Tuesday, 3 May 2011 - CLEO

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CLEO: QELS- 

Fundamental Science 

JOINT 

07:00–17:30 Registration Open, Baltimore Convention Center, Pratt Street, 300 Level Lobby 

08:00–09:45 

QTuA • Frontier Applications of 

Plasmonics 

Olivier Martin, Swiss Fed. Inst. 

Technology, Switzerland, Presider 

08:00–09:45 

QTuB • THz Generation and 

Pulse Diagnostics 

Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, 

Canada, Presider 

08:00–09:45 

QTuC • Ultrafast X-rays 

Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley 

Natl. Lab, USA, Presider 

08:00–09:45 

JTuA • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications I: 

Overview 

Richard Hughes, Los Alamos Natl. 

Lab, USA, Presider 

QTuA1 • 08:00 Tutorial 

Solar Energy Applications of Plasmonics, Harry 

Atwater, Caltech, USA. Plasmonics has provided 

optics researchers new means to control dispersion 

and light localization at nanoscale dimensions. 

Now plasmonic design approaches are yielding 

light trapping structures for improved efficiency 

in thin solar cells and structures for solar fuel 

generation. 

QTuB1 • 08:00 

Highly Simplified Device for Measuring the 

Intensity and Phase of Picosecond Pulses, Jacob 

Cohen 1 , Dongjoo Lee 2 , Vikrant K. Chauhan 1 , Peter 

Vaughan 1 , Rick Trebino 1 ; 1 Georgia Inst. of Technology, 

USA; 2 Swamp Optics, USA. We demonstrate 

an extremely simple device with only three easily 

aligned components for measuring the intensity 

and phase of ps pulses. We report intensity-andphase 

measurements of 15ps long pulses with a 

time-bandwidth product of 21. 

QTuC1 • 08:00 

High-harmonic generation from plasma mirrors 

with carrier-envelope phase-controlled 

few-cycle pulses, Antonin Borot 1 , Arnaud Malvache 

1 , Xiaowei Chen 1 , Patrick Audebert 4 , Jean- 

Paul Geindre 4 , Gérard Mourou 2 , Fabien Quéré 3 , 

Rodrigo Lopez-Martens 1 ; 1 Laboratoire d’Optique 

Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech - Ecole Polytechnique, 

France; 2 Institut de La Lumière Extrême, Ecole 

Polytechnique, France; 3 Service des Photons, Atomes 

et Molécules, CEA - DSM/DRECAM, France; 

4 

Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, 

Ecole Polytechnique, France. We demonstrate for 

the first time kHz-driven high-harmonic generation 

from solid targets with fully carrier-envelope 

phase-controlled few-cycle pulses. 

JTuA1 • 08:00 Invited 

Overview of Quantum Communications, Harald 

Weinfurter, Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Germany. 

Quantum communication methods like the well 

known quantum cryptography and quantum 

teleportation enhances and extends conventional 

communication methods. Here we give an overview 

of current developments and schemes going 

beyond these basic methods. 

Tuesday, 3 May 

Harry Atwater is currently Howard Hughes 

Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and 

Materials Science at the California Institute of 

Technology. His research interests center around 

two interwoven research themes: photovoltaics 

and solar energy; and plasmonics and optical 

metamaterials. Atwater and his group have been 

active in photovoltaics research for more than 20 

years. Recently they have created new photovoltaic 

devices, including the silicon wire array solar 

cell, and layer-transferred fabrication approaches 

to III-V semiconductor III-V and multijunction 

cells, as well as making advances in plasmonic 

light absorber structures for III-V compound 

and silicon thin films. He is an early pioneer in 

surface plasmon photonics; he gave the name to 

the field of plasmonics in 2001. He has authored 

or co-authored over 200 publications, and his 

group’s developments in the solar and plasmonics 

field have been featured in Scientific American and 

in research papers in Science, Nature Materials, 

Nature Photonics and Advanced Materials. 

Atwater received his S.B. (1981), S.M. (1983), and 

Ph.D. (1987) in Electrical Engineering from the 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently 

serves as Director of the DOE Energy Frontier 

Research Center on Light-Matter Interactions 

in Solar Energy Conversion (http://lmi.caltech. 

edu ) and was recently named Director of the 

Resnick Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability, 

http://resnick.caltech.edu/ , Caltech’s largest 

endowed research program focused on energy. 

Atwater is founder and chief technical advisor for 

Alta Devices, a venture-backed company in Santa 

Clara, CA developing a transformational high 

efficiency/low cost photovoltaics technology, and 

Aonex Corporation, a compound semiconductor 

materials company. He has also served an editorial 

board member for Surface Review and Letters. 

Professor Atwater has consulted extensively for 

QTuB2 • 08:15 

Frequency-domain tomography of evolving 

light-velocity objects, Zhengyan Li 1 , Rafal 

Zgadzaj 1 , Xiaoming Wang 1 , Peng Dong 1 , Michael C. 

Downer 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. 

We demonstrated single-shot frequency-domain 

tomographic imaging of laser-produced refractive 

index structures that evolve during propagation, 

using multiple probe pulses multiplexed to a single 

spectrometer and tomographic reconstruction 

algorithms. 

QTuB3 • 08:30 

Cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical 

gating by molecular wakes for ultraviolet femtosecond 

pulse measurement, Peifen Lu 1 , Haifeng 

Pan 1 , Jian Wu 1 , Heping Zeng 1 ; 1 State Key Lab of 

Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal Univ., 

China. We demonstrate a molecular-alignmentbased 

cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical 

gating technique for ultraviolet fs pulse measurements 

by performing the measurements of the 

second and third harmonic UV pulses centered 

at 400 and 267 nm. 

QTuC2 • 08:15 

Explosions of Methane Clusters Driven by 

Intense X-Ray FEL Pulses, Nirmala Kandadai 1 , 

Kay Hoffmann 1 , Heiko Thomas 1 , Ahmed Helal 1 , 

John Keto 1 , Todd Ditmire 1 , Bianca Iwan 2 , Nicusor 

Timneanu 2 , Jacob Andreasson 2 , Marvin Seibert 2 , 

Janos Hajdu 2 , David van der Spoel 2 , Sebastian 

Schorb 3 , Tais Gorkhover 3 , Daniela Rupp 3 , Marcus 

Adolph 3 , Thomas Möller 3 , Gillis Doumy 4 , Louis 

F. DimMauro 4 , Christoph Bostedt 5 , John Bozek 5 , 

Matthias Hoener 6 , Brendan Murphy 6 , Nora Berrah 6 ; 

1 

The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA; 2 Uppsala Univ., 

Sweden; 3 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; 

4 

The Ohio State Univ., USA; 5 Stanford Linear Accelerator 

Center, USA; 6 Western Michigan Univ., 

USA. Explosions of methane clusters driven by 

intense XFEL pulses were studied during the first 

experiments at LCLS. Ion fragment distribution 

dynamics depends strongly on wavelength and 

pulse width. 

QTuC3 • 08:30 

XUV femtosecond pulse width characterization 

with a laser-based terahertz-field-driven 

streak camera, Bernd Schütte 1 , Ulrike Frühling 1 , 

Roland Kalms 1 , Marek Wieland 1 , Armin Azima 1 , 

Markus Drescher 1 ; 1 Uni Hamburg, Germany. We 

have developed a light-field-driven XUV streak 

camera which relies on a terahertz field generated 

by optical rectification. With its time resolution in 

the femtosecond range, it bridges the gap between 

conventional and attosecond streak cameras. 

JTuA2 • 08:30 Invited 

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon 

Detectors, Karl Berggren 1 , Vikas Anant 1 , Burm 

Baek 3 , Eric Dauler 2 , Xiaolong Hu 1 , Andrew Kerman 

2 , Francesco Marsili 1 , Richard P. Mirin 3 , Richard 

Molnar 2 , Sae Woo Nam 3 , Faraz Najafi 1 , Martin 

Stevens 3 , Franco Wong 1 , Tian Zhong 1 ; 1 Department 

of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 

MIT, USA; 2 MIT Lincoln Lab, USA; 3 NIST, USA. 

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors 

show exceptional performance for quantum 

information processing, but several developments 

promise further progress, including new signalamplification 

methods and efficient devices in 

the mid-infrared. 

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CLEO: 2011 • 1–6 May 2011

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CLEO: Science 

& Innovations 

JOINT 


08:00–09:45 

CTuA • Ultrafast Noise and 

Phase-Locking 

Greg Taft, KM Labs, Inc., USA, 

Presider 

CTuA1 • 08:00 

Passively Phase-Locked Er:fiber Technology, 

Günther Krauss 1 , David Fehrenbacher 1 , Daniele 

Brida 1,2 , Claudius Riek 1 , Alexander Sell 1 , Rupert 

Huber 1 , Alfred Leitenstorfer 1 ; 1 Univ. of Konstanz, 

Germany; 2 Politecnico di Milano, Italy. We demonstrate 

a passively phase-locked seed source for 

fs-Er:fiber technology with CEO-frequency set 

to zero. The broadband output is reamplified and 

phaselocking is monitored by means of an f-2f 

interferometer. 

08:00–09:15 

CTuB • Fiber Plasmons and 

Vortices 

Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel- 

Lucent, USA, Presider 

CTuB1 • 08:00 

Long-range fiber-transmission of photons with 

orbital angular momentum, Nenad Bozinovic 1 , 

Poul Kristensen 2 , Siddharth Ramachandran 1 ; 

1 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston Univ., 

USA; 2 OFS-Fitel, Denmark. We show propagation 

of light possessing orbital angular momentum 

over record fiber-lengths (~km) with minimal 

cross-talk (

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08:00–09:45 

CTuC • Mid Infrared Lasers 

Dan Wasserman, UMass Lowell, 

USA, Presider 

08:00–09:45 

ATuA • Airborne and Space Lidar 

Jinendra Ranka, DARPA, USA, 

Presider 

08:00–09:45 

QTuD • THz Metamaterials I 

Willie Padilla, Boston College, 

USA, Presider 

08:00–09:45 

CTuD • Applications of Optical 

Parametric Processes 

Shekhar Guha, AFRL, USA, 

Presider 

CTuC1 • 08:00 

Coherent combining of two quantum-cascade 

lasers in a Michelson cavity, Guillaume Bloom 1 , 

Christian Larat 1 , Eric Lallier 1 , Mathieu Carras 2 , 

Xavier Marcadet 2 ; 1 Thales Research and Technology, 

France; 2 Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, France. 

A Michelson type cavity has been developed to 

achieve coherent combining of two quantumcascade 

lasers emitting at 4.5 µm. We report a cw 

combining efficiency of 85% with a good beam 

quality (M 2 < 1.4). 

ATuA1 • 08:00 Tutorial 

Upcoming NASA Earth Science Decadal Missions: 

ICESat II and DESDynI, Matthew McGill 1 , 

Thorsten Markus 1 ; 1 NASA Goddard Space Flight 

Center, USA. This presentation will summarize 

the motivation for space-based laser altimetry, the 

science requirements for ICESat-2, and the current 

concept for the ICESat-2 mission. ICESat-2 will 

employ a photon-counting measurement approach 

using a high-repetition rate laser in a multi-beam 

configuration. 

QTuD1 • 08:00 

Diffractive coupling engineered sharp LC 

resonance in terahertz metamaterials, Ranjan 

Singh 1,2 , Carsten Rockstuhl 3 , Weili Zhang 1 ; 1 School 

of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma 

State Univ., USA; 2 CINT, Los Alamos National 

Lab, USA; 3 Inst. of Condensed Matter Theory and 

Solid State Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität 

Jena, Germany. We show that the fundamental 

LC resonance has its highest quality factor for 

a period matching the resonance wavelength in 

the substrate material. This occurs due to the 

simultaneous excitation of the lowest order diffraction 

mode. 

CTuD1 • 08:00 

Optical Parametric Generation of Mid-Infrared 

Picosecond Pulses Beyond 6 microns in CdSiP 2 , 

Olivier Chalus 1 , Adolfo Esteban-Martin 1 , Peter G. 

Schunemann 2 , Kevin T. Zawilski 2 , Jens Biegert 1,3 , 

Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh 1,3 ; 1 Nonlinear Optics, ICFO- 

Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, USA; 2 BAE Systems, 

USA; 3 Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis 

Avancats (ICREA), Spain. We report parametric 

generation of near- and mid-infrared picosecond 

pulses at 100 kHz in CdSiP 2 pumped at 1.064 microns, 

providing 154 mW of idler at 6.204 microns 

and 1.16 W of signal at 1.282 microns. 


CTuC2 • 08:15 

Temperature Dependence of the Transparency 

Current Density in Mid-Infrared Quantum 

Cascade Lasers, Yamac Dikmelik 1 , Jacob B. 

Khurgin 1 , Matthew Escarra 2 , Peter Q. Liu 2 , Claire 

F. Gmachl 2 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Johns Hopkins Univ., USA; 2 Electrical Engineering, 

Princeton Univ., USA. We analyze the temperature 

dependence of the transparency current density in 

mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers and assess 

its contribution to measured threshold current 

density for a laser with low voltage defect. 

CTuC3 • 08:30 

Single-Mode Interband Cascade Lasers with 

Coupled Ring Resonators, Jerry R. Meyer 1 , 

William W. Bewley 1 , Chadwick L. Canedy 1 , Chul 

Soo Kim 1 , Mijin Kim 1 , James R. Lindle 1 , Joshua 

Abell 1 , Igor Vurgaftman 1 ; 1 Naval Research Lab, 

USA. We report Fabry-Perot interband cascade 

lasers coupled to rectangular ring resonators 

that produce up to 5 mW of cw power in a single 

spectral mode at 3 C. The tuning range at 3-28 C 

exceeds 8 nm. 

Dr. Matthew McGill is a research scientist at 

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. McGill 

has developed multiple laser remote sensing 

instruments, primarily for use on high-altitude 

research aircraft. He is currently serving as Instrument 

Scientist for the ICESat-2 mission, where his 

role is to ensure that the science requirements for 

the mission are met by the instrument implementation 

being developed. As part of that role, Dr. 

McGill has also been responsible for developing an 

airborne demonstrator instrument to validate the 

proposed ICESat-2 measurement concept. 

QTuD2 • 08:15 

Temperature tunable behavior of planar 

terahertz metamaterials fabricated on bulk 

strontium titanate substrates, Ranjan Singh 1 , Antoinette 

J. Taylor 1 , Hou-Tong Chen 1 ; 1 CINT, Los Alamos 

National Lab, USA. We demonstrate thermal 

tuning of the inductive capacitive (LC) resonance 

in terahertz metamaterials made up of gold splitring 

resonator (SRR) arrays on ferroelectric bulk 

Strontium Titanate (STO) substrates. 

QTuD3 • 08:30 

Time- and Frequency-Domain Imaging of 

Dynamics in Terahertz Meta-Atoms, Kazunori 

Serita 2 , Juraj Darmo 1,2 , Daniel Dietze 1 , Iwao 

Kawayama 2 , Hironaru Murakami 2 , Karl Unterrainer 

1 , Masayoshi Tonouchi 2 ; 1 Photonics Inst., 

Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria; 2 Inst. of Laser 

Technology, Osaka Univ., Japan. Visualization 

of the dynamics of the electromagnetic resonators 

used to build metamaterial is presented. 

Observed data provides detailed information on 

the interaction between free space radiation and 

the resonator. 

CTuD2 • 08:15 

Picosecond mid-IR optical parametric amplifier 

based on GaS 0.4 Se 0.6 pumped by a Nd:YAG 

laser system at 1064 nm, Kentaro Miyata 1 , Georgi 

Marchev 1 , Aleksey Tyazhev 1 , Vladimir Panyutin 1 , 

Valentin Petrov 1 ; 1 Max-Born-Inst., Germany. Operation 

of a GaS 0.4 Se 0.6 optical parametric amplifier 

is demonstrated in the 5-11 µm tuning range with 

maximum energies ~10 µJ for sub-30-ps pulse 

durations and performance ~3 times better than 

with pure GaSe. 

CTuD3 • 08:30 

Cascaded Traveling-Wave Phase-Sensitive Optical 

Parametric Amplifiers, Gideon Alon 1 , Oo-Kaw 

Lim 1 , Amar Bhagwat 1 , Chao-Hsiang Chen 1 , Michael 

Vasilyev 2 , Prem Kumar 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering 

and Computer Science, Northwestern Univ., USA; 

2 

Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, 

USA. We demonstrate a two-stage system of 

cascaded traveling-wave phase-sensitive optical 

parametric amplifiers, achieving 10 dB secondstage 

amplification (5 dB deamplification) on top 

of the amplification (deamplification) provided 

by the first stage. 

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08:00–09:45 

CTuE • High Laser Power 

Material and Devices 

Stavros Demos, LLNL, USA, 

Presider 

08:00–09:45 

CTuF • Novel Optofluidic 

Applications and Optofluidic 

Energy 

Holger Schmidt, Univ. of 

California at Santa Cruz, USA, 

Presider 

08:00–09:45 

ATuB • Spectroscopic 

Technologies for Tissue 

Diagnostics 

Jessica Ramella-Roman, The 

Catholic Univ. of America, USA, 

Presider 

CTuE1 • 08:00 

Fabrication and Characterization of Ultralarge 

Core Size (>100μm) Kagome Fiber for 

Laser Power Handling, Yu Cheng 1 , Y. Y. Wang 1 , 

F. Gerôme 2 , G. Humbert 2 , J. M. Blondy 2 , F. Benabid 

1 ; 1 Centre for Photonics & Photonic Materials, 

Department of Physics, Univ. of Bath, UK, 2 Xlim 

- UMR 6172 Université de Limoges/CNRS, France. 

Kagome fibers were fabricated with core size larger 

100μm. The fibers combined low loss over broad 

transmission and with small bend loss, making 

it a potential solution for high power and fast 

laser delivery. 

CTuF1 • 08:00 

Optofluidic lock-in spectroscopy on a chip, 

Wuzhou Song 1 , Demetri Psaltis 1 ; 1 Optics Lab, 

EPFL, Switzerland. We introduce for the first 

time the implementation of optofluidic lock-in 

spectroscopy of sub-nanoliter analyte on a microfluidic 

chip. Two methods, spatial modulation and 

pneumatic modulation with integrated optofluidic 

modulator, were demonstrated. 

ATuB1 • 08:00 Invited 

Quantitative, Wide-field Characterization of 

Tissue Optical Properties and Chromophores 

with Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI), 

David Cuccia; Modulated Imaging, Inc., USA. 

This talk will present an overview of Spatial Frequency 

Domain Imaging (SFDI), a non-invasive, 

non-contact optical imaging method based on 

structured light projection, for quantitative 2D 

and 3D mapping of tissue optical properties and 

chromophores. 

CTuE2 • 08:15 

Energy-Scalable Pulsed Mid-Infrared Source 

Using Orientation Patterned GaAs, Douglas C. 

French 1 , Rita Peterson 2 , Igor Jovanovic 1 ; 1 Mechanical 

and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State 

Univ., USA; 2 AFRL/RYJW, Air Force Research 

Lab, USA. We demonstrate a five-fold increase 

in the energy of mid-infrared pulses from an 

optical parametric oscillator by amplification in 

an optical parametric amplifier using OPGaAs. 

Our approach represents an energy-scalable midinfrared 

pulse source. 

CTuE3 • 08:30 

The reduction of laser damage resistance of optical 

coatings to subpicosecond pulse trains under 

vacuum, Duy N. Nguyen 1 , Luke Emmert 1 , Wolfgang 

Rudolph 1 , Dinesh Patel 2 , Carmen Menoni 2 ; 1 Physics 

and Astronomy, Univ. of New Mexico, USA; 

2 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado 

State Univ., USA. Optical multilayer materials 

HfO 2 and SiO 2 exhibit subpicosecond laser damage 

thresholds of just 10 

CTuF2 • 08:15 

Waveguide Enabled Photo-Bio-Energy Production, 

Michael Kalontarov 1 , Bernardo Cordovez 1 , 

Erica E. Jung 1 , David Sinton 2 , David Erickson 1 ; 

1 

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell 

Univ., USA; 2 Mechanial Engineering, Univ. of Victoria, 

Canada. Utilization of the evanescent fields 

of waveguides can lead a thousandfold reduction 

in photobioreactor size. Here we demonstrate 

an optofluidic chip for the characterization of 

bacterial bio-fuel production and growth in an 

evanescent field. 

CTuF3 • 08:30 

Simultaneous Oxygenation and Flow using current 

modulation of VCSELs during Ischemia, 

Dene Ringuette 1 , Hart Levy 1,2 , Ofer Levi 1,2 ; 1 IBBME, 

Univ. of Toronto, Canada; 2 ECE, Univ. of Toronto, 

Canada. In this work we demonstrate simultaneous 

speckle contrast imaging and multispectral 

reflectance imaging with coherence modulated 

VCSEL illumination during cortical ischemia. The 

advantages of VCSELs for potable hemodynamic 

monitoring are discussed. 

ATuB2 • 08:30 

Use of spectroscopic imager for the assessment 

of optical properties and 3D reconstruction 

of biological media, Thu Ann Nguyen 1 , Jessica 

Ramella-Roman 1 ; 1 The Catholic Univ. of America, 

USA. We introduce an imaging system consisting 

of a modulated source and a spectroscopic imager. 

A Carre’ algorithm was used for the reconstruction 

of the material optical properties and 3D shape. 


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JOINT 

QTuA • Frontier Applications of 

Plasmonics—Continued 

QTuB • THz Generation and 

Pulse Diagnostics—Continued 

QTuC • Ultrafast X-rays— 

Continued 

JTuA • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications I: 

Overview—Continued 

industry and government, and has actively served 

the materials community in various capacities, 

including Material Research Society Meeting 

Chair (1997), Materials Research Society President 

(2000), AVS Electronic Materials and Processing 

Division Chair (1999), and Board of Trustees of the 

Gordon Research Conferences. In 2008, he served 

as Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on 

Plasmonics. Atwater has been honored by awards 

including the MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience 

in 2010; Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 

2010; Joop Los Fellowship from the Dutch Society 

for Fundamental Research on Matter in 2005, A.T. 

& T. Foundation Award, 1990; NSF Presidential 

Young Investigator Award, 1989; IBM Faculty 

Development Award, 1989-1990; Member, Bohmische 

Physical Society, 1990; IBM Postdoctoral 

Fellowship, 1987. 

QTuB4 • 08:45 

Single-Shot Multiple-Delay Crossed-Beam Spectral 

Interferometry for Measuring Extremely 

Complex Pulses, Jacob Cohen 1 , Pamela Bowlan 1 , 

Vikrant K. Chauhan 1 , Peter Vaughan 1 , Rick Trebino 

1 ; 1 Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA. We demonstrate 

a simple single-shot interference-based 

linear measurement technique for measuring the 

complete intensity and phase of extremely complex 

ultrashort laser pulses, achieving temporal resolution 

of ~130fs and temporal range of 120ps. 

QTuC4 • 08:45 

Partial-coherence colored-noise approach to 

model FEL pulse statistics, Thomas Pfeifer 1 , 

Yuhai Jiang 1 , Stefan Duesterer 2 , Robert Moshammer 

1 , Joachim Ullrich 1 ; 1 Max-Planck Inst. for 

Nuclear Physics, Germany; 2 Deutsches Elektronen- 

Synchrotron (DESY), Germany. An efficient 

numerical method allows to generate statistically 

representative sets of pulse shapes of free-electron 

lasers operating in the self-amplified spontaneous 

emission mode without detailed knowledge of the 

technical machine parameters. 

QTuA2 • 09:00 

Mid-infrared direct injection and sub-wavelength 

focusing of designer’s surface plasmons 

polaritons, Adel Bousseksou 1 , Jean-Philippe 

Tetienne 1 , Raffaele Colombelli 1 , Arthur Babuty 2 , 

Ioana Moldovan-Doyen 2 , Yannick De Wilde 2 , 

Gregoire Beaudoin 3 , Isabelle Sagnes 3 ; 1 IEF, CNRS/ 

Paris-Sud Univ., France; 2 Institut Langevin, ESPCI 

ParisTech, France; 3 Laboratoire de Photonique et 

de Nanostructures, France. Mid infra-red surface 

plasmons polaritons are directly excited in a metal/ 

air interface using a quantum cascade laser. We 

demonstrate bending and focusing of SPPs using 

a sub-wavelength metal patterning. 

QTuA3 • 09:15 

Demonstration of an Elliptical Plasmonic Lens 

Illuminated with Radially-Like Polarized Field, 

Gilad Lerman 1 , Avner Yanai 1 , Nissim Ben - Yosef 1 , 

Uriel Levy 1 ; 1 Applied physics, Hebrew Univ. of 

Jerusalem, Israel. We demonstrate an elliptical 

plasmonic lens illuminated by a “radially-like” 

polarized field. The surface plasmons interference 

generates a structured pattern that can be used 

in structured illumination microscopy, particles 

trapping and sensing. 

QTuB5 • 09:00 

Demonstration of Terahertz Generation by 

Mixing Passively Q-Switched Dual-Frequency 

Nd:YLF Laser Pulses, Pu Zhao 1 , Srinivasa Ragam 1 , 

Yujie J. Ding 1 , Ioulia B. Zotova 2 ; 1 Electrical & Computer 

Engineering, Lehigh Univ., USA; 2 ArkLight, 

USA. After reducing timing jitter between each 

pair of dual-frequency pulses generated by a 

passively Q-switched laser by 20 times, we have 

successfully generated THz pulses based on 

frequency mixing. 

QTuC5 • 09:00 Invited 

Powerful attosecond pulses from relativistic 

mirrors, Matthew Zepf 1 ; 1 Physics and Astronomy, 

Queen’s Univ. Belfast, UK. Relatvistic Mirrors are 

an extremely promising route to generating high 

power attosecond radiation pulses in the XUV. 

Different approaches (Oscillating and Flying 

Mirror) will be discussed both theoretically and 

experimentally. 

JTuA3 • 09:00 

Fast quantum dot single photon source triggered 

at telecommunications wavelength, Kelley 

Rivoire 1 , Sonia Buckley 1 , Arka Majumdar 1 , Hyochul 

Kim 2 , Pierre Petroff 2 , Jelena Vuckovic 1 ; 1 Stanford 

Univ., USA; 2 Univ. of California Santa Barbara, 

USA. We demonstrate a 300 MHz quantum dot 

single photon source at 900 nm triggered by a 

telecommunications wavelength laser. The quantum 

dot is excited by on-chip-generated second 

harmonic radiation, resonantly enhanced by a 

photonic nanocavity. 


QTuB6 • 09:15 

Molecular Orientation and Alignment by Resonant 

Single-Cycle THz Fields, Sharly Fleischer 1 , 

Yan Zhou 1 , Robert W. Field 1 , Keith A. Nelson 1 ; 

1 

Chemistry, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA. 

Molecular orientation is now feasible through 

the interaction of gas phase polar molecules with 

intense single-cycle THz fields. We explore the 

effects of resonant multi-rotational level excitation 

on the molecular angular distribution. 

JTuA4 • 09:15 

Polarization entangled state measurement on a 

chip, Linda Sansoni 1 , Fabio Sciarrino 1,2 , Giuseppe 

Vallone 3,1 , Paolo Mataloni 1,2 , Andrea Crespi 4,5 , 

Roberta Ramponi 4,5 , Roberto Osellame 4,5 ; 1 Dipartimento 

di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 

Italy; 2 Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Consiglio 

Nazionale delle Ricerche (INO-CNR), Italy; 

3 

Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi Enrico 

Fermi, Italy; 4 Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, 

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), 

Italy; 5 Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, 

Italy. We report the realization of an integrated 

beam splitter able to support polarization-encoded 

qubits. Using this device, we demonstrate quantum 

interference with polarization-entangled states and 

singlet state projection. 

QTuA4 • 09:30 

Piezopotential tuned Single ZnO Micro Nanowire 

Photodetector, Qing Yang 1,2 , Zhonglin Wang 1 ; 

1 

School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia 

Inst. of Technology, USA; 2 Key Lab of Modern 

Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang Univ., China. 

We demonstrate the piezoelectric effect on the 

responsivity of a metal-semiconductor-metal ZnO 

micro-nanowire photodetector. Piezo-phototronic 

effect can enhance the detection sensitivity more 

than fivefold for pW levels light detection. 

QTuB7 • 09:30 

Two-dimensional Multi-wave Mixing with 

High-field THz Transients in InSb, Bernhard 

Mayer 1 , Friederike Junginger 1 , Sebastian Mährlein 1 , 

Christian Schmidt 1 , Olaf Schubert 1,2 , Alexander 

Sell 1 , Alexej Pashkin 1 , Alfred Leitenstorfer 1 , Rupert 

Huber 1,2 ; 1 Department of Physics and Center for 

Applied Photonics, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany; 

2 

Current address: Department of Physics, Univ. 

of Regensburg, Germany. Strong 4- and 6-wavemixing 

is detected electro-optically when two 

multi-THz fields of 5 MV/cm interact in InSb. 

These processes are mediated by 2-photon interband 

transitions. A non-collinear geometry paves 

the way for background-free measurements. 

QTuC6 • 09:30 

Spectral Linewidth Measurement of an Injection-Seeded 

Transient 18.9 nm Soft X-Ray Laser, 

David Alessi 1 , Limin Meng 2 , Yong Wang 1 , Olivier 

Guilbaud 3 , Mark Berrill 1 , Scott R. Domingue 1 , Dale 

H. Martz 1 , Brad M. Luther 1 , D. Joyeux 4 , S. De 

Rossi 4 , Annie Klisnick 2 , Jorge Rocca 1 ; 1 Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Colorado State Univ., USA; 

2 

ISMO, Univ. Paris-Sud 11, France; 3 LPGP, Univ. 

Paris-Sud 11, France; 4 LCFIO, Institut d’Optique- 

Graduate School, France. The linewidth of an 

injection-seeded 18.9nm molybdenum soft x-ray 

laser (SXRL) was measured to be significantly 

wider than seeded optical field ionization SXRLs 

that use gaseous targets, an advantage for the 

development of sub-picosecond SXRLs. 

JTuA5 • 09:30 

Time-Bin Entanglement Distribution on a 

Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Network, 

Warren Grice 1 , Ryan S. Bennink 1 , Philip Evans 1 , 

Travis Humble 1 , Raphael Pooser 1 , Jason Schaake 2 , 

Brian Williams 2 ; 1 Computational Sciences and Engineering, 

Oak Ridge National Lab, USA; 2 Physics, 

Univ. of Tennessee, USA. We describe a scheme 

for distributing time-bin entangled photons 

to multiple pairs of clients. With clients linked 

through the strong spectral correlations between 

the photons, a single down-conversion source can 

serve many clients simultaneously. 

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CTuA • Ultrafast Noise and 

Phase-Locking—Continued 

CTuA4 • 08:45 

Attosecond-resolution timing jitter characterization 

of Yb-fiber lasers in stretched-pulse and 

self-similar regimes, Youjian Song 1 , Kwangyun 

Jung 1 , Hyoji Kim 1 , Jungwon Kim 1 ; 1 KAIST, Republic 

of Korea. The timing jitter characterization of 

80-MHz mode-locked Yb-fiber lasers in stretchedpulse 

and self-similar regimes shows the rms 

integrated jitter of 0.86 fs and 4.2 fs [integrated 

from 10 kHz to 40 MHz (Nyquist frequency)], 

respectively. 

CTuB • Fiber Plasmons and 

Vortices—Continued 

JTuB • Joint Symposium on 

Semiconductor Ultraviolet LEDs 

and Lasers: Semiconductor 

Near-Ultraviolet Lasers and 

LEDs—Continued 

JTuB3 • 08:45 

UV Pump-THz Probe Study of Mechanisms 

Limiting Luminescence from Nanoscale Compositionally 

Inhomogeneous AlGaN, Grace D. 

Metcalfe 1 , Gregory A. Garrett 1 , Paul Rotella 1 , Anand 

V. Sampath 1 , Jonathan Wright 1 , Hongen Shen 1 , 

Michael Wraback 1 , Timothy M. Sweeney 2 , Hailin 

Wang 2 ; 1 Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, 

U.S. Army Research Lab, USA; 2 Department 

of Physics, Univ. of Oregon, USA. We present 

ultraviolet pump-terahertz probe and photoconductive 

decay measurements on nanoscale 

compositionally inhomogeneous AlGaN. Results 

compared to time-resolved photoluminescence 

measurements indicate luminescence is limited 

by hole trapping. 

CTuA5 • 09:00 

Sub-femtosecond timing jitter optical pulse 

trains from mode-locked Er-fiber lasers, Tae 

Keun Kim 1 , Youjian Song 1 , Kwangyun Jung 1 , Chang 

Hee Nam 1 , Jungwon Kim 1 ; 1 KAIST, Republic of 

Korea. We demonstrate sub-femtosecond timing 

jitter optical pulse trains generated from passively 

mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers. The measured 

rms timing jitter is 0.84 fs integrated from 10 kHz 

to 40.6 MHz (Nyquist frequency). 

