CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science · CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science CLEO: 2013 • 9–14 June 2013 Executive Ballroom 210B Executive Ballroom 210C Executive Ballroom 210D Tuesday, 11

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CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science

CLEO: 2013 • 9–14 June 2013

Executive Ballroom 210B

Executive Ballroom 210C

Executive Ballroom 210D

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08:15–10:00 Plenary and Awards Session I, Civic Auditorium

10:00–11:00 Coffee Break (10:00–10:30) and Unopposed Exhibit Only Time, Exhibit Halls 1 and 2

10:00–17:00 Exhibit Open, Exhibit Halls 1 and 2

10:30–12:30 Market Focus Session I: Industrial Laser Outlook and Opportunities, Exhibit Hall 2

11:00–13:00QTu1A • Complex Plasmonic StructuresPresider: Andrei Lavrinenko, DTU Fotonik, Denmark

11:00–13:00QTu1B • Mid-IR Plasmonics & VibrationsPresider: Richard Haglund; Vanderbilt University, United States

11:00–13:00QTu1C • Quantum Logic & InterferencePresider: James Franson; University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

11:00–13:00QTu1D • Optical Properties of 2D & Layered MaterialsPresider: Jigang Wang; Iowa State Univ., United States

QTu1A.1 • 11:00 InvitedPlasmonic Crystals, Anatoly V. Zayats1; 1King’s College London, United Kingdom. We will over-view optical properties of plasmonic crystals, periodically nanostructured metal films, with complex crystal lattices. We will discuss their ap-plications for spectral and polarization multiplex-ing/demultiplexing and manipulation of light and plasmonic beams.

QTu1B.1 • 11:00 Mid-infrared absorption nanospectroscopy via molecular force detection, Feng Lu1, Mingzhou Jin1, Mikhail A. Belkin1; 1Department of Electri-cal and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA. We report a highly-sensitive technique to obtain Mid-infrared spectra with nanoscale spatial resolution via detecting a me-chanical force exerted by vibrating molecules on an atomic force microscope tip. Sub-monolayer sensitivity is demonstrated.

QTu1C.1 • 11:00 Implementation of Single-Photon Three-Qubit CNOT Gates Using Spatial Light Modulators, Kumel Kagalwala1, Giovanni Di Giuseppe1,2, Ayman F. Abouraddy1, Bahaa Saleh1; 1CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA; 2School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy. We experimentally demonstrate linear single-photon three-qubit deterministic controlled-NOT (CNOT) gates implemented by a polarization-sensitive spatial light modulator. The polarization qubit controls the photon spatial-parity along the x and y directions.

QTu1D.1 • 11:00 Photoluminescence Emission and Raman Response of MoS2, MoSe2, and WSe2 Nano-layers, Philipp Tonndorf1, Robert Schmidt1, Philipp Böttger1, Xiao Zhang1, Janna Börner1, Andreas Liebig1, Manfred Albrecht1, Christian Kloc2, Ovidiu Gordan1, Dietrich Zahn1, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos1, Rudolf Bratschitsch1; 1Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany; 2Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We investigate photoluminescence emission and absorption of mechanically exfoliated mono- and few-layers of the transition metal dichalcogenides MoS2, MoSe2, and WSe2 and elucidate the nature of the layer-dependent phonon modes via high-resolution Raman spectroscopy.

QTu1B.2 • 11:15 Multispectral infrared vibrational nano-imaging, Benjamin Pollard1, Gregory O. An-dreev1, Karsten Hinrichs2, Markus B. Raschke1; 1Physics, Chemistry, JILA, University of Colorado, USA; 2ISAS - Institute for Analytical Sciences, Germany. We demonstrate multispectral infrared vibrational scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy. Spatio-spectral images with 10 nm spatial and 1 cm^-1 spectral resolution reveal nano-phase behavior in molecular nanostructured model systems with unprecedented sensitivity and structural detail.

QTu1C.2 • 11:15 Experimental implementation of a quantum pulse gate for multi-mode quantum networks, Benjamin Brecht1, Andreas Eckstein1,2, Chris-tine Silberhorn1; 1Integrated Quantum Optics, University of Paderborn, Germany; 2Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot, France. We implement a quantum pulse gate and demonstrate its capability, to per-form single-mode operations on time-frequency modes of ultrafast multi-mode quantum states. This constitutes an important step towards future quantum networks in the temporal domain.

QTu1D.2 • 11:15 Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Single and Few layer MoS2 studied by Optical Pump Probe Technique, Haining Wang1, Changjian Zhang1, Farhan Rana1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, Cornell University, USA. Our ultrafast optical pump-probe measurements of MoS2 show that the interband and intraband relaxation dynamics of photoexcited carriers vary significantly as a func-tion of sample thickness. Coherent phonon oscil-lations are also observed in our measurements.

QTu1A.2 • 11:30 Local heating with titanium nitride nanoparti-cles, Urcan Guler1, Justus C. Ndukaife1,2, Gururaj V. Naik1, A. G. Agwu Nnanna2, Alexander Kildishev1, Vladimir M. Shalaev1, Alexandra Boltasseva1,3; 1School of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, USA; 2Water Institute, Purdue University Calumet, USA; 3DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Den-mark, Denmark. We investigate the feasibility of titanium nitride (TiN) nanoparticles as local heat sources in the near infrared region, focusing on biological window. Experiments and simulations provide promising results for TiN, which is known to be bio-compatible.

QTu1B.3 • 11:30 Invited Ultrafast infrared near-field vibrational nano-spectroscopy, Markus B. Raschke1, Xiaoji Xu1; 1University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. We demonstrate femtosecond infrared vibrational free-induction decay spectroscopy on the nano-scale. The near-field coupling between the tran-sient molecular polarization and optical antenna properties of the metallic scanning probe tip can enhance the vibrational dephasing.

QTu1C.3 • 11:30 A balanced Franson interferometer, Brian P. Williams1,2, Travis S. Humble2, Warren P. Grice2; 1Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, USA; 2Quantum Information Science Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Our balanced Franson interferometer allows observation locally of Hong-Ou-Mandel and biphoton de Broglie interference and non-local Franson interference with suppressed single-photon interference. Ad-vantages are its size, pulsed source compatibility, and passive visibility monitoring.

QTu1D.3 • 11:30 Ultrafast multi-exciton dynamics of few-layer MoS2, Sangwan Sim1, Jusang Park1, Jeong-Gyu Song1, Chihun In1, Hyungjun Kim1, Hyunyong Choi1; 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineer-ing, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. We study the time- and spectrally-resolved exciton dynamics of a few-layer molybdenum disulfide using ultra-fast optical pump-probe spectroscopy. We find that the carrierinduced broadening significantly influence on the band-edge transmission spectra even with small carrier densities.

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93Concurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.

CLEO: Science & Innovations


Executive Ballroom 210H

Executive Ballroom 210G

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11:00–13:00QTu1E • Laser Cooling and Novel PheonomenaPresider: Yujie Ding; Lehigh University, United States

11:00–13:00CTu1F • Graphene & Other Novel MaterialsPresider: Graham Reed; University of Southampton, United Kingdom

11:00–12:45CTu1G • Parametric Optical Signal ProcessingPresider: Michael Vasilyev; University of Texas at Arlington, United States

11:00–13:00CTu1H • Remote Sensing and ImagingPresider: Andreas Hangauer; Princeton University, United States

QTu1E.1 • 11:00 Cryogenic Intracavity Laser Cooling Using High Power Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs), Mohammadreza Ghasemkhani1, Alexander R. Albrecht1, Seth Mel-gaard1, Denis V. Seletskiy1,2, Jeffrey G. Cederberg3, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae1; 1Physics and Astronomy Dept., University of New Mexico, USA; 2Depart-ment of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany; 3Sandia National Laboratories, USA. A Yb:YLF crystal is laser cooled to 150 K from room temperature in an intracav-ity geometry using a high power InGaAs/GaAs MQW VECSEL operating at 1020 nm with <0.5 nm linewidth.

CTu1F.1 • 11:00 Low-Voltage Integrated Broadband Hybrid VO2 -Surface Plasmon Polariton Switches, Arash Joushaghani1, Brett A. Kruger1, Suzanne Paradis2, David Alain2, J. Stewart Aitchison1, Joyce K. Poon1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Defence Research and Develop-ment Canada - Valcartier, Canada. The metal-insulator phase transition of vanadium dioxide is used for efficient plasmonic switches. We report on 5-15μm long devices with bandwidths >100nm near λ=1550 nm and extinction ratios of 10-25dB with applied voltages of 400mV.

CTu1G.1 • 11:00 105 nm Wavelength Conversion of 40-Gb/s DPSK in a Dispersion-Engineered Silicon Waveguide, Qi Li1, Lin Xu1, Michael Menard2, Ryan K. W. Lau3, Michal Lipson2, Alexander L. Gaeta3, Keren Bergman1; 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, USA; 3School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA. We demonstrate wavelength conversion of 40-Gb/s DPSK signals across a 105-nm range in a dispersion-engineered silicon waveguide with 1.83-dB average power penalty, further confirming broadband and format-transparent parametric-processing po-tential in silicon.

CTu1H.1 • 11:00 Mid-infrared Single-Photon Detection with Tungsten Silicide Superconducting Nanowires, Francesco Marsili1, Varun Verma1, Martin J. Ste-vens1, Jeffrey A. Stern2, Matthew D. Shaw2, Aaron Miller3, Dirk Schwarzer4, Alec Wodtke4, Richard P. Mirin1, Sae Woo Nam1; 1National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA; 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal-ifornia Institute of Technology, USA; 3Department of Physics, Albion College, USA; 4Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany. We developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detec-tors (SNSPDs) based on tungsten silicide (WSi), that show saturated internal detection efficiency from 2.1 to 5.5 µm wavelength.

QTu1E.2 • 11:15 Phonon-assisted Bandtail Anti-Stokes Photolu-minescence of GaN: Novel Mechanism for Laser Cooling, Guan Sun1, Ruolin Chen1, Yujie J. Ding1; 1Lehigh University, USA. Anti-Stokes photolumi-nescence (ASPL) of n-type GaN is observed at room temperature. By studying behaviors of ASPL, the mechanism is identified as phonon-assisted bandtail photoluminescence. Such a process results in laser cooling.

CTu1F.2 • 11:15 Integrated Photonic Circuits on Wafer-Scale Diamond-on-Insulator Substrates, Patrik Rath1, Christoph Nebel2, Christoph Wild2,3, Wolfram Pernice1; 1Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), Germany; 3Diamond Materials GmbH, Germany. We realize nanophotonic circuits on large area, microcrystalline diamond-on-insulator substrates, including on-chip interferometers and cavities. Ring resonators show Q-factors up to 11,000 at 1550nm, corresponding to propagation loss of 4.7dB/mm.

CTu1G.2 • 11:15 Demonstration of Tunable Optical Generation of Higher-Order Modulation Formats using Nonlinearities and Coherent Frequency Comb, Mohammad Reza Chitgarha1, Morteza Ziyadi1, Salman Khaleghi1, Ahmed Almaiman1, Amirhos-sein Mohajerin Ariaei1, Loukas Paraschis2, Ori Gerstel2, Carsten Langrock3, Martin Fejer3, Joe Touch4, Alan E. Willner1; 1University of Southern California, USA; 2Cisco, USA; 3Stanford, USA; 4In-formation Sciences Institute, USA. We demonstrate the generation of optical 16-QAM and 64-QAM at EVM 6.8% and 6.4% respectively using non-linearities and coherent frequency comb. We also demonstrated a successful transmission through 80-km SMF-28 after compensating with 20-km DCF with negligible penalty.

CTu1H.2 • 11:15 Table-Top Explorations of Synthetic Aperture Ladar Imaging, Zeb W. Barber1, Stephen Crouch1; 1Montana State University, USA. Examples of synthetic aperture ladar (SAL) imaging utilizing an ultra-broadband actively stabilized chirp source are presented. Demonstrations include high defini-tion strip-map, spotlight, and bistatic mode SAL imaging and interferometric SAL for 3D surface relief imaging.

QTu1E.3 • 11:30 Optical refrigeration achieves ΔT >180K, Seth Melgaard1, Denis V. Seletskiy2,3, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae1; 1Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, USA; 2AFRL, USA; 3Physics and Astronomy, University of Konstanz, Germany. We report new records in optical refrigeration by cool-ing to 114K (ΔT>180K) as well as demonstrating a room-temperature heat lift of ∼750 mW in a 10% wt. Yb:YLF crystal at λ=1020 nm.

CTu1F.3 • 11:30 High-Q Lithium Niobate Microring-Resonators on Silicon, Payam Rabiei1, Jichi Ma1, Jeff Chiles1, Saeed Khan1,2, Sasan Fathpour1,2; 1CREOL, USA; 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Central Florida, USA. Submicron lithium niobate waveguides and resonators are demonstrated on silicon by a novel and reliable ion implantation and wafer bonding technique. Waveguide ridges are formed by selective oxida-tion of tantalum to avoid etching lithium niobate.

CTu1G.3 • 11:30 InvitedSignal Regeneration Techniques for Advanced Modulation Formats, Radan Slavik1, Joseph Kakande2, Francesca Parmigiani1, Periklis Pet-ropoulos1, David J. Richardson1; 1Univ. of South-ampton, United Kingdom; 2Alcatel Lucent, USA. We review recent results on the regeneration of phase encoded (BPSK, QPSK) signals and discuss paths towards regeneration of amplitude/phase encoded (QAM) signals. Regeneration based on phase sensitive amplification will be discussed in detail.

CTu1H.3 • 11:30 Time-resolved reconstruction of scene re-flectance hidden by a diffuser, Nikhil Naik1, Christopher Barsi1, Andreas Velten1, Ramesh Raskar1; 1Media Lab, MIT, USA. We use time-of-flight information in an iterative non-linear optimization algorithm to recover reflectance properties of a three-dimensional scene hidden behind a diffuser. We demonstrate reconstruction of wide-field images without relying on diffuser correlation properties.


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11:00–13:00CTu1I • Optical Frequency CombsPresider: Brian Washburn; Kansas State University, United States

11:00–13:00JTu1J • Terahertz Quantum Cascade LasersPresider: Peter Jepsen; Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

11:00–13:00CTu1K • High Power Fiber LasersPresider: Akira Shirakawa; University of Electro-Communications, Japan

11:00–13:00CTu1L • Photonic Integration and Interconnects Presider: J. Stewart Aitchison, University of Toronto, Canada

CTu1I.1 • 11:00 400-nm-Spanning Astro-Comb Directly Gen-erated from Synthesized Pump Pulse with Repetition Rate of 12.5 GHz, Ken Kashiwagi1, Shota Suzuki1, Yoichi Tanaka1, Takayuki Kotani2, Jun Nishikawa2, Hiroshi Suto2, Motohide Tamura2, Takashi Kurokawa1; 1Tokyo Univ of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2National Astronomical Obser-vatory of Japan, Japan. We successfully generated a 12.5-GHz-spacing astro-comb ranging over 400 nm from 1350 to 1750 nm. A synthesized pulse whose repetition rate directly linked to the spacing was compressed for nonlinearity enhancement and broad astro-comb generation.

JTu1J.1 • 11:00 InvitedRoom-temperature Quantum Cascade Laser Sources of Terahertz Radiation, Mikhail A. Belkin1, karun vijayraghavan1, Yifan Jiang1, Aiting Jiang1, Frederic Demmerle2, Gerhard Boehm2, Markus-Christian Amann2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany. The develop-ment of room-temperature mass-producible 1-5 terahertz sources based on efficient intra-cavity frequency mixing in Mid-infrared quantum cas-cade lasers will be discussed. Best devices provide over 0.1mW of terahertz output with over 0.4mW/W2 conversion efficiency.

CTu1K.1 • 11:00 On the Effective Ion Lifetime in Fiber Ampli-fiers, Henrik Tünnermann1,2, Jörg Neumann1,2, Dietmar Kracht1,2, Peter Wessels1,2; 1Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany; 2Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research - QUEST, Germany. The effective ion lifetime is the most important quantity describing the temporal dynamics in a fiber amplifier. We show a fiber characterization method which allows us to derive it from output and residual pump power.

CTu1L.1 • 11:00 Monolithically Integrated Photonic Switches Driven by Digital CMOS, Benjamin G. Lee1, Wil-liam M. Green1, Alexander V. Rylyakov1, Solomon Assefa1, Marwan H. Khater1, Tymon Barwicz1, Carol Reinholm1, Edward Kiewra1, Steven M. Shank2, Clint L. Schow1, Yurii A. Vlasov1; 1IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center, USA; 2IBM Systems & Technology Group, Microelectronics Divi-sion, USA. We demonstrate a 1×2 ring resonator switch and a 2×2 Mach Zehnder switch, mono-lithically integrated with digital CMOS drivers in IBM’s proprietary 90-nm photonics-enabled CMOS process. Static and dynamic performance metrics are characterized.

CTu1I.2 • 11:15 A broadband green astro-comb for sub-10 cm/s calibration on astrophysical spectrographs, Chih-Hao Li1, Alexander G. Glenday1, Nicholas Langellier2, Alexander Zibrov1, Guoqing Chang3, Li-Jin Chen4, Gabor Furesz1, Franz X. Kaertner3,5, David F. Phillips1, Dimitar Sasselov1,2, Andrew Szentgyorgyi1, Ronald L. Walsworth1,2; 1Harvard-Smithsonian Center, USA; 2Physics, Harvard University, USA; 3Research Laboratory for Electron-ics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 4Idesta Quantum Electronics LLC, USA; 5Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, University of Hamburg, Germany. We report development of an astro-comb providing >7000 lines spaced by 16 GHz from 500-620 nm. A characterization with an FTS shows it can provide sub-10 cm/s calibration accuracy of astrophysical spectrographs perform-ing exo-Earth searches.

CTu1K.2 • 11:15 Power and energy scaling of ultrafast fiber systems using chirped and divided pulse am-plification for high end applications, Yoann Zaouter1, Florent Guichard1,2, Louis Daniault2, Marc Hanna2, Franck Morin1, Clemens Hön-ninger1, Robert Braunschweig1, Eric Mottay1, Frédéric Druon2, Patrick Georges2; 1Amplitude Systemes, France; 2Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Insti-tut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France. We implemented for the first time both chirped pulse and divided pulse amplification in the same femtosecond fiber amplifier setup leading to the generation of 430 µJ, 320 fs pulses at 100 kHz.

CTu1L.2 • 11:15 Integrated Linewidth Reduction of a Tunable SG-DBR Laser, Abirami Sivananthan1, Hyun-chul Park1, Mingzhi Lu1, John S. Parker1, Eli Bloch2, Leif Johansson1, Mark Rodwell1, Larry Coldren1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA; 2Electrical En-gineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. We demonstrate frequency noise suppres-sion of a widely tunable sampled-grating DBR laser using negative feedback from a Mach-Zehnder frequency discriminator integrated on the same InGaAsP/InP chip. The 3-dB laser linewidth is narrowed from 19 MHz to 570 kHz.

