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Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.CMI • THz Instrumentation andTechniquesChiko Otani; RIKEN, Japan,Presider8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.CMJ • Nonlinear OpticalMaterialsDavid Hagan; CREOL, Univ. ofCentral Florida, USA, Presider8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.CMK • Quantum Dots andMode-Locked LasersA. Catrina Bryce; Univ. ofGlasgow, UK, PresiderCMI1 • 8:00 a.m.Amplitude Modulation of Terahertz QuantumCascade Lasers by External Interband-ExcitationLight, Norihiko Sekine, Iwao Hosako; NICT, Japan.We have investigated light-current characteristicsof terahertz quantum cascade lasers under externallight injection. The light injection induces themodulation of the output power that is explainedby the characteristic properties of the laser.CMJ1 • 8:00 a.m. InvitedUltra-Wide THz-Wave Generation by DASTand BNA, Hiromasa Ito 1,2 ; 1 RIKEN Sendai, Japan,2Tohoku Univ., Japan. Organic crystals are mostpromising materials for efficient THz-wavegeneration. 4-dimethylamino-N-methyl-4-stilbazolium tosylate (DAST) and N-benzyl-2-methyl-4-nitroaniline (BNA) are investigatedfor ultra-wide THz-wave generation. New THzapplications will be presented using frequencyagileTHz sources.CMK1 • 8:00 a.m. TutorialCommercialization of QD Lasers, MitsuruSugawara; Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan. This talk willoverview developments and commercializationof quantum-dot optical devices, i.e., lasers andamplifiers, from the epoch-making finding of InAsself-assembled quantum dots emitting at 1.3 μm tothe launch of QD Laser Inc and its activity.CMI2 • 8:15 a.m.Inverse-Quantum-Engineering: A New Methodologyfor Designing THz QCLs for Basic andApplied Research, Inès Waldmueller, Michael C.Wanke, Maytee Lerttamrab, Dan G. Allen, WengW. Chow; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA. We demonstratethe general capabilities of the developed methodologyby tuning the emission frequency of a GaAs/Al x Ga 1-x As THz QCL over a frequency range of 2.9THz, and the Al fraction over a range of 0.17.CMI3 • 8:30 a.m.Spatiotemporal Control of THz Pulses byShaping the Laser Beam Transverse Profile ina Non Linear Rectifying Crystal, Ciro D’Amico,Marc Tondusson, Jerome Degert, Eric Freysz; Univ.de Bordeaux1, France. We demonstrate that spatiotemporalproperties of Terahertz (THz) pulsesgenerated in a ZnTe crystal are controlled in theintermediate field by shaping the transverse spatialprofile of the near infrared (NIR) femtosecond(fs) optical pump.CMJ2 • 8:30 a.m.Multilayer Walk-off Corrected Nonlinear OpticalDevices - Engineering of Quasi-NoncriticalPhase-Matching to All Wavelengths, XiaodongMu, Helmuth E. Meissner, Huai-Chuan Lee; OnyxOptics, Inc., USA. Multilayer walk-off correctednonlinear crystal composites not only can correctthe spatial walk-off, but also can compensatethe phase-mismatching caused by incident angledeviation. The noncritical phase-matching-likeproperties can be engineered to all wavelengths.Dr. Sugawara joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.,Japan, in 1984, and studied physics of semiconductoroptical devices like lasers, detectors, amplifiers,and switches. Since the finding of self-assembledquantum dots emitting at 1.3 micron by hisgroup in 1995, he has been working on physics ofquantum-dot lasers and amplifiers and their applicationto optical communications. He workedas a professor of University of Tokyo in 2001-2005to develop quantum-dot optical devices underthe academic-industrial collaboration project. In2006, he launched QD Laser, Inc. to commercializequantum-dot optical devices as President andCEO. He is the recipient of the JAPAN PrimeMinister’s Award 2007 and the Runner-Up Awardin the Semiconductor category of The Wall StreetJournal Technology Innovation Awards 2006. He isthe editor and the author of the book entitled Self-Assembled InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMI4 • 8:45 a.m.Terahertz-Wave Detection Using an OrganicDAST Crystal Covering Ultra-Wide Frequency-Range at Room Temperature, Hiroaki Minamide 1 ,Jun Zhang 1 , Ruixiang Guo 1 , Seigo Ohno 1 , KatsuhikoMiyamoto 1 , Hiromasa Ito 1,2 ; 1 RIKEN Sendai,Japan, 2 Tohoku Univ., Japan. Rapidly responding,high-sensitivity terahertz (THz)-wave detectionwith an organic DAST crystal was demonstratedusing nonlinear frequency up-conversion tonear-infrared light. Detection of THz-wave signalsfrom 16.4-THz to 26.3-THz was achieved at roomtemperature.CMJ3 • 8:45 a.m.Nonlinear Optical Transformation of the PolarizationState with Holographic Cut CubicCrystals, Stoyan Kourtev 1 , Lorenzo Canova 2 ,Nikolay Minkovski 1 , Aurelie Jullien 2 , Olivier Albert 2 ,Rodrigo Lopez-Martens 2 , Solomon M. Saltiel 1 ;1Faculty of Physics, Sofia Univ., Bulgaria, 2 Labd’Optique Appliquée, École Natl.e Supérieure deTechniques Avances, École Polytechnique, CNRS,France. We demonstrate very efficient (~30%)nonlinear optical polarization switch between twolinearly cross-polarized states with holographiccut BaF 2 crystal. The same cut can be used fornonlinear optical transformation of circularlypolarized light.Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.51
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IQECCMA • fs Fiber Oscillators I—ContinuedIMA • Strongly Coupled AtomicSystems—ContinuedCMB • 10 Years of FrequencyCombs <strong>CLEO</strong> Symposium I—ContinuedIMB • Infrared and NonlinearPlasmonics—ContinuedCMA5 • 9:00 a.m.Femtosecond Pulses with 1.1 GHz RepetitionRate Generated from a CW Laser without Mode-Locking, Yitang Dai, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA.471-fs pulses are generated by injecting a 33-pspulse train, obtained from pulse carving a 1.55-μmCW DFB laser, into a time-lens loop. High repetitionrate of 1.1 GHz is demonstrated.IMA2 • 9:00 a.m.Photon Correlations in Systems with StrongLight-Matter Coupling, Lukas Schneebeli, MackilloKira, Stephan W. Koch; Dept. of Physics and MaterialSciences Ctr., Philipps-Univ., Germany. Theappearance of the two-photon strong-couplingstates is analyzed in atomic vs. semiconductorquantum-dot microcavities. An identical excitationmechanism explains phenomena observedin photon-correlation measurements.CMB2 • 9:00 a.m.Frequency Measurement of a Sr Optical LatticeClock Using a Coherent Optical Link over a120-km Fiber, Feng-Lei Hong 1,2 , Mitsuru Musha 3 ,Masao Takamoto 2,4 , Hajime Inaba 1,2 , Shinya Yanagimachi1 , Akifumi Takamizawa 1 , Ken-ichi Watabe 1 ,Takeshi Ikegami 1 , Michito Imae 1,2 , Yasuhisa Fujii 1,2 ,Masaki Amemiya 1,2 , Ken’ichi Nakagawa 3 , Ken-ichiUeda 3 , Hidetoshi Katori 2,4 ; 1 AIST, Japan, 2 CREST,Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan, 3 Univ.of Electro-Communications, Japan, 4 Univ. of Tokyo,Japan. We demonstrate a precision frequency measurementusing a phase-stabilized 120-km opticalfiber link over a physical distance of 50 km. Theabsolute frequency of the 87 Sr optical lattice clock ismeasured to be 429228004229874.1(2.4) Hz.IMB4 • 9:00 a.m.IR Index Sensing Based on Surface Phonon-Polaritons in SiC, Dmitriy Korobkin 1 , BurtonNeuner III 1 , Chris Fietz 1 , Davy Carole 2 , GabrielFerro 2 , Gennady Shvets 1 ; 1 Dept. of Physics, Univ.of Texas, USA, 2 Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1,France. We present results demonstrating theexcitation of surface phonon-polaritons at theinterface between SiC and different materials.The resonant nature of the excitation can be usedto sense minute substance amounts or distinguishbetween substances.CMA6 • 9:15 a.m.Giant-Chirp Oscillators for Short-Pulse FiberAmplifiers, William H. Renninger, Andy Chong,Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., USA. A dissipativesolitonoscillator can replace the oscillator,stretcher, pulse-picker, and pre-amplifier in achirped-pulse fiber amplifier. 150-ps pulses at3-MHz repetition rate are amplified to 1-uJ energywith pulse duration as short as 670 fs.IMA3 • 9:15 a.m.Conditional Dynamics in Two-Mode CavityQED, David G. Norris 1 , Eric J. Cahoon 1 , PabloBarberis 2 , Howard J. Carmichael 3 , Luis A. Orozco 1 ;1Univ. of Maryland, USA, 2 Univ. Nacional Autonomade Mexico, Mexico, 3 Univ. of Auckland,New Zealand. The conditional dynamics of 85 Rbatoms in a driven two-mode optical cavity showsquantum beats from ground state Larmor precession.We study the manipulation and control oftheir fringe visibility.CMB3 • 9:15 a.m.Absolute Ranging Using Frequency Combs,William C. Swann, Ian Coddington, Nathan R.Newbury; NIST, USA. We present a techniquefor measuring absolute range that uses two mismatchedfrequency combs to measure distanceover 1.5 m range with 10 nm level statisticaluncertainty.IMB5 • 9:15 a.m.Weak Coupling of Monolayer Lead SulfideQuantum Dots to Silicon Photonic CrystalCavities at Near-Infrared Wavelengths, RanojoyBose, Jie Gao, Fang Wen Sun, James F. McMillan,Xiaodong Yang, Charlton J. Chen, Chee Wei Wong;Columbia Univ., USA. We present experimentalanalysis of weak coupling for monolayer leadsulfide quantum dots coupled to silicon photoniccrystal cavities between 4K and room temperature,as well as power-saturation measurementsof dots at 4K.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMA7 • 9:30 a.m.High Energy Femtosecond Chirped-Pulse Oscillator,Caroline Lecaplain 1 , Bulend Ortaç 2 , AmmarHideur 1 , Jens Limpert 2 , Andreas Tünnermann 2 ;1Univ. de Rouen, France, 2 Inst. of Applied Physics,Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany. We reporton the generation of high-energy femtosecondpulses in a chirped-pulse oscillator based on anytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber. Outputpulses with 800 fs duration and more than 90 nJenergy are generated.IMA4 • 9:30 a.m.A Cavity QED System Coupling NitrogenVacancy Centers in a Diamond Nanopillar to aSilica Microsphere, Khodadad N. Dinyari, MatsLarsson, Hailin Wang; Univ. of Oregon, USA. Acomposite cavity QED system, which couples nitrogenvacancy centers in a diamond nanopillar towhispering gallery modes in a silica microsphereand overcomes limitations of earlier diamondnanocrystal based systems, is demonstrated.CMB4 • 9:30 a.m.New Mechanism of All-Optical Poling forCarrier-Envelope Phase Measurement UsingDye-Grafted Polymer, Takayoshi Kobayashi 1,2,3,4 ,Kotaro Okamura 1,2 ; 1 Univ. of Electro-Communications,Japan, 2 JST, Japan, 3 Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.,Taiwan, 4 Osaka Univ., Japan. All-optical poling efficiencywas measured using dye-grafted polymerto determine the carrier-envelope phase. Increasedchromophore density lead to tenfold reduction insignal detection time and presence of restoringforce to zero poling was observed.IMB6 • 9:30 a.m.Enhancement of Nonlinearity in RandomMetal-Dielectric Films, Uday K. Chettiar, PiotrNyga, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir P. Drachev,Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA. Metaldielectriccomposites are studied experimentallyand through fullwave simulations using FDTD.Simulations show excellent agreement withexperiments. The local fields obtained from thesimulations give insight into the enhancement ofthe nonlinear processes.9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Coffee Break, 300 Level FoyerNOTES_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________52<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IMC • Nonlinear Nanophotonicand Periodic Media—ContinuedCMC • Transmission and OpticalProcessing—ContinuedCMD • Light Emission inNovel Nano-Structures andMaterials—ContinuedIMC4 • 9:00 a.m.Dynamic Localization in Curved CoupledOptical Waveguide Arrays, Arash Joushaghani 1 ,Rajiv Iyer 1 , Julius Wan 2 , Joyce K. S. Poon 1 , MartijnC. de Sterke 3 , Marc M. Dignam 2 , J. Stewart Aitchison1 ; 1 Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2 Queen’s Univ.,Canada, 3 Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We presentthe experimental observation of three differentoptical localization schemes in curved coupledoptical waveguide arrays. Exact and approximatedynamic localization are compared and a newtype of localization, quasi-Bloch oscillations, isdemonstrated.CMC4 • 9:00 a.m.Highly Alignment Tolerant 10 Gb/s LinksUsing Very Large Core Plastic Optical Fiber,Arup Polley, Stephen E. Ralph; Georgia Tech,USA. We experimentally demonstrate error-free10Gb/s transmission over the largest core sizefiber ever reported. A tolerance of ±30micronis demonstrated for both the VCSEL source andPIN diode receiver.CMD4 • 9:00 a.m.Modulation of Uniform Light Pattern with LightExtraction Enhancement by GaN MicrolensArrays of LEDs, YunChih Lee, Chien-Chi Hsu,Shih-Pu Yang, Po-Shen Lee, Jenq-Yang Chang,Mount-Learn Wu; Dept. of Optics and Photonics,Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan. The uniform lightpattern with light extraction enhancement 250% ofLEDs with GaN microlens arrays are demonstratednumerically and experimentally. It makes LEDlight source as a device of spatial-intensity uniformityintegrated with GaN-LEDs structure.IMC5 • 9:15 a.m.From Type II Upconversion to SPDC: A Pathto Broadband Polarization Entanglement inPoled Fibers, Eric Y. Zhu 1 , Lukas G. Helt 2 , MarcoLiscidini 2 , Li Qian 1 , John E. Sipe 2 , Albert Canagasabey3 , Costantino Corbari 3 , Morten Ibsen 3 , PeterG. Kazansky 3 ; 1 Dept. of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2 Dept. ofPhysics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 3 OptoelectronicsRes. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK. We reporttype-II sum-frequency and second-harmonicgeneration in a 24-cm-long periodically-poledsilica fiber. Quasi-phase matching is achievedfor orthogonally-polarized signal and idler over1520-1575 nm, demonstrating the path to infiberbroadband polarization-entangled photonpair generation.CMC5 • 9:15 a.m.1-μm Waveband, 12.5-Gbps Transmission witha Wavelength Tunable Single-Mode SelectedQuantum-Dot Optical Frequency Comb Laser,Naokatsu Yamamoto 1 , Redouane Katouf 1 , KouichiAkahane 1 , Tetsuya Kawanishi 1 , Hideyuki Sotobayashi2 ; 1 NICT, Japan, 2 Aoyama Gakuin Univ.,Japan. 1-μm waveband, 12.5-Gbps transmissionover a 1.5-km single-mode holey-fiber is demonstratedwith clear eye-openings. A wavelengthtunable single-mode selected quantum-dot opticalfrequency-comb laser is used as the optical-sourcepotentially capable of wavelength division multiplexing(WDM).CMD5 • 9:15 a.m.Paper Withdrawn.IMC6 • 9:30 a.m.Ultrafast All-Optical Modulation in GaAsPhotonic Crystal Cavities, Chad Husko 1,2 , AlfredoDe Rossi 2 , Sylvain Combrié 2 , Quynh Tran 2 ,Fabrice Raineri 3,4 , Chee Wei Wong 1 ; 1 ColumbiaUniv., USA, 2 Thales Res. and Technology, France,3Lab de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS,France, 4 Univ. D. Diderot, France. We demonstrateall-optical modulation via ultrafast optical carrierinjection in a GaAs photonic crystal cavity usinga degenerate pump-probe technique. The lowswitching(absorption) energy~120fJ(10fJ),andfast response(~15ps),limited only by carrierlifetime, suggest practical all-optical switchingapplications.CMC6 • 9:30 a.m.Optimum Filter for Wavelength Conversionwith QD-SOA, Rene Bonk 1 , Stelios Sygletos 1 ,Romain Brenot 2 , Thomas Vallaitis 1 , Andrej Marculescu1 , Philipp Vorreau 1 , Jingshi Li 1 , WolfgangFreude 1 , Francois Lelarge 2 , Guang-Hua Duan 2 ,Juerg Leuthold 1 ; 1 Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany,2Alcatel-Thalès III-V Labs, Joint Lab of Bell Labsand Thales Res. and Technology, France. Highqualityall-optical wavelength conversion isdemonstrated with a single QD-SOA followedby a filter. The operation regimes of QD-SOA areidentified. It is shown that different filter schemesare needed for the respective regimes.CMD6 • 9:30 a.m.Emission Enhancement and Redistributionvia Bloch Surface Waves, Molu Shi 1 , MatteoGalli 2 , Daniele Bajoni 2 , Marco Liscidini 1 , JohnSipe 1 ; 1 Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2 Univ. of Pavia,Italy. We demonstrate a strong enhancement andintensity redistribution of dipole emission by aBloch Surface Wave at the surface of a periodicsilicon nitrite multi-layer.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 19:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Coffee Break, 300 Level FoyerNOTES_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.53
Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>CME • Imaging Applications—ContinuedCMF • Biomedical Tomography—ContinuedCMG • Compact Sensors—ContinuedCMH • Nanostructured andOrganic LEDs—ContinuedCME4 • 9:00 a.m.Ultrashort-Pulsed Nondiffracting Images,Martin Bock, Susanta K. Das, Rüdiger Grunwald;Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany. Saari’s concept of“flying images” was realized with ultrashort-pulsedneedle beam arrays. By applying reflective phaseonlyspatial light modulators, two-dimensionalimage information was programmed in pseudonondiffractingsub-beams of extremely high aspectratio and propagation stability.CMF5 • 9:00 a.m. InvitedMesoscopic Imaging Using Multi SpectralOptoacoustic Tomography (MSOT), VasilisNtziachristos, Daniel Razansky; Technische Univ.München, Germany. The talk describes next generationhigh-resolution photonic tissue imagingthat goes beyond the penetration limit of opticalmicroscopy.CMG5 • 9:00 a.m.Contrast Enhancement of UV Absorption andImproved Biochip Imaging, Kristelle Robin 1 ,Jean-Luc Reverchon 1 , Arnaud Brignon 1 , LaurentMugherli 2 , Michel Fromant 2 , Pierre Plateau 2 , HenriBenisty 3 ; 1 Thales Res. & Technology, France, 2 Labde Biochimie, CNRS, France, 3 Lab Charles Fabryde l’Inst. d’Optique, France. Biochip using UVabsorption for selective DNA or proteins imagingmay take advantage of sensitivity enhancementthanks to either multilayer structures or gratingstructures. We discuss the interest of coupledangular and spectral illumination.CMH5 • 9:00 a.m.Beam Shaping of GaN/InGaN Vertical-InjectionLight Emitting Diodes via High-Aspect-RatioNanorod Arrays, Min-An Tsai 1 , Peichen Yu 1 , C.L. Chao 1 , C. H. Chiu 1 , H. C. Kuo 1 , T. C. Lu 1 , S.C. Wang 1 , J. J. Huang 2 ; 1 Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.,Taiwan, 2 Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. The enhancedlight extraction and collimated outputbeam profile from GaN/InGaN vertical-injectionlight emitting diodes are demonstrated utilizinghigh-aspect-ratio nanorod arrays. The nanorodarrays are patterned by self-assembled silicaspheres, followed by inductively-coupled-plasmareactive-ion-etching.CME5 • 9:15 a.m.Tabletop Coherent Diffractive Microscopy withSoft X-Rays from High Harmonic Generation at13.5 nm, Daisy A. Raymondson 1 , Richard Sandberg1 , Ethan Townsend 1 , Matt Seaberg 1 , Chan Lao-vorakiat1 , Margaret Murnane 1 , Henry Kapteyn 1 ,Kevin Raines 2 , Jianwei Miao 2 , William Schlotter 3,4 ;1JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA, 2 Dept. ofPhysics and Astronomy, Univ. of California at LosAngeles, USA, 3 Inst. fur Experimentalphysik, Univ.Hamburg, Germany, 4 FLASH at DESY, Germany.We demonstrate lensless diffractive microscopywith 92nm resolution using 13.5nm light fromhigh harmonic generation. Fast image retrievalwith Fourier transform holography is shown,and we present paths to refining the images tohigher resolution.CMG6 • 9:15 a.m.Highly-Sensitive Intracavity Detection UsingPolarization Mode Beating Techniques,Andrea Rosales-García 1 , Theodore F. Morse 1 , JuanHernández-Cordero 2 ; 1 Boston Univ., USA, 2 Inst.de Investigaciones en Materiales, Univ. NacionalAutónoma de México, Mexico. We proposea highly-sensitive fiber optic sensor based onpolarization mode beating techniques for measuringnanometric changes in optical pathlength. Thehigh sensitivity and narrow laser linewidth show apotential application for ultra-sensitive biologicalmeasurements.CMH6 • 9:15 a.m.Enhancement in Electron Injection and Transportof Organic Light Emitting Diodes UsingMnO, Jiaxiu Luo, Lixin Xiao, Zhijian Chen,Qihuang Gong; State Key Lab for Artificial Microstructuresand Mesoscopic Physics, Dept. ofPhysics, Peking Univ., China. An insulator MnOas an electron injecting and transporting materialintroduced into organic light-emitting diodes toincrease electroluminescence efficiency also caneliminate the problem of the oxidation of reactivedopants to improve stability of devices.