CTuB4 • 09:00 

Conical modes in an optical fiber: the cut-off 

effect, Misha Sumetsky 1 ; 1 OFS Labs, USA. The 

transmission spectrum of the recently discovered 

localized conical modes in an optical fiber exhibits 

a cut-off effect at the wavelength independent 

of the local fiber radius. This effect is observed 

experimentally and explained theoretically. 

JTuB4 • 09:00 Invited 

Near-UV LEDs on Sapphire Using Single Crystal 

AlN-Buffer, Yasuo Ohba 1 ; 1 Corporate Research 

& Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Japan. 

Near-UV LEDs fabricated on sapphire using 

high-temperature-grown single crystal AlN-buffer 

showed an internal efficiency of as high as 72% 

at 383 nm, owing to the high crystal quality. The 

growth procedure will be also referred. 

CTuA6 • 09:15 

40 GHz AlGaInAs/InP 1.55 μm Passively 

Mode-Locked Laser with Low Divergence Angle 

and Timing Jitter, Lianping Hou 1 , Jehan Akbar 1 , 

Mohsin Haji 1 , Piotr Stolarz 1 , Rafal Dylewicz 1 , 

Anthony Kelly 1 , Marc Sorel 1 , John Marsh 1 , Ann 

Bryce 1 , Bocang Qiu 2 ; 1 Univ. of Glasgow, UK; 2 Intense 

Ltd., UK. A novel 40 GHz passively mode-locked 

AlGaInAs/InP 1.55 μm laser was demonstrated 

with low divergence angle (12.7 × 26.3), timing 

jitter of 440 fs (100 Hz - 100 MHz), and RF linewidth 

of 25 kHz. 


CTuA7 • 09:30 

Noise Performance of Time Stretch System with 

Distributed and Discrete Amplifiers, Salih K. Kalyoncu 

1 , Yuewang Huang 1 , En-Kuang Tien 1 , Enver 

Adas 1 , Dogukan Yildirim 1 , Ozdal Boyraz 1 ; 1 EECS, 

Univ. o fCalifornia at Irvine, USA. We analyzed 

the noise performance of time stretched analog to 

digital converter with both lumped and distributed 

amplification cases. We show that distributed 

amplification provides up to 16dB higher SNR 

corresponding to ~2.5 bit higher resolution. 

JTuB5 • 09:30 

UV Light Emitter on Bulk Semipolar (11-22) 

GaN, Theeradetch Detchprohm 1 , Liang Zhao 1 , 

Mingwei Zhu 1 , Christoph Stark 1 , Michael Debiccari 

1 , Shi You 1 , Wenting Hou 1 , Ed Preble 2 , Tanya 

Paskova 2 , Keith Evans 2 , Christian Wetzel 1 ; 1 Future 

Chips Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 

USA; 2 Kyma Technologies, Inc, USA. A 392 nm 

GaInN-based UV light emitter has been demonstrated 

by homoepitaxial growth technique aiming 

to improve quantum efficiency by crystalline 

perfection of the heterostructures on naturally 

stable semipolar (11-22) bulk GaN. 




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CTuC • Mid Infrared Lasers— 

Continued 

ATuA • Airborne and Space 

Lidar—Continued 

QTuD • THz 

Metamaterials I—Continued 

CTuD • Applications of Optical 

Parametric Processes— 

Continued 

CTuC4 • 08:45 

High Power Mid-Infrared In-plane DBR laser, 

Chi Yang 1 , Ron Kaspi 1 , Gregory C. Dente 2 , Michael 

L. Tilton 3 , Joseph R. Chavez 3 , Andrew Ongstad 1 ; 1 Air 

Force Research Lab, USA; 2 GCD Associates, USA; 

3 

Boeing Defense and Space Group, USA. An optically 

pumped in-plane DBR mid-infrared laser is 

described. A quasi continuous-wave power of ~2.8 

Watts is obtained at ~3.59 µm that is contained 

within a spectral width of ~5 nm. 

QTuD4 • 08:45 

Three-wave mixing in microwave nonlinear 

metamaterial, Da Huang 1 , Ekaterina Poutrina 1 , 

Alec Rose 1 , Stéphane Larouche 1 , David R. Smith 1 ; 

1 

ECE Department, Duke Univ., USA. We present 

a quantitative analysis of a three-wave mixing 

process in a microwave nonlinear metamaterial 

showing a good agreement between the analytical 

predictions and the experiment. Strong resonant 

nonlinear response is observed. 

CTuD4 • 08:45 

1.5 μm dual-frequency pico-second optical 

parametric generator pumped by a Nd-doped 

vanadate bounce laser, Katsuhiko Miyamoto 1 , 

Masaki Koichi 1 , Shuto Ujita 1 , Takashige Omatsu 1 ; 

1 

Chiba Univ., Japan. We demonstrated 1.5μm dualfrequency 

optical parametric generation from 

tandem PPSLT crystals pumped by a pico-second 

Nd-doped vanadate bounce laser. The signal frequency 

was controlled in the range 1.57-1.63μm. 

A signal power of 1.54W was achieved. 

CTuC5 • 09:00 

430-fs pulses from a SESAM mode-locked 

GaSb disk laser emitting at 2 µm, Jukka-Pekka 

Alanko 1 , Christian Grebing 1 , Jonna Paajaste 1 , Riku 

Koskinen 1 , Soile Suomalainen 1 , Antti Härkönen 1 , 

Günter Steinmeyer 2,1 , Mircea Guina 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics 

Research Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technology, 

Finland; 2 Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Optics and 

Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany. We report 

the generation of 430 fs pulses from a passively 

mode-locked semiconductor disk laser operating 

at around 2 µm. The gain mirror and the semiconductor 

saturable absorber mirror comprised 

InGaSb/GaSb quantum wells. 

ATuA2 • 09:00 

Performance of the GLAS Space Lidar Receiver 

through its Seven-Year Space Mission, Xiaoli 

Sun 1 , Peggy L. Jester 1 , James B. Abshire 1 , Edward 

S. Chang 1 ; 1 NASA GSFC, USA. We report the 

receiver performance and key components’ 

characteristics of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter 

System (GLAS) on ICESat after seven years in 

space as monitored during the mission and tests 

at the end of mission. 

QTuD5 • 09:00 

Extremely High Refractive Index Terahertz 

Metamaterial, Seung Hoon Lee 1 , Muhan Choi 1 , 

Yushin Kim 1 , Seung Beom Kang 2 , Jonghwa Shin 3 , 

Min Hwan Kwak 2 , Kwang-Young Kang 2 , Yong-Hee 

Lee 3 , Namkyoo Park 4 , Bumki Min 1 ; 1 Department 

of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Inst. 

of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of 

Korea; 2 Electronics and Telecommunications Research 

Inst. (ETRI), Republic of Korea; 3 Department 

of Physics, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and 

Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea; 4 School 

of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 

Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea. We 

demonstrate extremely high indices of refraction 

from large-area, freestanding, flexible terahertz 

metamaterials. The highest index of refraction of 

33.22 is obtained from a multilayer metamaterial 

at a frequency of 0.851 THz. 

CTuD5 • 09:00 Invited 

Doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator: 

a generic transmitter architecture for DIAL, 

Myriam Raybaut 1 , Antoine Godard 1 , Ajmal K. 

Mohamed 1 , Michel Lefebvre 1 ; 1 DMPH/SLM, Onera, 

The French Aerospace Lab, France. Entangled cavity 

doubly resonant optical parametric oscillators are 

able to provide high peak power, single longitudinal 

mode emission, with wide tuning range and 

high frequency stability, which make them well 

suited for multi-specie DIAL. 


CTuC6 • 09:15 

GaSb-based high-power single-spatial-mode 

lasers at 2.0 µm, Kale Franz 1 , Clifford Frez 1 , 

Jianfeng Chen 2 , Yueming Qiu 1 , Daniel V. Freilich 1 , 

Leon Sterengas 2 , Gregory L. Belenky 2 , Siamak 

Forouhar 1 ; 1 Jet Propulsion Lab, USA; 2 State Univ. 

of New York - Stony Brook, USA. We report single 

spatial mode diode lasers operating near 2.05 µm 

with room-temperature continuous-wave output 

power exceeding 100 mW. At 20 C, threshold currents 

were near 25 mA (320 A/cm 2 ). 

ATuA3 • 09:15 

Cryosphere and Biomass Measurements using 

a Photon-Counting 3D Imaging Lidar, John J. 

Degnan 1 , Roman Machan 1 , Edward Leventhal 1 , 

Gabriel Jodor 1 , Christopher Field 1 , J. Marcos Sirota 1 ; 

1 

Sigma Space Corporation, USA. We report on 3D 

images, obtained with our ultracompact 100 beam 

photon-counting lidar, of various types of terrain 

in Greenland and Antarctica and of calibrated 

forested areas. 

QTuD6 • 09:15 

Metamaterial Based Terahertz Detector, Andrew 

Strikwerda 1 , Hu Tao 2 , Emil A. Kadlec 3 , Kebin Fan 4 , 

Willie J. Padilla 5 , Xin Zhang 4 , Eric A. Shaner 3 , 

Richard D. Averitt 1 ; 1 Physics, Boston Univ., USA; 

2 

Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Univ., USA; 3 Sandia 

National Laboratories, USA; 4 Mechanical Engineering, 

Boston Univ., USA; 5 Physics, Boston College, 

USA. We present a metamaterial based terahertz 

detector. The detector design, which combines 

metamaterials and MEMs, is frequency selective, 

and we have fabricated and tested detectors at 

95 GHz and 693 GHz which function at room 

temperature and pressure. 

CTuC7 • 09:30 

Nanoparticle-Enhanced Tunnel Junctions for 

Reduced Free-Carrier Absorption in Mid-IR 

Lasers, Adam M. Crook 1 , Hari P. Nair 1 , Seth R. 

Bank 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, The 

Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. We present tunnel 

junctions, employing semimetallic nanoparticles, 

to reduce optical loss in mid-IR lasers. Proofof-concept 

results demonstrate low-resistance 

tunnel junctions with low p-doping, suitable for 

integration into mid-IR diode lasers. 

ATuA4 • 09:30 

Development of an Airborne Lidar Surface 

Topography Simulator, Anthony W. Yu 1 , David 

J. Harding 1 , Michael Krainak 1 , James B. Abshire 1 , 

Xiaoli Sun 1 , John F. Cavanaugh 1 , Susan R. Valett 1 , 

Luis A. Ramos-Izquierdo 1 ; 1 NASA Goddard Space 

Flight Ctr., USA. In this paper we will discuss our 

development progress on a non-scanning, swath 

mapping laser altimetry system. This paper will 

discuss the system approach, enabling technologies 

and instrument concept for the swath mapping 

laser altimetry. 

QTuD7 • 09:30 

Magnetic properties of asymmetric double-wire 

structures, Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin 1 , Arkadi 

Chipouline 1 , Jörg Petschulat 1 , Uwe Hübner 2 , Falk 

Eilenberger 1 , Frank Setzpfandt 1 , Thomas Pertsch 1 , 

Andreas Tünnermann 1 ; 1 Inst. of Applied Physics, 

Friedrich Schiller Univ., Germany; 2 Inst. of Photonic 

Technology, Germany. Using the multipole approach 

we considered the dynamics of plasmonic 

oscillations in asymmetric double-wire metamaterials. 

Magnetization of materials is defined by 

the position of the largest wire with respect to the 

exciting electric field. 

CTuD6 • 09:30 

The Effect of Pump Coherence on the Efficient 

Generation of CW Pumped Supercontinuum, 

Edmund J. Kelleher 1 , John Travers 1 , Sergei Popov 1 , 

J. R. Taylor 1 ; 1 Physics, Imperial College London, 

UK. We present results on the effect of pump 

bandwidth on the efficiency of generation of 

continuous-wave supercontinua. We show that 

the broadest supercontinuum is obtained for 

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Material and Devices— 

Continued 

CTuE4 • 08:45 

New Mid-IR Gain Media Based on Transition 

Metal Doped II-VI Ternary - Quaternary 

Compounds and Glassy Composites, Dmitry 

Martyshkin 1 , Jonathan Goldstein 2 , Renato Camata 1 , 

Vladimir V. Fedorov 1 , Sergey B. Mirov 1 ; 1 Physics, 

Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; 2 Materials 

and Manufacturing, Air Force Research lab, USA. 

We report on crystal-field engineering of solidstate 

laser gain materials based on new transition 

metals (Iron and Chromium) doped II-VI Ternary 

(Quaternary) and Cr 2+ glassy composite materials 

for mid-IR tunable laser applications. 

CTuE5 • 09:00 

Optical Emission from Fused Silica Ejecta 

Following Localized Exposure to Nanosecond 

Laser Pulses, Rajesh Raman 1 , Raluca A. Negres 1 , 

Stavros G. Demos 1 ; 1 Lawrence Livermore National 

Lab, USA. We investigate the emission of ejected 

material during laser ablation of fused silica. The 

kinetic properties of the ejected particles are also 

resolved. The results help better understand the 

transient state of the ejected material. 

CTuF • Novel Optofluidic 

Applications and Optofluidic 

Energy—Continued 

CTuF4 • 08:45 

Micro-fluidic Flow Switching by Using an Optical 

Beam, Janet W. Lou 1 , Carl A. Villarruel 2 , Ross 

T. Schermer 2 ; 1 Mission Systems Division, Global 

Defense Technology & Systems, Inc., USA; 2 Optical 

Sciences Division, U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA. 

We report on the application of an optical beam to 

redirect sheathed micro-fluidic flow without direct 

interaction with the sample. The hydrodynamic 

properties of the sheath are locally modified resulting 

in a sample location shift. 

CTuF5 • 09:00 Invited 

Single Exposure Fabrication and Manipulation 

of 3D Hydrogel Cell Microcarriers, Sunghoon 

Kwon 1,2 , Lily N. Kim 1,2 , Sung-Eun Choi 1,2 , Junhoi 

Kim 1,2 , Hyoki Kim 1,2 ; 1 Seoul National Univ., 

Republic of Korea; 2 Inter-Univ. Semiconductor 

Center, Republic of Korea. We present a simple 

and high-throughput method for fabricating freefloating 

hydrogel cell microcarriers using single 

exposure UV patterning. We also demonstrate 

magnetic manipulation of the free-floating cell 

microcarriers. 

ATuB • Spectroscopic 

Technologies for Tissue 

Diagnostics—Continued 

ATuB3 • 08:45 

Theoretical Analysis of a Technique for Broadband 

Optical Property Estimation in Two-Layer 

Tissue, Du Le 1,2 , Quanzeng Wang 1 , Jessica Ramella- 

Roman 2 , Josh Pfefer 1 ; 1 CDRH, Food and Drug 

Administration, USA; 2 Biomedical Engineering, 

Catholic Univ. of America, USA. Our data processing 

algorithms for determination of optical properties 

in two-layer tissue from broadband reflectance 

are evaluated. By combining Monte Carlo, neural 

network and spectral fitting approaches, accurate 

estimates can be produced. 

ATuB4 • 09:00 Invited 

Diffuse Spectroscopy with Very High Collection 

Efficiency, Martin B. van der Mark 1 , Adrien 

Desjardins 1 ; 1 Minimally Invasive Healthcare, 

Philips Research, Netherlands. Light from a supercontinuum 

source is spectrally dispersed, coded 

and recombined before illuminating a turbid 

medium. In this way, spectroscopic diffuse optical 

imaging of the medium of very high light collection 

efficiency is possible. 

CTuE6 • 09:15 

High Fidelity Large Aperture Periodically Poled 

Rb:KTiOPO 4 for High Energy Frequency Conversion, 

Andrius Zukauskas 1 , Nicky Thilmann 1 , 

Valdas Pasiskevicius 1 , Fredrik Laurell 1 , Carlota Canalias 

1 ; 1 Laser Physics, KTH (Royal Inst. of Technology), 

Sweden. We demonstrate periodic poling of 

5 mm thick Rb-doped KTiOPO 4 crystals at room 

temperature. The ferroelectric domain grating is 

shown to be uniform and homogeneous across the 

whole crystal aperture. 


CTuE7 • 09:30 

Measurement of Wavefront Distortions Resulting 

from Incidence of High-Power 2 μm Laser 

Light, Christina Willis 1 , Joshua D. Bradford 1 , Lawrence 

Shah 1 , Martin Richardson 1 ; 1 CREOL/UCF, 

USA. Wavefront distortions induced in various 

silica samples by a 2 μm thulium fiber laser were 

measured. Absorption of silica at 2 μm makes a 

full characterization of thermal lensing critical 

for high power applications. 

CTuF6 • 09:30 

Evanescent Cultivation of Cyanobacteria for 

Bioenergy, Matthew Ooms 1 , David Erickson 2 , 

David Sinton 1 ; 1 Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of 

Victoria, Canada; 2 Sibley School of Mechanical and 

Aerospace Engineering, Cornell Univ., USA. A novel 

approach to cultivating cyanobacteria is presented. 

This approach utilizes near-field evanescent waves 

on the surface of waveguides to stimulate the 

thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria directly 

adjacent to the surface of the waveguide. 

ATuB5 • 09:30 

Physiologically relevant image reconstruction 

for small animals using optical diffusion 

tomography, Vaibhav Gaind 1 , Hsiao-Rho Tsai 1 , 

Kevin J. Webb 1 , Venkatesh Chelvam 2 , Philip S. Low 2 ; 

1 

Electrical Engineering, Purdue Univ., USA; 2 Chemistry, 

Purdue Univ., USA. We present experimental 

results for reconstructing physiologically relevant 

optical properties of a small animal using optical 

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11:00–12:45 

QTuE • Plasmonic Optical 

Devices 

Presider to Be Announced 

11:00–12:45 

QTuF • Frequency Combs 

and Carrier-Envelope Phase 

Phenomena 

Mark Foster, The Johns Hopkins 

Univ., USA, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

CTuG • Semiconductor 

Nanolasers 

Seth Bank, Univ. of Texas, USA, 

Presider 

11:00–12:45 

JTuC • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications II: 

Networks 

Thomas Chapuran, Telcordia, 

USA, Presider 

QTuE1 • 11:00 Invited 

Optical Trapping at the Ultimate Nanoscale in 

the Near-field of Plasmonic Antennas, Olivier J. 

Martin 1 ; 1 Nanophotonics & Metrology Lab, Swiss 

Fed. Inst. Technology, Switzerland. We study the 

trapping of nanoscopic objects in the near-field 

of plasmonic nanostructures and demonstrate 

experimentally that 10nm particles can be trapped 

in the 15nm gap of a dipole antenna. Applications 

for biosensing are discussed. 

QTuF1 • 11:00 

Frequency Comb Generation in Crystalline 

MgF 2 Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators, 

Tobias Herr 1 , Christine Wang 2 , Pascal Del’Haye 2 , 

Albert Schliesser 1,2 , Klaus Hartinger 1,3 , Ronald 

Holzwarth 2,3 , Tobias Kippenberg 1,2 ; 1 LPQM, EPFL, 

Switzerland; 2 MPQ, Germany; 3 Menlo Systems 

GmbH, Germany. We demonstrate frequency 

comb generation via four-wave-mixing in crystalline 

MgF 2 whispering-gallery mode resonators. 

More than 800 comb lines spaced by 43 GHz are 

observed. Second order autocorrelation is performed 

for time-domain characterization. 

CTuG1 • 11:00 Tutorial 

Nanoscale Lasers: How small can they go Shun 

L. Chuang 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 

Recent progress in both theory and experiment 

of nanoscale lasers will be presented. We will 

discuss metal-cavity nanolasers, their designs and 

performances, and how our theory explains the 

experimental data with a good agreement. 

JTuC1 • 11:00 Invited 

Tokyo QKD Network and the evolution to 

Secure Photonic Network, Masahide Sasaki 1 ; 

1 

Quantum ICT Group, National Inst. of Information 

and Communications Technology, Japan. A novel 

secure communication network with quantum key 

distribution in a metropolitan area is reported. Different 

QKD schemes are integrated to demonstrate 

secure TV conferencing over a distance 45km, key 

relay, and so on. 


QTuE2 • 11:30 

An Integrated Plasmonic Polarimeter, Farzaneh 

Afshinmanesh 1 , Justin S. White 1 , Wenshan Cai 1 , 

Mark Brongersma 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA. We 

present a plasmonic device that can determine 

the state of polarization of an incident light beam 

over a narrow wavelength band. The measurement 

results show 25 and 1.13 contrast ratio for linear 

and circular polarizations at 830nm. 

QTuF2 • 11:15 

Coherence properties of a mid-infrared frequency 

comb produced by a degenerate optical 

parametric oscillator, Alireza Marandi 1 , 

Nick C. Leindecker 1 , Robert L. Byer 1 , Konstantin 

Vodopyanov 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA. We show 

that a broadband mid-infrared frequency comb 

produced by a degenerate optical parametric 

oscillator is stable and phase locked to the pump. 

Moreover, the OPO can operate in two phase and 

two frequency states. 

QTuF3 • 11:30 

Green Enhancement Cavity for Frequency 

Comb Generation in the Extreme Ultraviolet, 

Birgitta Bernhardt 1 , Akira Ozawa 1 , Ioachim Pupeza 

1 , Andreas Vernaleken 1 , Yohei Kobayashi 2 , 

Ronald Holzwarth 1 , Ernst Fill 1 , Ferenc Krausz 1 , 

Theodor W. Hänsch 1 , Thomas Udem 1,3 ; 1 Max- 

Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany; 2 The 

Inst. for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan; 

3 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. Peak 

intensities > 2x10 13 W/cm 2 are generated in a green 

enhancement cavity en route to XUV frequency 

comb generation with unprecedented conversion 

efficiencies. Enhancement limitations in the green 

region are discussed for the first time. 

Shun Lien Chuang received the Ph. D. degree 

in EECS from MIT in 1983. He then joined the 

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where 

he is currently the MacClinchie Distinguished 

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

His research interest is on semiconductor 

nanophotonic devices. He is the author of Physics 

of Photonic Devices (second edition, 2009) and 

Physics of Optoelectronic Devices (first edition, 

1995), Wiley. He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE, and 

OSA. He received Engineering Excellence Award 

from OSA (2004), the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished 

Lecturer Award (2004-2006), the Streifer Scientific 

Achievement Award (2007), and the Humboldt 

Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (2008). 

JTuC2 • 11:30 Invited 

Full eavesdropping on a practical QKD system, 

Christian Kurtsiefer, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore. 

We present a successful attack on a practical 

QKD system based on a detector vulnerability, 

where 100% of the generated key is obtained without 

leaving traces in the error ratio between the 

legitimate communication partners. 

QTuE3 • 11:45 

High-throughput Fabrication of Plasmonic 

Nanoantenna Arrays Using Nanostencils for 

Spectroscopy and Biosensing, Serap Aksu 1,2 , 

Ahmet Yanik 2,3 , Ronen Adato 2,3 , Alp Artar 2,3 , Min 

Huang 2,3 , Hatice Altug 2,3 ; 1 Materials Science and 

Eng., Boston Univ., USA; 2 Photonics Center, Boston 

Univ., USA; 3 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Boston Univ., USA. We present a novel approach 

for high-throughput and high-resolution fabrication 

of infrared nanoantenna arrays with reusable 

nanostencils for vibrational spectroscopy. Optical 

responses of these antennas are identical to ones 

fabricated by EBL. 

QTuF4 • 11:45 

Second-order coherence of supercontinuum, 

Goëry Genty 1 , Minna Surakka 2 , Jari Turunen 2 , Ari 

Friberg 2,3 ; 1 Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland; 

2 

Univ. of Eastern Finland, Finland; 3 Aalto Univ., 

Finland. Using second-order coherence theory 

of nonstationary light we show that supercontinuum 

can be split into quasi-coherent and 

quasi-stationary parts. Our results opens the route 

for a universal definition of the coherence degree 

for broadband sources. 

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CTuH • Ultrafast Measurement 

Techniques 

Randy Bartels, Colorado State 

Univ., USA, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

CTuI • CW Fiber Sources 

John Minelly, Coherent, Inc., USA 

11:00–12:45 

JTuD • Joint Symposium on 


and Lasers: Semiconductor Mid- 

UV LEDs and Lasers 

Leo Schowalter, Crystal IS, USA, 

Presider 

CTuH1 • 11:00 

Real-time group-delay monitoring of ultrabroadband 

dispersive devices by incoherent 

light interferometry, Yongwoo Park 1 , Antonio 

Malacarne 1 , Jose Azana 1 ; 1 EMT, INRS, Canada. 

Real-time group delay monitoring of ultrabroadband 

dispersive devices through incoherent 

interferometry is demonstrated and applied for 

accurate characterization of a dispersion compensating 

fiber over 72nm bandwidth at 15frames/s 

update rate. 

CTuI1 • 11:00 

Highly efficient, high power, inband-pumped 

Erbium/Ytterbium-codoped fiber laser, Ee 

Leong Lim 1 , Shaif-ul Alam 1 , David J. Richardson 1 ; 

1 

Optoelectronics Research Centre, UK. A highly 

efficient (~80%), high power (18.45W) in-band 

pumped Erbium/Ytterbium-codoped fiber laser is 

demonstrated. Based on a fitted simulation model, 

the detrimental effect of pair induced quenching in 

high power operation is also highlighted. 

JTuD1 • 11:00 Invited 

High Power III-Nitride UV Emitters, Max Shatalov 

1 , Jinwei Yang 1 , Yuri Bilenko 1 , Michael Shur 2 , 

Remis Gaska 1 ; 1 Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc., 

USA; 2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA. Increasing 

power and efficiency of UV semiconductor light 

sources enables great expansion of system applications. 

We review state-of-the-art III-Nitride LEDs 

and report on improved device designs and fabrication 

for achieving high power operation. 

CTuH2 • 11:15 

Compact spatio-temporal ultrashort pulse characterisation 

using a pulse shaper and a wavefront 

sensor, Seth L. Cousin 1 , Juan M. Bueno 2 , Nicolas 

Forget 3 , Dane R. Austin 1 , Jens Biegert 1,4 ; 1 ICFO-The 

Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain; 2 Laboratorio de 

Óptica, Universidad de Murcia, Spain; 3 Centre 

Scientifique d’Orsay, France; 4 ICREA-Institució 

Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain. We 

demonstrate compact spatio-temporal ultrashort 

pulse characterisation. A programmable pulse 

shaper measures amplitude and phase with 

bFROG in-line and a Shack-Hartmann sensor 

measures the spatial phase of the pulse across the 

whole spectrum. 

CTuI2 • 11:15 

Single-longitudinal-mode Brillouin fiber laser 

incorporating an unpumped erbium-doped 

fiber loop, Xuxing Chen 1 , Hongpu Li 1 ; 1 Dept. of 

the Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shizuoka 

Univ., Japan. A long-cavity single-longitudinalmode 

Brillouin fiber laser is firstly demonstrated 

by utilizing an unpumped erbium-doped fiber 

(EDF) loop. The utilized EDF forms a self-induced 

ultra-narrow grating filter and thus guarantees the 

SLM operation. 

CTuH3 • 11:30 Invited 

Sub-30nm Spatial Resolution Imaging Using a 

Tabletop 13nm High Harmonic Source, Matthew 

D. Seaberg 1 , Daniel E. Adams 1 , William F. Schlotter 2 , 

Yanwei Liu 3 , Carmen Menoni 4 , Margaret Murnane 1 , 

Henry C. Kapteyn 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Colorado at 

Boulder, USA; 2 SLAC National Lab, USA; 3 Center 

for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National 

Lab, USA; 4 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Colorado State Univ., USA. We report the highest 

spatial resolution (



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& Innovations 

11:00–12:45 

CTuJ • Petawatt Laser 

Technology 

Karoly Osvay, Univ. of Szeged, 

Hungary, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

JTuE • Lasers in Environmental 

Sensing 

Clifford Pollock, Cornell Univ., 

USA, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

QTuG • Invisibility and Absorbers 

Igor Smolyaninov, Univ. of 

Maryland, USA, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

CTuK • Optical Parametric 

Oscillators 

Andrew Schober, Lockheed 

Martin Coherent Technologies, 

USA, Presider 

CTuJ1 • 11:00 Invited 

The Vulcan 10 PW OPCPA Project, John Collier, 

Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK. I will describe a UK 

project to establish a 10-20 PW capability on the 

Vulcan Laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 

based on the OPCPA technique. Design, new 

technology, science and status will be covered. 

JTuE1 • 11:00 

Lidar Measurements of Atmospheric Oxygen 

Using a 1.27 Micron Raman Amplifier, Jeremy T. 

Dobler 1 , James A. Nagel 2 , Valery Temyanko 2 , T. Scott 

Zaccheo 3 , Bryan Karpowicz 3 ; 1 ITT Geospatial Systems, 

USA; 2 TIPD Inc. / College of Optical Sciences, 

the Univ. of Arizona, USA; 3 Atmospheric and Environmental 

Research, Inc., USA. We have developed 

a high-power narrow linewidth Raman amplifier 

near 1.27 micron, integrated it into an Integrated 

Path Differential Absorption lidar. Groundbased 

measurements of atmospheric oxygen have been 

performed using the integrated amplifier. 

QTuG1 • 11:00 

On the Isotropic Magnetic Response of Fabricated 

Core-Shell Clusters and its Ability to 

Cloak, Stefan Mühlig 1 , Alastair Cunningham 2 , 

Mohamed Farhat 1 , Carsten Rockstuhl 1 , Thomas 

Bürgi 2 , Falk Lederer 1 ; 1 Inst. of Solid State Theory 

and Condensed Matter Optics, Friedrich-Schiller- 

Universität Jena, Germany; 2 Faculté des Sciences, 

Département de Chimie Physique, Univ. of Geneva, 

Switzerland. We investigate a scatterer comprising 

a dielectric core and randomly distributed metallic 

nanoparticles forming a shell. We show that it acts 

as an isotropic magnetic meta-atom and as a cloak 

to conceal the core. 

CTuK1 • 11:00 

Modulation Instability of Continuous Wave 

Optical Parametric Oscillators, Christopher 

Phillips 1 , Martin M. Fejer 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA. 

Optical parametric oscillators exhibit a temporal 

modulation instability which can prevent singlelongitudinal-mode 

operation above a certain 

pumping ratio. We analyze this instability and 

show how it can be suppressed with an intracavity 

etalon. 

JTuE2 • 11:15 

Remote backwards lasing in air, Arthur Dogariu 1 , 

James Michael 1 , Marlan O. Scully 1,2 , Richard Miles 1 ; 

1 

Princeton Univ., USA; 2 Texas A&M Univ., USA. 

We demonstrate high gain lasing in air from 

two-photon dissociation of molecular oxygen 

and simultaneous resonant two-photon pumping 

of an atomic oxygen fragment. This backwards 

emission provides a remote laser source for 

standoff detection. 

QTuG2 • 11:15 

Three-Dimensional Newtonian Photorealistic 

Ray Tracing of the Conformal Grating Cloak, 

Jad C. Halimeh 1 , Roman Schmied 2 , Martin Wegener 

3 ; 1 Physics, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet 

Muenchen, Germany; 2 Physik, Universitaet Basel, 

Switzerland; 3 Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany. 

Conformal grating cloaks are relatives of the 

carpet cloak and can deliver excellent cloaking for 

reasonable parameters. This is illustrated by photorealistic 

Newtonian ray-tracing calculations and by 

cross-correlation coefficients based on these. 

CTuK2 • 11:15 

Compact, narrow linewidth, continuous-wave, 

intracavity optical parametric oscillator pumped 

by a semiconductor disk laser, Nils Hempler 1 , 

Gordon Robertson 1 , Leigh Bromley 1 , Craig Hamilton 

2 , Graeme P. Malcolm 1 ; 1 M Squared Lasers 

Ltd, UK; 2 Solus Technologies Ltd, UK. We report 

the narrow linewidth (5 W of signal from a picosecond optical 

parametric oscillator. 




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& Technology 

11:00–12:45 

CTuL • Novel Nonlinear 

Materials and Device Concepts 

Mads Brøkner Christiansen, DTU, 

Denmark, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

CTuM • Optofluidic Detection 

and Imaging 

Sherman Fan, Univ. of Michigan, 

USA, Presider 

11:00–12:45 

ATuC • Coherence Domain 

Spectroscopy and Imaging 

Nicusor Iftimia, Physical Sciences 

Inc., USA, Presider 

CTuL1 • 11:00 

Quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation 

at vacuum ultraviolet 193 nm, Sunao 

Kurimura 1 , Masaki Harada 1,2 , Ken-ichi Muramatsu 

2 , Motoi Ueda 2 , Muneyuki Adachi 1,3 , Tsuyoshi 

Yamada 3 , Tokio Ueno 3 ; 1 Nat’l Inst. for Mat. Sci, 

Japan; 2 Nikon Corporation, Japan; 3 Nidek Co.,Ltd., 

Japan. By successful fabrication of fine twin 

structure, QPM SHG at 193 nm is achieved in 

crystalline quartz. Mechanical module suppressing 

switch back of twins enables stable wavelength 

conversion for all-solid-state compact vacuumultraviolet 

laser. 