CTu1I.3 • 11:30 5.2-GHz, Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 ceramic laser for comb-resolved broadband spectroscopy, Mamoru Endo1,3, Akira Ozawa1,3, Takashi Sukegawa2, Yohei Kobayashi1,3; 1Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2Corporate R&D Headquarters, Canon Inc, Japan; 3Exploratory Research for Advanced Technol-ogy (ERATO), Japan. We developed a laser-diode pumped, multi-GHz repetition rate, Yb:Lu2O3 ceramic Kerr-lens mode-locked laser with a pulse duration of 165 fs. Each longitudinal mode was resolved by using home-made, ultra-high resolu-tion grating spectrometer.

JTu1J.2 • 11:30 Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers based on Composite Right/Left-Handed Metamaterials, Amir Ali Tavallaee1,2, Philip Hon1, Qi-Sheng Chen3, Tatsuo Itoh1, Benjamin Williams1,2; 1Elec-trical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, USA; 2California Nanosystems Institute, USA; 3Aerospace systems, Northrop Grumman, USA. A composite right/left-handed metamaterial waveguide for terahertz quantum-cascade lasers is presented. Left handed propagation is confirmed by using the waveguide as a leaky-wave antenna where directional beams at angles of −4 and −63 are experimentally observed at 2.59 and 2.48 THz, respectively.

CTu1K.3 • 11:30 Completely Monolithic Ytterbium Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplifier, Aart Verhoef1, Thomas V. Andersen2, Tobias Flöry1, Lingxiao Zhu1, Al-mantas Galvanauskas3, Andrius Baltuska1, Alma Fernández1; 1Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria; 2NKT Photonics A/S, Denmark; 3Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, USA. We present a com-pletely monolithic Yb-fiber chirped pulse ampli-fier that uses a dispersion matched fiber stretcher and hollow core photonic bandgap compressor fiber. The output pulses are compressed to almost Fourier limited duration.

CTu1L.3 • 11:30 Low-Energy, Scalable Hybrid Crosspoint Switch Design, Qixiang Cheng1, Adrian Wonfor1, Kai Wang1, Vojtech F. Olle1, Richard Penty1, Ian H. White1; 1Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. A hybrid crosspoint switch combining MZI and SOA components is proposed, which for a 2x2 port switch primitive implementa-tion exhibits crosstalk of -46dB. This architecture makes port count up to 64x64 feasible.




Marriott San Jose Salon III

Marriott San Jose Salon IV

Marriott San Jose Salon V & VI


Tuesday, 11 JuneMarriott

Willow Glen I-III

CLEO: Applications & Technology





11:00–13:00ATu1M • Symposium onThe Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Physics of Laser Driven ICF Presider: Constantin Haefner; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States

11:00–13:00ATu1N • Symposium on Lab-on-a-Chip Applications: Lab on Chip III Presider: Chris Myatt; Mbio Diagnostics, USA

11:00–13:00CTu1O • Challenges for High Average Power Lasers I Presider: Dennis Harris; Massachusetts Inst of Tech Lincoln Lab, United States

11:00–13:00QTu1P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Biophotonics Presider: Mircea Cotlet; Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States

ATu1M.1 • 11:00 Invited Progress Toward Ignition on the National Igni-tion Facility, John Lindl1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. NIF has achieved compressed fuel pressures within a factor of 2-3 of those required for ignition. This talk will sum-marize progress to date and the efforts under way to take us the rest of the way to ignition.

ATu1N.1 • 11:00 Invited New Microfluidic Technologies for Accelerating and Enhancing Molecular Binding Processes in Cartridge-format Assay Systems, Daniel Laser1; 1Wave80 Biosciences, Inc., USA. Revolutionary molecular diagnostics systems using new mi-crofuidic technologies, for the first time, brings sophisticated, high-clinical-value molecular test-ing directly into the smaller hospitals and clinics which provide the vast majority of patient care in healthcare systems around the world.

CTu1O.1 • 11:00 Tutorial Scaling Thin Disk Lasers to High Power and Energy, Adolf Giesen1; 1German Aerospace Center, Germany. The scaling laws of thin disk lasers will be explained. Results for continuous wave opera-tion and for pulsed operation show the capability for building high power lasers with high efficiency and good beam quality, simultaneously.

Adolf Giesen received his Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of Bonn, Germany. Then, he joined DLR (the German Aerospace Center), institute of Technical Physics at Stuttgart working on rf-excited CO2-lasers. In 1986 he moved to the Uni-versity of Stuttgart, Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge as head of the laser development department. He continued working on CO2-lasers as well as on optical components for high power lasers. In 1992 he started working on thin disk lasers (in collaboration between the University and DLR). 2002 he received the “Berthold Leibinger Preis” for the invention and the work on thin disk lasers and in 2004 he received the “Rank Prize” also for the invention and his work on thin disk lasers. Since 2007 he is director of the Institute of Technical Physics of DLR. He is continuing the work on high power lasers for aerospace applications as well as for security and defence applications.

QTu1P.1 • 11:00 Invited Nanophotonics at the DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers, Rohit P. Prasankumar1; 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. An overview of ongoing activities in nanophotonics at the five DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers will be given, highlighting research in areas including biophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and semiconductor nanostructures.

ATu1M.2 • 11:30 Invited Polar-drive Direct-drive Ignition, Craig Sang-ster1; 1Univ. of Rochester, USA. Polar-drive is an alternate inertial fusion concept being pursued at the NIF. This talk will describe the concept and scientific basis as well as the facility modifications required to perform polar-drive ignition experi-ments on NIF.

ATu1N.2 • 11:30 Hybrid Optofluidic Device for Fluidic Particle Manipulation and Detection, Joshua Parks1, Jungkyu Kim2,3, Lynnell U. Zempoaltecatl4, Damla Ozcelik1, Hong Cai1, Rich Mathies2, Aaron Hawkins4, Holger Schmidt1; 1School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, USA; 2Chem-istry, University of California Berkeley, USA; 3Me-chanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, USA; 4Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, USA. Integrated fluidic control and optical detection are presented through the synthesis of microfluidic automata and optofluidic waveguides. Analyte mixing and fluid velocity are controlled on Automaton while optical detection is achieved via liquid-core ARROW waveguides.

QTu1P.2 • 11:30 Invited Next-generation Nanocrystals for Cellular Imaging: Non-blinking, Non-bleaching Phos-phors, Bruce Cohen1, Emory M. Chan1, Daniel J. Gargas1, Alexis D. Ostrowski1, Delia J. Milliron1, P. James Schuck1; 1The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. Lanthanide-doped upconverting nanocrystals have proven to be especially promising as single molecule imaging probes. We have developed synthetic methods for controlling nanocrystal growth, for tuning emis-sion wavelength, and for detailed single particle characterization.



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QTu1A • Complex Plasmonic Structures—Continued

QTu1B • Mid-IR Plasmonics & Vibrations—Continued

QTu1C • Quantum Logic & Interference—Continued

QTu1D • Optical Properties of 2D & Layered Materials—Continued

QTu1A.3 • 11:45 All-Angle Left-handed Metamaterial and Active Flat Lensing in the Ultraviolet, Ting Xu1,2, Amit Agrawal1,3, Maxim Abshin1,2, Kenneth Chau4, Henri J. Lezec1; 1National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA; 2University of Maryland, USA; 3Syracuse University, USA; 4University of British Columbia, Canada. We report the experimental implementation of a bulk metamaterial with an all-angle left-handed response in the ultraviolet. Using this metamaterial, we fabricate an optically switchable Veselago flat lens capable of imaging arbitrary two-dimensional objects beyond the near field.

QTu1B.4 • 12:00 Quantitative Mapping of Plasmonic Near-fields Using Infrared Far-field Vibrational Spectros-copy, Daniel Dregely1, Frank Neubrech1, Huigao Duan2, Harald W. Giessen1; 14th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2Department of Physics and Microelec-tronics, Hunan University, China. We directly map plasmonic near-field intensities by resonantly enhanced infrared far-field spectroscopy. We position a nanoscopic molecular probe at dif-ferent locations of plasmonic rod and gap-type antennas and measure the vibrational signal with FTIR spectroscopy.

QTu1C.4 • 11:45 Storage of Light in a Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibre, Michael Sprague1, Patrick S. Michelberger1, Tessa F. Champion1, Duncan G. Endland1, Joshua Nunn1, W. Steven Koltham-mer1, Xian-Min Jin1, Amir Abdolvand2, Philip Russell2, Ian A. Walmsley1; 1Department of Phys-ics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany. We report the storage and retrieval of broadband optical pulses using a Raman interaction in a room-temperature ensemble of cesium atoms confined in a hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre.

QTu1D.4 • 11:45 A Multi-Terahertz View of Ultrafast Charge Density Wave Dynamics in TiSe2, Michael Porer1, Jean-Michel Menard1, Hatem Dachraoui2, Ursula Leierseder1, Korbinian Groh1, Jure Demsar3, Ulrich Heinzmann2, Rupert Huber1; 1Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany; 2Mo-lecular and Surface Physics, University of Bielefeld, Germany; 3Department of Physics, University of Ilmenau, Germany. We trace the collective tera-hertz free-carrier response of 1T-TiSe2 during femtosecond photo-induced melting of a charge density wave. The subsequent reordering exhibits high sensitivity to the transient carrier density, as expected within an excitonic model.

QTu1A.4 • 12:00 Metamaterial Circular Polarizers Based on Metal N-Helices, Johannes Kaschke1, Justyna K. Gansel1, Joachim Fischer2, Martin Wegener1,2; 1Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2Institute of Nanotechnol-ogy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Polarization conversion of metal-helix based meta-materials can be eliminated by recovering four-fold rotational symmetry. Symmetry considerations and current progress in the fabrication of N-helix optical metamaterials as broadband circular polar-izers is presented.

QTu1C.5 • 12:00 Integrated Single Photon Buffer based on Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguide, Hiroki Takesue1, Nobuyuki Matsuda1, Eiichi Kuramochi1, Masaya Notomi1; 1NTT Basic Research Laborato-ries, Japan. We report an on-chip single photon buffer experiment using a coupled-resonator opti-cal waveguide. A pulsed photon from a correlated photon pair source was successfully delayed by 160 ps while maintaining non-classical intensity correlation.

QTu1D.5 • 12:00 Ultrafast refractive index control of gate-controlled graphene-metamaterial hybrid devices, Jeongmook Choi1, Seung Hoon Lee2, Hyeon-Don Kim2, Bumki Min2, Hyunyong Choi1; 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Insti-tute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea. We present an ultrafast dynamics of THz graphene-metamaterial hybrid devices, where the refractive index and the conductivity are largely modulated by electrical and optical methods.

QTu1A.5 • 12:15 Electronic Control of Coupled Defect and Sur-face States in 2D Plasmonic Crystals, Gregory Dyer1, Gregory Aizin2, S. James Allen3, Albert Grine1, Don Bethke1, John L. Reno1, Eric Shaner1; 1Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 2Kingsborough College, CUNY, USA; 3Institute for Terahertz Sci-ence and Technology, UC Santa Barbara, USA. Terahertz plasmonic crystals of several periods are formed from a GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron gas. The coupling between defect and crystal surface states known as Tamm states induces a transparency in the plasmonic crystal band gap.

QTu1B.5 • 12:15 Multi-Band Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorp-tion Spectroscopy of Molecular Monolayers}, Ronen Adato1, Hatice Altug1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, USA. We develop concepts for engineering multi-resonant infrared plasmonic antennas. We utilize these antennas in conjunction with a perfect absorber geometry to simultaneously enhance Mid-infrared vibrational resonances separated by 3 μm in mono-layer polymer and biomolecule samples.

QTu1C.6 • 12:15 On-Chip Switching Between Optical Bell States, Sergei V. Zhukovsky1,3, Lukas G. Helt1, Dongpeng Kang2, Payam Abolghasem2, A. S. Helmy2, John E. Sipe1; 1Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engi-neering, University of Toronto, Canada; 3DTU Fotonik - Dept. of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. We propose a strategy for designing Bragg reflection waveguides with no polarization sensitivity. Via spontaneous parametric downconversion, such waveguides produce both cross-polarized and co-polarized entangled photons, acting as integrated sources of optical Bell states.

QTu1D.6 • 12:15 Coherent Terahertz Magneto-spectroscopy of Ultrahigh-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Gases, Qi Zhang1, Takashi Arikawa1, John L. Reno2, Wei Pan2, John Watson3, Michael J. Manfra3, Junichiro Kono1; 1Electical and Com-puter Engineering, Rice University, USA; 2Sandia National Laboratory, USA; 3Physics, Purdue Uni-versity, USA. We study the coherent dynamics of cyclotron resonance (CR) in ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gases via time domain terahertz magneto-spectroscopy.

QTu1A.6 • 12:30 High Temperature Epsilon-Near-Zero and Epsi-lon-Near-Pole Metamaterial Emitters for Ther-mophotovoltaics, Sean Molesky1, Zubin Jacob1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. We introduce a class of arti-ficial media: high temperature Epsilon-near-Pole metamaterials consisting of plasmonic materials with high melting point and show that they can be used as efficient narrowband omnidirectional thermal emitters in thermophotovoltaic systems.

QTu1B.6 • 12:30 Antenna-Mediated Near Field Spectroscopic Imaging: Extension to the Time and Frequency Domains, Eric Muller1, Hans A. Bechtel2, Benja-min Pollard1, Robert L. Olman1, Michael J. Martin2, Markus B. Raschke1; 1Physics, Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA; 2Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, USA. Scattering scanning near field microscopy resolves material response to infrared light with a resolution determined by the antenna tip ra-dius. We present new methods and results from broad band and ultrafast sources, extending the capabilities of this technique in the time and frequency domains.

QTu1C.7 • 12:30 Heralded Noiseless Amplification of a Photon Polarization Qubit, Sacha Kocsis1, Guoyong Xiang2, Timothy C. Ralph3, Geoffrey Pryde1; 1Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith Uni-versity, Australia; 2Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, China; 3School of Mathematics and Phys-ics, The University of Queensland, Australia. We demonstrate heralded loss reduction of a qubit channel, using a two-mode coherent noiseless amplifier operating on the polarization of a single photon. We increase transmission fidelity by up to a factor of five.

QTu1D.7 • 12:30 Many-body interactions in GaAs quantum wells studied by pre-pulse 2DFT spectroscopy, Hebin Li1, Galan Moody1,2, Steven T. Cundiff1,2, Mackillo Kira3; 1JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technol-ogy, USA; 2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA; 3Department of Physics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. We report a 2DFT spectroscopic study of many-body interactions in a GaAs quantum well sample optically excited by a pre-pulse. The 2D spectra reveal quantitative information about the many-body states prepared with various pre-pulse intensities.









Tuesday, 11 June

QTu1E • Laser Cooling and Novel Pheonomena—Continued

CTu1F • Graphene & Other Novel Materials—Continued

CTu1G • Parametric Optical Signal Processing—Continued

CTu1H • Remote Sensing and Imaging—Continued

QTu1E.4 • 11:45 An event horizon in an optical analog of a Laval nozzle, Moshe Elazar1, Victor Fleurov1, Shimshon Barad1; 1Tel-Aviv University, Israel. We demon-strate experimentally an optical event horizon in a waveguide structure akin to a hydrodynamic Laval nozzle. The event horizon which forms at the nozzle throat is suggested as a platform for analog gravity experiments.

CTu1F.4 • 11:45 Electro-optical Modulation in Graphene Inte-grated Photonic Crystal Nanocavities, Xuetao Gan2, Ren-Jye Shiue1, Yuanda Gao3, Kin Fai Mak4, Xinwen Yao2, Luozhou Li2, Attila Szep5, Dennis Walker5, James Hone3, Tony F. Heinz4,2, Dirk Englund1; 1Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 3Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 4Physics, Columbia University, USA; 5Sen-sors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA. We demonstrate high-contrast electro-optic modulation in a graphene integrated photonic crystal nanocavity, providing a modulation depth of more than 10 dB at telecom wavelengths. This work shows the feasibility of high-performance electro-optical modulators in graphene-based nanophotonics.

CTu1G.4 • 12:00 Invited All-Optical Phase Conjugation of Polarization Multiplexed Signals in Compensation of Trans-mission Fiber Nonlinearity, Mark D. Pelusi1; 1University of Sydney, Australia. An all-optical module for performing nonlinear pre-distortion and phase conjugation of 80 Gb/s polarization-multiplexed RZ-DPSK signals is demonstrated. Its insertion before a 728 km dispersion-managed link lifts the fiber nonlinearity tolerance to enable higher power transmission.

CTu1H.4 • 11:45 How to Drive CARS in the Backward Direction?, Vladislav Yakovlev1, Georgi Petrov1, Leonid Golo-van1, Gary Noojin2, Benjamin A. Rockwell3, Hope T. Beier3, Robert J. Thomas3, Brett Hokr1,2; 1Texas A&M University, USA; 2TASC, Inc., USA; 3Air Force Research Laboratory, 711 HPW/RHDO, USA. We explore the feasibility of generating strong coher-ent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) signal in the backward direction.

QTu1E.5 • 12:00 PT symmetry in coherent atomic media, Jiteng Sheng1, Mohammad-Ali Miri2, Demetrios N. Christodoulides2, Min Xiao1,3; 1University of Arkansas, USA; 2University of Central Florida, USA; 3Nanjing University, China. We demonstrate that four-level atomic media provide a versatile platform for realizing parity-time (PT) symmet-ric optical potentials. The peculiar propagation dynamics emerging from such arrangements are examined both below and above the PT threshold.

CTu1F.5 • 12:00 Electro-Optic tuning of Mid-infrared photonic crystal cavities using graphene, Raji Shankar1, Yu Yao1, Julie Frish1,3, Ian Frank1, Yi Song2, Jing Kong2, Federico Capasso1, Marko Loncar1; 1Harvard University, USA; 2EECS, MIT, USA; 3ECE, Boston University, USA. We demonstrate electro-optical modulation of Mid-infrared Si photonic crystal cavities using the tuning of graphene. A wave-length shift of 4 nm is seen around a wavelength of 4.47 µm, demonstrating the feasibility of on-chip electro-optic modulation for the Mid-infrared.

CTu1H.5 • 12:00 Laser Radar Point-Target Localization at High Photon Efficiency, Jeffrey H. Shapiro1, James Sch-neeloch2, Gregory A. Howland2, John C. Howell2; 1Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, USA. Minimum error-probability laser radar point-target localization is analyzed, including the effects of dark counts, background counts, and target speckle. Results from preliminary table-top experiments are reported.

QTu1E.6 • 12:15 Topological control of optical nonlinearities in quantum-confined systems, Shoresh Shafei1, Rick Lytel1, Mark Kuzyk1; 1Washington State University, USA. We manipulate the topology of geometrically similar quantum graphs (networks of quantum wires) to discover configurations with large in-creases in their optical nonlinearities.

CTu1F.6 • 12:15 Electrical Control of Photonic Crystal Cavity by Graphene, Arka Majumdar1,2, Jonghwan Kim1, Jelena Vuckovic2, Feng Wang1; 1Physics Depart-ment, U C Berkeley, USA; 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA. We demonstrate electro-optic modulation of a graphene-clad silicon pho-tonic crystal cavity. A change of 1.5 nm in cavity linewidth is observed.

