films Induced by Sub-Bandgap Near-IR Femtosecond Pulses........................................................................................................................1291

Jiyeon Choi

CThS7 Depth-Independent, Low-Loss Waveguides Formed by High-Repetition Rate Femtosecond Fiber Laser .............................................................................................................................1293

Shane Eaton

CTHT CERAMIC LASERS

CThT1 Synthesis and Performance of Advanced Ceramic Lasers ...........................................................1295Akio Ikesue

CThT2 Brightness Enhancement Using Core Doped Nd:YAG Ceramic Rods for Side Pumped Laser Heads in Laser Amplifiers and Oscillators .......................................................................1297

Alexander Sträßer

CThT3 Oscillation Property of Rod-Type Nd/Cr:YAG Ceramic Lasers with Quasi-Solar Pumping .........................................................................................................................................................1299

Taku Saiki

CThT4 Specificity of Thermal Lensing in Laser Ceramics .......................................................................1301Efim Khazanov

CThT5 Core-Doped Ceramic Nd:YAG Laser with Sm:YAG Cladding ..................................................1303Dietmar Kracht

CThT6 Ceramic YAG Composite with Nd Gradient Structure for Homogeneous Absorption of Pump Power ..........................................................................................................................1305

Tomosumi Kamimura

CTHU THZ IMAGING AND APPLICATIONS

CThU1 Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space .........................................................................1307Peter Siegel

CThU2 Continuous-Wave Terahertz Imaging with a Hybrid System .....................................................1308Torsten Löffler

CThU3 Real-Time, Transmission-Mode, Terahertz Imaging Over A 25-Meter Distance......................1310Alan Lee

CThU4 Terahertz Imaging with Compressed Sensing and Phase Retrieval............................................1312Wai Chan

CTHV NONLINEAR OPTICS OF NANOSTRUCTURES

CThV1 Carbon Nanotube-Polyimide Saturable Absorbing Waveguide Made by Simple Photolithography...........................................................................................................................................1314

Toshiyuki Oomuro

CThV2 Resonant Nonlinear Optical Properties of CdSe Quantum Dots.................................................1316Lazaro Padilha

CThV3 Hierarchy in Optical Near-Fields by Nano-Scale Shape Engineering and Its Application to Traceable Memory ...............................................................................................................1318

Makoto Naruse

CThV4 Reducing Feature-Sizes of Two-Photon Polymerized Lines by Re-Polymerization in SCR500 ......................................................................................................................................................1320

Yan Li

CThV5 Parametric Oscillation via Dispersion-Compensation in High-Q Microspheres .......................1322Imad Agha

CThV6 Exact Optimization-Based Analysis Method Applied to Nonlinear Processes in a Multi-Cavity Micro-Resonator ....................................................................................................................1324

Guy Klemens

CThV7 Interband Second-Order Susceptibility Enhancement in Strained GaInP/AlGaInP Quantum Wells..............................................................................................................................................1326

Alex Hayat

CTHW FABRICATION OF PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURES

CThW1 Nanofabricated Negative Permeability Media .............................................................................1328Alex Grigorenko

CThW2 Enhanced Aspect Ratio of Focused Ion Beam Nanopatterning Technique in Semiconductors .............................................................................................................................................1329

Alex Hayat

CThW3 Wafer Scale Texturing of LiNbO3.................................................................................................1331Vijay Sivan

CThW4 Diffractive Optical Elements Based Single-Step Fabrication of 3-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Templates .........................................................................................................................1333

Debashis Chanda

CThW5 Photonic Band Gap Synthesis by Optical Phase Mask Lithography .........................................1335Timothy Chan

CThW6 Orthorhombic or Tetragonal Woodpile-Type Photonic Crystals Template Fabricated by Laser Phase Mask Lithography ..........................................................................................1337

Yuankun Lin

CTHX OPTICAL COMBS TECHNOLOGY I

CThX1 Nearly Three-Octave-Spanning Frequency Comb from a Phase-Controlled Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator...............1339

Jinghua Sun

CThX2 Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement and Control of Sub-10fs Laser Pulse at High Repetition Rate with Difference Frequency Technique....................................................................1341

Zhiyi Wei

CThX3 High-Resolution Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Optical Combs..............................................1343Jason Stalnaker

CThX4 Controlling Carrier-Envelope Phase of Grating-Based Chirped Pulse Amplifiers ...................1345Chengquan Li

CThX5 Efficient Compression of Carrier-Envelope Phase-Locked Laser Pulses to 5 fs Esing an Aluminum-Coated Hollow Fiber..................................................................................................1347

Taro Sekikawa

CThX6 Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilized 5.6 fs, 1.2 mJ Pulses..............................................................1349Hiroki Mashiko

CTHY REMOTE SENSING I

CThY1 Regional Aerosol Transport Study Using a Compact Aircraft Lidar .........................................1351Jasper Lewis

CThY2 RADAR REMPI: A New Approach to Detection, Spectroscopy and the Dynamics of Gases for Combustion, Fluid Dynamics and Homeland Defense .........................................................1353

Richard Miles

CThY3 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites .........................1355Caroline McEnnis

CThY4 Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Trinitrotoluene ...............................1357Yamac Dikmelik

CThY5 Long Range Trace Detection in Aqueous Aerosol Using Remote Filament-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (R-FIBS).............................................................................................................1359

Jean-François Daigle

CThY6 Hybrid of Frequency and Time Resolved CARS ..........................................................................1361Dmitry Pestov

CTHZ APPLICATIONS OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

CThZ1 Chip-Scale Photonic Crystal Spectrometers with High Resolution for Lab-on-a-chip Sensing Applications .............................................................................................................................1363

Babak Momeni

CThZ2 Label-Free Optical Biosensor Built with Two-Dimensional Silicon Photonic Crystal Microcavity ......................................................................................................................................1365

Mindy Lee

CThZ3 Photon Crystal Waveguide-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor ................................1367Maksim Skorobogatiy

CThZ4 Fast and Efficient Simulation of Diffuse Light Using Wiener Chaos Expansion and Its Applications for Design of Photonic Crystal Spectrometers ................................................................1369

Majid Badieirostami

CThZ5 Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence......................................................................................1371Nikhil Ganesh

CThZ6 High NA Fourier Space Imaging of Planar Photonic Crystals ....................................................1373Nicolas Le Thomas

CThZ7 Optical and Local Tuning of Planar Photonic Crystals Infiltrated with Organic Molecules........................................................................................................................................................1375

Rolando Ferrini

CTHAA OPTICAL FIBER APPLICATIONS

CThAA1 Fiber-Based All-Optical Sampling ..............................................................................................1377Mathias Westlund

CThAA2 Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion at 40Gb/s Using Birefringent Nonlinear Fiber .............................................................................................................................................1379

Anthony Lenihan

CThAA3 A Monolithic, Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer Using Asymmetric Twin Waveguide Technology .......................................................................................................................1381

Kuen-Ting Shiu

CThAA4 Large Tunable Optical Delays via Self-Phase Modulation and Dispersion .............................1383Yoshitomo Okawachi

CThAA5 Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML) in the Non-Zero Dispersion Regime: A Laser for Ultrahigh-Speed Retinal OCT Imaging at 236kHz Line Rate ..................................................1385

Robert Huber

CTHBB SECURITY ISSUES IN OPTICAL NETWORKING

CThBB1 Demonstration of 1550 nm QKD with ROADM-Based DWDM Networking and the Impact of Fiber FWM ............................................................................................................................1387

Paul Toliver

CThBB2 Enhanced Confidentiality with Multi-Level Phase Scrambling in SPE-OCDMA...................1389Anjali Agarwal

CThBB3 Security Analysis of Stealth Transmission over a Public Fiber-Optical Network ...................1391Bernard Wu

CThBB4 Security Issues in OCDMA with Multiple-User Aggregation ...................................................1393Zhi Jiang

CThBB5 Design of a Virtual Quadrant Receiver for 4-ary Pulse Position Modulation/Optical Code Division Multiple Access (4-ary PPM/O-CDMA) ..........................................1395

Vincent Hernandez

CThBB6 Improving Transmission Privacy Using Optical Layer XOR ...................................................1397Ivan Glesk

CTHCC LASER PROCESSING AND MEASUREMENTS

CThCC1 Microfluidic Bead Array Device Using Laser-Machined Surface Microstructures on Silica Glass ................................................................................................................................................1399

Tadatake Sato

CThCC2 Nanometer-Scale Imaging and Ablation with Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers .............................1401Fernando Brizuela

CThCC3 Arrays of Sub-100 nm Features Fabricated with Table Top Extreme Ultraviolet Interferometric Laser Lithography .............................................................................................................1403

Mario Marconi

CThCC4 Highly Sensitive Asymmetric Long Period Fiber Grating over 1545 ~ 1650 nm Using Optical Polymer on Deep-Ablated Cladding....................................................................................1405

Nan-Kuang Chen

CThCC5 Transparent Thin-Film Characterization by Using Differential Optical Sectioning Interference Microscopy ............................................................................................................1407

Chun-Chieh Wang

CTHDD NOVEL DESIGNS FOR SOLID-STATE LASERS

CThDD1 Cross Sections for Room and Low Temperature Operation of Er-Doped Sesquioxide Lasers ........................................................................................................................................1409

Larry Merkle

CThDD2 Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Giant Pulse Generation in 2 Microns Tm,Ho Lasers ................................................................................................................................................1411

Oleg Louchev

CThDD3 High-Power CW Operation and Beam Quality of a Diode Edge-Pumped, Composite All-Ceramic Yb:YAG Microchip Laser ...................................................................................1413

Masaki Tsunekane

CTHEE HIGH-POWER SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

CThEE1 High-Brightness Wavelength-Beam-Combined Eyesafe Diode Laser Stacks ..........................1415Juliet Gopinath

CThEE2 High-Brightness, Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser System for Fiber Laser Pumping....................1417S. David Roh

CThEE3 High Power 7-GHz Bandwidth External-Cavity Diode Laser Array .......................................1419Lei Meng

CThEE4 High-Power (14 W CW), Narrow Far-Field (3° FWHM) 920 nm Quantum-Dots Tapered Laser Mini-Bar...............................................................................................................................1421

Nicolas Michel

CThEE5 Investigation of Catastrophic Optical Mirror Damage in High Power Single-Mode InGaAs-AlGaAs Strained Quantum Well Lasers with Focused Ion Beam and HR-TEM Techniques ...........................................................................................................................................1423

Yongkun Sin

CThEE6 Power Scalable Semiconductor Disk Laser Using Multiple Gain Cavity.................................1425Esa Saarinen

CThEE7 Etched Micro-Structures for Control of Optical Mode Distribution for Improved Broad Area Laser Performance...................................................................................................................1427

Paul Crump

CTHFF SPATIAL NONLINEAR EFFECT

CThFF1 Photonic Crystal Fiber Based 10 GHz Optical Clock Recovery Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator....................................................................................................................................1429

Ailing Zhang

CThFF2 Controlling Acousto-Optic Interactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber with Sub-Wavelength Core-Hole..................................................................................................................................1431

Gustavo Wiederhecker

CThFF3 Power Threshold of Discrete Surface Solitons ............................................................................1433Sergiy Suntsov

CThFF4 Observation of Two-Dimensional Discrete Surface Solitons and Surface Gap Solitons ...........................................................................................................................................................1435

Xiaosheng Weng

CThFF5 Nonreciprocal Transmission and Low-Threshold Bistability in Strongly Modulated Asymmetric Nonlinear WBGs ..................................................................................................1437

Masafumi Fujii

CThFF6 Polarization Instability in a Long Period Grating of χ(3) ............................................................1439Alain Villeneuve

CThFF7 Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Second-Harmonic Imaging of Ferroelectric Domain Structure of YMnO3......................................................................................................................................1441

Corneliu Catalin Neacsu

CTHGG NANOWIRES AND NANORODS

CThGG1 Effects of V/III Ratios for InP Nanowires Grown on Si Substrates.........................................1443Linus Chuang

CThGG2 Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Epitaxial InP Nanowires ........................................................1445Shanna Crankshaw

CThGG3 Photoluminescence of GaInAsP/InP Single Quantum Wires with Lateral Widths down to 6 nm Fabricated by Dry Etching and Regrowth ..........................................................................1447

Hirotake Itoh

CThGG4 Second- and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Arrayed ZnO Nanorods ........................................................................................................................................................1449

Fabian Rotermund

CThGG5 Trapping and Transport of Silicon Nanowires Using Lateral-Field Optoelectronic Tweezers...............................................................................................................................1451

Aaron Ohta

CTHHH OPTICAL COMBS TECHNOLOGY II

CThHH1 Determining Phase-Energy Coupling Coefficient in Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurements................................................................................................................................................1453

Chengquan Li

CThHH2 Coherent Synthesis Using Carrier-Envelope Phase Controlled Pulses from a Dual-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator...........................................................................1455

Jinghua Sun

CThHH3 High Repetition Rate, Low Jitter, Fundamentally Mode-Locked Soliton Er-Fiber Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1457

Jian Chen

CThHH4 Synchronizing Lasers over Fiber by Transmitting Continuous Waves...................................1459Russell Wilcox

CThHH5 Pulse to Pulse Frequency Skew by Modulated Composite Cavity Structure for Range Detection.............................................................................................................................................1461

Sarper Ozharar

CThHH6 Frequency Stabilized Low Timing Jitter Mode-Locked Laser with an Intracavity Etalon .............................................................................................................................................................1463

Franklyn Quinlan

CThHH7 Octave-Spanning Optical Waveform Synthesizer for Coherent Control Experiments ...................................................................................................................................................1465

Stefan Rausch

CTHII REMOTE SENSING II

CThII1 Pushbroom Laser Altimetry Using Fiber Lasers and Photon Counting Detectors ...................1467James Abshire

CThII2 The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and the Laser Ranging System on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ................................................................................................................................1469

Xiaoli Sun

CThII3 Phase Insensitive Frequency Modulation Sensor for Long Distance CO2 Monitoring .....................................................................................................................................................1471

Sheng Wu

CThII4 Remote Detection of Breath CO2 with Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................1473

Andrew Wright

CThII5 Lidar Approach for Measuring the CO2 Concentrations in the Troposphere from Space...............................................................................................................................................................1474

James Abshire

CThII6 Infrared Heterodyne Radiometry Using Quantum Cascade Laser as Tunable Local Oscillator: Application to Atmospheric Studies...............................................................................1476

