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OPTICS PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Index

• Biomedical Applications
• Fiber Optics
• Image Processing
• Ultrafast Optical Phenomena
• General Optics
• Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
• Semiconductor Lasers and Devices

Submissions

• M. J. Piket-May, A. Taflove, J. Troy, "Electrodynamics of Visible-Light Interactions with the Vertebrate Retinal Rod," Optics Letters, vol. 18, pp. 568-570, 1993.

• W. L. Kath and T. Ueda, "Dynamics of coupled solitons in nonlinear optical fibers," Physical Review A, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 563-571, 1990.

• W. L. Kath and D. J. Muraki, "Hamiltonian dynamics of solitons in optical fibers," Physica D, vol. 48, pp. 53-64, 1991.

• W. L. Kath and T. Ueda, "Dynamics of pulses in randomly birefringent nonlinear optical fibers," Physica D, vol. 55, pp. 166-181, 1992.

• W. L. Kath, Prem Kumar, J. Nathan Kutz, and Ruo-Ding Li, "Phase sensitive amplifiers for ultra-long distance soliton propagation," Optics and Photonics News, (part of "Optics in 1993", a collection of articles selected each year to highlight principal advances in optics), vol. 4, no. 12, 1993.

• W. L. Kath, Antonio Mecozzi, Prem Kumar, and Christopher G. Goedde, "Long-term storage of a soliton bit stream using phase-sensitive amplification," Optics Letters, vol. 19, pp. 2050-2052, 1994. Postscript version.

• G. Bartolini, R.-D. Li, P. Kumar, W. Riha, and K. V. Reddy, "1.5 micron phase-sensitive amplifier for ultrahigh-speed communications," Optical Fiber Communications Conference, Vol. 4 of OSA Technical Digest Series, pp. 202-203, 1994.

• W. L. Kath, Christopher G. Goedde and Prem Kumar, "Compensation of the soliton self-frequency shift with phase-sensitive amplifiers," Optics Letters, vol. 19, pp. 2077-2079, 1994. Postscript version.

• W. L. Kath, Ruo-Ding Li, and Prem Kumar, "Dispersion compensation with phase-sensitive amplifiers," J. of Lightwave Technology, vol. 12, pp. 541-549, 1994.

• W. L. Kath, J. Nathan Kutz, Cheryl V. Hile, Ruo-Ding Li and Prem Kumar, "Pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fiber-lines that employ phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 11, pp. 2112-2123, 1994. Postscript version.

• W. L. Kath and Noel F. Smyth, "Soliton evolution and radiation loss for the Korteweg-de Vries equation," Physical Review E, vol. 51, pp. 661-670, 1995.

• G. D. Bartolini, D. K. Serkland, P. Kumar, and W. L. Kath, "Experiments on soliton pulse storage using phase-sensitive amplification," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1996. Abstract (paper MP3)

• D. K. Serkland, G. D. Bartolini, P. Kumar, W. L. Kath, and A. V. Sahakian, "Rate doubling of a highly-stable soliton source," to be presented at Optical Fiber Communications Conference, Feb. 1997.

• D. Gerwe, M. Plonus, and B. Elsebelgy, "Long Exposure Imaging through Weak Turbulence," SPIE Proceedings on Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Random Phenomena, vol. 2580, p. 258, 1995. Abstract.

• B. Elsebelgy, M. Plonus and D. Gerwe, "Double Passage Imaging Through a Random Phase Screen Using Coherent Illumination," SPIE Proceedings on Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Random Phenomena, vol. 2580, p. 213, 1995.

• D. Gerwe, M. Plonus and B. Elsebelgy, "Speckle Imaging of Coherent Sources", SPIE Proceedings on Laser Radar and Applications, vol. 2748, p. 226, 1996.

• R. M. Joseph, S. C. Hagness, and A. Taflove, "Direct Time Integration of Maxwell's Equations in Linear Dispersive Media with Absorption for Scattering and Propagation of Femtosecond Electromagnetic Pulses," Optics Letters, vol. 16, pp. 1412-1414, 1991.

• D. Rafizadeh and D. O. Caplan, "Optics in the Fishtank," invited paper, Optics and Photonics News, May 1995. HTML version.

• P. M. Goorjian and A. Taflove, "Direct Time Integration of Maxwell's Equations in Nonlinear Dispersive Media for Propagation and Scattering of Femtosecond Electromagnetic Solitons," Optics Letters, vol. 17, pp. 180-182, 1992.

• P. M. Goorjian, A. Taflove, R. M. Joseph, and S. C. Hagness, "Computational Modeling of Femtosecond Optical Solitons from Maxwell's Equations," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 28, pp. 2416-2422, 1992.

• R. M. Joseph, P. M. Goorjian, and A. Taflove, "Direct Time Integration of Maxwell's Equations in Two-Dimensional Dielectric Waveguides for Propagation and Scattering of Femtosecond Electromagnetic Solitons," Optics Letters, vol. 18, pp. 491-493, 1993.

• D. O. Caplan and P. Kumar, "Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Noise Measurements in Semiconductors," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, Oct. 1994. Abstract.

• R. M. Joseph and A. Taflove, "Spatial Soliton Deflection Mechanism Indicated by FD-TD Maxwell's Equations Modeling," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1251-1254, 1994.

• D. O. Caplan and P. Kumar, "Optical Phase Conjugation with Gain in Bulk Semiconductor", in SPIE Optical Engineering Midwest '95, vol. 2622, pp. 244-253, Aug. 1995. Postscript version.