CTu1G.5 • 12:30 Temperature-Independent Flexible Broadcast-ing based on Cascaded χ(2) Nonlinearities in a Broadband Type-0 Step-Chirped PPLN, Meenu Ahlawat1, Ameneh Bostani1, Amirhos-sein Tehranchi2, Raman Kashyap1,2; 1Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Tunable temperature-independent triple-idler broadcasting of a signal into selective WDM channels to cover whole C and L bands is demonstrated using cascaded-second-order interactions in a 20-mm-long step-chirped PPLN with an engineered ~28-nm-wide type-0 second-harmonic bandwidth.

CTu1H.6 • 12:15 Reduction of Spurious Reflections in OLCR Lidar, Thomas Waterholter1, Ernst Brinkmeyer1; 1Optische Kommunikationstechnik, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. We present a method of removing the impact of spuri-ous reflections of hard targets at fixed positions in a continuous wave synthetic low coherence Lidar (OLCR Lidar).

QTu1E.7 • 12:30 Invited Optical Third-Harmonic Microscopy of Gra-phene, Jerry Dadap1, Sung-Young Hong2, Nicholas Petrone3, Po-Chun Yeh4, James Hone3, Richard M. Osgood1,4; 1Applied Physics, Columbia University, USA; 2Chemistry, Columbia University, USA; 3Me-chanical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 4Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA. We report third-harmonic generation in graphene on glass. Polarization and azimuthal-rotation data confirm graphene’s isotropic symmetry proper-ties. High-contrast imaging yields structural features and its coherent nature via layer-number dependence.

CTu1F.7 • 12:30 Integration of Graphene Photodetectors with Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides, Andreas Pospischil1, Markus Humer2, Marco Furchi1, Romain Guider2, Thomas Fromherz2, Thomas Mueller1; 1Institut fuer Photonik, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; 2Institut fuer Halbleiter und Festkoerperphysik, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. We report a graphene-based pho-todetector that is monolithically integrated with a silicon-on-insulator waveguide. Ultra-wideband operation across all optical telecommunication windows, from O- to U-band, is achieved.

CTu1H.7 • 12:30 Performance Analysis for FMCW Ranging Us-ing Photon-Counting Detectors, Baris Erkmen1, Jason R. Dahl2, Zeb W. Barber2; 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA; 2Spectrum Lab, Montana State University, USA. We analyze the performance of FMCW ranging with photon-counting detectors. We derive the Cramér-Rao bound, then determine the optimal fraction of signal-arm photons, given a fixed mean number of source-generated photons.


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CTu1I • Optical Frequency Combs—Continued

CTu1J • Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers—Continued

CTu1K • High Power Fiber Lasers—Continued

CTu1L • Photonic Integration and Interconnects—Continued

CTu1I.4 • 11:45 Direct generation of octave-spanning spectrum and 40 dB frequency offset signal by a 528 MHz Yb:fiber ring laser, Guizhong Wang1, Tongxiao Jiang1, Chen Li1, Aimin Wang1, Zhigang Zhang1; 1Peking University, China. We report 40 dB S/N ratio fceo obtained from a 528 MHz repetition rate femtosecond Yb:fiber laser without amplifications. This system offers a potential for real-world fiber laser frequency comb generation.

JTu1J.3 • 11:45 Microstrip Antenna Coupled Distributed Feedback Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers, Tsung-Yu Kao1, Qing Hu1, John L. Reno2; 1Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2Center of Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, USA. By coupling microstrip an-tennas to DFB THz QCLs, single mode emission from a 31-period antenna-coupled third-order DFB laser yields 4 times power comparing with traditional third-order DFB lasers. Device emits 4mW pulsed power at 10K.

CTu1K.4 • 11:45 All Fiber High Average Power nanosecond Laser Based on Core Diameter Adjustment, Du Songtao1, Wang Ziwei1,2, Zhaokun Wang1,2, Jing He1,2, Jun Zhou1, Qihong Lou1; 1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, USA. We report on a 200W, 2mJ, 25ns MOPA fiber laser, the last stage of which has a hybrid gain fiber composed of large-core-diameter and small-core diameter Yb doped fibers.

CTu1L.4 • 11:45 Integrated Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing Device using 3-D Waveguides and a Silica PLC, Binbin Guan1, Ryan P. Scott1, Nicolas K. Fontaine2, Tiehui Su1, Carlo Ferrari3, Mark Cappuzzo3, Fred Klemens3, Bob Keller3, Mark Earnshaw3, S. J. Ben Yoo1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Davis, USA; 2Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; 3Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA. We demonstrate a low-loss hybrid-integrated device based on a silica planar lightwave circuit (PLC) coupled to a 3-D photonic circuit that efficiently generates and multiplexes 15 optical orbital an-gular momentum (OAM) modes in free space.

CTu1I.5 • 12:00 Stabilization of the Offset Frequency of an All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Erbium Frequency Comb, Laura Sinclair1, Ian Codding-ton1, William C. Swann1, Nathan R. Newbury1; 1National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA. We demonstrate a completely polarization-maintaining fiber frequency comb operating at a 200 MHz repetition rate and show initial phase-locking of the carrier-envelope offset frequency. This design is compatible with a robust, fieldable frequency comb.

JTu1J.4 • 12:00 Intensity sampling of a modelocked terahertz quantum cascade laser, Joshua R. Freeman1, Jean Maysonnave1, Kenneth Maussang1, Pierrick Cavalié1, Harvey Beere2, David Ritchie2, Juliette Mangeney1, Sukhdeep Dhillon1, Jérôme Tignon1; 1Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Supéri-eure, France; 2Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Pulses from an actively modelocked terahertz quantum cascade laser are characterized using an optical sampling technique to detect the instantaneous terahertz intensity. Dependence of the pulse width on modu-lation power and drive current are investigated.

CTu1K.5 • 12:00 Single mode 9.1mJ and 10ns pulses from 55μm core Yb-doped CCC fiber MOPA, cheng zhu1, I-Ning Hu1, Xiuquan Ma1, Almantas Galvana-uskas1; 1University of Michigan, USA. 10ns pulses with 9.1mJ energy at 5 kHz repetition rate and in a diffraction-limited output beam are generated by a nanosecond-pulsed fiber amplifier system based on 35μm and 55μm core Yb-doped Chrially-Coupled-Core (CCC) fibers.

CTu1L.5 • 12:00 Invited High-density Silicon Optical Interposer for Inter-chip Interconnects based on Compact and High Speed Components, Takahiro Nakamura1, Yutaka Urino1, Junichi Fujikata1, Tatsuya Usuki1, Masashige Ishizaka1, Koji Yamada1, Tsuyoshi Hori-kawa2, Yasuhiko Arakawa3; 1Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association, Japan; 2Innova-tion Center for Advanced Nanodevices, National Institutes of Adovanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; 3Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. By integrating compact and high-speed silicon modulators and germanium photodiodes with light sources, we demonstrated a silicon optical interposer for inter-chip interconnects with a bandwidth density of 6.6 Tbps/cm2.

CTu1I.6 • 12:15 Frequency noise of amplifier-similariton laser combs, Peng Li1,2, William H. Renninger1, Zhi Zhao3, Zhigang Zhang2, Frank W. Wise1; 1Depart-ment of Applied Physics, Cornell University, USA; 2School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China; 3Department of Physics, Cornell University, USA. Measurements of the free running carrier envelope offset frequency (fceo) linewidth of a similariton based optical frequency comb show that the frequency noise of the laser is independent of net cavity dispersion.

JTu1J.5 • 12:15 Terahertz difference-frequency generation in quantum cascade lasers with high conversion efficiency, karun vijayraghavan1, Min Jang1, Aiting Jiang1, Xiaojun Wang2, Mariano Troccoli2, Mikhail A. Belkin1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Adtech Optics, USA. Room-temperature, narrow-linewidth terahertz quan-tum cascade laser sources based on intracavity Cherenkov difference-frequency generation with emission at 3.5 THz, nearly 60µW power output, and conversion efficiency of approximately 0.55 mW/W2 are reported.

CTu1K.6 • 12:15 High Efficiency Cascaded Raman Fiber Laser with Output Power of 301W at 1480nm, V. R. Supradeepa1, Jeffrey W. Nicholson1; 1OFS Laboratories, USA. We demonstrate record power and efficiency for 1.5micron fiber lasers using a cascaded Raman laser based on a new architecture with output power of 301W at 1480nm and optical to optical conversion efficiency of 42%.

CTu1I.7 • 12:30 Phase Noise Characterization of a 25-GHz-Spaced Optical Frequency Comb from a Phase-Modulated Laser, Atsushi Ishizawa1, Tadashi Nishikawa2, Akira Mizutori3, Hidehiko Takara4, Atsushi Takada5, Tetsuomi Sogawa1, Masafumi Koga3; 1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan; 2Tokyo Denki University, Japan; 3Oita University, Ja-pan; 4NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan; 5University of Tokushima, Japan. We demonstrate a phase-noise linear increment proportional to the spectral mode number of a 25-GHz-spaced fre-quency comb generated from a phase-modulated laser by using the beat note between each comb mode and a tunable laser.

JTu1J.6 • 12:30 Aperiodic Lattice-Modified Mode Pulling in THz Lasers, Md Khairuzzaman1, Owen P. Mar-shall1, Harvey Beere2, David Ritchie2, Subhasish Chakraborty1; 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The gain-induced mode pulling in terahertz quantum cascade lasers is measured and then modified using an aperiodic photonic lattice, providing a complex multi-band filter response, integrated within the Fabry-Pérot cavity.

CTu1K.7 • 12:30 1.0μm co-seeded Er:Yb fiber amplifier with 50W output power at 1.5μm, Michael Steinke1,2, Diet-mar Kracht1,2, Jörg Neumann1,2, Peter Wessels1,2; 1Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany; 2Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research - QUEST, Germany. Co-seeding method at 1.0μm was applied in order to scale up the 1.5μm output power of a 976nm pumped single-frequency Er:Yb-codoped triple clad fiber amplifier to a maximum output power of 50W.

CTu1L.6 • 12:30 Polymeric Thermo-Optic Switch with Imprint-ing and Print-on-Demand Technology, Xiaohui Lin1, Tao Ling2, Harish Subbaraman3, L. Jay Guo2, Ray T. Chen1; 1Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA; 3Omega Optics, Inc., USA. We demonstrate polymer based 2×2 thermo-optic switches using imprinting and print-on-demand techniques. Operation performance shows <0.5ms switching time at 1kHz.The fabrication process gives great potential for high throughput and low cost fabrica-tion of photonic devices.









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ATu1M • Symposium onThe Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Physics of Laser Driven ICF—Continued

ATu1N • Symposium on Lab-on-a-Chip Applications: Lab on Chip III—Continued

CTu1O • Challenges for High Average Power Lasers I—Continued

QTu1P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Biophotonics—Continued

ATu1M.3 • 12:00 Invited Progress in Ignition Experiments at the NIF, John Edwards1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. at 80-90% of the ignition point design values. This paper will discuss the experiments and plans to understand and resolve the underlying physics issues.

ATu1N.3 • 11:45 Invited Lab on a Chip Fluorescence Measurements - from Single Biomolecules to Testing Standards, Samuel Stavis1; 1NIST CNST, USA. Faint fluores-cent signals from within lab on a chip devices may be overwhelmed by autofluorescent background noise from nearby surfaces and bulk materials. This measurement challenge becomes increas-ingly relevant as plastic chips are commercialized and standardized.

CTu1O.2 • 12:00 High power Yb:CALGO thin-disk lasers in cw and fs regime, Frederic P. Druon1, Sandrine Ricaud1,5, Anaël Jaffre2, Katrin Wentsch3, Akiko Suganuma2, Bruno Viana2, Pascal Loiseau2, Birgit Weichelt3, Marwan Abdou Ahmed3, Andreas Voss3, Thomas Graf3, Daniel Rytz4, Clemens Hönninger5, Eric Mottay5, Marc Hanna1, Patrick Georges1; 1Laboratoire Charles Fabry, France; 2Chimie-Paristech, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, France; 3Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW), Germany; 4FEE GmbH, Germany; 5Amplitude Systèmes, France. Results on high-power oscillators based on Yb:CALGO in thindisk architecture are presented, in fs regime, 28W, 1.3µJ, 300 fs pulses and 20W, 0.9µJ, 197 fs pulses and in cw multimode regime 152W.

QTu1P.3 • 12:00 Invited Non-blinking “Giant”Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Ideal Probes for Real-time Three-di-mensional Tracking, Jennifer Hollingsworth1, James Werner1, Han Htoon1, Andrei Piryatinski2, Richard Schaller3,4, Yagnaseni Ghosh1, Allison Dennis1, Aaron Keller1, Benjamin Mangum1, Daniel Hannah3; 1Materials Physics & Applications: Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 2Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 3Depart-ment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA; 4Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA. We describe the development and characterization of two novel non-blinking “giant” nanocrystal quantum dot (g-NQD) systems and their application to single-particle tracking in live cells real-time and in three dimensions.

ATu1N.4 • 12:15 Dynamic switching between microparticle buffering and dropping on a silicon nitride optofluidic microring resonator, Jiawei Wang1, Andrew W. Poon1; 1Photonic Device Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Computer Engi-neering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. We demonstrate dynamic switching between microparticle buffering and dropping on a silicon nitride optofluidic microring resonator by polarization switching. We calculate the cavity-field-enhancement factor as an indica-tor to explain the transition between buffering and dropping.

CTu1O.3 • 12:15 Multislab Yb:YAG Cryogengic gas cooled high avearage power amplifier delivering 7.4 J at 10 Hz, Paul J. Phillips1, Klaus Ertel1, Paul D. Mason1, Saumyabrata Banerjee1, Andrew Lintern1, Justin Greenhalgh1, C. Hernandez-Gomez21, John Collier1; 1Cemtral Laser Facility, STFC, United Kingdom. We present the latest results for DiPOLE, a cryogenic gas colled multi-slab Yb:YAG DPSSL amplifier, demonstarting 7.4 J at 10 Hz

ATu1M.4 • 12:30 Invited The LMJ program: Overview and Status of LMJ & PETAL Projects, Jean-Luc Miquel1, Charles Lion1, Pierre Vivini1; 1CEA DAM, France. The LMJ is a keystone of the French Simulation Program, which combines improvement of physics models, high performance numerical simulation, and experimental validation. A coupled Petawatt beam (PETAL) will extend the experimentations field.

ATu1N.5 • 12:30 Invited Red-emitting Substrates for Rapid Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection, James N. Herron1, Konrad Engelhardt1, Vald O’Mel1; 1University of Utah, USA. We report a new red-emitting molecular beacon for botulinum neurotoxin A suitable for inexpensive rapid assay formats. Reaction kinetics including parameters like Km and Vmax were evaluated in a fluorogenic assay using the BoNT/A light chain.

CTu1O.4 • 12:30 Characterization of Intracavity Losses in Yb-ion Laser Oscillators Based on Spectroscopic Gain Analysis, Haitao Zhao1, Arkady Major1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. Intracavity losses of Yb-ion laser oscillators cannot be properly estimated using the traditional Findlay-Clay analysis. This work provides a simple, accurate and dynamic technique to determine them based on the wavelength-dependent gain analysis.

QTu1P.4 • 12:30 Invited Designing Quantum Rod Morphology, Micro-structure, and Surface Chemistry for Optimum Energy Transfer, Matthew Maye1; 1Syracuse University, USA. In this presentation we discuss the bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) between firefly luciferase from Photinus pyralis (Ppy) with core/shell semiconductive quantum rods (QRs).



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QTu1A • Complex Plasmonic Structures—Continued

QTu1B • Mid-IR Plasmonics & Vibrations—Continued

QTu1C • Quantum Logic & Interference—Continued

QTu1D • Optical Properties of 2D & Layered Materials—Continued

QTu1A.7 • 12:45 Absorption Enhancement in 2D Nanocrystal Superlattices through Near-Field Dipolar Coupling: A Novel Optical Phenomenon at the Nanoscale, Pieter Geiregat1,2, Abdoulghafar Omari1,2, Yolanda Justo2, Dries Van Thourhout1, Zeger Hens2; 1Information Technology, University of Ghent, Belgium; 2Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, University of Ghent, Belgium. We demonstrate giant and broadband enhancement of the nano-crystal absorption cross section in close packed nanocrystal superlattices, which is the first report on a collective optical phenomenon in this type of self-assembled metamaterials to date.

QTu1B.7 • 12:45 Tunable, Epitaxial, Semimetallic Films and for Plasmonics, Erica Krivoy1, Alok Vasudev2, Hari P. Nair1, Vaishno D. Dasika1, Ron Synowicki3, Ro-dolfo Salas1, Scott J. Maddox1, Mark Brongersma2, Seth Bank1; 1Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; 3J.A. Woollam Co., Inc, USA. We present rare-earth monopnictide alloys as tunable Mid-infrared epitaxial semimetals for plasmonics. The La(1-x)Lu(x)As system combines high carrier concentrations, epitaxial compatibility with many III-V substrates, and tunable plasma reflection edge throughout much of the Mid-infrared.

QTu1C.8 • 12:45 Hyperentanglement in Semiconductor Wave-guides, Dongpeng Kang1, Lukas G. Helt2, Sergei V. Zhukovsky2,1, Juan P. Torres3,4, John E. Sipe2, A. S. Helmy1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Physics, University of Toronto, Canada; 3ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain; 4Departament of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. A proposal to generate modal and polarization hyperentangled photons us-ing Bragg reflection waveguides is discussed. A high quality of entanglement is achievable with spectral filtering using filter bandwidths of a few nanometers.

QTu1D.8 • 12:45 Linewidth Anisotropy of the Heavy Hole Exciton in (110)-Oriented GaAs Quantum Wells, Rohan Singh1,2, Travis M. Autry1,2, Gaël Nardin1, Galan Moody1,2, Hebin Li1, Klaus Pierz3, Mark Bieler3, Steven T. Cundiff1,2; 1JILA, University of Colorado & NIST, USA; 2Physics, University of Colorado, USA; 3Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany. We report crystal-axis dependent homogeneous linewidths of the heavy hole exciton resonance in a (110)-oriented GaAs quantum well measured us-ing two-dimensional Fourier transform spectros-copy. The increase in homogeneous linewidth with temperature shows an activation-like behavior.

13:00–14:00 Lunch and Unopposed Exhibit Only Time, Exhibit Halls 1 and 2 (concessions available)

14:00–16:00 Market Focus Session II: Photonics Entrepreneurs, Exhibit Hall 2

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QTu1E • Laser Cooling and Novel Pheonomena—Continued

CTu1F • Graphene & Other Novel Materials—Continued

CTu1G • Parametric Optical Signal Processing—Continued

CTu1H • Remote Sensing and Imaging—Continued

CTu1F.8 • 12:45 p-n Junction Photodetectors Based on Macro-scopic Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Films, Xiaowei He1, Sebstian Nanot1, xuan wang1, Robert H. Hauge2, Alexander A Kane3, John E M. Goldsmith3, Francois Leonard3, Junichiro Kono1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice Univer-sity, USA; 2Chemistry, Rice University, USA; 3Sanida National laboratories,, USA. We have designed, fabricated, and characterized novel p-n junction photodetectors based on macroscopic single-wall carbon nanotube films. A broadband responsivity up to ~ 1 V/W was observed at the junction region.