CTuM1 • 11:00 

Lensless On-Chip Color Imaging using Nanostructured 

Surfaces and Compressive Decoding, 

Bahar Khademhosseinieh 1 , Gabriel Biener 1 , Ikbal 

Sencan 1 , Aydogan Ozcan 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering 

Department, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 

USA. By modulating the diffraction pattern of 

a multi-color object using a nano-structured 

substrate, we demonstrate lensfree color imaging 

on a chip. This on-chip imaging modality could be 

important to create compact lensfree fluorescent 

microscopes. 

ATuC1 • 11:00 

In Vivo Imaging of Kidney Microcirculation 

Using Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography, 

Jerry Wierwille 1 , Peter Andrews 2 , Maristela 

Onozato 3 , James Jiang 4 , Alex Cable 4 , Yu Chen 1 ; 

1 

Bioengineering, Univ. of Maryland, USA; 2 Biochemistry, 

Georgetown, USA; 3 Pathology, Harvard 

Medical School, USA; 4 Thorlabs, Inc., USA. We 

demonstrated 3D Doppler optical coherence 

tomography (DOCT) imaging of rat kidney microcirculation 

in the glomerulus in vivo. Dynamic 

changes in blood flow were detected under altered 

physiological conditions demonstrating real-time 

DOCT imaging. 

CTuL2 • 11:15 

Two-Photon Accessed Excited State Absorption 

in bis(terpyridyl Osmium)-(Porphinato) 

Zinc, San-Hui Chi 1 , Armand Rosenberg 1 , Animesh 

Nayak 2,3 , Timothy V. Duncan 2 , Michael J. Therien 3 , 

James J. Butler 4 , Steve R. Montgomery 5 , Guy Beadie 1 , 

Steve R. Flom 1 , James S. Shirk 1 ; 1 Optical Sciences 

Division, United States Naval Research Lab, USA; 

2 

Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 

USA; 3 Department of Chemistry, Duck Univ., 

USA; 4 Department of Physics, Pacific Univ., USA; 

5 

Department of Physics, United States Naval Academy, 

USA. Two-photon absorption properties of a 

(terpyridyl)osmium-(porphinato)zinc (OsPZnOs) 

are studied in bulk and waveguides. Integration 

of OsPZnOs (δ>1300GM) in waveguides showed 

enhanced nonlinear performance and potential 

for photonic applications. 

CTuL3 • 11:30 

Wide-band Tunable SFG-DFG Wavelength 

Conversion in Efficient LN-QPM Adhered 

Ridge Waveguide, Kaori Sugiura 1,2 , Kiyofumi 

Kikuchi 1,2 , Ken Tanizawa 3 , Sunao Kurimura 1,2 , 

Hirochika Nakajima 2 , Haruhiko Kuwatsuka 3 , 

Junichiro Ichikawa 4 , Shu Namiki 3 ; 1 National Inst. 

for Materials Science, Japan; 2 Waseda Univ., Japan; 

3 

National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and 

Technology, Japan; 4 Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., 

LTD, Japan. We experimentally demonstrate wide 

wavelength-tuning range of 40 nm over C band in 

SFG-DFG wavelength conversion using efficient 

QPM-ARW module. Power penalty lower than 0.6 

dB was obtained for 43-Gbit/s NRZ-OOK signal. 

CTuM2 • 11:15 

Nano-sensing with a Silica Microtoroid, Tao 

Lu 1,2 , Hansuek Lee 1 , Tong Chen 1 , Steven Herchak 2 , 

Ji-Hun Kim 1 , Kerry J. Vahala 1 ; 1 Applied Physics, 

California Inst. of Technology, USA; 2 Electrical 

and computer engineering, Univ. of Victoria, 

Canada. We report nano-detection using a silica 

microtoroid with a reference interferometer. 

Single polystyrene nano-beads at a record 12.5nm 

radius are detected; Influenza-A virion binding 

events with signal-to-noise ratio exceeding 38:1 

are observed. 

CTuM3 • 11:30 

Dual-Function Metallic Nanohole Arrays: 

Electrokinetic Analyte Concentration and 

Plasmonic Sensing, Carlos Escobedo 1 , Brent 

Scarff 1 , Alexandre G. Brolo 2 , Reuven Gordon 3 , 

David Sinton 1 ; 1 Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of 

Victoria, Canada; 2 Chemistry, Univ. of Victoria, 

Canada; 3 Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Victoria, 

Canada. We demonstrate the first optofluidic 

system in which a nanostructure enables both 

analyte concentration and nanoplasmonic sensing 

using electrokinetic phenomena. This combined 

scheme promises increased effectiveness and 

reduced detection limits. 

ATuC2 • 11:15 

Assessment of Rotator Cuff Tendon Integrity 

with Single Detector Polarization Sensitive 

Optical Coherence Tomography, Christopher 

Rashidifard 1,2 , Scott Martin 1,2 , Namita Kumar 1 , 

Christopher Vercollone 1,2 , Bin Liu 1,2 , Mark E. Brezinski 

1,2 ; 1 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA; 

2 

Harvard Medical School, USA. In this study, we 

perform PS-OCT imaging of discarded human 

rotator cuff tendon. Imaging at the surgical cut 

and torn end were preformed and compared with 

histopathology. 

ATuC3 • 11:30 

Characterizing the Point Spread Function of 

Retinal OCT Devices with a Model Eye-Based 

Phantom, Megan Connors 1,2 , Anant Agrawal 1 , 

Chia-Pin Liang 1,2 , Yu Chen 2 , Rebekah Drezek 3 , 

Joshua Pfefer 1 ; 1 Center for Devices and Radiological 

Health, Food and Drug Administration, USA; 

2 

Univ. of Maryland, USA; 3 Rice Univ., USA. We have 

designed, fabricated, and tested a nanoparticleembedded 

phantom incorporated into a model 

eye for characterizing the point spread function 

of retinal OCT devices in three dimensions under 

realistic imaging conditions. 


CTuL4 • 11:45 

BaGa 4 S 7 : Wide-Bandgap Phase-Matchable 

Nonlinear Crystal for the Mid-Infrared, Valeriy 

Badikov 1 , Dmitrii Badikov 1 , Galina Shevyrdyaeva 1 , 

Aleksey Tyazhev 2 , Georgi Marchev 2 , Vladimir 

Panyutin 2 , Valentin Petrov 2 ; 1 High Technologies 

Lab, Kuban State Univ., Russian Federation; 2 A3, 

Max-Born-Inst., Germany. The orthorhombic 

biaxial crystal BaGa 4 S 7 has been grown by the 

Bridgman-Stockbarger technique in large sizes 

with good optical quality. Refractive indices have 

been measured and Sellmeier equations fitted to 

analyze the phase-matching configurations. 

CTuM4 • 11:45 

High-resolution Holographic Opto-fluidic Microscope 

On a Chip, Waheb Bishara 1 , Hongying 

Zhu 1 , Aydogan Ozcan 1,2 ; 1 Electrical Engineering 

Department, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA; 

2 

California NanoSystems Inst., Univ. of California, 

Los Angeles, USA. We demonstrate a lensless holographic 

opto-fluidic microscope based on pixel 

super-resolution techniques to create high-resolution 

amplitude and phase images of flowing objects 

within a micro-fluidic chip without complicated 

fabrication processes or uniform flow. 

ATuC4 • 11:45 

Real-Time Numerical Dispersion Compensation 

for Standard/Full-Range Complex 

Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography, 

Kang Zhang 1 , Jin U. Kang 1 ; 1 Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. 

We implemented numerical dispersion compensation 

for both standard and full-range complex 

Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography 

on a graphics processing unit architecture, and 

demonstrated real-time ultrahigh-resolution 

imaging at 70k line/s. 


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QTuE • Plasmonic Optical 

Devices—Continued 

QTuF • Frequency Combs 

and Carrier-Envelope Phase 

Phenomena—Continued 

CTuG • Semiconductor 

Nanolasers—Continued 

JTuC • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications II: 

Networks—Continued 

QTuE4 • 12:00 

Hybrid Plasmonic-photonic Resonators for 

Sensing and Spectroscopy, Maysamreza Chamanzar 

1 , Ehsan Shah Hosseini 1 , Siva Yegnanarayanan 1 , 

Ali Adibi 1 ; 1 Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA. Design 

and experimental characterization of a hybrid 

resonator consisting of nanolithographically fabricated 

gold nanoparticles integrated with a Silicon 

Nitride photonic microresonator for sensing and 

spectroscopy applications is discussed. 

QTuE5 • 12:15 

Integrated Electrochromic Nanoplasmonic 

Optical Switch, Amit Agrawal 1,3 , Ceren Susut 1 , 

Gery Stafford 2 , Benjamin McMorran 1 , Henri Lezec 1 , 

A. Alec Talin 1 ; 1 Center for Nanoscale Science and 

Technology, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, 

USA; 2 Materials Science and Engineering 

Lab, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, 

USA; 3 Maryland Nanocenter, Univ. of Maryland, 

USA. We demonstrate active switching of light 

through a nanoslit based plasmonic devices using 

electrochromic Prussian blue nanocrystals, and 

achieve large (~95%) transmission modulation 

by switching the nanocrystals between oxidized 

and reduced states. 

QTuF5 • 12:00 

Effect of Carrier-Envelope Phase on Bound-State 

Atomic Excitation by Multi-Cycle Pulse, Pankaj 

K. Jha 1,2 , Yuri Rostovtsev 1,3 , Hebin Li 1 , Vladimir A. 

Sautenkov 1,4 , Marlan O. Scully 1,2 ; 1 Physics, Texas 

A&M Univ., USA; 2 Mechanical and Aerospace 

Engineering, Princeton Univ., USA; 3 Physics, Univ. 

of North Texas, USA; 4 Physics, P.N.Lebdev Inst., 

R.A.S, Russian Federation. We present an experimental 

and theoretical study of Carrier-Envelope 

Phase effects on bound state atomic excitation. We 

investigated the influence of CEP on multiphoton 

transitions between the Zeeman sublevels of the 

ground state of Rb. 

QTuF6 • 12:15 

Passively Carrier-Envelope Phase stable mid- 

IR OPCPA source at 100 kHz repetition rate, 

Alexandre Thai 1 , Olivier Chalus 1 , Philip K. Bates 1 , 

Jens Biegert 1,2 ; 1 ICFO, Spain; 2 ICREA-Institució 

Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats,, Spain. We 

present a carrier-envelope stable, 100 kHz source 

of intense 6 cycle mid-IR pulses at 3.2 microns. 

The CEP stability is sub-100 mrad RMS over 1 

million pulses. 

CTuG2 • 12:00 Invited 

Room Temperature CW Operation of Metal- 

Semiconductor Plasmonic Nanolasers with 

Subwavelength Cavity, Zhicheng Liu 1 , Kang Ding 1 , 

Leijun Yin 1 , Martin Hill 2 , Milan J. Marell 2 , Rene 

J. van Veldhoven 2 , Richard Noetzel 2 , Cun-Zheng 

Ning 2 ; 1 School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy 

Engineering, Arizona State Univ., USA; 2 COBRA 

Research Inst., Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 

Netherlands. We report the first room temperature, 

continuous wave operation of the electrical 

injection nanolasers with subwavelength cavity. 

The lasing mode is confined in an InP/InGaAs- 

SiN-Silver cavity of rectangular cross section 

operating at 1.55 μm. 

JTuC3 • 12:00 

Practical Quantum Key Distribution Over 

100 km Using Sinusoidally Gated InGaAs/InP 

Avalanche Photodiodes, Naoto Namekata 1 , Hiroki 

Takesue 2 , Toshimori Honjo 2 , Yasuhiro Tokura 2 , 

Shuichiro Inoue 1 ; 1 Inst. of Quantum Science, Nihon 

Univ., Japan; 2 NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 

Japan. We report on the quantum key distribution 

experiment using ultra-low-noise 2-GHz sinusoidally 

gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes. 

The detectors enabled us to distribute secure keys 

over 100 km with a bit rate of 24 kbps. 

JTuC4 • 12:15 

Security of Post-selection based Continuous 

Variable Quantum Key Distribution against 

Arbitrary Attacks, Nathan Walk 1 , Thomas Symul 2 , 

Timothy C. Ralph 1 , Ping Koy Lam 2 ; 1 Department of 

Physics, Univ. of Queensland, Australia; 2 Department 

of Quantum Science, Australian National 

Univ., Australia. We analyse the security and performance 

of a continuous variable quantum key 

distribution protocol using post selection, deriving 

results that are unconditionally secure in the sense 

of no longer restricting the eavesdroppers attack. 


QTuE6 • 12:30 

Locally-oxidized silicon surface-plasmon 

Schottky detector for telecom wavelengths, Ilya 

Goykhman 1 , Boris Desiatov 1 , Jacob B. Khurgin 2 , 

Joseph Shappir 1 , Uriel Levy 1 ; 1 Hebrew Univ., Israel; 

2 

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 

Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. We demonstrate 

an integrated on-chip locally-oxidized silicon 

surface-plasmon Schottky detector for telecom 

wavelengths based on the internal photoemission 

process. Theoretical model and experimental 

results will be presented and discussed. 

QTuF7 • 12:30 

Few-cycle CEP-stable source at 2.1 μm based on 

collinear OPA in BiB 3 O 6 , Francisco Silva 1 , Philip 

K. Bates 1 , Jens Biegert 1 , Adolfo Esteban-Martin 1 , 

Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh 1 , Alexander Gruen 1 , Seth 

L. Cousin 1,2 ; 1 ICFO-Institut de Cienciès Fotióniques, 

Spain; 2 ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i 

Estudis Avançats, Spain. We demonstrate a scalable, 

CEP stable, three-cycle source at 2.1 μm with 

180 μJ pulse energy from OPA in bulk BiB 3 O 6 at 3 

kHz repetition rate without post-compression. 

CTuG3 • 12:30 

Metal-clad Semiconductor Nanoring Lasers, Min 

W. Kim 1 , Pei-Cheng Ku 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering 

and Computer Science, Univ. of Michigan, USA. 

Lasing in a metal-clad semiconductor ring laser 

of 0.9lambda-diameter and 0.8lambda height is 

demonstrated. It is experimentally shown that 

the metal coverage is critical in achieving the 

lasing threshold. 

JTuC5 • 12:30 

An Analysis of Single-Photon Detectors in an 

Environmentally Robust GigaHertz Clock Rate 

Quantum Key Distribution System, Patrick J. 

Clarke 1 , Robert J. Collins 1 , Aongus McCarthy 1 , 

Nils J. Krichel 1 , María-José García-Martínez 1,2 , 

Michael G. Tanner 1 , John A. O’Connor 1 , Chandra 

M. Natarajan 1 , Shigehito Miki 3 , Masahide Sasaki 3 , 

Zhen Wang 3 , Ivan Rech 4 , Massimo Ghioni 4 , Angelo 

Gulinatti 4 , Philip A. Hiskett 1,5 , Robert H. Hadfield 1 , 

Paul D. Townsend 6 , Gerald S. Buller 1 ; 1 Heriot-Watt 

Univ., UK; 2 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones 

Científicas, Spain; 3 National Inst. of Information 

and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan; 

4 

Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 5 SELEX Galileo, UK; 

6 

Tyndall National Inst. and Department of Physics, 

Univ. College Cork, Ireland. We have developed a 

robust, BB84, 850 nm wavelength, gigahertz clock, 

phase encoding quantum key distribution system. 

This has been analyzed using a number of singlephoton 

detectors and tested against predictions 

from our theoretical model. 

10:30–12:30 Market Focus: Sensors & Lasers for Defense and Security, Exhibit Hall F, 100 Level 

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CTuH • Ultrafast Measurement 

Techniques—Continued 

CTuI • CW Fiber Sources— 

Continued 

JTuD • Joint Symposium on 


and Lasers: Semiconductor Mid- 

UV LEDs and Lasers—Continued 

CTuH4 • 12:00 

3-Dimensional Laser Pulse Intensity Diagnostics 

for the Energy Recovery Linac Photoinjector, 

Heng Li 1 , Ivan Bazarov 1 , Bruce Dunhan 1 , Frank 

Wise 2 ; 1 Physics Department, Cornell Univ., USA; 

2 

Department of Applide Physics, Cornell Univ., USA. 

We demonstrate measurement of spatiotemporal 

intensity profiles with spatial resolution of 20 µm 

and temporal resolution of 130 fs. Measurements 

of stacked soliton pulses and the output of a dissipative 

soliton laser illustrate the capability. 

CTuI5 • 12:00 

High Resolution Tunable Fiber Laser Employing 

Two-Dimensional Dispersion and a Phase LCoS 

Modulator, David Sinefeld 1 , Dan M. Marom 1 ; 

1 

Applied Physics, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel. 

We propose and demonstrate a tunable fiber 

laser based on a 2D-dispersion arrangement by 

crossing a 100GHz WGR and a 1200gr/mm bulk 

grating. We address specific spectral lines with 

less than 200 MHz. 

JTuD3 • 12:00 

Growth and characterization of deep ultraviolet 

emitting AlGaN structures on SiC substrates, 

Wei Zhang 1 , Alexey Nikiforov 1 , Christos Thomidis 1 , 

Adam Moldawer 1 , Haiding Sun 1 , William Hug 2 , 

Theodore Moustakas 1 ; 1 Boston Univ., USA; 2 Photon 

Systems, Inc., USA. We report MBE growth of 

AlGaN structures emitting below 250 nm on SiC 

substrates. We found that the IQE of the MQWs 

and DHs is as high as 68% and 43% respectively. 

CTuH5 • 12:15 

A Terahertz Streak Camera for the Characterization 

of Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Olaf 

Schubert 1,2 , Friederike Junginger 1 , Claudius Riek 1 , 

Alexander Sell 1 , Alfred Leitenstorfer 1 , Rupert 

Huber 1,2 ; 1 Department of Physics and Center for 

Applied Photonics, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany; 

2 

Current address: Department of Physics, Univ. of 

Regensburg, Germany. We demonstrate a technique 

for the characterization of ultrabroadband and 

low-intensity laser pulses using spectrally resolved 

THz polarization streaking. Our method yields the 

spectral amplitude and phase without resorting to 

complex algorithms. 

CTuI6 • 12:15 

Brillouin Fiber Laser with Incoherent Feedback, 

Andrei Fotiadi 1,2 , Elena Preda 1 , Patrice Mégret 1 ; 

1 

UMONS, Belgium; 2 Ioffe Inst. of RAS, Russian 

Federation. We report on all-fiber Brillouin fiber 

laser utilizing feedback caused by Rayleigh scattering 

in a telecom fiber instead of one cavity mirror. 

The results of the experimental measurements 

are in a perfect agreement with the theoretical 

predictions. 

JTuD4 • 12:15 

High TE-Polarized Optical Gain from AlGaN- 

Delta-GaN Quantum Well for Deep UV Lasers, 

Jing Zhang 1 , Hongping Zhao 1 , Nelson Tansu 1 ; 

1 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Lehigh Univ., USA. The use of ultra-thin GaN 

delta-layer in high Al-content AlGaN quantum 

wells leads to the strong valence subbands 

rearrangement, which in turn results in high 

TE-polarized optical gain at emission wavelength 

~250-300 nm. 

CTuH6 • 12:30 

One Million Time-Bandwidth Product Full- 

Field Waveform Measurement using Frequencyto-Time 

Interferometry, Nicolas K. Fontaine 1 , 

Ryan P. Scott 1 , David J. Geisler 1 , Tingting He 1 , 

Jonathan P. Heritage 1 , S. J. Ben Yoo 1 ; 1 Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, Univ. of California, 

Davis, USA. Time-multiplexing of a single-shot 

interferometric measurement technique using 

frequency-to-time mapping and digital coherent 

detection characterizes the amplitude and phase of 

350-GHz bandwidth waveforms with a 3-µs record 

length in only 113 µs. 

CTuI7 • 12:30 

Ce 3+ ,Sm 3+ :YAG Double-clad Crystal Fiber 

Broadband Light Source, Yen-Sheng Lin 1 , 

Dong-Yo Jheng 1 , Kuang-Yu Hsu 1 , Cheng-Nan 

Tsai 2 , Sheng-Lung Huang 1,3 ; 1 Inst. of Photonics and 

Optoelectronics, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan; 

2 

Department of Electronics Engineering, Cheng 

Shiu Univ., Taiwan; 3 Department of Electrical 

Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. Nine 

millwatts of broadband emission were generated 

from a Ce,Sm:YAG double-clad crystal fiber. This 

direct diode-laser pumped visible light had a 3-dB 

bandwidth of 100 nm and an optical-to-optical 

conversion efficiency of 2.4%. 

JTuD5 • 12:30 

New generation of Distributed Bragg Reflectors 

based on BAlN/AlN structures for deep UV-optoelectronic 

applications, Mohamed Abid 1 , Tarik 

Moudakir 2 , Simon Gautier 3 , Gaëlle Orsal 3 , Aotmane 

En Naciri 4 , Zakaria Djebbour 5,6 , Jae-Hyun Ryou 7 , 

Gilles Patriarche 8 , Hee Jin Kim 7 , Zac Lochner 7 , 

Konstantinos Pantzas 1 , David Alamarguy 5 , François 

Jomard 9 , Russel Dupuis 7 , Abdallah Ougazzaden 1 ; 

1 

Georgia Inst. of Technology / GT-Lorraine-UMI 

2958 Georgia Tech-CNRS, France; 2 Supélec / UMI 

2958 Georgia Tech-CNRS, France; 3 Lab Matériaux 

Optiques, Photonique et Système (LMOPS), EA 

4423, Université Paul Verlaine et Supélec / UMI 

2958 Georgia Tech-CNRS, France; 4 Laboratoire de 

Physique des Milieux Denses (LPMD), Univ. Paul 

Verlaine-Metz, France; 5 Lab de Génie Electrique 

de Paris (LGEP), UMR 8507 CNRS, Supélec, Univ. 

Paris-Sud 11, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France; 

6 

Dept. of Physics and Engineering Science, Univ. 

of Versailles (UVSQ), France; 7 Ctr. for Compound 

Semiconductors and School of Electrical and Computer 

Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA; 

8 

LPN CNRS, UPR, France; 9 Laboratoire de Physique 

des solides et de Crisallogénèse (LPSC), UMR 8635 

CNRS, Univ. of Versailles-Saint-Quentin1, France. 

We report innovative highly reflective DBR structures 

based on the novel material BAlN. We report 

innovative highly reflective DBR structures based 

on the novel material BAlN. An experimental 

BAlN/AlN DBRs demonstrated a reflectivity 

of 60% and 82% at wavelengths of 282 nm and 

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CTuJ • Petawatt Laser 

Technology—Continued 

JTuE • Lasers in Environmental 

Sensing—Continued 

QTuG • Invisibility and 

Absorbers—Continued 

CTuK • Optical Parametric 

Oscillators—Continued 

CTuJ4 • 12:00 

High-Power Faraday Isolator with New Method 

of Compensation of Thermally Induced Depolarization, 

Ilya L. Snetkov 1 , Oleg Palashov 1 , 

Efim Khazanov 1 ; 1 Inst. of Applied Physics of RAS, 

Russian Federation. A new compensation scheme 

of thermodepolarization in Faraday isolators was 

predicted and experimentally verified. Scheme 

allows creating a new Faraday isolator for high 

power lasers and upgrades traditional ones, 

increasing their isolation ratio 

CTuJ5 • 12:15 

Spectral Amplitude and Phase Evolution in 

Petawatt Laser Pulses, Catalin V. Filip 1 ; 1 Lawrence 

Livermore National Lab, USA. The influence of 

the active gain medium on the spectral amplitude 

and phase of amplified pulses in a CPA system is 

studied. Results from a 10-PW example based on 

Nd-doped mixed glasses are presented. 

JTuE5 • 12:00 

Signal to Noise Ratios of Pulsed and Sinewave 

Modulated Direct Detection Lidar for IPDA 

Measurements, Xiaoli Sun 1 , James B. Abshire 1 ; 

1 

NASA GSFC, USA. The signal-to-noise ratios 

have been derived for IPDA lidar using a direct 

detection receiver for both pulsed and sinewave 

laser modulation techniques, and the results and 

Lab measurements are presented. 

JTuE6 • 12:15 

Selective gas sensing for photonic crystal lasers, 

Cameron L. Smith 1 , Johan U. Lind 1 , Claus H. 

Nielsen 1 , Mads B. Christiansen 1 , Thomas Buss 1 , 

Niels B. Larsen 1 , Anders Kristensen 1 ; 1 DTU Nanotech, 

Denmark. We facilitate photonic crystal lasers 

to sense gases via an additional swelling polymer 

film. We describe the transduction transfer function 

and experimentally demonstrate an enhanced 

ethanol vapor sensitivity over 15 dB with low 

humidity crosstalk. 

QTuG5 • 12:00 Invited 

Three-dimensional invisibility carpet cloak 

at 700 nm wavelength, Tolga Ergin 1 , Joachim 

Fischer 1 , Martin Wegener 1 ; 1 Inst. for Applied 

Physics,DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures 

(CFN), and Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe 

Inst. of Technology, Germany. We present a threedimensional 

carpet cloak composed of a 350-nm 

rod-spacing woodpile photonic crystal with 

tailored local volume filling fraction. Microscope 

images under monochromatic illumination reveal 

excellent cloaking at 700 nm wavelength. 

CTuK5 • 12:00 

Widely tunable narrow-band terahertz-wave 

source pumped by injection-seeded optical 

parametric generation, Kouji Nawata 1 , Ming 

Tang 1 , Takashi Notake 1 , Yuye Wang 1 , Hiromasa 

Ito 1 , Hiroaki Minamide 1 ; 1 RIKEN, Japan. We 

proposed a novel widely tunable terahertz-wave 

source pumped by injection-seeded KTP optical 

parametric generator. Efficient narrowing of linewidth 

and high output of the pump source were 

obtained to 50GHz and 273uJ respectively. 

CTuK6 • 12:15 

500-GHz Mode-Hop-Free Idler Tuning range 

with a Frequency-Stabilized Singly-Resonant 

Parametric Oscillator, Jean-Jacques Zondy 1 , 

Emeline Andrieux 1 , Abdallah Rihan 1 , Thomas 

Zanon-Willette 1 , Malo Cadoret 1 ; 1 LCM, LNE- 

CNAM, France. A cw signal-resonant optical 

parametric oscillator is frequency stabilized at 

the kilohertz jitter level to the transmission peak 

of an external high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity, 

allowing a widely tunable mode-hop-free idler 

scan over 500 GHz. 


CTuJ6 • 12:30 

Origin of the Coherent Contrast Pedestal in 

Petawatt Laser Pulses, Chris Hooker 1 , Yunxin 

Tang 1 , Oleg Chekhlov 1 , John L. Collier 1 , Edwin 

Divall 1 , Klaus Ertel 1 , Steve Hawkes 1 , Rajeev Pattathil 

1 ; 1 Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton 

Lab, UK. We demonstrate experimentally that the 

“coherent” contrast pedestal in compressed pulses 

from CPA lasers originates from the diffraction 

gratings in the pulse stretcher. The pedestal 

intensity correlates with the level of scatter from 

the gratings. 

JTuE7 • 12:30 

Temperature Dependence of Gas-Detection 

Sensitivity of InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb DFB lasers, 

Brian Ventrudo 1 , Craig Storey 1 , James A. Gupta 1 , 

Andrew Bezinger 1 ; 1 Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, 

National Research Council of Canada, 

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CTuL • Novel Nonlinear 

Materials and Device 

Concepts—Continued 

CTuL5 • 12:00 

Dense Small Molecule Assemblies for Third- 

Order Nonlinear Optics: DDMEBT, Michelle 

S. Fleischman 1 , Ivan Biaggio 1 , Benjamin Breiten 2 , 

Francois Diederich 2 ; 1 Physics, Lehigh Univ., USA; 

2 

Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 

We determine the optical losses of DDMEBT 

planar waveguides and characterize the shelf-life 

and robustness of DDMEBT thin films used for 

ultra-fast all optical data processing. 

CTuL6 • 12:15 

Second-Order Nonlinearity Distribution in a 

Doped Silica Glass Multilayered Structure, Ksenia 

Yadav 1 , Christopher W. Smelser 2 , Sarkis Jacob 2 , 

Chantal Blanchetiere 2 , Claire L. Callender 2 , Jacques 

Albert 1 ; 1 Department of Electronics, Carleton 

Univ., Canada; 2 Communications Research Centre, 

Canada. Corona poling of a multilayered stack of 

phosphorus-doped and undoped silica glass layers 

on a fused silica substrate results in the formation 

of two 8 μm-wide nonlinear regions located near 

both surfaces of the sample. 

CTuM • Optofluidic Detection 

and Imaging—Continued 

CTuM5 • 12:00 

Nonlinear dynamics of light, fluid, and nanoparticles: 

light-induced flow and beam collapse 

through radiation pressure, Yonathan Nemirovski 

1 , Alexander Szameit 1 , Moti Segev 1 ; 1 Physics, 

Technion, Israel. We study nonlinear dynamics of 

light propagating in nano-particle suspensions, 

and show that radiation pressure creates particle 

flux, induces flow in the liquid, eventually leading 

to bottlenecks of high particles concentration, and 

filamentation. 

CTuM6 • 12:15 

Photonic Crystal Optofluidics for Electrochromatography 

on a Chip, Moez Haque 1 , Stephen 

Ho 1 , Peter R. Herman 1 ; 1 Edward S. Rogers Sr. 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

and the Inst. for Optical Sciences, Univ. of Toronto, 

Canada. Femtosecond laser processing of a directlaser-written 

optofluidic chip with integrated open 

channels, waveguides and porous 3D photonic 

crystals were fabricated to enable possibilities for 

simultaneous chromatography and spectroscopy 

applications. 

ATuC • Coherence Domain 

Spectroscopy and Imaging— 

Continued 

ATuC5 • 12:00 Invited 

Biomedical Applications of Enhanced Backscattering 

Spectroscopy, Jeremy Rogers 1 , Nikhil Mutyal 

1 , Andrew Radosevich 1 , Vladimir Turzhitsky 1 , 

Hemant Roy 1 , Vadim Backman 1 ; 1 Biomedical 

Engineering, Northwestern Univ., USA. Enhanced 

backscattering spectroscopy enables minimally 

invasive measurement of tissue optical properties 

by characterizing the shape of backscattered 

light in both angle and spectrum using a fiber 

optic probe. 

CTuL7 • 12:30 

Enhancement of Effective Electro-optic Coefficient 

in Domain Engineered UV-written 

Waveguides in LiNbO 3 , Charlie Y. J. Ying 1 , Grigoris 

Zisis 1 , Andrew R. Naylor 1 , Pranabendu Ganguly 2 , 

Collin Sones 1 , Elisabeth Soergel 3 , Robert W. Eason 1 , 

Sakellaris Mailis 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics Research Centre, 

Univ. of Southampton, UK; 2 Advanced Technology 

Development Centre, Indian Inst. of Technology, 

India; 3 Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Bonn, Germany. UV 

laser-induced poling-inhibition produces inverted 

domains in LiNbO 3 which overlap significantly 

with waveguide modes. We have observed a 26% 

enhancement of the effective electro-optic coefficient 

in such domain-engineered waveguides. 

CTuM7 • 12:30 

Printable DFB Laser and Wavelength Monitor 

Systems by On Demand Fabrication on Flexible 

Films, Tokuma Nakamichi 1 , Yu Yang 1 , Hiroaki 

Yoshioka 1 , Soichieo Omi 1 , Hirofumi Watanabe 1 , 

Yuji Oki 1 ; 1 Dept. of Electronics, Kyushu Univ., Japan. 

We demonstrated organic laser & monitor array 

system on film. The laser part was drawn by high 

precision dispenser and the photodiodes were 

printed by ink jet. Wavelength resolution of 0.25 

nm was obtained. 

ATuC6 • 12:30 

Improved Performance of SS-OCT by Calibration 

with Logarithmic Amplified Frequency 

Clock, Bin Liu 1,2 , Ehsan Azimi 1,2 , Mark E. Brezinski 

1,2 ; 1 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA; 

2 

Harvard Medical School, USA. The presented work 

demonstrates that using a true logarithmic amplifier 

to precondition the frequency clock signal in 

swept source OCT can obtain optimal calibration 

hence improve the imaging performance such as 

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13:45–15:30 

QTuH • Plasmonic Field 

Enhancement and Concentration 

Hatice Altug, Boston Univ., USA, 

Presider 

13:45–15:30 

CTuN • Micro and Nano- 

Photonic Modulators 

William Green, IBM Res., USA, 

Presider 

13:45–15:30 

QTuI • Complex Media 

Henri Lezec, NIST, USA, Presider 

13:45–15:30 

JTuF • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications III: 

Future Directions 

Jane Nordholt, Los Alamos Natl. 