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CME6 • 9:30 a.m.Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectrumof Various Fluorophores with FourierTransform Nonlinear Spectroscopy, HiroshiHashimoto 1,2 , Keisuke Isobe 1 , Akira Suda 1 , FumihikoKannari 2 , Hiroyuki Kawano 3 , Hideaki Mizuno 3 ,Atsushi Miyawaki 3 , Katsumi Midorikawa 1 ; 1 RIKENAdvanced Science Inst., Japan, 2 Keio Univ., Japan,3RIKEN Brain Science Inst., Japan. We show atechnique to measure the two-photon excitationspectrum of various fluorophores, based on Fouriertransform nonlinear spectroscopy with the useof ultrabroadband laser (670-1100 nm).CMF6 • 9:30 a.m.High-Resolution Photoacoustic Imaging, FantingKong 1 , Ying-Chih Chen 1 , Harriet O. Lloyd 2 ,Ronald H. Silverman 2,3 , Hyung Kim 4 , JonathanM. Cannata 4 , K. Kirk Shung 4 ; 1 Dept. of Physicsand Astronomy, Hunter College and the GraduateSchool, CUNY, USA, 2 Dept. of Ophthalmology, WeillCornell Medical College, USA, 3 F.L. Lizzi Ctr. forBiomedical Engineering, Riverside Res. Inst., USA,4Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of SouthernCalifornia, USA. We report a high-resolutionphotoacoustic imaging apparatus based on aring transducer which allows focused laser andultrasonic beams to be launched collinearly froma monolithic device.CMG7 • 9:30 a.m.Gratings on Porous Silicon Structures for SensingApplications, Marco Liscidini 1 , Xing Wei 2 ,Chris Kang 2 , Guoguang Rong 2 , Scott Retterer 3 ,Maddalena Patrini 4 , John Sipe 1 , Sharon Weiss 2 ;1Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2 Vanderbilt Univ., USA,3Oak Ridge Natl. Lab, USA, 4 Dept. of Physics, Univ.of Pavia, Italy. We investigate the use of gratingson porous silicon (PSi) structures for sensing applications.Examples of two classes of systems arestudied: grating-coupled waveguide biosensorsand diffraction-based biosensors.CMH7 • 9:30 a.m.Enhancement on Top Emission of OrganicLight-Emitting Diode via Scattering SurfacePlasmons by Nano-Aggregated OutcouplingLayer, Zhijian Chen, Ziyao Wang, Lixin Xiao,Qihuang Gong; State Key Lab for Artificial Microstructuresand Mesoscopic Physics, Dept. of Physics,Peking Univ., China. A stable self nano-aggregatedbathocuproine film was fabricated and introducedatop of conventional organic light emitting diodefor enhancing top emission, leading to 2.7 timesenhancement on top emission due to scatteringsurface plasmon energy.9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Coffee Break, 300 Level FoyerNOTES_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________54<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>CMI • THz Instrumentation andTechniques—ContinuedCMJ • Nonlinear OpticalMaterials—ContinuedCMK • Quantum Dots and Mode-Locked Lasers—ContinuedCMI5 • 9:00 a.m. InvitedTerahertz-Comb-Referenced Spectrum Analyzer,Takeshi Yasui; Osaka Univ., Japan. Precisefrequency measurement of CW-THz wave isproposed by using a THz frequency comb ofphotocurrent in a photoconductive antenna. Precisionof the frequency measurement was 2.2×10 -11within the range of 75-110 GHz.CMJ4 • 9:00 a.m.Temporal Pulse Compression in High-IndexDoped Silica Glass Integrated Waveguides,Marco Peccianti 1,2 , Ian B. Burgess 1 , Marcello Ferrera1 , David Duchesne 1 , Luca Razzari 1,3 , RobertoMorandotti 1 , Brent E. Little 4 , Sai T. Chu 4 , DavidJ. Moss 5 ; 1 INRS Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications,Canada, 2 Ctr. SOFT INFM-CNR,Sapienza Univ., Italy, 3 Dept. di Elettronica, Univ. diPavia, Italy, 4 Infinera Ltd, USA, 5 CUDOS, Schoolof Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia. By exploitingthe excellent nonlinear properties of a novel silicabased low-loss high index glass (Hydex ®), wedemonstrated low peak power, efficient ps pulsecompression in a 45cm spiral waveguide.CMK2 • 9:00 a.m.Sub-kHz RF Electrical Linewidth from a 10GHzPassively Mode-Locked Quantum-Dot LaserDiode, Guillermo Carpintero 1 , Mark G. Thompson2 , Richard V. Penty 2 , Ian H. White 2 ; 1 Univ.Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 2 Univ. of Cambridge,UK. A packaged 10GHz monolithic two-sectionquantum-dot mode-locked laser is presented,with record narrow 500Hz RF electrical linewidthfor passive mode-locking. Single sideband noisespectra show 147fs integrated timing jitter overthe 4MHz-80MHz frequency range.CMJ5 • 9:15 a.m.Light-Induced Reversible Shift and Control ofthe Bandgap of Bulk CdZnTe:V Crystals, K. V.Adarsh, Sharon Shwartz, Mordechai Segev, EmilZolotoyabko, Uri El Hanany; Technion-Israel Inst.of Technology, Israel. We present the experimentalobservation of very large, light-induced, reversiblechange in the bandgap (up to 70meV) ofCdZnTe:V crystals. Above a specific threshold,the bandgap shift persists when illumination isturned off.CMK3 • 9:15 a.m.Single and Dual-Mode Injection LockedQuantum-Dot Mode-Locked Lasers, TatianaHabruseva 1 , Shane O’Donoghue 1 , Natalia Rebrova 1 ,Stephen P. Hegarty 1 , Dmitrii Rachinskii 2 , GuillaumeHuyet 1,3 ; 1 Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland, 2 Univ. CollegeCork, Ireland, 3 Cork Inst. of Technology, Ireland.Quantum-dot mode-locked lasers are injectionlocked by single and two-tone master sources. Narrowlinewidth, improved time-bandwidth productand wavelength control are demonstrated.CMI6 • 9:30 a.m.Ferroelectric PVDF-Based Surface PlasmonResonance-Like Integrated Sensor at TerahertzFrequencies for Gaseous Analytes, Alireza Hassani,Maksim Skorobogatiy; École Polytechnique deMontréal, Canada. Plasmon-like excitation at theinterface between fully polymeric fiber sensor andgaseous analyte is demonstrated theoretically interahertz regime. Sensor sensitivity of 1.3e-4RIUto the changes in the gaseous analyte refractiveindex is predicted.CMJ6 • 9:30 a.m.Mode-Selective Single-Beam Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy of GasPhase Molecules, Paul J. Wrzesinski 1 , BingweiXu 2 , Dmitry Pestov 1 , Marcos Dantus 1,2 ; 1 MichiganState Univ., USA, 2 BioPhotonic Solutions Inc., USA.Binary phase shaping is applied to single-beamCARS spectroscopy of gas mixtures, such as ambientair, and is shown to provide mode-selectivityand enhanced non-resonant background suppressioncapability when compared with the originaltechnique.CMK4 • 9:30 a.m.Picosecond Pulse Generation in Narrow StripeMode-Locked Quantum Dot Master OscillatorPower Amplifier, Vojtech F. Olle, Mark G.Thompson, Kevin A. Williams, Richard V. Penty,Ian H. White; Ctr. for Photonic Systems, Univ. ofCambridge, UK. This paper reports a monolithicallyintegrated mode-locked narrow stripe QDMOPA operating at 1300nm generating a stable20GHz pulse train with an average power of46.4mW and a pulse duration of 8.3ps.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 19:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Coffee Break, 300 Level FoyerNOTES_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.55
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CML • fs Fiber Oscillators IIJeff Nicholson; OFS Labs, USA,Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMM • Polarization Effects inNitride LEDsMichael Wraback; ARL, USA,Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMN • 10 Years of FrequencyCombs <strong>CLEO</strong> Symposium IIKaoru Minoshima; AIST, Japan,Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.IMD • Plasmonic Antennas andDevicesNader Engheta; Univ. ofPennsylvania, USA, PresiderCML1 • 10:15 a.m.High Repetition Rate, High Average Power,Femtosecond Erbium Fiber Ring Laser, JonathanL. Morse 1 , Jason W. Sickler 1,2 , Jian Chen 1 , Franz X.Kärtner 1 , Erich P. Ippen 1 ; 1 MIT, USA, 2 SiOnyx, Inc.,USA. A 301 MHz fundamentally mode-lockederbium fiber ring laser generating 108 fs pulsesis demonstrated. Novel combination of gain fiberwith anomalous group-velocity dispersion andintra-cavity silicon with normal group-velocitydispersion yields a stretched-pulse operation.CMM1 • 10:15 a.m. TutorialProgress in the Growth, Characterization andDevice Performance for Nonpolar and SemipolarGaN-Based Materials, James Speck; Univ.of California at Santa Barbara, USA. In this talk,we highlight UCSB work on growth of state-ofthe-artnonpolar and semipolar GaN materialsand devices to avoid deleterious effects due todiscontinuities in spontaneous and piezoelectricpolarization.CMN1 • 10:15 a.m.GHz Yb-Femtosecond-Fiber Laser FrequencyComb, I. Hartl, Hugh A. McKay, R. Thapa, B. K.Thomas, L. Dong, M. E. Fermann; IMRA America,Inc., USA. We deomonstrate a Fabry-Pérot cavity,passively saturable-absorber-modelocked Yb-fiberfemtosecond oscillator with up to 1.04 GHz fundamentalrepetition rate, enabling octave spanningcontinuum generation and self-referenced fCEOstabilization.IMD1 • 10:15 a.m.Semiconductor Lasers with Integrated PlasmonicPolarizers, Nanfang Yu 1 , Qi Jie Wang 1 , ChristianPflügl 1 , Laurent Diehl 1 , Tadataka Edamura 2 ,Sninichi Furuta 2 , Masamichi Yamanishi 2 , HirofumiKan 2 , Federico Capasso 1 ; 1 Harvard Univ., USA,2Central Res. Lab, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.,Japan. We report control of semiconductor laserpolarization by patterning plasmonic structures onthe laser facet. Linearly-polarized laser emissionalong an arbitrary polarization direction and acombination of linearly- and circularly-polarizedlaser emission are demonstrated.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CML2 • 10:30 a.m.Polarization Maintaining Passively Mode-Locked Er-Doped Ultrashort Soliton Fiber LaserUsing Single Wall Carbon Nanotube PolyimideFilm, Yumiko Seno 1 , Norihiko Nishizawa 1 , YoichiSakakibara 2 , Kazuhiko Sumimura 1 , Emiko Itoga 2 ,Hiromichi Kataura 2 , Kazuyoshi Itoh 1 ; 1 Osaka Univ.,Japan, 2 AIST, Japan. All-polarization maintainingEr-doped ultrashort soliton fiber laser using singlewall carbon nanotube polyimide film and variableoutput coupler is constructed and investigated.A 580 pJ and 46 fs ultrashort pulse is generatedafter compression.CML3 • 10:45 a.m.Self-Similar and Stretched-Pulse Operationof Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers with CarbonNanotubes Saturable Absorber, Khanh Kieu,Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., USA. We reportself-similar and stretched pulse operations in anall-fiber erbium-doped laser using carbon nanotubesaturable absorber, for the first time. Pulsesas short as 115fs are achieved in the stretchedpulseregime.James S. Speck received his B.S.M.E from the Universityof Michigan in 1983. He received his S.M.and Sc.D. at MIT in 1985 and 1989 respectivelyin Materials Science. After a brief post-doctoralstay at MIT, he joined the faculty in the MaterialsDepartment at the Univ. of California at SantaBarbara in 1990 where he is now Professor andDepartment Chair. Speck’s research focuses on therelationship between epitaxial growth, microstructuraland morphological evolution, relationship togrowth and devices. Nearly all of his current workis on GaN-related materials and devices.CMN2 • 10:30 a.m.A Low-Noise, Octave-Spanning Optical FrequencyComb Generated by a Mode-LockedFiber Laser with an Intracavity Electro-OpticModulator, Yoshiaki Nakajima 1,2,3 , Hajime Inaba 2,3 ,Kazumoto Hosaka 2,3 , Atsushi Ihara 2 , Ken-IchiWatabe 2 , Atsushi Onae 2 , Kaoru Minoshima 2 , SakaeKawato 1 , Takao Kobayashi 1 , Toshio Katsuyama 1 ,Feng-Lei Hong 2,3 ; 1 Univ. of Fukui, Japan, 2 Natl. MetrologyInst. of Japan, Japan, 3 CREST, Japan Scienceand Technology Agency, Japan. We demonstratea fast control of an octave-spanning fiber-basedfrequency comb with an intracavity electro-opticmodulator. The servo bandwidth of both repetitionand carrier-envelope offset frequency is greaterthan 200 kHz.CMN3 • 10:45 a.m.Frequency Comb Generation in the XUVRegime Using a Yb-Fiber Laser and AmplifierSystem, Birgitta Bernhardt 1 , Akira Ozawa 1 , RonaldHolzwarth 1 , Thomas Udem 1 , Ioachim Pupeza 1 ,Jens Rauschenberger 1 , Ferenc Krausz 1 , TheodorW. Hänsch 1 , Yohei Kobayashi 2 , Diana Höfling 3 ;1Max-Planck-Inst. for Quantumoptics, Germany,2Inst. for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan,3Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany. An Yb-dopedfiber laser and amplifier system is used togetherwith an enhancement cavity for high harmonicgeneration for precision spectroscopy. Higherorder harmonics can be produced in comparisonto systems with Ti:sapphire lasers.IMD2 • 10:30 a.m.Direct UV Near-Field Optical Imaging of aMetallic Nano Bowtie Antenna, LiangchengZhou, Qiaoqiang Gan, Filbert Bartoli, VolkmarDierolf; Lehigh Univ., USA. Direct near-field opticalimaging of a bowtie nano-antenna was observedusing a UV near field scanning optical microscope.A strong localized UV light spot was observed atthe tip of the bowtie structure.IMD3 • 10:45 a.m.Optical Antennas for Vector Near-Field Imaging,Robert L. Olmon 1 , Laxmikant Saraf 2 , Peter M.Krenz 3 , Glenn D. Boreman 3 , Markus B. Raschke 1 ;1Univ. of Washington, USA, 2 Pacific Northwest Natl.Lab, USA, 3 CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA.A new method for nano-engineering the opticalantenna properties of scanning probe tips bycombining focused ion beam milling with nano-CVD is presented. We demonstrate the capabilitiesby probing specific vector-field components ofplasmonic nanostructures.CML4 • 11:00 a.m.A Passively Mode-Locked Femtosecond SolitonFiber Laser at 1.5 μm with a CNT-Doped PolycarbonateSaturable Absorber, Fumio Shohda 1 ,Takafumi Shirato 1 , Masataka Nakazawa 1 , KyojiKomatsu 2 , Toshikuni Kaino 2 ; 1 Res. Inst. of ElectricalCommunication, Tohoku Univ., Japan, 2 Inst.of Multidisciplinary Res. for Advanced Materials,Tohoku Univ., Japan. We report a new 1.5 μmpassively mode-locked fiber laser incorporating aCNT-doped polycarbonate as a polymer saturableabsorber. A 115-fs, 39-MHz soliton pulse wassuccessfully generated with an average outputpower of 3.4 mW.CMN4 • 11:00 a.m.Carrier-Envelope Phase Dynamics of Octave-Spanning Titanium:Sapphire Lasers, MichelleY. Sander, Franz X. Kärtner; MIT, USA. The carrier-envelopephase dynamics of octave-spanningTi:sapphire lasers are analyzed based on a onedimensionallaser. It is found that self-steepeningis the major contributor to the energy dependentcarrier-envelope phase and that center-frequencyshiftsare negligible.IMD4 • 11:00 a.m.Translation of Nanoantenna Field Enhancementby a Metal-Dielectric Composite Superlens,Zhengtong Liu, Mark Thoreson, Alexander V.Kildishev, Vladimir P. Drachev, Vladimir M. Shalaev;Purdue Univ., USA. Our simulations showthat highly localized field enhancement producedby a periodic array of silver nanoantennas canbe translated to the far side of a metal-dielectriccomposite superlens composed of silver and silicacomponents.56<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.IME • Solitons and NonlinearWave PropagationDemetrios Christodoulides;CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida,USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMO • Free Space Optical andQuantum CommunicationsCurtis Menyuk; Univ. ofMaryland, Baltimore County,USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMP • Resonant and PhotonicCrystal Structures EmissionMartin T. Hill; Eindhoven Univ. ofTechnology, Netherlands, PresiderIME1 • 10:15 a.m.Incoherent Surface-Solitons in Effectively-Instantaneous Nonlinear Media, Barak Alfassi,Carmel Rotschild, Mordechai Segev; Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel. We study, theoreticallyand experimentally, random-phasesurface-solitons in instantaneous nonlocalnonlinear media, where the key mechanism forself-trapping is played by the nonlocal nature ofthe nonlinearity.CMO1 • 10:15 a.m.Non-Line-of-Sight Cloud-Scatter Communication,Rex Moncur, Paul Edwards, Le N. Binh;Monash Univ., Australia. We report novel low bitrate non-line-of-sight optical free space communicationover 200 km employing forward scatteringfrom clouds with 134 dB link loss and mid-pathscatter gain of 10 dBi.CMP1 • 10:15 a.m. InvitedPhotonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser with SingleQuantum Dot Gain, Masahiro Nomura, NaotoKumagai, Satoshi Iwamoto, Yasutomo Ota,Yasuhiko Arakawa; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Wedemonstrate a photonic crystal nanocavity laseressentially driven by single quantum dot gain.A diluted quantum dot density (~0.4/cavity)resulted in clear single quantum dot feature anddistinct phase transition in photon correlationmeasurements.IME2 • 10:30 a.m.Area Theorem and Energy Quantization for DissipativeOptical Solitons, William H. Renninger,Andy Chong, Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., USA.We derive a dissipative soliton area theorem thatcontrasts with other area theorems: the energyscales directly with the pulse duration, and theenergy has an upper bound. Predictions are verifiedin a fiber oscillator.CMO2 • 10:30 a.m.Integrated Angle-of-Arrival Sensing and SimultaneousBidirectional Communication Using aCat’s Eye Modulating Retroreflector, David J.Klotzkin 1,2 , Peter G. Goetz 2 , William S. Rabinovich 2 ,Mike S. Ferraro 2 , Rita Mahon 2 , Steven C. Binari 2 ;1Binghamton Univ., USA, 2 NRL, USA. A bidirectionalsingle-aperture modulating retroreflector isrealized by superimposing a small low-frequencysignal on the interrogating beam. Transmittedand received data are frequency-separated, enablingfull-duplex operation and autodetectionof illumination.IME3 • 10:45 a.m.Soliton Interaction in Dispersion-ManagedFibers: Formation of the Soliton Molecule, AlexanderHause, Haldor Hartwig, Christoph Mahnke,Michael Böhm, Fedor Mitschke; Univ. of Rostock,Germany. We present a perturbation theoryexplaining the interaction of adjacent dispersionmanaged solitons. A stable equilibrium separationand oscillations around it are found. The modelis validated by comparison to experimental andnumerical results.CMO3 • 10:45 a.m.Power Penalty from Amplified SpontaneousEmission in Spatial Diversity Links, Todd G.Ulmer, Scott R. Henion, Frederick G. Walther;MIT Lincoln Lab, USA. We investigate the powerpenalty caused by excess amplified spontaneousemission in an optically preamplified receiverfor use with a multi-wavelength spatial diversitytransmitter to mitigate atmospheric fading.CMP2 • 10:45 a.m.Directive Emission from High-Q PhotonicCrystal Cavities through Band Folding, SylvainCombrié, Nguyen Vi Quynh Tran, Alfredo De Rossi;Thales Res. and Technology, France. A new designis proposed for tailoring the farfield of high-QPhotonic Crystal nanocavities. We achieved experimentallya six-fold improvement of the collectionefficiency. This will improve single photon sourcesbased on photonic crystals considerably.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1IME4 • 11:00 a.m.Solitons in Semiconductor Microcavities Operatingin the Strong Coupling Regime, OlegA. Egorov 1 , Dmitry V. Skryabin 2 , Alexey V. Yulin 2 ,Falk Lederer 1 ; 1 Inst. of Condensed Matter Theoryand Solid State Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ.Jena, Germany, 2 Ctr. for Photonics and PhotonicMaterials, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Bath, UK.We demonstrate theoretically the existence ofpolariton-solitons in semiconductor microcavity inthe strong-coupling regime. Their relaxation timeand required pump powers are at least one orderless than those of their weakly coupled light-onlycounterparts.CMO4 • 11:00 a.m. TutorialQuantum Communication: Real-World Applicationsand Academic Research, Nicolas Gisin;Univ. de Genève, Switzerland. The field of quantumcommunication is mature enough to divided intoan applied side, around Quantum Key Distribution,and a fundamental research program. Thistutorial gives an intuitive perspective on somerecent advances.CMP3 • 11:00 a.m.InP 2-D Photonic Crystal Lasers Integratedonto SOI Waveguides, Yacine Halioua 1,2 , TimothyKarle 1 , Isabelle Sagnes 1 , Gunther Roelkens 2 , DriesVan Thourhout 2 , Rama Raj 1 , Fabrice Raineri 1,3 ;1LPN, CNRS, France, 2 Photonics Res. Group (IN-TEC), Ghent Univ.–IMEC, Belgium, 3 Univ. Paris-Diderot, France. We report the fabrication of InPphotonic crystal lasers operating around 1.55µmat room temperature, integrated and evanescentlycoupled to SOI waveguides. Laser operation isobtained from a line-defect accurately alignedabove the SOI circuitry.Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.57
Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMQ • Ultrafast OpticsApplicationsStefan Nolte; Friedrich SchillerUniv. Jena, Germany, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMR • Optical CoherenceTomographyDavid Erickson; Cornell Univ.,USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMS • Pollutant and EmissionSensingTerrence Meyer; Iowa State Univ.,USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.IMF • Quantum Information IPaul E. Barclay; Hewlett-PackardLabs, USA, PresiderCMQ1 • 10:15 a.m.Optical Bandwidth and Focusing Dynamics Effectson an Underwater Laser Acoustic Source,Melissa Hornstein, Theodore G. Jones, AntonioTing, Dennis Lindwall; NRL, USA. Both femtosecondand nanosecond laser pulses can producenonlinear effects in water, including filamentationand laser-induced breakdown resulting in acousticgeneration. We examine the effects of GVD, varyingwavelength, bandwidth, energy, and focusingconfigurations.CMR1 • 10:15 a.m. TutorialAdvances in Optical Coherence Tomography forBiological Imaging, Johannes F. de Boer; VU Univ.Amsterdam, Netherlands. Advances in OpticalCoherence Tomography will be discussed. Sensitivityadvantages of Spectral or Fourier Domainand Optical Frequency Domain Imaging or SweptSource OCT will be explained, and examples ofclinical applications will be presented.CMS1 • 10:15 a.m. InvitedCharacterizing Particulate and Droplet SizeDistributions: Exhaust Emissions to Cloud Research,William D. Bachalo; Artium Technologies,Inc., USA. Phase Doppler interferometry appliedto spray research has improved combustionefficiency with emissions reductions and ledto insights in atmospheric and meteorologicalresearch. Laser-induced incandescence is demonstratedas a means for monitoring combustionparticulate emissions.IMF1 • 10:15 a.m. InvitedEfficient Routing of Single Photons with OneAtom and a Microtoroidal Cavity, Takao Aoki 1 , A.S. Parkins 2 , D. J. Alton 3 , C. A. Regal 3 , Barak Dayan 4 ,E. Ostby 3 , K. J. Vahala 3 , H. J. Kimble 3 ; 1 Kyoto Univ.,Japan, 2 Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Caltech,USA, 4 Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. We demonstraterobust and efficient routing of photonsusing a microtoroidal cavity QED system. Singlephotons from a coherent input are sorted to oneoutput of the fiber with excess photons redirectedto the other.CMQ2 • 10:30 a.m.Remote Detection of Aluminum and Trace MethaneUsing Mobile Femtosecond Laser System ofT&T Lab, Yousef Kamali 1 , Jean-François Daigle 1 ,Patrick Tremblay Simard 1 , Francis Théberge 2 , MarcChâteauneuf 2 , Huailiang Xu 1 , Ali Azarm 1 , YanpingChen 1 , Claude Marceau 1 , Zhen-Dong Sun 1 , JensBernhardt 1 , Sophie Chagnon-Lessard 1 , François Lessard1 , Gilles Roy 2 , Jacques Dubois 2 , See Leang Chin 1 ;1Ctr. d’Optique, Photonique et Lasers (COPL),Laval Univ., Canada, 2 Defence Res. and Development(DRDC)-Valcartier, Canada. We report tworemote sensing experiments of aluminum in thewinter time and trace methane in the summer timeusing the mobile femtosecond laser facility T&T(Terawatt & Terahertz) designed by the DefenceR&D Canada-Valcartier.Prof. J.F. de Boer is a full professor at the VUUniversity, Amsterdam. He was an associateprofessor at Harvard Medical School until 2008.He is a pioneer of OCT technologies and applicationin Medicine. He developed the first videorate Spectral Domain OCT. His current interestsinclude endoscopy and microscopy.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMQ3 • 10:45 a.m.Picosecond Ultrasonics Using an OpticalCavity, Yanqiu Li, Qian Miao, Arto Nurmikko,Humphrey Maris; Brown Univ., USA. We haveimplemented a new means of measuring very highfrequency ultrasound in nanostructured materials(known as picosecond ultrasonics) by using ahigh-Q optical resonator that enables significantenhancement and detailed characterization ofultrasound signals.CMS2 • 10:45 a.m.Ultra-Compact Multipass Laser AbsorptionSpectroscopy Platform for Distributed SensorNetworks, Stephen G. So 1 , Ardalan AmiriSani 2 , Frank K. Tittel 2 , Gerard Wysocki 1 ; 1 PrincetonUniv., USA, 2 Rice Univ., USA. A prototypethree-node wireless sensor network of portable,battery-powered spectroscopic trace-gas sensorsequipped with custom 24-pass Herriott cells hasbeen developed. Individual sensor performanceand sensor network localization of a gas plumewill be reported.IMF2 • 10:45 a.m. InvitedQuantum State Preparation with Waveguidesand Photon Counting, Christine Silberhorn; Max-Planck-Inst. für Optik, Germany. Recent progressin quantum communication highlights the needof advanced non-Gaussian states exhibiting highpurity and spatio-spectral single-mode characteristics.We employ tailored waveguides and photoncounting to implement efficient state preparationsuitable for quantum networks.CMQ4 • 11:00 a.m.New Concept for Ultra-Broadband PhotonicIntegrator with Fundamentally UnlimitedOperation Time Window, Mohammad HosseinAsghari 1 , Yongwoo Park 1 , Yitang Dai 2 , JianpingYao 2 , José Azaña 1 ; 1 INRS, Canada, 2 Univ. of Ottawa,Canada. We propose and demonstrate a conceptfor temporal integration of optical waveformswith no fundamental limitation on the device’soperation time window and frequency bandwidthusing a pulse multiplier concatenated with a fiberBragg grating.CMS3 • 11:00 a.m.Design and Deployment of a Quantum CascadeLaser Absorption Spectrometer in an Open-PathSensor System For Trace Gas Analysis, Anna P.M. Michel 1 , Peter Q. Liu 1 , <strong>June</strong> K. Yeung 1 , PaulCorrigan 2 , Mary Lynn Baeck 1 , Xiaole Pan 3 , HuabinDong 3 , Zifa Wang 3 , Timothy Day 4 , James A. Smith 1 ,Fred Moshary 2 , Claire F. Gmachl 1 ; 1 PrincetonUniv., USA, 2 CUNY, USA, 3 CAS, China, 4 DaylightSolutions, USA. A widely tunable, external cavityquantum cascade laser was used in the deploymentof an open-path sensor for the measurement ofwater vapor, ozone, ammonia, and carbon dioxidein the urban atmosphere of Beijing, China.58<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMT • THz Spectroscopy andDynamicsRichard Averitt; Boston Univ.,USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMU • Nonlinear Optics inGasesJean-Claude Diels; Univ. of NewMexico, USA, Presider10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.CMV • Quantum Dot Lasers IIMitsuru Sugawara; Fujitsu LabsLtd., Japan, PresiderCMT1 • 10:15 a.m. InvitedTerahertz Electrical Measurement of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors, ZhaohuiZhong 1 , Nathaniel M. Gabor 2 , Jay E. Sharping 3 ,Alexander L. Gaeta 2 , Paul McEuen 2 ; 1 Univ. ofMichigan, USA, 2 Cornell Univ., USA, 3 Univ. ofCalifornia at Merced, USA. We describe the firstterahertz electrical measurements of single-walledcarbon nanotube transistors. A picosecond ballisticelectron resonance is directly observed inthe time-domain. These results demonstrate apowerful new tool for directly probing picosecondelectron motion in nanostructures.CMU1 • 10:15 a.m.Above-Millijoule Continuum Generation UsingPolarisation Dependent Filamentation in Atomsand Molecules, Oscar Varela 1 , Amelle Zaïr 1 , JulioSan Roman 1 , Iñigo J. Sola 1 , Benjamin Alonso 1 ,Camilo Prieto 1 , Luis Roso 1,2 ; 1 Univ. de Salamanca,Spain, 2 Ctr. de Laseres Pulsados y Ultraintensos,Spain. We experimentally demonstrate that inputpolarization control inducing one single filament isa very robust technique to achieve multi-millijouleoutput energies. We highlight a supercontinuumgeneration above one-millijoule limit consistentwith sub-10fs laser pulse generation.CMV1 • 10:15 a.m. InvitedStudies on the Relative Advantages of Quantum-Dot and Quantum-Well Gain Media in Lasersand Amplifiers, Weng Chow; Sandia Natl. Labs,USA. The merit of quantum-dot versus quantumwelllasers is much debated. This paper describesan attempt at an answer by examining intrinsic behaviorand underlying physics, using a microscopictheory with a rigorous treatment of scattering.CMU2 • 10:30 a.m.Femtosecond Laser Induced Plasma DiffractionGratings in Air, Sergiy Suntsov 1 , DaryoushAbdollahpour 1 , Dimitrios G. Papazoglou 1,2 , SteliosTzortzakis 1 ; 1 Inst. of Electronic Structure and Laser,Foundation for Res. and Technology Hellas, Greece,2Univ. of Crete, Greece. The creation of a volumeplasma density grating in air by two intersectinghigh-intensity IR femtosecond laser pulses isdemonstrated experimentally. The detailed characterizationof the grating is conducted based onits diffraction properties.CMT2 • 10:45 a.m.THz Carrier Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene,Charles J. Divin 1 , Dong Sun 1 , Claire Berger 2 , Waltde Heer 2 , P. N. First 2 , Theodore B. Norris 1 ; 1 Univ.of Michigan, USA, 2 Georgia Tech, USA. Ultrafastoptical pump/THz-probe spectroscopy is usedto measure the conductivity recovery dynamicsin epitaxial graphene. The observed dynamicsare insensitive to probe frequency, with recoveryrates consistent with mid-IR measurements ofcarrier cooling.CMU3 • 10:45 a.m.Reconciling Two Views of IR Filamentation inAir: Bessel Beams or Plasma-Confined Beams?Daniel Mirell, Jeremy Yeak, Jean-Claude Diels;Univ. of New Mexico, USA. Filaments preparedby letting a beam collapse, or by launching a
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQECCML • fs Fiber Oscillators II—ContinuedCMM • Polarization Effects inNitride LEDs—ContinuedCMN • 10 Years of FrequencyCombs <strong>CLEO</strong> Symposium II—ContinuedIMD • Plasmonic Antennas andDevices—ContinuedCML5 • 11:15 a.m.Ultrafast Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Mode-Locked by a Carbon Nanotube SaturableAbsorber, Zhipei Sun, Alex G. Rozhin, FengqiuWang, William Milne, Richard V. Penty, Ian H.White, Andrea C. Ferrari; Univ. of Cambridge,UK. We demonstrate an ultrafast stretched-pulsefiber laser mode-locked by a carbon nanotubebased saturable absorber. 123 fs pulses at 1.56μm are generated with an output spectral widthof 32 nm.CMM2 • 11:15 a.m.Light Emission Polarization Properties ofA-Plane InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells LightEmitting Diodes, Hung-Hsun Huang, Yuh-RennWu; Inst. of Photonics and Optoelectronics andDept. of Electrical Engineering, Natl. Taiwan Univ.,Taiwan. We study the optical characteristics ofnonpolar a-plane InGaN/GaN quantum wells.The larger indium composition and the smallerwell width enhance the light polarization ratio.However, the polarization ratio decreases as thecarrier injection increases.CMN5 • 11:15 a.m.Quantum-Limited Comb Lineshape and FrequencyUncertainty, Jared K. Wahlstrand 1 , JohnT. Willits 1,2 , Curtis R. Menyuk 1,3 , Steven T. Cundiff 1 ;1JILA, USA, 2 Univ. of Colorado, USA, 3 Univ. ofMaryland, Baltimore County, USA. We calculatethe noise properties of a femtosecond frequencycomb from experimentally-derived parameters.Using a simple model for a feedback system, wecalculate the phase noise spectrum for comb linesacross the laser spectrum.IMD5 • 11:15 a.m.Directing Optical Emission Using a Yagi-UdaAntenna Composed of a Finite Linear Arrayof Gold Nanorods, Terukazu Kosako, HolgerF. Hofmann, Yutaka Kadoya; Hiroshima Univ.,Japan. We present the realization of a Yagi-Udaantenna array for the optical frequency regimemade of gold nanorods. The results suggest thatthe optical antenna can be used to direct theemission of light.CML6 • 11:30 a.m.147 fs, 51 MHz Soliton Fiber Laser at 1.56 μmwith a Fiber-Connector-Type SWNT/P3HTSaturable Absorber, Fumio Shohda 1 , TakafumiShirato 1 , Masataka Nakazawa 1 , Junji Mata 2 , JunTsukamoto 2 ; 1 Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication,Tohoku Univ., Japan, 2 Toray Industries Inc.,Japan. We fabricated a fiber-connector-typesaturable absorber in which SWNTs and P3HT(poly-3-hexylthiophene) were coated on the connectorend. The pulse width was 147 fs and therepetition rate reached as high as 51 MHz.CMM3 • 11:30 a.m.Electro-Optical Properties of n-InGaN/p-GaNLED with p-Side Down with Varying IndiumComposition, Meredith L. Reed 1 , H. Shen 1 , MichaelWraback 1 , Alexander Syrkin 2 , Alexander Usikov 2 ;1ARL, USA, 2 Technologies and Devices Intl., Inc.,USA. The negative polarization charge at the n-InGaN/p-GaN interface of single heterojunctionLEDs with p-side down is investigated for variousIn-compositions. We demonstrate peak emissionwavelength blue-shift and intensity dependence onIn-composition with increasing current density.CMN6 • 11:30 a.m.Octave-Spanning Raman Comb Stabilizedto an Optical Frequency Standard, MasayukiKatsuragawa 1,2 , F. L. Hong 3,4 , T. Suzuki 1,2 , M.Arakawa 1 ; 1 Univ. of Electro-Communications,Japan, 2 PRESTO, Japan, 3 AIST, Japan, 4 CREST,Japan. It is shown that adiabatic manipulation ofa Raman process allows us to produce an opticalfrequency-combfrom single-frequency lasers. Thecarrier-envelope-offset frequency of the generatedoctave-spanning Raman comb is stabilized to anoptical-frequency-standard.IMD6 • 11:30 a.m.Nanoscale Optical Field Localization by ResonantlyFocused Plasmons, Liang Feng, DerekVan Orden, Maxim Abashin, Vitaliy Lomakin,Yeshaiahu Fainman; Univ. of California at SanDiego, USA. A plasmonic resonant nano-focusingantennahas been experimentally integrated witha Si waveguide to effectively convert an incomingwaveguide mode to a localized plasmon modeand focus light in an ultra small volume in all3 dimensions.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CML7 • 11:45 a.m.Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Laserwith Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorber,Khanh Kieu, Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., USA.We report mode-locking of an all-fiber thulium/holmium (Tm/Ho) co-doped laser with a saturableabsorber based on a fiber taper embedded in carbonnanotube/polymer composite (FTCNTPC).750fs soliton pulses are generated at wavelengtharound 1890nm.CMM4 • 11:45 a.m.Polarization-Enhanced Mg Doping in InGaN/GaN Superlattice for Green Light-EmittingDiodes, Hung Cheng Lin 1 , Geng Yen Lee 1 , HsuehHsing Liu 1 , Nai Wei Hsu 1 , Chin Chi Wu 1 , JenInn Chyi 1,2,3 ; 1 Dept. of Electrical Engineering,Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan, 2 Dept. of Optics andPhotonics, Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan, 3 Res. Ctr.for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.Electrical properties of low-temperature grownMg-modulation-doped InGaN/GaN superlattice(MD-SLS) for green light-emitting diodes (LEDs)are investigated. The light output intensity ofgreen LEDs with the p-InGaN/GaN MD-SLS isapproximately doubled.CMN7 • 11:45 a.m.Optical Frequency Comb Generated by Four-Wave Mixing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers, JoseM. Chavez Boggio, Slaven Moro, Joshua Windmiller,Sanja Zlatanovic, Evgueny Myslivets, Nikola Alic,Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.Efficient generation of a cascade of four-wavemixing products using a low-dispersion highlynonlinear fiber is demonstrated. The measuredoptical frequency comb (with a spacing of 100GHz) spans over more than 350 nm.IMD7 • 11:45 a.m.Generation of Vectorial Light Beams UsingSpace-Variant Subwavelength Gratings at 1064nm, Gilad Lerman, Avner Yanai, Uriel Levy;Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel. The generationof vectorial beams at 1064 nm by the use of polarizationtransformer devices consisting of spacevariantsubwavelength gratings (SGs) is demonstratedexperimentally. We discuss using suchbeams for plasmonic nanofocusing applications.12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch BreakNOTES__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________60<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IME • Solitons and NonlinearWave Propagation—ContinuedCMO • Free Space Optical andQuantum Communications—ContinuedCMP • Resonant and PhotonicCrystal Structures Emission—ContinuedIME5 • 11:15 a.m.Soliton Emission from a Trapping Potential,Marco Peccianti 1,2 , Gaetano Assanto 2 ; 1 Res. Ctr.SOFT INFM-CNR, “Sapienza” Univ., Italy, 2 NonlinearOptics and OptoElectronics Lab (NooEL),Univ. “Roma Tre”, Italy. Spatial solitons trapped in aconfining potential can undergo power dependentscattering. As the potential depends on the nonlinearity,solitons can accumulate transverse accelerationand eventually escape. We demonstrated thisphenomenon in a reorientational medium.CMP4 • 11:15 a.m.High Efficient and Tunable Edge EmittingMicrolaser on Photonic Crystal Slab, WanhuaZheng, Mingxin Xing, Wei Chen, Wenjun Zhou,Anjin Liu, Hailing Wang, Lianghui Chen; Inst. ofSemiconductors, CAS, China. Tunable edge emittingmicrolaser was realized with a line defectwaveguide, in which the radii of holes adjacent tothe defect was varied gradually. A tunable rangeof 17 nm was obtained experimentally.IME6 • 11:30 a.m.Nonlinear Self-Focusing of Partially-CoherentSpatial Beams, Can Sun, Dmitry V. Dylov, JasonW. Fleischer; Princeton Univ., USA. We consider thepropagation of a partially-coherent spatial beam inboth self-focusing and self-defocusing nonlinearmedia. Measurements of beam widths for bothnonlinearities confirm theoretical predictionsbased on a nonlinear Gaussian-Schell model.IME7 • 11:45 a.m.Observation of Two-Dimensional Quasi-LocalizedSolitons with Saddle-Shaped Diffractionand Hybrid Nonlinearity, Yi Hu 1 , Cibo Lou 1 ,Peng Zhang 1,2,3 , Sheng Liu 2 , Jianlin Zhao 2 , JingjunXu 1 , Jianke Yang 4 , Zhigang Chen 1,3 ; 1 Nankai Univ.,China, 2 Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China,3San Francisco State Univ., USA, 4 Univ. of Vermont,USA. We report the first demonstration of 2-Dquasi-localized solitons near a saddle point ofdiffraction surfaces. These solitons arise from abalance between saddle-shaped diffraction andhybrid nonlinearity in optically-induced ionictypephotonic lattices.Prof. Nicolas Gisin was born in 1952 in Geneva,Switzerland were he studied physics and mathematics.He received his Ph.D. in Physics fromthe University of Geneva in 1981. The “FondationLouis de Broglie” recognised his dissertation withan award. After a post-doc at the University ofRochester, NY, he worked for a start-up companydedicated to fibre instrumentation. In 1988 hejoined the Group of Applied Physics at the Universityof Geneva as head of the optics section.Under his leadership the optics section developedthree research directions: telecom, optical sensorsand quantum optics. The telecom and the sensingactivities led to many patents and technologicaltransfers to Swiss and international industries,with several commercial successes. The quantumoptics activities are orientated towards fundamentalresearch. Quantum cryptography and longdistance quantum entanglement received a lot ofattention from the international scientific communityas well as from the mass media. In 2003,this was recognised as one of the 10 technologiesthat should “change the world “!CMP5 • 11:30 a.m.Stable Circularly-Polarized Emission from Vertical-CavitySurface-Emitting Lasers, Fan Zhang,Chunfeng Zhang, Jian Xu, Akhlesh Lakhtakia; PennState Univ., USA. A vertical cavity surface emittinglaser (VCSEL) comprising a polarization-selectivechiral reflector was designed, fabricated, andtested. Stable, single-mode, circularly-polarized(CP) lasing oscillation was achieved, for the firsttime, in a VCSEL cavity.CMP6 • 11:45 a.m.High Frequency Polarization Switching VCSELClock Using Subwavelength Quarter-Wave Plate,Clinton J. Smith, Wendi Li, Shufeng Bai, Stephen Y.Chou; Princeton Univ., USA. We demonstrated anexternal cavity vertical-cavity-surface-emittinglaser(VCSEL) clock using a subwavelengthquarter-wave plate and achieved a polarizationself-switching frequency as high as 7.2 GHz withan oscillation frequency FWHM of 6 MHz.