CTu1H.8 • 12:45 Lidar-Radar velocimetry using RF-modulated optical pulses generated by non-resonant fre-quency-shifted feedback, Marc Vallet1, Jonathan Barreaux1, Marco Romanelli1, Jérémie Thévenin1, Lihua Wang1, Marc Brunel1; 1Universite de Rennes I, France. A radio-frequency modulated pulse train is generated by means of a frequency-shifted feed-back on a Q-switched laser. The phase coherence of the modulation allows one to perform Lidar-Radar measurements on indoor moving targets



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CTu1I.8 • 12:45 Laser mode hyper-combs, Alon Schwartz1, Gi-lad Oren1, Alexander Bekker1, Baruch Fischer1; 1Technion, Israel. We present a first realization of multi-dimensional laser mode construction by multi-frequency active mode-locking, mapped to the multi-dimensional spherical-model in statistical-mechanics (and provide its rare physical realization) with implications to ultrashort light-pulse generation.

JTu1J.7 • 12:45 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Performance for Structures with Variable Barrier Heights, Aiting Jiang1, karun vijayraghavan1, Alpar Matyas2, Christian Jirauschek2, Zbig Wasilewski3, Mikhail A. Belkin1; 1Department of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Institute for Nanoelectronics, Technische Universität München, Germany; 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. We experimentally studied the performance of GaAs/AlGaAs terahertz quantum cascade lasers with variable barrier heights in the bandstructure. Best devices achieved Tmax close to that of the record structure, while having lower threshold current density.

CTu1K.8 • 12:45 Linearly polarized Q-switched large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber laser operating at 978 nm, Jing He1,2, Songtao Du1,2, Jun Zhou1, Ziwei Wang1,2, Zhaokun Wang1,2, Qihong Lou1; 1Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Inst of Optics and Fine Mech, CAS, China; 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. A linearly polarized Q-switching large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber laser at 978 nm is demonstrated. Short pulse of 14 ns duration is achieved with 36 dB polarization extinction ratio at 10 kHz repetition rate and 2 W output power.

CTu1L.7 • 12:45 On-Chip Optical Interconnect Module with 3-D Optical Path Using Guided-Wave Silicon Optical Bench, Po-Kuan Shen1, Chin-Ta Chen1, Sheng-Long Li1, Chia-Hao Chang1, Shu-Hsuan Lin1, Chia-Chi Chang2, Hsiao-Chin Lan2, Yun-Chih Lee3, Mount-Learn Wu1; 1Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Taiwan; 2Optical Sciences Center, National Central Univer-sity, Taiwan; 3Centera Photonics Inc., Taiwan. A guided-wave silicon optical bench with monolithic 45degree micro-reflector for 3-D integrated opti-cal interconnect is experimentally demonstrated. Optical coupling-efficiency between VCSEL and PIN PD is -1.74dB with 10mA bias, and detector current is 1.22mA.



CTu1I • Optical Frequency Combs—Continued

CTu1J • Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers—Continued

CTu1K • High Power Fiber Lasers—Continued

CTu1L • Photonic Integration and Interconnects—Continued

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CTu1O.5 • 12:45 Specificity of Thermally Induced Depolariza-tion in CaF2, Anton G. Vyatkin1, Ilya L. Snetkov1, Oleg V. Palashov1, Efim A. Khazanov1; 1Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sci-ences, Russian Federation. Reduction of thermally induced depolarization in CaF2 by more than an order of magnitude was obtained by either choos-ing a proper crystal orientation or using a novel method of compensation.



ATu1M • Symposium onThe Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Physics of Laser Driven ICF—Continued

ATu1N • Symposium on Lab-on-a-Chip Applications: Lab on Chip III—Continued

CTu1O • Challenges for High Average Power Lasers I—Continued

QTu1P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Biophotonics—Continued

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14:00–16:00QTu2A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials IPresider: Hui Cao; Yale University, United States

14:00–16:00QTu2B • Ultrafast and Nonlinear PlasmonicsPresider: Christoph Lienau; Carl V. Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Germany

14:00–16:00QTu2C • Quantum Key DistributionPresider: Nicholas Peters; Applied Comunication Sciences, United States

14:00–16:00CTu2D • Laser Technologies for High-intensity Laser FacilitiesPresider: Federico Canova; Amplitude Technologies, France

QTu2A.1 • 14:00 TutorialHyperbolic Metamaterials, Evgenii E. Nari-manov1; 1Purdue Univ., USA. Hyperbolic meta-materials exhibit a broad-bandwidth singular-ity in photonic density of states, with resulting manifestations in a variety of phenomena, from spontaneous emission to light propagation and scattering. Present tutorial reviews recent develop-ments in this field.

Evgenii Narimanov as a associate professor in the School Electrical and Computer Engineering in Purdue University. He received his PhD from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University and from 1998 to 2000 a postdoctoral member of technical staff in the theory department of Bell Laboratories. In 2000-2006 Dr. Narimanov was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Prof. Narimanov is a Fellow of OSA and a Fel-low of IEEE.

QTu2B.1 • 14:00 Ultrafast Laser-excited Relativistic Plasmonic Radiation, Yen-Chieh Huang1,2, Kuan-Yan Huang1, Chia-Hsiang Chen1, Yi-Chu Wang2, Ming-Hsiung Wu1; 1Institute of Photonics Tech-nologies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; 2Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. A 90-fs laser pulse knocks out electrons from a heli-cal wire to induce a near-speed-of-light plasmonic pulse on the wire and generates undulator-like radiation with Lorentz contraction and relativistic Doppler shift.

QTu2C.1 • 14:00 InvitedHow secure is quantum cryptography? Renato Renner1; 1ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It has recently been demonstrated that practical quantum cryptographic schemes are vulnerable to hacking attacks. In this talk, I will discuss the sources of this problem and present a novel generic approach to resolve it.

CTu2D.1 • 14:00 Progress on the XG-III high-power laser facility with synchronized fs, ps and ns output pulses, Jingqin Su1, Rui Zhang1; 1Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, China. The paper presents the technical design and progress on a high-power laser XG-III which consists of three synchronized beams, i.e. the femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond beams.

QTu2B.2 • 14:15 Photonic Crystal Formation On Tapered Optical Nanofibers Using Femtosecond Laser Ablation Technique, Kali P. Nayak1, Kohzo Hakuta1; 1Center for Photonic Innovations, University of Electro-Communications, Japan. We demonstrate that thousands of periodic nano-craters are fabricated on a tapered optical nanofiber, by irradiating just a single femtosecond laser pulse. Such periodic nano-craters on the nanofiber, act as a 1-D pho-tonic crystal.

CTu2D.2 • 14:15 Design and Analysis of Meter-Size Deformable Gratings for Compressing Kilojoule, Petawatt Laser Pulses, Jie Qiao1, Jonathan Papa2,1, Adam Kalb1; 1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, USA; 2Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA. Monolithic meter-size diffrac-tion gratings are required to improve kilojoule, petawatt laser-system performance. A deformable-grating-based pulse compressor with optimized actuator positions is presented to correct the spatial and temporal aberrations induced by grat-ing wavefront errors.

QTu2B.3 • 14:30 Mode Matched Harmonic Generation in Plas-monic Nanostructures, Kevin P. O’Brien1, Haim Suchowski1, Jun Suk Rho1, Alessandro Salandrino1, Boubacar Kante1, Xiaobo Yin1, Xiang Zhang1; 1NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), University of California Berkeley, USA. Nonlinear emission from plasmonic nanostructures is stud-ied by measuring the second harmonic and third harmonic emission as a function of geometry. An overlap integral and mode-matching consider-ations accurately predict the optimal geometry.

QTu2C.2 • 14:30 Long Distance Distribution of Entangled Photon Pair Over 300 km of Fiber, Takahiro Inagaki1, Nobuyuki Matsuda1, Osamu Tadanaga2, Yoshiki Nishida2, Masaki Asobe2, Hiroki Takesue1; 1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corpora-tion, Japan; 2NTT Photonics Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan. We report the experimental distribution of a time-bin entangled photon pair over 300 km of optical fiber, which is a record for long-distance quantum communication. The observed two-photon interference fringe exhibited a visibility of 84%.

CTu2D.3 • 14:30 Long-Term Performance of Liquid Crystal Optics on Large Fusion Lasers, Tanya Z. Kosc1, Aimee R. Owens1, Amy L. Rigatti1, Steve D. Jacobs1,2, Kenneth L. Marshall1, John H. Kelly1, Mark Romanofsky1, Gary L. Mitchell1; 1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, USA; 2Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA. Liquid crystal polarizers and waveplates are an enabling technology for large fusion lasers. While damage and replacement rates of liquid crystal optics remain remarkably low, degradation in polarizer performance has been noted and studied.

QTu2B.4 • 14:45 Second harmonic generations pumped by Sur-face Plasmon enhanced fields in nonelectrically poled NLO polymers, Atsushi Sugita1, Tomoyuki Sato1, Kaname Suto1, Atsushi Ono1, Yoshimasa Kawata1, Shigeru Tasaka1; 1Shizuoka University, Japan. The SHG in nonelectrically poled NLO polymers was investigated at Surface Plasmon resonance. The SHG conversion efficiency in the polymer-coated Ag films was more than 10 times as high as that in the non-coated ones.

QTu2C.3 • 14:45 High bit rate quantum key distribution with 100 dB security, Ketaki Patel1,2, Marco Lucamarini1,3, James F. Dynes1,3, Bernd Fröhlich1,3, Andrew W. Sharpe1, Alexander Dixon3, Zhiliang L. Yuan1,3, Richard Penty2, Andrew J. Shields1,3; 1Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom; 2University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Corporate Re-search & Development Center, Japan. We report the operation of a gigahertz clocked quantum key distribution system featuring high compos-able and quantifiable security while maintaining more than 1 Mbit/s secure key rate over a 50 km quantum channel.

CTu2D.4 • 14:45 Novel Contrast Enhancement of Astra-Gemini Laser Facility, Yunxin Tang1, Chris J. Hooker1, Oleg V. Chekhlov1, Steve Hawkes1, Bryn Parry1, Klaus Ertel1, John Collier1, Rajeev P. Pattathil1; 1STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom. We report on the recent contrast en-hancement of Astra-Gemini laser by implementing higher-quality gratings resulted in a significant contrast improvement. We have investigated and quantified the contribution to the contrast pedestal from each individual grating.








Tuesday, 11 June

14:00–16:00CTu2E • NLO in FibersPresider: Goëry Genty; Tampere University of Technology, Finland

14:00–16:00CTu2F • Silicon Photonic ModulatorsPresider: Jessie Rosenberg; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States

14:00–16:00CTu2G • Microwave Photonics IPresider: Li Qian, University of Toronto, Canada

14:00–16:00CTu2H • Measurements in Extreme EnvironmentsPresider: Thomas Reichardt; Sandia National Labs, United States

CTu2E.1 • 14:00 Two Schemes for Pulse Compression in Gas-Filled Kagomé-PCF, Ka Fai Mak1, John C. Trav-ers1, Nicolas Y. Joly2,1, Amir Abdolvand1, Philip Russell1,2; 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany; 2Department of Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Two schemes for multi-μJ pulse compression in noble-gas-filled hollow-core kagomé-PCF are demonstrated and compared. A fiber-plus-chirped-mirror combination compresses 150 fs, 9.5 μJ pulses to 26 fs, and soliton-effect compression produces sub 7 fs pulses.

CTu2F.1 • 14:00 InvitedSilicon Optical Modulators for Integrated Transceivers, Graham T. Reed1, David Thomson1, Frederic Y. Gardes1, Goran Z. Mashanovich1, You-fang Hu1, Ke Li1, P. R. Wilson1, L. Zimmermann2, Henri Porte1, Bernard Goll3, S. W. Chen5, S. H. Hsu6, Jean-Marc Fedeli6, Zimmermann Horst3, K. Debnath7, Thomas F. Krauss8, L. O’Faolain9; 1University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany; 3Vienna University of Technology, Aus-tria; 4Photline Technologies, France; 5National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; 6CEA LETI, France; 7Uni-versity of St. Andrews, United Kingdom; 8University of York, United Kingdom; 9Stanford University, USA. We present modulators developed in the projects “HELIOS”, and “UK Silicon Photonics”, integra-tion with modulator driver to produce the first silicon modulator fully integrated with BiCMOS, and multiplexed photonic crystal modulators for ultra-low power operation.

CTu2G.1 • 14:00 InvitedOptical Frequency Combs and Their Applica-tion in Microwave Photonics and Coherent Signal Processing, Peter J. Delfyett1, Josue Davila-Rodriguez1, Anthony Klee1, Sharad Bhooplapur1, Charles Williams1; 1Univ. of Central Florida, USA. Optical frequency combs are used as a bank of coherent local oscillators for applications in mi-crowave photonics. We explore coherent optical signal processing using parallel architectures in areas of waveform generation, measurement, and matched filtering.

CTu2H.1 • 14:00 Crustal Deformation Measurement Using an Optical Fiber Strain Sensor, qingwen liu1, Tomochika Tokunaga2, Zuyuan He1; 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer-sity, China; 2Department of Environment Systems, the University of Tokyo, Japan. We report an optical fiber strain sensor with ultra-high resolution, large measurement range and fast response for geo-physical applications. Crustal deformation caused by ocean tide and by seismic wave was successfully recorded in field experiments.

CTu2E.2 • 14:15 Efficient Anti-Stokes Generation via Stimulated Raman Scattering in a H2-filled Hollow-Core PCF, Barbara Trabold1, Amir Abdolvand1, An-dreas M. Walser1, Philip Russell1; 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany. Forward stimulated Raman scattering is used to generate a strong anti-Stokes signal in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (PCF). Phase-matching is achieved using higher-order modes and is controlled with a spatial light modulator.

CTu2H.2 • 14:15 Measurements of Uranium Line Widths and Pressure Broadening Coefficients in Atmo-spheric Pressure Laser-Induced Plasmas, Nicholas Taylor1, Mark C. Phillips1; 1Optics and IR Sensors, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. Absorption spectra of neutral uranium atoms generated in a laser-induced plasma are measured with tunable diode lasers to determine line widths and pressure broadening coefficients. Various background gases are examined at pressures from 10-760 Torr.

CTu2E.3 • 14:30 Compact and broadly tunable near-visible parametric wavelength converter based on polarization-maintaining photonic-crystal fiber, Robert T. Murray1, Edmund J R. Kelleher1, Sergei V. Popov1, Arnaud Mussot2, Alexandre Kudlinski2, James R. Taylor1; 1Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molecules (PhLAM), IRCICA, Universite Lille 1, France. We report a PM-PCF based near-visible parametric wavelength con-verter, pumped by a diode-seeded master oscillator power amplifier. The system is broadly tunable in wavelength (740-810 nm), pulse duration (0.3-2 ns) and repetition rate (1-30 MHz).

CTu2F.2 • 14:30 Vertical Junction Silicon Microdisk Modula-tor with Integrated Thermal Tuner, Erman Timurdogan1, Cheryl M. Sorace-Agaskar1, Ehsan S. Hosseini1, Gerald Leake2, Douglas D. Cool-baugh2, Michael R. Watts1; 1Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, University at Albany, USA. We demonstrate an approach to integrate the most efficient thermal tuner (4.9-µW/GHz) into a microdisk modulator without sacrificing junction area for the first time. The 6-um diameter modulator achieves low-power (11-fJ/bit) and high-speed (13-Gb/s) operation.

CTu2G.2 • 14:30 Microwave generation using an integrated hybrid silicon mode-locked laser in a coupled optoelectronic oscillator configuration, SUD-HARSANAN SRINIVASAN1, Daryl T. Spencer1, Martijn Heck1, Erik Norberg2, Greg Fish2, Luke Theogarajan1, John E. Bowers1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2Aurrion Inc., USA. We demonstrate the feasibility of using a hybrid silicon mode-locked laser in a coupled optoelectronic oscillator configuration for generating low phase noise 20 GHz microwave signal. The free-running oscillator has a 3dB RF linewidth of 14kHz.

CTu2H.3 • 14:30 An Efficient Frequency-Quadrupling Scheme for Generating Femtosecond UV Radiation Near 200 nm, Waruna Kulatilaka1, Sukesh Roy1, James R. Gord2; 1Spectral Energies LLC, USA; 2Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA. We design and demonstrate an efficient fourth-harmonic generation scheme for obtaining femtosecond pulses near 200 nm from the output of a moderately tunable Ti:sapphire ultrafast amplifier. Overall per pulse conversion efficiency of 1.8% is reported.

CTu2E.4 • 14:45 Nonlinear intermodal interactions in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, Francesco Tani1, John C. Travers1, Philip Russell1,2; 1Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany; 2Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. The emission of pressure-tunable ultra-violet disper-sive waves into higher-order modes of a gas-filled kagome-PCF is experimentally and numerically demonstrated. Numerical evidence of a balance between Kerr-driven self-focusing and plasma-defocusing is also presented.

CTu2F.3 • 14:45 Coupling-modulated microrings for DPSK modulation, Wesley Sacher1, William M. Green2, Solomon Assefa2, Douglas M. Gill2, Tymon Bar-wicz2, Marwan H. Khater2, Edward Kiewra3, Carol Reinholm3, Steven M. Shank3, Yurii A. Vlasov2, Joyce K. Poon1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Toronto, Canada; 2IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA; 3IBM Systems and Technology Group, Microelectronics Division, USA. A coupling-modulated microring in an add-drop configuration for DPSK that uses the π phase-flip in a 2x2 Mach-Zehnder interferometer coupler for the modulation is proposed. The concept is demonstrated in silicon-on-insulator at 10 Gb/s.

CTu2G.3 • 14:45 All-optical Pulse Generation based on gain-induced FWM in a semiconductor optical am-plifier, Fangxin Li1, A. S. Helmy1; 1ECE, University of Toronto, Canada. A novel and simple all optical pulse generation technique based on gain-induced FWM in a SOA is demonstrated using chip-based devices. Thus far, 10 - 42.5 GHz pulse trains are generated with 20 nm tunability.

CTu2H.4 • 14:45 Role of Saturation of Rotational Raman Transi-tion on Femtosecond Vibrational CARS, Anil K. Patnaik1,2, Sukesh Roy3, James R. Gord1; 1Aero-space Systems Directorate, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA; 2Physics, Wright State University, USA; 3Spectral Energies, LLC., USA. Saturation of femtosecond vibrational Raman coherence and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) signal in air show drastically different character-istic compared to nanosecond regime. Rotational Raman saturation is shown to dictate the behavior of vibrational Raman.


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14:00–16:00CTu2I • Frequency Combs: ApplicationsPresider: Young-Jin Kim; Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Korea, Republic of

14:00–16:00CTu2J • Technologies for Access & Datacom NetworkingPresider: Christian Malouin; Juniper Networks Inc., United States

14:00–16:00CTu2K • What’s (really) New in Fibers? Presider: Michalis ZERVAS; Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

CTu2I.1 • 14:00 Dual-comb saturated absorption spectroscopy, Naoya Kuse1, Akira Ozawa1, Isao Ito1, Yohei Ko-bayashi1; 1The Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan. We proposed and demonstrated the broadband saturated absorption spectroscopy with frequency combs as pump and probe lights. Dual-comb spectroscopy was utilized to detect the Doppler-free spectroscopic signal imposed on the probe comb.