Damien Weidmann

CThII7 Tunable Diode Laser Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy (TDL-WMS) Using a Fiber-Amplified Source ................................................................................................................................1478

Richard Wainner

CTHJJ NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES AND DEVICES

CThJJ1 Multi-Axis Electrothermal Scanning Micromirror with Low Driving Voltage ........................1480Kemiao Jia

CThJJ2 Fiber-Coupled Γ-point Photonic Crystal Bandedge Laser .........................................................1482Heonsu Jeon

CThJJ3 Micromachined Quantum-Well Air-Clad Waveguides...............................................................1484Todd Stievater

CThJJ4 Polarization Effect in the Transmission through a Single Nanoscopic Aperture .....................1486Jochen Mueller

CThJJ5 Circularly Polarized Emission from Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Confined in Sculptured Thin Film Based Microcavities............................................................................1488

Jian Xu

CThJJ6 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies and Spectral Narrowing in ZnO Nanostructures ..............................................................................................................................................1490

Gregory Garrett

CThJJ7 Performance Limits to Waveguide Isolators in InP ....................................................................1492Tauhid Zaman

CTHKK FIBER DEVICES FOR SENSING AND METROLOGY

CThKK1 Characterization of the Large Index Modification Caused by Electrical Discharge in Optical Fibers ..........................................................................................................................1494

Benoit Sevigny

CThKK2 Two-Photon Long-Period Grating Inscription in Pure-Fused-Silica Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................................1496

Andrei Fotiadi

CThKK3 First and Higher-Order All-Optical Temporal Differentiators Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings ..............................................................................................................................................1498

Luis Rivas

CThKK4 Low Insertion-Loss (1.8 dB) and Vacuum-Pressure All-Fiber Acetylene Cell Based on Hollow-Core PCF..........................................................................................................................1500

Philip Light

CThKK5 Nonlinear Phenomena in the Response of Interferometric Fiber-Optic Current Sensors............................................................................................................................................................1502

Klaus Bohnert

CThKK6 Multimode Fiber Loop Ring down Spectroscopy for Pressure Measurement........................1504Zhihao Chen

CThKK7 Novel Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry with Measurement Range beyond Laser Coherence Length Realized Using Concatenatively Generated Reference Signal ..............................................................................................................................................................1506

Xinyu Fan

CTHLL TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDES

CThLL1 A Terahertz Dual Wire Waveguide .............................................................................................1508Marx Mbonye

CThLL2 Missing Conductivity in the THz Skin-Depth Layer of Metals .................................................1510Norman Laman

CThLL3 Silver/Polystyrene Coated Hollow Glass Waveguides for the Transmission of THz Radiation........................................................................................................................................................1512

Bradley Bowden

CThLL4 Ferroelectric All-Polymer Hollow Bragg Fibers for THz ..........................................................1514Maksim Skorobogatiy

CThLL5 Air-Core Microstructure Fiber for Terahertz Radiation Waveguiding...................................1516Ja-Yu Lu

CThLL6 1-D THz Photonic Waveguides ....................................................................................................1518Adam Bingham

CThLL7 THz Fiber Directional Coupler ....................................................................................................1520Hung-Wen Chen

CLEO - FRIDAY

CFA ND LASERS

CFA1 High Power CW and A-O Q-Switch Operation of 912 nm Nd:GdVO4 Laser ..............................1522Jing Gao

CFA2 Laser Properties of Composite Nd:GdVO4 Single Crystal Grown by the Double Die EFG Method ..................................................................................................................................................1524

Akio Miyamoto

CFA3 High Order Wavefront Correction for High-Energy Nd:YLF Rod Amplifier by Phase Conjugate Plate ..................................................................................................................................1526

Takashi Sekine

CFA4 Generation of Cylindrical Vector Beams from a Nd:YAG Laser Cavity including a c-cut YVO4 Crystal .......................................................................................................................................1528

Yuichi Kozawa

CFA5 Quasi CW Laser Diode Side Pumped Nd:YAG Slab Laser Passively Mode-Locked Using Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorbers .................................................................................1530

Vaclav Kubecek

CFA6 Development and Vacuum Life Test of a Diode-Pumped Cr:Nd:YAG Laser (Heritage Laser) for Space Applications .....................................................................................................1532

Antonios Seas

CFA7 Repetition-Rate-Stabilized High Power Passively Q-Switched Nd:YAG Microchip Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1534

Jianwu Ding

CFB LASER SOURCES FOR ACTIVE OPTICAL SENSING

CFB1 Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers for Spectroscopic Trace-Gas Detection.....................................1536Dahv Kliner

CFB2 Single-Frequency, Frequency-Doubled, Erbium-Doped, Fiber-Amplified Transmitter for Oxygen A-Band Spectroscopy ..........................................................................................1537

Mark Stephen

CFB3 Widely Tunable, High Power, Mode-Hop Free, CW External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser at 8.4µm ................................................................................................................................1539

Gerard Wysocki

CFB4 Broadly Tunable Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Laser Source...................................................1541Benjamin Lee

CFC IMAGING OF TISSUE AND CANCER

CFC1 High-Speed Camera for Frequency Domain Imaging ....................................................................1543Abneesh Srivastava

CFC2 Single-Scattering Optical Tomography............................................................................................1545Vadim Markel

CFC3 Cellular Motion as Contrast Agent in Tumor Imaging ..................................................................1547Kwan Jeong

CFC4 Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging for Colonic Cancer Diagnosis ............................................1549Zhiwei Huang

CFC5 Evaluation of a Multi-Wavelength Reflectance System for Determination of Tissue Optical Properties in the UVA-VIS .............................................................................................................1551

Quanzeng Wang

CFC6 Enzyme-Based Labeling of Tumor Boundaries...............................................................................1553Jeanne Haushalter

CFC7 Inhomogeneity Localization in Scattering Media Based on an Optical Diffusion Model..............................................................................................................................................................1555

Guangzhi Cao

CFD STIMULATED NLO PROCESSES

CFD1 Effect of Raman Susceptibility on Single-Pump Parametric Amplifiers ......................................1557Stuart Murdoch

CFD2 High Quality Millimeter Wave Carrier Generation via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering .......................................................................................................................................................1559

Markus Junker

CFD3 Efficient Single Spatial Mode Stimulated Raman Scattering in a Hollow Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber Filled with Ethanol ...........................................................................................1561

Sylvie Lebrun

CFD4 Enhancement of Maximum Time Delay in One Fiber Segment Slow Light Systems Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering ...................................................................................................1563

Ronny Henker

CFD5 Efficient Broadband Raman Generation in Crystals Driven by Dual-Frequency Femtosecond Laser Fields ............................................................................................................................1565

Alexei Sokolov

CFD6 Single-Shot Pulse Characterization with High Spatial Resolution Using Localized Nonlinearities and Cerenkov Phase-Matching ...........................................................................................1567

Valdas Pasiskevicius

CFD7 Beam Cleanup of a Pulsed Multimode Fiber Master-Oscillator Power-amplifier at 1.55 µm Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering ..........................................................................................1569

Bastien Steinhausser

CFE HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES

CFE1 Tunable Optofluidic Third Order DFB Dye Laser .........................................................................1571Morten Gersborg-Hansen

CFE2 Use of Optical Tweezers to Fabricate Tunable Filters in Photonic Crystal Fibers ......................1573Mark Cronin-Golomb

CFE3 Integrated Semiconductor Chips for EIT ........................................................................................1575Holger Schmidt

CFE4 Identification of the Band-Edge Cladding Modes of a Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibre ...............................................................................................................................................................1577

Francois Couny

CFE5 Characterization of Index Changes in Silicone- and Nonsilicone-Based Hydrogel Polymers Induced by Femtosecond Micromachining ................................................................................1579

Li Ding

CFE6 Drawing-Induced Index Anisotropy in Single-Material Endlessly Single-Mode Microstructured Optical Fibers ...................................................................................................................1581

Benoit Sevigny

CFF ULTRAFAST PULSE CHARACTERIZATION I

CFF1 Guided-Wave Temporal Imaging Based Ultrafast Recorders........................................................1583Corey Bennett

CFF2 Looped Time-Lens Compression for Generation of 3.5 nJ Femtosecond Pulses from a CW Laser ....................................................................................................................................................1585

James van Howe

CFF3 Polarization-Insensitive Ultralow-Power Second-Harmonic Generation Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating ...............................................................................................................................1587

Houxun Miao

CFF4 Full Characterisation of Low Power Picosecond Pulses From a Gain-Switched Diode Laser Using Electro-Optic Modulation Based FROG................................................................................1589

Andrew Malinowski

CFF5 Sinusoidal Phase Modulation as a Gate for FROG .........................................................................1591Nicolas Fontaine

CFF6 Complex-Pulse Characterization Using a One Dimensional Scheme.............................................1593Balakishore Yellampalle

CFF7 Pulse Phase Reconstruction Using Optical Ultrafast Differentiation.............................................1595Fangxin Li

CFG OPTICAL TRACE GAS DETECTION

CFG1 Sensitive Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy of Ethane Using a Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Laser..............................................................................................................................1597

Krishnan Parameswaran

CFG2 Sensitive, Real-Time Interband Cascade Laser Based Sensor for Ethane Monitoring ...............1599Yury Bakhirkin

CFG3 Isotopic Ratio Measurements of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using a 4.3 µm Pulsed Quantum Cascade Laser ..................................................................................................................1601

David Nelson

CFG4 Methane Detection by Means of Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy in NIR .................................................................................................................................................................1603

Anatoliy Kosterev

CFG5 Spectroscopic Study of Simulant for VX Nerve Agent in a Wide Frequency Range ...................1605Renbo Song

CFG6 Airborne Difference Frequency Spectrometer for Ultra Sensitive Formaldehyde Measurements................................................................................................................................................1607

Petter Weibring

CFG7 Petrochemical Gas Speciation Using a Rapid Widely-Tunable Mid-IR Laser Spectrometer..................................................................................................................................................1609

Douglas Bamford

CFH HIGH-Q MICRORESONATORS AND DEVICES I

CFH1 High-Q Photonic Crystal Cavities ....................................................................................................1611Susumu Noda

CFH2 Analytic Photonic Crystal Cavity Design.........................................................................................1612Dirk Englund

CFH3 c-Er2O3 Microdisks on Silicon: Fabrication and Photoluminescence ...........................................1614Christopher Michael

CFH4 Electro-Optically Tunable Microring Resonators Based on Single-Crystalline LiNbO3 Thin Films........................................................................................................................................1616

Gorazd Poberaj

CFH5 Demonstration of High-Q Microdisk Resonators: Fabrication and Nonlinear Properties .......................................................................................................................................................1618

Tobias Kippenberg

CFH6 Photonic Crystals (PC) in Diamond: Cavity Q-Mode Volume Influence on the Design .............................................................................................................................................................1620

Igal Bayn

CFI HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS

CFI1 Bi-Doped Fiber Lasers: New Type of High-Power Radiation Sources ...........................................1622Igor Bufetov

CFI2 High-Power Cascaded Raman Fiber Laser with 41-W Output Power at 1480-nm Band ...............................................................................................................................................................1624

Yoshihiro Emori

CFI3 Multi-mJ Energy, Multi-MW Peak-Power Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifiers with Near-Diffraction-Limited Output ................................................................................................................1626

Fabio Di Teodoro

CFI4 Strictly-All-Fiber 1070nm High Power Source in a Distributed Side-Coupled Pump Configuration ................................................................................................................................................1628

Yaakov Glick

CFI5 20W Single-Frequency Fiber Laser Operating at 1.93 um ..............................................................1630Soren Agger

CFI6 High Power Single-Ended Yb-Doped Fiber ASE Source.................................................................1632Pu Wang

CFI7 Mode Field Adaptation for High Power Fiber Lasers......................................................................1634Mathieu Faucher

CFJ YB LASERS

CFJ1 On-Chip, Ultra-Low Threshold Yb Silica Laser ..............................................................................1636Eric Ostby

CFJ2 Compact Multi-Pass Ring Laser Using LHPG-Grown Yb:YAG Crystal Fiber............................1638Jui-Yun Yi

CFJ3 Segmented Growth of Monoclinic Yb:KY(WO4)2/KY(WO4)2 and Its Laser Operation .......................................................................................................................................................1640

Uwe Griebner

CFJ4 Tunable Laser Operation of Yb:NaY(WO4)2 ...................................................................................1642Valentin Petrov

CFJ5 Composite Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG Ceramics Self-Q-Switched Laser....................................................1644Jun Dong

CFJ6 Up-Conversion to the Conduction Band in Highly Doped Yb:YAG and Yb:Y2O3 and Its Effect on Thin-Disk Lasers .....................................................................................................................1646

Susanne Fredrich-Thornton

CFJ7 High-Power Diode-Pumped Lasers Based on Yb:YAl3(BO3)4 Crystals Cut along the Crystallographic Axes...................................................................................................................................1648

Valentin Petrov

CFK TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS

CFK1 Pulse Compression in Dispersion Decreasing Photonic Crystal Fiber ..........................................1650J. Travers

CFK2 Up-Tapering of Optical Fibers Using a Conventional Flame Tapering Rig .................................1652George Kakarantzas

CFK3 Photonic Crystal Fiber Tapers and Devices ....................................................................................1654Tim Birks

CFK4 Analytical Relation between Effective Mode Field Area and Waveguide Dispersion in Microstructure Fibers ..............................................................................................................................1656

Günter Steinmeyer

CFL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

CFL1 Optical Coherence Tomography Phase Microscopy Using Buffered Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) Lasers at up to 370,000 Lines per Second............................................................1658

Desmond Adler

CFL2 High-Resolution OCT Balloon Catheter for Systematic Imaging of the Esophagus ....................1660Henry Fu

CFL3 Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography: Frequency Domain Technology and Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1662

Seok-Hyun Yun

CFL4 Real-Time Imaging of Biological Tissues Using High Resolution Line-Scanning Optical Coherence Microscopy ....................................................................................................................1664

Yu Chen

CFL5 Novel S+C+L Broadband Source Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and Erbium-Doped Fiber for Optical Coherence Tomography .......................................................................1666

David Beitel

CFL6 Fiber-Broadened Passively Modelocked Er:Yb:Glass Laser for High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography..................................................................................................................1668