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 112:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch BreakNOTES______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. 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Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>IQECCMQ • Ultrafast OpticsApplications—ContinuedCMR • Optical CoherenceTomography—ContinuedCMS • Pollutant and EmissionSensing—ContinuedIMF • Quantum Information I—ContinuedCMQ5 • 11:15 a.m.Laser-Assisted Photoemission from SurfacesDriven by Long-Wavelength Infrared Light,Jing Yin 1 , Luis Miaja-Avlia 1 , Sterling Backus 2 ,Guido Saathoff 3 , Martin Aeschlimann 4 , MargaretMurnane 1 , Henry Kapteyn 1 ; 1 JILA, Univ. ofColorado at Boulder, USA, 2 KMLabs Inc., USA,3Max-Planck-Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany,4Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany.We demonstrate experimentally the advantages ofdriving laser-assisted photoemission from surfaceswith long-wavelength-IR light. We show that applicationsin probing surface dynamics benefitfrom using longer-wavelengths since many sideeffects of strong fields are suppressed.CMR2 • 11:15 a.m.Effective Indicators for Oral Cancer DiagnosisBased on Optical Coherence Tomography,Meng-Tsan Tsai, Cheng-Kuang Lee, Hsiang-ChiehLee, Yih-Ming Wang, C. C. Yang, Chun-Pin Chiang;Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. A swept-sourceoptical coherence tomography system is used toclinically scan oral precancer and cancer patientsfor statistically analyzing the effective indicatorsof diagnosis including the signal standarddeviation, spatial-frequency spectral shape, andepithelium thickness.CMS4 • 11:15 a.m.Characterization of Soot Aggregates Basedon Polarization Modulated Scattering, WeiweiCai 1 , Laura Kranendonk 2 , David J. Ewing 1 , LinMa 1 ; 1 Clemson Univ., USA, 2 Fuels, Engines, andEmissions Res. Ctr., Oak Ridge Natl. Lab at NTRC,USA. A sensor is demonstrated to characterizesoot aggregates based on polarization modulatedscattering. Comparison with other techniquesshows promising agreement, and extension ofthe sensor to 1- or 2-dimensional soot imagingis discussed.IMF3 • 11:15 a.m.Microcavities for Cavity-QED in Single-CrystalDiamond, Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori,Kai-Mei C. Fu, Raymond G. Beausoleil; Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA. Optical microcavites fabricatedby etching whispering gallery mode andphotonic crystal structures in a high-index galliumphosphide layer and an underlying single-crystaldiamond substrate are studied experimentallyand theoretically.CMQ6 • 11:30 a.m.Heterodyne Optical Sampling for PicosecondUltrasonics and Nanoscale Heat Transfer, EricMottay 1 , Pierre Rigail 1 , Christophe Pierre 2 , SebastienErmeneux 2 , Clement Rossignol 3 , Jean-Michel Rampnoux3 , Stefan Dilhaire 3 ; 1 Amplitude Systems, France,2Alphanov, France, 3 Univ. of Bordeaux, France. Wepresent a novel ultrafast pump-probe system, allowingfor a drastic reduction in acquisition time,typically a few tens of minutes for 20,000 frames.We present acoustic waves and heat transfertmeasurements in nanometric layers.CMR3 • 11:30 a.m.Fourier Domain Pump-Probe Optical CoherenceTomography Imaging of Melanin, DesmondJacob, Ryan Lynn Shelton, Brian E. Applegate; TexasA&M Univ., USA. We report the first molecularimage of melanin using a novel extension ofOCT, pump-probe OCT. Melanin, an abundantendogenous chromophore, could provide generalcontrast in OCT imaging and means to diagnoseand/or monitor melanomas.CMS5 • 11:30 a.m.Multiple Gas Sensor Based on Super-LuminescentDiode for Combustion Monitoring, NileshJ. Vasa; Indian Inst. of Technology Madras, India.Fiber-coupled super-luminescent diode (SLD)based source for the detection of various gasesis proposed. SLDs with wavelengths of 760 nmand 1530 nm are used for sensing of O 2 and NH 3 ,respectively.IMF4 • 11:30 a.m. InvitedDemonstration of Two-Qubit Quantum Algorithmswith a Solid-State Electronic Processor,Leonardo DiCarlo 1 , Jerry Chow 1 , Jay Gambetta 2 ,Lev Bishop 1 , Johannes Majer 3 , Alexandre Blais 4 ,Luigi Frunzio 1 , Steven Girvin 1 , Robert J. Schoelkopf 1 ;1Yale Univ., USA, 2 Univ. of Waterloo, Canada, 3 TechnischeUniv. Wien, Austria, 4 Univ. de Sherbrooke,Canada. We present the experimental implementationof two-qubit quantum algorithms in a superconductingcircuit. Entanglement on demand,Grover searching and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithmare demonstrated. Algorithmic performance isquantified via quantum state tomography.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMQ7 • 11:45 a.m.Novel 2-D High-Contrast Grating Hollow-CoreWaveguide, Bala Pesala 1 , Vadim Karagodsky 1 ,Fumio Koyama 2 , Connie Chang-Hasnain 1 ; 1 Univ.of California at Berkeley, USA, 2 Tokyo Inst. ofTechnology, Japan. Hollow-core waveguides basedon high contrast gratings are analyzed using exactanalytical formulation. We obtain dispersiondiagrams and propose heterostructure geometryto confine the light two dimensionally in thesewaveguide structures.CMR4 • 11:45 a.m.In vivo Measurement of the Retinal MovementsUsing Fourier Domain Low CoherenceInterferometry, Kanwarpal Singh 1 , CarolyneDion 1,2 , Santiago Costantino 2,3 , Marcelo Wajszilber 2 ,Mark R. Lesk 2,3 , Tsuneyuki Ozaki 1 ; 1 INRS- EMT,Univ. du Québec, Canada, 2 Ctr. de Recherche del’Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Canada, 3 Univ.de Montréal, Canada. We describe an instrumentfor the study and diagnosis of glaucoma based onFourier domain low coherence interferometryfor the measurement of the retinal movements,to assess in real-time the biomechanical propertiesof the eye.CMS6 • 11:45 a.m.Real Time Ammonia Detection in ExhaledHuman Breath with a Quantum Cascade LaserBased Sensor, Rafał Lewicki 1 , Anatoliy A. Kosterev1 , Yury A. Bakhirkin 1 , David M. Thomazy 1 ,Jim Doty 1 , Lei Dong 1 , Frank K. Tittel 1 , Terence H.Risby 2 , Steven Solga 3,4 , Deborah Kane 3 , TimothyDay 5 ; 1 Rice Univ., USA, 2 Johns Hopkins Univ.,USA, 3 St. Luke’s Hospital, USA, 4 Johns HopkinsUniv. School of Medicine, USA, 5 Daylight Solutions,USA. Quantum cascade laser based breath sensorplatform for medical applications employing aquartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopytechnique is reported. The detection sensitivityfor exhaled ammonia is at
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>CMT • THz Spectroscopy andDynamics—ContinuedCMU • Nonlinear Optics inGases—ContinuedCMV • Quantum Dot Lasers II—ContinuedCMU5 • 11:15 a.m.Measurements and Calculations of Two-BeamCoupling in Air, Aaron Bernstein, Matthew W.McCormick, Gilliss M. Dyer, James C. Sanders,Todd Ditmire; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. Weperformed experiments demonstrated an effectiveenergy-exchange between filament-formingbeams intersecting in air. Theory considering theimpulsive stimulated Raman response as the relevantnonlinear mechanism reproduces data welland points toward techniques for optimization.CMV4 • 11:15 a.m.Random Population of InAs/GaAs QuantumDots, Ian O’Driscoll, Matt Hutchings, Peter M.Smowton, Peter Blood; Cardiff Univ., UK. Weexperimentally observe truly random to nonthermalto thermal distribution of populationof InAs quantum dots with temperature usingunamplified spontaneous emission and measurethe impact on laser operation.CMT4 • 11:30 a.m.Terahertz Absorption in Non-Polar, Non-Hydrogen-Bonding Liquids, Jonathan P. Laib,Daniel M. Mittleman; Rice Univ., USA. We presentresults from our investigation into the liquidlatticestructures of n-pentane (C 5 H 12 ) throughn-hexadecane (C 16 H 34 ). We observe alternatingabsorption values, at single frequencies, whichare surprising and provide information aboutlong-range correlations in liquids.CMU6 • 11:30 a.m.Efficient Third-Harmonic Generation throughTailored IR Femtosecond Laser Pulse Filamentationin Air, Sergiy Suntsov 1 , DaryoushAbdollahpour 1 , Dimitrios G. Papazoglou 1,2 , SteliosTzortzakis 1 ; 1 Inst. of Electronic Structure and Laser,Foundation for Res. and Technology Hellas, Greece,2Materials Science and Technology Dept., Univ. ofCrete, Greece. Third-harmonic generation duringfilamentation of IR femtosecond laser pulses in airexperiences strong spatial reshaping and conversionenhancement when a thin plasma string createdby another femtosecond pulse is introducedperpendicularly to the filament’s path.CMV5 • 11:30 a.m.Threshold and Temperature Dependence ofQuantum Dot Laser Diodes Approaching IdealPerformance, Abdullah Demir, Gokhan Ozgur,K. Shavitranuruk, Sabine Freisem, Dennis G.Deppe; CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics,Univ. of Central Florida, USA. Low threshold QDlaser with threshold current density
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMW • Photonic Crystal FiberMing-Jun Li; Corning Inc., USA,Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMX • Terahertz PhotonicsDaniel Mittleman; Rice Univ.,USA, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMY • 10 Years of FrequencyCombs <strong>CLEO</strong> Symposium IIIFranz X. Kaertner; MIT, USA,Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.IMG • Nano-Optics and Opto-MechanicsMarko Lončar; Harvard Univ.,USA, PresiderCMW1 • 1:30 p.m. InvitedControlled Dispersion in Photonic CrystalFibres, Jonathan Knight, M. G. Welch, C. E. deNobriga, R. Amezcua Correa; Univ. of Bath, UK.We describe the basic features and state-of-theartin controlling dispersion using hollow-corephotonic bandgap fibers, with application in pulsecompression and delivery. We present spectralmeasurements of group velocity dispersion inseveral different fiber designs.CMX1 • 1:30 p.m. TutorialScientific and Technical Accomplishments ofTHz Photonics, Daniel Grischkowsky; OklahomaState Univ., USA. THz photonics combines opticsand ultrafast lasers with electronics to generatesubps THz pulses. The use of such pulses forscience and technology will be illustrated. Opportunitiesin research and applications will bedescribed.CMY1 • 1:30 p.m. Invited10 Years of Femtosecond Combs in Boulder,Steven Cundiff; JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado,USA. Femtosecond combs have been a hot topicin Boulder for the last 10+ years. The first babysteps through the most recent developments willbe surveyed.IMG1 • 1:30 p.m.Cavity-Nano-Optomechanics Using OpticalGradient Fields, Georg Anetsberger 1 , OlivierArcizet 1 , Rémi Rivière 1 , Albert Schliesser 1 , T. J.Kippenberg 1,2 ; 1 Max-Planck-Inst. of QuantumOptics, Germany, 2 École Polytechnique Fédérale deLausanne, Switzerland. We show that evanescentfields of microresonators can be employed forcavity-enhanced high-sensitivity monitoringof nanomechanical motion. This novel schemeopens the path to observing backaction effectsusing optical gradient forces in the resolvedsidebandregime.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMW2 • 2:00 p.m.Nonlinear Femtosecond Pulse Propagationin All-Solid Photonic Bandgap Fiber, TadeuszMartynkien 1 , Bertrand Kibler 2 , Christophe Finot 2 ,Julien Fatome 2 , Marcin Szpulak 1 , Jan Wojcik 3 , StefanWabnitz 2 , Waclaw Urbanczyk 1 ; 1 Wroclaw Univ. ofTechnology, Poland, 2 Inst. Carnot de Bourgogne,France, 3 Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univ., Poland.Nonlinear femtosecond pulse propagation inall-solid photonic bandgap fiber is investigatedexperimentally and numerically for both thephotonic bandgap guiding in the central silicacore and the total internal reflection in germaniumdoped inclusions.Daniel R. Grischkowsky is a Regents Professorand the Bellmon Professor of Optoelectronicsat Oklahoma State University. He received hisPh.D. in physics from Columbia University in1968. He then joined the IBM Watson ResearchCenter, where he developed THz time-domainspectroscopy (THz-TDS). In 1993 he relocated toOSU. He is a Fellow of APS, OSA and IEEE. Hewas awarded the Boris Pregel Award for AppliedScience and Technology (1985) by the New YorkAcademy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize fromOSA (1989), and the William F. Meggers Awardfrom OSA (2003).CMY2 • 2:00 p.m.Precision Spectroscopy with a Scanning DiodeLaser and Measurement of Microcavity Dispersion,Pascal Del’Haye 1 , Olivier Arcizet 1 , RonaldHolzwarth 1 , Tobias Kippenberg 1,2 ; 1 Max-Planck-Inst.for Quantum Optics, Germany, 2 École PolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. We present asimple method that enables fast, broadband spectroscopyat sub-Megahertz resolution over >4 THzbandwidth using a mode-hop-free tunable diodelaser and a frequency comb. This scheme is utilizedto measure microresonator dispersion.IMG2 • 1:45 p.m.Optical Control of Surface-Tension Effects inComplex Nanofluids, Yuval Lamhot 1 , Costa H.Gurgov 1 , Assaf Barak 1 , Mordechai Segev 1 , CarmelRotschild 2 , Meirav Saraf 1 , Efrat Lifshitz 1 , DemetriosChristodoulides 3 ; 1 Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology,Israel, 2 MIT, USA, 3 CREOL, College of Opticsand Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA. Westudy coupling between light and nano-particlesuspensions, through surface-tension effects incapillaries. Increasing light intensity far-awayfrom the interface causes huge changes in the fluidlevel, manifesting optical control over mechanicalproperties of fluids.IMG3 • 2:00 p.m.Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Using a Double-Helix Point Spread Function, Michael A. Thompson1 , Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani 2 , Julie S. Biteen 1 ,Rafael Piestun 2 , W. E. Moerner 1 ; 1 Stanford Univ.,USA, 2 Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Fluorescenceimaging with resolution ten times betterthan the diffraction limit in three dimensions overa depth of field of 2 µm is demonstrated with awidefield microscope that exhibits a double-helixpoint spread function.CMW3 • 2:15 p.m.Optical Fibre with an Aerogel-Filled Core, MichaelD. W. Grogan 1 , Sergio G. Leon-Saval 1,2 , RhysWilliams 1 , Richard England 1 , Tim A. Birks 1 ; 1 Univ.of Bath, UK, 2 Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We filledthe core of hollow-core photonic crystal fibre withsilica aerogel. The filled fibre exhibits a shiftedbandgap and a region of broadband guidance ingood agreement with simulation.CMY3 • 2:15 p.m.Ultrabroad Frequency Comb Spanning 0.4~4.2μm from a Ti:Sapphire Laser by DifferenceFrequency Technique, Hainian Han, YanyingZhao, Qing Zhang, Hao Teng, Zhiyi Wei; Inst.of Physics, CAS, China. An ultrabroadband frequencycomb covered from 400nm to 4.2μm wasdemonstrated by shaping femtosecond Ti:sapphirelaser to enhance the DFG in PPLN crystal, asour best knowledge it is the broadest comb withmonolithic scheme.IMG4 • 2:15 p.m.Optical Nanofibers for Probing Cold Atoms,Michael M. Morrissey 1,2 , Kieran Deasy 1,2 , LauraRussell 2,3 , Amy Watkins 2,3 , Síle Nic Chormaic 2,3 ;1Cork Inst. of Technology, Ireland, 2 Tyndall Natl.Inst., Ireland, 3 Univ. College Cork, Ireland. Wepresent a technique for measuring characteristicsof cold atoms by monitoring the spontaneousemission coupled into guided modes of a nanofiber.We show the fiber is very sensitive to atomsclose to its surface.64<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.IMH • Nonlinear Effects inSemiconductorsDavid Hagan; CREOL, Univ. ofCentral Florida, USA, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMZ • Modulation Formats andNonlinear ProcessingScott Hamilton; MIT, USA,Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMAA • Silicon PhotonicCommunication TechnologiesWilliam Green; IBM Res., USA,PresiderIMH1 • 1:30 p.m.Measuring Photon Bunching at UltrashortTimescale by Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors,Fabien Boitier 1 , Antoine Godard 1 , JeanBonnet 1 , Emmanuel Rosencher 1,2 , Claude Fabre 3 ;1Onera, France, 2 Physics Dept., École Polytechnique,France, 3 Lab Kastler Brossel, Univ. Pierre etMarie Curie, France. Photon bunching in highlychaotic sources (true blackbody and amplifiedspontaneous emission) is detected for the firsttime with femtosecond temporal resolution by useof a Hanbury-Brown-Twiss experiment relying ontwo-photon absorption in semiconductors.CMZ1 • 1:30 p.m.A Bandwidth Efficient Design of IM/DD OpticalOFDM, Huy-Dung Han 1,2 , Junqiang Hu 2 , ZhiDing 1 ; 1 Univ. of California at Davis, USA, 2 NECLabs America, USA. We present a new opticalOFDM design that achieves significantly improvedbandwidth efficiency. We introduce an optimumDC bias to the modulated signal prior to clippingand present an iterative receiver to combatnonlinear distortions.CMAA1 • 1:30 p.m. InvitedSilicon Photonics in Quantum Communications,Hiroki Takesue 1 , Ken-ichi Harada 1 , HiroshiFukuda 2 , Tai Tsuchizawa 2 , Toshifumi Watanabe 2 ,Koji Yamada 2 , Yasuhiro Tokura 1 , Sei-ichi Itabashi 2 ;1NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan, 2 NTT MicrosystemIntegration Labs, Japan. Silicon photonicstechnologies are potentially useful in quantumcommunications. This talk describes the first entanglementgeneration experiment to use a siliconwire waveguide, and discusses the application ofsilicon-based entanglement sources in quantumcommunication systems.IMH2 • 1:45 p.m.Bloch Oscillations and Zener Tunneling inBulk GaAs, Wilhelm Kuehn 1 , Peter Gaal 1 , KlausReimann 1 , Michael Woerner 1 , Thomas Elsaesser 1 ,Rudolf Hey 2 ; 1 Max-Born-Inst., Germany, 2 Paul-Drude-Inst., Germany. Intense terahertz transientsinduce in GaAs at T=300K coherent ballisticelectron motions exploring the conduction bandthrough half the Brillouin zone. At T=80K we observeterahertz driven tunneling from the valenceinto the conduction band.CMZ2 • 1:45 p.m.All-Optical Orthogonal Frequency DivisionMultiplexing Scheme with Cyclic Prefix Inserted,Hongwei Chen, Minghua Chen, Shizhong Xie;Tsinghua Univ., China. A novel all-optical orthogonalfrequency division multiplexing scheme basedon optical sampling is proposed and demonstrated.With the help of optical cyclic prefixes, the receivedeyediagrams have better performance and thedispersion tolerance increases greatly.IMH3 • 2:00 p.m.Many-Body Two-Quantum Coherences in 2-DFourier-Transform Spectra of Semiconductors,Denis Karaiskaj 1 , Alan D. Bristow 1 , Xingcan Dai 1 ,Lijun Yang 2 , Shaul Mukamel 2 , Richard P. Mirin 3 ,Steven T. Cundiff 1 ; 1 JILA, Univ. of Colorado andNIST, USA, 2 Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Californiaat Irvine, USA, 3 NIST, USA. Two-quantum coherencesin two-dimensional Fourier-transform (2-DFT) spectra are attributed to many-body interactions.2-DFT spectroscopy allows two-quantumcoherences in semiconductors to be isolated. Asa result, many-body coherences can be separatedfrom biexciton coherences.CMZ3 • 2:00 p.m.Block Length Effect of Decision-Aided MaximumLikelihood Phase Estimation in CoherentOptical Communication Systems, ShaoliangZhang 1 , Pooi Yuen Kam 1 , Changyuan Yu 1,2 ; 1 Natl.Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, 2 Agency for Science,Technology and Res., Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore.We extend our decision-aided maximumlikelihood phase estimation receiver for variouscoherent phase-modulated optical systems withlaser phase noise, and investigate the optimalmemory length by using extensive Monte-Carlosimulations.CMAA2 • 2:00 p.m. InvitedNanophotonic Devices for Optical Networks-on-Chip, Dries Van Thourhout 1 , Ian O’Connor 2 , AlbertoScandurra 3 , Liu Liu 1 , Wim Bogaerts 1 , ShankarSelvaraja 1 , Gunther Roelkens 1 ; 1 Ghent Univ.- IMEC,Belgium, 2 Lyon Inst. of Nanotechnology, École Centralede Lyon, France, 3 ST Microelectronics, Italy. Wedescribe an optical network-on-chip built frompassive wavelength routing circuits and tunablemicro transmitters based on microdisk sources.Operation of the different subcomponents willbe demonstrated.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1IMH4 • 2:15 p.m.Photon Detection by Non Degenerate Two PhotonAbsorption in GaAs: A Quantum “Leg up”Effect, Fabien Boitier 1 , Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt 1 ,Antoine Godard 1 , Emmanuel Rosencher 1,2 ; 1 Onera,France, 2 Physics Dept., École Polytechnique, France.Detection at optical communication wavelengthis achieved, for the first time, in GaAs phototubeby non degenerate two-photon absorption. Signalphoton is supported by a pump field, producing aquantum “leg up” effect.CMZ4 • 2:15 p.m.Pilot Decision-Aided Maximum LikelihoodPhase Estimation in Coherent Optical QPSKand 8PSK Systems with Nonlinear Phase Noise,Xiaojing Li 1 , Shaoliang Zhang 1 , Changyuan Yu 1,2 ,Pooi Yuen Kam 1 ; 1 Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore,2 Agency for Science, Technology and Res.,Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore. We proposepilot decision-aided maximum likelihood phaseestimation for nonlinear-phase-noise-dominantcoherent optical phase-shift-keying (PSK) systems.The receiver sensitivity is shown to be improvedby ~1dB compared to the differentially encodedPSK counterparts.Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.65
Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMBB • Laser SourcesJens Biegert; ICFO -The Inst. ofPhotonic Sciences, Spain, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMCC • Endoscopic ImagingApplicationsBrian Applegate; Texas A&MUniv., USA, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMDD • Spectroscopic GasSensing ILin Ma; Clemson Univ., USA,Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMEE • Ultraviolet and BlueLight EmittersLeo J. Schowalter; Crystal IS, Inc,USA, PresiderCMBB1 • 1:30 p.m.Compact Femtosecond Nd:Phosphate PrismlessOscillator Pumped by a Single-Mode 150-mWLaser Diode, Antonio Agnesi, Federico Pirzio,Giancarlo Reali; Electronics Dept., Univ. of Pavia,Italy. We present a compact, passively mode-lockedand prismless Nd:phosphate laser, pumped by asingle-mode, low-power (150-mW) laser diode.We obtained self-starting 270-fs near transformlimitedpulses, employing a single Gires-Tournoismirror for intracavity dispersion compensation.CMCC1 • 1:30 p.m.2-D Spectrally Encoded Confocal Microscopyand Its Application for Simultaneous Imagingand Laser Surgery with a Single Fiber Probe,Kevin K. Tsia, Keisuke Goda, Bahram Jalali; Univ.of California at Los Angeles, USA. We demonstratean endoscope-compatible, mechanical-scan-freemicroscopy technique and its application as ahighly flexible fiber probe which can simultaneouslyperform imaging and high precision in situlaser microsurgery.CMDD1 • 1:30 p.m. InvitedTime and Frequency-Domain Spectroscopy withDual Frequency Combs, Nathan R. Newbury,Ian Coddington, William C. Swann; NIST, USA.High-resolution spectroscopic measurements ofthe amplitude and phase spectra from a gas samplecan be acquired by use of dual frequency combs.Here we discuss the corresponding gas signaturein the time domain.CMEE1 • 1:30 p.m. InvitedRecent Progresses of AlGaN and InAlGaN-Based Deep-UV LEDs, Hideki Hirayama 1,2 ; 1 RIK-EN, Japan, 2 JST, CREST, Japan. We demonstrated222-282 nm AlGaN and InAlGaN-based efficientdeep-ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes(LEDs) fabricated on low threading dislocationdensity (TDD) AlN. We achieved over 10 mW CWUV output power for 264-282 nm LEDs.CMBB2 • 1:45 p.m.200 fs, 50 W Fiber-CPA System Based onChirped-Volume-Bragg-Gratings, MatthewRever 1 , Shenghong Huang 1 , Caglar Yahus 1 , VadimSmirnov 2 , Eugene Rotari 2 , Ion Cohanoshi 2 , SergiyMokhov 3 , Leonid Glebov 3 , Almantas Galvanauskas1 ; 1 Univ. of Michigan, USA, 2 OptiGrate, USA,3CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, Univ.of Central Florida, USA. Record-short pulses of200fs have been obtained from a power-scalable-Yb-fiber-CPA system that uses chirped-volume-Bragg-gratings for the stretcher and compressor.The power was scaled up to 50W with a corresponding33W of compressed power.CMCC2 • 1:45 p.m.Common-Path Fourier-Domain Optical CoherenceTomography with a Fiber Optic ProbeIntegrated into a Surgical Needle, Jae-Ho Han 1 ,Marcin Balicki 1 , Kang Zhang 1 , Xuan Liu 1 , JamesHanda 2 , Russell Taylor 1 , Jin U. Kang 1 ; 1 Johns HopkinsUniv., USA, 2 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,USA. We have demonstrated three-dimensionalimaging of a rat cornea and retina using a 0.8-µmcommon-path Fourier-domain OCT with anintegrated surgical needle probe.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMBB3 • 2:00 p.m.Shortest Pulse Duration of Mode-Locked ThinDisk Lasers: Ultrafast Yb:LuScO 3 Laser Generates227-fs Pulses, Christian Kränkel 1 , Cyrill R. E.Baer 1 , Oliver H. Heckl 1 , Matthias Golling 1 , ThomasSüdmeyer 1 , Ursula Keller 1 , Rigo Peters 2 , KlausPetermann 2 , Günter Huber 2 ; 1 ETH, Switzerland,2Inst. of Laser-Physics, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany.The first mode-locked Yb:LuScO 3 thin disk lasergenerates 7.2W average power in 227-fs pulses,which are the shortest pulses obtained from anyultrafast thin disk laser. 10.1W average power wasachieved at longer pulse durations.CMCC3 • 2:00 p.m.In vivo Micron Scale Arthroscopic Imagingof Human Knee Osteoarthritis with OCT:Comparison with MRI and Arthroscopy, KathyZheng 1 , Scott Martin 1,2 , Christopher Rashidifard 1 ,Bin Liu 1,2 , Mark E. Brezinski 1,2 ; 1 Brigham andWomen’s Hospital, USA, 2 Harvard Medical School,USA. In this study, we perform in vivo OCT humanarthroscopic imaging in patients undergoingmenisectomy. Results are compared to MRI andarthroscopy.CMDD2 • 2:00 p.m.Spectroscopic Sensing at the Quantum Limitby Active Cavity Impedance Matching, Jong H.Chow 1 , David S. Rabeling 1 , Andrew Wade 1 , Ian C.M. Littler 1 , Malcolm B. Gray 2 , David E. McClelland1 ; 1 Australian Natl. Univ., Australia, 2 Natl.Measurement Inst., Australia. We demonstratean active cavity impedance matching controltechnique using radio-frequency amplitudemodulation homodyne interferometry, and showit can be used for absorption spectrometry at thequantum limit for both narrow and broadbandmolecular transitions.CMEE2 • 2:00 p.m.Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies ofAlGaN-Based Deep UV LED Structures Emittingdown to 229 nm, Gregory A. Garrett 1 , CraigG. Moe 1 , Meredith L. Reed 1 , Michael Wraback 1 ,Wenhong Sun 2 , Max Shatalov 2 , Xuhong Hu 2 , JinweiYang 2 , Yuriy Bilenko 2 , Alex Lunev 2 , Michael S.Shur 2 , Remis Gaska 2 ; 1 ARL, USA, 2 Sensor ElectronicTechnology, Inc., USA. Photoluminescence lifetimeand internal quantum efficiency measurements ofdeep ultraviolet (~230 nm) light-emitting diodestructures are correlated to packaged devices andcompared to measurements on more mature 280nm structures.CMBB4 • 2:15 p.m.Dispersion Balancing of Complex CPA-SystemsUsing the Phase-Shifting Technique, ConstantinHaefner, Richard Hackel, John Halpin, John K.Crane, Mike Messerly, James Nissen, Miro Shverdin,Brian Shaw, Jay Dawson, Craig W. Siders,Christopher P. J. Barty; Lawrence Livermore Natl.Lab, USA. Dispersion balancing in complex highintensitylaser systems is critical for the temporalpulse fidelity. We demonstrate a method for dispersionmanagement of the eight-beam PetawattAdvanced Radiographic Capability Laser utilizingthe phase shift technique.CMCC4 • 2:15 p.m.In vivo Fluorescence Endoscopic Cellular Imagingof Internal Organs in Mice, Pilhan Kim 1 ,Georges Tocco 2 , Cavit D. Kant 2 , Gilles Benichou 2 ,Seok H. Yun 1 ; 1 Harvard Medical School and WellmanCtr. for Photomedicine, Massachusetts GeneralHospital, USA, 2 Harvard Medical School and Surgery/TransplantationUnit, Massachusetts GeneralHospital, USA. High-resolution optical imagingof mice internal organs has been challenging dueto the difficulty of access and physiological tissuemotion. We describe a motion-stabilizing laserscanningconfocal endoscope and demonstrate awide range of biomedical applications.CMDD3 • 2:15 p.m.Multi-Wavelength Sensing of Greenhouse Gasesby Rapidly Swept Continuous-Wave CavityRingdown Spectroscopy, Yabai He 1 , Ruifeng Kan 2 ,Florian V. Englich 1,3 , Wenqing Liu 2 , Brian J. Orr 1 ;1Macquarie Univ., Australia, 2 CAS, China, 3 Caltech,USA. The greenhouse gas molecules CH 4 , CO 2 ,and H 2 O are detected by using a cavity ringdownlaser spectrometer with rapidly swept opticalcavity and multi-wavelength coherent radiation.This sensitive portable instrument is applicableto environmental monitoring.CMEE3 • 2:15 p.m.Reliability of Deep UV LEDs, Max Shatalov 1 ,Yuri Bilenko 1 , Remis Gaska 1 , Sergey Rumyantsev 2 ,Michael Shur 1,2 ; 1 Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.,USA, 2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA. We reporton reliability of deep UV LEDs with wavelengthsranging from 235 to 310 nm. The current-voltagecharacteristics and the spectrum remain nearlyunchanged, relating degradation mechanisms tothe p-cladding layers and p-type contacts.66<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.IMI • Quantum Information IIBrian J. Smith; Univ. of Oxford,UK, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMFF • Four-Wave MixingJason Fleischer; Princeton Univ.,USA, Presider1:30 p.m.–3:15 p.m.CMGG • VCSELs IJames J. Raftery, Jr.; U.S. MilitaryAcad., USA, PresiderIMI1 • 1:30 p.m.Experimental Realization of Quantum Teleportationas Cluster Computation, Ryuji Ukai 1,2 ,Seiji Charles Armstrong 1,3 , Peter Van Loock 4 , AkiraFurusawa 1,2 ; 1 Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2 CREST-JST,Japan, 3 Australian Natl. Univ., Australia, 4 Univ.Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. We demonstratequantum teleportation of a coherent state as clustercomputation using a four-mode linear cluster state.This is the first example of realization of clustercomputation in continuous-variable systems.IMI2 • 1:45 p.m.Teleportation of Quantum Information betweenDistant Atomic Qubits, P. Maunz 1 , S. Olmschenk 1 ,D. Hayes 1 , D. N. Matsukevich 1 , L.-M. Duan 2 , C.Monroe 1 ; 1 Joint Quantum Inst. and Dept. of Physics,Univ. of Maryland, USA, 2 FOCUS Ctr. and Dept.of Physics, Univ. of Michigan, USA. We teleportquantum information between two distant ytterbiumions trapped in different vacuum chambersseparated by one meter. Full state tomographyshows that the heralded probabilistic processemployed has a fidelity of 90%.CMFF1 • 1:30 p.m. InvitedUltra-Low Power Frequency Conversion inHigh-Index Doped Silica Glass Micro-RingResonators, David J. Moss 1 , Marcello Ferrara 2 ,Luca Razzari 2 , David Duchesne 2 , Roberto Morandotti2 , Z. Yang 3 , Marco Liscidini 3 , John Sipe 3 , SaiChu 4 , Brent E. Little 4 ; 1 Univ. of Sydney, Australia,2INRS-EMT, Canada, 3 Dept. of Physics, Univ. ofToronto, Canada, 4 Infinera Ltd., USA. We demonstratefour-wave-mixing with 110 THz) andsupercontinuum generation.CMGG2 • 2:00 p.m.Impact of High Contrast Grating Size in TunableVCSELs, Christopher Chase, Ye Zhou, ConnieChang-Hasnain; Univ. of California at Berkeley,USA. We show the effects of shrinking the highcontrast grating size on a wavelength-tunableVCSEL experimentally and theoretically. With agrating having only 4 periods, we demonstrate thefastest tunable VCSEL with speed >25 MHz.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1IMI4 • 2:15 p.m.Demonstration of a Loop Cluster for QuantumInformation Applications, Yasaman Soudagar 1 ,Xingxing Xing 2 , Elham Kashefi 3 , Nicolas Godbout 1 ,Aephraim M. Steinberg 2 ; 1 École Polytechnique deMontrèal, Canada, 2 Ctr. for Quantum Informationand Quantum Control and Inst. for Optical Sciences,Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada,3School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburg, UK. Wedemonstrate creation of a 4-qubit “loop cluster,”a resource for one-way quantum computation,with one input and two outputs, from a pair ofhyperentangled photons. This cluster possessesno flow, but only generalized flow.CMFF3 • 2:15 p.m.Single Shot Time and Frequency Resolved FourWave Mixing Spectroscopy, Andrey Shalit, YuriPaskover, Yehiam Prior; Weizmann Inst. of Science,Israel. A new method is demonstrated wherebystrict phase matching conditions in forwardpropagating four wave mixing experiments allowboth spectral and temporal resolution within asingle ultrashort laser pulse.CMGG3 • 2:15 p.m.Laterally Intermixed Quantum Structure forCarrier Confinement of VCSELs, Yuta Sugawara,Tomoyuki Miyamoto; Tokyo Inst. of Technology,Japan. Quantum structure intermixing from lateraldirection of the mesa sidewall is proposed forVCSELs. I th decrease of 70% and η d increase of75% were achieved by suppression of the surfacerecombination in the post-type VCSEL.Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.67
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQECCMW • Photonic CrystalFiber—ContinuedCMX • Terahertz Photonics—ContinuedCMY • 10 Years of FrequencyCombs <strong>CLEO</strong> Symposium III—ContinuedIMG • Nano-Optics and Opto-Mechanics—ContinuedCMW4 • 2:30 p.m.Compact Electrically Tunable Waveplate Basedon Liquid Crystal Photonic Bandgap Fibers, LeiWei 1 , Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold 2 , Stephan UrsKeller 3 , Jonas Michael Lindhard 4 , Helle VendelboJensen 4 , Anja Boisen 3 , Anders Bjarklev 1 ; 1 DTUFotonik, Dept. of Photonics Engineering, TechnicalUniv. of Denmark, Denmark, 2 Crystal Fibre A/S,Denmark, 3 DTU Nanotech, Technical Univ. of Denmark,Denmark, 4 DTU Danchip, Technical Univ. ofDenmark, Denmark. A compact tunable waveplatebased on negative dielectric liquid crystal photonicbandgap fibers is presented. The birefringence canbe tuned electrically to work as a quarter-waveor a half-wave plate in the wavelength range1520nm-1580nm.CMX2 • 2:30 p.m.Electro-Optic Sampling of Widely Tunable THzTransients with Electric Fields of up to 108 MV/cm, Alexander Sell, Rüdiger Scheu, Alfred Leitenstorfer,Rupert Huber; Univ. of Konstanz, Germany.A novel Er:fiber/Ti:sapphire hybrid laser generatesphase-locked few-cycle terahertz transients tunablefrom 1 to 107 THz and electric fields of up to108 MV/cm. 8-fs pulses from the fiber laser serveas electro-optic probe.CMY4 • 2:30 p.m.C 2 H 2 Absolutely Optical Frequency-Stabilizedand 40 GHz Repetition-Rate-Stabilized, RegenerativelyMode-Locked Picosecond ErbiumFiber Laser at 1.53 μm, Masataka Nakazawa,Masato Yoshida, Keisuke Kasai; Res. Inst. of ElectricalCommunication, Tohoku Univ., Japan. Theoptical frequency and repetition-rate of a regenerativelymode-locked picosecond fiber laser wassimultaneously stabilized to a 1.5-μm C 2 H 2 absorptionline and a 40-GHz synthesizer, respectively.The optical frequency stability reached 2x10 -11for τ=10~100 s.IMG5 • 2:30 p.m.Broadband Heterodyne NSOM Characterizationof Propagation Loss in Waveguide Bends,Maurice Ayache, Maxim Abashin, Dawn T. H. Tan,Yeshaiahu Fainman; Dept. of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Univ. of California at San Diego,USA. We use a heterodyne NSOM with superluminescentdiode illumination to measure the lossin an SOI waveguide around a bend. For a bend ofradius 10 μm, we measure loss of .09 dB.CMW5 • 2:45 p.m.Depolarized Guided Acoustic Wave BrillouinScattering in Photonic Crystal Fibers, John E.McElhenny, Radha K. Pattnaik, Jean Toulouse;Lehigh Univ., USA. Guided acoustic wave Brillouinscattering (GAWBS) in PCFs is altered by the airsilicastructure of the inner cladding and does notdepend on the cladding diameter as with standardfibers. This dependence is investigated.CMX3 • 2:45 p.m.CW Terahertz Spectrometer with High-PrecisionFrequency Control, Axel Roggenbuck 1 ,Anselm Deninger 1 , Iván Cámara Mayorga 2 ,Holger Schmitz 3 , Joachim Hemberger 3 , Frank Lison 1 ,Markus Grüninger 3 ; 1 TOPTICA Photonics AG,Germany, 2 Max-Planck-Inst. für Radioastronomie,Germany, 3 Physikalisches Inst., Univ. zu Köln,Germany. We realized a continuous-wave terahertzspectrometer based on optical heterodyning oftwo near-infrared distributed-feedback diodelasers. Using active frequency stabilization weachieve 1 MHz resolution and a signal-to-noiseratio up to 80 dB.CMY5 • 2:45 p.m.Low-Noise Microwave Synthesis up to 80 GHzwith Line-by-Line Processing of an OpticalFrequency Comb, Shijun Xiao, Leo Hollberg, ScottDiddams; NIST, USA. 10 GHz optical pulses aregenerated by line-by-line phase compensation onan optical frequency comb. Residual pulse timingjitter ≤ 10 fs and high power signals at harmonicsup to 80 GHz are measured.IMG6 • 2:45 p.m.Insulator-to-Metal Transition of Gold FilmsObserved by Interferometric Picometrology,Xuefeng Wang, Ming Zhao, David D. Nolte; Dept.of Physics, Purdue Univ., USA. We obtain thecomplex refractive index and dielectric propertiesof ultra-thin gold films as a continuous functionof thickness from 0.2 nm to 10 nm usingpicometrology. The atom-to-bulk transition ofgold is observed.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMW6 • 3:00 p.m.Low-Loss Splicing of Photonic Crystal Fibres byControlled Hole Collapse, Zilun Chen 1 , ChunleXiong 2 , Limin Xiao 1 , William Wadsworth 1 , TimBirks 1 ; 1 Univ. of Bath, UK, 2 Univ. of Sydney, Australia.Low-loss splices have been formed betweensmall-core photonic crystal fibres and fibres withmuch larger mode field diameters. The PCF’score is enlarged using controlled hole collapsebefore splicing with a conventional electric-arcfusion splicer.CMX4 • 3:00 p.m.High-Resolution Terahertz Time-DomainSpectroscopy Using a Wavelet Power SpectrumEstimation Technique, Youngchan Kim 1 , Dae-SuYee 1 , Jong Chul Ye 2 , Jaewook Ahn 2 ; 1 Korea Res.Inst. of Standards and Science, Republic of Korea,2KAIST, Republic of Korea. It is shown that a waveletpower spectrum estimation technique can beapplied to high-resolution terahertz time-domainspectroscopy using asynchronous optical samplingto effectively remove noises without sacrificingspectral features on a spectrum.CMY6 • 3:00 p.m.Optical Frequency Comb Characterization–Self-Referenced Phase Retrieval via SpectralShearing Interferometry in an A-PPLN Waveguide,Houxun Miao 1 , Chen-Bin Huang 2 , DanielE. Leaird 1 , Carsten Langrock 3 , Martin M. Fejer 3 ,Andrew M. Weiner 1 ; 1 Purdue Univ., USA, 2 Natl.Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan, 3 Stanford Univ., USA. Aself-referenced technique for measuring the phaseof individual optical frequency comb lines is demonstrated.Spectral frequency shear is obtainedfrom sum frequency generation of a signal combwith wavelength separated reference tones.IMG7 • 3:00 p.m.Spinoptics: Dynamics of Spinning Light inNanoscale-Structure, Erez Hasman, Yuri Gorodetski,Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Avi Niv, VladimirKleiner; Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel.Observation of optical spin-hall effect that appearswhen a wave carrying spin angular momentuminteracts with plasmonic nanostructures is presented.The measurements verify the geometricphase, demonstrated by the spin-dependentdeflection of the surface waves.3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Coffee Break, Concourse LevelNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________68<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IMH • Nonlinear Effects inSemiconductors—ContinuedCMZ • Modulation Formatsand Nonlinear Processing—ContinuedCMAA • Silicon PhotonicCommunication Technologies—ContinuedIMH5 • 2:30 p.m.Two-Photon Detection in a MQW GaAs Laserat 1.55μm, David Duchesne 1 , Luca Razzari 1 ,L. Halloran 1 , Roberto Morandotti 1 , Anthony J.SpringThorpe 2 , Dmitri N. Christodoulides 3 , DavidJ. Moss 1,4 ; 1 Univ. du Québec, Canada, 2 CanadianPhotonics Fabrication Ctr., Canada, 3 Univ. of CentralFlorida, USA, 4 CUDOS, School of Physics,Univ. of Sydney, Australia. We report the firstdemonstration of two-photon photocurrent in aGaAs/AlGaAs MQW laser at 1.55 μm. The deviceefficiency, sensitivity and two-photon absorptioncoefficient has strong potential for signal processingat sub-Watt powers.CMZ5 • 2:30 p.m.Optical Phase Noise Extraction and AmplificationTechnique and Its Application to OpticalPhase Noise Monitoring for (D)PSK Systems,Guo-Wei Lu, Tetsuya Miyazaki; NICT, Japan. Wepropose an optical phase noise extraction andamplification (OPNEA) technique. By applyingOPNEA to phase noise monitoring for (D)PSK, 13-dB dynamic range and 0.2-dB/degreesensitivity were achieved with a 50-120-degreephase deviation.CMAA3 • 2:30 p.m.101-Element Cascaded-Microdisk Resonatorson a Silicon Chip, Xianshu Luo, Andrew W. Poon;Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China.We propose many-element cascaded-resonatordevices with gapless inter-cavity coupling usingspiral and double-notch microdisk resonators. Wedemonstrate such devices with up to 101 elementsin a silicon nitride-on-silica substrate.IMH6 • 2:45 p.m.Observation of Clamping of PhotoluminescenceIntensities from Nonlinear Degenerate ElectronGas in InN, Guibao Xu 1 , Yujie J. Ding 1 , Ioulia B.Zotova 2 , Charles E. Stutz 3 , Darnell E. Diggs 3 , NilsFernelius 3 , Frank K. Hopkins 3 , Chad S. Gallinat 4 ,Gregor Koblmüller 4 , James S. Speck 4 ; 1 Lehigh Univ.,USA, 2 ArkLight, USA, 3 AFRL, USA, 4 Univ. of Californiaat Santa Barbara, USA. We observed thatphotoluminescence intensities clamped at certainvalues as the pump intensity was increased, due tothe presence of nonlinear degenerate electron gasand saturation of photogenerated and localizedholes in InN.CMZ6 • 2:45 p.m.Cancellation of Chromatic Dispersion-InducedSecond Harmonic Using Dual Wavelengthsand Balanced Photodetection, Christopher E.Sunderman 1 , Preetpaul S. Devgan 2 , John F. Diehl 2 ,Vincent J. Urick 2 , Keith J. Williams 2 ; 1 Global StrategiesGroup North America, USA, 2 NRL, USA. Amethod for canceling dispersion-induced secondharmonic by simultaneously modulating twooptical wavelengths combined with balancedphotodetection is demonstrated. The second harmonicis reduced by ~30dB while the fundamentalis increased by 6dB.CMAA4 • 2:45 p.m.Temperature-Insensitive Silicon MicrodiskResonators Using Polymeric Cladding Layers,Payam Alipour, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Ali AsgharEftekhar, Babak Momeni, Ali Adibi; Georgia Tech,USA. A method for thermal-stabilization ofsilicon microdisk resonators, based on thermoopticpolymer coatings, is proposed. Two ordersof magnitude improvement in thermal stabilityis expected. Effects on Q and major fabricationchallenges are discussed.IMH7 • 3:00 p.m.Terahertz Open-Aperture Z-Scan in DopedInGaAs, Luca Razzari 1,2 , Fuhai Su 3 , Gargi Sharma 1 ,Francois Blanchard 1 , Ayesheshim Ayesheshim 3 ,Heidi Bandulet 1 , Roberto Morandotti 1 , Jean-ClaudeKieffer 1 , Tsuneyuki Ozaki 1 , Matthew Reid 4 , FrankHegmann 3 ; 1 INRS-EMT, Advanced Laser LightSource, Univ. du Québec, Canada, 2 Univ. di Pavia,Italy, 3 Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alberta, Canada,4Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Northern British Columbia,Canada. We have performed open-apertureZ-scan measurements on n-doped InGaAs usingintense few-cycle terahertz pulses. We observe asignificant bleaching of the terahertz pulse absorptionattributed to terahertz-electric-field-inducedintervalley carrier scattering.CMZ7 • 3:00 p.m.320-Gbit/s Optical Time Multiplexing of Two160-Gbit/s Channels Using SupercontinuumGeneration to Achieve High-Speed WDM-to-TDM, Xiaoxia Wu 1 , Antonella Bogoni 2 , Scott R.Nuccio 1 , Omer F. Yilmaz 1 , Alan E. Willner 1 ; 1 Univ.of Southern California, USA, 2 Consorzio NazionaleInteruniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy.We experimentally demonstrate multiplexing oftwo 160-Gbit/s WDM signals to one 320-Gbit/ssignal based on supercontinuum generation inHNLF. Error free operation was achieved and lessthan 3 dB penalty was observed.CMAA5 • 3:00 p.m.Arrayed Microring Filter with Tunable ResonanceWavelength, Extinction Ratio andBandwidth, Hao Shen, Maroof H. Khan, Yi Xuan,Lin Zhao, Minghao Qi; Purdue Univ., USA. Wedemonstrate a tunable filter based on an arrayof silicon-on-insulator microring resonators.The resonance wavelength, extinction ratio andbandwidth can be simultaneously controlled bythermal tuning.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 13:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Coffee Break, Concourse LevelNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. 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Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>CMBB • Laser Sources—ContinuedCMCC • Endoscopic ImagingApplications—ContinuedCMDD • Spectroscopic GasSensing I—ContinuedCMEE • Ultraviolet and BlueLight Emitters—ContinuedCMBB5 • 2:30 p.m.Nonlinear Absorption and Carrier Dynamics inSlab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Amplifiers, AliR. Motamedi 1 , Erich P. Ippen 1 , Jason J. Plant 2 , JosephP. Donnelly 2 , Paul W. Juodawlkis 2 ; 1 MIT, USA, 2 MITLincoln Lab, USA. Loss due to the two-photonabsorption and free-carrier absorption processesbecomes a dominant factor for ultrashort-pulseamplification, leading to lower saturation energy.TPA and FCA coefficients are measured to be65cm/GW and 7x10 -17 cm 2 , respectively.CMCC5 • 2:30 p.m.Microfabricated out-of-Plane Scanning Microlensfor Raman Spectroscopy, Chin Pang BillySiu 1 , Haishan Zeng 2 , Mu Chiao 1 ; 1 Univ. of BritishColumbia, Canada, 2 British Columbia CancerRes. Ctr., Canada. We present a microfabricatedout-of-plane scanning microlens for miniaturizedRaman Spectroscopy. The out-of-plane actuationis electrostatic driven and achieves 90 μm scanrangeat 1k Hz. A Raman spectrum analysis onthe drug, Tylenol, is reported.CMDD4 • 2:30 p.m.Compact Gas Sensing System Based on Mid-Infrared LED and Resonant Detection withQuartz Tuning Fork, Ulrike Willer, Claus Romano,Wolfgang Schade; Clausthal Univ. of Technology,Germany. A Winston cone, used simultaneouslyas absorption cell, concentrates the radiation of amid-infrared LED onto a prong of a quartz tuningfork acting as detector, providing a compact andcost efficient mid-infrared sensing system.CMEE4 • 2:30 p.m.The Effects of Increasing AlN Mole Fraction onthe Performance of AlGaN Based UltravioletLight Emitting Diode Active Regions, AnandV. Sampath 1 , Gregory A. Garrett 1 , Wendy L.Sarney 1 , H. Shen 1 , Michael Wraback 1 , James R.Grandusky 2 , Leo J. Showalter 2 ; 1 ARL, USA, 2 CrystalIS, USA. Time-resolved photoluminescence andtransmission electron microscopy results suggestthat the density of point defects may have a moresignificant role than threading dislocations in theperformance of UVLED AlGaN active regionsemitting at shorter wavelengths.CMBB6 • 2:45 p.m.Mode-Locking via Active Gain Modulation inQuantum Cascade Lasers, Lyuba Kuznetsova 1 , C.Y. Wang 1 , V. M. Gkortsas 2 , L. Diehl 1 , F. Kärtner 2 ,M. A. Belkin 3 , A. Belyanin 4 , X. Li 1 , D. Ham 1 , H.Schneider 5 , H. C. Liu 6 , Federico Capasso 1 ; 1 HarvardUniv., USA, 2 MIT, USA, 3 Univ. of Texas at Austin,USA, 4 Texas A&M Univ., USA, 5 Inst. of Ion BeamPhysics and Materials Res., Germany, 6 Natl. Res.Council, Canada. A mode-locking mechanismby active gain modulation is studied numericallyand experimentally. The parameter window for theemission of stable pulse trains was found. Pulsesas short as 3ps (~0.5pJ) were characterized bysecond-order autocorrelation.CMCC6 • 2:45 p.m.Fiber-Optic Endomicroscopy for Intrinsic Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging of Epithelial Cellsand Tissues, Yicong Wu 1 , Jiefeng Xi 1 , YongpingChen 1 , Michael J. Cobb 1 , Ming-Jun Li 2 , Xingde Li 1 ;1Dept. of Bioengineering, Univ. of Washington,USA, 2 Science and Technology Div., CorningInc., USA. An endomicroscope with enhancedsignal collection efficiency was developed usingcustomized double-clad fiber and asphericalcompound-lens. Ex vivo two-photon fluorescenceimaging of epithelial tissues was demonstratedfor the first time with an all-fiber-optic scanningendomicroscope.CMDD5 • 2:45 p.m.Location-Resolved Gas Concentration DetectionUsing Frequency-Shifted Interferometry,Fei Ye, Li Qian, Bing Qi; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.We use frequency-shifted interferometry to detectthe concentrations of the same gas species at differentlocations and in different mixtures by accuratelycorrecting the spectral shadowing effect.Different gas species are also detected.CMEE5 • 2:45 p.m.1-D Carrier Localization and Effective QuantumWire Behavior inside “Wrinkled” QWs Depositedon Textured GaN, Spilios Riyopoulos 1 , TheodoreMoustakas 2 ; 1 SAIC, USA, 2 Boston Univ., USA.Ridges among intersecting quantum wells depositedon textured GaN behave as 1-D quantum wiresdue to geometry and polarization effects. Carrierlocalization, carrier accumulation and emissionblue shifting are derived theoretically.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMBB7 • 3:00 p.m.Coherent Dynamics of One- and Two-PhotonStates in a Strongly Coupled Single QuantumDot-Cavity System, Jacek Kasprzak 1 , WolfgangLangbein 1 , S. Reitzenstein 2 , C. Kistner 2 , C. Schneider2 , M. Strauss 2 , S. Höfling 2 , A. Forchel 2 ; 1 CardiffUniv., UK, 2 Technische Physik, Univ. Würzburg,Germany. Heterodyne spectral interferometry isemployed to perform four-wave mixing spectroscopyon a strongly-coupled system of an excitonconfined in a single quantum dot and a photonmode of a pillar microcavtity.CMCC7 • 3:00 p.m.Handheld Single-Cell-Layer Optical SectioningReflectance Confocal Microscope forInterventional Imaging, Karthik Kumar 1 , RonyAvritscher 2 , David C. Madoff 2 , Xiaojing Zhang 1 ;1Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, 2 M. D. AndersonCancer Ctr., Univ. of Texas, USA. We introduce ahandheld reflectance confocal microscope providing4.2μm axial, 0.5μm lateral resolution, and200x125μm field based on novel CMOS-MEMS2-axis scanning micromirrors. Examination of exvivo swine liver indicates applicability to clinicalimage-directed intervention.CMDD6 • 3:00 p.m.Fourier Transform Spectrometry with a NearInfrared Supercontinuum Source, Chris A.Michaels, Tony Masiello, Pamela M. Chu; NIST,USA. Near-infrared Fourier transform absorptionspectrometry with a supercontinuum (SC) sourceis demonstrated for trace methane detection. TheSC source allows for long distance propagationwhile exhibiting amplitude noise ten times greaterthan comparable incandescent sources.CMEE6 • 3:00 p.m.Towards Room Temperature ElectricallyPumped Blue Vertical Cavity Surface EmittingLasers, Gatien Cosendey, Eric Feltin, AntoninoCastiglia, Jean-François Carlin, Alexei Altoukhov,Jacques Levrat, Gabriel Christmann, Raphael Butté,Nicolas Grandjean; École Polytechnique Fédéralede Lausanne, Switzerland. We report strategiesto achieve lasing in electrically driven VCSELs at300K, namely high quality microcavity suited forelectrical injection, use of a ZnO contact with acurrent confinement layer, and oxidized AlInN/GaN Bragg reflectors.3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Coffee Break, Concourse LevelNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________70<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IMI • Quantum Information II—ContinuedCMFF • Four-Wave Mixing—ContinuedCMGG • VCSELs I—ContinuedIMI5 • 2:30 p.m.One-Way Quantum Computation Using aQuantum Nondemolition Entangling Gate,Yoshichika Miwa 1,2 , Jun-Ichi Yoshikawa 1,2 , Peter vanLoock 3 , Akira Furusawa 1,2 ; 1 Univ. of Tokyo, Japan,2CREST-JST, Japan, 3 Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg,Germany. We demonstrate a Û=exp(iκˆx 2 ) gate asan example of one-way quantum computation. Thecoefficient κ is controlled via the local oscillatorphase of a homodyne measurement. The squeezingbelow the shot noise limit is observed.CMFF4 • 2:30 p.m.Optical Parametric Amplification in the NIRin a Gaseous Medium by Use of a Hollow Fibre,Alexander Grün 1 , Daniele Faccio 1,2 , Arnaud Couairon3 , Philip K. Bates 1 , Olivier Chalus 1 , Jens Biegert 1,4 ;1ICFO-Inst. de Cienciès Fotióniques, MediterraneanTechnology Park, Spain, 2 CNISM-Dept. di Fisicae Matematica, Univ. dell’Insubria, Italy, 3 CNRS-Ctr. de Physique Théorique, École Polytechnique,France, 4 ICREA-Institucio Catalana de Recercai Estudis Avancats, Spain. We demonstrate efficientparametric generation of >4 µJ, 80 fs pulsescentered at 1.3 µm in a gas-filled hollow fibre.The measured bandwidth supports few-cycle,passively CEP-locked infrared pulses for EUV andattosecond physics.CMGG4 • 2:30 p.m.Microwave Signal Mixing in Coupled-CavityVCSELs, Chen Chen, Kent Choquette; Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Twomicrowave signals of different frequencies areused to modulate the top and bottom cavity of acoupled-cavity VCSEL. Signal mixing is observed,which can be engineered by varying the DC biasesto the cavities.IMI6 • 2:45 p.m.Engineering a Telecom-Band Controlled-NOTGate, Monika Patel 1,2 , Joseph B. Altepeter 1 , MatthewA. Hall 1 , Milja Medic 1,2 , Prem Kumar 1,2 ; 1 Ctr.for Photonic Communication and Computing,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.,Northwestern Univ., USA, 2 Dept. of Physics andAstronomy, Northwestern Univ., USA. We experimentallycharacterize a linear optics, telecom-bandquantum controlled-NOT gate using a fiber-basedsource of degenerate photon-pairs and bound itsprocess fidelity to 0.907 ≤ F p ≤ 0.948.CMFF5 • 2:45 p.m.Four-Wave Mixing in Integrated Silicon NitrideWaveguides, Jacob S. Levy, Alexander Gondarenko,Amy C. Turner-Foster, Mark A. Foster, AlexanderL. Gaeta, Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., USA. Wedemonstrate four-wave mixing in silicon nitridewaveguides with -7.1 dB conversion efficiencybetween the signal and idler. We observe no evidenceof nonlinear losses with pump powers ashigh as 110 W.CMGG5 • 2:45 p.m.Long-Wavelength BTJ-VCSELs with ImprovedModulation Bandwidth and Temperature Range,Werner H. Hofmann 1 , Michael Müller 1 , GerhardBöhm 1 , Jürgen Rosskopf 2 , Markus-ChristianAmann 1 ; 1 Walter Schottky Inst., Technische Univ.München, Germany, 2 VERTILAS GmbH, Germany.InP-based VCSELs, emitting at 1.55 µm withimproved active region and reduced parasitics aredemonstrated. A superior modulation-bandwidth>10 GHz is achieved up to 85°C. Potential bit-ratesof 12.5 or even 17 Gb/s are feasible.IMI7 • 3:00 p.m.Quantum Optics in Laser-Written WaveguideCircuits, Graham D. Marshall 1 , Jonathan C. F.Matthews 2 , Alberto Politi 2 , Peter Dekker 1 , MartinAms 1 , Michael J. Withford 1 , Jeremy L. O’Brien 2 ;1Macquarie Univ., Australia, 2 Univ. of Bristol,UK. Building quantum optical circuits withwaveguides-on-a-chip networks is a practical routeto scalable quantum information processing. Wereport circuits made using direct-write laser techniquesthat create high fidelity, 2 or 3-dimensional,fiber compatible quantum networks.CMFF6 • 3:00 p.m.Generation of Wavelength-Tunable MulticoloredFemtosecond Laser Pulses in a FusedSilica Glass, Jun Liu 1 , Takayoshi Kobayashi 1,2,3,4 ;1Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan, 2 JST,ICORP, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Project, Japan, 3 Natl.Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, 4 Osaka Univ., Japan.Multicolored femtosecond pulses were generatedsimultaneously through cascade four-wave mixingin fused-silica glass. They have excellent powerstability, pulse duration, spatial model properties,and continuous tunable ability from 360nm to1.2μm suited to multi-color devices.CMGG6 • 3:00 p.m.32 Gb/s Transmission Experiments Using HighSpeed 850 nm VCSELs, Petter Westbergh 1 , JohanS. Gustavsson 1 , Åsa Haglund 1 , Anders Larsson 1 ,Friedhelm Hopfer 2 , Dieter Bimberg 2 , Andrew Joel 3 ;1Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden, 2 Inst.für Festkörperphysik, Technische Univ. Berlin,Germany, 3 IQE Europe Ltd., UK. We demonstrateerror free transmission at bit rates up to 32 Gb/sat room temperature and 25 Gb/s at 85°C using a9 μm oxide aperture 850 nm VCSEL.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 13:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Coffee Break, Concourse LevelNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. 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Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMHH • Novel Applications ofMicrostructured FilmsJohn M. Fini; OFS Labs, USA,Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.IMJ • Quantum Information IIIPresider to Be Announced3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMII • High Repetition RateCombsCurtis Menyuk; Univ. ofMaryland, Baltimore County,USA, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.IMK • NanoplasmonicWaveguides and DevicesPresider to Be AnnouncedCMHH1 • 3:45 p.m. InvitedA Chirped Photonic Crystal Fiber for High-Fidelity Guiding of Sub-100 fs Pulses, JuliaS. Skibina 1 , Rumen Iliew 2 , Jens Bethge 3 , MartinBock 3 , Dorit Fischer 3 , Valentin I. Beloglasov 4 ,Reiner Wedell 5 , Sven Burger 6 , Günter Steinmeyer 3 ;1Saratov State Univ., Russian Federation, 2 Inst. fürFestkörpertheorie und Optik, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany, 3 Max-Born-Inst., Germany,4Nanostructured Glass Technology Co., RussianFederation, 5 Inst. für Angewandte Photonike.V., Germany, 6 Zuse Inst. Berlin, Germany. Wedemonstrate a novel photonic-crystal fiberarchitecture that breaks with the paradigm oflattice homogeneity and enables a new degree offreedom in photonic-crystal-fiber design. We experimentallydemonstrate guiding of 20-fs pulsesover meter distance.IMJ1 • 3:45 p.m.Single Photon Source for an Ion Trap QuantumNetwork, Marc Almendros, Felix Rohde, CarstenSchuck, Jan Huwer, Nicolas Piro, Markus Hennrich,Francois Dubin, Jürgen Eschner; ICFO, Spain.Trapped between high numerical aperture laserobjectives, a single calcium ion is converted intoa high-efficiency source of single photons, withcontrolled coherence properties. Thereby, variousschemes to establish entanglement between remoteions are probed.IMJ2 • 4:00 p.m.A Single Ion Interacting with Single SpontaneousParametric Down-Conversion Photons,Nicolas Piro, Felix Rohde, Carsten Schuck, MarcAlmendros, Jan Huwer, Markus Hennrich, AlbrechtHaase, Morgan W. Mitchell, Francois Dubin, JürgenEschner; ICFO, Spain. We present a tunable,frequency-stabilized, narrow-bandwidth sourceof frequency-degenerate, entangled photon pairs,which can address the two D-P transitions in 40 Ca +ions. We also demonstrate single ion-single photoninteraction by the detection of quantum jumps.CMII1 • 3:45 p.m. InvitedFemtosecond Laser Frequency Comb for PrecisionAstrophysical Spectroscopy, Chih-Hao Li 1 ,Andrew J. Benedick 2 , Claire E. Cramer 1 , GuoqingChang 2 , Li-Jin Chen 2 , Peter Fendel 2 , Gabor Furesz 1 ,Alexander G. Glenday 1 , Franz X. Kaertner 2 , David F.Phillips 1 , Dimitar Sasselov 1 , Andrew Szentgyorgyi 1 ,Ronald Walsworth 1 ; 1 Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. forAstrophysics, USA, 2 MIT, USA. High-resolutionspectroscopy is a crucial tool for cosmology andthe search for extrasolar planets. We present a lasercomb with up to 40-GHz line spacing for use as anew spectrographic calibration source.IMK1 • 3:45 p.m.Surface Plasmon Enhanced Magneto-OpticIsolator, Juan Montoya 1 , Joel M. Hensley 1 , KrishnanParameswaran 1 , Mark G. Allen 1 , Rajeev J.Ram 2 ; 1 Physical Sciences Inc., USA, 2 MIT, USA.We present an integrated isolator design basedon nonreciprocal coupling into a magneto-opticsurface-plasmon waveguide that achieves an isolation>30dB with an insertion