QTuH1 • 13:45 

Surface Plasmon Resonances in Silver Bowtie 

Nanoantennas with Varied Bow Angles, Wei 

Ding 1 , Renaud Bachelot 1 , Sergei Kostcheev 1 , Pascal 

Royer 1 , Roch Espiau de Lamaestre 2 ; 1 Univ. of Technology 

of Troyes, France; 2 CEA, LETI, MINATEC, 

France. Numerical simulations and experimental 

measurements to plasmon resonances in Ag 

Bowtie nanoantennas show that, as the bow angle 

increases, one fundamental resonance blue- and 

then red-shifts; two types of high-order resonances 

emerge at large angles. 

CTuN1 • 13:45 

Fast and Compact Silicon Photonic Crystal 

Modulator, Hong C. Nguyen 1 , Yuya Nakano 1 , Mizuki 

Shinkawa 1 , Norihiro Ishikura 1 , Toshihiko Baba 1 ; 

1 

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Yokohama National Univ., Japan. We demonstrate 

5 Gbps modulation in a 200 μm-length photonic 

crystal Mach-Zehnder modulator, fabricated using 

CMOS processes. VπL < 0.029 V.cm was 

observed under DC operation. RF modulation 

was performed at 2.2 V peak-to-peak. 

QTuI1 • 13:45 

Ceramic Plasmonic Components for Optical 

Metamaterials, Gururaj V. Naik 1 , Alexandra 

Boltasseva 1,2 ; 1 School of Electrical & Computer 

Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue 

Univ., USA; 2 Photonics Engineering, Technical 

Univ. of Denmark, Denmark. The performance of 

metamaterial and transformation-optics devices is 

limited by losses in their plasmonic components. 

We show that ceramics (heavily doped-zinc oxide 

and titanium nitride) could help in overcoming the 

loss issue in the optical range. 

JTuF1 • 13:45 Invited 

Recent Progress in Quantum Teleportation 

Experiments, Jian-Wei Pan 1 ; 1 Hefei National Lab 

for Physical Science at The Microscale and Department 

of Modern Physics, Univ. of Science and 

Technology of China, China. Quantum teleportation 

is central to quantum communication, and 

plays an important role in a number of quantum 

computation protocols. In this talk, I will give a 

review about recent experimental progress about 

quantum teleportation 

QTuH2 • 14:00 

Plasmonic junctions with cucurbit[5]uril ‘glue’: 

fabrication of precise sub-nm junctions in gold 

nanoparticle assemblies, Richard W. Taylor 1 , Tung 

C. Lee 2 , Oren A. Scherman 2 , Ruben Esteban 3 , Javier 

Aizpurua 3 , Fumin Huang 1 , Jeremy J. Baumberg 1 , 

Sumeet Mahajan 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Cambridge, 

UK; 2 Chemistry, Univ. of Cambridge, UK; 3 Donostia 

International Physics Center, Spain. Aggregation 

of Au nanoparticles with rigid cucurbit[5]uril 

molecules generates fixed inter-particle separation 

of 0.91nm, exhibiting discrete plasmonic modes 

which elucidate nanoscale growth and serve as 

molecular-recognition based SERS substrates. 

CTuN2 • 14:00 

Ultra-low Power Fiber-coupled Gallium Arsenide 

Photonic Crystal Cavity Electro-optic 

Modulator, Gary Shambat 1 , Bryan Ellis 1 , Arka 

Majumdar 1 , Jelena Vuckovic 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA. 

We demonstrate electro-optic modulation in a 

GaAs laterally doped photonic crystal cavity diode 

with ultra-low switching energy of several fJ/bit. 

A short non-radiative carrier lifetime allows fast 

switching with an upper threshold of 100 GHz. 

QTuI2 • 14:00 

Nonlocality in Multilayered Metal-Dielectric 

Optical Metamaterials, Alexey A. Orlov 1 , Pavel M. 

Voroshilov 1 , Pavel A. Belov 1,2 , Yuri S. Kivshar 1,3 ; 1 St. 

Petersburg State Univ. ITMO, Russian Federation; 

2 

Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK; 3 Nonlinear 

Physics Centre, The Australian National Univ., Australia. 

We have accomplished rigorous dispersion 

analysis and showed clearly impact of nonlocality 

on properties of multilayered metal-dielectric 

metamaterial. The main discovered effect is an 

appearance of additional extraordinary waves in 

the metamaterial. 


QTuH3 • 14:15 

Simultaneous Nanometer and Femtosecond 

Spatiotemporal Control of Optical Fields, 

Samuel Berweger 1 , Joanna Atkin 1 , Xiaoji Xu 1 , 

Robert Olmon 1 , Markus B. Raschke 1 ; 1 Department 

of Physics and JILA, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, 

USA. We demonstrate independent spatiotemporal 

control of optical fields on nanometer and 

femtosecond scales, enabled by the adiabatic 

and mode-matched surface plasmon polariton 

nanofocusing ability of 3D Au tips, combined with 

femtosecond pulse-shaping. 

QTuH4 • 14:30 

Hyperspectral Nanoscale Imaging on Dielectric 

Substrates with Coaxial Optical Antenna 

Scan Probes, Alexander Weber-Bargioni 1 , Adam 

Schwartzberg 1 , Matteo Cornaglia 1 , Frank Ogletree 1 , 

Reuven Gordon 2 , YuanJie Pang 2 , Stefano Cabrini 1 , 

Peter James Schuck 1 ; 1 Molecular Foundry, Lawrence 

Berkeley National Lab, USA; 2 Dept. of Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Univ. of Victoria, Canada. 

We have demonstrated hyperspectral tip-enhanced 

Raman imaging on dielectric substrates using 

nano-fabricated coaxial antenna tips. A Raman 

map of CNTs image lead to unprecedented chemical 

mapping with a resolution of ~ 20 nm. 

CTuN3 • 14:15 

Non-Blocking Operation of a Tunable Compact 

Optical Filter with Large FSR, Hugo L. Lira 1 , 

Michal Lipson 1,2 , Carl B. Poitras 1 ; 1 Cornell Univ., 

USA; 2 Kavli Inst. at Cornell, USA. We fabricate 

and characterize a CMOS-compatible, Mach- 

Zehnder-coupled, 2nd-order-ring-resonator filter 

with doubled free spectral range and demonstrate 

non-blocking operation while tuning it to a new 

wavelength. 

CTuN4 • 14:30 

DPSK Modulation Using a Microring Modulator, 

Kishore Padmaraju 1 , Noam Ophir 1 , Sasikanth 

Manipatruni 2 , Carl B. Poitras 2 , Michal Lipson 2 , 

Keren Bergman 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, Columbia 

Univ., USA; 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Cornell Univ., USA. We present the first 

experimental demonstration of DPSK modulation 

using a microring modulator. A 250-Mb/s electrooptic 

silicon microring modulator is shown with a 

measured 2-dB power penalty in comparison to a 

commercial LiNbO 3 phase modulator. 

QTuI3 • 14:15 

Paper Withdrawn 

QTuI4 • 14:30 

Spin Symmetry Breaking in Thermal Emission, 

Erez Hasman 1 , Vladimir Kleiner 1 , Kobi Frischwasser 

1 , Nir Dahan 1 , Yuri Gorodetski 1 , Igal Balin 1 ; 

1 

Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Inst., Technion-Inst. 

for Technology of Israel, Israel. We report on a spinsymmetry 

breaking in thermal radiation from a 

coupled thermal antenna array, supporting localized 

phonon-polaritons, whose local anisotropy 

axis is rotated in space. 

JTuF2 • 14:15 Invited 

Triple Photons and Triple Slits - a New Frontier 

in Quantum Mechanics Tests, Thomas Jennewein 

1 , H. Hubel 1 , D. Hamel 1 , A. Fedrizzi 2 , S. 

Ramelov 3 , K. Resch 1 , U. Sinha 1 , C. Couteau 4 , R. 

Laflamme 1 , Gregor Weihs 6 ; 1 Univ. of Waterloo, 

Canada, 2 Dept. of Physics and Centre for Quantum 

Computer Technology, Univ. of Brisbane, Australia, 

3 

Inst. for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, 

Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Austria, 4 Lab de 

Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique, 

Univ. de Technologie de Troyes, France, 5 Perimeter 

Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Canada, 6 Inst. für 

Experimentalphysik, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria. We 

will present our recent results in the generation of 

triple photons as well as triple slits, both providing 

interesting perspectives on the foundations 

of quantum mechanics and quantum optics. The 

creation of correlated triple photons [1] is a highly 

desirable process for research on quantum optics, 

novel states of three-photon entanglement, and applications 

in quantum information processing. 

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13:45–15:30 

CTuO • Ultrafast Pulse 

Characterization 

David Gaudiosi, Raydiance, Inc., 

USA, Presider 

13:45–15:30 

QTuJ • Quantum Measurement 

and Metrology 

Shengwang Du, The Hong Kong 

Univ. of Science and Technology, 

Hong Kong, Presider 

13:45–15:30 

ATuD • Applications of Mid-UV 

LEDs 

Remis Gaska, Sensor Electronic 

Technology, Inc., USA, Presider 

CTuO1 • 13:45 Invited 

Characterizing Ultrashort Pulses One Photon 

at a Time, Osip Schwartz 1 , Oren Raz 1 , Ori Katz 1 , 

Nirit Dudovich 1 , Dan Oron 1 ; 1 Physics of Complex 

Systems, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. A linear 

self-referenced technique for temporal characterization 

of ultraweak pulse trains is presented. 

Shot-noise limited time-resolved single photon 

detection enables temporal resolution down to 10fs 

for pulse trains with ~1 photon per pulse. 

QTuJ1 • 13:45 

Quantum-Light-Enhanced Optical Magnetometry, 

Florian Wolfgramm 1 , Alessandro Cere 1 , 

Yannick A. de Icaza Astiz 1 , Federica A. Beduini 1 , 

Ana Predojevic 1 , Marco Koschorreck 1 , Morgan W. 

Mitchell 1 ; 1 ICFO - The Inst. of Photonic Sciences, 

Spain. We demonstrate a light-shot-noise-limited 

magnetometer based on the Faraday effect in a 

hot unpolarized ensemble of rubidium atoms. By 

using off-resonant, polarization-squeezed probe 

light, we improve the sensitivity of the magnetometer 

by 3.2 dB. 

ATuD1 • 13:45 Tutorial 

Water and Air Treatment Using Ultraviolet 

Light Sources, Gordon Knight 1 ; 1 Research, Trojan 

Technologies, Canada. Advances in production 

of novel UV light sources is reviewed. The use 

of these devices for air and water purification 

is described, along with necessary validation 

procedures for verifying the operation of water 

disinfection systems. 

CTuO2 • 14:15 

Measurement of Energy Contrast of Amplified 

Ultrashort Pulses using Cross Polarized Wave 

Generation and Spectral Interferometry, Marin 

Iliev 1 , Amanda K. Meier 1 , Daniel E. Adams 1,2 , Jeff 

A. Squier 1 , Charles G. Durfee 1 ; 1 Physics, Colorado 

School of Mines, USA; 2 Physics, Univ. of Colorado, 

Boulder, USA. We interfere an amplified output 

pulse with a copy that has been converted using 

third-order cross-polarized wave generation. 

The ASE pedestal shows as a background in 

the interference, yielding the short-pulse/ASE 

energy contrast. 

CTuO3 • 14:30 

Self-referenced spectral interferometry in the 

UV domain, Stéphanie Grabielle 1,2 , Sébastien Coudreau 

1 , Vincent Crozatier 1 , Nicolas Forget 1 , Fabien 

Lepetit 2 , Olivier Gobert 2 , Thomas Oksenhendler 1 ; 

1 

FASTLITE, France; 2 IRAMIS, Service Photons 

Atomes & Molécules, CEA, France. Self-referenced 

spectral interferometry based on Cross-polarized 

wave generation is experimentally demonstrated 

on UV pulses at 400 and 266nm. Specific problems 

are discussed including multiple pulse measurement, 

dynamic limitation, temporal range. 

QTuJ2 • 14:00 

Interaction-based quantum metrology giving 

a scaling beyond the Heisenberg limit, Mario 

Napolitano 1 , Marco Koschorreck 1,2 , Brice Dubost 1,3 , 

Naeimeh Behbood 1 , Robert J. Sewell 1 , Morgan W. 

Mitchell 1 ; 1 Quantum Optics Group, ICFO-Inst. of 

Photonic Sciences, Spain; 2 Department of Physics, 

Univ. of Cambridge, UK; 3 Laboratoire Matriaux et 

Penomenes Quantiques, Universite Paris Diderot, 

France. Atom-mediated optical nonlinearities, 

generated within an atom-light quantum interface, 

allow spin measurement with sensitivity 

that scales better than the Heisenberg limit. This 

demonstrates interactions as a new resource for 

quantum metrology. 

QTuJ3 • 14:15 Invited 

Quantum Sensors, Computing, Metrology, and 

Imaging, Jonathan P. Dowling 1 ; 1 Inst. for Theoretical 

Physics, Lousiana State Univ., USA. Quantum 

states of light can be used to make measurements 

and produce images beyond classical limits. 

We review recent advances in producing such 

states of light using ideas from optical quantum 

computing. 

Gordon Knight is currently a Research Manager 

and Photonics leader at Trojan Technologies. 

Trojan Technologies is a world leader in water 

disinfection technology using ultraviolet light. 

Responsibilities include developing new light 

sources and sensors for UV light, and adapting 

them for use in commercial products. Bachelor’s, 

Master’s and PhD. Degrees were obtained in the 

field of Chemistry at the Univ. of Waterloo, with 

specialization in laser chemistry. He then joined 

Bell-Northern Research, becoming a Senior 

Scientist in materials research and design of 

high speed lasers and detectors for fiber optics 

communication systems. He is a current member 

of the Ontario Photonics Technology Industry 

Cluster (OPTIC), the Chemical Inst. of Canada 

(CIC) and the Optical Society of America. He is 

the author of many published papers in the field 

of optical materials and devices, as well as light 

sources for water treatment, and holds many 

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13:45–15:30 

CTuP • Novel Semiconductor 

Lasers 

Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Inst. of 

Technology, Japan, Presider 

13:45–15:30 

ATuE • Sensors and Imaging 

for Scientific and Security 

Applications 

Emma Springate, Rutherford 

Appleton Lab (Artemis), UK, 

Presider 

13:45–15:30 

QTuK • Optical Processes in 

Graphene 

Junichiro Kono, Rice Univ., USA, 

Presider 

13:45–15:30 

CTuQ • Ultrafast and Broadband 

Nonlinear Optics 

Andrew Schober, Lockheed 

Martin Coherent Technologies, 

USA, Presider 

CTuP1 • 13:45 

High-Power BCB Encapsulated VCSELs based 

on InP, Tobias Gruendl 1 , Michael Mueller 1 , Kathrin 

Geiger 1 , Christian Grasse 1 , Gerhard Boehm 1 , Ralf 

Meyer 1 , Markus C. Amann 1 ; 1 Walter Schottky Institut, 

Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. 

The high temperature behavior of short cavity 

InP based VCSEL devices with 5.5 µm apertures 

is presented. They show record optical output 

powers and SMSRs beyond 50 dB over the whole 

temperature range. 

ATuE1 • 13:45 

An Ultra-sensitive DC and AC Accelerometer 

Using Dual Superluminal Zero-Area L-shaped 

Ring Lasers, Selim M. Shahriar 1 , Shih Tseng 1 , 

Joshua Yablon 1 , Honam Yum 1 ; 1 Northwestern 

Univ., USA. We show that a pair of zero-area 

superluminal ring lasers, each configured in an 

L-shape, can perform as an ultrasensitive DC and 

AC accelerometer, with sensitivity as small as 10 

pico-g/root-Hz, and high dynamic range 

QTuK1 • 13:45 

Very Slow Carrier Cooling in Graphene Measured 

by Optical/THz Pump-Probe Spectroscopy, 

Jared Strait 1 , Haining Wang 1 , Shriram 

Shivaraman 1 , Virgil Shields 1 , Michael Spencer 1 , 

Farhan Rana 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Cornell Univ., USA. We present results on the 

relaxation dynamics of excited carriers in graphene 

by optical/THz pump-probe spectroscopy. Our 

data indicates that carrier cooling is very slow at 

low temperatures where optical phonon emission 

becomes inefficient. 

CTuQ1 • 13:45 Invited 

Liquid Crystals Nonlinear Optics - CW to Femtoseconds 

All-Optical Signal Processing, Iam 

Choon Khoo 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania 

State Univ., USA. We present an overview of recent 

results obtained in pure and nano-dopant modified 

liquid crystals which possess large ultrafast 

nonlinear nonlinearities for all-optical processing 

with lasers of wide ranging temporal and spectral 

characteristics. 

CTuP2 • 14:00 

Tailored Intensity Distributions with Vertical- 

Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Systems, Stephan 

Gronenborn 1 , Holger Moench 2 , Michael Miller 3 , 

Peter Loosen 1 ; 1 Chair of Optical Systems Technologies, 

RWTH Aachen, Germany; 2 Philips Research 

Laboratories, Germany; 3 Philips Technologie GmbH 

U-L-M Photonics, Germany. Robust top-hat laser 

beams with a large degree of freedom of the outer 

shape and scalable in optical power are realised by 

laser modules consisting of surface-emitting laser 

diodes (VCSELs) and a simple optic. 

ATuE2 • 14:00 

Demonstration of a DMD-based Compressive 

Sensing (CS) Spectral Imaging System, Yuehao 

Wu 1 , Iftekhar Mirza 1 , Gonzalo Arce 1 , Dennis 

Prather 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Univ. of Delaware, USA. We present a DMD-based 

spectral imaging system, which uses a DMD to 

impose CS measurements on the spatial/spectral 

information of the imaging scene. The original 

spatial/spectral information can be reconstructed 

from the CS measurements numerically. 

QTuK2 • 14:00 

Diffusion and energy relaxation of hot carriers 

in grapheme, Brian Ruzicka 1 , Lalani K. Werake 1 , 

Nardeep Kumar 1 , Shuai Wang 2 , Kian Ping Loh 2 , 

Hui Zhao 1 ; 1 Univ. of Kansas, USA; 2 National Univ. 

of Singapore, Singapore. Diffusion and energy 

relaxation of hot carriers in graphene are studied 

by high-resolution pump-probe techniques. Diffusion 

coefficients, energy relaxation rates and 

optical phonon emissions time are determined. 


CTuP3 • 14:15 

Drive-Current Tuning of Self-Oscillation 

Frequency of External Cavity VCSEL, Clinton 

J. Smith 1 , Wen-Di Li 1 , Gerard Wysocki 1 , Stephen 

Y. Chou 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, Princeton 

Univ., USA. We demonstrated the tuning of the 

self-oscillation frequency of an external cavity 

VCSEL using drive current. This frequency tuning 

occurs for all cavity lengths constructed; however, 

the degree of frequency tuning correlates with 

cavity length. 

ATuE3 • 14:15 

An integrated, noninvasive, fiber optic sensor 

for electric and magnetic field measurement 

applications, Anthony Garzarella 1 , Dong Ho 

Wu 1 ; 1 Naval Research Lab, USA. We describe 

a ruggedized, nonmetallic, fiber optic sensor 

utilizing nonlinear crystals for measurements of 

electric and magnetic fields. Extensive field test 

results in a variety of RF sources (from dc to 20 

GHz) are reported. 

QTuK3 • 14:15 

Observation of the relativistic response of an 

electron-hole plasma in graphene on femtosecond 

timescales, Keshav M. Dani 1 , Jinho Lee 1 , 

Rishi Sharma 2 , Aditya Mohite 1 , Charu C. Galande 3 , 

Pulickel M. Ajayan 3 , Andrew M. Dattelbaum 1 , Han 

Htoon 1 , Antoinette J. Taylor 1 , Rohit P. Prasankumar 

1 ; 1 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los 

Alamos National Lab, USA; 2 Theoretical Division, 

Los Alamos National Lab, USA; 3 Department of 

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 

Rice Univ., USA. Visible pump-probe spectroscopy 

isolates the femtosecond Drude response of a photogenerated 

electron-hole plasma in monolayer 

graphene. The observed nonlinear scaling versus 

carrier density reveals the relativistic nature of the 

electron-hole plasma. 

CTuQ2 • 14:15 

Supercontinuum Generation near 2 μm in Periodically 

Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides, 

Christopher Phillips 1 , Carsten Langrock 1 , Martin 

M. Fejer 1 , Jie Jiang 2 , Ingmar Hartl 2 , Martin E. 

Fermann 2 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA; 2 IMRA America, 

Inc., USA. We demonstrate spectral broadening 

and self-frequency-shift around 2-μm wavelengths 

in periodically poled LiNbO 3 waveguides, in agreement 

with simulations. We show numerically that 

octave-spanning spectra can be achieved with 6 nJ 

of pulse energy. 

CTuP4 • 14:30 

Long-wavelength (λ≈ 14 µm) Quantum Cascade 

Lasers with Low Threshold and High Characteristic 

Temperature (~ 300 K), Xue Huang 1 , 

William O. Charles 1 , Claire F. Gmachl 1 ; 1 Princeton 

Univ., USA. We demonstrate a high-performance 

Quantum Cascade laser at ~ 14 µm wavelength. It 

shows a low threshold current density of 2.1 kA/ 

cm 2 at 300 K and high characteristic temperature 

of 309 K around room temperature. 

ATuE4 • 14:30 

Explosive Sensing using Multiple-Excitation- 

Wavelength Resonance-Raman Scattering, 

Balakishore Yellampelle 1 , Mikhail Sluch 1 , Sanford 

Asher 2 , Brian Lemoff 1 ; 1 Advanced Technology 

Group, WVHTC Foundation, USA; 2 Department 

of Chemistry, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA. We have 

developed a new technique that uses Raman 

spectra obtained from multiple DUV excitation 

wavelengths for explosive detection. The strong 

dependence on excitation wavelength of the Raman 

signal provides a unique signature improving 

specificity. 

QTuK4 • 14:30 

Interlayer Electronic Coupling Observed by 

Polarization Dependent Coherently Controlled 

Photocurrent Generation in Multilayer Epitaxial 

Graphene, Dong Sun 1 , Julien Rioux 2 , J. E. Sipe 2 , 

Claire Berger 3 , Walt De Heer 3 , Theodore Norris 1 ; 

1 

Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Univ. of 

Michigan, USA; 2 Department of Physics and Inst. 

for Optical Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada; 

3 

School of Physics, Georgia Inst. of Technology, 

USA. We measured the third order nonlinear tensor 

in epitaxial graphene by studying coherently 

controlled photocurrent direction as function 

of pump light polarization. The measured tensor 

element indicates the presence of interlayer 

electronic coupling. 

CTuQ3 • 14:30 

Wideband Supercontinuum Generation in Tapered 

Tellurite Microstructured Fibers, Yasutake 

Ohishi 1 , Guanshi Qin 1,2 , Xin Yan 1 , Meisong Liao 1 , 

Atsushi Mori 3 , Takenobu Suzuki 1 ; 1 Research Center 

for Advanced Photon Technology, Toyota Technological 

Inst., Japan; 2 Jilin Univ., China; 3 NTT, Japan. 

Enhanced soliton trapping of dispersive waves in 

a tapered tellurite microstructured fiber pumped 

by a 1557 nm femtosecond laser is demonstrated. 

The short wavelength edge of supercontinuum 

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13:45–15:30 

CTuR • Advances in III-V Lasers 

Jørn Hvam, Technical Univ. of 

Denmark, Denmark, Presider 

CTuR1 • 13:45 Tutorial 

Advances in Quantum Dot Lasers: Classical 

Lasers and Single Artificial Atom Lasers with 

a Nanocavity, Yasuhiko Arakawa, Univ. of Tokyo, 

Japan. Recent advances in quantum dot–based 

nanophotonics are discussed, including the current 

state of the art of quantum dot lasers and 

cavity-QED in quantum-dot-2D/3D-photoniccrystal-nanocavity 

coupled systems for single 

artificial atom lasers and related physics. 

13:45–15:30 

JTuG • Photoacoustic Imaging & 

Microscopy 

Robert Huber, Inst. for 

Biomolecular Optics, Ludwig 

Maximillians Univ., Germany, 

Presider 

JTuG1 • 13:45 Tutorial 

Photoacoustic Imaging in Biomedicine, Roger J. 

Zemp 1 ; 1 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. 

of Alberta, Canada. This tutorial will outline some 

of the fundamental physical principles of photoacoustic 

imaging, will describe key technological 

embodiments, and will finally describe exciting 

new applications in biomedicine. 

13:45–15:30 

JTuH • Laser Direct Write 

Fabrication 

Guido Hennig, Daetwyler 

Graphics AG, Switzerland, 

Presider 

JTuH1 • 13:45 

Laser-Induced Forward Transfer of Pre- 

Machined Donor Films, Kamal Kaur 1 , Matthias 

Feinaeugle 1 , David P. Banks 1 , Jun-Yu Ou 1 , F.Di 

Pietrantonio 2 , E. D. Verona 2 , Collin Sones 1 , Robert 

W. Eason 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics Research Centre, Univ. 

of Southampton, UK; 2 Inst. of Acoustics and Sensors, 

CNR, Italy. Micro-pellets of ZnO with a diameter 

of 5-10 μm and extremely smooth edges have been 

printed using laser-induced forward transfer from 

1 µm thick films, that had been pre-patterned using 

focussed ion beam (FIB) machining. 

Yasuhiko Arakawa received his BS degree from 

The University of Tokyo and his MS and PhD 

degrees from The University of Tokyo in 1975, 

1977 and 1980, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. 

He joined the University of Tokyo as an 

Assistant Professor in 1980, and was appointed as a 

Full Professor in 1993. He is currently the Director 

of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics 

(NanoQuine) and a Professor at Institute of 

Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He is a 

technical advisor of QD Laser Inc. He is a member 

of Science Council of Japan, Vice President of ICO, 

IEEE Fellow, OSA Fellow, JSAP Fellow, and IEICE 

Fellow, respectively. Arakawa’s research interest 

has been in the area of physics, and growth for 

quantum dot –based new light sources such as 

quantum dot lasers, single photon emitters and 

entangled photon generators. He has authored 490 

papers in leading technical journals and has given 

more than 200 invited presentations at international 

conferences. He has received many awards 

including IBM Science Award (91), Nissan Science 

Award (92), Quantum Device Award (02), IEEE/ 

LEOS William Streifer Award(04), Leo Esaki Prize 

(04), Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation 

Award(05), Fujiwara Prize (07), Prime Minister 

Award(07), IEEE David Sarnoff Award (09), Medal 

with Purple Ribbon (09), Minister of Economy, 

Trade and Industry Award (10), C&C Prize (10) , 

and OSA Nick Holonyak Award (11). 

Roger Zemp is an Assistant Professor of Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Alberta. He 

earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the Univ. of Alberta 

in 1998, his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer 

Engineering from the Univ. of Toronto in 2000, 

and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from 

the Univ. of California, Davis, in 2004. He was a 

postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Lihong 

Wang at Texas A&M Univ. from 2004-2006, and 

then at Washington Univ. in St. Louis from 2006- 

2007. His research interests include photoacoustic 

imaging, biomedical optics, ultrasound imaging, 

microfabricated transducers, and technologies for 

biomedical diagnosis and therapy. 

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JTuH2 • 14:00 

Waveguide Mode Filter Fabricated Using Laser- 

Induced Forward Transfer, Kamal Kaur 1 , Ananth 

Z. Subramanian 1 , David P. Banks 1 , Matthias Feinaeugle 

1 , Charlie Y. J. Ying 1 , Collin Sones 1 , Sakellaris 

Mailis 1 , Robert W. Eason 1 ; 1 Univ. of Southampton, 

UK. Titanium in-diffused lithium niobate 

index-tapered waveguides have been fabricated 

using laser-induced forward transfer technique 

for mode-filtering applications. Details of their 

fabrication, losses and transmission characterization 

are presented. 

JTuH3 • 14:15 Invited 

Printing Thin Films by Laser Decal Transfer, 

Alberto Pique, NRL, USA. Laser printing relies in 

the laser forward transfer of functional materials 

for the direct-write of electronic, optical and 

sensor devices. Laser decal transfer can generate 

patterns and structures at the microscale for digital 

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QTuH • Plasmonic Field 

Enhancement and 

Concentration—Continued 

CTuN • Micro and Nano- 

Photonic Modulators— 

Continued 

QTuI • Complex Media— 

Continued 

JTuF • Joint Symposium on 

Quantum Communications III: 

Future Directions—Continued 

QTuH5 • 14:45 

Coupled Mode Theory of Field Enhancement in 

Complex Metal Nanoparticles, Greg Sun 1 , Jacob B. 

Khurgin 2 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, 

USA; 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns 

Hopkins Univ., USA. We present an analytical 

model that takes into account the coupling between 

the surface Plasmon modes in complex 

metal nanostructures for field enhancement in 

the gap of two coupled metal spheres. 

CTuN5 • 14:45 Invited 

40GHz Zero Chirp Single-ended EO Polymer 

Modulators with Low Half-wave Voltage, 

Guomin Yu 1 , Jonathan Mallari 1 , Hao Shen 1 , 

Eric Miller 1 , Cailin Wei 1 , Vadim Shofman 1 , Dan 

Jin 1 , Baoquan Chen 1 , Hui Chen 1 , Raluca Dinu 1 ; 

1 

GigOptix Inc., USA. Broadband single-ended 

EO polymer modulators have been designed, 

fabricated and tested. These modulators have a 

bandwidth of 40.2GHz, chirp parameter of -0.03, 

half-wave voltage of 1.9V, extinction ratio of 20dB 

and optical insertion loss of 5.8dB. 

QTuI5 • 14:45 

Tight Binding Model Study of Photonic One- 

Way Edge Mode, Kejie Fang 1 , Zongfu Yu 1 , Shanhui 

Fan 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA. A microscopic 

picture of the emergence of one-way edge mode 

in a honeycomb lattice of resonators made from 

magneto-optic material is obtained using tight 

binding model. One-way slow light scheme is 

proposed based on the edge mode. 

JTuF3 • 14:45 

Fiber Transport of Spatially Entangled Qutrits, 

Wolfgang Löffler 1 , Eric R. Eliel 1 , Han P. Woerdman 1 , 

Tijmen G. Euser 2 , Michael Scharrer 2 , Philip Russell 2 ; 

1 

Leiden Inst. of Physics, Leiden Univ., Netherlands; 

2 

Max Planck Inst. for the Science of Light, Germany. 

We report the successful transport of spatially entangled 

qutrits through a photonic crystal fiber. We 

test entanglement in two 2D subspaces; in one of 

them we show violation of a Bell inequality. 

QTuH6 • 15:00 

Surface-Plasmon Coupled X-apertures for Optical 

Field Enhancement and Localization, Maxim 

Abashin 1,2 , Amit Agrawal 1,2 , Henri Lezec 1 ; 1 Center 

for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National 

Inst. of Standards and Technology, USA; 2 Maryland 

Nanocenter, Univ. of Maryland, USA. We design, 

fabricate and characterize periodic arrays of X- 

shaped nano-aperture antennas in Ag films. By 

matching the plasmonic resonance of individual 

antennas to that of the array, we demonstrate high 

field enhancement and localization. 

QTuI6 • 15:00 

Zero phase accumulation in negative-index 

photonic crystal superlattices, Serdar Kocaman 

1 , Mehmet Aras 1 , Pin-Chun Hsieh 1 , Nicolae 

C. Panoiu 2 , Mingbin Yu 3 , Dim-Lee Kwong 3 , Aaron 

Stein 4 , Chee Wei Wong 1 ; 1 Columbia Univ., USA; 

2 

Univ. College London, UK; 3 The Inst. of Microelectronics, 

Singapore; 4 Brookhaven National Lab, 

USA. We demonstrate zero phase delay in pathaveraged 

zero-index photonic crystal superlattices. 

Phase differences are measured with integrated 

Mach-Zehnder interferometers and all measurements 

agree well with theoretical analysis and 

simulations. 

JTuF4 • 15:00 

Quantum teleportation of Schrödinger’s cat 

wave-packets of light, Hugo Benichi 1 , Shuntaro 

Takeda 1 , Noriyuki Lee 1 , Ladislav Mista 2 , Radim 

Filip 2 , Elanor Huntington 3 , Akira Furusawa 1 ; 

1 

Department of Applied Physics, The Univ. of Tokyo, 

Japan; 2 Department of Optics, Palacký Univ., 

Czech Republic; 3 Centre for Quantum Computation 

and Communication Technology, The Univ. 

of New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate 

teleportation of Schrödinger’s cat wave-packets 

of light in a fully quantum regime. To further 

increase non-classicality of operations we propose 

two improvements: wave-packet frequency modematching; 

conditional teleportation. 


QTuH7 • 15:15 

3D Imaging of the Scattering Pattern of Plasmonic 

Nanoantennas by Heterodyne Numerical 

Holography, Sarah Y. Suck 1 , Stéphane Collin 2 , Nathalie 

Bardou 2 , Yannick De Wilde 1 , Tessier Gilles 1 ; 

1 

ESPCI - Institut Langevin, France; 2 Laboratoire 

de Photonique et Nanostructures, LPN, France. 