Max Stumpf

CFM MISC. NLO

CFM1 First Experimental Demonstration of a SOA/DFB-LD Feedback Scheme Based All-Optical Flip-Flop ...........................................................................................................................................1670

Wouter D'Oosterlinck

CFM2 Room Temperature Semiconductor Source of Twin Photons .......................................................1672Giuseppe Leo

CFM3 3-D Integration of Continuum Generation and Carving on a Silicon Chip .................................1674Prakash Koonath

CFM4 Generation of Continuous-Wave 17.6 THz Pulse Train ................................................................1676Shin-ichi Zaitsu

CFM5 Energy Harvesting in Silicon Photonics ..........................................................................................1678Bahram Jalali

CFM6 Nanometric Three-Dimensional Sub-Surface Imaging of a Silicon Flip-Chip.............................1680Euan Ramsay

CFN QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED MATERIALS/FERROELECTRICS

CFN1 Ferroelectric Photonic Structures: Characterization and Device Demonstration .......................1682A. Kung

CFN2 High Power Continuous-Wave Green Light Generation by Quasi Phase Matching in MgSLT ...........................................................................................................................................................1684

Sergey Tovstonog

CFN3 E/O Tunable Second-Harmonic-Generation Gratings in Ion-Exfoliated Thin Films of Periodically Poled LiNbO3 .......................................................................................................................1686

Richard Osgood

CFN4 Broadly Tunable mW Level UV Light Generated by Intracavity SFG in a Compact High-Q PPMgSLT OPO ...............................................................................................................................1688

Shih-Yu Tu

CFN5 Thin Film Pyrolectric Detector Coated with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes: Absorptivity and Frequency Response........................................................................................................1690

Antonije Radojevic

CFN6 Patterning Sub-Micrometer Domain in MgO:LiNbO3 Ridge Waveguides by Focused Ion Beam for QPM Nonlinear Optical Devices ..........................................................................................1692

Xijun Li

CFO ULTRASHORT PULSE CHARACTERIZATION II

CFO1 Spatio-Temporal and Interferometric Characterisation of Sub-5-fs Pulses Obtained by Filamentation............................................................................................................................................1694

Amelle Zair

CFO2 Spectral Shearing Interferometry with Spatially Chirped Beams ................................................1696Simon-Pierre Gorza

CFO3 Directly Measuring the Spatio-Temporal Electric Field of Ultrashort Pulses in and near a Focus ...................................................................................................................................................1698

Pamela Bowlan

CFO4 Exact Solution for Sub-Cycle Pulsed Focused Vector Beams ........................................................1700Qiang Lin

CFO5 Direct UV Pulse Shaping Applied to 3ps Square and Parabolic Pulses ........................................1702Thomas Oksenhendler

CFO6 Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet...................................................................1704Brett Pearson

CFO7 Toward Programmable Ultrashort Pulse Characterization .........................................................1706Nicolas Forget

CFP PMD AND MICROWAVE PHOTONICS

CFP1 High Speed, Broadband PMD Measurements via Efficient Spectral Polarimetry .......................1708Li Xu

CFP2 Broadband All-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation by Characterization and Inversion of Jones Matrices on a Wavelength-by-Wavelength Basis ..................1710

Houxun Miao

CFP3 Optical Control of Microwave Phase ................................................................................................1712Marc Currie

CFP4 Hybrid Optical Access Network Integrating Baseband and Radio Signals Transmitted on a Single Wavelength...........................................................................................................1714

Chun-Ting Lin

CFQ HIGH-Q MICRORESONATORS AND DEVICES II

CFQ1 Photon Trapping, Delaying, and Dynamic-Control Using Ultra-Small High-Q Photonic Crystal Cavities .............................................................................................................................1716

Takasumi Tanabe

CFQ2 Ultra Fast Nonlinear Optical Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities ..............................................1718Ilya Fushman

CFQ3 Free UH-Q Microtoroids, New Tools for Designing Photonic Devices..........................................1720Mani Hossein-Zadeh

CFQ4 Demonstration of Silicon Microdisk Resonators Compatible with Active Integration: Ultra-High Q and Efficient Waveguide-Resonator Coupling ..............................................1722

Mohammad Soltani

CFQ5 Low Power Thermal Tuning of Second-Order Microring Resonators .........................................1724Reja Amatya

CFQ6 Highly Compact High-Order Micro-Ring Filters ...........................................................................1726Shijun Xiao

CFR ULTRASHORT PULSE MICROFABRICATION AND ABLATION

CFR1 Micro and Nanostereolithography for Production of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices .............................1728Shoji Maruo

CFR2 Variable Pressure Hollow-Core Band-Gap Fiber Cell Produced Using Femtosecond Laser Micromachining..................................................................................................................................1730

Christopher Hensley

CFR3 Heat Accumulation Effects in Femtosecond Laser Ablation of ITO Thin Films for DEP Trapping Devices..................................................................................................................................1732

M. Xu

CFR4 Combining 5-D Microscopy with 3-D Femtosecond Laser Nanoprocessing .................................1734Peter Herman

CFR5 Fabrication of a Multilayer Polymer Light-Emitting Diode by Resonant Infrared Laser Ablation ...............................................................................................................................................1736

Stephen Johnson

CFR6 Effect of Pulse Shaping on Silicon Micromachining Monitored by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Surface Second Harmonic Generation.....................................................1738

Tissa Gunaratne

CFS THZ SPECTROSCOPY

CFS1 Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Crystalline and Aqueous Systems ...............................1740Peter Jepsen

CFS2 Accurate Modeling of Inter- and Intra-Molecular Interactions in 1,4-Dihydroxynaphthalene in the 0.5-6 Terahertz Region...............................................................................1742

Carlito Ponseca

CFS3 High Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy of Organic Polycrystalline Thin Films Using a Parallel Metal Plate Waveguide .....................................................................................................1744

Joseph Melinger

CFS4 Narrow-Line THz Absorption Spectra of Deoxycytidine and D-Glucose Films in Parallel Plate Waveguides ............................................................................................................................1746

Norman Laman

CFS5 Dielectric Measurements for Powder-Shape Samples Using Terahertz Time-Domain Attenuated Total Reflection Technique.......................................................................................................1748

Hiroyuki Yada

CFS6 THz Vibrational Spectra of Hydrated and Dehydrated Samples by Time-Domain Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................1750

Haruko Yoneyama

JOINT SESSIONS

JMA PLASMONIC NANOPHOTONICS

JMA1 Search for Negative Refraction and Focusing at Optical Wavelengths: Imaging of Quantum Dots Fluorescence in Opal Photonic Crystals............................................................................1752

Anvar Zakhidov

JMA2 Negative Index Metamaterial for Two Distinct Polarizations: Double Negative at 813 nm and Single Negative at 770 nm........................................................................................................1753

Uday Chettiar

JMA3 Nanomechanical Control of an Optical Nanoantenna....................................................................1755Joerg Merlein

JMA4 Magnifying Superlens in the Visible Frequency Range .................................................................1757Igor Smolyaninov

JMA5 Compensation of Loss in Propagating Surface Plasmon by Optical Gain....................................1759M. Noginov

JMA6 Plasmonic Quantum Cascade Laser Antenna .................................................................................1761Nanfang Yu

JMB RESONATORS AND PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

JMB2 Opto-Mechanical Modal Spectroscopy: Opto-Excited Vibrations of a Micron-Scale On-Chip Resonator .......................................................................................................................................1763

Tal Carmon

JMB3 Measurement of Optical Forces within a High-Q Microcavity-Waveguide System ....................1765Matt Eichenfield

JMB4 Nanowire Coupling to Photonic Crystal Nanocavities for Single Photon Sources .......................1767Christian Grillet

JMB5 Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Fabricated by Double-Angled Plasma Etching...............1769Shigeki Takahashi

JMB6 Experimental Observation of Inflection-Point Slow Light Modes in Photonic Crystal Coupled Waveguides.....................................................................................................................................1771

Shih-Chieh Huang

JMC INTEGRATED NANOPHOTONICS

JMC1 Nanostructured Optics and Optoelectronics for Dense Optical Interconnects ............................1773David Miller

JMC2 Visible 2-Dimentional Photonic Crystal Laser................................................................................1775Zhaoyu Zhang

JMC3 Photonic Crystal Surface Mode Laser .............................................................................................1777Hatice Altug

JMC4 Single Photon Source on Demand Based on Single-Colloidal-Quantum-Dot Fluorescence in Chiral Photonic Bandgap Liquid Crystal Hosts .............................................................1779

Luke Bissell

JMC5 Near-Field Characterization of Plasmon Polariton Propagation Along Periodically Nano-Structured Metal Thin Films .............................................................................................................1781

J. Weeber

JTUA POSTER SESSION I

JTuA1 Power Dissipation Requirements in Slow Light Devices...............................................................1783Jacob Khurgin

JTuA2 Spectral Properties of Entangled-Photons Generated via Type-I Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion ........................................................................................................................1785

Yoon-ho Kim

JTuA3 Magneto-Optical Resonance in Counterpropagating Waves........................................................1787Denis Brazhnikov

JTuA4 Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Photons..................................................................................1789Joachim von Zanthier

JTuA5 1.5-µm Band Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiment Using Photon Pairs Generated in Two Independent Optical Fibers..........................................................................................................................1791

Hiroki Takesue

JTuA6 Negative Bi-Exciton Binding Energy in (211)B InAs/GaAs Piezoelectric Quantum Dots.................................................................................................................................................................1793

Nikolaos Pelekanos

JTuA7 All-Optical Switching at Ultra-Low Light Levels ..........................................................................1795Jiepeng Zhang

JTuA8 Narrow Linewidth Diode Laser System for Coherent Precision Spectroscopy ..........................1797Andreas Wicht

JTuA9 Entangled Photon Generation from a Single Quantum Dot in Microcavity ...............................1799Hiroshi Ajiki

JTuA10 Giant Kerr Effect in Degenerate Closed Transitions ..................................................................1801Luca Spani Molella

JTuA11 Compact and Robust Laser System for Rubidium Laser Cooling Based on Fibered Technology at 1560 nm and Second Harmonic Generation ........................................................1803

Yannick Bidel

JTuA12 Mesoscopic Entanglement of Atomic Ensembles through Non-Resonant Stimulated Raman Scattering ......................................................................................................................1805

Wenhai Ji

JTuA13 High-Visibility Classical Multi-Photon Interference ...................................................................1807Ivan Agafonov

JTuA14 Quantum-Dot-Photon Dynamics in a Coupled-Cavity Waveguide: A Platform for Bandedge Quantum Optics ..........................................................................................................................1809

David Fussell

JTuA15 Coherent Association of Two-Component Atomic Condensate into Heteronuclear Molecular Condensate ..................................................................................................................................1811

Hong Ling

JTuA16 Effects of Polarization-Dependent Loss and Fiber Birefringence on Photon-Pair Entanglement in Fiber-Optic Channels ......................................................................................................1813

Milja Medic

JTuA17 Is Entanglement Dispensable in Quantum Lithography?...........................................................1815Milena D'Angelo

JTuA18 Two-Photon Spectral Coherency Matrix and Multi-Parameter Optical Entanglement.................................................................................................................................................1817

Cristian Bonato

JTuA19 Exploring Non-Conservation of Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion ..........................................................................................................................................1818

Sheng Feng

JTuA20 Velocity-Selective Two-Photon Resonances with Blue and Red Detunings in a Cold Atomic Sample .....................................................................................................................................1820

Matthew Terraciano

JTuA21 Realization of Loschmidt Echo in Atom Optics Billiard .............................................................1822Tzahi Grunzweig

JTuA22 Violation of Bell’s Inequality with Continuous Spatial Variables..............................................1824Ayman F. Abouraddy

JTuA23 Long-Range Spin-Qubit Interaction in Planar Microcavities ....................................................1826Carlo Piermarocchi

JTuA24 Integrated Optics Technology for Quantum Information Processing in Atomic Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................1828

Jungsang Kim

JTuA25 Two-Photon Based Semiconductor Entanglement-Source for Quantum Communications............................................................................................................................................1830

Pavel Ginzburg

JTuA26 Generation of Photon Pairs with Engineered Spectral Properties by Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing ........................................................................................................................................1832

Karina Garay-Palmett

JTuA27 Propagation of Two Photon States through Dispersive Media and Spectral Entanglement Migration...............................................................................................................................1834

Yasser Jeronimo-Moreno

JTuA28 Optimized Photon Pair Generation by Parametric Downconversion in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals ..........................................................................................................................................1836

Alfred U'Ren

JTuA29 Multipartite Atom(s)-Field Entanglement in Cavity QED .........................................................1838Perry Rice

JTuA30 A New Scheme of Birefringent Optical Interleaver Employing Ring Cavity as Phase-Dispersion Element ............................................................................................................................1840

Wood-Hi Cheng

JTuA31 General Two-Dimensional Coupled-Cavity Microring Filter Architectures ............................1842Ashok Masilamani

JTuA32 Polymer Waveguide with 4-Channel Circular GI Cores toward High-Speed Optical Interconnects....................................................................................................................................1844

Takaaki Ishigure

JTuA33 Laser-Assisted Electrical Gating in a Two-Terminal Device Based on Vanadium Dioxide Thin Film .........................................................................................................................................1846

Yong Wook Lee

JTuA34 Monitoring of Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio Using Polarization Maintaining Fiber Bragg Grating................................................................................................................................................1848

Khurram Qureshi

JTuA35 Multimode SCM-Based PON Architecture for Computer Network Applications Using a Low-Cost Polymer 1x8 Splitter/Combiner ....................................................................................1850

Nikolaos Bamiedakis

JTuA36 Strain Induced Waveguide Electro-Optic Modulators in Barium Titanate Crystal ................1852Jiansheng Tang

JTuA37 Add-Drop Filters Based on Mode Conversion Cavities ..............................................................1854Jacob Khurgin

JTuA38 Modelling Intersubband Electroabsorption Modulation ............................................................1856Duncan Allsopp

JTuA39 Wavelength Exchange with Enhanced Extinction Ratio in Highly Nonlinear Dispersion-Shifted Fiber...............................................................................................................................1858

Rebecca W.L. Fung

JTuA40 Fiber-Free Characterization of Photonics Integrated Circuits by Thermoreflectance Microscopy....................................................................................................................1860

Maryam Farzaneh

JTuA41 Development of Planar Waveguide Based Integrated Optic SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance) Sensor Array .............................................................................................................................1862