CTu2J.1 • 14:00 Up to 21.5Gbps Direct Adaptive OFDM Modula-tion of a Hybrid III/V-on-Silicon Laser, Giovanni Beninca de Farias1, Sylvie Menezo1, Badhise Ben Bakir1, Antoine Descos1, Edouard Grellier1; 1CEA-Leti, France. Record transmissions with the direct modulation of a 1550nm-hybrid III/V-on-Silicon laser of 21.5Gbps in optical back-to-back (B2B) and 12.4Gbps over 50km of Single-mode Fiber (SMF) are achieved. Neither optical amplification, nor optical dispersion-compensation is used.

CTu2K.1 • 14:00 Invited Single-mode Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers, Linli Meng1, John M. Fini1, Jeffrey W. Nicholson1, R. Windeler1, E. Monberg1, Brian J. Mangan1, A. DeSantolo1, F. DiMarcello1; 1OFS Laboratories, USA. We demonstrate the first measured hollow-core fiber employing Perturbed Resonance for Improved Single Modedness (PRISM). The fiber has fundamental-mode loss of 7.5 dB/km, while other modes of the 19-lattice-cell core see loss >3000dB/km.

CTu2I.2 • 14:15 Dual-Comb Metrology for Semiconductor Opti-cal Frequency Comb Characterization, Anthony Klee1, Josue Davila-Rodriguez1, Charles Williams1, Peter J. Delfyett1; 1University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA. Spectrally efficient dual-comb detection is utilized for self-referenced measure-ments of spectral phase of three distinct semicon-ductor frequency combs. The higher-order phase is quantified for each, elucidating the dispersive properties of the gain and fiberized cavities.

CTu2J.2 • 14:15 Exploring the ultimate performance by tailor-ing the transmitter parameters in OOFDM systems, Christian Sánchez1, Beatriz Ortega1, José Capmany1; 1Universidad Politécnica Valen-cia, Spain. We report on the high impact of the transmitter parameters in directly-modulated/directly-detected OOFDM system performance. Large improvements can be obtained by the proper choice of linewidth enhancement factor or the nonlinear gain coefficient, among others.

CTu2I.3 • 14:30 Fast high-precision distance measurements on scattering technical surfaces using frequency combs, Claudius Weimann1, Dominik Meier1, Stefan Wolf1, Yvonne Schleitzer3, Michael Totzeck3, Andreas Heinrich3, Frank Hoeller3, Juerg Leu-thold1,2, Wolfgang Freude1,2, Christian Koos1,2; 1Institute of Photonics and Quantumelectronics (IPQ), KIT, Germany; 2Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), KIT, Germany; 3Carl Zeiss AG, Germany. Using modulator-generated optical frequency combs we measure the distance to scat-tering technical surfaces. We achieve measurement errors below 10 µm, a dynamic range of over 37 dB and an acquisition time of 8.3 µs.

CTu2J.3 • 14:30 Experimental Demonstration of Coherent OCD-MA using Spectral Line Pairing and Heterodyne Detection, Yi Yang1, Keith G. Petrillo1, Hong-Fu Ting1, Jacob Khurgin1, A. Brinton Cooper1, Mark A. Foster1; 1The Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. We ex-perimentally demonstrate coherent spectral phase encoded optical code-division multiple access that fully suppresses multiple access interference and speckle noise for the first time without the need for fast nonlinear time gating.

CTu2K.2 • 14:30 Stable Transmission of 12 OAM States in Air-Core Fiber, Patrick Gregg1, Poul Kristensen2, Steven Golowich3, Jorgen Olsen2, Paul Steinvur-zel1, Siddharth Ramachandran1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, USA; 2OFS-Fitel, Denmark; 3MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA. We demonstrate modally pure propagation over a record number (12) of modes in an optical fiber. An air-core fiber enables this by supporting OAM states. We achieve mode purities >10dB over 2m for all states and >20dB after 1km for a 2 state subset.

CTu2I.4 • 14:45 Optical Sampling by Laser Cavity Tuning with a Highly Varying Laser Cavity Length, Simon Potvin1, Jean-Daniel Deschênes1, Jérôme Genest1; 1Centre d’Optique, Photonique et Laser, Université Laval, Canada. A 100 MHz mode-locked laser is tuned unevenly over 325 kHz with a stepper motor to produce high-SNR spectroscopic measurements of HCN with a 3 GHz spectral resolution. A setup to reduce the resulting heterodyne bandwidth is also demonstrated.

CTu2J.4 • 14:45 Injection-locked WRC-FPLD for optical 16-QAM OFDM Transmission at 12 Gbit/s, Yi-Cheng Yi1, Yu-Chieh Chi1, Min-Chi Cheng1, Gong-Ru Lin1; 1National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Coherently injection-locked and directly modulated WRC-FPLD for optical 16-QAM/122-subcarrier OFDM transmission at 1.5625GHz cen-tral carrier over 25km is demonstrated to achieve 12.5Gbit/s bit-rate with receiving sensitivity of -7dBm at BER of 1×10-7.

CTu2K.3 • 14:45 First Demonstration of a Low Loss 37-cell Hol-low Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber and its Use for Data Transmission, Naveen K. Baddela1, Marco Petrovich1, Yongmin Jung1, John R. Hayes1, Natalie V. Wheeler1, David R. Gray1, Nicholas Wong1, Francesca Parmigiani1, Eric Numkam1, John P. Wooler1, Francesco Poletti1, David J. Richardson1; 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. A low loss (4.5dB/km) 37-cell core HC-PBGF is reported for the first time. Detailed modal analysis using time of flight and S2 techniques, and error-free 40Gbit/s single mode data transmission are presented.









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14:00–16:00ATu2L • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers and Laser Facilities Presider: Jonathan Zuegel; University of Rochester, United States

14:00–16:00CTu2M • Imaging & Microscopy I Presider: Vladislav Yakovlev; Texas A&M University, United States

14:00–15:30ATu2N • Micro and Nanofabrication Presider: Robert Hainsey; Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., United States

14:00–16:00QTu2O • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Optical Processes in Semiconductor Nanostructures Presider: Rohit Prasankumar; Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

ATu2L.1 • 14:00 Invited The NIF: an International High Energy Den-sity and Inertial Fusion User Facility, Edward I. Moses1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Labora-tory, USA. The NIF, the world’s most energetic laser has been operational since 2009, and is now transitioning to an international user facility for high-energy-density and inertial fusion research. This paper summarizes NIF’s experimental capa-bilities and results.

CTu2M.1 • 14:00 Extended wavelength tunability of a picosecond pulse source by double-pass spectral filter for fiber-laser-based stimulated Raman spectral mi-croscopy, Keisuke Nose1, Tatsuya Kishi1, Yasuyuki Ozeki1,2, Yasuo Kanematsu1, Kazuyoshi Itoh1; 1Osaka University, Japan; 2JST-PRESTO, Japan. Broadband Yb-fiber pulses are spectrally filtered in a double-pass configuration for achieving wide tunability of 300 cm-1. The filtered pulses together with Er-fiber ones were successfully used for the spectral imaging of polymer beads.

ATu2N.1 • 14:00 Controlling Laser Ablation inside Transparent Thin Films, Kitty Kumar2, Kenneth K.C. Lee1, Jianzhao Li1, Jun Nogami2, Nazir P. Kherani1, Peter R. Herman1; 1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. A new direction in femtosecond laser nano-structuring of transparent dielectric films is presented towards ejecting thin layers and forming internal nano-voids that open new direc-tions in film coloring, flexible surface structuring and 3D microfluidics.

QTu2O.1 • 14:00 Invited Tuning Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Quan-tum Dot-based Hybrids by Self-assembly, Mircea Cotlet1; 1Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. I will discuss two examples on how self-assembly can be used to control charge transfer between quantum dots and acceptor materials like conduc-tive polymers and fullerenes to achieve control of properties relevant to photovoltaic applications.

CTu2M.2 • 14:15 Imaging the noncentrosymmetric structural organization of tissues with Interferometric Second Harmonic Generation microscopy, Maxime Rivard1, Konstantin Popov2, Mathieu Laliberté1, Antony Bertrand-Grenier1, François Martin1, Henri Pépin1, Christian P. Pfeffer3, Cam-eron Brown4, Lora Ramunno2, François Légaré1; 1INRS-EMT, Canada; 2University of Ottawa, Canada; 3Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; 4University of Oxford, United Kingdom. We image the relative orientation of organized groups of noncentrosymmetric molecules (like collagen or myosin) at the micron scale in bio-logical tissues by combining interferometry and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy.

ATu2N.2 • 14:15 Optically-transparent actuators and micro-me-chanical systems fabricated using femtosecond lasers, Yves Bellouard1; 1Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. Non-linear laser-matter interaction offers the possibility to structure transparent material in three dimensions. Here, we demonstrate that such process can be implemented for fabricating novel type of microsystems, includ-ing actuators transparent to visible light.

ATu2L.2 • 14:30 Invited Orion Laser Update from AWE, Andrew Rande-wich1; 1Atomic Weapons Establishment, United Kingdom. The combined short and long pulse Orion laser is now operational at AWE. This talk will provide an update on its capabilities and achievements to date and the proposed future programme of experiments.

CTu2M.3 • 14:30 Invited Three-dimensional Polarization and Doppler Imaging of Living Tissue by Multi-Contrast Optical Coherence Tomography, Yoshiaki Ya-suno1, Young-Joo Hong1, Myeong-Jin Ju1; 1Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan. A principle and application of Jones matrix tomography (MT) is presented. JMT is first measures three-dimensional distribution of the Jones matrices and derives back-scattering intensity, Doppler shift, and phase retardation from the Jones matrix tomography.

ATu2N.3 • 14:30 Invited Direct Joining and Welding with Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Wataru Watanabe1; 1Natl Inst of Adv Industrial Sci & Tech, Japan. Ultrashort laser pulses can be used to directly join transparent substrates by localized melting and resolidification without any intermediate layers. I review recent advance of welding and joining of glass substrates with ultrashort laser pulses.

QTu2O.2 • 14:30 Invited On the Origin of Efficient Photoluminescence in Silicon Nanocrystals, Daniel Hannah1, Jihua Yang2, Paul Podsiadlo3, Maria Chan3, Arnaud Demortiere3, David Gosztola3, Vitali Prakapenka4, George Schatz1, Uwe Kortshagen2, Richard Schaller1,3; 1Department of Chemistry, Northwest-ern University, USA; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA; 3Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Labora-tory, USA; 4Center of Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, USA. Discrepancies exists regarding the nature of photoluminescence from quantum-confined silicon nanocrystals. Here, using hydrostatic pressure, x-ray diffraction, and optical spectroscopy, we provide fundamental insights regarding whether emission arises from nanocrystal surface or core states.



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QTu2A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials I—Continued

QTu2B • Ultrafast and Nonlinear Plasmonics—Continued

QTu2C • Quantum Key Distribution—Continued

CTu2D • Laser Technologies for High-intensity Laser Facilities—Continued

QTu2A.2 • 15:00 Nonlocal Optics of Plasmonic Nanowire Metamaterials, Brian Wells1, Anatoly V. Zayats2, Viktor A. Podolskiy1; 1Physics and Applied Physics, Univ Massachusets Lowell, USA; 2Physics, King’s College London, United Kingdom. We present an analytical approach that adequately describes the nonlocal optical response for plasmonic nanowire metamaterials. The technique provides an insight into the origin of the additional wave and allows implementation additional boundary conditions.

QTu2B.5 • 15:00 Transverse sum-frequency generation in single semiconductor nanowires, Huakang Yu1, Wei Fang1, Fuxing Gu1, Weitao Liu2, Aimin Wang3, Xing Lin1, Liying Chen1, Limin Tong1; 1State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China; 2Department of Physics, Fudan University, China; 3Institute of Quantum Electron-ics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China. Here we report efficient transverse sum-frequency generation in single semiconductor nanowires with low-power op-eration, which may serve as broadband tunable coherent light source for potential application in physics, chemistry, materials science and biology.

QTu2C.4 • 15:00 Experimental demonstration of continuous-variable quantum key distribution over 80 km of standard telecom fiber, Paul Jouguet1,2, Sébastien Kunz-Jacques2, Anthony Leverrier3,4, Philippe Grangier5, Eleni Diamanti1; 1Télécom ParisTech, France; 2SeQureNet, France; 3INRIA, France; 4ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 5CNRS, France. A continuous-variable quantum key distribution experiment us-ing only standard telecommunication components is presented. We distributed secret keys over 80 km while taking into account finite-size effects and all known device imperfections.

CTu2D.5 • 15:00 InvitedUltra-broadband Front-end Laser Develop-ment for the Apollon 10PW Laser, Patrick Georges1, Dimitrios N. Papadopoulos1,2, Lourdes P. Ramirez1,2, Florence Friebel1, Alain Pellegrina2, Frédéric Druon1; 1Laboratoire Charles Fabry, In-stitut d’Optique, France; 2Laboratoire d’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France. We present the development of the front-end of the Apollon 10PW laser. It is based on broadband OP-CPA stages pumped by high energy diode pumped Yb based amplifiers to produce up to 30 mJ, 10-fs pulses at 20-100 Hz to seed Ti:Sapphire amplifiers.

QTu2A.3 • 15:15 Control of wetting with hyperbolic meta-materials and metallic films, Yuri Barnakov1, Damtew Adnew1, Thejaswi Tumkur1, Vladmir Garvrilenko1, Carl E. Bonner1, Evgenii E. Nari-manov2, Mikhail A. Noginov1; 1Center for Materi-als Research, Norfolk State University, USA; 2Birk Nanotechnology Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. We show that wetting of MgF2 film can be affected by gold and metamaterial substrates separated from a water droplet by as much as several tens on nanometers.

QTu2B.6 • 15:15 Slow Light Femtosecond Pulses by Adiabatic Plasmonic Nanofocusing, Vasily Kravtsov1, Joanna M. Atkin1, Markus B. Raschke1; 1Depart-ment of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado, USA. We demonstrate broadband slow light through adiabatic nanofo-cusing of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on a conical tip. A few femtosecond group delay for nanofocused pulses is found, corresponding to an SPP velocity of less than 0.2c at the apex of the tip.

QTu2C.5 • 15:15 Expeirmenal Relization of Measurement De-vice Independent Quantum Key Distribution, Yang Liu1, Teng-Yun Chen1, Liu-Jun Wang1, Hao Liang1, Guoliang Shentu1, Jian Wang1, Ke Cui1, Hua-Lei Yin1, Nai-Le Liu1, Li Li1, Xiongfeng Ma2, Jason S. Pelc3, Martin Fejer3, Cheng-Zhi Peng1, Qiang Zhang1, Jian-Wei Pan1; 1Shanghai Branch, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China; 2Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China; 3E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, USA. We report a complete experimental realization of measurement device independent quantum key distribution system with decoy method, which closes loopholes in both source and detection. 25-kbit secure key is generated over a 50-km fiber link.

QTu2A.4 • 15:30 Rainbow Trapping in Hyperbolic Metamaterial Waveguide, Haifeng Hu1, Dengxin Ji1, Xie Zeng1, Kai Liu1, Qiaoqiang Gan1; 1EE, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. We propose a hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide to realize a highly effi-cient rainbow trapping effect, which can be used to develop practical on-chip optical super absorbers with a tunable absorption band.

QTu2B.7 • 15:30 Ultrafast interband nonlinear dynamics of sur-face plasmon polaritons in gold nanowires, Fabio Biancalana2,1, Andrea Marini1, Matteo Conforti3, Giuseppe Della Valle4; 1Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany; 2School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom; 3CNISM and Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universita’ degli Studi di Brescia, Italy; 4Dipsrtimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. We theoretically model the nonlinear dynam-ics of plasmonic waves in gold nanowires. We find that the thermo-modulational nonlinearity of gold leads to a strong spectral redshift of input pulses in a few microns of propagation.

QTu2C.6 • 15:30 A Multi-User Quantum Access Network, Bernd Fröhlich1,2, James F. Dynes1,2, Marco Lucamarini1,2, Andrew W. Sharpe1, Zhiliang L. Yuan1,2, Andrew J. Shields1,2; 1Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom; 2Corporate Research & Development Cen-ter, Japan. We report stable operation of a multi-user Quantum Access Network over more than 24 hours. We connect multiple quantum transmitters to a single quantum receiver by pre-compensating all phase and polarisation fluctuations.

CTu2D.6 • 15:30 Conceptual Design of the Laser Systems for the Attosecond Light Pulse Source, S. Banerjee2, M. Baudish3, Jens Biegert3,4, A. Borot5, A. Borzsonyi6, Dimitrios Charalambidis1,7, Todd Ditmire8, Zsolt Diveki1,9, P. Dombi1,10, Klaus Ertel2, M. Galimberti2, J. Fulop1,11, E. Gaul8, Constantin L. Haefner12, M. Hemmer3, C. Hernandez-Gomez22, M. Kalashnikov1,13, D. Kandula13, A. Kovacs6, R. Lopez-Martens1,5, Paul D. Mason2, I. Marton10, I. Musgrave2, Karoly Osvay1,6, M. Prandolini15, E. Racz1,15, P. Racz10, R. Riedel14, I. Ross2, J. Rosseau5, M. Schulz16, F. Tavella14, Alexandre Thai3, I. Will13; 1ELI-HU Nkft., Hungary; 2Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom; 3ICFO Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain; 4ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain; 5Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquee, ENSTA ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique CNRS de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, France; 6University of Szeged, Hungary; 7FORTH, Greece; 8University of Texas, USA; 9Imperial College, United Kingdom; 10Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary; 11MTA-PTE High-Field THz Research Group, Hun-gary; 12Lawrance Livermore National Laboratory, USA; 13Max-Born-Institut, Germany; 14Helmholtz Institute, Germany; 15Obuda University, Hungary; 16Deutsches Elektronen Syncrotron, Germany. The high repetition rate laser systems providing the ELI-ALPS facility with TW-to-PW peak intensity pulses are designed to generate secondary light sources with a duration of tens of attosecond for basic and applied researches.








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CTu2E • NLO in Fibers—Continued

CTu2F • Silicon Photonic Modulators—Continued

CTu2G • Microwave Photonics I—Continued

CTu2H • Measurements in Extreme Environments—Continued

CTu2E.5 • 15:00 Two Octaves of Frequency Generation by Cas-caded Intermodal Nonlinear Mixing in Solid Optical Fiber, Jeffrey Demas1, Paul Steinvurzel1, Boyin Tai1, Yuhao Chen1, Siddharth Ramachan-dran1; 1Electrical Engineering, Boston University, USA. We generate over two octaves of light in Bessel-beam-like fiber modes by pumping in the LP06 mode of a custom fiber. Distinct lines are generated in the visible in mode orders that increase monotonically from LP07 at 678 nm to LP016 at 453 nm.

CTu2F.4 • 15:00 Design Optimization and Experimental Demon-stration of Low VπL Carrier-Depletion Silicon Mach-Zehnder Modulator, Ilya Goykhman1, Boris Desiatov1, Shalva Ben-Ezra2, Joseph Shappir1, Uriel Levy1; 1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2Fenisar Israel Ltd., Israel. We design, optimize and demonstrate a highly efficient carrier-depletion silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with very low VπL of ~0.2Vcm. Design consideration, fabrica-tion process and experimental results will be presented.