Full-field heterodyne holography is applied to 

record the 3D field scattered by plasmonic gold 

nanoantennas in and out of the resonance wavelength, 

determined by spectroscopy. Results are 

compared to simulations. 

CTuN6 • 15:15 

Slow Light Enhanced E-O Polymer Nano- 

Photonic Modulator with Ultra-High Effective 

In-Device r33, Alan Wang 1 , Che-Yun Lin 2 , Swapnajit 

Chakravarty 1 , Jingdong Luo 3 , Alex K.-Y. Jen 3 , 

Ray T. Chen 2 ; 1 Omega Optics, Inc., USA; 2 The Univ. 

of Texas at Austin, USA; 3 The Univ. of Washington, 

USA. We demonstrate an E-O polymer infiltrated 

silicon photonic crystal slot waveguide modulator. 

Enhanced by improved poling efficiency and slow 

light effect, we achieve an ultra-high effective r33 

of 735pm/V and VπL of only 0.44Vmm. 

QTuI7 • 15:15 

Optical Tractor Beams in Scattering-induced 

Left-Handed Fields, Alessandro Salandrino 1 , 

Demetrios Christodoulides 1 ; 1 CREOL, Univ. of 

Central Florida, USA. We show here that left 

handed electromagnetic fields can be established 

over extended regions in fully dielectric structures. 

Particles immersed in such field configurations 

would move upstream against the radiation pressure 

of the incident wave. 

JTuF5 • 15:15 

Experimental security analysis a four-photon 

private state, Krzysztof Dobek 1,2 , Michal Karpinski 3 , 

Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski 3 , Konrad Banaszek 1,3 , 

Pawel Horodecki 4 ; 1 Inst. of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus 

Univ., Poland; 2 Faculty of Physics, Adam 

Mickiewicz Univ., Poland; 3 Faculty of Physics, Univ. 

of Warsaw, Poland; 4 Faculty of Applied Physics and 

Mathematics, Technical Univ. of Gdansk, Poland. 

We report experimental generation of a noisy 

entangled four-photon state that exhibits a separation 

between secure key contents and distillable 

entanglement. This difference is exposed by a 

detailed analysis of its privacy properties. 

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CTuO • Ultrafast Pulse 

Characterization—Continued 

QTuJ • Quantum Measurement 

and Metrology—Continued 

ATuD • Applications of Mid-UV 

LEDs—Continued 

CTuO4 • 14:45 

Double-Blind Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating 

for Measuring Two Different Pulses Simultaneously, 

Vikrant K. Chauhan 1 , Jacob Cohen 1 , Lina 

Xu 1 , Peter Vaughan 1 , Antonio Consoli 2,1 , Justin Ratner 

1 , Tsz Chun Wong 1 , Rick Trebino 1 ; 1 Georgia Inst. 

of Technology, USA; 2 E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, 

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. We 

demonstrate a simple method for simultaneously 

and robustly measuring two arbitrary, potentially 

very complex pulses, which we call “double-blind” 

FROG. It uses the standard FROG algorithm and 

can operate on a single shot. 

QTuJ4 • 14:45 

Quantum non-demolition measurements 

of light via the carrier-envelope phase of 

mode-locked lasers, Bastian Borchers 1 , Günter 

Steinmeyer 1 , Christian Grebing 1 , Sebastian Koke 1 ; 

1 

Max-Born-Institut, Germany. A detection limit 

of 10 dB below the quantum limit is experimentally 

demonstrated for a mode-locked-laser-based 

quantum non-demolition measurement scheme. 

The scheme is completely collinear and exhibits a 

large read-out sensitivity. 

ATuD2 • 14:45 Invited 

Applications of Robust, Radiation Hard AlGaN 

Optoelectronic Devices in Space Exploration 

and High Energy Density Physics, Ke-Xun Sun 1,2 ; 

1 

Hansen Experimental Physics Lab, Stanford Univ., 

USA; 2 National Security Technologies, USA. We 

report demonstration of radiation hardness and 

environmental robustness of AlGaN deep UV 

Light Emitting Diodes and deep UV Photodiodes, 

and their applications in space science instruments 

and in High Energy Density Physics diagnostics. 

CTuO5 • 15:00 

40-photon-per-pulse spectral phase retrieval by 

shaper-assisted modified interferometric field 

autocorrelation, Chen-shao Hsu 1 , Hsin-Chien 

Chiang 1 , Hsiu-Po Chuang 1 , Chen-Bin Huang 1 , 

Shang-Da Yang 1 ; 1 National Tsing Hua Univ., 

Taiwan. We report on spectral phase retrieval 

of 400 fs pulses using shaper-assisted modified 

interferometric field autocorrelation. The coupled 

energy is only 5.2 aJ per pulse, corresponding to an 

unprecedented sensitivity of 2.7 times 10 -9 mW 2 . 

QTuJ5 • 15:00 

Light shifts of ground-state quantum beats: A 

monitor of quantum jumps, Andres D. Cimmarusti 

1 , David G. Norris 1 , Luis A. Orozco 1 , Pablo 

Barberis-Blostein 2 , Howard J. Carmichael 3 ; 1 Physics, 

Joint Quantum Inst. and NIST, Univ. of Maryland, 

USA; 2 Instituto de Investigacion en Matematicas 

Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional 

Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; 3 Physics, Univ. of 

Auckland, New Zealand. Two-mode cavity QED 

allows the observation of ground-state quantum 

Zeeman beats with the conditional measurement 

of the intensity. Continuous excitation produces 

quantum jumps that cause light shifts and induce 

decoherence. 

CTuO6 • 15:15 

SPIDER on-chip: a subpicosecond phase sensitive 

optical oscilloscope, Alessia Pasquazi 1 , 

Yongwoo Park 1 , Marco Peccianti 1 , Sai T. Chu 2 , Brent 

Little 2 , Roberto Morandotti 1 , Jose Azana 1 , David 

Moss 3 ; 1 INRS-EMT, Canada; 2 Infinera Ltd, USA; 

3 

IPOS and CUDOS, School of Physics, Australia. 

We report a CMOS-compatible monolithic device 

for the amplitude and phase characterization of ultrafast 

optical pulses based on FWM. It operates at 

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CTuP • Novel Semiconductor 

Lasers—Continued 

ATuE • Sensors and Imaging 

for Scientific and Security 

Applications—Continued 

QTuK • Optical Processes in 

Graphene—Continued 

CTuQ • Ultrafast and Broadband 

Nonlinear Optics—Continued 

CTuP5 • 14:45 

Room Temperature GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum 

Cascade Lasers with InGaP and InAlP Waveguides, 

Dmitry G. Revin 1 , Chris Atkins 1 , James P. 

Commin 1 , John W. Cockburn 1 , Yang Qiu 1 , Thomas 

Walther 1 , Ken Kennedy 1 , Andrey B. Krysa 1 ; 1 The 

Univ. of Sheffield, UK. We report the development 

of high temperature pulsed GaAs/AlGaAs 

quantum cascade lasers emitting in the wavelength 

range of 9 µm with threshold current density as low 

as 4.3 kA/cm 2 at 300K. 

ATuE5 • 14:45 Invited 

Terahertz spectral imaging for drug inspection, 

Kodo Kawase 1,2 , Aya Iwasaki 2 , Takayuki Shibuya 1,2 ; 

1 

RIKEN, Japan; 2 Nagoya Univ., Japan. The aim of 

this study was to apply terahertz technology for 

screening and identification of drugs-of-abuse in 

mail. We have introduced terahertz spectral imaging 

and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy using our 

tunable THz parametric sources. 

QTuK5 • 14:45 

Microscopic Study of Carrier Multiplication 

in Graphene, Torben Winzer 1 , Andreas Knorr 1 , 

Ermin Malic 1 ; 1 Institut für Theoretische Physik, 

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Microscopic 

calculations allow to track the ultrafast 

relaxation of optically excited charge carriers in 

graphene. Its unique band structure accounts for 

efficient Auger-type scattering channels resulting 

in a significant carrier multiplication. 

CTuQ4 • 14:45 

Temporal contrast improvement of femtosecond 

pulses by a self-diffraction process in a Kerr 

bulk medium, Jun Liu 1 ; 1 UEC, Japan, Japan. We 

improved the temporal contrast of a femtosecond 

pulse by more than four orders magnitude of its 

incident pulse using self-diffraction process in a 

0.5-mm-thick glass plate. The energy transform 

efficiency is about 12%. 

CTuP6 • 15:00 

Catastrophic Optical Damage at Front and Rear 

Facets of 975 nm Emitting Diode Lasers, Martin 

Hempel 1 , Jens W. Tomm 1 , Mathias Ziegler 2 , Thomas 

Elsässer 1 , Nicolas Michel 3 , Michel Krakowski 3 ; 

1 

Bereich C, Max-Born-Institut, Germany; 2 BAM 

Federal Inst. for Materials Research and Testing, 

Germany; 3 Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab, France. Catastrophic 

facet degradation at highest power levels 

is analyzed for different diode laser waveguide 

architectures. Degradation events at front and rear 

facet are analyzed and predominant damage at the 

rear is elucidated for Al-free waveguides. 

QTuK6 • 15:00 

Observation of Image States in Graphene on 

Ir(111) by Two-Photon Photoemission, Jerry 

I. Dadap 1 , Marko Kralj 2 , Marin Petrovich 2 , Kevin 

Knox 1 , Rohan Bhandari 1 , Po-Chun Yeh 1 , Nader 

Zaki 1 , Richard M. Osgood 1 ; 1 Microelectronics Sciences 

Laboratories, Columbia Univ., USA; 2 Inst. 

of Physics, Croatia. We report observation of 

image states of graphene on Ir(111) using twophoton 

photoemission. We also investigate the 

2PPE dependence on graphene coverage, photon 

energy, and electron scattering angle to study the 

graphene-substrate interaction. 

CTuQ5 • 15:00 

Optimally Chirped CARS Spectroscopy Using 

Fiber Stretchers, Carsten Cleff 1 , Jörn Epping 1 , Petra 

Gross 1 , Carsten Fallnich 1 ; 1 Inst. of Applied Physics, 

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. 

High spectral resolution CARS spectroscopy 

is performed using a femtosecond laser system. By 

employing fiber stretchers for easy pulse delivery 

and for optimally chirping, the spectral resolution 

was improved by a factor >16. 


CTuP7 • 15:15 

Lasing in metal-coated GaN nano-stripe at room 

temperature, Yow-Gwo Wang 1 , Cheng-Chang 

Chen 1 , Ching-Hsueh Chiu 1 , Ming-Yen Kuo 2 , Min- 

Hsiung Shih 1,2 , Hao-chung Kuo 1 ; 1 Department of 

Photonic & Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, 

National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan; 2 Research 

Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, 

Taiwan. We demonstrated lasing in a metal-coated 

GaN nano-stripe under room temperature pulsed 

operation, and the lasing mode at 370nm were 

observed. Aluminum and SiO 2 layers were coated 

on the undoped GaN nano-stripe. 

ATuE6 • 15:15 

High-Speed THz Biochip Reader System, 

Christian Debus 1 , Gunnar Spickermann 1 , Michael 

Nagel 2 , Peter Haring Bolívar 1 ; 1 High Frequency 

and Quantum Electronics, Univ. of Siegen, Germany; 

2 Inst. of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH 

Aachen, Germany. A new all-electronic system is 

presented for THz biochip read-out. It is superior 

to common time-domain spectroscopy systems 

in terms of size, speed and costs. Exemplary biochip 

measurements are compared to TDS based 

read-out data. 

QTuK7 • 15:15 

Identifying Edge Chirality of Graphene Using 

Polarization Resolved μ-Raman Spectroscopy, 

Milan Begliarbekov 1 , Onejae Sul 2 , Sokratis Kalliakos 

1 , Eui-Hyeok Yang 2 , Stefan Strauf 1 ; 1 Physics 

& Engineering Physics, Stevens Inst. of Technology, 

USA; 2 Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Inst. of 

Technology, USA. Development of optoelectronic 

devices based on the bandgap of nanosctructured 

graphene requires knowledge of edge chirality. We 

show that polarization resolved Raman spectroscopy 

can be used to determine the fractional edge 

composition of graphene. 


CTuQ6 • 15:15 

Crystal structure measured by nonlinear absorption 

using 3.1 μm femtosecond laser pulses, Sean 

E. Kirkwood 1,2 , Sarah Golin 1,2 , Olivier Chalus 3 , 

Alexandre Thai 3 , Jens Biegert 3,4 , Dennis D. Klug 1 , 

David M. Rayner 1 , Paul B. Corkum 1,2 ; 1 National Research 

Council Canada, Canada; 2 Univ. of Ottawa, 

Canada; 3 ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, 

Spain; 4 ICREA - Instituci Catalana de Recerca i 

Estudis Avanats, Spain. Infrared multiphoton adsorption 

at 3.1 μm in crystalline GaAs depends on 

the crystal alignment to the laser polarization. This 

reveals the roles electron mass and band structure 

play in multiphoton ionization inside solids. 


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CTuR • Advances in III-V 

Lasers—Continued 

JTuG • Photoacoustic Imaging & 

Microscopy—Continued 

JTuH • Laser Direct Write 

Fabrication—Continued 

CTuR2 • 14:45 Invited 

Recent Progress and Future Prospects in 

Quantum Cascade Lasers, Claire F. Gmachl, 

Princeton Univ., USA. The Quantum Cascade 

lasers’ strengths are their wavelength tailorability, 

high performance and fascinating design potential. 

We will discuss recent highlights, such as high 

efficiency and single-mode operation, artificially 

broadened gain, and novel unconventional laser 

schemes. 

JTuG2 • 14:45 

Development of Transient Absorption Ultrasonic 

Microscopy, Ryan L. Shelton 1 , Brian E. Applegate 

1 ; 1 Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M Univ., 

USA. We have developed a novel hybrid imaging 

modality that integrates nonlinear absorption with 

photoacoustic detection to achieve high resolution 

absorption imaging. Basic principles and recent 

progress will be discussed. 

JTuG3 • 15:00 

Vibrational Photoacoustic Microscopy for 

Depth-resolved Bond-selective Imaging of 

Tissues and Organisms, Han-Wei Wang 1 , Ning 

Chia 1 , Song Hu 2 , Wei Dou 1 , David Umulis 1 , Lihong 

V. Wang 2 , Michael Sturek 3,1 , Robert Lucht 1 , Ji-Xin 

Cheng 1 ; 1 Purdue Univ., USA; 2 Washington Univ., 

St. Louis, USA; 3 Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, 

USA. We realize vibrational photoacoustic microscopy 

using molecular excitation of overtone 

vibration and acoustic detection of the resultant 

pressure transients and demonstrate label-free 

3-D imaging in atherosclerosis tissues and in 

living organisms. 

JTuH4 • 14:45 

Experimental and Numerical Study of the 

Laser-Induced Printing of Liquid Materials, 

Matt Brown 1 , Craig B. Arnold 1 , Yiannis Ventikos 2 ; 

1 

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton 

Univ., USA; 2 Department of Engineering Science, 

Univ. of Oxford, UK. We present a numerical 

and experimental study of laser-induced jetting 

behavior associated with direct-write printing of 

liquids using a polymer absorbing layer. We focus 

on the limits of minimum material transfer that 

can be achieved. 

JTuH5 • 15:00 

Laser Metal Deposition of Steel Components 

using Machining Waste as Build Material, Khalid 

Mahmood 1 , Ashfaq Khan 1 , Andrew Pinkerton 1 , 

1 

School of MACE, Univ. of Manchester, UK.. Gas 

atomised metal powders are generally used in laser 

cladding. However, costly new powders prompt 

the use of machining swarf as an alternative build 

material. This paper reports on this investigation 

and establishes its feasibility. 

CTuR3 • 15:15 

Helically Propagating Modes in InGaAs Nanoneedle 

Lasers Grown on Poly-Silicon and Silicon 

Substrates, Thai-Truong Tran 1,2 , Roger Chen 2 , Kar 

Wei Ng 2 , Wai Son Ko 2 , Fanglu Lu 2 , Connie J. Chang- 

Hasnain 1,2 ; 1 Applied Science and Technology Group, 

Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA; 2 Department of 

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. 

of California, Berkeley, USA. InGaAs nanoneedle 

lasers were grown on both, polycrystalline-Si and 

(100)-Si substrates by low temperature (400 °C) 

MOCVD. Measured near field mode patterns 

agree well with FDTD simulations, confirming 

helically propagating modes as lasing modes. 

JTuG4 • 15:15 

Chemically-Specific Photoacoustic Imaging 

using Vibrational Raman Excitation, Vladislav 

Yakovlev 1 , Hao Zhang 2 , Georgi Petrov 1 , Gary 

Noojin 3 , Michael Denton 3 , Robert Thomas 4 , Marlan 

O. Scully 5,6 ; 1 Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA; 

2 

Northwestern Univ., USA; 3 Northrop Grumman, 

USA; 4 U.S. Air Force Research Lab, USA; 

5 

Texas A&M Univ., USA; 6 Princeton Univ., USA. 

We demonstrate, for the first time, molecular 

contrast imaging in deep tissue by successfully 

combining chemically-selective, stimulated 

Raman photoexcitation with high-frequency ultrasound 

detection. 

JTuH6 • 15:15 

The Evanescent Interaction of an Ultrafast 

Laser Inscribed Optical Waveguide, Stephen J. 

Beecher 1 , Robert R. Thomson 1 , Ajoy K. Kar 1 ; 1 EPS, 

Heriot-Watt Univ., UK. Ultrafast laser inscription 

has been used to produce an optical waveguide 

evanescent field sensor. Fabricated in a single 

step and exhibiting an insertion loss of 2.6 dB, the 

device had a visibility of 3.7 dB. 




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16:00–17:45 

QTuL • Exciton and Carrier 

Dynamics in Nanophotonic 

Systems 

Ahmet Yanik, Boston Univ., USA, 

Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuS • Mid-Infrared and 

Nonlinear Devices 

Michael Hochberg, Univ. of 

Washington, USA, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

QTuM • Metatronics and 

Transformation Optics 

Tolga Ergin, Karlsruhe Inst. of 

Technology, Germany, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

QTuN • Ultrafast Structural 

Dynamics and Collective 

Phenomena 

Jean-Yves Bigot, Univ. of 

Strasbourg - CNRS, France, 

Presider 

QTuL1 • 16:00 

All-Semiconductor Plasmonic System in Mid 

Infrared Range, Debin Li 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, 

Arizona State Univ., USA. The feasibility 

of an all-semiconductor plasmonic structure is 

studied using highly doped InAs for Mid infrared 

(MIR) wavelength range. We proposed an allsemiconductor 

active plasmonic system on-a-chip 

with integrated plasmonic source, waveguide, 

and detector. 

CTuS1 • 16:00 

Generation of a Telecom-to-mid-infrared 

Spanning Supercontinuum Using Siliconon-insulator 

Wire Waveguides, Bart Kuyken 1 , 

Xiaoping Liu 2 , Richard M. Osgood 2 , Yurii A. 

Vlasov 3 , Roel Baets 1 , Gunther Roelkens 1 , William 

M. Green 3 ; 1 PRG-imec, Ghent Univ., Belgium; 

2 

Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories, Columbia 

Univ., USA; 3 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 

USA. We demonstrate an ultra-broadband optical 

supercontinuum extending from 1.53µm up 

to 2.55µm, generated in a dispersion-engineered 

silicon photonic wire. The supercontinuum is generated 

using low power mid-infrared picosecond 

pump pulses at 2.12µm. 

QTuM1 • 16:00 Tutorial 

Optical Metatronics, Nader Engheta 1 ; 1 Department 

of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Univ. 

of Pennsylvania, USA. Metamaterial structures 

provide suitable platforms for unifying the concepts 

of electronics, photonics, and magnetics. In 

this tutorial, I give an overview of the fundamental 

concepts, recent developments, and future directions 

in the field of metatronics. 

QTuN1 • 16:00 

Femtosecond x-ray powder diffraction on KDP, 

Flavio Zamponi 1 , Philip Rothhardt 1 , Johannes 

Stingl 1 , Michael Woerner 1 , Thomas Elsaesser 1 ; 

1 

Max Born Inst., Germany. Ultrafast photoinduced 

changes of crystal structure and charge distributions 

in potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP), 

KH 2 PO 4 , are mapped by femtosecond x-ray 

powder diffraction. The formation of HPO 4 − and 

H 3 PO 4 − defects is revealed. 


QTuL2 • 16:15 

Ultracompact wavelength-selective siliconbased 

plasmonic components, Hong Son Chu 1 , 

Yuriy A. Akimov 1 , Ping Bai 1 , Er-Ping Li 1 , Wolfgang 

R. Hoefer 1 ; 1 Electronics and Photonics, A*STAR- 

Inst. of High Performance Computing, Singapore. 

High performance of a ring resonator and adddrop 

multiplexer with ultrasmall ring radius and 

sub-wavelength confinement area is reported. 

It has been achieved using the silicon-based 

hybrid dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide 

approach. 

QTuL3 • 16:30 

Broadband Electrical Permittivity of Gold for 

Plasmonics and Nano-Optics Applications, 

Glenn D. Boreman 2 , Timothy Johnson 3 , Andrew C. 

Jones 1 , Sang-Hyun Oh 3 , Robert Olmon 1 , Markus B. 

Raschke 1 , David Shelton 2 , Brian Slovick 2 ; 1 Department 

of Physics, and JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA; 

2 

Center for Research and Education in Optics and 

Lasers, Univ. of Central Florida, USA; 3 Department 

of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of 

Minnesota, USA. We measure the permittivity 

of bulk and film gold samples by spectroscopic 

ellipsometry from 200 nm to 20 μm, resolving 

inconsistencies on plasmon resonances, lifetime, 

and SPP propagation associated with imprecise 

current literature values. 

CTuS2 • 16:15 

Mid-Infrared Broadband Modulation Instability 

and 50 dB Raman Assisted Parametric Gain 

in Silicon Photonic Wires, Xiaoping Liu 1 , Bart 

Kuyken 2 , Gunther Roelkens 2 , Roel Baets 2 , Yurii A. 

Vlasov 3 , Richard M. Osgood 1 , William M. Green 3 ; 

1 

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia 

Univ., USA; 2 Photonic Research Group, Department 

of Information Technology, Ghent Univ. - IMEC, 

Belgium; 3 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. 

We demonstrate broadband modulation instability, 

> 40 dB parametric amplification with on-chip 

gain bandwidth > 580 nm, and narrowband 

Raman-assisted peak on-chip gain exceeding 50 

dB, using mid-infrared dispersion-engineered si 

nanophotonic wires. 

CTuS3 • 16:30 

Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire 

integrated waveguides for the mid-infrared, 

David Moss 1 ; 1 Sydney Univ., Australia. We report 

low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications 

to mid infrared optics. We achieve 

propagation losses of < 1dB/cm at 1550nm and < 

2dB/cm at 5.08 μm. 

Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor 

of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Professor 

of Bioengineering at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. 

He received his Ph.D. from Caltech. Selected as one 

of the Scientific American magazine 50 Leaders in 

Science and Technology in 2006 for developing 

the concepts of optical lumped nanocircuits, he is 

a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium 

Medalist, Fellow of IEEE, OSA, APS, and of American 

Association for the Advancement of Science 

(AAAS), and the recipient of the 2008 George 

H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, 

Fulbright Naples Chair Award, UPS Foundation 

Distinguished chair, NSF Presidential Young Investigator 

award, and several teaching awards. 

QTuN2 • 16:15 


QTuN3 • 16:30 

Coherent phonons in polycrystalline bismuth 

film monitored by ultrafast electron diffraction, 

Aleksey Bugayev 1 , Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah 1,2 , 

Ahmed Esmail 1,2 , Hani E. Elsayed-ali 1,2 ; 1 Applied 

Research Center, USA; 2 Old Dominion Univ., 

USA. The coherent phonons in polycrystalline 

bismuth film are studied by ultrafast time-resolved 

electron diffraction from the (110), (202), and 

(024) lattice planes. 

QTuL4 • 16:45 

Space-and-Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of 

Single GaN Nanowires, Prashanth C. Upadhya 1 , 

Julio A. Martinez 2 , Qiming Li 2 , George T. Wang 2 , 

Brian S. Swartzentruber 2 , Antoinette J. Taylor 1 , 

Rohit P. Prasankumar 1 ; 1 Center for Integrated 

Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Lab, USA; 

2 

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia 

National Lab, USA. Spatially-resolved ultrafast 

transient absorption measurements on a single 

GaN nanowire give insight into carrier relaxation 

dynamics as a function of the laser polarization 

and position on the nanowire on a femtosecond 

timescale. 

CTuS4 • 16:45 

Toothed Mid-Infrared Metal-Insulator-Metal 

Waveguides, Kevin Anglin 1 , David Adams 1 , Troy 

Ribaudo 1 , Dan Wasserman 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of 

Massachusetts Lowell, USA. We fabricate subwavelength 

varying periodicity toothed metal-insulator-metal 

waveguides for mid-IR frequencies. The 

transmission spectra of these structures for TM 

and TE polarized light is studied, and our results 

compared to numerical simulations. 

QTuN4 • 16:45 

Generation and Detection of Very Short- 

Wavelength Surface Acoustic Waves at Nanointerfaces, 

Qing Li 1 , Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot 1 , 

Mark Siemens 2 , Margaret M. Murnane 1 , Henry C. 

Kapteyn 1 , Ronggui Yang 3 , Erik H. Anderson 4 , Olav 

Hellwig 5 , Bruce Gurney 5 , Keith A. Nelson 6 ; 1 Department 

of Physics and JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA; 

2 

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of 

Denver, USA; 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, 

Univ. of Colorado, USA; 4 Center for X-Ray Optics, 

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA; 5 Hitachi 

Global Storage Technologies, USA; 6 Department of 

Chemistry, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA. 

Using an ultrafast laser to excite 2D nanostructures, 

and coherent extreme ultraviolet light to 

detect the resulting acoustic response, we observe 

and characterize the shortest-wavelength (35 nm) 

surface acoustic waves to date. 




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16:00–17:45 

CTuT • Few-Cycle Infrared 

Sterling Backus, KMLabs Inc., 

USA, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

QTuO • Spin Coherence 

Daniel Steck, Univ. of Oregon, 

USA, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuU • Ultraviolet LEDs: Science 

and Innovation 

Michael Wraback, U.S. ARL, 

USA, Presider 

CTuT1 • 16:00 Tutorial 

Few-Cycle Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse 

Amplification, Andrius Baltuska, Technical Univ. 

of Vienna, Austria. We review the milestones of 

OPCPA development since its inception 25 years 

ago, compare its utility to laser CPA, explain in 

detail schemes for seeding, synchronization, gain 

and waveform management and highlight several 

key applications Biography not available. 

QTuO1 • 16:00 

Spin-wave generation and storage in a solid 

state system, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt 1,2 , Sarah 

E. Beavan 1,2 , Sergey V. Polyakov 1 , Alan Migdall 1 , 

Matthew J. Sellars 2 ; 1 Joint Quantum Inst., National 

Inst. of Standards and Technology and Univ. of 

Maryland, USA; 2 Research School of Physics and 

Engineering, Australian National Univ., Australia. 

We report correlations between multi-photon 

pulses generated via spontaneous Raman scattering 

in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal. This is a 

first step toward implementing a quantum repeater 

scheme in such a material. 

CTuU1 • 16:00 

Sub-300 nm UV LEDs with Defect Reduction 

Layer and Vertical-injection Architecture, 

Christopher L. Chua 1 , Zhihong Yang 1 , Clifford 

Knollenberg 1 , Mark Teepe 1 , Noble Johnson 1 ; 1 Palo 

Alto Research Center, USA. We present UV LEDs 

operating at wavelengths below 300 nm. The 

heterostructure features a defect reduction layer 

that bends threading dislocations away from the 

active region. Vertical-injection structures were 

fabricated via laser lift-off. 

Andrius Baltuska received the diploma in physics 

from Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 1993 and 

the Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from the 

University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 

2000. Since 2006 he is a professor at the faculty of 

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, 

Vienna University of Technology. His group 

works on the development of intense ultrafast laser 

and parametric amplifiers and applications of fully 

controlled optical pulses in ultrafast spectroscopy 

and high-field physics. He was a recipient of the 

2004 European Young Investigator Award from 

the European Science Foundation and of the 

2006 Ignaz L. Lieben Award from the Austrian 

Academy of Sciences. 

QTuO2 • 16:15 

Spin polarization of single NV- centers in 

diamond after non-resonant optical excitation, 

Anton Batalov 1 , Katja Beha 1 , Rudolf Bratschitsch 1 , 

Alfred Leitenstorfer 1 ; 1 Department of Physics and 

Center for Applied Photonics, Univ. of Konstanz, 

Germany. The polarization state of the zerophonon 

line of single NV- centers is studied after 

non-resonant optical excitation. High-resolution 

Fabry-Perot spectra reveal the possibility of 

observing two-photon interference of distant 

quantum emitters. 

QTuO3 • 16:30 

Quantum Control of Electron Spins in Semiconductors 

with Phase-Locked Raman Pulse Pairs, 

Timothy M. Sweeney 1 , Hailin Wang 1 ; 1 Department 

of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics, Univ. of 

Oregon, USA. We report the first experimental 

demonstration of full quantum control of electron 

spins in semiconductors with phase-locked Raman 

pulse pairs, mapping relative optical phase onto the 

phase of electron spin polarization. 

CTuU2 • 16:15 

265 nm Light Emitting Diodes on AlN Single 

Crystal Substrates: Growth and Characterization, 

Ramon Collazo 1,2 , Seiji Mita 2 , Jinqiao Xie 2 , 

Anthony Rice 1 , James Tweedie 1 , Rafael Dalmau 2 , 

Baxter Moody 2 , Raoul Schlesser 2 , Ronny Kirste 3 , 

Axel Hoffmann 3 , Zlatko Sitar 1,2 ; 1 Materials Science 

and Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., USA; 

2 

HexaTech, Inc., USA; 3 Inst. of Solid State Physics, 

Technical Univ.-Berlin, Germany. High crystalline 

quality AlN and pseudomorphic AlGaN films 

were deposited by metalorganic chemical vapor 

deposition on single crystal AlN substrates for the 

fabrication of a 265 nm light emitting diode with 

estimated IQE above 40%. 

CTuU3 • 16:30 

Carrier Dynamics in Al 0.72 Ga 0.18 N Multiple 

Quantum Wells Exhibiting Varying Internal 

Quantum Efficiencies, Gregory A. Garrett 1 , 

Paul Rotella 1 , Hongen Shen 1 , Michael Wraback 1 , 

Anirban Bhattacharyya 2 , Theodore Moustakas 2 , 

William Hug 3 ; 1 RDRL-SEE-M, US Army Research 

Lab, USA; 2 Department of Electrical and Computer 

Engineering, Boston Univ., USA; 3 Photon Systems, 

Inc., USA. Time-resolved photoluminescence 

studies of Mid-UV AlGaN multiple quantum 

wells grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam 

epitaxy reveal improved internal quantum efficiencies 

with increased carrier localization related to 

chemical ordering. 


QTuO4 • 16:45 

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Raman 

Coherence in Hydrogen-filled HC-PCF, Yingying 

Wang 1 , Anton Husakou 1,2 , Brian Mangan 1 , Fetah 

Benabid 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Bath, UK; 2 Max Born 

Inst., Germany. The spatial and temporal dynamics 

of molecular Raman coherence with time is 

experimentally and theoretically investigated using 

delayed probe-pump technique in hydrogen-filled 

hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. 

CTuU4 • 16:45 

AlGaN-based Deep Ultraviolet LEDs by Plasma 

assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Chen-Kai Kao 1 , 

Yitao Liao 1 , Theodore D. Moustakas 1 ; 1 ECE, Boston 

Univ., USA. We report the development of AlGaNbased 

deep UV LEDs by PSMBE. Devices emitting 

at 273 nm were evaluated at bare-die configuration 

and found to have an output power of 1.3 mW at 

100 mA injection current and external quantum 

efficiency of 0.4 


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& Innovations 

16:00–17:45 

CTuV • Laser Locking and Beam 

Combining 

Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln 


16:00–17:45 

ATuF • Lasers for Government 

National Science and Security 

Applications 

Michelle Shinn, Thomas Jefferson 

Lab, US Dept. of Energy, USA, 

Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuW • Nonlinear or Plasmonic 

Components 

Hiroshi Yasaka, Tohoku Univ., 

Japan, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuX • Raman or Brillouin 

Conversion and Applications 

Gary Catella, Gooch and 

Housego, USA, Presider 

CTuV1 • 16:00 

Active Coherent Combination of >200 Semiconductor 

Amplifiers using a SPGD Algorithm, 

Shawn M. Redmond 1 ; 1 MIT Lincoln Lab, USA. We 

have demonstrated active coherent beam combination 

of 218 semiconductor amplifiers with 38.5W 

CW output. Phase actuation was achieved by 

adjusting the drive current and controlled using a 

stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm. 