Hyungseok Pang

JTuA42 Speckle Mechanism in Optical Coherence Imaging ....................................................................1864Ping Yu

JTuA43 Detection of Bacillus thuringiensis Spore Germination via CaDPA Biomarker Using Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy ..............................................................................................1866

De Chen

JTuA44 High-Resolution Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography with the Frequency-Sweeping the Broadened Spectrum of a fs Cr:Forsterite Laser ............................................1868

Chih-Wei Lu

JTuA45 Broadband, Low Intensity Noise Source for Optical Coherence Tomography at 1.8µm ..............................................................................................................................................................1870

S Popov

JTuA46 Enhancement of Fluorescence and Raman Scattering in a Liquid-Core Optical Fiber Based on Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibers ..............................................................................1872

Li Huo

JTuA47 Cancer Detection Using Infrared Transillumination ..................................................................1874Sanhita Dixit

JTuA48 A Novel Confocal Fiber-Optic Laser Method for Exact Intraocular Lens Dioptric Power Measurement .....................................................................................................................................1876

Ilko Ilev

JTuA49 Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter-Based Spectropolarimetric Imagers for Biomedical Applications ...................................................................................................................................................1878

Neelam Gupta

JTuA50 Single-Shot Two-Photon Action Cross Section Measurement ....................................................1880Kebin Shi

JTuA51 An All-Fiber-Optic Confocal Interference Microscope Using Low-Coherence Near-Infrared Light Source .........................................................................................................................1882

Do-Hyun Kim

JTuA52 Quantitative Phase Contrast Imaging of Cells by Multi-Wavelength Digital Holography ....................................................................................................................................................1884

Alexander Khmaladze

JTuA53 Characterization of Skin Incision Closure Using Diode Laser and ICG - Albumin Protein Solder ................................................................................................................................................1886

Mohammad Khosroshahi

JTuA54 Linear, Spatio-Temporal Characterization of UV Microscope Objectives for Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy..........................................................................................................1888

Dawn Schafer

JTuA55 Fourier Domain Common-Path Fiber OCT with Tunable Reference: Analysis and Optimization ..................................................................................................................................................1890

Jin Kang

JTuA56 Optode Design on Flexible Print Circuit Board for a Portable Diffuse Optical Tomography System .....................................................................................................................................1892

Chia-Wei Sun

JTuA57 Cascaded Two Wavelength Lasers and Their Effects on C-Band Amplification Performance for Er3+-Doped Fluoride Fiber ..............................................................................................1894

Guanshi Qin

JTuA58 Experimental Demonstration of Raman Gain Efficiency and Chromatic Dispersion of Hole-Assisted Fiber: Influence of Bend ...............................................................................1896

Shailendra Varshney

JTuA59 Radiation Dose Enhancement in Photonic Crystal Fiber Bragg Gratings: Towards Photo-Ionization Monitoring of Irradiation Sources in Harsh Nuclear Power Reactors .......................1898

Nikolaos Florous

JTuA60 A New Compact Polarization Beam Splitter Based on Dual-Elliptical-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................1900

Jung-Sheng Chiang

JTuA61 Divalent Ytterbium in Ytterbium Doped Aluminosilicate Glass: Aspects on Photodarkening in Fiber Lasers ..................................................................................................................1902

Magnus Engholm

JTuA62 6.4W, Narrowline CW Bismuth-Doped Fiber Laser for Frequency Doubling to 590nm .............................................................................................................................................................1904

Andrey Rulkov

JTuA63 Optimizing Raman/EDFA Hybrid Amplifier Based on Dual-Order Stimulated Raman Scattering of a Single Pump ............................................................................................................1906

Zhaohui Li

JTuA64 Er:Yb-Doped Waveguide Amplifier Fabricated in Oxyfluoride Silicate Glass Using Femtosecond Laser Inscription .........................................................................................................1908

Nicholas Psaila

JTuA65 Photonic Bandgaps in Photonic Crystal Fibers with Coated High-Index Inclusions ...............1910Markus Hautakorpi

JTuA66 FM Laser Operation in SOA Based Fiber Ring Lasers ..............................................................1912Simon Lambert Girard

JTuA67 All-Fiber Integrated Assemblies Based on the Resonant Tunneling Effect in Multi-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fibers .......................................................................................................1914

Kunimasa Saitoh

JTuA68 Optical Amplification at 0.54 µm by Er3+-Doped Fluoride Fiber...............................................1916Yasutake Ohishi

JTuA69 Suppression of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a Photonic/Phononic Crystal Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................................1918

Ravi Hegde

JTuA70 High-Repetition-Rate Passively Q-Switched Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser with Cr4+:YAG Saturable Absorber ....................................................................................................................1920

Lei Pan

JTuA71 Paradoxical Features of Monochromatic Light Amplification in Multicore Fibers .................1922Anatoly Napartovich

JTuA72 Extending S-band of EDFA to 1450 nm .......................................................................................1924Charu Kakkar

JTuA73 Optical Comb Filter Based on the Spectral Talbot Effect in Uniform Fiber Bragg Gratings..........................................................................................................................................................1926

Naum Berger

JTuA74 The Fabrication of Laser Array by Holographic Interference Lithography ............................1928Chuli Chao

JTuA75 Bandwidth Tunable Band Rejection Filter Based on Helicoidal Fiber Grating Pair of Opposite Hellicity......................................................................................................................................1930

Woojin Shin

JTuA76 Photodarkening and Photobleaching of an Ytterbium-Doped Silica Double-Clad LMA Fiber .....................................................................................................................................................1932

Johan Boullet

JTuA77 One Centimeter Resolution Temperature Measurements from 25 to 850°C Using Rayleigh Scatter in Gold Coated Fiber .......................................................................................................1934

Alexander Sang

JTuA78 Microjoule Supercontinuum Generation by Prechirped Laser Pulses in a Large-Mode-Area Photonic-Crystal Fiber .............................................................................................................1936

Aleksei Zheltikov

JTuA79 Dispersion Tuning of Chirped Sampled Fiber Bragg Gratings by Controlling only Duty Ratios ....................................................................................................................................................1938

Kien Dinh

JTuA80 Ultra-Flat Spectrum, Multiwavelength Operation in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Power-Clamping Effect ...........................................................................................................1940

Xinhuan Feng

JTuA81 Competition between 20th-Order Rational Harmonic Mode-Locking and Gain-Switching in Inverse Optical Comb Injected Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Fiber Ring Laser...............................................................................................................................................................1942

Gong-Ru Lin

JTuA82 Collision of Orthogonally Polarized Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................1944Alexander Podlipensky

JTuA83 A Volume Bragg Grating Locked Nd:Fiber Laser ......................................................................1946Fredrik Laurell

JTuA84 EDFA Gain Stabilization with Fast Transient Behavior by Use of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ................................................................................................................1948

Roger Ibrahim

JTuA85 Power Scaling of Laser Systems Using Spectral Beam Combining with Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass.......................................................................................................................1950

Oleksiy Andrusyak

JTuA86 Gain Filtering for Single-Spatial-Mode Operation of Large-Mode-Area Fiber Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................1951

John Marciante

JTuA87 Rare Event Simulation of the Performance of an Actively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Model ...................................................................................................................................................1953

Graham Donovan

JTuA88 High Order-Mode Coupling in a Fiber Bragg Grating by Flexural Acoustic-Wave Modulations ...................................................................................................................................................1955

Ming-Yue Fu

JTuA89 Low-Loss Splicing Small-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers and Single-Mode Fibers by Repeated Arc Discharges.........................................................................................................................1957

Limin Xiao

JTuA90 Discrimination between Strain and Temperature by Using Holey Fibers-Based Long-Period Fiber Gratings with Different Air Hole Size.........................................................................1959

Young-Geun Han

JTuA91 Emission Intensity Improvement of InGaN Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes Grown on Wet-Etched Sapphire Substrates ...............................................................................................1961

Chang-Chi Pan

JTuA92 Multiple Wavelength Emission from Semipolar InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells Selectively Grown by MOCVD ....................................................................................................................1963

P. C. Ku

JTuA93 Carrier Concentration and Junction Temperature Dependencies of Illumination Efficiency of GaN Power Light-Emitting Diodes .......................................................................................1965

Michael Liao

JTuA94 Electronically Tunable Photonic Crystals ....................................................................................1967Martin Cryan

JTuA95 Efficient Point Defect Engineered Si Light-Emitting Diode at 1.218 µm ..................................1969Jiming Bao

JTuA96 Enhanced ZnO Band-Gap Emission of Electroluminescence from ZnO Nanoparticles/Organic Nanocomposites Using a Hole-Transporting Material .......................................1971

Chun-Yu Lee

JTuA97 Light Emission from Size Reduced Nanocrystal Silicon Quantum Dots ...................................1973Hea-Jeong Cheong

JTuA98 Patterning and Integration of Polyfluorene Polymers on Micropixellated UV AlInGaN Light Emitting Diodes ..................................................................................................................1975

Benoit Guilhabert

JTuA99 Deep Ultraviolet Light Generation at 266 nm by Quasi-Phase-Matched Quartz .....................1977Muneyuki Adachi

JTuA100 Fluorescent and Photoconductive Properties of Anthradithiophene and Pentacene Derivatives ...................................................................................................................................1979

Andrew Platt

JTuA101 Impulse-Response Reconstruction of a Scattering Medium with the Kramers-Kronig Method ..............................................................................................................................................1981

Yossi Ben-Aderet

JTuA102 Uniform Growth of 10-µm-Core Double-Clad Cr4+:YAG Crystal Fiber ................................1983Kuang-Yao Huang

JTuA103 Nondestructive Internal Device Characterization of an Oxide-Confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser ....................................................................................................................1985

Victoria de Lange

JTuA104 Nd3+: (La1-x,Bax)F3-x as Vacuum Ultraviolet Scintillator and New Laser Material .................1987Marilou Cadatal

JTuA105 Efficient CW Optical Limiting in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Twist Cell .................................1989Kenneth Singer

JTuA106 Investigating Charge Carrier Mobilities in Nanocrystal-Polymer Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices......................................................................................................................................1991

Fan Zhang

JTuA107 Strong Nuclear Contribution to the Optical Kerr Effect in Niobium Oxide Containing Glasses ........................................................................................................................................1993

Arnaud Royon

JTuA108 Evidence of Periodic Electric Fields Generated by Spatial Separation of Photogenerated Electron-Hole Pairs in Short-Period InAs/GaSb Type-II Superlattices .......................1995

Xiaodong Mu

JTuA109 Shape Analysis of Laser Deformed Metallic Nanoparticles......................................................1997Heinrich Graener

JTuA110 Estimation of Refractive Index Distribution inside Transparent Materials by Use of Four-Wave Mixing Process ......................................................................................................................1999

Takehito Kawasumi

JTuA111 Determination of Interband Transition Dipole Moment of InAs/InGaAs Quantum Dots from Modal Absorption Spectra ........................................................................................2001

Der Chin Wu

JTuA112 Doping Effect on Carrier Occupation and Transport in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors: A Capacitance-Voltage Spectroscopy Study.............................................2003

Zhiya Zhao

JTuA113 Fabrication of Photonic Crystal by Two-Photon Single-Beam Laser Holographic Lithography ...................................................................................................................................................2005

Kam Sing Wong

JTuA114 Linear Electro-Optic Coefficient in Multilayer Self-Organized InAs Quantum Dot Structures ...............................................................................................................................................2007

Imran Akca

JTuA115 Threshold Analysis of Longitudinal Modes in Surface Emitting Organic Distributed Feedback Lasers........................................................................................................................2009

Sidney Yang

JTuA116 Polarization Dependence of SHG Efficiency in Periodically-Twinned QPM Quartz ............................................................................................................................................................2011

Sunao Kurimura

JTuA117 Fabrication of PPLT Crystal Fiber by the Method of Laser Heated Pedestal Growth ...........................................................................................................................................................2013

Shan-Chuang Pei

JTuA118 Novel Full-Color Photorefractive Polymer for Photonics Applications...................................2015Peng Wang

JTuA119 Excited State Absorption Cross-Section Spectrum of Chlorophyll A......................................2017Daniel Corrêa

JTuA120 Study of Transient Effects in Photo-Excited Semiconducting Polymer and Bulk Heterojunctions .............................................................................................................................................2019

Yi-Hsing Peng

JTuA121 A Novel Anti-Reflecton Coated FP Laser Amplifier for 2.5Gbit/s DWDM-PON Transmission..................................................................................................................................................2021

Gong-Ru Lin

JTuA122 Real-Time PMD Monitoring Using a DOP Ellipsoid Based on PSO Technique.....................2023Xiaoguang Zhang

JTuA123 Multiple-Wavelength Transmission Using FP-LD for Increasing Upstream Capacity in Asymmetric TDM-PON ...........................................................................................................2025

Manik Attygalle

JTuA124 40 GHz All-Optical Clock Recovery Using Cross-Absorption in an Electro-Absorption Modulator Inside a Fiber Ring Laser......................................................................................2027

L. F. K. Lui

JTuA125 Pulse Limiting Amplification by Saturation Effects in an SOA ...............................................2029Giampiero Contestabile

JTuA126 All-Optical ASK-DPSK Signal Regeneration Using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier ........................................................................................................................................................2031

Mable P. Fok

JTuA127 Biasing a Diode Laser at the Self-Mixing Crossover Improves Immunity to Backreflection ................................................................................................................................................2033

Silvano Donati

JTuA128 A Fully Bi-Directional 2.4GHz Wireless-Over-Fibre System Using Photonic Active Integrated Antennas (PhAIAs).........................................................................................................2035

Martin Cryan

JTuA129 High Spectral Efficiency Phase Diversity Coherent Optical CDMA with Low MAI ................................................................................................................................................................2037

A Brinton Cooper

JTuA130 Theoretical Study on the Performance of Optical Phase Conjugation for Ultra Long-Haul Differential Phase-Shift-Keyed Transmission .........................................................................2039

Nat Sarapa

JTuA131 Sub-Clock Extraction of Optical Signals at High Rates Using an Opto-Electronic Phase-Locked Loop Based on Three-Wave Mixing in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate..................2041

Fausto Gómez Agis

JTuA132 PMD Compensation with Coherent Reception and Digital Signal Processing........................2043Stefan Boehm