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.IML • Frequency ConversionMartin M. Fejer; Stanford Univ.,USA, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMJJ • Optical PacketSwitchings and Novel FiberKen-ichi Kitayama; Osaka Univ.,Japan, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMKK • OptomechanicalDevicesMiloš A. Popović; MIT, USA,PresiderIML1 • 3:45 p.m.Adiabatic Sum-Frequency Conversion, Haim Suchowski1 , Dan Oron 1 , Ady Arie 2 , Yaron Silberberg 1 ;1Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel, 2 Tel Aviv Univ.,Israel. We present a novel technique to achieveboth high efficiency and broad bandwidth inSFG process using adiabatic conversion scheme,adapted from NMR and light-matter interaction.The robustness and tunability of the scheme arediscussed.CMJJ1 • 3:45 p.m. InvitedRecent Advances in Microstructured Fibersfor Power Delivery, David Richardson, MarcoPetrovich, John Hayes, Franceso Poletti, SonaliDasgupta, Xian Feng, Wei Loh, Neil Broderick;Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton,UK. We report recent advances in the developmentof fibers for the delivery of both single andheavily multimode laser beams in spectral regimesspanning the visible to mid-IR.CMKK1 • 3:45 p.m. InvitedOpto-Mechanical Oscillations in a Double-Disk Microcavity, Qiang Lin, Xiaoshun Jiang,Matt Eichenfield, Ryan Camacho, Patrick Herring,Kerry Vahala, Oskar Painter; Caltech, USA. Wedemonstrate giant opto-mechanical oscillationsin a silica double-disk where the optical gradientforce creates dramatic dynamic back action incomparison to radiation pressure.IML2 • 4:00 p.m.Broadband Two-Dimensional Multicolored ArraysGeneration in a Sapphire Plate, TakayoshiKobayashi 1,2,3,4 , Jun Liu 1,2 ; 1 Univ. of Electro-Communications,Japan, 2 JST, Intl. Cooperative Res.Project, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Project, Japan, 3 Dept.of Electrophysics, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan,4Inst. of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., Japan.Broadband two-dimensional multicolored arraywith nine periodic columns and more than tenrows was generated in a sapphire plate. The arraystructure was sensitive to the in-plane rotation ofthe sapphire plate.IML3 • 4:15 p.m. InvitedTerahertz Generation and Detection UsingFrequency Conversion, Jerry C. Chen 1 , Ka-LoYeh 2 , M. J. Khan 1 , Janos Hebling 2 , Matthias C.Hoffmann 2 , Sumanth Kaushik 1 , Keith A. Nelson 2 ;1MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, 2 MIT, USA. Terahertz isnonlinearly upconverted to telecommunicationwavelengths, resulting in detection with 4.5 pW/Hz 1/2 noise equivalent power and nanosecondtemporal resolution. Optical frequencies froman ultrashort pulse mix, generating 3 mW ofbroadband terahertz.CMJJ2 • 4:15 p.m.Fine (15 ps) ofOptical Delays Using Acousto-Optic Mixingwith a 1-pm Tunable Laser, Scott R. Nuccio, OmerF. Yilmaz, Xiaoxia Wu, Alan E. Willner; Univ. ofSouthern California, USA. We demonstrate a newtechnique for fine tuning of optical delays usingcascaded acousto-optic modulators. A 256-nsdelay with
Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMLL • Pulse ShapingFumihiko Kannari; Keio Univ.,Japan, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMMM • Cellular and MolecularTechniquesJohannes F. de Boer; Vrije Univ.,Netherlands, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMNN • Fiber Based SensingAnil Patnaik; Innovative ScientficSolutions, Inc., USA, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMOO • Novel Device Conceptsfor Solid-State LightingMary Crawford; Sandia Natl.Labs, USA, PresiderCMLL1 • 3:45 p.m.Compression of High Energy Ultrashort LaserPulses in Hollow Planar Waveguides, Selcuk Akturk1 , Cord Arnold 1 , Bing Zhou 1 , Arnaud Couairon 2 ,Michel Franco 1 , Andre Mysyrowicz 1 ; 1 Lab d’OptiqueAppliquée, École Natl. Supérieure des TechniquesAvancées, École Polytechnique, CNRS UMR, France,2Ctr. de Physique Théorique, CNRS, École Polytechnique,France. We experimentally demonstrate thathigh energy ultrashort pulses can be compressedthrough self-phase-modulation in hollow planarwaveguides. The beam is guided in one transversedimension and propagates free in other, allowingscalability to higher energies.CMMM1 • 3:45 p.m.An Optically Integrated Microfluidic CellCounter Fabricated by Femtosecond LaserAblation and Anodic Bonding, Dawn N. Schafer1 , Emily A. Gibson 2 , Evan A. Salim 2 , Amy E.Palmer 2 , Ralph Jimenez 2 , Jeff Squier 1 ; 1 ColoradoSchool of Mines, USA, 2 Univ. of Colorado, USA. Wedescribe a method for integrating fiber optics insubstrates by femtosecond laser ablation. In a firstdemonstration, we fabricate an optically integratedmicrofluidic device that counts cells by small anglelight scattering.CMNN1 • 3:45 p.m.Distributed Sensing in a Long-Length FBGBased on Synthesis of Optical Coherence Functionwith 1-kHz Sampling Rate, Koji Kajiwara,Kazuo Hotate; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Measurementof Bragg-wavelength distribution insidelong-length fiber-Bragg-grating is demonstratedwith higher sampling-speed based on synthesisof-optical-coherence-functionto realize real-timesensing. Local reflection spectrum is acquiredwith 1-kHz sampling-rate and total distribution ismeasured with 1-Hz measurement-speed.CMOO1 • 3:45 p.m. InvitedStatus and Prognosis for Solid-State LightingTechnology, Michael Krames; Philips LumiledsLighting Co., USA. Sustained improvements inepitaxial materials, device design, and packaginghave positioned light-emitting diodes (LEDs) asthe solution for future lighting needs worldwide.State-of-the-art LED performance is reviewedalong with discussion of challenges and futureoutlook.CMLL2 • 4:00 p.m.The Laser Scalpel: Controlling the Dissociationof Trapped Fluorescein Ions Using ShapedFemtosecond Pulses, Christine L. Kalcic, TissaC. Gunaratne, Marcos Dantus; Michigan StateUniv., USA. The ability of multiphoton intrapulseinterference to direct the fragmentation pathway ofprotonated gas phase fluorescein ions is exploredand monitored via ion trap mass spectrometry.CMMM2 • 4:00 p.m.Optical Torques Guide Cell Motility, GabrielBiener 1 , Emmanuel Vrotsos 2 , Kiminogu Sugaya 2 ,Aristide Dogariu 1 ; 1 CREOL, College of Optics andPhotonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA, 2 BiomolecularScience Ctr., Univ. of Central Florida, USA.Through systematic experiments and stochasticmodeling we demonstrate that cell motility canbe guided by optical torques exerted by the lightpolarization. This torque affects the actin networkwhich is responsible for cell’s movement.CMNN2 • 4:00 p.m.Bend Characteristics of Cladding Mode Resonancesin FBG and Their Applications forSimultaneous Measurement, Xuewen Shu, KateSugden, Ian Bennion; Aston Univ., UK. We reportbend-induced spectral changes in fiber Bragggratings. It is observed that asymmetric-claddingmoderesonances are significantly enhanced underbending. The discovery provides an effective newway to discriminate between bend and strain/temperature.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMLL3 • 4:15 p.m.Pulse Shaper Assisted Characterization ofSingle-Cycle Optical Pulses, Zhi-Ming Hsieh 1,2 ,Chien-Jen Lai 1,2 , Wei-Hong Liang 1,3 , Tsung-TaTang 3 , Wei-Jan Chen 1 , Ru-Pin Pan 4 , Ci-Ling Pan 3 ,A. H. Kung 1,3 ; 1 Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences,Taiwan, 2 Dept. of Physics, Natl. Taiwan Univ.,Taiwan, 3 Dept. of Photonics, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.,Taiwan, 4 Dept. of Electrophysics, Natl. Chiao TungUniv., Taiwan. Shaper-assisted autocorrelation isdeveloped to characterize single-cycle pulses. Thecorrelation signal shows significantly improvedsignal-to-noise ratio, and thus accuracy, inpulse characterization when compared to crosscorrelationobtained by splitting the spectralcomponents of the pulse.CMMM3 • 4:15 p.m.Red He-Ne Laser Exposure Enhances HydrogenPeroxide Production and Induces the “by-Stander” Effect and Modulations in MetabolicActivity in Malignant Human Brain Cancer,Darrell B. Tata, Ronald W. Waynant; Food andDrug Administration, USA. Enhanced generationof H 2 O 2 , modulations in metabolic activity, and the“by-stander” effect from malignant human braincancer cells due to red He-Ne laser exposures havebeen quantified and found to be light exposuredose dependent.CMNN3 • 4:15 p.m.Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for SimultaneousMeasurement of Multiple Parameters, Liqiu Men,Ping Lu, Qiying Chen; Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland,Canada. We propose and demonstratean approach to achieve simultaneous measurementof multiple environmental parameters by the useof multiplexed fiber Bragg gratings with coatingsof different polymers and specifications on onestandard single-mode optical fiber.CMOO2 • 4:15 p.m.Surface Plasmon Enhanced Emission fromInGaN Single-Quantum-Well Light EmittingDiodes, Arthur J. Fischer, Daniel Koleske, JoelWendt; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA. Electricallyinjected surface plasmon LEDs have been demonstratedfor InGaN light emitting diodes withemission at 460 nm. A seven times enhancementhas been observed at high currents with largerenhancements observed at lower currents.CMLL4 • 4:30 p.m.Double-Sided-Actuated Deformable Mirror forUltrafast Optics from UV to Mid-IR, StefanoBonora, Paolo Villoresi; CNR-INFM LUXOR-DEI,Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Active mirrorswith two planes of pads and capable to bedeformed bidirectionally were developed for thepulse shaping in ultrafast optics from mid-IR toUV. Influence functions were measured and agreedwith deformed-membrane model.CMMM4 • 4:30 p.m.On-Chip Sub-Cellular Resolution Whole-Animal Manipulation for High-throughputin vivo Screening, Christopher Rohde, Fei Zeng,Cody Gilleland, Chrysanthi Samara, Mehmet F.Yanik; MIT, USA. We present a suite of technologiesthat can be combined to perform complexhigh-throughput whole-animal genetic and drugscreens. When used in various combinations, thesedevices facilitate a variety of high-throughput assaysusing whole animals.CMNN4 • 4:30 p.m.Optical Time-Domain Measurement of BrillouinDynamic Grating Spectrum in a PolarizationMaintaining Fiber, Kwang Yong Song 1 , WeiwenZou 2 , Zuyuan He 2 , Kazuo Hotate 2 ; 1 Chung-AngUniv., Republic of Korea, 2 Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Wedemonstrate the distributed measurement of Brillouindynamic grating spectrum in a polarizationmaintaining fiber based on time-domain analysis.The temperature sensitivity of -370 MHz/°C isobserved with a spatial resolution of 1.5 m.CMOO3 • 4:30 p.m.Polarized Light-Emitting Diode with Its InGaN/GaN Quantum Well Coupled with SurfacePlasmons on a Metal Grating, Cheng-Yen Chen,Kun-Ching Shen, Jyh-Yang Wang, Hung-Lu Chen,Chi-Feng Huang, Yean-Woei Kiang, C. C. Yang;Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. The enhanced andpartially polarized output of a green light-emittingdiode, in which its InGaN/GaN quantum wellcouples with surface plasmons on an Ag gratingstructure, is demonstrated by comparing with theconventionally fabricated devices.74<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMPP • Novel THz SourcesWeili Zhang; Oklahoma StateUniv., USA, Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMQQ • Optical DeviceFabricationAnders Kristensen; TechnicalUniv.of Denmark, Denmark,Presider3:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.CMRR • VCSELs IIKent Choquette; Univ. of Illinois,USA, PresiderCMPP1 • 3:45 p.m.Effect and Elimination of Source Position Shiftingin Two-Color Plasma Terahertz Sources,François Blanchard, Gargi Sharma, Xavier Ropagnol,Luca Razzari, Roberto Morandotti, TsuneyukiOzaki; Univ. du Québec, Canada. We report on animproved and robust scheme for the generationof terahertz (THz) waves via a two-color plasmasource, based on the use of an off-axis parabolicmirror.CMQQ1 • 3:45 p.m.Uni-Traveling Carrier Phototransistor, JunghwanKim 1 , Subramaniam Kanakaraju 1 , WilliamB. Johnson 2 , Chi H. Lee 1 ; 1 Univ. of Maryland, USA,2Lab for Physical Sciences, Univ. of Maryland,USA. We propose a novel phototransistor usinguni-traveling carrier photodiode structure in baseand collector layer and obtained RF optical gainof 29dB at 1GHz and 9dB at 20GHz in 10μm by10μm optical window device.CMRR1 • 3:45 p.m.8 mW Fundamental Mode Output of Wafer-Fused VCSELs Emitting in the 1550-nm Band,Andrei Caliman 1 , Vladimir Iakovlev 2 , AlexandruMereuta 1 , Alexei Sirbu 1 , Grigore Suruceanu 2 , EliKapon 1,2 ; 1 Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, EPFL,Switzerland, 2 BeamExpress S.A., Switzerland.Record fundamental mode output power of8mW at 0ºC and 6.5mW at room temperature isachieved with wafer-fused VCSELs incorporatingregrown tunnel junction and emitting at the1550nm waveband.CMPP2 • 4:00 p.m.Coherent Control of the Polarization of UltrafastTerahertz Pulses, Haidan Wen 1 , Aaron M.Lindenberg 2 ; 1 PULSE Inst., SLAC Natl. AcceleratorLab, USA, 2 Stanford Univ., USA. The polarizationof ultrafast terahertz pulses generated in a laserinduced plasma can be controlled by the relativephase of the fundamental and the second harmonicoptical fields.CMQQ2 • 4:00 p.m.Photovoltaic Detectors Fabricated by DirectImprinting of Mercury Cadmium Telluride,Mariusz Martyniuk 1 , Richard H. Sewell 1 , RyanWesterhout 1 , Charles A. Musca 1 , John M. Dell 1 ,Jarek Antoszewski 1 , Laurie Faraone 1 , Douglas S.Macintyre 2 , Stephen Thoms 2 , Charles N. Ironside 2 ;1Univ. of Western Australia, Australia, 2 Univ. ofGlasgow, UK. This is the first report of photovoltaicdetectors fabricated by direct imprinting of a semiconductor.Evidence is reported that is consistentwith the indented region of p-type HgCdTe typeconverted to n-type HgCdTe.CMRR2 • 4:00 p.m.1.3- μm Wavelength Coupled VCSEL ArraysEmploying Patterned Tunnel Junction, LukasMutter 1 , Vladimir Iakovlev 2 , Andrei Caliman 1 ,Alexandru Mereuta 1 , Alexei Sirbu 1 , Eli Kapon 1,2 ;1Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland,2BeamExpress SA, Switzerland. Using tunneljunction patterning and double wafer fusion, wedemonstrate phase-locked arrays of VCSELs emittingat the 1300-nm waveband. CW powers as highas 10-mW and coherent beams are demonstratedfor various array configurations.CMPP3 • 4:15 p.m.How Filament-Induced Birefringence Affectsthe THz Generation from the Filament in Air,Yanping Chen 1 , Claude Marceau 1 , Weiwei Liu 2 ,Francis Théberge 3 , Marc Châteauneuf 3 , JacquesDubois 3 , See Leang Chin 1 ; 1 Univ. Laval, Canada,2Nankai Univ., China, 3 Defence Res. and DevelopmentCanada-Valcartier, Canada. A femtosecondlaser filament can induce birefringence in anisotropic medium. This birefringence leadsto the generation of elliptically polarized THzpulses emitting from a single-color/two-colorfilament in air.CMQQ3 • 4:15 p.m.Inversion of 3-Dimensional Polymer PhotonicCrystal Fabricated by Diffractive Optics LaserLithography, Debashis Chanda, Nicole Zachari,Moez Haque, Liang Yuan, Mi Li Ng, Peter Herman;Univ. of Toronto, Canada. Three-dimensionalphotonic crystal templates fabricated in polymerby single-step laser exposure through a 2-D diffractiveoptical element have been inverted in silicato provide robust structures with strong photonicstopbands in the telecom band.CMRR3 • 4:15 p.m.Long-Wavelength VCSEL Arrays with PartlyCoherent Emission, Werner H. Hofmann 1 , MarkusGörblich 1 , Gerhard Böhm 1 , Markus Ortsiefer 2 ,Markus-Christian Amann 1 ; 1 Walter Schottky Inst.,Technische Univ. München, Germany, 2 VERTILASGmbH, Germany. We present a monolithicallyintegrated, InP-based 2-D long-wavelength VC-SEL array with coupling near fields. These lasers,utilizing a buried tunnel junction for currentconfinement, show partly coherent emission at1.55 µm wavelength.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMPP4 • 4:30 p.m.Record-High Powers for Narrowband BackwardTerahertz Generation from Periodically-PoledLithium Niobate, Guibao Xu 1 , Xiaodong Mu 1 ,Yujie J. Ding 1 , Ioulia B. Zotova 2 ; 1 Lehigh Univ., USA,2ArkLight, USA. We have generated the backwardterahertz pulses with record-high average powersof 2.3-11 µW and narrowest bandwidth of6 GHz from multi-grating periodically-poledlithium niobate by optical rectification at roomtemperature.CMQQ4 • 4:30 p.m.Phase Tunable Holographic Lithography Usinga Single Optical Element, Di Xu 1 , Kevin P. Chen 1 ,Ahmad Harb 2 , Daniel Rodriguez 2 , Karen Lozano 2 ,Yuankun Lin 2 ; 1 Dept. of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, 2 College ofScience and Engineering, Univ. of Texas-Pan American,USA. This paper presents the holographicfabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystaltemplates by forming a five beam interference patternusing a top-cut prism. The interconnectingof the multi-layer structures was controlled byphase-tuning one interfering beam.CMRR4 • 4:30 p.m.Uniform High Bandwidth, High CW PowerVCSEL Arrays, Rashid Safaisini 1 , John R. Joseph 1 ,Gerard Dang 2 , Kevin L. Lear 1 ; 1 Colorado StateUniv., USA, 2 ARL, USA. A high bandwidth, highpower, 980 nm vertical-cavity surface-emittinglaser (VCSEL) array with 3dB frequency responseover 7.5 GHz and continuous wave (CW) powerof greater than 120 mW at room temperatureis reported.Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.75
Rooms 318-320 Rooms 321-323 Rooms 324-326 Room 314<strong>CLEO</strong>IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IQECCMHH • Novel Applicationsof Microstructured Films—ContinuedIMJ • Quantum Information III—ContinuedCMII • High Repetition RateCombs—ContinuedIMK • NanoplasmonicWaveguides and Devices—ContinuedCMHH4 • 4:45 p.m.Colorful Photonic Band Gap Fiber-BasedTextiles, Bertrand Gauvreau 1 , Ning Guo 1 , KathyShicker 2 , Karen Stoeffler 1 , F. Boismenu 1 , AbdellahAjji 3 , Charles Dubois 1 , Maksim Skorobogatiy 1 ;1École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, 2 Univ.of the Arts, UK, 3 Industrial Materials Inst., Canada.Polymer Bragg fiber-enabled, color changingphotonic textiles are demonstrated. Such textilesshow intrinsic and uniform lateral light extractionand evolutive visuals using both passive and activecolor control.CMII4 • 4:45 p.m.Frequency Stabilized Mode-Locked Laserwith 1000 Finesse Intracavity Etalon, IbrahimT. Ozdur, Sarper Ozharar, Mehmetcan Akbulut,Franklyn Quinlan, Dimitrios Mandridis, PeterJ. Delfyett; CREOL and FPCE, College of Opticsand Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA. Alow noise, frequency stabilized, semiconductorbased, 10.287 GHz mode-locked laser with 1000finesse intracavity etalon is demonstrated with atiming jitter (1Hz-100MHz) of 10.9 fs and opticalfrequency fluctuations less than 150 kHz.IMK5 • 4:45 p.m.Practical Limits of Absorption Enhancementnear Metal Nanoparticles, Greg Sun 1 , Jacob B.Khurgin 2 ; 1 Univ. of Massachusetts at Boston, USA,2Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. We study the enhancedabsorption of optical radiation by moleculesplaced near metal nano-particles that includesperturbation of the optical field and show that theenhancement is strong only for relatively weak anddiluted absorbers.