ATuF1 • 16:00 Invited 

Lasers in Electronic Warfare, Gerald Manke 1 ; 

1 

Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane, USA. The 

use of lasers for Electronic Warfare applications 

will be discussed and reviewed. Specific examples 

of deployed EW systems which include lasers will 

be presented along with a discussion of their most 

salient features. 

CTuW1 • 16:00 

Intra- and Inter-band Four-wave Mixing in Silicon 

Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides, Jun 

R. Ong 1 , Michael L. Cooper 1 , Greeshma Gupta 1 , William 

M. Green 2 , Solomon Assefa 2 , Fengnian Xia 2 , 

Yurii A. Vlasov 2 , Shayan Mookherjea 1 ; 1 Electrical 

Engineering, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA; 

2 

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA. We 

demonstrate intra- and inter-band wavelength 

conversion enhancement for continuous wave 

sources in wide-passband coupled resonator optical 

waveguides (CROWs), compared with their 

constituent silicon waveguides. 

CTuX1 • 16:00 

Synchronously pumped tunable Raman laser in 

the visible pumped by an all-fiber PM MOPA at 

1060 nm, Dejiao Lin 1 , Shaif-ul Alam 1 , Peh Siong 

Teh 1 , Kangkang Chen 1 , David J. Richardson 1 ; 

1 

Optoelectronic Research Centre, Universithy of 

Southampton, UK. We report a pulsed, visible 

Raman laser synchronously pumped by the frequency 

doubled output of an all-fiber MOPA at 

1060nm. Almost 2.3THz continuous tuning was 

achieved for individual Stokes order spanning 

from green to orange. 

CTuV2 • 16:15 

Buried-heterostructure phase-locked arrays of 

mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, Alfredo 

Bismuto 1 , Maria I. Amanti 1 , Mattias Beck 1 , Jérôme 

Faist 1 ; 1 Physics, ETHZ, Switzerland. Realization 

of buried-heterostructure phase-locked arrays 

quantum cascade lasers emitting at 8.5µm is presented. 

Narrowing of the farfield emission for the 

multi-elements array compared to single-element 

laser is shown. 

CTuW2 • 16:15 

Monolithically Integrated Ultrafast All-Optical 

Switch consisting of Intersubband Optical 

Nonlinear Waveguide and Michelson Interferometer, 

Ryoichi Akimoto 1 , Shin-ichiro Gozu 1 , 

Teruo Mozume 1 , Hiroshi Ishikawa 1 ; 1 Network 

Photonics Research Center, National Inst. of 

Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 

(AIST), Japan. We demonstrate a monolithically 

integrated ultrafast all-optical switch consisting 

of intersubband optical nonlinear waveguide in 

InGaAs/AlAsSb quantum wells and a Michelson 

interferometer. A full switching is achieved by 3 

pJ control pulse energy. 

CTuX2 • 16:15 

Efficient Frequency Conversion at Low-Powers 

in a Silicon Microresonator Using Carrier 

Extraction, Jaime Cardenas 1 , Jacob S. Levy 1 , 

Gustavo Weiderhecker 1 , Amy Turner-Foster 1,4 , 

Alexander L. Gaeta 2 , Michal Lipson 1,3 ; 1 Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, Cornell, USA; 2 Applied 

and Engineering Physics, Cornell Univ., USA; 3 Kavli 

Inst. at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell Univ., 

USA; 4 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns 

Hopkins Univ., USA. We demonstrate four-wave 

mixing in a silicon microresonator at low powers 

using a PIN diode to extract the generated carriers. 

We achieve conversion efficiencies as high as -6.6 

dB with 7 mW of input power. 


CTuV3 • 16:30 

Optical Generation of Narrow-line RF by Injection 

Locking of Modulated DFB Lasers, Garrett 

Schneider 1 , Janusz Murakowski 1 , Shouyuan Shi 1 , 

Dennis Prather 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Univ. of Delaware, USA. A pair of commercial 

DFB lasers has been phase locked using 

electro-optic modulation and injection seeding. By 

mixing the locked lasers’ outputs on a photodetector, 

we have generated RF from 5 to 50 GHz, with 

a measured linewidth below 2 Hz. 


Mono-Energetic Gamma-rays (MEGa-rays) 

and the Dawn of Nuclear Photonics, Chris 

Barty 1 ; 1 Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA. 

Mono-Energetic Gamma-rays of unprecedented 

peak brilliance can be created via the optimized 

interaction of laser light with relativistic electrons. 

Development of MEGa-ray technology and related 

“nuclear” photonics applications are reviewed. 

CTuW3 • 16:30 

Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Optical Amplifier 

with Wavelength Conversion, Jun Chen 1 , Dayan 

Ban 1 , Michael G. Helander 2 , Zhenghong Lu 2 , Philip 

Poole 3 ; 1 Department of Electrical and Computer 

Engineering, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; 2 Department 

of Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. 

of Toronto, Canada; 3 Inst. for Microstructural 

Sciences,National Research Council, Canada. We 

report an organic/inorganic hybrid optical amplifier 

with a function of converting infrared light 

to visible light. This device integrates an InGaAs/ 

InP heterojunction phototransistor (HPT) and an 

organic light emitting device. 

CTuX3 • 16:30 

Brillouin-based DPSK Demodulation, Lucia 

Marazzi 1,2 , Paola Parolari 1,2 , Marco Brunero 1 , 

Maddalena Ferrario 1,2 , Davide Gatti 3 , Stefano 

Longhi 3 , Mario Martinelli 1 ; 1 Policom Dept. Electronics 

and information, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 

2 

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 3 Dipartimento 

di Fisica e IFN-CNR, Politecnico di Milano, 

Italy. We present BER performance of all-optical 

10-Gb/s DPSK demodulation obtained by an SBS 

active filter generated by an incoherent pump, 

tailored with a FBG properly designed to achieve 

a 6.7-GHz Gaussian spectral response. 

CTuV4 • 16:45 

A 13 C 2 H 2 Frequency-Stabilized λ/4-shifted DFB 

Laser Diode with an External Fiber Ring Cavity 

Having a Linewidth of 2.6 kHz and a RIN of -135 

dB/Hz, Keisuke Kasai 1 , Anne Mori 1 , Masataka 

Nakazawa 1 ; 1 Research Inst. of Electrical Communication, 

Tohoku Univ., Japan. We describe a 13 C 2 H 2 

frequency-stabilized λ/4-shifted DFB-LD with an 

external fiber ring cavity, which has a linewidth of 

2.6 kHz and an RIN of -135 dB/Hz. The frequency 

stability reached as high as 2.8×10 -10 . 

CTuW4 • 16:45 

Experimental Performance of a Continuously 

Tunable 40-GHz Complex Weight Optical FIR 

Filter using Wavelength Conversion and Chromatic 

Dispersion, Salman Khaleghi 1 , Mohammad 

Reza Chitgarha 1 , Omer F. Yilmaz 1 , Alan E. Willner 1 , 

Michael W. Haney 2 ; 1 Ming Hsieh Department of 

Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, 

USA; 2 Department of Electrical & Computer 

Engineering, Univ. of Delaware, USA. We experimentally 

demonstrate a tunable and reconfigurable 

optical complex weight finite impulse response 

filter using conversion dispersion based delays 

with optical multicasting and multiplexing. 

CTuX4 • 16:45 

Broadband anti-Stokes generation in a CVDgrown 

single crystal diamond pumped by 

two chirped pulses, Hajime Nishioka 1 ; 1 Univ. of 

Electro-Communications, Inst for Laser Science, 

Japan. Broadband anti-Stokes emission having 

a bandwidth of 15,000 cm -1 has been generated 

by non-collinear two chirped pump pulses. A 

low energy Stokes shift of 175 ± 8 cm -1 has been 

observed under the two-pulse excitation. 



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16:00–17:45 

CTuY • Organic Emitters and 

Absorbers 

Kristjan Leosson, Univ. of Iceland, 

Iceland, Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuZ • Optofluidic Photonic 

Structures and Devices 

Anders Kristensen, Technical 

Univ. of Denmark, Denmark, 

Presider 

16:00–17:45 

CTuAA • Nanostructured 

Materials and Devices 

Peter Kazansky, Univ. of 

Southampton, UK, Presider 

CTuY1 • 16:00 Invited 

Melt-grown molecular mono-crystals: morphology, 

optical properties, role of the substrate, 

Silvia Tavazzi 1 , Stefano Mora 1 , Peter Spearman 1 ; 

1 

Materials Science Department, Univ. of Milano 

Bicocca, Italy. Molecular mono-crystals can be 

grown and integrated in devices from the melted 

compound. The role of the substrate and the resulting 

morphology, crystallinity, optical anisotropy 

and properties are discussed. 

CTuZ1 • 16:00 

Porous Polymer Waveguides and Ring Resonators, 

Matthew Mancuso 1 , Julie Goddard 2 , David 

Erickson 3 ; 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, 

Cornell Univ., USA; 2 Department of Food Science, 

Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; 3 Sibley 

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 

Cornell Univ., USA. Nanoporous polymer ring 

resonators are capable of detecting biomolecular 

interactions within their pores. These interactions 

between the core energy and biomolecules lead to 

increased sensitivity when compared to traditional 

ring resonators. 

CTuAA1 • 16:00 

Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Etching of Three 

Dimensional Woodpile Micro-Channel Arrays 

in Fused Silica, Stephen Ho 1 , Moez Haque 1 , Peter 

R. Herman 1 , J. Stewart Aitchison 1 ; 1 Edward S. 

Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer 

Engineering and the Inst. for Optical Sciences, Univ. 

of Toronto, Canada. A three-dimensional invertedwoodpile 

micro-channel array was fabricated in 

bulk fused silica with femtosecond laser and HF 

etching. An exposure compensation algorithm 

provided uniform periodic woodpile structure 

defining a novel micro-channel. 

CTuZ2 • 16:15 

Tunable Single Mode Lasing from an On-chip 

Optofluidic Ring Resonator Laser, Wonsuk Lee 1,2 , 

Hao Li 1,3 , Jonathan D. Suter 1 , Karthik Reddy 1,2 , 

Yuze Sun 1 , Xudong Fan 1 ; 1 Biomedical Engineering, 

Univ. of Michigan, USA; 2 Electrical Engineering and 

Computer Science, Univ. of Michigan, USA; 3 Optical 

Science and Engineering, Fudan Univ., China. We 

demonstrate single mode lasing from coupled 

OFRRs via the Vernier effect with a threshold of 

a few µJ/mm 2 . The single mode operation is stable 

under high pump densities, and its wavelength 

can be tuned. 

CTuAA2 • 16:15 

Formation of laser-induced periodic structures 

in TiO 2 crystals depending on the surface quality, 

Susanta K. Das 1 , Marcus Rohloff 1 , Andreas 

Pfuch 2,3 , Wolfgang Seeber 2 , Arkadi Rosenfeld 1 , 

Ruediger Grunwald 1 ; 1 Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear 

Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany; 

2 

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany; 

3 

INNOVENT e.V. Technologieentwicklung Jena,, 

Germany. The formation of femtosecond laser 

induced periodic surface structure in TiO 2 crystals 

significantly depends on surface quality. Higher 

roughness shifts ripple formation towards lower 

fluence and lower pulse number and improve 

structural coherence. 

CTuY2 • 16:30 

Low-threshold lasing in organic semiconductor 

microcones, Tobias Grossmann 1,2 , Sönke Klinkhammer 

3,2 , Mario Hauser 1 , Torsten Beck 1 , Karl Lüll 3 , 

Dominik Floess 1 , Christoph Vannahme 2,3 , Timo 

Mappes 2 , Uli Lemmer 3 , Heinz Kalt 1 ; 1 Institut für 

Angewandte Physik, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technolog, 

Germany; 2 Inst. for Microstructure Technology, 

Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany; 3 Light 

Technology Inst., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, 

Germany. We report on the fabrication and optical 

characterization of whispering-gallery microcavity 

lasers with an organic semiconductor gain 

layer and laser thresholds as low as 1 nJ per pulse, 

operating at visible wavelengths. 

CTuZ3 • 16:30 

Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer on 

a microfluidic chip for sensitive optical sensing, 

Yongkang Gao 1 , Qiaoqiang Gan 1 , Xuanhong 

Cheng 2 , Filbert Bartoli 1 ; 1 Center for Optical 

Technologies, Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Department, Lehigh Univ., USA; 2 Materials Science 

and Engineering Department, Lehigh Univ., USA. 

We demonstrate a plasmonic Mach-Zehnder 

interferometer on a microfluidic chip for sensitive 

optical sensing with an enhanced sensitivity of 

more than 4200nm/RIU observed with a far-field 

optical microscope. 

CTuAA3 • 16:30 

Bragg spectral response of femtosecond laser 

induced nanogratings inside fused silica glass, 

Jianzhao Li 1 , Moez Haque 1 , Peter R. Herman 1 ; 1 Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, 

Canada. Bragg spectral response of femtosecond 

laser induced nanogratings has been observed 

for the first time, offering a convenient, fast and 

quantitative approach to characterize nanogratings 

for better understanding of ultrafast laser 

glass interactions. 


CTuY3 • 16:45 

Directional Photoluminescence Enhancement 

in Organic Flexible Microcavities, Luca Frezza 2 , 

Maddalena Patrini 1 , Marco Liscidini 1 , Davide Comoretto 

2 ; 1 of Physics A. Volta, Univ. of Pavia, Italy; 

2 

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, 

Univ. of Genova, Italy. We report on the fabrication 

and full optical characterization of flexible full 

plastic 1D photonic crystal cavities. We demonstrate 

strong directional emission enhancement 

when the emitting layer is resonantly coupled to 

the cavity mode. 

CTuZ4 • 16:45 

Plasmonic Nano-Apertures for Lensfree Onchip 

Sensing, Bahar Khademhosseinieh 1 , Gabriel 

Biener 1 , Ikbal Sencan 1 , Ting-Wei Su 1 , Ahmet F. 

Coskun 1 , Aydogan Ozcan 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, 

Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA. We demonstrate 

lensfree on-chip sensing within a microfluidic 

channel using plasmonic nanoapertures 

illuminated by a partially-coherent source. Our 

results confirm lensfree sensing of refractive index 

changes as small as ~0.002 using this modality. 

CTuAA4 • 16:45 

Freezing ultrashort light pulses by excitonpolariton 

interference in glass, Martynas Beresna 

1 , Peter Kazansky 1 , Thomas Taylor 2 , Alexey 

Kavokin 2 ; 1 Optoelectronics Research Centre, Univ. of 

Southampton, UK; 2 Physics and Astronomy School, 

Univ. of Southampton, UK. Nanostructures with 

sub-wavelength period along polarization and 

close to wavelength along propagation direction 

self-assemble in silica glass after femtosecond laser 

writing. Phenomenon is interpreted in terms of 

exciton-polariton crystal formation. 


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QTuL • Exciton and Carrier 

Dynamics in Nanophotonic 

Systems—Continued 

CTuS • Mid-Infrared and 

Nonlinear Devices—Continued 

QTuM • Metatronics and 

Transformation Optics— 

Continued 

QTuN • Ultrafast Structural 

Dynamics and Collective 

Phenomena—Continued 

QTuL5 • 17:00 

Exciton-photon coupling of InAs quantum 

dot in GaAs photonic crystal mode-gap nanocavities, 

Jie Gao 1 , Sylvain Combrié 2 , Baolai Liang 3 , 

Gaelle Lehoucq 2 , Diana L. Huffaker 3 , Dirk Englund 1 , 

Alfredo De Rossi 2 , Chee Wei Wong 1 ; 1 Columbia 

Univ., USA; 2 Thales Research and Technology, 

France; 3 Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA. 

We demonstrate single quantum dot coupled to 

photonic crystal mode-gap cavities with high Q/V 

ratio. Polarization and temperature dependent 

photoluminescence are examined. Predominating 

polarization is observed for quantum dot coupled 

to cavity mode. 

CTuS5 • 17:00 

Forming a nonlinear grating in Silicon nanowire 

waveguides using the intrinsic anisotropic Kerr 

nonlinearity of Silicon, Jeffrey B. Driscoll 1 , Richard 

Grote 1 , Xiaoping Liu 1 , Jerry I. Dadap 1 , Nicolae C. 

Panoiu 2 , Richard M. Osgood 1 ; 1 Microelectronics 

Sciences Laboratories, Columbia Univ., USA; 2 Department 

of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 

Univ. College London, UK. We present a numerical 

analysis demonstrating that the anisotropy of the 

Kerr effect in Silicon can be used to form a nonlinear 

grating in Silicon waveguides with uniform 

cross-section. 

QTuM2 • 17:00 

Fabrication of Dielectric Aperiodic Nanostructured 

Luneburg Lens in Optical Frequencies, 

Satoshi Takahashi 1 , Chih-Hao Chang 1 , Se-Young 

Yang 1 , Hyungryul J. Choi 1 , George Barbastathis 1,2 ; 

1 

Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA; 2 Singapore- 

MIT Alliance for Research and Technology 

(SMART) Centre, Singapore. We have designed 

and fabricated an all-dielectric subwavelengthpatterned 

Luneburg lens for operation at freespace 

wavelength of λ=1.55μm. 

QTuN5 • 17:00 

Coherent Control of Gold Nanoparticles Formation, 

Paulo Ferreira 1 , Jonathas Siqueira 1 , Lino 

Misoguti 1 , David Santos Jr. 1 , Cleber Mendonca 1 ; 

1 

Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil. We use pulse-shaping 

of femtosecond pulses to coherent control the 

synthesis of gold nanoparticles induced by twophoton 

absorption. Applying distinct phase masks 

to the pulse, we were able to shift the plasmon 

absorption band. 

QTuL6 • 17:15 

Room-temperature, high-efficiency conversion 

of Mott-Wannier to Frenkel excitons in hybrid 

semiconductor quantum dot/polymer composites, 

Sedat Nizamoglu 1 , Xiao Wei Sun 2 , Hilmi 

Volkan Demir 1,2 ; 1 Bilkent Univ., Turkey; 2 Nanyang 

Technological Univ., Singapore. Efficient conversion 

from Mott-Wannier to Frenkel excitons at room 

temperature is observed in hybrid inorganic/ 

organic composites of CdSe/ZnS core/shell heteronanocrystals 

in MDMO-PPV homopolymers at a 

rate of 0.2628 ns -1 with an efficiency of 80.9%. 

CTuS6 • 17:15 

Ultra-Compact Coupled-Resonator Device 

for Four-Wave-Mixing Applications, Amir H. 

Atabaki 1 , Ali Adibi 1 ; 1 Georgia Inst. of Technology, 

USA. A coupled-resonator device consisting of 

three compact microresonators is proposed and 

demonstrated for FWM in silicon. The possibility 

of tuning of signal and idler wavelengths in this 

device enables novel reconfigurable nonlinear 

experiments. 

QTuM3 • 17:15 

Metamaterial Models of Exotic Spacetimes, Igor 

Smolyaninov 1 , Alexei Smolyaninov 1 ; 1 Univ. of Maryland, 

USA. We demonstrate that optical space in 

metamaterials may be engineered to mimic physics 

of such exotic spacetimes as the warp drive and 

various five-dimensional spacetimes. 

QTuN6 • 17:15 

Ultrafast, Surface Plasmon Enhanced Strong- 

Field Photoemission with a Mid-IR OPCPA, 

Peter Dombi 1 , Peter Racz 1 , Julia Fekete 1 , Alexandre 

Thai 2 , Stephan Teichmann 2 , Olivier Chalus 2 , Philip 

K. Bates 2 , Jens Biegert 2,3 ; 1 Research Inst. for Solid- 

State Physics and Optics, Hungary; 2 ICFO-Institut 

de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain; 3 ICREA-Institució 

Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain. 

Surface plasmon field enhancement with a fewcycle 

mid-IR OPCPA achieves tunneling photoemission 

from a gold surface at low focused laser 

intensity (~10 9 W/cm 2 ) and electron acceleration 

to hundreds of eV. 


QTuL7 • 17:30 

Strong Coupling between Excitons in J aggregates 

and Waveguide Modes in Thin Polymer 

Films, Tal Ellenbogen 1 , Paul Steinvurzel 1 , Kenneth 

B. Crozier 1 ; 1 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 

Harvard Univ., USA. We observe waveguide 

exciton-polaritons with large room temperature 

Rabi splittings of 190 meV and 125 meV for TE 

and TM modes respectively. The experimental 

results are in good agreement with numerical 

simulations. 

CTuS7 • 17:30 

Towards an optical frequency comb with mmscale 

microresonators for distributing atomic 

standards, Scott B. Papp 1 , Scott A. Diddams 1 ; 1 Time 

and Frequency Division 688, National Inst. of Standards 

and Technology, USA. We will discuss progress 

on the fabrication of optical microresonators 

for generation of a frequency comb via nonlinear 

parametric oscillation. With disk-like resonators 

of quartz we have achieved Q=10 9 . 

QTuM4 • 17:30 

The cosmological redshift inside the transformation-optical 

analogue of the Robertson- 

Walker metric, Vincent Ginis 1 , Philippe Tassin 1,2 , 

Ben Craps 3 , Irina Veretennicoff 1,3 ; 1 Applied Physics 

and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 

2 

Ames Lab-USDOE, and Department of Physics and 

Astronomy, Iowa State Univ., USA; 3 Theoretische 

Natuurkunde and the International Solvay Inst.s, 

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. We apply 

transformation optics to the Robertson-Walker 

metric and retrieve an analogue of the cosmological 

redshift. This linear time-dependent medium 

perfectly converts the frequency of wavepackets 

without the creation of sidebands. 

QTuN7 • 17:30 

Measuring the Lifetime of Ultrashort Electronic 

Coherences with Long Light Pulses: 

The Fragile Eg State in Sb and Bi, Jingjing Li 1 , 

Jian Chen 2 , David Reis 2 , Stephen Fahy 3 , Roberto 

Merlin 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Michigan, USA; 2 SLAC 

National Accelerator Lab, Stanford PULSE Inst., 

USA; 3 Physics, Univ. College Cork, Ireland. We use 

a combination of ultrafast stimulated Raman scattering 

and continuous wave spontaneous Raman 

scattering to determine the lifetime of electronic 

coherences of Eg symmetry in Sb and Bi, which 

are below 10fs at 293K. 

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CTuT • Few-Cycle Infrared— 

Continued 

QTuO • Spin Coherence— 

Continued 

CTuU • Ultraviolet LEDs: Science 

and Innovation—Continued 

CTuT2 • 17:00 

Sub-millijoule CEP stable 1.6 cycle laser 

pulses at 1.8 micron, François Légaré 1 , Bruno E. 

Schmidt 1,2 , Andrew D. Shiner 2 , Philippe Lassonde 1 , 

David M. Villeneuve 2 , Jean-Claude Kieffer 1 , Paul B. 

Corkum 2 ; 1 EMT, INRS, Canada; 2 NRC/Univ. of Ottawa, 

Canada. We report sub-mJ carrier envelope 

phase (CEP) stable 1.6 cycle pulses at 1.8µm. With 

those pulses, we have obtained 160eV cut-off in 

argon at an intensity of 1.4×10 14 W/cm 2 using the 

process of high harmonic generation. 

QTuO5 • 17:00 Invited 

Spin self-rephasing and very long coherence 

times in trapped atomic ensembles, Peter 

Rosenbusch 1 ; 1 LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, 

CNRS, UMPC, France. The new mechanism of 

spin self-rephasing is presented, which overcomes 

spatial inhomogeneities of atomic transitions. 

Evidence is given for this exchange interaction 

driven deterministic mechanism that should be 

observable in many systems. 

CTuU5 • 17:00 

Surface modified structure for photon extraction 

of UVLED, Yong Sung Kim 1 , Shawn-Yu 

Lin 1 , Mei-Li Hsieh 3 , Leo J. Schowalter 2 ; 1 Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Inst., USA, 2 Crystal IS Inc., USA, 

3 

Natl. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan. Ultra-violet 

light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) fabricated with 

integrated surface textures show an enhancement 

of the output power and more directionality of 

the emitted light, which is in agreement with the 

calculated results. 

CTuT3 • 17:15 

High-energy, Few-cycle, kHz OPCPA at 2.1 μm 

Pumped by a Picosecond Cryogenic Yb:YAG 

Laser, Kyung-Han Hong 1 , Shu-Wei Huang 1 , Jeffrey 

A. Moses 1 , Xing Fu 1 , Chien-Jen Lai 1 , Franz X. 

Kaertner 1 ; 1 RLE, MIT, USA. We report on a kHz, 

mJ-level, ultrabroadband, phase-stable 2.1-μm 

OPCPA for high-flux water-window high-order 

harmonic generation. The final stage is pumped by 

a high-energy, 15-ps cryogenic Yb:YAG CPA laser 

optically synchronized to the signal. 

CTuU6 • 17:15 

Abnormal polarization switching phenomenonin 

a-plane Al x Ga 1-x N, Huei-Min Huang 1 , 

Hung-Hsun Huang 2 , Yuh-Renn Wu 2 , Tien-Chang 

Lu 1,3 , Hao-chung Kuo 1 , Shing-chung Wang 1 ; 

1 

Photonics, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan; 

2 

Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., 

Taiwan; 3 Lighting and Energy Photonics, National 

Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan. The a-plane Al x Ga 1- 

xN layers show abnormal optical polarization 

switching behavior. This phenomenon can be well 

characterized by the assumption of the lambertianlike 

radiation pattern and simulated by utilizing 

the 6×6 k.p model. 

CTuT4 • 17:30 

CEP-preserving, octave-spanning IR OPA using 

BIBO and 800-nm pump pulses, Nobuhisa 

Ishii 1,2 , Kenta Kitano 1,2 , Teruto Kanai 1,2 , Shuntaro 

Watanabe 2,3 , Jiro Itatani 1,4 ; 1 Inst. for Solid State 

Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan; 2 CREST, Japan Science 

and Technology Agency, Japan; 3 Research Inst. 

for Science and Technology, Tokyo Univ. of Science, 

Japan; 4 PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology 

Agency, Japan. We report on octave-spanning OPA 

of IR pulses from 1100 to 2200 nm using BIBO 

and 800-nm pump. We confirmed that 10-μJ OPA 

output pulses were CEP-stabilized using an f-to-2f 

interferometer without spectral broadening. 

QTuO6 • 17:30 

Nuclear Spin Induced Collapse and Revival 

Shape of Rabi Oscillations of a Single Electron 

Spin in Diamond, Xinyu Pan 1 ; 1 Inst. of Physics, 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. We report 

Rabi beatings induced by host nitrogen nuclear 

spin of a single Nitrogen-Vacancy center in diamond. 

Different orientation of host nuclear spin 

leads to a triplet splitting of the transition between 

two spin states. 

CTuU7 • 17:30 

Impurities and conductivity control in Al-rich 

AlGaN alloys, Rajendra Dahal 1 , Jing Li 1 , Ashok 

Sedhain 1 , Bed Pantha 1 , Jingyu Lin 1 , Hongxing Jiang 1 ; 

1 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech 

Univ., USA. We report on the growth, doping and 

optical and transport properties of p-type Al rich 

AlGaN layers optimized for DUV emitter structures. 

Benefits of using AlN epi-templates in DUV 

emitter structures will also be elaborated. 


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CTuV • Laser Locking and Beam 

Combining—Continued 

ATuF • Lasers for Government 

National Science and Security 

Applications—Continued 

CTuW • Nonlinear or Plasmonic 

Components—Continued 

CTuX • Raman or Brillouin 

Conversion and Applications— 

Continued 

CTuV5 • 17:00 

Ultralow Noise, Etalon Stabilized, 10 GHz Optical 

Frequency Comb Based on a Slab-Coupled 

Waveguide Amplifier, Josue Davila-Rodriguez 1 , 

Ibrahim Ozdur 1 , Charles Williams 1 , Dimitrios 

Mandridis 1 , Peter J. Delfyett 1 , Jason Plant 2 , Paul 

Juodawlkis 2 ; 1 CREOL, The College of Optics and 

Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA; 2 Lincoln 

Lab, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA. A 10 

GHz mode-locked laser based on a Slab-Coupled 

Optical Waveguide Amplifier with an intra-cavity 

etalon is presented. The timing jitter is ~2.3 fs 

(10 Hz to 100 MHz), the lowest reported to our 

knowledge. 


The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects 

Activity - Its BEST and Beyond, Michael King, 

IARPA, USA. Update abstract to: IARPA is pursuing 

innovative ideas and concepts for advancing 

standoff biometrics technologies. An emphasis is 

placed on classifying and recognizing unique human 

phenomenology acquired from significantly 

greater ranges than today’s commercially available 

biometrics technology. 

CTuW5 • 17:00 

Hitless Low-Power All-Optical Absorption 

Based Switching with Organics on Silicon, Taige 

Hou 1 , Henry Wen 1 , Onur Kuzucu 1 , Joel Hales 2 , 

Stephen Barlow 2 , Joseph W. Perry 2 , Sei-Hum Jang 3 , 

Seth R. Marder 2 , Alex K.-Y. Jen 3 , Alexander L. 

Gaeta 1 , Michal Lipson 1 ; 1 Cornell, USA; 2 Georgia 

Tech, USA; 3 Univ. of Washington, USA. We 

demonstrate all-optical switching of a silicon 

ring-resonator using two photon absorption of 

engineered organic materials. We show hitless 

switching of 7dB change in extinction with power 

dissipation of 400 fJ/op. 

CTuX5 • 17:00 

On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering, 

Ravi Pant 1,4 , Christopher G. Poulton 2,4 , Hannah 

MacFarlane 1,4 , Luc Thevenaz 5 , Duk-Yong Choi 3,4 , 

Steve J. Madden 3,4 , Barry Luther-Davies 3,4 , Ben 

Eggleton 1,4 ; 1 School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, 

Australia; 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of 

Technology Sydney, Australia; 3 Laser Physics Centre, 

Australian National Univ., Australia; 4 Centre for 

Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, 

CUDOS, Australia; 5 Inst. of Electrical Engineering, 

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 

Switzerland. We report the first demonstration 

of on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). 

The measured Brillouin shift and line width are 

~7.7 GHz and 6 MHz in a 7 cm long chalcogenide 

waveguide. 


CTuV6 • 17:15 

Comparison of Comb-line Generation from 

InGaAsP/InP Integrated Ring Mode-locked 

Lasers, John Parker 1 , Pietro Binetti 1 , Ashish 

Bhardwaj 1 , Robert Guzzon 1 , Erik Norberg 1 , Yung-Jr 

Hung 2 , Larry Coldren 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer 

Engineering, Univ. of California, USA; 2 Electronic 

Engineering, National Taiwan Univ. of Science 

and Technology, Taiwan. We compare comb-line 

generation from a 30 GHz gain flattened ring 

mode-locked laser and two standard 30 GHz ring 

mode-locked lasers. The gain flattened ring has a 

1.32 THz spectral width whereas the other devices 

have 420 and 630 GHz spectral widths. 

CTuV7 • 17:30 

100-GHz channel spacing and O-band quantum 

dot optical frequency comb generator with interference 

injection locking technique, Naokatsu 

Yamamoto 1 , Yuki Yoshioka 2 , Kouichi Akahane 1 , 

Tetsuya Kawanishi 1 , Hideyuki Sotobayashi 3,1 , 

Hiroshi Takai 2 ; 1 National Inst. of Information and 

Communications Technology, Japan; 2 Tokyo Denki 

Univ., Japan; 3 Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Japan. An 

O-band multiple-wavelength light source with 

100-GHz channel spacing was successfully demonstrated 

for the WDM light source using a single 

quantum dot optical frequency comb laser with an 

interference injection locking technique. 

ATuF4 • 17:30 

2D 3D Face Imaging for Stand-off Biometric 

Identification, Brian C. Redman 1 , Steve J. Novotny 

1 , Taylor Grow 1 , Van Rudd 1 , Nathan Woody 1 , 

Michael Hinckley 1 , Paul McCumber 1 , Nathan Rogers 

1 , Michael Hoening 1 , Kelli Kubala 1 , Scott Shald 1 , 

Radek Uberna 1 , Tiffanie D’Alberto 1 , Thomas Hoft 2 , 

Russell Sibell 3 , Frederick W. Wheeler 4 ; 1 Lockheed 

Martin Coherent Technologies, USA; 2 Department 

of Mathematics, Tufts Univ., USA; 3 SIBELLOPTICS, 

USA; 4 GE Global Research, USA. We developed 

and tested a Fourier Transform Profilometry, 2D 

3D face imager operating with subjects moving at 

≤1.5 m/s at ≤25-m range with


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CTuY • Organic Emitters and 

Absorbers—Continued 

CTuZ • Optofluidic Photonic 

Structures and Devices— 

Continued 

CTuAA • Nanostructured 

Materials and Devices— 

Continued 

CTuY4 • 17:00 

Advance in Double Pump-Probe Technique for 

Triplet Quantum Yield Determination, Davorin 

Peceli 1 , Scott Webster 1 , Dmitry Fishman 1 , Claudiu 

Cirloganu 1 , Himansu Pattanaik 1 , Honghua Hu 1 , 

Olga V. Przhonska 1,2 , Vladimir V. Kurdyukov 3 , 

Yurii L. Slominsky 3 , Alexey I. Tolmachev 3 , Alexey 

D. Kachkovski 3 , Ranghunath R. Dasari 4 , Stephen 

Barlow 4 , Seth R. Marder 4 , David J. Hagan 1 , Eric 

Van Stryland 1 ; 1 CREOL, The College of Optics 

and Photonics, The Univ. of Central Florida, USA; 

2 

Inst. of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, 

Ukraine; 3 Inst. of Organic Chemistry, National 

Academy of Sciences, Ukraine; 4 School of Chemistry 

and Biochemistry, Georgia Inst. of Technology, 

USA. The double pump-probe method allows 

determination of singlet and triplet excited state 

parameters, but we show that this method has 

limitations. We describe how to overcome such 

limitations allowing unambiguous determination 

of the triplet yield. 