JTuA133 Mitigation of Transient Response of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Burst Traffic of High Speed Optical Packets ........................................................................................................2045

Yoshinari Awaji

JTuA134 Suppression of Phase Noise Induced by Intrachannel Four-Wave Mixing Using Phase Noise Averagers ..................................................................................................................................2047

Chia Chien Wei

JTuA135 Multi-Uplink Passive Optical Networks .....................................................................................2049Chun-Yin Li

JTuA136 High Density FTTH Network Utilizing Asymmetric Data Transmission................................2051Tak-Chuen Luk

JTuA137 Impact of Facet Reflectivity and Operation Condition on Injection-Locking Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes with Spectrum Sliced ASE Noise in WDM-PON...........................................2053

Xiao-Fei Cheng

JTuA138 Depolarization of External Optical Feedback on VCSEL and Variation of Relative Intensity Noise ................................................................................................................................2055

Shinyoung Yoon

JTuA139 High Repetition Rate Passively Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Incorporating an Electro-Absorption Modulator ......................................................................................2057

Lixin Xu

JTuA140 Uncompensated 20 Gb/s Duobinary Polarization Division Multiplexing Transmission over 200 km............................................................................................................................2059

Paolo Martelli

JTUB SYMPOSIUM ON SELF-PHASE MODULATION I

JTuB1 Self-Phase Modulation: The Formative Years ...............................................................................2061T. Gustafson

JTuB2 Multi-Watt Supercontinuum Generation from 0.3 to 2.4 µm in PCF Tapers .............................2062J Travers

JTuB3 Self-Steepening without Self-Phase Modulation ............................................................................2064Jeffrey Moses

JTuB4 Narrow-Band Spectral Enhancement of a Self-Phase Modulated Pulse......................................2066Dane Austin

JTuB5 Self-Phase Modulation in Optical Fiber Communications: Good or Bad? .................................2068Govind Agrawal

JTUC SYMPOSIUM ON SELF-PHASE MODULATION II

JTuC1 From Supercontinuum Generation to Carrier Shocks: Extreme Nonlinear Propagation in Photonic Crystal Fiber .......................................................................................................2070

John Dudley

JTuC2 Cross-Phase Modulation in AlGaAs Photonic Nanowires ............................................................2072David Duchesne

JTuC3 160-Gbit/s Optical Time-Division Demultiplexing Based on Cross-Phase Modulation in a 2-m-Long Dispersion-Shifted Bi2O3 Photonic Crystal Fiber .........................................2074

Koji Igarashi

JTuC4 Kerr Nonlinearity Induced Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Microcavities ..................2076Pascal Del'Haye

JTuC5 Bigger and Better: The Critical Role of Self-Phase Modulation in Ultraprecise Optical Frequency Combs ............................................................................................................................2078

Scott Diddams

JTUD HIGH-FIELD SCIENCE

JTuD1 Practical Method for Calculating the Interferometric Autocorrelation Trace of an Attosecond Pulse Train.................................................................................................................................2079

Yasuo Nabekawa

JTuD2 In-situ Probing of Coherence in Hollow Waveguide High-Order Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2081

Amy Lytle

JTuD3 Single Attosecond Pulse Generation Using a Seed Harmonic Pulse Train..................................2083Kenichi Ishikawa

JTuD4 Wideband to Narrowband Pulse Shaping via aChirp-Transform Scaling Technique ...............2085Nicolas Forget

JTuD5 97% Top Hat Efficiency, 4 J/cm2 Damage Threshold Compression Gratings............................2087Federico Canova

JTuD6 Stable Long-Cavity Regenerative Amplifier with 10-11 ASE Contrast.........................................2089James Easter

JTuD7 Probing Attosecond Kinetic Physics in Strongly Coupled Plasmas .............................................2091Lora Ramunno

JWA POSTER SESSION II

JWA1 Weak Coupling Interactions of Silicon Photonic Crystals with Lead Sulphide Nanocrystals at Room Temperature............................................................................................................2093

Ranojoy Bose

JWA2 Semiclassical Theory of the Hyperlens ............................................................................................2095Zubin Jacob

JWA3 Exciton Dressing and Capture by a Photonic Band Edge..............................................................2097Shengjun Yang

JWA4 Directional Output from GaAs Micro-Stadium Lasers .................................................................2099Wei Fang

JWA5 Experimental Observation of Modulational Instability in the 1st and 2nd Band of a Self-Defocusing Nonlinear Waveguide Array..............................................................................................N/A

Christian Rüter

JWA6 All-Optical Bistable Switching in a Metal-Dielectric Multilayer Structure due to Intensity-Dependent Sign of the Effective Dielectric Constant .................................................................2101

Anton Husakou

JWA7 Explicit Formulae for the Medium Parameters of Optically-Active Molecules and Crystals from the Microscopic Theory........................................................................................................2103

G. Hugh Song

JWA8 Exact Modeling of Generalised Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals .............................................2105Lindsay Botten

JWA9 Superradiance and Motional Narrowing of Exciton-Polaritons in J-Aggregate Thin Films ...............................................................................................................................................................2107

M. Scott Bradley

JWA10 New Gap Solitons in Two-Dimensional Photonic Lattices ...........................................................2109Zuoqiang Shi

JWA11 Transformation of Surface States from Shockley-like to Tamm-like in Photonic Crystals ..........................................................................................................................................................2111

Natalia Malkova

JWA12 Interaction of Counterpropagating Discrete Solitons and Nonlinear Surface Tamm States in 1-D Waveguide Arrays ...................................................................................................................N/A

Eugene Smirnov

JWA13 Control of Photon Tunneling Decay in Engineered Optical Waveguide Arrays .......................2113Stefano Longhi

JWA14 Interaction-Induced Localization of Self-Defocusing Discrete Solitons......................................2115Yoav Linzon

JWA15 Negative Index Bands in Sub-wavelength Metallic Gratings ......................................................2117Mihaela Dinu

JWA16 Slow-Light Trapping in a Photonic Crystal Slab..........................................................................2119Adel Rahmani

JWA17 Periodic Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Diffraction in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Grating ...........................................................................................................................................................2121

Wen-Chi Hung

JWA18 Hollow Nano-Magnetic Resonators Mediated by Photo-Thermal Effects: Towards the Realization of Highly-Tunable Mid-Infrared Negative Permeability ................................................2123

Nikolaos Florous

JWA19 Localization by Random Apertures in a Metal Film....................................................................2125Reuven Gordon

JWA20 Saturable Absorption in Nanocomposite Gold-Silica Materials with High Gold Fill Fraction ..........................................................................................................................................................2127

Giovanni Piredda

JWA21 Second Harmonic Generation in AlGaAs/AlOx Random Structures .........................................2129Marco Centini

JWA22 High Repetition Rate Two-Color Pump-Probe System Based on Optical Parametric Generation in PPLN Crystals ..................................................................................................2131

Marco Marangoni

JWA23 Theoretical and Experimental Study of Third Order Difference Frequency Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2133

Benoît Boulanger

JWA24 Effect of Raman-Induced Refractive Index Change on Multi-Pump Raman-Assisted Four-Wave Mixing .........................................................................................................................2135

S. H. Wang

JWA25 Tunable Single-to-Single and Single-to-Dual Channel Wavelength Conversions of Ps-Pulses Using PPLN-Based Double-Ring Fiber Laser............................................................................2137

Jian Wang

JWA26 Mid-Infrared Optical Upconversion by Integrating an InAsSb Photodetector with a GaAs Light Emitting Diode .......................................................................................................................2139

Boucherif Abderraouf

JWA27 Time-Resolved Third Harmonic Generation from Laser-Melted Semiconductors...................2141Will Grigsby

JWA28 Mid-IR Entangled-Cavity Doubly Resonant OPO with Back-Conversion Minimization and Automated Tuning .........................................................................................................2143

Michel Lefebvre

JWA29 Two-Wave Mixing in a Broad-Area Semiconductor Amplifier ..................................................2145Mingjun Chi

JWA30 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering to Submerged Objects Detecting ..........................................................................................................................................2147

Lu Yuelan

JWA31 Ti:Sapphire-Pumped Infrared Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on BiB3O6 .......................................................................................................................................................2149

Masood Ghotbi

JWA32 Transient Fluorescence Excited by Oscillating Interference Pattern in Er-Doped Fiber ...............................................................................................................................................................2151

Serguei Stepanov

JWA33 Evaluation of a 486 nm Single Frequency Source Using an MgO:PPLN Waveguide Doubled Semiconductor Laser .....................................................................................................................2153

Ali Khademian

JWA34 Simultaneous Generation of Two Pairs of Entangled Photons in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Crystals .............................................................................................................................2155

Shiming Gao

JWA35 Internal Second Harmonics of an Injection-Locked Laser Diode and Its Application to Laser Frequency Stabilization ............................................................................................2157

Che-Chung Chou

JWA36 Optical Flip-Flop Operation Using an AR-coated Distributed Feedback Laser Diode...............................................................................................................................................................2159

Koen Huybrechts

JWA37 Tunable Polarization and Power Anti-Stokes Line Generation in Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber..................................................................................................................................2161

Bing Zhou

JWA38 Green and Ultraviolet Pulse Generation Using a Low-Repetition-Rate Mode-Locked Yb-Doped Fiber Laser.....................................................................................................................2163

Janet Lou

JWA39 Multimode Silicon Raman Amplifier.............................................................................................2165Varun Raghunathan

JWA40 Experimental Demonstration of a L-Band to S-Band Wavelength Conversion ........................2167David Méchin

JWA41 Fast Light Using Multiple Cascaded Quantum-Well Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2169

Piotr Kondratko

JWA42 Plasma Density inside Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air .......................................................2171Jens Bernhardt

JWA43 Enhanced Cascade χ(2) SHG+DFG Interactions Based on Chirp Period Quasi-Phase-Matched Waveguide ..........................................................................................................................2173

Nai-Hsiang Sun

JWA44 Powerful High Repetition Rate Nanosecond Optical Parametric Generator in MgO:PPLN Tunable fromn 3.5 µm to 4.6 µm ............................................................................................2175

Martin Nittmann

JWA45 Generation of Simultaneous Red, Green and Blue Light in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate with Broad Quasi-Phase Matching Band .......................................................................2177

Myoungsik Cha

JWA46 Tunable Repetition-Rate Ultrawideband Monocycle Pulse Generation by Using Optical Parametric Amplifier ......................................................................................................................2179

Bill P. P. Kuo

JWA47 A Scheme to Realize Class B Slow Light Buffer in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2181

Ming Xin

JWA48 Investigation of Fast Light in Long Optical Fibers Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering .......................................................................................................................................................2183

Kai-Uwe Lauterbach

JWA49 Wideband SBS Slow Light in a Single Mode Fiber Using a Phase-Modulated Pump ..............................................................................................................................................................2185

Alan Cheng

JWA50 Reciprocating Optical Modulation on Erbium Doped LiNbO3 for Harmonic Generation .....................................................................................................................................................2187

So Kogahara

JWA51 Low Power Optical Bistability in 1550 nm VCSOAs ...................................................................2189Douglas Jorgesen

JWA52 Highly Efficient Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections and Their Frequency Dependence in Small Organic Molecules ....................................................................................................2191

Joshua May

JWA53 Nonlinear Switching in a Bragg Grating with Periodic χ(3)..........................................................2193Alain Villeneuve

JWA54 Designing Dispersion- and Mode-Area-Decreasing Holey Fibers for Soliton Compression ..................................................................................................................................................2195

Ming-Leung Tse

JWA55 "Photon Emission by Photon" Model for Spontaneous Frequency Conversion in Dispersive Dielectric Microcavities..............................................................................................................2197

Alex Hayat

JWA56 CEP Stabilization and Measurement in the Highly Nonlinear Regime ......................................2199Samuel Radnor

JWA57 Light Emitting Diodes with Extremely High Extraction-Efficiency for Electroluminescence Refrigeration..............................................................................................................2201

Shuiqing Yu

JWA58 Stopping and Time Reversal of Light Pulses in Dynamic Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides via Bloch Oscillations .................................................................................................2203

Stefano Longhi

JWA59 Matrices and Necklaces of Solitons in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media ..............................................2205Wieslaw Krolikowski

JWA60 New Collapsing Solutions of the Time-Dispersive Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation................2207Nir Gavish

JWA61 Controlling the Excited State Charge Transfer in DMABN Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses.......................................................................................................................................2209

Christine Kalcic

JWA62 Optical Field Enhancement In Tweezer Trapping .......................................................................2211Mark Kendrick

JWA63 Light Grating Storage .....................................................................................................................2213Jose Tabosa

JWA64 Electron Spin Beat Nonlinear Susceptibility in Semiconductor Quantum Wells ......................2215Nai Kwong

JWA65 Incoherent Solitons in Fast and Local Nonlinear Media..............................................................2217Oren Cohen

JWA66 Fast Photorefractive Self-Focusing in InP:Fe Semi-Conductor at Infrared Wavelengths...................................................................................................................................................2219

Delphine Wolfersberger

JWA67 Parametric Frequency Conversion of Optical Simulton Pulses ..................................................2221Stefan Wabnitz

JWA68 Two-Dimensional Defect Modes in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices ..................................2223Jianke Yang

JWA69 Atomic Frequency References Based on Dark Resonances in Micrometric Thin Cells ................................................................................................................................................................2225

Horacio Failache

JWA70 Simulation of the Propagation of a UV Filament in the Air ........................................................2227Olivier Chalus

JWA71 Analytical Dynamics of Optical Similaritons ................................................................................2229Stefan Wabnitz

JWA72 Linewidth Broadening in Single-Mode Sub-kHz Fiber Ring Laser with Unpumped Er-doped Sagnac Loop .................................................................................................................................2231

Jae-Ho Han

JWA73 Laser Based Continuous-Wave Excitonic Lyman Spectroscopy of Spin-Forbidden Excitons in Cu2O ...........................................................................................................................................2233

Kosuke Yoshioka

JWA74 Modeling Sub-Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Dynamics Using the Exponential Time Difference Method.........................................................................................................................................2235

Orven Swenson

JWA75 A High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti:Sapphire Laser for Water-Vapor DIAL..........................2237Max Schiller

JWA76 The Quantum Noise Limits to Simultaneous Intensity and Frequency Stabilization of Solid-State Lasers .....................................................................................................................................2239

Elanor Huntington

JWA77 Theoretical Study of Mutual Injection Locking of Two Individual Lasers................................2241Qiang Wang

