Editors' Picks Collection: Lasers and Quantum Optics
Since 1997, Optics Express has been a respected journal emphasizing scientific and technological innovations in optics and photonics. To honor its 20th anniversary year, the editors of Optics Express selected articles from a variety of topic areas that have been key to the Journal's success.
Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in these areas.
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Focusing of high numerical aperture cylindrical-vector beams
K. S. Youngworth and T. G. Brown
Opt. Express 7(2) 77-87 (2000)
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Coherent addition of fiber lasers by use of a fiber coupler
Akira Shirakawa, Tomoharu Saitou, Tomoki Sekiguchi, and Ken-ichi Ueda
Opt. Express 10(21) 1167-1172 (2002)
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High power air-clad photonic crystal fibre laser
W. J. Wadsworth, R. M. Percival, G. Bouwmans, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Express 11(1) 48-53 (2003)
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Demonstration of a silicon Raman laser
Ozdal Boyraz and Bahram Jalali
Opt. Express 12(21) 5269-5273 (2004)
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Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power
Y. Jeong, J. K. Sahu, D. N. Payne, and J. Nilsson
Opt. Express 12(25) 6088-6092 (2004)
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All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser
Andy Chong, Joel Buckley, Will Renninger, and Frank Wise
Opt. Express 14(21) 10095-10100 (2006)
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Ultra-high intensity-300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate
Michael J. Thorpe, David Balslev-Clausen, Matthew S. Kirchner, and Jun Ye
Opt. Express 16(3) 2109-2114 (2008)
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Cavity-enhanced optical frequency comb spectroscopy: application to human breath analysis
Michael J. Thorpe, David Balslev-Clausen, Matthew S. Kirchner, and Jun Ye
Opt. Express 16(4) 2387-2397 (2008)
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Laser written waveguide photonic quantum circuits
Graham D. Marshall, Alberto Politi, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Peter Dekker, Martin Ams, Michael J. Withford, and Jeremy L. O'Brien
Opt. Express 17(15) 12546-12554 (2009)
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Large energy mode locking of an erbium-doped fiber laser with atomic layer graphene
H. Zhang, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, Q. L. Bao, and K. P. Loh
Opt. Express 17(20) 17630-17635 (2009)
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Field test of quantum key distribution in the Tokyo QKD Network
M. Sasaki, M. Fujiwara, H. Ishizuka, W. Klaus, K. Wakui, M. Takeoka, S. Miki, T. Yamashita, Z. Wang, A. Tanaka, K. Yoshino, Y. Nambu, S. Takahashi, A. Tajima, A. Tomita, T. Domeki, T. Hasegawa, Y. Sakai, H. Kobayashi, T. Asai, K. Shimizu, T. Tokura, T. Tsurumaru, M. Matsui, T. Honjo, K. Tamaki, H. Takesue, Y. Tokura, J. F. Dynes, A. R. Dixon, A. W. Sharpe, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields, S. Uchikoga, M. Legré, S. Robyr, P. Trinkler, L. Monat, J.-B. Page, G. Ribordy, A. Poppe, A. Allacher, O. Maurhart, T. Länger, M. Peev, and A. Zeilinger
Opt. Express 19(11) 10387-10409 (2011)