• D. O. Caplan, G. Kanter, and P. Kumar, "Technique for measuring time-dependent optical nonlinearities using continuous time-resolved Z-scan," presented at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), Anaheim, CA, June 1996. Abstract.

• R.P. Espindola, M.K. Udo, D.Y. Chu, S.L. Wu, and S.T. Ho, "Novel Single-Pass, Pulse-Delayed Scheme for Degenerate Optical Parametric Amplification in X(3) Waveguides," Optics Letters, vol. 21, no. 10, 1996.

• D. O. Caplan, G. Kanter, and P. Kumar, "Characterization of dynamic optical nonlinearities by continuous time-resolved Z-scan," Optics Letters, vol. 21, no. 17, 1996.

• R. M. Joseph and A. Taflove, "FDTD Maxwell's Equations Models for Nonlinear Electromagnetics and Optics," (invited paper for special issue on Advanced Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics) IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, in press.

• S. C. Hagness and A. Taflove, "A Nonlinear Full-Wave Electromagnetic Model of Semiconductor Laser Cavities," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, Oct. 1994.

• R. Joseph, S. Hagness and A. Taflove, "Recent Progress in Modeling Passive and Active Optical Microstructures Via Direct Time Integration of Maxwell's Equations," invited paper, SPIE Proceedings on Photonic Device Engineering for Dual-Use Applications, vol. 2481, pp. 258-269, Orlando, FL, April 1995. Postscript version.

• S. C. Hagness, R. M. Joseph, and A. Taflove, "Time-Domain Modeling of the Dynamics of Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, Sept. 1995.

• J. P. Zhang, D. Y. Chu, S. L. Wu, S. T. Ho, W. G. Bi, C. W. Tu, and R. C. Tiberio, "Photonic-wire laser," Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 14, pp. 2678-2681, 1995.

• J. P. Zhang, D. Y. Chu, S. L. Wu, W. G. Bi, R. C. Tiberio, R. M. Joseph, A. Taflove, C. W. Tu, and S. T. Ho, "Nanofabrication of 1-D photonic bandgap structures along a photonic wire," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 491-493, 1996.

• S. C. Hagness, R. M. Joseph, and A. Taflove, "Subpicosecond Electrodynamics of Distributed Bragg Reflector Microlasers: Results from Finite Difference Time Domain Simulations," (invited paper for special issue on Computational Electromagnetics), Radio Science, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 931-941, 1996. Postscript version.

• J. P. Zhang, D. Y. Chu, S. L. Wu, W. G. Bi, R. C. Tiberio, C. W. Tu, and S. T. Ho, "Directional light output from photonic-wire microcavity semiconductor lasers," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 968-970, 1996.

• S. C. Hagness, D. Rafizadeh, S. T. Ho, and A. Taflove, "FD-TD Computational Electromagnetics Simulations of Microring and Microdisk Lasers," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1996. Abstract (paper ThZ4).

• D. Rafizadeh, J. P. Zhang, L. Wang, S. C. Hagness, A. Taflove, S. T. Ho, and R. C. Tiberio, "Semiconductor microcavity resonator multiplexer/demultiplexer," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1996. Abstract (paper ThP4).

• S.-T. Ho, L. Wang, J.-P. Zhang, and R. C. Tiberio, "Lasing dynamics in photonic-wire microcavity," (invited paper) presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1996. Abstract (paper ThI1).

• D. Rafizadeh and S.-T. Ho, "Electro-optic microcavity resonator switches," presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1996. Abstract (paper ThDD3).

• D. Rafizadeh, J. P. Zhang, S. C. Hagness, A. Taflove, R. C. Tiberio, K. A. Stair, and S. T. Ho, "Nanofabricated Waveguide-Coupled 1.5-um Microcavity Ring and Disk Resonators with High Q and 21.6-nm Free Spectral Range," (postdeadline paper CPD23) Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, MD, May 1997.

• S. C. Hagness, D. Rafizadeh, S. T. Ho, and A. Taflove, "High-Q Microcavity Ring and Disk Resonators: FDTD Analysis of Resonance and Coupling Characteristics," IEEE AP-S International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting, pp. 1236-1239, Montreal, Ontario, Canada, July 1997.

• D. Rafizadeh, J. P. Zhang, S. C. Hagness, A. Taflove, K. A. Stair, R. Tiberio, and S. T. Ho, "Waveguide-Coupled AlGaAs/GaAs Microcavity Ring and Disk Resonators with High Finesse and 21.6-nm Free Spectral Range," Optics Letters, vol. 22, pp. 1244-1246, Aug. 15, 1997.

• S. C. Hagness, D. Rafizadeh, S. T. Ho, and A. Taflove, "Suppression of Higher-Order Radial Whispering Gallery Modes in Waveguide-Coupled Microcavity Disk Resonators," Proceedings of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, vol. 2, pp. 160-161, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1997.

• D. Rafizadeh, J. P. Zhang, S. C. Hagness, A. Taflove, K. A. Stair, S. T. Ho, and R. C. Tiberio, "Temperature Tuning of Microcavity Ring and Disk Resonators at 1.5-um," Proceedings of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, vol. 2, pp. 162-163, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1997.

• S. C. Hagness, D. Rafizadeh, S. T. Ho, and A. Taflove, "FDTD microcavity simulations: Design and experimental realization of waveguide-coupled single-mode ring and whispering-gallery-mode disk resonators," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 15, pp. 2154-2165, Nov. 1997.

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