JWA78 Intracavity Beam Addition for Energy Scaling with a Six-Mirror Cavity .................................2243Ming Lei

JWA79 Co2+:GSGG as a Saturable Absorber for Resonantly Laser Pumped 1.6 µm Er:YAG Laser ...............................................................................................................................................2245

Kelly Nash

JWA80 Minimizing Non-Radiative Losses in Erbium Laser Systems......................................................2247Richard Quimby

JWA81 Low Quantum-Defect Laser Oscillation by High Intensity Pumping at Room Temperature ..................................................................................................................................................2249

Shinichi Matsubara

JWA82 Compact, 65 W, 10-30 kHz, TEM00 - mode, Q-Switched, Side-Diode-Pumped Yb:YAG Laser...............................................................................................................................................2251

Mikhail Yakshin

JWA83 Optically Pumped Potassium Vapor Laser ...................................................................................2253Boris Zhdanov

JWA84 Rapidly Tunable, Narrow Linewidth, 1W, 1 kHz Ce:LiCAF Laser Pumped by the Fourth Harmonic of a Diode-Pumped Nd:YLF Laser for Ozone DIAL Measurements ........................2254

Viktor Fromzel

JWA85 Development of 50J Class Repetitive Laser Based on Nd-Doped Silica Glass ...........................2256Takahiro Sato

JWA86 2.5 MHz Line-Width High-Energy, 2µm Coherent Wind Lidar Transmitter ...........................2258Mulugeta Petros

JWA87 Thermo-Optical and -Mechanical Parameters of Nd:GdVO4 and Nd:YVO4 ............................2260Yoichi Sato

JWA88 100 mJ Q-Switched, High Efficiency, High Brightness Nd:YAG Oscillator: Wavefront Analysis .......................................................................................................................................2262

Paul Stysley

JWA89 Gain Grating in a Nd:YVO4 Microlaser........................................................................................2264Qiong He

JWA90 Nd-Vanadate Thin-Disk Lasers under Diode Pumping into the 4F5/2 and 4F3/2 Levels..............................................................................................................................................................2266

Nicolaie Pavel

JWA91 Gain Dynamics and Frequency Pulling in Mode-Locked Lasers ................................................2268Jared Wahlstrand

JWA92 Development of a Sodium Laser Guide Star for Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................2270

Thomas Rutten

JWA93 Temporal Dynamics of Optical-to-Terahertz Conversion in Electro-Optic Crystal .................2272Sergey Bodrov

JWA94 THz-Wave Fiber Generator for 1-15THz Band............................................................................2274Yoshie Ohta

JWA95 Efficient Terahertz Generation from Nanolayers to Microlayers of InN ...................................2276Xiaodong Mu

JWA96 Optimal Cd Molar Fraction in Zn1-xCdxTe Terahertz Emitters .................................................2278Minwoo Yi

JWA97 Design and Simulation of a Terahertz Negative Permeability Metamaterial with Connected Metallic Discs..............................................................................................................................2280

Zhongyan Sheng

JWA98 Narrow-Line, High-Repetition-Rate THz-Wave Generation from Collinearly Phase-Matched Difference-Frequency Mixing in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate ..........................2282

Tsong-Dong Wang

JWA99 Optical-Pump-THz-Probe Studies of Carrier Dynamics in Hg-Based High-Temperature Superconducting Thin Films.................................................................................................2284

Xia Li

JWA100 Radially Polarized Terahertz Beam Emission by Difference Frequency Generation in GaAs.......................................................................................................................................2286

Yuri Avetisyan

JWA101 Three-Dimensional Characterisation of the Non-Gaussian Focused Beam from a Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser ............................................................................................................2288

Paul Dean

JWA102 LT-GaAsSb Photomixer for THz Generation with a Two-Color Nd:LSB Microchiplaser................................................................................................................................................N/A

Ulrike Willer

JWA103 Revisiting Chirped Probe Pulse Electro-Optic Terahertz Detection ........................................2290Balakishore Yellampalle

JWA104 Scaling of Line Excitation THz Array Source ............................................................................2292Joong Kim

JWA105 Low Loss, Low Dispersion T-Ray Transmission in Microwires................................................2294Shahraam Afshar

JWA106 Observation of Long-Lived Screening in Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs Photoconductive Switches.............................................................................................................................2296

Hartmut Roskos

JWA107 Spectral Loss Characteristics of Subwavelength THz Fibers....................................................2298Hung-Wen Chen

JWA108 Single-shot THz Pulse Characterization with Dual Echelons....................................................2300Ki-Yong Kim

JWA109 Limits of Strong Mode Confinement in Microdisk Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................2302

Gernot Fasching

JWA110 Highly Accurate Material Parameter Extraction from THz Time Domain Spectroscopy Data .........................................................................................................................................2304

Ioachim Pupeza

JWA111 Pressure-Broadening Coefficient of Water Vapor Measured with a High Resolution, Coherent Tunable THz-Wave Spectrometer ..........................................................................2306

GUO Ruixiang

JWA112 Time Domain Terahertz Non Destructive Evaluation of Water Intrusion in Composites and Corrosion under Insulation ..............................................................................................2308

David Zimdars

JWA113 Combining of Modes of Broad Area Laser Diode into Single Mode Spot ................................2310Nikolai Stelmakh

JWA114 Growth Studies of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Current-Blocking Structures...................2312Liwei Cheng

JWA115 Detection of Gold in the Facet of a Failed Semiconductor Laser Diode ...................................2314John Chaney

JWA116 Closed-Loop Design and Demonstration of an 1178nm Multi-Watt VECSEL for a Sodium Guidestar Source .............................................................................................................................2316

Jerome Moloney

JWA117 Structural Dependence of Optical Gain and Carrier Losses in InGaN Quantum Well Lasers ....................................................................................................................................................2318

Jorg Hader

JWA118 Diode Laser MOPA System for the Generation of 920 nm Femtosecond Pulses with 65 W Peak Power ..................................................................................................................................2320

Thorsten Ulm

JWA119 Detailed Comparison of Injection-Seeded and Self-Seeded Performance of a Gain-Switched Laser Diode..........................................................................................................................2322

Andrew Malinowski

JWA120 Spectral and Spatial Mode Control in Self-Seeded Semiconductor Disk Laser Using Optical Feedback from Fiber Bragg Grating...................................................................................2324

Dionisio Pereira

JWA121 Metal-Encased Semiconductor Nanowires as Waveguides for Ultrasmall Lasers ..................2326Alexey Maslov

JWA122 Analysis of Ring-Metal-Aperture VCSELs for Single-Lateral-Mode Operation ....................2328Marek Osinski

JWA123 Single-Contact Multi-Spatial-Mode Mode-Locking Fabry-Perot Semiconductor Laser Diodes ..................................................................................................................................................2330

Weiguo Yang

JWA124 Emission Characteristics of InGaN/GaN Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers...............2332Jung-Tang Chu

JWA125 Transient Thermal Properties of High-Power Diode Laser Bars..............................................2334Mathias Ziegler

JWA126 Carrier Capture and Recombination in 2.4µm GaSb-Based Type-I Quantum Well High Power Diode Lasers ....................................................................................................................2336

Leon Shterengas

JWA127 Axis and Ring Mode Switching in Multi-Electrode GaAs Quasi-Stadium Laser Diodes .............................................................................................................................................................2338

Takehiro Fukushima

JWA128 Photon Coupling Mechanism in 1.3-µm Quantum-Dot Lasers .................................................2340Chaoyuan Jin

JWA129 Narrow Spectral Linewidth of Al-Free Active Region DFB Laser Diodes Operating at 852nm ......................................................................................................................................2342

Vincent Ligeret

JWA130 Nanosecond to Microsecond Dynamics of 1040nm Semiconductor Disk Lasers .....................2344Sangam Chatterjee

JWA131 Development of a Clock Laser of Ca+ Ion for the Optical Frequency Standards ....................2346Ying Li

JWA132 Highly Efficient and Compact Green VECSEL by Novel Optical End-Pumping Scheme............................................................................................................................................................2348

Soohaeng Cho

JWA133 Pulsed High Duty-Cycle Operation of λ ~ 8µm Quantum Cascade Lasers ..............................2350Tiffany Ko

JWA134 Temperature-Stable Operating Current of Surface Plasmon VCSELs with Metal Nanohole Arrays............................................................................................................................................2352

Tatsuya Tanigawa

JWA135 Nonlinear Carrier Waves and Gain Oscillations in Infrared and Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .............................................................................................................................2354

Carsten Weber

JWA136 Above Room-Temperature Operation of InAs/AlSb Quantum Cascade Lasers .....................2356Yoshitaka Moriyasu

JWA137 Single-Mode Surface-Emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Operating up to ~ 150 K .......................................................................................................................................................2358

Sushil Kumar

JWA138 Difference Frequency Generation from Integrated Nonlinearities in Two-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers........................................................................................................2360

Daniel Wasserman

JWA139 Very Low-Threshold-Current-Density 1.34-µm GaInNAs/GaAs Quantum Well Lasers with a Quaternary-Barrier Structure .............................................................................................2362

Chaoyuan Jin

JWA140 High Performance 800-1000nm Single Mode Lasers Using an Asymmetric Waveguide......................................................................................................................................................2364

Bocang Qiu

JWB REGIONAL OVERVIEWS OF THE STATUS OF LASER APPLICATIONS

JWB1 A View from a Leading Chinese Laser System Manufacturer ......................................................2366Rangda Wu

JWB2 Overview and Recent Topics in Industrial Laser Applications in Japan .....................................2367Kunihiko Washio

JWB3 Industrial Applications of Laser Direct-Write Processing: A Review ..........................................2368Andrew Holmes

JWB4 3-D Photofabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Its Applications in Photonics and Biomedicine...........................................................................................................................2369

Aleksandr Ovsianikov

JWC LARGE HIGH-INTENSITY LASERS

JWC1 MegaJoule NIF ..................................................................................................................................2371Edward Moses

JWC2 A 355 TW Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser Facility with Three Stage Amplifiers......................2373Zhi Wei

JWC3 Generation and Characterization of Femtosecond Petawatt Ti:Sapphire Laser.........................2375Xiaoyan Liang

JWC4 ILE 25PW Single Laser Beamline: The French Step for the European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) ...........................................................................................................................2377

Jean-Paul Chambaret

JWC5 Electra: An Electron Beam Pumped 730 J Rep-Rate KrF Laser..................................................2379Matthew Wolford

JWC6 Interferometric Tiling of Large-Aperture Gratings for Petawatt Laser Systems .......................2381Jie Qiao

JWD NEW INDUSTRIAL LASERS

JWD2 A 142-W Diffraction-Limited Q-Switched Rotary Disk Yb-YAG Laser for Material Processing ......................................................................................................................................................2383

Santanu Basu

JWD4 Refractive Gauss-to-Tophat Beam Shapers Improve Structure Quality and Speed in Micromachining ............................................................................................................................................2384

Frank Toennissen

JWD5 Advances in High Efficiency Diode Laser Pump Sources Suitable for Pumping Nd:YAG Systems...........................................................................................................................................2385

Paul Crump

JWD6 30W CW Operation of Single-Chip Laser Diodes ..........................................................................2386Wei Gao

JWD7 Evaluating Micromachining Capabilities of High Power Diode Pumped Solid-State Mode-Locked and Q-Switched Ultraviolet Laser.......................................................................................2387

Rajesh Patel

JWE HIGH-POWER FEW-CYCLE SOURCES

JWE1 Optimal Pulse Compression via Sequential Filamentation............................................................2388Luat Vuong

JWE2 High-Energy Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in a Filament for Relativistic Applications at kHz Repetition Rate ...........................................................................................................2390

Christoph Hauri

JWE3 Organizing and Characterizing Multiple Filaments in Space and Time ......................................2392Christoph Hauri

JWE4 Intense Self-Compressed Carrier-Envelope Phase-Locked Few-Cycle Pulses at 2 µm ...............2394Christoph Hauri

JWE5 Multiterawatt Three-Cycle Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier...................................2396Franz Tavella

JWE6 Few-Cycle Terawatt Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification System Using an Yb:YLF Chirped-Pulse Amplification Pump Laser .............................................................................2398

Makoto Aoyama

JTHA ATTOSECOND DYNAMICS

JThA1 Probing Proton Dynamics in Molecules on an Attosecond Time Scale........................................2400Sarah Baker

JThA2 Attosecond Two-Slit Interference Controlled by Carrier-Envelope Phase .................................2402Mahendra Shakya

JThA3 All-Optical Quasi-Phase Matching and Quantum Path Control by Counter Propagating Pulse Trains .............................................................................................................................2404

Xiaoshi Zhang

JThA4 Attosecond Pulse Compression in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region by Conical Diffraction......................................................................................................................................................2406

Luca Poletto

JThA5 Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime....................................................................2408Giuseppe Sansone

JTHB ATTOSECOND LASER PULSES

JThB1 Attosecond Technology and Wavefunction Tomography .............................................................2410Mauro Nisoli

JThB2 Observation of Interferometric Autocorrelation Trace of an Attosecond Pulse Train................................................................................................................................................................N/A

Toshihiko Shimizu

JThB3 Single-Shot Observation of Quasi-Continuum High-Harmonic Spectrum Generated in a Two-Color Driving Field ....................................................................................................2412

Masanori Kaku

JThB4 Broadband Attosecond Pulse Shaping ............................................................................................2414Marko Swoboda

JTHC JOINT CLEO/PHAST SYMPOSIUM ON BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS I

JThC1 Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging....................................................................2416Siavash Yazdanfar

JTHD POSTER SESSION III

JThD1 Optical Parametric Amplification of Optical Pulses with a Nearly One-Octave Bandwidth from a Hollow Fiber ..................................................................................................................2418

Keisaku Yamane

JThD2 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Imaging Interferometry: A Technique to Investigate Ultrafast Phenomena in Solids .....................................................................................................................2420

Vasily Temnov

JThD3 Development of a Spatial Light Modulator with an Over-Two-Octave Bandwidth from Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared ...............................................................................................................2422

Kouji Hazu

JThD4 The Noise Effect on Pulses in Passive Mode-Locking with Unrestricted Dispersive and Dissipative Parameters ..........................................................................................................................2424

Michael Katz

JThD5 Ultrafast Dynamics of Sub-Threshold Modes in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................2426