CTu2G.4 • 15:00 Radio-Frequency Arbitrary Waveform Genera-tion with a Programmable SiN Spectral Shaper, Jian Wang1, Dennis Lee1, Yi Xuan1, Li Fan1, Leo T. Varghese1, Pei-Hsun Wang1, Daniel E. Leaird1, Andrew M. Weiner1, Minghao Qi1; 1Purdue University, USA. We demonstrate programmable electrical waveform generation around 10 GHz frequency using a SiN microring spectral shaper at both polarizations. Shaping is controlled by ring resonances that may be thermally tuned using micro-heaters in ~1 ms.

CTu2H.5 • 15:00 FDML Raman: High Speed, High Resolution Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy with Rapidly Wavelength Swept Lasers, Sebastian Karpf1, Mat-thias Eibl1, Wolfgang Wieser1, Thomas Klein1, Robert Huber1; 1Institut für BioMolekulare Optik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. An all fiber based system for high speed, high resolution Raman sensing is presented. The system is based on a wavelength swept Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) laser for the detection of the Raman signal.

CTu2E.6 • 15:15 Broadband Supercontinuum in As2Se3 Wires by Suppression of Two-photon Absorption, Alaa Al-kadry1, Chams Baker1, Mohammed El-Amraoui2, Younès Messaddeq2, Martin Rochette1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill Uni-versity, Canada; 2COPL, Laval University, Canada. We report the generation of a supercontinuum spanning over 1260-2200 nm in a 10 cm long As2Se3 wire pumped at 1550 nm, by avoiding the effects of two-photon absorption normally observed at this pump wavelength.

CTu2F.5 • 15:15 Deposited low temperature silicon GHz modu-lator, Yoon Ho D. Lee1, Michael O. Thompson2, Michal Lipson1,3; 1Electrical and Computer Engi-neering, Cornell University, USA; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, USA; 3Kavli Institute at Cornell, Cornell University, USA. We demonstrate multi gigahertz polysilicon electro-optic modulator fabricated using low temperature Excimer laser annealing technique compatible with CMOS backend integration. Carrier injection modulation at 3 Gbps is achieved.

CTu2G.5 • 15:15 Linear Frequency Chirp Generation Employing Optoelectronic Feedback Loop and Integrated Silicon Photonics, Phillip Sandborn1; 1Univer-sity of California, Berkeley, USA. We demonstrate generation of linear frequency chirps with an excursion of 50 GHz (λ0=1548nm) using an optoelectronic phase-locked loop and integrated silicon photonics interferometer (FSR=3.0GHz), demonstrating feasibility of an integrated chip-scale frequency-modulated continuous-wave LADAR source.

CTu2H.6 • 15:15 Fiber-Optic Point Measurement of High Pres-sures in Thermal Explosions, Markus P. Hehlen1, Gary R. Parker1, Alan M. Novak1, Philip Rae1, Gerald Rivera1, Derek W. Schmidt1, Kevin C. Hen-derson1, Brian M. Patterson1, Laura B. Smilowitz1; 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. A multi-layer dielectric coating deposited on the endface of a single-mode fiber is used as an optical sensor for high pressures. The reflectance of the coating decreases by 10% for a pressure of 710 MPa.

CTu2E.7 • 15:30 SRS-mediated generation of new wavelengths from 523 nm to 1750 nm in a graded-index multimode optical fiber, Hamed Pourbeyram1, Govind P. Agrawal2, Arash Mafi1; 1Electrical Engi-neering, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA; 2Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA. We report on the generation of new wavelengths spanning over two octaves from 523 nm to 1750 nm in a standard telecommunication graded-index multimode optical fiber, mediated by the stimulated Raman scattering process.

CTu2F.6 • 15:30 Demonstration of Effective In-device r33 over 1000 pmV in Electro-optic Polymer Refilled Silicon Slot Photonic Crystal Waveguide Modu-lator, Xingyu Zhang1, Amir Hosseini2, Che-yun Lin1, Jingdong Luo3, Alex K-Y. Jen3, Ray T. Chen1; 1University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Omega Optics, Inc., USA; 3University of Washington, USA. We demonstrate a band engineered slot photonic crystal waveguide refilled with electro-optic (EO) polymer. The combined effects of slow-light and high performance EO polymer makes possible effective in-device r33 of 1012pm/V and Vπ×L of 0.345Vmm.

CTu2G.6 • 15:30 A Wideband Tunable Optoelectronic Oscilla-tor Using a Tunable Microwave Photonic Filter Based on a Phase Modulator and a Tunable Optical Filter, Xiaopeng Xie1, Sun Tao1, Cheng Zhang1, Peng Guo1, Xiaoqi Zhu1, Lixin Zhu1, Weiwei Hu1, Zhangyuan Chen1; 1Peking University, China. An optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) tuned from 4.74 GHz to 38.38 GHz is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. To our knowledge, this is the widest fundamental frequency tunable range achieved by an OEO.

CTu2H.7 • 15:30 Advances in fiber-coupled pulsed-laser diagnos-tics for simultaneous species-concentration and velocity measurements in practical combustors, Paul S. Hsu1, Sukesh Roy1, Naibo Jiang1, Anil Patnaik2, James R. Gord2; 1Spectral Energies LLC, USA; 2Air force research lab, USA. A fiber-coupled, 10-kHz, UV-PLIF and PIV combined detection system employing a common 6-m-long optical fiber is developed for simultaneous 2D fields of OH radical concentration and velocity measure-ments in practical combustion facilities.

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CTu2I • Frequency Combs: Applications—Continued

CTu2J • Technologies for Access & Datacom Networking—Continued

CTu2K • What’s (really) New in Fibers?—Continued

CTu2I.5 • 15:00 Few-Femtosecond Jitter Microwave Signal Generation from Free-Running Mode-Locked Er-Fiber Lasers, Kwangyun Jung1, Junho Shin1, Jungwon Kim1; 1Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Republic of Korea. We demonstrate 10-GHz microwave signal generation from a free-running mode-locked Er-fiber laser with 3.7 fs (2.6 fs) absolute rms timing jitter integrated from 1 kHz (10 kHz) to 100 MHz offset frequency.

CTu2J.5 • 15:00 Experimental Demonstration of 40-Gb/s OFDM-PON Based on Polarization Interleaving and Direct Detection, Bangjiang Lin1, Juhao Li1, Yuanbao Luo1, Yangsha Wan1, Hui Yang1, Yongqi He1, Zhangyuan Chen1; 1Peking University, China. We demonstrate 40-Gb/s OFDM-PON based on polarization interleaving (PI) and 64-QAM modu-lation. The bandwidth requirement of components is reduced using the PI scheme and high-order modulation, achieving high-speed transmission.

CTu2K.4 • 15:00 Cups curvature effect on confinement loss in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF, Benoît DEBORD1, Meshaal Alharbi1,2, Thomas Bradley1,2, Coralie Fourcade-Dutin1, Yingying Wang1, Luca Vincetti3, Frédéric Gérôme1, Fetah Benabid1,2; 1GPPMM group, Xlim Research Institute, France; 2CPPM - Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom; 3Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. We report on numerical and experimental results showing the influence of cups curvature of hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF on the confinement loss. Fabricated fibers with circular cups demonstrate record loss-level of 40 dB/km at 1064 nm.

CTu2I.6 • 15:15 Signal-to-noise ratio of heterodyne beats between a comb and a continuous wave laser above the limit of a single mode, Jean-Daniel Deschênes1, Jérôme Genest1; 1Universite Laval, Canada. We propose and demonstrate simple and robust techniques for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of heterodyne beats between a frequency comb and a continuous wave laser beyond the shot-noise limit of a single comb mode.

CTu2J.6 • 15:15 A Heavy-traffic Feasible Intra-cycle Sleep Mechanism for Power Saving in 10G-EPON, Xintian Hu1, Xue Chen1, Liqian Wang1, Zhiguo Zhang1; 1State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. Based on fast wake-up ONU, an intra-cycle sleep mechanism is proposed to perform energy conservation with little degradation of QoS even under heavy traffic load in 10G-EPON. Both mathematical analysis and comparative simulation are performed.

CTu2K.5 • 15:15 Circular Antiguided Resonant Multicore Fiber Structure with Improved Intermodal Discrimi-nation, Anatoly P. Napartovich1,2, Nikolay N. Elkin1,2, Dmitry V. Vysotsky1; 1TRINITI, Russian Federation; 2FPFE, MIPT, Russian Federation. Novel fiber laser design strategy is proposed based on in-phase mode selection in a circular antiguided resonant structure. Parameters of 7-core array are found numerically providing the maximal gain overlap factor for the in-phase mode.

CTu2I.7 • 15:30 Characterization of the Tuning Properties of Single-frequency Optical Frequency Synthe-sizers, Felix Rohde1, Erik Benkler1, Reinhard Unterreitmayer2, Thomas Puppe2, Armin Zach2, Harald R. Telle1; 1Frequency Comb Metrology, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany; 2TOPTICA Photonics AG, Germany. Precise and agile manipulation of frequency and phase of output signals of single-frequency optical fre-quency synthesizers based on a novel technique for frequency shifting of frequency combs is investigated by relative measurements between identical synthesizers.

CTu2J.7 • 15:30 Improved Phase Matching by Paired-Fiber Co-herent Matched Detection for Time-Frequency Domain Demultiplexing, Takahide Sakamoto1, Ryan P. Scott2, S. J. Ben Yoo2; 1NICT, Japan; 2UC Davis, USA. We investigate coherent matched detection with paired fiber configuration, which improves phase matching between received time-frequency domain multiplexed signals and multicarrier local oscillator, giving a tolerance to residual dispersion.

CTu2K.6 • 15:30 Limits of Hollow Core Negative Curvature Fiber, Fei Yu1, Jonathan C. Knight1; 1Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom. We study spectral attenuation limits in silica hollow core negative curvature fibers. We demonstrate transmission to 4.3 μm wavelength and analyze the attenuation curve. The lowest attenuation measured is 24 dB/km at 2400 nm wavelength.









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ATu2L • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers and Laser Facilities—Continued

CTu2M • Imaging & Microscopy I—Continued

ATu2N • Micro and Nanofabrication—Continued

QTu2O • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Optical Processes in Semiconductor Nanostructures—Continued

ATu2L.3 • 15:00 Invited The Updated Advancements of Inertial Confine-ment Fusion Program in China, Wanguo Zheng1; 1Inst Appl Physics & Computat Mathematics, China. Achieving high gain ignition is one of the main focus areas in China with deliverables in the near future. Overview of the ignition program and an status update of the SG-III driver will be presented.

CTu2M.4 • 15:00 In vivo Folate-Targeted Small Animal Imaging with Optical Diffusion Tomography, Kevin J. Webb1, Hsiaorho Tsai1, Brian Z. Bentz1, Venkatesh Chelvam1, Vaibhav Gaind1, Philip S. Low1; 1Purdue University, USA. We present a folate-targeting fluorophore pair that has the potential for imaging targeted anticancer drug delivery kinetics. Experi-mental results for in vivo imaging of absorption and fluorescence in a small animal are presented.

ATu2N.4 • 15:00 High-Speed 3D Direct Laser Writing of Micro-Optical Elements, Michael Thiel1,2, André Radke1, Benjamin Fries1, Dirk Eicke1, Fabian Niesler1, Clemens Baretzky3, Tiemo Bückmann3, Martin Wegener2,3; 1R&D, Nanoscribe, Germany; 2Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technol-ogy, Germany; 3Institute for Applied Physics and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. We demonstrate high-speed diffraction-limited 3D direct laser writing using pivoted galvo mirrors. High photoresist curing speeds and stitching of individual scan fields allow for the fabrication of diffractive and refractive micro-optical elements on large areas.

QTu2O.3 • 15:00 Invited Few-cycle Ultrafast Probes of Quasi-1D Charge Dynamics, Robert A. Kaindl1; 1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. We discuss the use of few-cycle near-IR and THz pulses to investigate ultrafast processes in quasi-1D nanomaterials, yielding insight into low-energy excitations of photo-excited e-h pairs in carbon nanotubes and plasmon-assisted photoemission in gold nanopillars.

CTu2M.5 • 15:15 Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging with Extended Depth of Field for Brain Imaging Applications, Iliya Sigal1,2, Yaaseen Atchia1,2, Raanan Gad1,2, Antonio M. Caravaca3, Donald Conkey3, Rafael Piestun3, Ofer Levi1,2; 1The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. We implement a system with extended depth of field for measuring flow rates in brain-mimicking microfluidic system. We report flow velocity deviations of <10% across 3mm defocus, resulting in >4-fold improvement in depth of field.

ATu2N.5 • 15:15 Fabrication of Topologically-Complex 3D Microstructures by Femtosecond Laser Machin-ing and Polymer Molding, Allison Schaap1, Yves Bellouard1; 1Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. We demonstrate the demolding of topologically complex three-dimensional elasto-meric microstructures from a femtosecond laser micromachined glass substrate. Demolding suc-cess rates of >90% are achieved, which are quali-tatively supported by a simple mechanical model.

QTu2O.4 • 15:30 Invited Examining Nanoscale Photovoltaics with High Brightness Fourier Transform Measure-ments, Matthew Sfeir1, Fernando E. Camino1, Chang-Yong Nam1, Charles T. Black1; 1Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. We describe a new Facility ef-fort utilizing high brightness Fourier transform methods, including measurements of transmis-sion, reflection, and photoconductivity spectra, to characterize nanomaterial-based model pho-tovoltaic devices.

CTu2M.6 • 15:30 Imaging DNA damage-dependent chromatin dy-namics via nonlinear photoperturbation, Martin Tomas1,3, Philipp Blumhardt1,3, Anja Deutzmann2, Dimitri Kromm1,3, Alfred Leitenstorfer1,3, Elisa Ferrando-May2,3; 1Dept. of Physics, University of Konstanz, Germany; 2Dept. of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany; 3Center for Applied Photon-ics, University of Konstanz, Germany. We employ near-infrared femtosecond pulses to probe local alterations of chromatin dynamics caused by DNA strand breaks. Nonlinear confocal nanomanipula-tion enables us to visualize how DNA damage signaling emanates spatio-temporally in a live cell.



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QTu2A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials I—Continued

QTu2B • Ultrafast and Nonlinear Plasmonics—Continued

QTu2C • Quantum Key Distribution—Continued

CTu2D • Laser Technologies for High-intensity Laser Facilities—Continued

QTu2A.5 • 15:45 Broadband enhancement of spontaneous emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds by hyperbolic metamaterials, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov1, Satoshi Ishii1,2, Jingjing Liu1, Alexander Kildishev1, Vladimir M. Shalaev1; 1Purdue University, USA; 2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Ja-pan. We experimentally demonstrate a broadband enhancement of emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds. The enhancement is achieved by using a multilayer metamaterial with hyperbolic dispersion.

QTu2B.8 • 15:45 Time-resolved Nonlinear Dynamics of Quantum Dots Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity, Vanessa Sih1, Jieun Lee1, Timothy W. Saucer1, An-drew J. Martin2, Joanna M. Millunchick2; 1Physics, University of Michigan, USA; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA. Photolu-minescence as a function of the time delay between two ultrafast laser pulses measures the nonlinear emission dynamics of quantum dots coupled to photonic crystal cavities and distinguishes between exciton and biexciton emission.

QTu2C.7 • 15:45 Experimental Demonstration of Secure Com-munication based on Quantum Illumination, Zheshen Zhang1, Maria Tengner1, Tian Zhong1, Franco N.C. Wong1, Jeffrey H. Shapiro1; 1Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. We report the first experi-mental demonstration of an entanglement-based secure communication system that is resilient to entanglement-breaking loss and noise on the communication channel.

CTu2D.7 • 15:45 ELI Extreme Light Infrastructure Science and Technology with ultra-intense Lasers, Georg Korn1, Bruno LeGarrec1, Bedrich Rus1; 1ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. We give an overeview of the ELI Beamline facility development built within the ELI project. The main objective is the delivery of stable ultrashort high energy pulses for the generation and application of high brightness X-ray sources and accelerated particle beams with enhanced repetition rates.

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Tuesday, 11 June

CTu2E • NLO in Fibers—Continued

CTu2F • Silicon Photonic Modulators—Continued

CTu2G • Microwave Photonics I—Continued

CTu2H • Measurements in Extreme Environments—Continued

CTu2E.8 • 15:45 Dense plasma channel generation in air using femtosecond-picosecond laser pulse sequences, Andreas Schmitt-Sody1, Adrian Lucero1, William Latham1, William P. Roach1, Jerome Moloney2, Pavel G. Polynkin2; 1AFRL, USA; 2College of Optical Science, The University of Arizona, USA. We den-sify dilute plasma in femtosecond laser filaments by heating it with energetic 200 picosecond-long laser pulses. Differently from the case of nano-second heating, the densified plasma channels, under certain conditions, remain smooth and continuous.

CTu2F.7 • 15:45 Silicon-VO2 Hybrid Electro-optic Modulator, Petr Markov1, Judson D. Ryckman1, Robert E. Marvel2, Kent A. Hallman2, Richard F. Haglund2, Sharon M. Weiss1,2; 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, USA; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, USA. We dem-onstrate electro-optical modulation in a silicon-vanadium dioxide hybrid device. A combined effect from applied electric field and Joule heating is used to switch a microscopic vanadium dioxide patch deposited on top of a silicon single-mode ridge waveguide.

CTu2G.7 • 15:45 Photonic Synthesis of Spread Spectrum Radio Frequency Waveforms over Arbitrarily Long Time Apertures, Yihan Li1, Amir Dezfooliyan1, Andrew M. Weiner1; 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. A photonic radio frequency generation setup is designed to generate arbitrary waveforms with ~10 GHz bandwidth and arbitrarily long time apertures. Experiments are conducted through im-plementing pseudorandom sequence modulation and differential optical-to-electrical conversion.

CTu2H.8 • 15:45 Comparison of nanosecond and femtosecond LIBS, Sivanandan Harilal1; 1Purdue Univ, USA. We report a comprehensive study of the differences in the emission and hydrodynamics expansion fea-tures of ns and fs LIBS plumes under both vacuum and atmosphere environments under similar laser fluence conditions.


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CTu2I • Frequency Combs: Applications—Continued

CTu2J • Technologies for Access & Datacom Networking—Continued

CTu2K • What’s (really) New in Fibers?—Continued

CTu2I.8 • 15:45 Absolute distance measurement by adjustable synthetic wavelength dual-comb interferometry, Seongheum Han1, Joohyung Lee1,2, Keunwoo Lee1, Seungman Kim1, Seung-Woo Kim1, Young-Jin Kim1; 1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea; 2Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Republic of Korea. We demonstrate a dead-zone-free dual-comb interferometer for absolute long distance measurements. The non-ambiguity range is extended without dead zones to ~1.2 km by adjusting the synthetic wavelength for long target distances.

