Editors' Picks Collection: Nonlinear Optics
To honor its 40th Anniversary, the editors of Optics Letters selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over the journal's history. Below is a collection of articles in the area of Lasers.
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 this area.
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Nonlinear-optical loop mirror
N. J. Doran and David Wood
Opt. Letters 13(1) 56-58 (1988)
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Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides
D. N. Christodoulides and R. I. Joseph
Opt. Letters 13(9) 794-796 (1988)
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Ultimate Q of optical microsphere resonators
M. L. Gorodetsky, A. A. Savchenkov, and V. S. Ilchenko
Opt. Letters 21(7) 453-455 (1996)
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Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency
H. Schmidt and A. Imamoglu
Opt. Letters 21(23) 1936-1938 (1996)
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Two-photon absorption and broadband optical limiting with bis-donor stilbenes
J. E. Ehrlich, X. L. Wu, I.-Y. S. Lee, Z.-Y. Hu, H. Röckel, S. R. Marder, and J. W. Perry
Opt. Letters 22(24) 1843-1845 (1997)
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Intense terahertz pulses by four-wave rectification in air
D. J. Cook and R. M. Hochstrasser
Opt. Letters 25(16) 1210-1212 (2000)
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Supercontinuum generation in tapered fibers
T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Letters 25(19) 1415-1417 (2000)
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Two-photon imaging to a depth of 1000 µm in living brains by use of a Ti:Al2O3 regenerative amplifier
Patrick Theer, Mazahir T. Hasan, and Winfried Denk
Opt. Letters 28(12) 1022-1024 (2003)
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Generation of single-cycle THz transients with high electric-field amplitudes
T. Bartel, P. Gaal, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, and T. Elsaesser
Opt. Letters 30(20) 2805-2807 (2005)
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Low-threshold supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires
Dong-Il Yeom, Eric C. Mägi, Michael R. E. Lamont, Michaël A. F. Roelens, Libin Fu, and Benjamin J. Eggleton
Opt. Letters 33(7) 660-662 (2008)
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Generation of sub-mJ terahertz pulses by optical rectification
J. A. Fülöp, L. Pálfalvi, S. Klingebiel, G. Almási, F. Krausz, S. Karsch, and J. Hebling
Opt. Letters 37(4) 557-559 (2012)
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Z-scan measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of graphene
Han Zhang, Stéphane Virally, Qiaoliang Bao, Loh Kian Ping, Serge Massar, Nicolas Godbout, and Pascal Kockaert
Opt. Letters 37(11) 1856-1858 (2012)