Botao Zhang

JThD6 Broadband 2 GHz Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser .....................................................................2428Flavio Cruz

JThD7 A Total Internal Reflection Technique for Time Resolved Measurements of Index of Refraction ..................................................................................................................................................2430

John Houser

JThD8 Numerical Simulations of the Ultrasimple Ultrashort-Laser-Pulse Measurement Technique.......................................................................................................................................................2432

Xuan Liu

JThD9 Ultrashort Pulse Electric-Field Reconstruction Using Only One Autocorrelator ......................2434Daniel Bender

JThD10 Improved Acousto-Optic Modulator for Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping ..................................2436Chien-Hung Tseng

JThD11 Coherent Phonons Imprinted into Reflectivity Oscillations of Laser-Excited Bi through Electron-Phonon Coupling ............................................................................................................2438

Barry Luther-Davies

JThD12 Molecular Control of the Evolution of Capillary-Generated Soft X-Ray High Harmonics......................................................................................................................................................2440

Sarah Stebbings

JThD13 Reducing the Fast Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter of Amplified Femtosecond Laser Pulses ..............................................................................................................................................................2442

Eric Moon

JThD14 Pulse Compression by Coherent Raman Scattering....................................................................2444Yuichiro Kida

JThD15 Supercontinuum Generation Using Imaging Taper ....................................................................2446Kebin Shi

JThD16 Pulse Characterization Using Hilbert Transformation Temporal Interferometry (HTTI) ............................................................................................................................................................2448

Tae-Jung Ahn

JThD17 Filtered SOA De-Multiplexer Structure with Pattern Independence at 0.1 THz Repetition Rate ..............................................................................................................................................2450

Claudio Crognale

JThD18 Scaling Features in Passively Mode-Locked Inhomogeneously Broadened Lasers ..................2452Li Yan

JThD19 Turn-On Dynamics of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Lasers .....................................................2454Ermin Malíc

JThD20 Robustness Enhancement of Iteration-Free Spectral Phase Retrieval by Interferometric Second-Harmonic Trace....................................................................................................2456

Chen-Shao Hsu

JThD21 Intersubband Transition of AlN/GaN Quantum Wells in Optimized AlN-Based Waveguide Structure ....................................................................................................................................2458

Toshimasa Shimizu

JThD22 Pulse Shaping Using Binary Sequences Designed with Error Diffusion....................................2460Christophe Dorrer

JThD23 Polarization-Dependence of Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities of Bragg-Spaced Quantum Wells..............................................................................................................................................2462

Nai Kwong

JThD24 Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Crossover in the Current-Driven Vortex State in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Probed by the Josephson Plasma Resonance ..................................................................2464

Verner Thorsmølle

JThD25 Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Intersubband Lasers--Role of Motional Narrowing ......................................................................................................................................................2466

Jacob Khurgin

JThD26 Direct Dissociation and Laser Modulated Predissociation of N2+ ..............................................2468

Ryan Coffee

JThD27 Ultrafast Intervalley Transitions in GaN Single Crystals ...........................................................2470Shuai Wu

JThD28 Probing Photoconductivity in Discotic Liquid Crystals by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy....................................................................................................................................2472

Chen Xia

JThD29 All-Optical Generation and Detection of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in GaN Single Crystals ...............................................................................................................................................2474

Shuai Wu

JThD30 Analytic Model of Rotational Wave Packet Excitation with Arbitrary Pump Polarization in the Impulsive Limit .............................................................................................................2476

Randy Bartels

JThD31 Identification in the Frequency Domain of Molecular Dissociation Fragments Detected by a Wavepacket............................................................................................................................2478

Yan Xiao

JThD32 Intra-Molecular Dynamics Probed Using High-Harmonic Generation ....................................2480Xibin Zhou

JThD33 Dissociative Ionization of an Aligned Molecular Sample ............................................................2482Sarah Nichols

JThD34 Monitoring Vibrational Wave Packet Dynamics via Direct Femtosecond Pump-Probe Measurements ....................................................................................................................................2484

Dmitry Pestov

JThD35 Mechanistic Comparison of Different Solutions Found in Closed-Loop Quantum Control Simulations ......................................................................................................................................2486

James White

JThD36 Femtosecond Dynamics of the Laser-Induced Solid-to-Liquid Phase Transition in Aluminum ......................................................................................................................................................2488

Maria Kandyla

JThD37 Time- and Spectrally-Resolved PL Study of a Regular Array of InP/InAs/InP Core-Multishell Nanowires...........................................................................................................................2490

Bipul Pal

JThD38 Characterication of the Complex Noise Transfer Function of a Modelocked Ti:Sapphire Laser .........................................................................................................................................2492

Theresa Mulder

JThD39 A Compact Annular Beam Generator Based on a Laser Diode Pumped Power Build-up Cavity for Optical Tweezers .........................................................................................................2494

Jun-ichi Sato

JThD40 Cesium 6S1/2 →8S1/2 Two-Photon Transition Stabilized 822.5 nm Diode Laser........................2496Wang-Yau Cheng

JThD41 Full Dispersion Characterization Using Single-Arm Interferometry on a mm-Length Fiber ..................................................................................................................................................2498

Waleed Mohammed

JThD42 Absolute Mode Number Determination Using Two Er:Fiber Laser Combs for Optical Frequency Metrology ......................................................................................................................2500

Jin-Long Peng

JThD43 High-Resolution Mode-Spacing Measurement of the Blue-Violet Diode Laser Using Interference of Fields Created with Time Delays Greater than the Coherence Time ..................2502

Yoon-ho Kim

JThD44 Fiber-Optic Voltage Sensor Using a Hybrid Laser Interferometer ...........................................2504Hyoung-Jun Park

JThD45 The Bragg Side-Band BioCD.........................................................................................................2506Xuefeng Wang

JThD46 Reflected Pump Technique for Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy inside Photonic Bandgap Fibers..............................................................................................................................2508

Kevin Knabe

JThD47 Diode-Pumped Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscope ......................................................................2510Sylvain Schwartz

JThD48 Beam Characteristics of Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers.......................................................2512Kannan Krishnaswami

JThD49 Real-Time 3-D Shape Measurement with High Accuracy and Low Cost..................................2514Zhaoyang Wang

JThD50 Absolute Surface Displacement Measurement Using Pulsed Photo-Electromotive-Force Laser Vibrometer ...............................................................................................................................2516

Chen-Chia Wang

JThD51 DAVLL with Absolute Frequency Reference ..............................................................................2518Ethan Elliott

JThD52 Optical Studies of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Axial Strain ..............................................................................................................................................................2520

Yang Wu

JThD53 Chirality Dependence of Absorption in Carbon Nanotubes .......................................................2522Ermin Malic

JThD54 Terahertz Electric Polarizability of Multiple Excitons in CdSe Quantum Dots .......................2524Georgi Dakovski

JThD55 Analysis of the Spontaneous Emission Rate Enhancement by Surface Plasmons in a Thin Metallic Layer Embedded in Semiconductor .................................................................................2526

Hideo Iwase

JThD56 Transmission through Composite Nano Aperture and Effects of Surface Plasmon Resonance ......................................................................................................................................................2528

Shih-Wei Yin

JThD57 Lithography, Plasmonics and Sub-Wavelength Aperture Exposure Technology.....................2530Mario Dagenais

JThD58 An Offset Apertured Probe: A Hybrid Apertured and Scattering-Type Near-Field Scanning Optical Probe ................................................................................................................................2532

Michael Quong

JThD59 Design and Analysis of Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Traveling Wave Photodetectors ...................................................................................................................2534

Tzeng Kao

JThD60 Local Field Enhancement and Spectral Response of Resonant Nanostructures.......................2536C. Dineen

JThD61 Nonlinear Optical Probe of a Singly-Charged Stranski-Krastanow Quantum Dot .................2538Bo Sun

JThD62 Observation of the Dark States of Near-Field Coupled InAs Quantum Dots Using Optical Near-Field Microscopy ....................................................................................................................2540

Tadashi Kawazoe

JThD63 Optical Linewidth and Dephasing in Single InAs Quantum Dots and Coupled Dot-Microcavity Systems .....................................................................................................................................2542

Sergey Rudin

JThD64 Electromagnetic Interaction between Nanoparticles and Optical Subwavelength Devices............................................................................................................................................................2544

Matthias Reichelt

JThD65 Transition between Rydberg 1s and 2p Exciton States of Biexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots .....................................................................................................................2546

Kensuke Miyajima

JThD66 Optimizing Contrast of Tip-Enhanced Fluorescence Microscopy for Imaging High-Density Samples ...................................................................................................................................2548

Chun Mu

JThD67 Second-Harmonic Generation Driven by Local Field Asymmetry in Noncentrosymmetric Gold Nano-Ts ............................................................................................................2550

Brian Canfield

JThD68 Spectral Phase Control of Remote Surface-Plasmon-Mediated Two-Photon-Induced Luminescence..................................................................................................................................2552

Jess Gunn

JThD69 Dynamics of Exciton Recombination in InAs Quantum Dots Embedded in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well ......................................................................................................................2554

Xiaodong Mu

JThD70 Thermo-Plasmonic Resonances in Hybrid Metallo-Dielectric Nano-Particles: Towards Tunable Standalone Nano-Sensors ..............................................................................................2556

Nikolaos Florous

JThD71 Double Nanohole-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy......................................................................2558Antoine Lesuffleur

JThD72 Surface Enhanced Raman with Nano-Holes ................................................................................2560H. Grebel

JThD73 Ultra-Long Range Surface Plasmon Structures for Plasmonic Devices ....................................2562Charles Durfee

JThD74 AIRIS Remote Detection for Chemical Vapor Clouds: Systems Design and Detection Algorithms ....................................................................................................................................2564

A. Peter Snyder

JThD75 Free Spectral Range Matched Scanning Interrogator ................................................................2566Fengguo Sun

JThD76 The Study on 3-D Image Laser Sensing Technology of Welding Seam .....................................2568Yinqi Feng

JThD77 15 mW, Tunable Difference Frequency Generation Source for Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2570

Dirk Richter

JThD78 H2S Trace Detection Using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy in the Near-Infrared ................................................................................................................................................2572

Weidong Chen

JThD79 Continuous Long-Term Observations of UV Laser and LED-Induced Fluorescence of Processed Drinking Water ................................................................................................2574

Anna Sharikova

JThD80 I/Q Data Processing Techniques for the Analysis of an Amplitude Modulated Laser Imaging System...................................................................................................................................2576

Alan Laux

JThD81 An Optical Fiber for Brillouin-Based Discriminative Sensing of Strain and Temperature ..................................................................................................................................................2578

Weiwen Zou

JThD82 Optical Reflectometry for in-situ Monitoring of Carbon Nanotubes Deposition by Optical Tweezers ...........................................................................................................................................2580

Ken Kashiwagi

JThD83 Multi-Species Trace Gas Detection by Rapidly Swept Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2582

Brian Orr

JThD84 Techniques Based on Digital Multiplexing Holography for Three-Dimensional Object Tracking ............................................................................................................................................2584

Jose Dominguez-Caballero

JThD85 Compact Slit-Less Spectrometer Using Cylindrical Beam Volume Holograms .......................2586Chaoray Hsieh

JThD86 Phase Detection Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor in Infrared with Increased Sensitivity and Dynamic Range ..................................................................................................2588

Aykut Koc

JThD87 A Chaotic Optical Cavity Combined with a Quantum Cascade Laser for Chemical Vapor Sensing................................................................................................................................................2590

Abhishek Agrawal

JThD88 A Mid-IR DIAL System Using Interband Cascade Laser Diodes ..............................................2592Marcus Schuetz

JThD89 Synthesis of Monodispersed DLC Nanoparticles in Intense Optical Field by Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Liquid Benzene ........................................................................................2594

Takahiro Nakamura

JThD90 Microbend Gratings Fabricated in Glass Substrates via Direct Writing with Near-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses .......................................................................................................................2596

Jung-Ho Chung

JThD91 In-situ Pulse Characterization for Silicon Micromachining .......................................................2598Xin Zhu

JThD92 Temperature Dependence of Ultrafast Laser Ablation Efficiency of Crystalline Silicon .............................................................................................................................................................2600

Ji Sang Yahng

JThD93 Inscription of Optical Waveguides with Ultrafast Bessel Beams ................................................N/AVéronique Zambon

JThD94 Photonic Torque Microscope.........................................................................................................2602Giovanni Volpe

JThD95 Design and Application of Circular Dammann Grating .............................................................2604Shuai Zhao

JThD96 Photonic Force Microscopy with Back-Scattered Light..............................................................2606Giovanni Volpe

JThD97 The Application of Laser-Driven Acoustic Waves in Modern Mass Spectrometry..................2608Alexander Zinovev

JThD98 Toward 3-D Microfluidic Structures Fabricated with Two-Photon Laser Machining ......................................................................................................................................................2610

Yihong Liu

JThD99 Application of Near-Field Optical Microscopy to the Study of Femtosecond Laser Micro-Structured Nd:YAG Crystals ...........................................................................................................2612

Daniel Jaque

JThD100 The Creation of Gaussian Beams with Extremely High Orbital Angular Momentum.....................................................................................................................................................2614

Yana Izdebskaya

JThD101 Increase of Ablation Rate Using Burst Mode Femtosecond Pulses ..........................................2616Jiyeon Choi

JThD102 Multiscale Bessel Beams from Tunable Acoustic Gradient Index of Refraction Lenses .............................................................................................................................................................2618

Euan McLeod

JThD103 SOI Ridge Waveguide Incorporating a Photonic Crystal Microcavity Multi-Channel Filter................................................................................................................................................2620

Duncan Allsopp

JThD104 NOEMS Devices Based on Slot-Waveguides..............................................................................2622Vilson Almeida

JThD105 Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Photodiode through Quantum Well Intermixing ...........................................................................................................2624

Jiansheng Tang

JThD106 Single Water Microdroplets Resting on a Superhydrophobic Surface: Largely Tunable Optical Microcavities .....................................................................................................................2626

Alper Kiraz

JThD107 Random Laser Action inside a Photonic Crystal Fiber.............................................................2628Christiano de Matos

JThD108 Tip-to-Sample Distance Control in Apertureless Near-Field Optical Microscopy .................2630Yehiam Prior

JThD109 Demonstration of a Two Color 320 x 256 Quantum Dots-in-a-Well Focal Plane Array ..............................................................................................................................................................2632