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMHH5 • 5:00 p.m.All-Fiber Laser Cavity Dumping, Zhangwei Yu 1,2 ,Walter Margulis 1,2 , Oleksandr Tarasenko 2 , MickeMalmström 1,2 ; 1 Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden,2Acreo AB, Sweden. Cavity dumping of a fiber laseris demonstrated. A microstructured fiber with anelectrically driven internal electrode is used forintracavity polarization rotation with nanosecondrisetime. The optical flux can be dumped withinone roundtrip.CMHH6 • 5:15 p.m.Mode Structure of Large Mode Area All-SolidPhotonic Bandgap Fiber, Sergei L. Semjonov 1 ,Olga N. Egorova 1 , Andrew D. Pryamikov 1 , DmitryA. Gaponov 1 , Alexander S. Biriukov 1 , EvgenyM. Dianov 1 , Mikhail Y. Salganskii 2 , Vladimir F.Khopin 2 , Alexey N. Guryanov 2 ; 1 Fiber Optics Res.Ctr., Russian Federation, 2 Inst. of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Federation. We analyzeoptical properties of all-silica photonic bandgapfibers with an ultra low ratio of the cladding rodsdiameter to the center-to-center distance. Opticalproperties similar to those of LMA holey fibersare revealed.Philippe Grangier’s research activities began in1980 about the realization of experimental tests ofBell’s inequalities, under the direction of Alain Aspect.He then worked on the generation of singlephotonstates (1986), squeezed-light-enhancedinterferometer and pulsed squeezed light (1987),quantum non-demolition (QND) measurementsin optics (1991-1998), and reducing the quantumnoise of semiconductor lasers (1995-1999). Inthe last few years, his research has been centeredon Quantum Information Processing and Communications,such as the implementation of newprotocols for quantum key distribution, and themanipulation of individual atoms in microscopicdipole traps (optical tweezers). Philippe Grangieris author or co-author of about 150 publicationsin international journals. He has been involvedin many European projects or networks in thedomains of Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationProcessing, and he is presently coordinatorof the large scale European Integrated ProjectSCALA (Scalable Quantum Computing with Lightand Atoms, 2005-<strong>2009</strong>).CMII5 • 5:00 p.m.Low Finesse Fabry-Perot Cavities for WideSpaced Frequency Combs with Large SpectralBandwidth, Tilo Steinmetz 1 , Tobias Wilken 1 ,Ronald Holzwarth 1 , Theodor W. Hänsch 1 , ThomasUdem 1 , Constanza Araujo-Hauck 2 ; 1 Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany, 2 EuropeanSouthern Observatory, Germany. We use lowfinesseFabry-Perot-cavities in series to generatefrequency-combs with large mode spacingby simultaneously maintaining high spectralbandwidth. The suppression of the neighboringfundamental mode of the frequency comb exceeds70dB for 5GHz cavities.CMII6 • 5:15 p.m.High Dynamic Range Optical System for DirectDetection of Exo-Planets by UnbalancedNulling Interferometer and Adaptive Optics,Kaito Yokochi 1 , Jun Nishikawa 2 , Naoshi Murakami 2 ,Lyu Abe 3 , Takayuki Kotani 4 , Motohide Tamura 2 ,Alexander V. Tavrov 5 , Mitsuo Takeda 6 , TakashiKurokawa 1 ; 1 Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology,Japan, 2 Natl. Astronomical Observatoryof Japan, Japan, 3 Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,France, 4 Observatoire de Paris, France, 5 Space Res.Inst. RAS, Russian Federation, 6 Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan. We demonstrated amagnification of a wavefront aberration by anunbalanced nulling interferometer, and correctionof the aberration by the phase amplitude correctionfor precise wavefront correction beyond anadaptive optics performance limit.IMK6 • 5:00 p.m.Ultrashort Optical Pulse Propagation in MetalNanoparticle Covered Dielectric Surfaces, JessM. Gunn, Scott H. High, Vadim V. Lozovoy, MarcosDantus; Michigan State Univ., USA. We characterizethe behavior of optical pulse propagation insurfaces covered with silver metal nanoparticlesand quantify the dispersion introduced as thepulse propagates.IMK7 • 5:15 p.m.Giant Modal Gain in a Metal-SemiconductorWaveguide, Debin Li, Cun-Zheng Ning; ArizonaState Univ., USA. We show that a giant modal gainis achievable near surface plasmon resonance forguided modes in a metal-semiconductor-metalplasmonic waveguide. The giant gain is shownto originate from a reduction of average energyvelocity.6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. <strong>CLEO</strong> Plenary Session, Baltimore Convention Center, Ballrooms III-IVNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________76<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 315 Room 316 Room 317IQEC<strong>CLEO</strong>IML • Frequency Conversion—ContinuedCMJJ • Optical PacketSwitchings and Novel Fiber—ContinuedCMKK • OptomechanicalDevices—ContinuedIML4 • 4:45 p.m.Observation of Strong Second Harmonic Generationfrom a Single Wurtzite GaAs Nanoneedle,Shanna Crankshaw 1 , Roger Chen 1 , Matthias Kuntz 1 ,Linus C. Chuang 1 , Michael Moewe 1 , James Schuck 2 ,Connie Chang-Hasnain 1 ; 1 Univ. of California atBerkeley, USA, 2 Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA.We demonstrate second harmonic generation froma single GaAs nanoneedle with a wurtzite crystalstructure. The optical anisotropy of the polar crystalresults in strong nonlinear optical conversioncompared to normal zincblende GaAs.CMJJ4 • 4:45 p.m.Packet Compression from a 10-Gb/s to 270-Gb/sUsing a Temporal Telescopic System, Mark A.Foster, Reza Salem, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Amy C.Turner-Foster, Michal Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta;Cornell Univ., USA. We demonstrate compressionof 24-bit 10-Gb/s NRZ data packets to 270Gb/s using a temporal telescopic system. Thistechnique’s versatility allows format-transparentcompression of packets (i.e. NRZ, RZ, DPSK) andanalog waveforms by arbitrary factors.CMKK4 • 4:45 p.m.Cryogenic Properties of Optomechanical SilicaMicrocavities, Olivier Arcizet 1 , Rémi Rivière 1 ,Albert Schliesser 1 , G. Anetsberger 1 , Tobias JanKippenberg 1,2 ; 1 Max-Planck-Inst. for QuantumOptics, Germany, 2 École Polytechnique Fédérale deLausanne, Switzerland. We expose cryogenic (1.6K) optomechanical properties of high-Q toroidalsilica microcavities. A thermally induced opticalmultistability and the influence of structuraldefects of amorphous materials on phonon propagationare described.IML5 • 5:00 p.m.Second-Harmonic Generation from SingleCore-Shell CdTe/CdS Quantum Dots, MarcinZielinski 1 , Dan Oron 2 , Dominique Chauvat 1 , JosephZyss 1 ; 1 Lab de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire,École Normal Supérieure de Cachan, France,2Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. We observedsecond harmonic generation from semiconductingCdTe/CdS nanocrystals with a diameter below 15nm. Their submicron size, high nonlinearity andorientation sensitive SHG response are adaptedfor ultrafast, high resolution probing of opticalnear-fields.CMJJ5 • 5:00 p.m.Frequency Swapping Using an Optical Switchwith Embedded Mach-Zehnder Structuresfor Wavelength-Converted Optical SignalRouting without Lightsources, Akito Chiba 1 ,Takahide Sakamoto 1 , Tetsuya Kawanishi 1 , KaoruHiguma 2 , Masayuki Izutsu 3 ; 1 NICT, Japan, 2 NewTechnology Res. Labs, Sumitomo Osaka CementCo., Ltd., Japan, 3 Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan.We proposed and experimentally investigated afrequency swapping technique for two lightwavesby using a LiNbO 3 optical switch where onlyMach-Zehnder structures were nested. 10-GHzopposite frequency shifts for two lightwaves weresuccessfully obtained.CMKK5 • 5:00 p.m.Large Optical Springs in Picogram-Scale OptomechanicalOscillators, Matt Eichenfield, Ryan M.Camacho, Jasper Chan, Oskar J. Painter; Caltech,USA. We experimentally demonstrate a picogramscaleoptomechanical system that increases itsmechanical rigidity by more than 5x with theapplication of mW-level optical power. We discussthe theory and fabrication, making comparisonsto existing optomechanical systems.IML6 • 5:15 p.m.Highly-Efficient Second Harmonic Generationin ZnO Nanorods with Ultrashort Pulses, SusantaK. Das 1 , Martin Bock 1 , Christopher O’Neill 1 ,Rüdiger Grunwald 1 , Kyung M. Lee 2 , Hwang W. Lee 2 ,Soonil Lee 2 , Fabian Rotermund 2 ; 1 Max-Born-Inst.,Germany, 2 Ajou Univ., Republic of Korea. Angularlyand spectrally resolved second harmonic studiesfor c-axis ZnO nanorods are reported. 7.5 timeshigher efficiency than for BBO was found at 55GW/cm 2 at Ti:sapphire laser oscillator wavelengths.Spectral profiles agree with simulations.CMJJ6 • 5:15 p.m.40 Gb/s Buffered 2x2 Optical Packet SwitchingUsing Photonic Integrated Circuits, John P.Mack, Kimchau N. Nguyen, Matt. M. Dummer,Emily F. Burmeister, Henrik N. Poulsen, BiljanaStamenic, Geza Kurczveil, John E. Bowers, Larry A.Coldren, Daniel J. Blumenthal; Univ. of Californiaat Santa Barbara, USA. Contention resolutionand forwarding of labeled optical packets at40 Gb/s is demonstrated utilizing multiple InPbased optical buffers and monolithic wavelengthconverters. Layer-2 packet recovery measurementsare presented.CMKK6 • 5:15 p.m.Cavity Optomechanics with Crystalline WhisperingGallery Mode Resonators, JohannesHofer 1 , Albert Schliesser 1 , Tobias Kippenberg 1,2 ;1Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany,2École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.We investigate the optomechanical propertiesof a high-Q CaF 2 whispering gallery moderesonator. Mechanical modes with quality factorsup to 135,000 are observed, optically probed andcompared to simulation.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 16:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. <strong>CLEO</strong> Plenary Session, Baltimore Convention Center, Ballrooms III-IVNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. 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Room 336 Room 337 Room 338 Room 339<strong>CLEO</strong>CMLL • Pulse Shaping—ContinuedCMMM • Cellular and MolecularTechniques—ContinuedCMNN • Fiber Based Sensing—ContinuedCMOO • Novel Device Conceptsfor Solid-State Lighting—ContinuedCMLL5 • 4:45 p.m.Time-to-Space Mapping System Using DoubleElectro-Optic Deflectors Fabricated on a SingleLiTaO 3 Substrate with “U” Shaped MicrostripLine, Shintaro Hisatake, Keiji Tada, Tadao Nagatsuma;Osaka Univ., Japan. We demonstrate 2ps temporal resolution of time-to-space mappingusing double quasi-velocity-matched electroopticdeflectors operating at 16 GHz repetitionfrequency. Deflectors were fabricated on a singlestoichiometric LiTaO 3 substrate with “U” shapedmodulation microstrip line.CMMM5 • 4:45 p.m.Optical Control of Neural Activity by WaveguideDelivery in Genetically Targeted Brain Tissue,Jiayi Q. Zhang 1 , Farah Laiwalla 1 , Jennifer Kim 1 , RickVan Wagenen 2 , Yoon-Kyu Song 1 , Barry Connors 1 ,Arto V. Nurmikko 1 ; 1 Brown Univ., USA, 2 BlackrockMicrosystems, USA. Genetically targeted neuronsin brain expressing light sensitive channel Channelrhodopsincan be stimulated optically. We reporta novel optical waveguide probe for simultaneousoptical stimulation and electrical recording of neuronsto modulate neural network behavior.CMNN5 • 4:45 p.m.Realization of High-Speed Distributed SensingBased on Brillouin Optical Correlation DomainAnalysis, Weiwen Zou, Zuyuan He, KazuoHotate; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. A novel method isproposed to demodulate the output of the BOCDAsystem using an analog signal processing unit. Inexperiment, we realize ~20-Hz distributed sensingover the entire 50-m fiber with 5-cm spatialresolution.CMOO4 • 4:45 p.m.Growths of Staggered InGaN Quantum WellsLight-Emitting Diodes Emitting at 520-525 nmEmploying Graded-Temperature Profile, HongpingZhao, Guangyu Liu, Xiaohang Li, G.S. Huang,Samson Tafon Penn, Volkmar Dierolf, Nelson Tansu;Lehigh Univ., USA. The use of three-layer staggeredInGaN quantum wells light-emitting diodes at520-525 nm, grown by metal-organic chemicalvapor deposition with graded-temperature profile,resulted in increase in efficiency and outputpower by 2-times.CMLL6 • 5:00 p.m.Kilohertz Tunable Dispersion Compensationwith a Bimorph Piezo Deformable Mirror,Michael E. Durst, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA.We present a new technique for dispersion compensationwith >10 5 fs 2 range and kilohertz tuningspeed, enabling high-speed focal plane scanningof two-photon excited fluorescence in a temporalfocusing setup.CMMM6 • 5:00 p.m.Laser Heated Nanodroplet PCR on a Petri Dish,Hanyoup Kim, Siarhei Vishniakou, Gregory W.Faris; SRI Intl., USA. We report the developmentof a real-time PCR system driven solely by laserheating with nanoliter droplets on a polystyrenePetri dish.CMNN6 • 5:00 p.m.Stable Entire-Length Measurement of FiberStrain Distribution by Brillouin OpticalCorrelation-Domain Reflectometry Based onPolarization Scrambling Scheme, Yosuke Mizuno,Zuyuan He, Kazuo Hotate; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.We demonstrate stable entire-length measurementof fiber strain distribution by suppressingfluctuation of Brillouin gain spectrum based onpolarization scrambling scheme. Strain distributionalong 100-m fiber was measured with 40-cmresolution and 19-Hz sampling rate.CMOO5 • 5:00 p.m.GaN-Based Film-Transferred Light-EmittingDiodes with Photonic Crystal, Chun-Feng Lai 1 ,Jim-Yong Chi 2,3 , Chia-Hsin Chao 3 , Chia-En Lee 1 ,Hao-Chung Kuo 1 , Chen-Yang Huang 3 , Wen-YungYeh 3 , Tien-Chang Lu 1 ; 1 Dept. of Photonics and Inst.of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Chiao-TungUniv., Taiwan, 2 Inst. of Optoelectronic Engineering,Natl. Dong-Hwa Univ., Taiwan, 3 Electronics andOptoelectronics Res. Labs, Industrial TechnologyRes. Inst., Taiwan. Experimental investigation ofA-type and B-type guided modes was performedin GaN-based film-transferred photonic crystallight-emitting diodes. Good agreement with theband structure calculated in the limit of twodimensionalfree photon was obtained.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 1CMLL7 • 5:15 p.m.Single-Grating and Single-Grism Pulse Compressors,Vikrant K. Chauhan, Pamela Bowlan,Jacob Cohen, Rick Trebino; Georgia Tech, USA. Weintroduce single-grating and single-grism pulsecompressors, which are compact and automaticallyaligned for distortion-free output, and the latterof which compensates for significant materialdispersion up to third order.CMMM7 • 5:15 p.m.Label-Free Optical Detection of BiomolecularReaction Kinetics in Microarray Format forHigh-throughput Screening Applications,Yung-Shin Sun 1 , James P. Landry 1 , Yiyan Fei 1 ,Juntao Luo 2 , Kit S. Lam 2 , Xiangdong Zhu 1 ; 1 Dept.of Physics, Univ. of California at Davis, USA, 2 Div.of Hematology and Oncology, Dept. of InternalMedicine, Univ. of California at Davis, USA. Usinga combination of an oblique-incidence reflectivitydifference (OI-RD) scanning microscope and acustomized 8-chamber sample cartridge, we detect300 surface-immobilized molecular targets reactingwith up to 8 different analytes simultaneouslyon a single slide.CMNN7 • 5:15 p.m.Functionalized Fiber Optic Devices for SurfaceEnhanced Raman Scattering Detection andOptical Trapping, Elizabeth J. Smythe, MichaelD. Dickey, Ethan Schonbrun, Kenneth B. Crozier,George M. Whitesides, Federico Capasso; HarvardUniv., USA. This work demonstrates two fiberoptic devices: one device detects in situ surfaceenhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from remoteanalytes, and the other is designed to performthree-dimensional trapping of small particles.CMOO6 • 5:15 p.m.The Use of Polydimethylsiloxane ConcaveMicrostructures Arrays to Enhance Light ExtractionEfficiency of InGaN Quantum WellsLight-Emitting Diodes, Yik-Khoon Ee, PisistKumnorkaew, Ronald A. Arif, Hua Tong, James F.Gilchrist, Nelson Tansu; Lehigh Univ., USA. Novelapproach to improve light extraction efficiencyof InGaN-based light emitting diodes with polydimethylsiloxaneconcave microstructures arrayswas demonstrated, which leads to enhancementof extraction efficiency by 1.60-times in goodagreement with simulation.6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. <strong>CLEO</strong> Plenary Session, Baltimore Convention Center, Ballrooms III-IVNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________78<strong>CLEO</strong>/IQEC and PhotonXpo <strong>2009</strong> • May 31–<strong>June</strong> 5, <strong>2009</strong>
Room 340 Room 341 Rooms 328-329<strong>CLEO</strong>CMPP • Novel THz Sources—ContinuedCMQQ • Optical DeviceFabrication—ContinuedCMRR • VCSELs II—ContinuedCMPP5 • 4:45 p.m.Pump Beam Recycling for an Enhancement ofthe Output Power of Terahertz-Wave ParametricOscillator, Tomofumi Ikari 1 , Hiromasa Ito 1 , DongHo Wu 2 ; 1 RIKEN Sendai, Japan, 2 NRL, USA.We have implemented a recycled pump beamtechnique on a terahertz parametric oscillator(TPO). The TPO with a recycled beam producesa terahertz beam that is several times stronger thanthat of the conventional TPO.CMQQ5 • 4:45 p.m.Fabrication of Antireflection Nanostructures onGaAs by Holographic Lithography for DeviceApplications, Young Min Song 1 , Si Young Bae 1 , JaeSu Yu 2 , Yong Tak Lee 1 ; 1 Gwangju Inst. of Science andTechnology, Republic of Korea, 2 Kyung Hee Univ.,Republic of Korea. We demonstrate the fabricationof antireflection nanostructures on GaAs usingholographic lithography. Measured results are ingood agreement with the calculated values using aRCWA, effectively suppressing the surface reflectionover visible and near-infrared ranges.CMRR5 • 4:45 p.m.Optically-Pumped Circularly-Polarized Lasingin a (110)-Oriented VCSEL Based on InGaAs/GaAs QWs, Hiroshi Fujino, Satoshi Iba, ToshiyasuFujimoto, Shinji Koh, Hitoshi Kawaguchi; Nara Inst.of Science and Technology, Japan. We demonstratedcircularly-polarized lasing in a (110)-orientedVCSEL based on InGaAs/GaAs QWs by opticalpumping for the first time. High degree of circularlypolarization (0.94) was achieved reflectinglong spin relaxation times in (110) QWs.CMPP6 • 5:00 p.m.Broadband and High Power Monocycle TerahertzPulse Generation by χ (2) Cascaded Processesin LiNbO 3 , Mukesh Jewariya 1 , Masaya Nagai 1,2 ,Yuki Ichikawa 3 , Hideyuki Ohtake 3 , Toshiharu Sugiura3 , Yuzuru Uehara 3 , Koichiro Tanaka 1,4 ; 1 Dept.of Physics, Kyoto Univ., Japan, 2 JST, Japan, 3 AisinSeiki Co., Ltd., Japan, 4 Inst. for Integrated Cell-Material Science, Kyoto Univ., Japan. We proposea novel technique for the generation of high powermonocycle terahertz pulse beyond excitation pulsewidth limitation. When intense THz electric fieldgenerated by optical rectification lies in EO crystal,optical pulse gets modulated.CMQQ6 • 5:00 p.m.Plasmonic-Coupled Nanostructure for ImprovedSurface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing,Haiping Matthew Chen, Lin Pang, YeshaiahuFainman; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA. Athree-dimensional (3-D) composite nanostructurewith enhanced normal electrical field is simulatedand fabricated for surface plasmon resonance(SPR) biosensing. The device is used to measurespecific binding events of different proteins.CMRR6 • 5:00 p.m.Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Spin-PolarizedVertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Devices,Nils C. Gerhardt 1 , Stephan Hoevel 1 , Mingyuan Li 1 ,Hendrik Jaehme 1 , Martin R. Hofmann 1 , ThorstenAckemann 2 , Andrea Kroner 3 , Rainer Michalzik 3 ;1Photonics and Terahertz Technology, Ruhr-Univ.Bochum, Germany, 2 Dept. of Physics, Univ. ofStrathclyde, UK, 3 Inst. for Optoelectronics, Univ.of Ulm, Germany. Spin-polarized lasers offer newencouraging possibilities for future devices. Wecompare time-resolved luminescence measurementswith theoretical models for spin dynamicsin spin-polarized lasers and demonstrate ultrafastpolarization switching during one short singlemodelaser pulse.CMPP7 • 5:15 p.m.Enhancement of Room-Temperature TerahertzEmission from a Double Grating-Gate Plasmon-Resonant Emitter, A. El Fatimy, Y. Tsuda, T. Komori,A. El Moutaouakil, H. Horiike, T. Suemitsu,T. Otsuji; Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication,Tohoku Univ., Japan. Terahertz photomixing inPlasmon-resonant emitter was investigated. Theself-oscillation excited by a dc-current (around2THz), was reinforced by the differentialfrequencyexcitation (2.2THz), resulting in theemission enhancement. This indicates a possibilityof injection-locked oscillation.CMQQ7 • 5:15 p.m.Ultra-Smooth Lithium Niobate Single CrystalPhotonic Micro-Structures, Sakellaris Mailis 1 ,Yongjun J. Ying 1 , Collin L. Sones 1 , Anna C. Peacock 1 ,Florian Johann 2 , Elisabeth Soergel 2 , Robert W. Eason1 , Mikhail N. Zervas 1 ; 1 Optoelectronics Res. Ctr.,Univ. of Southampton, UK, 2 Inst. of Physics, Univ.of Bonn, Germany. Thermal treatment of microstructuredlithium niobate, at temperatures closeto the Curie point, induces preferential surfacemelting and re-crystallization. This process yieldsultra-smooth single crystal superstructures suitablefor fabrication of low scattering loss photonicmicro-components.CMRR7 • 5:15 p.m.Red and UV Generation Using Frequency-Converted GaInNAs-Based Semiconductor DiskLaser, Jussi Rautiainen, Antti Härkönen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Janne Puustinen, Lasse Orsila,Mircea Guina, Oleg Okhotnikov; OptoelectronicsRes. Ctr., Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.We report on the intracavity frequency-doublingof a GaInNAs/GaAs disk laser. The laser operatedat 1220 nm and delivered 4.6 W of power at ~610nm. The red emission was further frequencydoubledto 305 nm.<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>June</strong> 16:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. <strong>CLEO</strong> Plenary Session, Baltimore Convention Center, Ballrooms III-IVNOTES________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.79
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