CTu2J.8 • 15:45 Coupled Waveguides for Optical Multiplex-ing in High-Performance Interconnects, Yoav Shechtman1, Bhavin J. Shastri2, Ben Wu2, Paul R. Prucnal2, Mordechai Segev1; 1Physics, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA. We pro-pose and demonstrate a proof-of-concept for a novel multiplexing scheme for high-performance optical interconnects. Our approach is based on waveguide coupling using multilevel detection to increase the system throughput without increasing aggregate bit rate.

CTu2K.7 • 15:45 Cladding effect on confinement and bend losses in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF, Meshaal Alharbi1,2, Thomas Bradley1,2, Benoît Debord1, Coralie Fourcade-Dutin1, Debashri Ghosh1, Luca Vincetti3, Frédéric Gérôme1, Fetah Benabid1,2; 1GPPMM group, XLIM research institute, France; 2University of Bath, United Kingdom; 3Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. We report on numerical and experimental results on the influence of clad-ding ring number in hypocycloid-core Kagome HC-PCF. The number of rings has moderate effect on confinement loss whereas strong reduction in bend loss is demonstrated.


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ATu2L • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers and Laser Facilities—Continued

CTu2M • Imaging & Microscopy I—Continued

ATu2N • Micro and Nanofabrication—Continued

QTu2O • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Optical Processes in Semiconductor Nanostructures—Continued

CTu2M.7 • 15:45 Cell-Phone Based Food Allergen Testing, Ahmet F. Coskun1, Justin Wong1, Delaram Khodadadi1, Richie Nagi1, Andrew Tey1, Aydogan Ozcan1,2; 1Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; 2California Nano-Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. We demonstrate a personalized food allergen testing platform, termed iTube, running on a cellphone that images and automatically analyses colorimetric assays performed in test tubes toward sensitive and specific detection of allergens in food samples.


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16:30–18:30QTu3A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials IIPresider: Natalia Litchinitser; University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, United States

16:30–18:30JTu3B • Symposium on Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications: Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications IPresider: Patrick Naulleau; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

16:30–18:30QTu3C • Selected Topics in Quantum OpticsPresider: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary, Canada

16:30–18:30CTu3D • Short-wave IR Lasers and Laser Beam PropagationPresider: Gregory Wagner; Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, United States

QTu3A.1 • 16:30 InvitedTopological Transitions in Metamaterials: QED and Related Effects, Vinod M. Menon1, Harish Krishnamoorthy1, Zubin Jacob2, Tal Galfsky1, Evgenii E. Narimanov3, Ilona Kretzschmar4; 1Physics, CUNY Queens College & Graduate Center, USA; 2Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Alberta, Canada; 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA; 4Chemical Engineering, CUNY - City College, USA. We demonstrate a topological transition in the iso-frequency surface of a strongly anisotropic metamaterial and show the potential of this optical topological transition for controlling light-matter interaction.

JTu3B.1 • 16:30 InvitedCoherent EUV High Harmonic Sources for Ap-plications in Imaging, Materials Dynamics and Nanometrology, Margaret M. Murnane1, Henry Kapteyn1, Tenio Popmintchev1, daniel adams1, Matthew Seaberg1, Damiano Nardi1, Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot1; 1University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Coherent high harmonic light sources in the extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray region are ideally suited for range of nano-imaging, nano-metrologies, and dynamic measurements of materials, thin film and magnetic samples.

QTu3C.1 • 16:30 Experimental Study of the Past of a Photon, Ariel Danan1, Demitry Farfurnik1, Shimshon Barad1, Lev Vaidman1; 1School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Tiny perturbation, in different places, probe where was a photon passing through an interferometer. A surprising picture emerges, which is not a continuous trajectory or set of continuous trajectories.

CTu3D.1 • 16:30 Recent Advances in High Power, High Energy Tunable Cr:ZnS/Se Lasers, Sergey B. Mirov1,2, Vladimir V. Fedorov1,2, Igor Moskalev2, Sergey Vasyliev2, Dmitri Martyshkin1,2, Mikhail Mirov2, Valentin P. Gapontsev3; 1University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; 2IPG Photonics Corporation, USA; 3IPG Photonics Corporation, USA. We report on recent progress in development of high power; high energy; tunable (1.9-3.3 μm), mid-IR Cr:ZnS/Se lasers operating in CW (>20 W), gain-switched (>20 mJ@7ns) and long pulse ( >1 J@7ms) regimes.

QTu3C.2 • 16:45 Direct Bell States Generation on a III-V Semi-conductor Chip at Room Temperature, Adeline Orieux1, Guillaume Boucher1, Andreas Eckstein1, Aristide Lemaître2, Pascal Filloux1, Ivan Favero1, Giuseppe Leo1, Thomas Coudreau1, Arne Keller3, Pérola Milman1, Sara Ducci1; 1Laboratoire Maté-riaux et Phénomènes Quantiques Université Paris Diderot/CNRS, France; 2Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures CNRS, France; 3Institut de Sci-ences Moléculaires d’Orsay Université Paris Sud/CNRS, France. We demonstrate the generation of polarization entangled Bell states at room temperature and telecom wavelength on a 3-5 semiconductor chip. A theoretical model provides ways to understand and control the amount of entanglement.

CTu3D.2 • 16:45 Multi-stage Cr:ZnSe power amplifier pumped with Q-switched Tm:YAG laser, Masaki Yumoto1, Norihito Saito1, Utako Takagi1, Takayuki Tomida1, Satoshi Wada1; 1RIKEN, Japan. We demonstrated three-stage Cr:ZnSe power amplifier pumped with Tm:YAG laser. Maximum pulse energy of 52.2 mJ was obtained at 2.41 µm in the three-stage amplifier. Energy conversion efficiency reached more than 44%.

QTu3A.2 • 17:00 Blue shift of spontaneous emission in hyperbolic metamaterial, Lei Gu1, Thejaswi Tumkur1, Guo-hua Zhu1, Mikhail A. Noginov1; 1Center for Mate-rials Research, Norfolk State University, USA. We have observed sizable blue shifts in spontaneous emission of DCM and R6G dyes embedded into lamellar metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion. The effect is explained by dispersion of the density of photonic states.

JTu3B.2 • 17:00 InvitedHigh Average Power, 100 Hz Repetition Rate, Table-top EUV/Soft X-ray Lasers, Brendan A. Reagan1, Keith Wernsing1, Cory Baumgarten1, Leon Durivage1, Mark A. Berrill1, Federico Furch1, Alden Curtis1, Chase Salsbury1, Brad Luther1, Dinesh Patel1, Carmen S. Menoni1, Jorge Rocca1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, Colorado State University, USA. Compact λ=13.9 nm and λ=18.9 nm lasers with >0.1 mW average power at 100 Hz repetition rate driven by a diode-pumped, 1 J, CPA laser were demonstrated. Wavelength scaling to λ=10.9 nm will be discussed.

QTu3C.3 • 17:00 Photon-number-resolved detection of photon-subtracted thermal light, Yanhua Zhai1, Francisco Becerra-Chavez1, Boris L. Glebov1, Jingyun Fan1, Sae Woo Nam2, Alan Migdall1; 1JQI NIST and University of Maryland, USA; 2National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light with photon-number-resolving detection. We show the photon-number distribution trans-forming from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of subtracted photon increases.

CTu3D.3 • 17:00 Performance of High Power 2 µm Ho:YAG Laser, yingjie shen1, Bao-Quan Yao1, Xiao-Ming Duan1, Tong-Yu Dai1, You-Lun Ju1, Yue-Zhu Wang1; 1Harbin institute of technology, China. We present a CW and Q-switched Ho:YAG laser resonantly dual-end-pumped by four diode-pumped Tm:YLF lasers at 1.908 µm. The maximum CW output powers of 111 W at 2.122 µm have been obtained.








Tuesday, 11 June

16:30–18:30CTu3E • Advanced NLO ConceptsPresider: Benjamin Eggleton; University of Sydney, Australia

16:30–18:30CTu3F • Silicon PhotonicsPresider: Christian Koos, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

16:30–18:30CTu3G • Microwave Photonics IIPresider: Peter Delfyett; University of Central Florida, United States

16:30–18:30CTu3H • Novel Trace Gas SensingPresider: Mark Phillips; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

CTu3E.1 • 16:30 Simultaneous Coherent Stokes and Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy with Two Laser Frequency Combs, Simon Holzner1, Takuro Ideguchi1, Guy Guelachvili2, Theodor W. Hänsch1, Nathalie Pic-qué1,2; 1Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Ger-many; 2Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, CNRS, France. We present a new technique of non-linear dual-comb spectroscopy for the measure-ment of coherent Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman spectra of fundamental vibrational transitions. Ultra-rapid acquisition times, high-resolution, broad-spectral-span are the main characteristics of our experiments.

CTu3F.1 • 16:30 InvitedSub-100 μm Wide-Bandwidth Si Photonic Crystal MZI Modulators, Hong C. Nguyen1, Naoya Yazawa1, Satoshi Hashimoto1, Toshihiko Baba1; 1Yokohama National University, Japan. We present sub-100 μm, error-free-capable Si pho-tonic crystal MZI modulators. The low-dispersion slow-light enables a 50 μm device with 12.5 nm operational bandwidth, as well as 40 Gb/s-capable 90 μm device.

CTu3G.1 • 16:30 Spatio-Temporal Focusing of Ultrabroadband Wireless Signals Through Multipath Scattering Environments, Amir Dezfooliyan1, Andrew M. Weiner1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. We use photonic radio-frequency arbitrary waveform generation for the first experimental demonstration of space-time compression of ultra-broadband wireless signals distorted by highly scattering multipath channels over a three octave frequency range of 2 to 18 GHz.

CTu3H.1 • 16:30 InvitedRecent progress in high precision atmospheric trace gas instruments using Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, John B. McManus1, Mark Zahniser1, David Nelson1, Ryan McGovern1, Mike Agnese1; 1Aerodyne Research Inc, USA. We report results from high precision spectroscopic instruments for atmospheric trace gases using with mid-IR quantum cascade lasers. Numerous gases can be measured with 1s absorption noise ~1x10-6, allowing e.g. 1s OCS precision of 10-12.

CTu3E.2 • 16:45 Time-to-space conversion in a one dimensional nonlinear waveguide, Dror Shayovitz1, Harald Herrmann2, Wolfgang Sohler2, Raimund Ricken2, Christine Silberhorn2, Dan M. Marom1; 1Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2Applied Physics, University of Paderborn, Ger-many. We report the first demonstration of time-to-space conversion of sub-picosecond pulses at 1.55μm in a nonlinear slab waveguide using non-degenerate, collinear SFG. A time window of 46ps and serial-to-parallel demultiplexing factor of 93 were achieved.

CTu3G.2 • 16:45 Compressed Multi-frequency RF Sensing with Photonic Assistance, Yuyang Gao1, Yitang Dai1, Kun Xu1, Li Yan1, Feifei Yin1, Jianqiang Li1, Jintong Lin1; 1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommuni-cations, China. Multi-frequency RF signal ranging from 0 to 1 GHz is highly spectrally compressed and sensed. Precise recognition of up to 40 RF tones is achieved using a single ADC with analog bandwidth of 85.2 MHz.

CTu3E.3 • 17:00 Pulsed and CW IR Detection in Wide-gap Semi-conductors using Extremely Nondegenerate Two-photon Absorption, Himansu S. Pattanaik1, Dmitry A. Fishman2, Eric W. Van Stryland1, David J. Hagan1; 1College of Optics & Photonics: CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA; 2Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences II, University of California, USA. We detect both pulsed and CW IR light using uncooled GaN or GaAs photodiodes using extremely-nondegenerate two-photon-absorption (2PA) which shows large enhancement over degenerate 2PA. Urbach-tail absorption limits the signal-to-noise ratio for CW detection.

CTu3F.2 • 17:00 Large-Scale Optical Phased Arrays Enabled by Silicon Photonics, Jie Sun1, Erman Timurdogan1, Ami Yaacobi1, Ehsan S. Hosseini1, Gerald Leake2, Douglas D. Coolbaugh2, Michael R. Watts1; 1Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany, USA. The largest (up to 64×64) optical phased arrays to date are demonstrated with silicon photonics, including passive arrays generating intricate far-field patterns and an active array for dynamic beam steering and shaping.

CTu3G.3 • 17:00 Single-Shot Characterization of Ultrafast High-Repetition-Rate Signals Using an Asynchronous Time Magnifier, Yoshitomo Okawachi1, Reza Salem2, Adrea R. Johnson1, Kasturi Saha1, Jacob S. Levy3, Michal Lipson3,4, Alexander L. Gaeta1,4; 1School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA; 2PicoLuz LLC, USA; 3School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, USA; 4Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, USA. We demonstrate single-shot characterization of an ultrafast, high-repetition-rate pulse source using an asynchronously-pumped temporal magnifier based on a four-wave-mixing time lens. Such a system can also be used as a high-bandwidth real-time RF spectrum analyzer.

CTu3H.2 • 17:00 Coherent anti-Stokes Raman dual-comb spectro-microscopy, Takuro Ideguchi1, Simon Holzner1, Birgitta Bernhardt1, Guy Guelachvili2, Nathalie Picqué1,2, Theodor W. Hänsch1; 1Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany; 2Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, CNRS, France. Ultra-rapid coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy with two laser frequency combs is demonstrated. Hyperspectral images are acquired over a spectral bandwidth of 1200 cm-1 with a resolution of 10 cm-1 at a rate of 50 pixels/s.


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16:30–18:00CTu3I • Precision SpectroscopyPresider: Zeb Barber; Montana State University, United States

16:30–18:30CTu3J • Novel Pulse Generation and SynthesisPresider: Gunter Steinmeyer; Max Born Institute, Germany

16:30–18:30CTu3K • Structured Fibers and Structured LightPresider: John Fini; OFS Laboratories, United States

16:30–18:30CTu3L • Nanophotonics in Optical Communications Presider: David Caplan; Massachusetts Inst of Tech Lincoln Lab, United States

CTu3I.1 • 16:30 Sub-Doppler Intrafiber Spectroscopy of C2H2 Using Amplified Frequency Comb Lines Directly, Shun Wu1, Chenchen Wang1, Coralie Fourcade-Dutin2,3, Brian R. Washburn1, Fetah Benabid2,3, Kristan L. Corwin1; 1Department of Physics, Kansas State University, USA; 2Xlim Research Institute, Université de Limoges, France; 3Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom. A single optical frequency comb line near 1532.83 nm from an 89 MHz all-fiber oscil-lator is amplified to perform saturated absorption spectroscopy inside a 12C2H2-filled hollowcore fiber. Noise introduced during optical comb amplification is discussed.

CTu3J.1 • 16:30 Sub-100-fs mode-locking of the Cr:YAG laser using monolayer graphene saturable absorber, Samuele Davide Di Dio Cafiso1,2, Elena Ugolotti2, Andreas Schmidt1, Valentin Petrov1, Uwe Grieb-ner1, Antonio Agnesi2, Won Bae Cho1,3, Bo Hee Jung3, Fabian Rotermund3, Sukang Bae4, Byung Hee Hong4, Giancarlo Reali2, Federico Pirzio2; 1Max Born Institute, Germany; 2Università di Pavia, Italy; 3Ajou University, Republic of Korea; 4Seoul Na-tional University, Republic of Korea. We report on mode-locking of a Cr:YAG laser at 1516 nm with a monolayer-graphene-based saturable absorber of transmission type generating ~90-fs pulses at an average output power exceeding 100 mW.

CTu3K.1 • 16:30 Efficient femtosecond operation of a Kagome-type HC-PCF fiber at 75 W average power, Florian EMAURY1, Clara J. Saraceno1, Coralie Fourcade-dutin2,3, Yingying Wang2,3, Cinia Schriber1, Frederic Gerome2, Thomas Sudmeyer4,1, Fetah Benabid1,3, Ursula Keller1; 1Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2XLIM Institut de Recherche, Université de Limoges, France; 3Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom; 4Department of Physics, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. We report high power operation of a Kagome-type HC-PCF at 1 µm. We demonstrate guidance of thin disk laser beam with powers in excess of 100 W in cw and 75 W in modelocked operation.

CTu3L.1 • 16:30 Tutorial Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics for High-bandwidth Chip-to-Chip Communications, Yurii A. Vlasov1; 1IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA. Silicon Nanophotonics enables dense inte-gration of electrical circuits with optical devices scaled down to diffraction limit. I will describe how chip-to-chip optical interconnects can be designed starting from devices up to a system level.

Dr. Yurii Vlasov is a Manager of a Silicon Nanophotonics Project at the IBM Research. For the last 12 years at IBM he has been focused on the development of silicon nanophotonics technology, starting from initial exploratory fun-damental research followed by advanced device engineering and, most recently, manufacturing and product development. Dr.Vlasov is currently leading the company-wide effort on transition-ing the IBM Silicon Nanophotonics technology to commercial manufacturing for products rel-evant to IBM business. Prior to IBM, Dr. Vlasov developed semiconductor nanophotonics at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, and at the Strasbourg IPCMS Institute, France. He also was, for over a decade, a Research Scientist with the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia working on optics of nanostruc-tured semiconductors. He received his MS from the University of St.Petersburg (1988) and PhD from the Ioffe Institute (1994), both in physics. Dr. Vlasov has published over 300 highly cited journal and conference papers, filed over 50 US patents, and delivered over 100 invited, plenary and tutorial talks in the area of nanophotonics. He served on numerous organizing committees of conferences on nanophotonics under OSA, IEEE, APS, MRS, etc. Dr. Vlasov was elected a Fellow of both the OSA and the APS, as well as a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was awarded several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, the “Best of IBM” Award and the IBM 2012 Corporate Award, as well as SciAm50 Award by the Scientific American journal. For a couple of years Dr. Vlasov also served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Electrical Engineering.

CTu3I.2 • 16:45 Subkilohertz-narrowed, Frequency/phase-locked Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers for High-precision Molecular Spectroscopy, Francesco Cappelli1,2, Saverio Bartalini1,2, Pablo Cancio1,2, Iacopo Galli1,2, Giovanni Giusfredi1,2, Davide Mazzotti1,2, Paolo De Natale1,2; 1Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO) - CNR, Italy; 2European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Italy. We narrow QCL radiation below 1 kHz by using two different techniques: frequency locking to a molecular transition and phase locking to an absolutely-referenced difference-frequency-generated source. Applications of both techniques are presented

CTu3J.2 • 16:45 Tunable megawatt soliton pulse generation covering the optimum wavelength window for tissue penetration, Ke Wang1, Nicholas Horton1, Chun-Chin Wang1, Dimitre Ouzounov1, Chris Xu1; 1Cornell University, USA. We demonstrate 1600-1820 nm tunable MW soliton generation using a solid-core photonic crystal rod pumped by a compact fiber source, and its application to in vivo deep penetration three-photon microscopy in mouse brain.

CTu3K.2 • 16:45 Intermodal Raman Scattering between Full Vec-torial Modes in Few Moded Fiber, Lars Rishøj1, Siddharth Ramachandran2, Karsten Rottwitt1; 1DTU Fotonik, Denmark; 2Boston University, USA. We experimentally investigate intermodal Raman interaction. The pump is in the fundamental mode, HE11, and the signal is in either of two full vectorial modes, TM01 or TE01. The on-off gain is approximately 3 dB for both modes, using 4 km of few-moded fiber and 400 mW of pump power.