Eric Varley

JThD110 Dispersion Inversion in High Index Contrast AlGaAs-Nanowires...........................................2634Joachim Meier

JThD111 Microring Resonators Using Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization ..................................2636L. Li

JThD112 Super Mode Propagation in Low Index Medium ......................................................................2638M. Alam

JThD113 Geometric Optics for Surface Plasmon Integrated Circuits .....................................................2640Fatemeh Eftekhari

JThD114 Non-Evanescently Pumped Raman Silicon Lasers Using Spiral-Shaped Microdisks......................................................................................................................................................2642

Hui Chen

JThD115 Silicon Electro-Optic Switching Based on Coupled-Microring Resonators ............................2644Chao Li

JThD116 Spiral-Shaped Microdisk Resonator Channel Drop/Add Filters: Asymmetry in Modal Distributions ......................................................................................................................................2646

Jonathan Y. Lee

JThD117 Nonlinear Resonance Broadening and Shift due to Thermo-Optical Instability in Microsphere Resonators ...............................................................................................................................2648

Arkadi Chipouline

JThD118 Silicon Depletion-Type Microdisk Electro-Optic Modulators Using Selectively Integrated Schottky Diodes ..........................................................................................................................2650

Nick Hon

JThD119 Coupled-Mode Theory Analysis of Optical Bistability Involving Fano Resonances in High-Q/Vm Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ............................................................2652

Xiaodong Yang

JThD120 All-Optical Switching in Microring-Loaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Fabricated from Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) ............................................................................................2654

Younggu Kim

JThD121 Design of Gradient Index (GRIN) Lens Using Photonic Non-Crystals....................................2656Paul Stellman

JThD122 Optical Jitter due to Refractive Index Variations in Slow-Light Photonic Crystal MZI Switches.................................................................................................................................................2658

Ashutosh Shroff

JThD123 Transient Thermal Lensing at 1kHz Repetition Rate in a Cryogenically-Cooled High Average Power Ti:Sapphire Amplifier ..............................................................................................2660

Charles Durfee

JThD124 High Current Permanent Discharges in Air Induced by Femtosecond Laser Filamentation.................................................................................................................................................2662

Aurelien Houard

JThD125 Wavefront Correction and Aberrations Pre-Compensation in the Middle of Petawatt-Class CPA Laser Chains ..............................................................................................................2664

Federico Canova

JThD126 Chirp-Dependent Above-Threshold Ionization .........................................................................2666Takashi Nakajima

JThD127 Spatially Shaping the Longitudinal Focal Distribution into a Horseshoe-Shaped Profile .............................................................................................................................................................2668

P. Brijesh

JThD128 Generation of Isolated Sub-100-as XUV Pulses Using Time-Gate Assisted Few-Cycle Driving Pulses .....................................................................................................................................2670

Ya Cheng

JThD129 Pulse Shape Control of a High-Energy PW Laser for Fast Ignition of Laser Fusion .............................................................................................................................................................2672

Keiichi Sueda

JThD130 Pump Beams Homogenization for Terawatt / Petawatt Class Ti:Sapphire Amplifiers ......................................................................................................................................................2674

Federico Canova

JThD131 Coherent Contrast Improvement by Cross-Polarized Wave Generation................................2676Lorenzo Canova

JThD132 Optical Probing of Laser-Produced Plasmas for Laboratory Simulations of Magnetic Astrophysical Jets.........................................................................................................................2678

Parrish Brady

JThD133 Asymmetric Explosion of Laser-Irradiated Hydrogen Clusters ..............................................2680Yu-hsin Chen

JThD134 Optical Measurements of Heat and Shock Waves in a Dense Plasma .....................................2682Irina Churina

JThD135 The Effect of Focal Geometry on Radiation from Atomic Ionization in Ultrastrong/Ultrafast Laser Field ................................................................................................................2684

Isaac Ghebregziabiher

JThD136 Destructive Interference of High Harmonics Generated in Mixed Gases ...............................2686Tsuneto Kanai

JThD137 High-Dynamic-Range, 200-ps Window, Single-Shot Cross-Correlator for Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Characterization ...............................................................................................2688

Igor Jovanovic

JThD138 Spectral Broadening of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using a Hollow Fiber with Symmetric Pressure Gradient ......................................................................................................................2690

Samuel Bohman

JThD139 Accurate Contrast-Ratio Characterization of Femtosecond and Chirped Picosecond Pulses Using the Decorrelation of Third-Order Correlation Trace ......................................2692

Kyung-Han Hong

JThD140 High Sensitive THz Faraday Rotation Measurements in Doped Semiconductors..................2694Yohei Ikebe

JTHE JOINT CLEO/PHAST SYMPOSIUM ON BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS II

JThE1 Multi-Functional Video-Rate Optical Coherence Tomography Microscopy ..............................2696James Jiang

JThE3 In vivo Imaging Using Harmonic Generation Microscopy ...........................................................2697Chi-Kuang Sun

JThE4 Teraherz Imaging .............................................................................................................................2698David Zimdars

JTHF LASER WAKEFIELD AND RELATIVISTIC PLASMA INTERACTIONS

JThF1 Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons in the Corrugated Plasma Waveguide...........................2699Andrew York

JThF2 Injection of Electrons into Plasma Waves by Colliding Laser Pulses into an Underdense Plasma .......................................................................................................................................2701

Jerome Faure

JThF3 Wakefield Acceleration of Quasi-Monoenergetic 200MeV Electrons in Nitrogen and Helium Gas Targets ......................................................................................................................................2703

Zheng Chen

JThF4 Coherence-Based Transverse Measurement of Synchrotron X-Ray Radiation from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction and of Laser-Accelerated Electrons ............................................2705

Rahul Shah

JThF5 Imaging Electron Trajectories in Laser Wakefield Cavity Using Betatron X-Ray Radiation........................................................................................................................................................2707

Antoine Rousse

JThF6 THz Modulation of Relativistic Electrons Using a Vacuum Laser Beat-Wave ...........................2709Sergei Tochitsky

JTHG LASER PLASMAS AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION

JThG1 Proton Acceleration from Thin Foils Using Ultraintense, High-Contrast Pulses .......................2711Stephen Reed

JThG2 Single-Shot Time Resolved Expansion and Emission Measurements of Proton-Heated Warm Dense Matter ........................................................................................................................2713

Gilliss Dyer

JThG3 Streaking Transient Electric Fields with Laser Accelerated Proton Beams ...............................2715Thomas Sokollik

JThG4 Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysical Blastwaves Using Intense Laser Interactions ....................................................................................................................................................2717

Todd Ditmire

JThG5 Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Mediated by Ponderomotive-Force-Driven Plasma Gratings..........................................................................................................................................................2719

Kan-Hua Lee

JThG6 Study of Hot Electron Transportation in Foils and Wedge Targets Irradiated with Ultrashort Laser Pulses ................................................................................................................................2721

Byoung-ick Cho

JFA HARMONIC AND X-RAY GENERATION IN PLASMAS

JFA1 High Brightness Injection-Seeded Table-Top Soft X-Ray Laser Using a Dense Plasma Amplifier...........................................................................................................................................2723

Yong Wang

JFA2 Attosecond Nonlinear Optics .............................................................................................................2725Katsumi Midorikawa

JFA3 Enhanced High Harmonic Generation in Xe, Kr and Ar Using a Capillary Discharge ...............2727Tenio Popmintchev

JFA4 Enhancement of Relativistic Harmonic Generation by an Optically-Preformed Periodic Plasma Waveguide .........................................................................................................................2729

Chih-Hao Pai

JFA5 Two Mechanisms of High Harmonic Generation from Overdense Laser Plasmas--Relativistic and Non-Relativistic ..................................................................................................................2731

Robin Marjoribanks

JFA6 Corrugated Plasma Waveguide: Slow Wave Structure for High Intensity Optical Pulses ..............................................................................................................................................................2733

Brian Layer

JFB JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON THZ SPECTROSCOPY

JFB1 THz Phase-Transition Spectroscopy of Metals.................................................................................2735Kenneth Chau

JFB2 Electrical Conductivity Measurements of Warm Dense Matter with Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy ................................................................................................................................2737

Ki-Yong Kim

JFB3 Isotropic Photonic Magnetoresistance: A New Phenomenon at Terahertz Frequencies ....................................................................................................................................................2739

Corey Baron

JFB4 Temperature Dependent and Magnetic Field Dependent Terahertz Spectroscopy of In1-xMnxAs......................................................................................................................................................2741

Jason Deibel

JFB5 Intrinsic Photoconductivity of P3HT Films Measured by Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy ..................................................................................................................................................2743

Okan Esenturk

JFB6 Broadband THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes.........................2745Ryo Shimano

JFB7 Observation of Soft-Mode Hardening and Broadening in SrTiO3 Thin Films by Broadband Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy ...................................................................................2747

Ikufumi Katayama

JFC ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN STRONG FIELDS

JFC1 Photoelectron Angular Distributions from the Single Atom Response to a Relativistic Laser Field .....................................................................................................................................................2749

Anthony DiChiara

JFC2 Intense Field Ionization of Methane, Butane, and Octane: Transition from Molecular to Atomic Response.....................................................................................................................2751

Sasi Palaniyappan

JFC3 Single-Shot Time Resolved Measurement of Molecular Alignment in Laser-Irradiated Gases ............................................................................................................................................2753

Sanjay Varma

JFC4 High Field Physics with XUV Pulses from the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg: Atoms and Clusters .......................................................................................................................................2755

Hubertus Wabnitz

JFC5 Dramatic Enhancement of High-Order Harmonic Generation in Mixed Gases ...........................2757Eiji Takahashi

JFC6 Two-Quantum-Path Interferences in High Order Harmonic Generation.....................................2759Amelle Zaïr

PHAST

PTUA LASERS IN DEVICE MANUFACTURING

PTuA3 Laser Micro-Processing for Industrial Production Applications.................................................2761Heather Booth

PTuA4 Laser Processing in Printform Fabrication ...................................................................................2762Guido Hennig

PTuA5 High Precision and High Speed Cutting of 4th Generation OLED Masks with LaserMicroJet® .............................................................................................................................................2763

Tuan Anh Mai

PTUB THREAT AGENT DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION METHODS

PTuB4 Detection of B. subtilis spores via Hybrid CARS ..........................................................................2764Dmitry Pestov

PTuB5 Chemical and Biological Warfare Agent and Explosives Detection Based on Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology ....................................................................................................2765

Marcos Dantus

PTUC COMMERCIALIZATION OF APPLIED RESEARCH I

PTuC4 Aggressive Commercialization in a Sub-Critical Market.............................................................2766Marion Soileau

PTuD2 Compact, High Performance Femtosecond Laser Ablation System............................................2767Eric Mottay

PTuD3 The Impact of Ultrashort Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology for Micromachining ............................................................................................................................................2769

Marcos Dantus

PTuD4 High Speed Production of Periodical Nanostructures Using Femtosecond Laser Radiation........................................................................................................................................................2770

Dirk Wortmann

PTuD5 Advanced Femtosecomd Lasers in Manufacturing.......................................................................2771Hitoshi Sekita

PTuD6 Waveguide Lasers of Er:ZBLAN and Nd:GGG by Pulsed Laser Deposition and fs-Laser Microstructuring ................................................................................................................................2772

Dirk Wortmann

PTUE AMBIENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PTuE3 Real-Time Monitoring of Atmospheric Aerosol at New Haven, CT, for Fluorescence Spectra, Particle Size and Concentration.............................................................................2773

Yong-Le Pan

PTuE4 Elastic-Light Scattering for the Characterization of Respirable Aerosols ..................................2774Gustavo Fernandes

PTuE5 Practical Anti-Microbial Surfaces on Nylon and Polyester by UV Photochemistry ..................2775Michael Kelley

PWA STAND-OFF AND POINT DETECTION

PWA1 Development of a LIDAR Controlled Airspace Scanner for Bio-Aerosol Detection...................2776Jack Bufton

PWA2 Hyperspectral Imaging Detection of CBE Threat Materials ........................................................2777Patrick Treado

PWA3 A Fiber-Coupled Eye Safe Spectrometer for the Stand-off Detection of Explosives...................2778Christoph Bauer

PWA4 Novel Distributed Fiber Temperature and Strain Sensor Using Coherent Radio-Frequency Detection ofSpontaneous Brillouin Scattering.........................................................................2779

Jihong Geng

PWA5 Long Fiber-Optic Perimeter Sensor: Signature Analysis ..............................................................2780Christi Madsen

PWB SOLID-STATE LIGHTING I

PWB3 Can We Fabricate Efficient White-Light InGaN/GaN Quantum-Well Light-Emitting Diodes without Using Phosphors?................................................................................................2781

C. Yang

PWB4 Development of High Efficiency Green and Deep Green Light Emitted in Piezoelectric Group-III Nitrides ..................................................................................................................2782

Christian Wetzel

PWC DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS

PWC1 BAND Sensor for BioDefense...........................................................................................................2783David Robbins

PWC3 Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Infrared Emission from Inorganic and Organic Substances .......................................................................................................................................2784

Clayton Yang

PWC4 Biological Substance Characterization in Water Matrices with Raman Microscopy.................2786Rabih Jabbour

PWC5 Detection and Identification of a Water Mixture of E. coli Cells and B. subtilis Spores with Raman Chemical Imaging Microscopy ..................................................................................2788

Ashish Tripathi

PTHA NOVEL OPTICS AND OPTICAL SOURCES

PThA3 Developing High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers for Homeland Security and Defense Applications .....................................................................................................................................2790

Paul Rudy

PTHB HIGH-POWER LASERS SYSTEMS I

PThB2 The Big Bang Observer: High Laser Power for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics ...................2792G. Harry

PTHC EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES

PThC1 Precision Resistor Laser Trimming for Analog Microelectronics ...............................................2793Michel Meunier

PThC2 Asymmetrical M2 in Solid-State Laser Beam Shaping for the Line Scanning Laser Annealing .......................................................................................................................................................2794

Maxim Darscht

PThC3 Micromachining with Tailored Pulse Parameters.........................................................................2795Hans Herfurth

PThC7 High Power EUVL Source Demonstration of Tin-Doped Droplet Laser Plasma Generated by Industrial Solid-State Lasers................................................................................................2796

Kazutoshi Takenoshita

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