CTuZ5 • 17:00 

Liquid crystal dynamics in a photonic crystal 

cavity, Alvaro Casas Bedoya 1 , Sahand Mahmoodian 

1 , Christelle Monat 1 , Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic 

2 , Christian Grillet 1 , Peter Domachuk 1 , Eric Mägi 1 , 

Ben Eggleton 1 , Rob W Heijden 1,3 ; 1 School of Physics, 

Univ. of Sydney, Australia; 2 School of Physics, Univ. 

of Parkville, Australia; 3 COBRA Research Inst. and 

Department of Applied Physics,, Eindhoven Univ. 

of Technology, Netherlands. A microfluidic double 

heterostructure cavity is created in a silicon planar 

photonic crystal waveguide by selective infiltration 

of liquid crystal. We explore the infiltration and 

evaporation dynamics of the liquid crystal using 

a Fabry-Perot model. 

CTuAA5 • 17:00 Invited 

Hybrid Optoelectronics, Pavlos Lagoudakis, Univ. 

of Southampton, UK. We engineer Resonance 

Energy Transfer into hybrid organic/inorganic 

and colloidal/epitaxial semiconductor nanostructures 

and utilise it to couple these heterogeneous 

material systems leading to improved efficiencies 

both in photovoltaic solar and light emitting 

diode devices. 

CTuY5 • 17:15 

Direct Laser fabrication on Polymeric Optical 

Fiber and Its Sensor Application, Soichieo Omi 1 , 

Hiroyuki Kubota 1 , Hiroaki Yoshioka 1 , Hirofumi 

Watanabe 1 , Yuji Oki 1 ; 1 Dept. of Electronics, Kyushu 

Univ., Japan. Solid state DFB dye laser directly 

mounted on polymeric optical fiber. Multiple 

lasers can be pumped simultaneously and their 

output was coupled to the fiber. Bending sensor 

also proposed and two directional sensing was 

demonstrated. 

CTuZ6 • 17:15 

Integrated optofluidic modulators based on 

nematogen flows, Andreas E. Vasdekis 1 , Julien 

Cuennet 1 , Luciano De Sio 2 , Demetri Psaltis 1 ; 1 School 

of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de 

Lausanne, Switzerland; 2 Center of Excellence 

CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, Univ. of 

Calabria, Italy. We present integrated optofluidic 

modulators based on anisotropic liquid flow for 

imaging in microfluidics. Flow drives the liquid 

birefringence and thus acts as a modulator. We 

discuss the operation principle, integration and 

performance. 

CTuY6 • 17:30 

Plasmonic Absorption Enhancement in Organic 

Photovoltaic Cells with Periodic Metallic Nanostructures, 

David R. Scherer 1 , Peter M. Mayer 1 , 

Joel M. Hensley 1 , Mark G. Allen 1 , Pran Mukherjee 2 , 

Mark Schattenburg 2 ; 1 Physical Sciences Inc., USA; 

2 

Space Nanotechnology Lab, MIT, USA. We present 

numerical results indicating 18% enhancement 

in the percentage of light absorbed in organic 

photovoltaic cells with embedded metallic nanogratings. 

We show initial nanofabrication results 

of nano-gratings of ~200 nm period. 

CTuZ7 • 17:30 

Nanoporous Liquid Core Waveguides with 

Filtering Effect, Mads B. Christiansen 1 , Nimi Gopalakrishnan 

1 , Kaushal S. Sagar 2 , Anton Berthold 1 , 

Sokol Ndoni 1 , Anders Kristensen 1 ; 1 Department 

of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical Univ. of 

Denmark, Denmark; 2 Department of Chemical 

and Biochemical Engineering, Technical Univ. of 

Denmark, Denmark. Liquid core waveguides are 

fabricated by selective UV-assisted hydrophilization 

of a nanoporous polymer. An added benefit 

of the nanoporous core is the ability to exclude 

large objects, making them ideal for analysis of 

turbid fluids. 

CTuAA6 • 17:30 

Local Field Structure of Focused Ultra-short 

Pulses, Cyril Hnatovsky 1 , Vladlen Shvedov 1,2 , 

Wieslaw Krolikowski 1 , Andre Rode 1 ; 1 Laser Physics 

Center, Australian National Univ., Australia; 2 Nonlinear 

Physics Center, Australian National Univ., 

Australia. We present an entirely new approach 

to visualize nanoscale structure of the electric 

field of tightly focused ultra-short laser pulses by 

permanently imprinting the field, including its 

longitudinal component, in transparent media. 



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JTuI • Nanophotonics and Integration Joint Poster Session 


CLEO: Science & Innovations 7: 

Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices 

JTuI1 

Directional Control of Lateral Leakage in 

Thin-ridge Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides, 

Naser Dalvand 1 , Thach Nguyen 1 , Ravi Tummidi 2 , 

Thomas Koch 2 , Arnan Mitchell 1 ; 1 School of Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, RMIT Univ., Australia; 

2 

Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh Univ., USA. 

We present a method to control the direction of 

lateral leakage of Silicon-On-Insulator waveguide 

which is verified by full vector super-mode 

analysis. The results suggest new opportunities for 

device topologies inspired by antennas. 

JTuI2 

Novel High Efficiency Vertical Optical Coupler 

Using Subwavelength High Contrast Grating, Li 

Zhu 1 , Vadim Karagodsky 1 , Weijian Yang 1 , Connie 

J. Chang-Hasnain 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering and 

Computer Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 

USA. A novel vertical coupler using subwavelength 

high contrast grating is presented. Via 

such coupler, surface-normal incidence wave 

can be coupled into in-plane silicon-on-insulator 

waveguide with highest efficiency of 84% over 

broad wavelength range. 

JTuI3 

Reflection-type Slow Light Optical Switches 

Using Current Injection, Ayumi Fuchida 1 , Akihiro 

Matsutani 1 , Fumio Koyama 1 ; 1 Tokyo Inst. of Technology, 

Japan. A slow-light reflection-type switch 

with crossing angle of 30-degree is demonstrated. 

Switching operation is realized using current injection. 

We obtained an extinction ration of over 

15dB due to enhanced equivalent index change 

by slowing light. 

JTuI4 

On the Mechanism of Efficient Coupling into 

Slow Light Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Amir 

Hosseini 1 , Xiaochuan Xu 1 , David Kwong 1 , Harish 

Subbaraman 2 , Ray T. Chen 1 ; 1 ECE, Univ. of Texas 

at Austin, USA; 2 Omega Optics, Inc., USA. We 

investigate effects of evanescent modes on light 

coupling into low light mode of photonic crystal 

waveguides. Numerical and experimental results 

show that group index tapering does not have a 

dominant role for efficient coupling. 

JTuI5 

Electro-Optical Modulator Based on the p 

-n -n Transistor Structure Integrated on SOI 

Substrate, Ricky W. Chuang 1,2 , Mao-Teng Hsu 1 , 

Shen-Horng Chou 2 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, 

National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan; 2 National 

Nano Device Laboratories, Taiwan. We report 

a p+-n+-n+ transistor-based electro-optical 

modulator fabricated on silicon-on-insulator 

(SOI) substrate. With 100% modulation depth 

achieved, the rise and fall times were respectively 

measured to be 60 and 56 ns. The 3 dB bandwidth 

in the excess of 10.5 MHz was determined from 

the corresponding device. 

JTuI6 

Carrier Depletion Based Linear Silicon Modulator, 

Stanley M. G. Lo 1 , Chao Li 1 , Hon K. Tsang 1 ; 

1 

Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese 

Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. We show that the 

linearity of a silicon electro-optic modulator can 

be improved by optimizing the embedded diode 

structure. Optimized designs of silicon modulators 

can give 5.9 dB improvement in SFDR over 

conventional LiNbO 3 modulators. 

JTuI7 

Novel Coupling Modulator Design Using Ring- 

Resonator-Based Light Drop Structure, Yunchu 

Li 1 , Lawrence Stewart 1 , P. Daniel Dapkus 1 ; 1 Electrical 

Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, USA. 

Coupling modulation using microring-based 

light drop structure which removes the pattern 

dependence problem is proposed. Extinction 

ratio improvement from 3 dB to >30 dB in 40 

Gb/s NRZ signal is obtained with 25X smaller 

drive voltage. 

JTuI8 

Surface Tension Reshaped Lithium Niobate 

Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-resonators, 

Charlie Y. J. Ying 1 , Senthil Murugan 1 , Gilberto 

Brambilla 1 , Collin Sones 1 , Elisabeth Soergel 2 , 

James S. Wilkinson 1 , Robert W. Eason 1 , Michalis 

N. Zervas 1 , Sakellaris Mailis 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics 

Research Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK; 2 Inst. of 

Physics, Univ. of Bonn, Germany. Lithium niobate 

micro-resonators have been fabricated by surface 

tension reshaping of micro-structured crystals 

at temperatures close to the melting point. We 

present preliminary results on the optical characterization 

of these structures. 

JTuI9 

Ultra-high Q long-path As 2 S 3 ring resonator on 

LiNbO 3 , Yifeng Zhou 1 ; 1 Texas A&M Univ., USA. 

A vertically integrated As 2 S 3 ring resonator sidecoupled 

to Ti:LiNbO 3 waveguide was designed and 

fabricated. We have demonstrated an ultra-high Q 

value of 3.5x10 5 and low propagation loss of 1.2 dB/ 

cm over a 1.7 cm race-track ring resonator. 

JTuI10 

A Vertical SG-DBR Based Tunable Hybrid 

Silicon Evanescent Laser, Venkat Veerasubramanian 

1 , Guillaume Beaudin 2 , Alexandre Giguere 2 , 

Boris LeDrogoff 3 , Vincent Aimez 2 , Andrew G. 

Kirk 1 ; 1 McGill Univ., Canada; 2 Univ. of Sherbrooke, 

Canada; 3 Institut national de la recherche scientifique, 

Canada. We propose a tunable hybrid silicon 

evanescent laser with vertical sidewalled sampled 

grating distributed Bragg reflectors (SG-DBR) on 

SOI. The device utilizes a Vernier comb and the 

electrooptic effect in silicon for tuning within a 

30 nm range. 

JTuI11 

Statistical Properties of Scattering Loss and 

Mode Splitting in Microdisk Resonators, Qing 

Li 1 , Ali Asghar Eftekhar 1 , Ali Adibi 1 ; 1 Gatech, USA. 

We report an experimental observation that in 

high-Q silicon microdisk resonators, the intrinsic 

Q and mode splitting can vary significantly 

over the azimuthal orders. A theoretical roughness 

model qualitatively explains the observed 

results. 

JTuI12 

Experimental observation of Fano resonance in 

a single whispering-gallery microresonator, Bei- 

Bei Li 1 , Yong-Chun Liu 1 , Xue-Feng Jiang 1 , Qihuang 

Gong 1 , Yun-Feng Xiao 1 ; 1 Peking Univ., China. We 

observe Fano resonance in a single microresonator, 

in which two modes are excited simultaneously 

through a fiber taper. Our analysis reveals that 

the Fano resonance originates from an indirectcoupling 

of two originally orthogonal modes. 

JTuI13 

A Self-luminescent Horizontal Slot Microdisk 

Resonator for Biosensing Applications, 

Shinyoung Lee 1 , Gun Yong Sung 2 , Jung H. Shin 1,3 ; 

1 

Department of Physics, KAIST, Republic of Korea; 

2 

Biosensor Research Team, ETRI, Republic of Korea; 

3 

Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology 

(WCU), KAIST, Republic of Korea. We design 

and fabricate a self-luminescent horizontal slot 

microdisk resonator using visible light emission 

of Si-ncs for biosensing. The surface sensitivity 

of the sensor is calculated as 2.46 nm/(nm*RIU) 

using FDTD method. 

JTuI14 

Hollow-Bottle Optical Microresonators, Michalis 

N. Zervas 1 , Senthil Murugan 1 , Marco Petrovich 1 , 

James S. Wilkinson 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics Research 

Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK. Hollow-bottle 

resonators are fabricated by a pressure-compensated, 

“soften-and-compress” method. Q-factor 

and excitation efficiency show high tolerance to 

angular misalignments, and localized losses on the 

resonator result in spectral clean-up. 

JTuI15 

Resonant in-situ photoluminescence of Si-QDs 

buried in SiO x /SiN x distributed Bragg reflector, 

Chung-Lun Wu 1 , Yung-Hsiang Lin 1 , Gong-Ru Lin 1 ; 

1 

National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. A 20-pair SiO x / 

SiN x :Si-QDs distributed Bragg reflector with insitu 

Si-QDs contributed photoluminescence at 

667nm is demonstrated to shrink the Si-QDs emission 

linewidth from 140 to 19 nm and enhance its 

intensity by 37.4 times. 

JTuI16 

Direct Estimation of Purcell Factor from 

Scatterer-Induced Mode Splitting Spectra of an 

Optical Microcavity, Sahin K. Ozdemir 1 , Jiangang 

Zhu 1 , Lina He 1 , Lan Yang 1 ; 1 Electrical and Systems 

Engineering, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA. 

Scattering process in a microcavity coupled to subwavelength 

scatterers is investigated using nanoparticles, 

ions and virions. Direct and single-shot 

estimation of Purcell factor is demonstrated using 

the scatterer- induced mode-splitting spectra. 

JTuI17 

CdSe/ZnS quantum dot embedded hollow 

toroidal microcavities and their modal properties, 

Kyungwook Hwang 1 , Hyungrae Cha 2 , Doosik 

Moon 3 , Jinkyu Lee 3 , Heonsu Jeon 1,2 ; 1 Physics and 

Astronomy & Inter Univ. Semiconductor Rersearch 

Center, Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea; 

2 

Biophysics and Chemical Biology, Seoul National 

Univ., Republic of Korea; 3 Chemistry, Seoul National 

Univ., Republic of Korea. We fabricated a lightemitting 

hollow toroidal micro-cavity by applying 

low temperature heat treatment to a polymer thin 

film micro-disk containing CdSe/ZnS quantum 

dots and investigated their modal properties from 

quantum dot emission spectra. 

JTuI18 

A Study on Cross-talk in Nanometric-gap Quantum 

Dot Photodetectors, Ludan Huang 1,2 , Lih Y. 

Lin 2,1 ; 1 Department of Physics, Univ. of Washington, 

USA; 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Univ. 

of Washington, USA. We propose a scheme to 

experimentally investigate cross-talk in closely 

positioned QD photodetectors. A cross-talk of 

~25.8% at separation of 212 nm is demonstrated 

in pre-optimized devices. 

JTuI19 

Ultrafast GaAs Nano-Whisker Photodetector 

for THz-Frequency Applications, Jie Zhang 1 , 

Martin Mikulics 2 , John Serafini 1 , Mufei Gong 1 , Roman 

Adam 3 , Roman Sobolewski 1 ; 1 Electrical and 

computer engineering, LLE, U. of Rochester, USA; 

2 

Inst. of Bio- and Nanosystems, Research Centre 

Jülich, Germany; 3 Inst. of Solid State Research, 

Research Centre Jülich, Germany. We designed and 

fabricated novel, freestanding GaAs nanowhisker 

detectors and demonstrated their femtosecond 

photoresponse. Electrical transients were recorded 

and frequency-domain analysis indicated the 

intrinsic bandwidth was above 2 THz. 

JTuI20 

Precise micro-fabrication of structures to enhance 

photon collection from diamond color 

centers, John Hadden 1 , Luca Marseglia 2 , Antony 

Stanley-Clarke 1 , Jake Kennard 1 , Joanne Harrison 2 , 

Ying-Lung Ho 2 , Brian Patton 1 , John G. Rarity 2 , 

Jeremy O’Brien 1,2 ; 1 Department of Physics, Univ. of 

Bristol, UK; 2 Department of Electrical & Electronic 

Engineering, Univ. of Bristol, UK. Diamond color 

centers show promise in quantum photonics applications. 

However practical implementation is 

limited by low photon collection efficiency. We 

report precise fabrication of structures which 

substantially increase collection efficiency. 

JTuI21 

Low-Loss Slow Light in High Contrast Grating 

Hollow-Core Waveguides, Tianbo Sun 1 , Forrest 

Sedgwick 1 , Weijian Yang 1 , Connie J. Chang- 

Hasnain 1 , Vadim Karagodsky 1 ; 1 EECS, Univ. of 

California at Berkeley, USA. A chip-scale hollowcore 

waveguide using high-contrast grating yields 

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JTuI24 

Fabrication of Low Contrast Homogenous 

Guided Mode Resonance Filters, Aaron Pung 1 , 

Menelaos Poutous 1 , Zach Roth 1 , Eric Johnson 1 ; 

1 

UNCC, USA. This paper presents a narrow 

spectral filter based on a homogeneous Silicon 

Dioxide structure with a periodic array of air 

holes. Theoretical and experimental results are 

provided for a resonant structure with a 6 nm 

spectral width at 1.591μm. 

JTuI25 

Realization of small footprint microring reflectors, 

Amir Arbabi 1 , Young Mo Kang 1 , Lynford L. 

Goddard 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. We 

present design, fabrication and characterization of 

a single wavelength narrow-band reflector made 

by integration of a DBR inside a ring resonator. The 

DBR covers half of the ring’s circumference and is 

only reflective at one ring resonance. 

JTuI26 

Experimental Demonstration and Simulation 

of Lossless Metal-Free Integrated Elliptical 

Reflectors for Waveguide Turnings and Crossings, 

Xiangyu Li 1 , Fang Ou 1 , Zhenyu Hou 1 , Yingyan 

Huang 2 , Seng-Tiong Ho 1 ; 1 Department of Electrical 

Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern 

Univ., USA; 2 OptoNet. Inc, USA. Novel on-chip 

waveguide turnings and crossings based on 

metal-free elliptical reflectors are simulated and 

demonstrated. 1µm-wide waveguide case gives 

half the loss in elliptical reflector turn (16% loss) 

compared to plane mirror turn (30% loss). 

JTuI27 

Polarization Dependence of Facet Reflectivity 

in Rectangular Submicron Waveguides, Todd 

Stievater 1 , Doewon Park 1 , Marcel W. Pruessner 1 , 

William S. Rabinovich 1 , Scott A. Holmstrom 2 , 

Subramaniam Kanakaraju 3 , Christopher Richardson 

3 , Jacob B. Khurgin 4 ; 1 Naval Research Lab, USA; 

2 

Univ. of Tulsa, USA; 3 Lab for Physical Sciences, 

USA; 4 Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. We measure and 

theoretically describe the polarization anisotropy 

of the facet reflectivity in rectangular subwavelength 

waveguides. This effect is increasingly 

impacting integrated optical devices as the lateral 

size scale shrinks. 

CLEO:QELS–Fundamental Science 3: 

Metamaterials and Complex Media 

JTuI28 

Modal Formulation for Scattering on the 

Absorbing Silicon Nanowire Arrays for Photovoltaic 

Applications, Kokou B. Dossou 1 , Lindsay 

C. Botten 1 , Ara A. Asatryan 1 , Björn C. Sturmberg 2 , 

Michael A. Byrne 1 , Christopher G. Poulton 1 , Ross C. 

McPhedran 2 , C. Martijn de Sterke 2 ; 1 Department of 

Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, 

Australia; 2 School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia. 

We develop a modal method for modeling 

scattering off absorbing silicon nanowire arrays 

for photovoltaic applications. This semi-analytic 

approach allows the efficient, accurate calculation 

of absorption and gives insight into absorption 

mechanism. 

JTuI29 

Scattering Performance of Plasmonic Nanorod 

Antennas: An Accurate and Fast Computational 

Scheme, Arash Rashidi 1 , Hossein Mosallaei 1 , Raj 

Mittra 2 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Northeastern Univ., USA; 2 Electrical Engineering, 

Pennsylvania State Univ., USA. A fast and efficient 

computational scheme to characterize scattering 

from plasmonic nanorod antennas employing 

macro basis functions is introduced. This is a 

physics-based numerical paradigm with significant 

impact on computational nanophotonics. 

JTuI30 

Gain and noise in long-range surface plasmonpolariton 

amplifiers, Israel De Leon 1 , Pierre 

Berini 1,2 ; 1 SITE, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada; 2 Physics, 

Univ. of Ottawa, Canada. An analysis of gain and 

noise in a long-range surface plasmon amplifier 

is presented. The amplifier incorporates a gain 

medium in the form of LDS821 dye molecules 

in solution. 

JTuI31 

Thin Substrates for Enhanced Metamaterial 

Sensing Applications, Sher-Yi Chiam 1,2 , Ranjan 

Singh 3,4 , Weili Zhang 4 , Andrew A. Bettiol 1 ; 1 Physics, 

National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore; 2 NUS High 

School of Math and Science, Singapore; 3 School of 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma 

State Univ., USA; 4 Materials Physics and Applications 

Division, Los Alamos National Lab, USA. We 

show that metamaterials on thin substrates exhibit 

great sensitivity to changes in their dielectric environment. 

They thus show excellent potential 

for sensing applications as the analyte film can be 

applied on the substrate side. 

JTuI32 

Control of self-accelerating Airy beams with 

optically-induced refractive-index gradient, 

Zhuoyi Ye 1 , Sheng Liu 2 , Cibo Lou 1 , Peng Zhang 3 , 

Yi Hu 1 , Daohong Song 1 , Jianlin Zhao 2 , Zhigang 

Chen 1,3 ; 1 TEDA Applied Physics School,, Nankai 

Univ., China; 2 School of Science, Northwestern 

Polytechnical Univ., China; 3 Department of Physics 

and Astronomy, San Francisco State Univ., USA. 

We show how to enhance, reduce, and completely 

suppress the acceleration of Airy beams in gradedindex 

media. By engineering the refractive-index 

gradient, active bending control of the Airy beams 

is realized, relevant to various environments. 

JTuI33 

Photonic Band Gap in 3D Network Structures 

with Short-range Order, Seng Fatt Liew 1 , Jin-Kyu 

Yang 2 , Heeso Noh 1 , Carl Schreck 3 , Corey S. O’Hern 4,3 , 

Hui Cao 1,3 ; 1 Applied Physics, Yale Univ., USA; 2 Optical 

Engineering, Kongju National Univ., Republic 

of Korea; 3 Physics, Yale Univ., USA; 4 Mechanical 

Engineering, Yale Univ., USA. We show numerically 

a significant depletion of the density of optical 

states in disordered three-dimensional network 

structures. The pseudo photonic band gap is likely 

produced by short-range order and uniformity of 

local topology. 

JTuI34 

Advanced and delayed optical images through 

single and coupled image resonators, Parvin 

Sultana 1 , Takahiro Matsumoto 2 , Makoto Tomita 1 ; 

1 

Physics, Shizuoka Univ., Japan; 2 Research and 

Development Center, Stanley Electric Corporation, 

5-9-5 Tokodai, Japan. We propagated transverse 

two dimensional images encoded on optical pulses 

through a frequency window of coupled image 

resonator induced transparency. The optical images 

are stored and delayed by 10.5 ns. 

JTuI35 

Frequency Tunable Metamaterial Designs Using 

Near-Field Coupled SRR Structures in the 

Terahertz Region, Evren Ekmekci 1,3 , Andrew C. 

Strikwerda 1 , Kebin Fan 2 , George R. Keiser 1 , Xin 

Zhang 2 , G. Turhan-Sayan 3 , Richard D. Averitt 1 ; 

1 

Physics, Boston Univ., USA; 2 Mechanical Engineering, 

Boston Univ., USA; 3 Electrical and Electronics 

Engineering, Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey. 

We present freq. tunable metamaterials using 

broadside-coupled SRRs. Freq. tuning, arising 

from changes in near field coupling, is obtained 

by in-plane displacement between the SRR 

layers. A 30μm shift results in a 663GHz freq. 

redshift(51% of f 0 ). 

JTuI36 

Terahertz propagation through free-standing 

woven-steel-mesh metamaterials, Cumali 

Sabah 1 , Mark D. Thomson 1 , Fanzhen Meng 1 , 

Hartmut G. Roskos 1 ; 1 Physikalisches Institut, 

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ., Germany. Woven 

mesh metamaterials are investigated for THz 

frequencies. Pronounced amplitude transmission 

with 92% is observed. The spectral positions of 

surface-plasmon polaritons agree with the theory 

and abnormal group velocities occur between 

pass bands. 

JTuI37 

Giant Goos-Hänchen Effect at Photonic Crystals 

Surfaces, Irina Soboleva 1,2 , Valentina Moskalenko 1 , 

Andrey Fedyanin 1 ; 1 Quantum Electronics, Lomonosov 

Moscow State Univ., Russian Federation; 

2 

A.N. Frumkin Inst. of Physical Chemistry and 

Electrochemistry, RAS, Russian Federation. Giant 

Goos-Hänchen effect is detected using TIR 

spectroscopy, directly observed in surface electromagnetic 

waves at photonic crystals using far-field 

optical microscopy visualization and achieves 

100-times enhancement. 

JTuI38 

Circularly-Polarized Resonances at the Photonic 

Band-edge of Chiral Liquid Crystal Microcavities, 

Luke J. Bissell 1 , Svetlana G. Lukishova 1 , Carlos 

R. Stroud 1 ; 1 Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, 

USA. Narrow, circularly-polarized microcavity 

resonances were observed for the first time in the 

fluorescence at the photonic band-edge of glassy 

chiral liquid crystal microcavities both undoped 

and doped with quantum dots irradiated by a 

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JTuI39 

Deterministic resonance and phase control for 

photonic sub- and super-radiance in coupled 

nanocavities, Tingyi Gu 1 , Serdar Kocaman 1 , 

Xiaodong Yang 2 , James F. McMillan 1 , Jiangjun 

Zheng 1 , Mingbin Yu 3 , Guo-Qiang Lo 3 , Dim-Lee 

Kwong 3 , Chee Wei Wong 1,3 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, 

Columbia Univ., USA; 2 Univ. of California, Berkeley, 

USA; 3 3The Inst. of Microelectronics, Singapore. Integrated 

chipscale electrodes allow isolated control 

of resonances and phases in optical multi-cavity 

system. By tuning the intra-cavity interferences, 

all-optical analogue to sub- and super-radiance 

on chip are achieved. 

JTuI40 

Purcell effect in a magnetic cavity, Adel Rahmani 

1 , Christopher G. Poulton 1 , Michael J. Steel 2 , 

Patrick C. Chaumet 3 , Garnett W. Bryant 4 ; 1 Mathematical 

Sciences, Univ. of Technology Sydney, 

Australia; 2 MQ Photonics Research Centre and 

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie 

Univ., Australia; 3 Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille 

Universite, France; 4 Atomic Physics Division and 

Joint Quantum Inst., National Inst. of Standards 

and Technology, USA. We study dipole emission 

inside a spherical cavity and investigate how the 

inclusion of magnetic effects leads to differences 

in the physics of radiating sources. 

JTuI41 

Increased Optical Intensity near High Order 

Degenerate Photonic Band Edges for Nonlinear 

Applications, Nadav Gutman 1 , Lindsay C. Botten 

2 , C. Martijn de Sterke 1 ; 1 IPOS and CUDOS, 

School of Physics, The Univ. of Sydney, Australia; 

2 

CUDOS, School of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. 

of Technology, Australia. We show theoretically 

that Degenerate Band Edges (DBEs) lead to high 

optical intensities. A method is proposed to create 

arbitrary DBE, (ω-ωD)=k 2n , for any integer n, by 

coupling n optical modes by multiple superimposed 

periodic structures. 

JTuI42 

Selective Thermal Emission from Patterned 

Steel Surfaces, Joshua A. Mason 1 , David Adams 1 , 

Shaun Smith 1 , Zachariah Johnson 1 , Andrew 

Davis 2 , Dan Wasserman 1 ; 1 Physics and Applied 

Physics, Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA; 

2 

Alloy Surfaces Co., Inc., USA. Here we demonstrate 

mid-infrared selective thermal emission 

from periodically patterned steel surfaces with 

selective emission enhancement of a factor of 2.6. 

Numerical modeling and emission characterization 

are presented. 

JTuI43 

Quasi-phase Matching in Nonlinear Metamaterials, 

Alec Rose 1 , David R. Smith 1 ; 1 Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, 

Duke Univ., USA. We employ nonlinear metamaterials 

to demonstrate alternative quasi-phase 

matching (QPM) methods not feasible in natural 

materials. Additionally, we propose a method for 

dynamic QPM via resonance tuning, allowing for 

a tunable frequency of operation. 

JTuI44 

Giant nonlinear optical enhancement in chalcogenide 

glass fibers with deep-subwavelength 

metallic nanowires, Bora Ung 1 , Maksim Skorobogatiy 

1 ; 1 Engineering physics, Ecole Polytechnique 

de Montreal, Canada. A nanostructured 

chalcogenide-metal optical fiber is proposed. This 

hybrid nanofiber enables both very strong field 

confinement and extreme nonlinear light-matter 

interactions, much larger than a bare chalcogenide 

nanowire of comparable diameter. 

CLEO:QELS–Fundamental Science 6: 

Nano-Optics and Plasmonics 

JTuI45 

Ultracompact Surface Plasmon Polariton Unidirectional 

Generator Based on Asymmetric 

Single-Nanoslit, Zhi Li 1 , Qihuang Gong 1 ; 1 Peking 

Univ., China. An asymmetric single-nanoslit with 

lateral dimension of only 370 nm is demonstrated 

to work as an efficient SPP unidirectional generator 

at wavelength of 830 nm. 

JTuI46 

Mechanical Tuning of Surface Plasmon in Flexible 

Gold Nanograting, Yonghao Cui 1 , Venkata A. 

Tamma 1 , Won Park 1 ; 1 Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, 

USA. We present design, fabrication and characterization 

of mechanically tunable gold nanograting 

structure. As the period of the flexible gold grating 

was tuned mechanically, shift in surface plasmon 

coupling condition led to tuning of resonant. 

JTuI47 

Plasmon resonance induced enhancement of 

reflection band in a one-dimensional metal 

nanocomposite photonic crystal, Saima Husaini 

1,2 , Lev I. Deych 1 , Vinod Menon 1 ; 1 Physics, 

Queens College of the City Univ. of New York, USA; 

2 

Physics, Graduate School and Univ. Center, USA. A 

one-dimensional metal-nanocomposite-dielectric 

photonic crystal showing 200% enhancement of 

the reflection band due to the interplay between 

the plasmon resonance of the silver nanoparticles 

and Bloch modes of the photonic crystal 

is demonstrated. 

JTuI48 

Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm Effect, Vladimir 

Kleiner 1 , Sergey Nechaev 1 , Yuri Gorodetski 1 , Erez 

Hasman 1 ; 1 Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Inst., 

Technion-Inst. for Technology of Israel, Israel. A 

wave-front phase dislocation due to the scattering 

of surface plasmons from a topological defect is 

directly measured in the near field by means of 

interference. The analogy to the Aharonov-Bohm 

effect is presented. 

JTuI49 

Average Enhancement Factor of Molecules- 

Doped Coreshell on Fluorescence, Mao-Kuen 

Kuo 1 , Jiunn-Woei Liaw 2 ; 1 Inst. of Applied Mechanics, 

National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan; 2 Department 

of Mechanical Engineering, Chang Gung Univ., 

Taiwan. We propose the average enhancement 

factor of a molecule-doped coreshell (Ag@SiO 2 ) on 

fluorescence to estimate the overall performance 

of a large number of coreshells. Results are in good 

accordance with experimental data. 

JTuI50 

Silica nanowaveguides for subwavelength 

photonics, Bruno Beche 1 , Francois Dore 1 , Lionel 

Camberlein 2 , Daphne Duval 1 , Nolwenn Huby 1 , Joseph 

Zyss 3 , Etienne Gaviot 2 ; 1 Univ. Rennes 1, France; 

2 

Univ. Maine, France; 3 ENS Cachan, France. We 

report original approaches based on nanofluidic 

mechanisms involving silica nanoparticules that 

allowed us to design the formation of specific 

silica nanopatterns or organized networks of silica 

nanoridges that present sublambda propagation 

regime. 

JTuI51 

A one-dimensional hybrid photonic crystal 

microcavity in the strong coupling regime, Lei 

Zhang 1 , Hui Deng 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Michigan, 

USA. We propose a new hybrid photonic crystal 

cavity structure for one-dimensional polaritons 

by integrating a planar high-index-contrast 

grating (HCG) into a vertical microcavity. It 

can be readily scaled up to coupled quasi onedimensional 

arrays. 

JTuI52 

Tracking molecular binding to nanostructures 

using CO 2 snow jet on plasmonic SERS substrates, 

James T. Hugall 1 , Jeremy J. Baumberg 1 , 

Sumeet Mahajan 1 ; 1 NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish 

Lab, Univ. of Cambridge, UK. Carbon dioxide 

snow jets are used to eject and rearrange molecules 

attached to nanostructured plasmonic surfaces. 

Tracking the dynamics of such perturbations 

provides strong insight into the origin of different 

contributions to SERS. 

JTuI53 

Experimental Demonstration of Locally Oxidized 

Hybrid Silicon Plasmonic Waveguide, Boris 

Desiatov 1 , Ilya Goykhman 1 , Uriel Levy 1 ; 1 Applied 

Physics, Hebrew Univ., Israel. We demonstrate selfaligned 

approach for fabrication of hybrid silicon 

plasmonic waveguide. The demonstrated structure 

provides both nanoscale confinement together 

with propagation length of 100 microns. 

JTuI54 

Sub-15 nm Photo-electron Source Using a 

Nano-aperture Integrated with a Nano-antenna, 

Yao-Te Cheng 1 , Yuzuru Takashima 1 , Juan R. 

Maldonado 2 , Larry Scipioni 3 , David Ferranti 3 , 

Piero A. Pianetta 1,2 , Lambertus Hesselink 1 , Roger 

F. Pease 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ., USA; 2 SLAC National 

Accelerator Lab, USA; 3 Carl Zeiss NTS, Inc, USA. 

We propose a nano-scale C-aperture nano-tip 

photo-electron source with a CsBr photo-cathode. 

We fabricated the structure and estimated the 

optical spot available in the CsBr thin film with 

photoresist exposure. 

JTuI55 

Critical Coupling Requirements for Surface 

Plasmon Enhanced Magneto-Optic Isolators, 

Joseph A. Summers 1 , Rajeev J. Ram 1 ; 1 Research 

Lab of Electronics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, 

USA. The critical coupling criteria between 

dielectric waveguides and lossy surface plasmons is 

applied to isolator designs. This framework shows 

that non-reciprocal plasmon-semiconductor 

waveguides are not achievable, and alternatives 

are proposed. 

JTuI56 

ENZ-enhanced transmission through subwavelength 

slits, Sandeep Inampudi 1 , David 

Slocum 1 , David Adams 1 , Shivashankar Vangala 1 , 

William Goodhue 1 , Dan Wasserman 1 , Viktor A. 

Podolskiy 1 ; 1 Physics and Applied Physics, Univ. of 

Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. We have performed 

comprehensive analysis of the ENZ-enhanced 

light transmission through subwavelength slits, 

identified bulk plasma resonance as a main cause 

of this transmission, and developed an analytical 

description of the phenomenon. 

JTuI57 

Multiple Selective Excitations of Localized Surface 

Plasmons in Coupled Gold Nano-Spheres, 

Po-Nan Li 1 , Hsiu-Hao Tsao 1 , Chen-Bin Huang 1 ; 

1 

Inst. of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing 

Hua Univ., Taiwan. Numerical simulations show 

up to five localized surface plasmons (LSP) states 

can be selectively excited using simple source 

polarization control in gold nano-spheres. The 

extinctions among different selective states are 

quantitatively analyzed. 

JTuI58 

Direct Visualization of Delocalized Band-Edge 

Slow-Bloch Mode Laser, Thanh-Phong Vo 1 , Adel 

Rahmani 2 , Ali Belarouci 1 , Christian Seassal 1 , Dusan 

Nedeljkovic 4 , Mathieu Mivelle 3 , Daniel Charraut 3 , 

Thierry Grosjean 3 , Ségolène Callard 1 ; 1 Institut of 

Nanotechnology of Lyon, France; 2 Department 

of Mathematical Science, Univ. of Technology, 

Australia; 3 Département d’Optique P.M. Duffieux, 

Institut FEMTO-ST, France; 4 Lovalite, France. We 

report on the near- and far-field investigation of 

the Slow Bloch Mode associated with the Γ-point 

of the Brillouin zone, for an active honeycomb 

lattice photonic crystal, using near-field scanning 

optical microscopy. 

JTuI59 

Theoretical approach to the ultrafast nonlinear 

optical response of metal slabs, Mathias Wand 1 , 

Arno Schindlmayr 1 , Torsten Meier 1 , Jens Förstner 1 ; 

1 

Department of Physics, Univ. of Paderborn, 

Germany. We present an ab-initio method for calculating 

nonlinear and nonlocal optical effects in 

metallic slabs with sub-wavelength thickness. We 

find a strong localization of the second-harmonic 

current at the metal-vacuum interface. 

JTuI60 

Near-infrared Nano-imaging Spectroscopy of 

Semiconductor Quantum Dots using a Phase 

Change Mask Layer, Nobuhiro Tsumori 1 , Motoki 

Takahashi 1 , Toshiharu Saiki 1 ; 1 Graduate School 

of Science and Technology, Keio Univ., Japan. We 

proposed a near-infrared nano-imaging spectroscopy 

of semiconductor quantum structures using 

a phase change mask layer. The performance 

of this method was demonstrated by numerical 

simulation and photoluminescence measurement 

of quantum dots. 

JTuI61 

Nanophotonic Device Optimization with Adjoint 

FDTD, Paul Hansen 1 , Yuxin Zheng 2 , Eugene 

Perederey 1 , Lambertus Hesselink 1,2 ; 1 Applied Physics, 

Stanford Univ., USA; 2 Electrical Engineering, Stanford 

Univ., USA. The sensitivity of a nanophotonic 

device’s performance with respect to changes in 

its shape and size can be efficiently obtained 

by adjoint FDTD. By optimizing the structure’s 

boundary we constrain resulting designs to be 

fabricatable. 

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JTuI62 

Measurement of Plasmon Response Functions 

with Cross-correlation Imaging using 

Femtosecond Laser Dark-field Microscopy, Jun 

Oi 1 ; 1 Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio 

Univ., Japan. We demonstrate an electrical-field 

cross-correlation imaging technique to obtain a 

response function of localized plasmon. Based 

on the measured response functions, we spatiotemporally 

shape the plasmon by shaping the 

femtosecond excitation pulses. 

JTuI63 

Resonant plasmon-exciton coupling in zinc 

oxide quantum well-aluminum nanodisc heterostructure 

arrays, Benjamin Lawrie 1 , Kyeong- 

Won Kim 2 , David Norton 2 , Richard Mu 3 , Richard 

F. Haglund 4 ; 1 Interdisciplinary Materials Science, 

Vanderbilt Univ., USA; 2 Department of Materials 

Science and Engineering, Univ. of Florida, USA; 

3 

Department of Physics, Fisk Univ., USA; 4 Department 

of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt Univ., 

USA. The emergence of Fano resonances in the extinction 

spectra of arrays of aluminum nanodiscs 

30 - 200 nm in diameter deposited on [Zn,Mg]O 

quantum wells provide the first evidence of strong 

coupling in zinc oxide heterostructures. 

JTuI64 

Eigen mode Approach to the Sub-wavelength 

Imaging with Surface Plasmon Polaritons, Beibei 

Zhang 1 , Jacob B. Khurgin 1 ; 1 Johns Hopkins Univ., 

USA. We develop a novel physically transparent 

model that establishes unequivocal connection 

between surface plasma polariton (SPP) modes 

and sub-wavelength imaging in the super-lens, 

and use it to analyze the modulation transfer 

function. 

JTuI65 

Plasmon tomography images of two-dimensional 

periodic structures, Charles Regan 1 , Ananth 

Krishnan 3 , Luis Grave de Peralta 2 , Ayrton Bernussi 1 ; 

1 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech 

Univ., USA; 2 Physics, Texas Tech Univ., USA; 

3 

Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Madras, India. Direct 

tomography imaging of the reciprocal lattice of 

plasmonic crystals shows clear isofrequency dispersion 

directional gaps. The relation between the 

Fourier plane image and the First Brillouin Zone 

allows for simple prediction of stop bands. 

JTuI66 

High sensitivity plasmonic index sensor using 

slab-like gold nanoring array, Chia-Yang Tsai 1 , 

Shao-Ping Lu 1 , Jyun-Wei Lin 1 , Po-Tsung Lee 1 ; 

1 

Department of Photonics & Inst. of Electro-Optical 

Engineering, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan. 

We investigate the index sensing characteristics of 

plasmonic arrays based on square lattice slab-like 

gold nanorings with different ring widths. High 

sensitivity of 691 nm per RIU is obtained for 

nanorings with 199 nm width. 

JTuI67 

Directional Selectivity through the Subwavelength 

Slit in Metallic Gratings, Semih 

Cakmakyapan 1 , Humeyra Caglayan 1 , Andriy 

Serebryannikov 2 , Ekmel Ozbay 1 ; 1 Physics, Bilkent 

Univ., Turkey; 2 Technische Universitaet Hamburg, 

Germany. An approach for obtaining strong directional 

selectivity through a single subwavelength 

slit in non-symmetric metallic gratings is shown 

theoretically and experimentally. Directionality 

effect originates from the different resonance 

frequencies of two interfaces. 

JTuI68 

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Angle Selective 

Photovoltaics, Brian Roberts 1 , Pei-Cheng Ku 1 ; 

1 

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. 

of Michigan, USA. We describe an angular selective 

photovoltaic window, designed to transmit 

normally incident light and absorb off-angle light 

by exploiting an anisotropic plasmonic nanostructure. 

Principles of operation and numerical 

simulations are presented. 

CLEO Science & Innovations 9: 

Components, Integration, 

Interconnects and Signal Processing 

JTuI69 

Experimental Observation of the Coupling between 

Short-Rang SPP and Dielectric Waveguide 

Mode, Ruiyuan Wan 1 , Fang Liu 1 , Shuai Hu 1 , Boyu 

Fan 1 , Yidong Huang 1 ; 1 Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua 

Univ., China. The highly efficient coupling 

between the short range surface plasmon polariton 

(SRSPP) and conventional dielectric waveguide 

mode was observed. Based on this coupling, the 

SRSPP mode can be applied for novel integrated 

optoelectronic devices. 

JTuI70 

Experimental Characterization of Simultaneous 

Gain Pumping and Depletion in a Semiconductor 

Optical Amplifier, Yue Tian 1 , Mable P Fok 1 , 

Paul R. Prucnal 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, Princeton 

Univ., USA. We experimentally characterize gainpumping 

in a semiconductor optical amplifier 

and combine gain-pumping and gain-depletion 

effects that can enable complex all-optical signal 

processing functions. 

JTuI71 

Flap-Top Interleaver by Femtosecond Laser 

Writing of Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers 

in Fused Silica, Jason C. Ng 1 , Chengbo 

Li 1 , Peter R. Herman 1 , Li Qian 1 ; 1 Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Canada. 

Femtosecond laser writing of cascaded Mach- 

Zehnder interferometers were optimized in fused 

silica to form flat-top interleavers with 0.5-dB 

bandwidth of 10 nm and 15 dB extinction ratio 

that opens new directions in wavelength division 

multiplexing. 

JTuI72 

MEMS spatial light modulator for spectral 

phase and amplitude modulation, Jonathan 

Dunayevsky 1 , David Sinefeld 1 , Dan M. Marom 1 ; 

1 

Applied Physics, Hebrew Univ., Israel. We present 

a new Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System spatial 

light modulator with micromirrors designed to 

piston. This diffractive MEMS modulator is to be 

used for independently applying amplitude attenuation 

and phase control along one dimension. 

JTuI73 

Electro Thermal and Electro Statical Actuation 

of a Surface Micromachined Tunable Fabry- 

Pérot Filter, Christian Gierl 1 , Karolina Zogal 1 , 

Hooman A. Davani 1 , Peter Meissner 1 ; 1 Optische 

Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 

Germany. We present a surface micromachined 

electro-thermal as well as electro-statical 

tunable Fabry-Pérot filter for on wafer mass production. 

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JTuI80 

Measurements on a Single Crystal Photo-Elastic 

Modulator, Ferdinand Bammer 1 , Rok Petkovsek 2 , 

Jaka Petelin 2 ; 1 Inst. for Production Engineering and 

Laser Technology, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria; 

2 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of 

Ljubljana, Slovenia. The displacement-amplitudes 

of a Single Crystal Photo-Elastic Modulator is 

measured with interferometry and the underlying 

theory verified. The retardation- and the currentamplitude 

are linearly correlated. Current controls 

the crystal retardation. 


Semiconductor Lasers 

JTuI81 

Suppression of Filamentation in Semiconductor 

Lasers via Carrier-Induced Wavefront Tilt, 

Jordan Leidner 1 , John Marciante 1 ; 1 The Inst. of 

Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA. An analytic model 

demonstrates filamentation suppression via tilted 

optical wavefront induced by transverse profiling 

the injection current. Numerical simulations show 

a significant collapse of the far field and a 67% 

increase in device brightness. 

JTuI82 

Transformation of Self-Feedback Weak-Resonant-Cavity 

Fabry-Perot Laser Diode Pulsation 

from Gain-Switching to Mode-Locking 

under Direct Modulation at 10 GHz, Yi-Cheng 

Lee 1 , Gong-Ru Lin 1 ; 1 National Taiwan Univ., 

Taiwan. Pulsation of a self-feedback WRC-FPLD 

transferring from gain-switching to harmonic 

mode-locking is demonstrated under 10-GHz 

direct-modulation, which results in a 12-ps pulsetrain 

with 20-dB longitudinal mode suppression 

and 7 dB mode extinction. 

JTuI83 

Design of Optical Pulse Envelope Ring Oscillator 

(OPERO) and fabrication in Generic InP 

technology, Pieter I. Kuindersma 1,2 ; 1 COBRA Inst., 

TUE, Netherlands; 2 TUE, COBRA Inst., Netherlands. 

A new clock pulse generator is a non-lasing, 

low threshold (~100mA), high efficiency(~ 4mW/ 

mA) semiconductor Optical Pulse Envelope Ring 

Oscillator (‘OPERO’) circuit, containing two crosscoupled 

SOA sub linear wavelength converters. 

JTuI84 

Optically pumped room temperature InAs/In- 

GaAsP microtube laser operating near 1.55 μm, 

Pablo Bianucci 1 , Shouvik Mukherjee 1 , Philip Poole 2 , 

Zetian Mi 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

McGill Univ., Canada; 2 Inst. for Microstructural 

Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 

Canada. We present an optically pumped InGaAsP 

microtube laser operating in the 1.64 μm wavelength 

range with InAs quantum dots as the gain 

medium. We observe room temperature continuous 

wave operation and a 4 μW threshold. 

JTuI85 

Strained Germanium Membrane using Thin 

Film Stressor for High Efficiency Laser, Donguk 

Nam 1 , Arunanshu Roy 1 , Kevin Huang 1 , Mark Brongersma 

2 , Krishna Saraswat 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, 

Stanford Univ., USA; 2 Materials Science and Engineering, 

Stanford Univ., USA. A novel method to 

introduce more than 0.6% biaxial tensile strain 

and achieve a 60meV direct band gap reduction 

in epitaxially grown germanium is demonstrated. 

Possible applications include high efficiency germanium 

lasers on silicon substrates. 

JTuI86 

Modal gain and time-resolved photoluminescence 

of Ga(NAsP) heterostructures pseudomorphically 

grown on Silicon (001) substrate, 

Nektarios Koukourakis 1 , Dominic A. Funke 1 , Nils 

C. Gerhardt 1 , Martin R. Hofmann 1 , Bernardette 

Kunert 3 , Sven Liebich 2 , Daniel Trusheim 2 , Christina 

Bückers 2 , Martin Zimprich 2 , Stephan W. Koch 2 , 

Kerstin Volz 2 , Wolfgang Stolz 2 ; 1 Photonics and terahertz 

technology, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany; 

2 

Physics and material sciences center, Philips-Univ. 

Marburg, Germany; 3 NAsP III/V, Germany. We 

present room-temperature gain (up to 80 cm -1 ) 

and time-resolved photoluminescence measurements 

in Ga(NAsP) grown lattice-matched on 

silicon substrate. We find a strong impact of the 

barrier-growth conditions on the optical quality 

of the material. 

JTuI87 

Sequence of Events During the Catastrophic 

Optical Damage in Broad-Area Lasers, Jens 

W. Tomm 1 , Martin Hempel 1 , Thomas Elsässer 1 ; 

1 

C, Max-Born-Institut, Germany. Kinetics of 

catastrophic optical damage is monitored for 650, 

808, and 980 nm emitting diode lasers. The powerdecay 

time-constants after degradation increase 

with wavelength pinpointing the better thermal 

properties of 980 nm waveguide materials. 

JTuI88 

Carrier Dynamics in Catastrophic Optical 

Bulk Damaged InGaAs-AlGaAs Strained QW 

Broad-Area Lasers, Yongkun Sin 1 , Stephen D. 

LaLumondiere 1 , William T. Lotshaw 1 , Neil Ives 1 , 

Steven C. Moss 1 ; 1 Electronics and Photonics Lab, 

The Aerospace Corporation, USA. We investigated 

catastrophic optical bulk damage in high power 

broad-area InGaAs strained quantum well lasers 

with windowed n-contacts using time-resolved EL 

and transient PL techniques. 

JTuI89 

High Speed 980 nm VCSELs for Short Reach 

Optical Interconnects Operating Error-Free 

at 25 Gbit/s up to 85 °C, Alex Mutig 1 , James A. 

Lott 2 , Sergey A. Blokhin 1,3 , Philip Moser 1 , Philip 

Wolf 1 , Werner Hofmann 1 , Alexey Nadtochiy 1,3 , 

Dieter Bimberg 1 ; 1 Institut für Festkörperphysik und 

Zentrum für Nanophotonik, Technische Universität 

Berlin, Germany; 2 VI Systems GmbH, Germany; 

3 

Saint Petersburg Physical Technological Centre 

for Research and Education of the RAS and the 

Ioffe Physical-Technical Inst. of the RAS, Russian 

Federation. We present 980 nm VCSELs operating 

error-free at a bit rate of 25 Gbit/s at temperatures 

of up to 85 °C. These devices are advantageous for 

future optical interconnects in high performance 

computer applications. 

JTuI90 

High Speed Modulation of a 1.55-μm MEMStunable 

VCSEL, Karolina Zogal 1 , Tobias Gruendl 2 , 

Hooman A. Davani 1 , Christian Gierl 1 , Sandro 

Jatta 1 , Christian Grasse 2 , Markus C. Amann 2 , Peter 

Meissner 1 ; 1 Optical Communication, Technische 

Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany; 2 Walter Schottky 

Institut, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. 

The dynamics of the micromachined-tunable 

surface-emitting laser are derived from amplitude 

modulation response. The dependence of resonance 

frequency on bias current and wavelength 

is reported. The device shows 3-dB modulation 

frequency above 6 GHz. 

JTuI91 

Investigation of the Stability of Microwave 

Oscillations in an Optically Injected 1550nm- 

VCSEL, Kevin R. Schires 1 , Antonio Hurtado 1 , Ian D. 

Henning 1 , Michael J. Adams 1 ; 1 School of Computer 

science and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Essex, 

UK. A novel experimental technique based on 

the study in the phase plane of real-time series 

is used for a first experimental analysis of the 

stability of period-one microwave frequency 

oscillations generated with an optically-injected 

1550nm-VCSEL. 

JTuI92 

Optically-pumped circularly polarized lasing 

in a (110) VCSEL with GaAs/AlGaAs QWs at 

room temperature, Satoshi Iba 1 , Shinji Koh 1 , 

Kazuhiro Ikeda 1 , Hitoshi Kawaguchi 1 ; 1 Graduate 

School of Materials Science, Nara Inst. of Science 

and Technology, Japan. We have successfully fabricated 

a (110)-VCSEL with GaAs/AlGaAs QWs 

and achieved circularly-polarized lasing with a 

high degree of circular polarization of 0.96 at room 

temperature, reflecting a long spin relaxation time 

in (110) GaAs/AlGaAs QWs. 

JTuI93 

High Reflectivity Subwavelength Metal Grating 

for VCSEL Applications, Ruiyuan Wan 1,2 , 

Vadim Karagodsky 2 , Connie J. Chang-Hasnain 2 ; 

1 

Department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua 

Univ., China; 2 Department of Electrical Engineering 

and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, 

Berkeley, USA. We report theoretical simulation of 

a novel silver subwavelength grating with reflectivity>99.5%, 

substantially higher than uniform thin 

film, and a 99%-reflectivity bandwidth of 190nm, 

promising for VCSELs and surface-normal optoelectronic 

devices. 

JTuI94 

Method for Measuring Reflectance of Semiconductor 

Disk Laser Gain Element Under 

Optical Pump Excitation, Carl Borgentun 1 , 

Jörgen Bengtsson 1 , Anders Larsson 1 ; 1 Photonics Lab, 

Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience 

(MC2), Sweden. We present a new measurement 

method for measuring the spectral reflectance of 

a semiconductor disk laser gain element under 

optical pumping, providing valuable information 

on the spectral dependence of gain under closeto-normal 

operating conditions. 

JTuI95 

High-Speed Wavelength Modulation in Quantum 

Cascade Laser, Gang Chen 1,2 , Rainer Martini 2 , 

Tao Yang 2 , Peter Grant 3 , Richard Dudek 3 , Hui 

Chun Liu 3 ; 1 School of Optoelectronic Engineering, 

Chongqing Univ., China; 2 Department of Physics 

and Engineering Physics, Stevens Inst. of Technology, 

USA; 3 Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, National 

Research Council, Canada. High-speed wavelength 

modulation is demonstrated in a standard middleinfrared 

quantum cascade laser by near-infrared 

optical excitation. The typical wavelength modulation 

spectrum is obtained, which is observed at 

frequency up to 1.6 GHz. 

JTuI96 

Gain to Absorption Ratio of Self-Induced Transparency 

Modelocked Quantum Cascade Lasers, 

Muhammad Talukder 1 , Curtis Menyuk 1 ; 1 UMBC, 

USA. A model to calculate the gain to absorption 

ratio of self-induced transparency modelocked 

quantum cascade lasers is presented and then used 

to find the gain to absorbing periods ratio that is 

required for stable operation. 

JTuI97 

Inefficient Coherent Carrier Transport in 

Quantum Cascade Lasers at High Temperature, 

Muhammad Talukder 1 , Curtis Menyuk 1 ; 1 UMBC, 

USA. We show that coherent carrier transport 

in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) decreases as 

temperature increases due to a corresponding 

decrease in the quantum coherence time between 

the injector and active region levels. 

JTuI98 

Design of Laser Transition Oscillator Strength 

for THz Quantum Cascade Lasers, Saeed 

Fathololoumi 1,2 , Emmanuel Dupont 1 , Sylvain R. 

Laframboise 1 , Zbigniew R. Wasilewski 1 , Dayan 

Ban 2 , Hc Liu 1 ; 1 IMS, National research council of 

Cand, Canada; 2 Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

Univ. of Waterloo, Canada. The density matrix 

based model is employed to design number of THz 

quantum cascade lasers with various laser oscillator 

strengths. The optimum oscillator strength 

varies between 0.35 and 0.47. Experimental results 

verify the theory. 

JTuI99 

Room-temperature operation of λ≈2.95μm 

In 0.67 Ga 0.33 As/ Al 0.57 In 0.43 As quantum cascade 

laser source based on intra-cavity second harmonic 

generation, Min Jang 1 , Xiaojun Wang 2 , 

Mariano Troccoli 2 , Mikhail Belkin 1 ; 1 ECE, Univ. of 

Texas at Austin, USA; 2 Adtech Optics, Inc., USA. 

We report λ≈2.95μm strain-compensated QCL 

source based on intra-cavity second harmonic 

generation. The laser operates in pulsed mode 

at 298K with J th =2.7kA/cm 2 and provides 30μW 

of second-harmonic radiation with 0.1mW/W 2 

conversion efficiency. 

JTuI100 

Modal Gain, Loss, and Thermal Resistance of 

a Metamorphic GaSb-Based Laser in Room- 

Temperature Continuous-Wave Operation at 

2 μm, Paveen Apiratikul 1 , Lei He 1 , Christopher 

Richardson 1 ; 1 Lab for Physical Sciences, USA. We 

report a metamorphic type-I GaSb-based laser 

grown on a GaAs substrate that operates continuous 

wave at room temperature with low internal 

loss and low thermal resistance compared to 

pseudomorphic lasers. 

JTuI101 

The antiguiding parameter in mid-infrared 

optically pumped semiconductor lasers, Andrew 

Ongstad 1 ; 1 Air Force Research Lab, USA. 

We describe measurements of the antiguiding 

parameter for several mid-infrared optically 

pumped W lasers. The symmetrical gain spectra 

induced by homogenous broadening resulted in 

small differential index and hence low antiguiding 

values of ~1. 


Laser Processing of Materials: 

Fundamentals and Applications 

JTuI102 

Fabrication of microstructures containing Au 

nanoparticles for optical and photonic applications, 

Vinicius Tribuzi 1 , Adriano J. Otuka 1 , Paulo 

Ferreira 1 , Daniel S. Correa 1 , Cleber Mendonca 1 ; 

1 

Univ. of Sao Paulo - Inst. of Physics of Sao Carlos 

- Photonics Group, Brazil. Methods for fabricating 

doped microstructures have been recently 

developed. In this work, we developed a method 

for fabricating microstructures, by two-photon 

absorption polymerization, containing gold 

nanoparticles. 

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JTuI103 

Multilayered optical storage in Sm(DBM)3Phendoped 

and un-doped polymethylmethacrylate 

by a femtosecond laser, Zhaogang Nie 1,2 , 

Wooyoung Jang 3 , Ki-Soo Lim 3 , Myeongkyu Lee 4 , 

Heungyeol Lee 4 , Takayoshi Kobayash 1,2 ; 1 Department 

of Engineering Science, Faculty of Informatics 

and Engineering, Univ. of Electro-Communications, 

Japan, Advanced Ultrafast Laser Research Center, 

Japan; 2 International Cooperative Research Project, 

Japan Science and Technology Agency,, Japan; 

3 

BK21 Physics Program and Department of Physics,, 

Chungbuk National Univ.,, Republic of Korea; 

4 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering,, 

Yonsei Univ.,, Republic of Korea. We report on 

multilayered optical storage in Sm(DBM)3Phendoped 

and un-doped polymethylmethacrylate 

read out by fluorescence and reflection modes. 

The detection of fluorescence signal enables 

retrieval of the stored bits with a higher signalto-noise 

ratio. 

JTuI104 


JTuI105 

Double-Filament Waveguides Written in 

Nd:YAG Ceramic With 2-ps UV Laser Pulses, 

Ben McMillen 1 , Botao Zhang 1 , Kevin Chen 1 , 

Antonio Benayas 2 , Daniel Jaque 2 ; 1 Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA; 

2 

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. We 

report on femtosecond laser writing of channel 

waveguides in Nd 3+ ion doped YAG ceramics by 

inscription of damage filaments using near-UV 

ultrafast laser source at two different pulse duration 

regimes. 

JTuI106 

Phase transitions induced by ultrafast laser 

writing in transparent materials, Peter Kazansky 

1 , Martynas Beresna 1 , Yasuhiko Shimotsuma 2 , 

Mingaugaus Gecevicius 1 , Masaaki Sakakura 2 , 

Costantino Corbari 1 , Kiyotaka Miura 2 , Kazuyuki 

Hirao 2 , Yves Bellouard 3 ; 1 Optoelectronics Research 

Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK; 2 Kyoto Univ., 

Japan; 3 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands. 

Evidence of the first order phase transition 

associated with self-assembled nonostructures 

formation during ultrafast laser writing in glass is 

demonstrated. Supercooled state of laser damage 

is observed using pulses with tilted front. 

JTuI107 

Integration of Polymeric Microstructures by 

Silica Nanowires, Vinicius Tribuzi 1 , Adriano 

Otuka 1 , Marcos Cardoso 1 , Daniel Correa 1 , Cleber 

Mendonca 1 ; 1 Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil. We use 

two-photon polymerization to fabricate microstructures 

containing fluorescent dyes, which were 

integrated and excited through silica nanowires. 

Such results open up new opportunities for microoptical 

devices integration. 

JTuI108 

Influence of Pulse Width in Ultrafast Laser 

Fabrication of Embedded Waveguides in Chalcognide 

Glasses, Ben McMillen 1 , Qingqing Wang 1 , 

Botao Zhang 1 , Tong Chen 1 , Kevin Chen 1 , Antonio 

Benayas 2 , Daniel Jaque 2 ; 1 Univ. of Pittsburgh, 

USA; 2 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. 

We report embedded waveguide fabrication in 

Gallium Lanthanum Sulphide glasses using an 

ultrafast laser. The influence of pulse widths on the 

waveguide formation was studied and compared 

using 240 fs and 2 ps pulses, respectively. 

JTuI109 

Morphology of femtosecond laser modification 

of bulk dielectrics, Konstantin Popov 1 , Clare 

McElcheran 1 , Kyle Briggs 1 , Stephanie Mack 1 , Lora 

Ramunno 1 ; 1 Physics, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada. 

Using 3D FDTD simulations, we study the morphology 

of the laser-created plasma inside fused 

silica. The most important effect responsible for 

plasma morphology is the electromagnetic pulse 

refraction by the generated plasma. 

JTuI110 

Dependence of the periodic structure interspaces 

on laser fluence for metals irradiated with 

femtosecond laser, Masaki Hashida 1,2 , Yasuhiro 

Miyasaka 1,2 , Yoshinobu Ikuta 1,2 , Shigeki Tokita 1,2 , 

Shuji Sakabe 1,2 ; 1 ARBCS, Inst. for Chemical Research, 

Kyoto Univ., Japan; 2 Department Physics, 

Graduate School of Science, Kyoto Univ., Japan. 

Periodic structures self-formed on the surface 

of several metals by femtosecond laser pulses are 

investigated. The laser fluence dependence can 

be explained by the induction of a surface plasma 

wave through parametric decay of laser. 

CLEO: Science & Innovation 13: 

Active Optical Sensing 

• Gas-Phase Sensing 

JTuI111 

Mixed gas sensing system based on Super-luminescent 

diode coupled with a Fabry-Perot etalon, 

Divya Kannan 1 , Nilesh J. Vasa 1 ; 1 INDIAN INST. 

OF TECHNOLOGY,MADRAS, India. Mixed gas 

sensing based on a broad-band super-luminescent 

diode (1535 nm) coupled with an external Fabry- 

Perot etalon is proposed. The wavelength tuning by 

tilting the etalon will provide selective gas sensing 

by absorption spectroscopy technique. 

JTuI112 

Optical Readout of Micro Tuning Forks for Spectroscopic 

Applications, Michael Köhring 1 , Ulrike 

Willer 2 , Wolfgang Schade 1,2 ; 1 Fraunhofer Heinrich 

Hertz Inst., Germany; 2 Inst. of Energy Research and 

Physical Technologies, Clausthal Univ. of Technology, 

Germany. Interferometrically read-out micro 

tuning forks are used as small bandwidth acoustic 

wave detector in photoacoustic spectroscopy. 

A comparison to the piezoelectrically read-out 

QEPAS technique and a miniaturized future PAS 

sensor design is presented. 

JTuI113 

High sensitivity detection of NO 2 using ICOS 

and MLIAS, Andreas Karpf 1 , Gottipaty N. Rao 1 ; 

1 

Physics Dept, Adelphi Univ., USA. Employing 

an external cavity QCL and using OA-ICOS and 

multiple line integrated absorption spectroscopy 

techniques, we report an effective sensitivity of 

detection of ~28 ppt for NO 2 in Zero-Air. 

JTuI114 

Cavity enhanced spectroscopy with a dualcolor, 

passively locked power build-up external 

cavity diode laser, Shigeru Yamaguchi 1 ; 1 Dept. 

Physics, Tokai Univ., Japan. High-finesse external 

cavity was passively locked simultaneously at 

wavelengths of 1.064μm laser diode and 0.532μm 

with a waveguide PPLN crystal. Cavity enhanced 

spectroscopy was demonstrated to detect trace 

NO2 employing the cavity. 

JTuI115 

Validation of a Model of a Resonant Optothermoacoustic 

Trace Gas Sensor, Noemi Petra 1 , John 

Zweck 1 , Susan E. Minkoff 1 , Anatoliy A. Kosterev 2 , 

James Doty 2 ; 1 Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. 

of Maryland Baltimore County, USA; 2 Electrical 

and Computer Engineering, Rice Univ., USA. A 

model for a resonant optothermoacoustic sensor 

is validated by comparison with experiments 

performed with 0.5% acetylene in nitrogen. At 

low concentrations, the molecular dynamics of the 

trace gas do not influence the signal. 


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