CTu3I.3 • 17:00 THz Spectroscopy with an Absolute Frequency Scale by a QCL Phase-locked to a THz Frequency Comb, Saverio Bartalini1,2, Luigi Consolino1,2, Andrea Taschin2, Paolo Bartolini2, Pablo Cancio1,2, Marco De Pas2, Harvey Beere4, David Ritchie4, Miriam S. Vitiello1,3, Renato Torre2,5, Paolo De Natale1,2; 1INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - CNR, Italy; 2LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Italy; 3NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy; 4Cav-endish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 5Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Italy. The exploitation of a THz frequency comb for absolutely-referenced THz spectroscopy is presented. The frequency of a 2.5-THz QCL, phase-locked to the comb, is swept across a methanol line, providing the spectroscopy with and absolute-frequency scale.

CTu3J.3 • 17:00 Synthesis of arbitrarily polarized optical wave-forms using vectorial temporal Talbot effect, Chi-Cheng Chen1, Chao-Yu Hsieh1, Shang-Da Yang1, Chen-Bin Huang1; 1Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Vectorial optical arbitrary waveform gen-eration is experimentally demonstrated through polarization line-by-line pulse shaping. Temporal Talbot effect is extended into the vectorial regime, and the polarization shaped optical waveforms extending a 50-ps time window are synthesized.

CTu3K.3 • 17:00 InvitedOptical Vortex Fiber Lasers and their Applica-tion to Material Nano-processing, Takashige Omatsu1; 1Chiba University, Japan. We review high-power optical vortex fiber lasers formed of a picosecond master laser and a stressed large-mode-area fiber amplifier. Vortex fiber lasers will provide a next-generation laser-oriented materials science, including the formation of chiral structures.









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16:30–18:30ATu3M • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers, Optical and Nuclear Diagnostics Presider: Siegfried Glenzer; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States

16:30–18:30CTu3N • Imaging & Microscopy II Presider: Siavash Yazdanfar; GE Global Research, United States

16:30–18:30CTu3O • Micro and Nano-scale Imaging Microscopy Presider: Yves Bellouard; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

16:30–18:30QTu3P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Nanoplasmonics Presider: Igal Brener; Sandia National Labs, United States

ATu3M.1 • 16:30 Invited Measurement on the National Ignition Facility Advance the Science of Inertial Confinement Fu-sion, Joe Kilkenny1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a 1.8 MJ, 192 beam laser designed to produce the condi-tions of temperature and density in compressed deuterium-tritium ice which theory predicted would produce thermonuclear ignition. All of the exquisite technical requirements of the laser and the targets have been met. A comprehensive set of diagnostics has been installed with major contributions from the eight Laboratories and Universities and four countries.

CTu3N.1 • 16:30 Invited High-speed Live-cell Super-resolution Mi-croscopy with Stochastically Switching Fluo-rophores, Joerg Bewersdorf1,2; 1Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, USA; 2Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, USA. Super-resolution micros-copy with stochastically blinking fluorophores (FPALM/PALM/STORM, etc.) achieves ~25 nm resolution by localizing molecules in thousands of camera frames. Here I present a solution to speed up recording dramatically, enabling nanoscopy at video rate.

CTu3O.1 • 16:30 Multispectral Imaging using Polydimethylsilox-ane (PDMS) Embedded Vertical Silicon Nanow-ires, Hyunsung Park1, Kenneth B. Crozier1; 1School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA. We demonstrate the use of vertical silicon nanowires for multispectral imaging. The eight filter functions of our filter array are defined in a single lithography step. We show both visible color and near-infrared imaging.

QTu3P.1 • 16:30 Invited Ultrafast Processes in Semiconductor Nano-crystals and Metal Nanoparticles, Matthew A. Pelton1; 1Argonne National Laboratory, USA. I will describe our studies of ultrafast light-induced processes in semiconductor nanocrystals and metal nanoparticles, including acoustic vibra-tions in gold nanoparticles and charge separation in metal clusters and semiconductor nanocrystal heterostructures.

CTu3O.2 • 16:45 Ultrafast Surface Inspection using Hybrid Dis-persion Laser Scanner, Hongwei Chen1,2, Keisuke Goda2,3, Chao Wang2, Bahram Jalali2; 1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Ts-inghua University, China; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan. We report an ultrafast surface in-spection method using a hybrid dispersion laser scanner. Using the technique, we demonstrate real-time detection of microparticles on silicon wafer surfaces at 1,000 times higher scan rates than conventional methods.

ATu3M.2 • 17:00 Invited Line-imaging Velocimetry for Shock Diagnos-tics (VISAR)”, Peter Celliers1, Thomas R. Boehly2, Harry Robey1, John Moody1, J. S. Ross1, Joseph Ralph1, J. L. Kline3, David Farley1, S. Le Pape1, K. Krauter1, G. Frieders1, G. Ross1, A. Mackinnon1, R. Olson4, T. Doeppner1, D. Munro1, J. Milovich1, P. Sterne1, O. Jones1, D. Callahan1, Abbas Nikroo5, J. Kroll1, J. Horner1, Alex Hamza1, S. Bhandarkar1, J. Eggert1, R. F. Smith1, D. G. Hicks1, H. S. Park1, B. K. Young1, W. W. Hsing1, G. W. Collins1, O. L. Landen1, D. D. Meyerhofer2, L. J. Atherton1, John Edwards1, S. W. Haan1, John Lindl1, B. MacGowan1, Edward I. Moses1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA; 2Laboratory for Laser Energetics, USA; 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 4San-dia National Laboratory, USA; 5General Atomics, USA. The NIF laser pulse used for ignition experi-ments is tuned by direct observation of the shocks launched into the capsule during the initial phases of the pulse. Optical velocimetry is key to this task.

CTu3N.2 • 17:00 Optical Fiber Vortices for STED Nanoscopy, Lu Yan1, Egidijus Auksorius2, Nenad Bozinovic1, Guillermo J. Tearney2, Siddharth Ramachandran1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston Uni-versity, USA; 2Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA. We demonstrate the first proof of concept of a fiber-based STED nanoscopy illumination system. The fiber yields naturally co-aligned vortex (dark-spot size~198nm) and Gaussian beams (size~340nm), potentially en-abling sub-30nm resolution imaging.

CTu3O.3 • 17:00 Invited Atom Probe Tomography: 3D Imaging of Ma-terials at the Atomic Scale using Ultrafast Laser Pulses, Bernard Deconihout1, F. Vurpillot1, G. Da Costa1, J. Houard1, P. Pareige1, A. Vella1; 1Groupe de Physique des Matériaux, CNRS, Université et INSA de ROUEN Normandie University, France. In this contribution, the principle of the 3D atom probe assisted by ultrafast laser pulses will be presented and its performance illustrated through some examples of applications such as dopant profiling in semiconductors or oxides.

QTu3P.2 • 17:00 Invited Transduction and Control of Sqeezed Light Sources by Localized and Propagating Sur-face Plasmons, Benjamin Lawrie1; 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. The transduction of multi-spatial-mode squeezed light sources by lo-calized surface plasmon mediated extraordinary-optical-transmission provides a basis for nanoscale quantum information protocols and quantum enhanced biosensing.



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QTu3A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials II—Continued

JTu3B • Symposium on Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications: Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications I—Continued

QTu3C • Selected Topics in Quantum Optics—Continued

CTu3D • Short-wave IR Lasers and Laser Beam Propagation—Continued

QTu3A.3 • 17:15 Beam Transformations with Indefinite Meta-materials, Jingbo Sun1, Jingwei Zeng1, Alexander Cartwright1, Natalia M. Litchinitser1; 1State Uni-versity of New York, USA. We investigate structured light propagation in indefinite optical metama-terials and propose several novel functionalities enabled by these strongly anisotropic structures, including beam intensity and wavefront shap-ing as well as transformations of orbital angular momentum.

JTu3B.3 • 17:30 InvitedNanoscale Soft X-ray Microscopy in the Labora-tory for Biological Applications, Arno Merkle1; 1Xradia, United States. Nanoscale transmission x-ray microscopy bridges the resolution gap be-tween light and electron microscopy, and a new laboratory soft x-ray source has extended its utility for imaging whole frozen hydrated unstained cells with <50 nm resolution.

QTu3C.4 • 17:15 Observation of Quantum Zeno Blockade in χ(2) Microresonators, Dmitry V. Strekalov1, Abijith Kowligy2, Yu-Ping Huang2, Prem Kumar2; 1Jet Pro-pulsion Laboratory, USA; 2Northwestern University, USA. We report observing all-optical modulation with a contrast of 80% via quantum Zeno blockade in a Lithium Niobate whispering-gallery-mode resonator at a pump peak power of 100µW.

CTu3D.4 • 17:15 Spectroscopic studies of Er3+ emission in co-doped phosphate glasses, Simi George1; 1Research and Technology Development, SCHOTT North America, Inc., USA. The Er3+ laser performance in materials can be enhanced by co-doping with large amounts of Yb3+, along with Cr3+ and Ce3+. The study reported herein focused on examining the complex interactions between these ions, as it relates to the laser emission at 1.5 μm from Er3+.

QTu3A.4 • 17:30 Broadband super-Planckian thermal emis-sion from hyperbolic metamaterials, Yu Guo1, Zubin Jacob1; 1University of Alberta, Canada. We develop fluctuational electrodynamics of hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) and establish broadband near-field thermal emission beyond the black-body limit. We predict thermal topological transitions in phonon-polaritonic HMMs paving the way for near-field thermal engineering using metamaterials.

QTu3C.5 • 17:30 TutorialQuantum Simulation and Many-Body Physics with Hundreds of Trapped Ions, John Bollinger1, Joseph W. Britton1, Brian C. Sawyer1; 1National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA. The Coulomb energy of laser-cooled trapped-ion arrays can be modified with spin-dependent forces to mimic quantum spin Hamiltonians. I will review recent progress, concentrating on 2D triangular arrays generated in Penning traps.

John Bollinger joined the NIST ion storage group in 1982 after PhD work in atomic, molecular, and optical physics at Harvard University. At NIST John’s research focused on Penning trap micro-wave frequency standards and on the collective and cold plasma behavior of trapped ions in a Penning trap. Current research interests include quantum metrology and quantum simulation experiments involving many trapped ions. John is a member of OSA and an APS fellow.

CTu3D.5 • 17:30 Modelling of beam interaction with components in the vicinity of a focal plane for long, complex laser systems such as the National Ignition Facility, Eyal Feigenbaum1, Richard A. Sacks1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. A Fourier beam propagation algorithm for within a lens Rayleigh region is derived within the Talanov framework, accommodating both the large beam size changes and propagation distances typical for large, complex systems as the NIF.

QTu3A.5 • 17:45 Graphene-based Hyperbolic Metamaterial at Terahertz Frequencies, Mohamed Othman1, Caner Guclu1, Filippo Capolino1; 1Electrical Engi-neering and Computer Science, University of Cali-fornia, Irvine, USA. We introduce graphene-based hyperbolic metamaterial for terahertz frequencies. The LDOS as well as the scattered power by a mi-crosphere at its surface are enhanced by orders of magnitude, and controlled via chemical potential.

CTu3D.6 • 17:45 Direct focal spot adaptive optics for achieving high power diffraction limited performance in the interaction chamber, Nicolas Lefaudeux1, Xavier Levecq1, Emeric Lavergne1, Ondrej Hort2, Frederic Burgy2, Philippe Balcou2, Eric Constant2; 1Imagine Optic, France; 2CELIA, Université de Bordeaux, France. We present focal spot adaptive optics method and results based on focal spot im-ages. Diffraction limited performance of the laser system is achieved for the final focal spot at high power in the interaction chamber.

QTu3A.6 • 18:00 Photonic Topological Insulators and Robust Edge States in Bi-Anisotropic Metamaterials, Alexander B. Khanikaev1, S. Hossein Mousavi1, Wang Kong Tse1, Mehdi Kargarian1, Allan Mac-Donald1, Gennady Shvets1; 1University of Texas at Austin, USA. We design a bi-anisotropic metama-terial with topologically nontrivial photonic phase analogous to that found in topological insulators. The most intriguing manifestation of this phase is the presence of edge states insensitive to structural imperfections and disorder

JTu3B.4 • 18:00 InvitedProbing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics with Attosecond EUV Pulses, Stephen R. Le-one1; 1University of California and LBNL, USA. Extreme ultraviolet pulses produced by high order harmonic generation are used to probe ultrafast atomic and molecular dynamics. States of high field ionization, coherent superpositions, and alignment are obtained by core level transient absorption spectroscopy.

CTu3D.7 • 18:00 Variable-focus method for characterizing gen-eral astigmatic laser beams, Robert Niederriter1, Juliet Gopinath1, Mark Siemens2; 1University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; 2University of Denver, USA. We demonstrate a variable-focus technique for characterizing the beam quality of general astigmatic (twisted) laser beams. There are no moving parts, only a focus-tunable lens. Measure-ments with this method match those made by the standard technique.








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CTu3E • Advanced NLO Concepts—Continued

CTu3F • Silicon Photonics—Continued

CTu3G • Microwave Photonics II—Continued

CTu3H • Novel Trace Gas Sensing—Continued

CTu3E.4 • 17:15 Experimental Demonstration of Non-Hermitian on-chip Nonlinear Optical Isolators, Armando P. Leija1, Yat-Ming Ho1, Ramy El-Ganainy1, Patrick L. Likamwa1, Gragory Salamo2, Demetrios N. Christodoulides1; 1University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA; 2Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, USA. We report the experimental re-alization of a non-Hermitian optical isolator based on semiconductor nonlinear waveguide arrays. Such non-Hermitian isolators can in principle be integrated on the same semiconductor platform along with the laser source.

CTu3F.3 • 17:15 Silicon-on-Insulator Polarization Splitter-Rotator Based on TM0-TE1 Mode Conversion in a Bi-level Taper, Wesley Sacher1, Tymon Barwicz2, Joyce K. Poon1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Toronto, Canada; 2IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA. The first dem-onstration of a silicon-on-insulator polarization splitter-rotator using TM0-TE1 mode conversion in a bi-level taper is reported. The device was fabricated in a foundry process and and exhibits a polarization crosstalk < -13 dB.

CTu3G.4 • 17:15 Generation of Programmable Passband Chirped Electrical Pulses using Optical Interferometry, Amir Rashidinejad1, Andrew M. Weiner1; 1Electri-cal and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. We present a novel optical interferometric strategy to generate arbitrary linear/nonlinear frequency-chirped electrical pulses with widely tunable center frequency. The Time-Bandwidth Product of these waveforms is twice that of current counterpart techniques.

CTu3H.3 • 17:15 Highly Multiplexed Dual-Comb Two-Photon Excitation Spectroscopy, Arthur Hipke1,2, Samuel A. Meek1, Theodor W. Hänsch1,2, Nathalie Picqué1,3; 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany; 2Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximil-ians-Universität München, Germany; 3Univer-sité Paris-Sud, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, CNRS, France. We present the latest results in extending dual-comb spectroscopy to two-photon resonances. By measuring two-photon excitation of rubidium vapor and water-dissolved fluorophores, we demonstrate both the high reso-lution and speed of the technique.

CTu3E.5 • 17:30 Optical limiting and spectral stabilization in segmented photonic lattices, Matthias Heinrich1,2, Falk Eilenberger2, Roert Keil2, Felix Dreisow2, Eric Suran3, Frédéric Louradour3, Andreas Tünnermann2, Thomas Pertsch2, Ste-fan Nolte2, Alexander Szameit2; 1CREOL The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA; 2Institute of Applied Phys-ics, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany; 3XLIM Institut de Recherche, CNRS-Université de Limoges, France. We demonstrate photonic lattices with segmentation-based linear self imag-ing as integrated optical limiters. The diffractive propagation between input and output port offers the additional benefit of substantially decreased nonlinear spectral distortions

CTu3F.4 • 17:30 Athermal Silicon Ring Resonator with Bi-material Cantilever for Passive Thermal Feed-back, Biswajeet Guha1, Michal Lipson1,2; 1Cornell University, USA; 2Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscience, USA. We demonstrate a temperature insensitive Si ring resonator by coupling the opti-cal mode to a bi-material cantilever. We show the capability of athermal operation over 14 degrees, which can be further extended through proper optimization.

CTu3G.5 • 17:30 Photonic Integrated Circuit for Channelizing RF Signals, Anna Tauke-Pedretti1, Gregory A. Vawter1, Gregory Whaley2, Erik Skogen1, Mark Overberg1, Gregory Peake1, Charles Alford1, David Torres3, Joel R. Wendt1, Florante Cajas1; 1Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 2Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA; 3LMATA Government Services LLC, USA. A new highly-functional PIC for the channelization of wideband RF signals is presented. This chip includes integrated ring resonator filters, EAM, and a tunable laser. The operation of the integrated laser and filter are shown.

CTu3H.4 • 17:30 Mid-infrared Frequency Combs based on Op-tical Parametric Oscillators for spectroscopy, Julien Mandon1, Yuwei Jin1, Simona M. Cristescu1, Frans J.M. Harren1; 1Radboud Universiteit Ni-jmegen, Netherlands. We present a Mid-infrared optical-parametric-oscillator based on an Yb-frequency comb. The idler can be continuously tuned from 2.7 to 4.8 µm, generating an ideal source for frequency comb spectroscopy in the mid- infrared.

CTu3E.6 • 17:45 Second-order Nonlinear Processes using Gap Plasmon-Polaritons, Jacob Khurgin1, Gregory Sun2; 1Johns Hopkins Univ., USA; 2University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. We show that using metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides to carry out various second-order nonlinear optical processes not only provides highly desired tight optical confinement but also facilitates the phase-matching due to their inherently large anisotropy.

CTu3F.5 • 17:45 Silicon CWDM Demultiplexers Using Contra-Directional Couplers, Wei Shi2,1, Han Yun1, Charlie Lin1, Xu Wang1, Jonas Flueckiger1, Nicolas Jaeger1, Lukas Chrostowski1; 1Electrical and Com-puter Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada. We experimentally demonstrate ultra-compact (<0.008 square mil-limetres), 4-channel CWDM demultiplexers using silicon photonic contra-directional couplers. Flat-top passbands of 10nm, insertion loss of lower than 1dB, and crosstalk of -20dB have been obtained.

CTu3G.6 • 17:45 Microwave Photonic Phase Shifter Using a Phase Modulator and a Fiber Bragg Grating in a Round-trip, Hengyun Jiang1, Lianshan Yan1, Zhiyu Chen1, Jia Ye1, ying H. guo1, Anlin Yi1, Wei Pan1, Bin Luo1; 1Southwest Jiaotong Univer-sity, China. A photonic-assisted microwave phase shifter using phase modulator and fiber-Bragg-grating in a round trip configuration is proposed. The phase of 20~30 GHz microwave signals can be shifted by properly adjusting the voltage of PM-driving signal.

CTu3H.5 • 17:45 High-Resolution Spectroscopy of the Methane nu3 Band using widely tunable single-frequency optical parametric oscillators, Jean-Jacques Zondy1, Jeremie Courtois1, Rym Bouchendira1, Malo Cadoret1, Iolanda Ricciardi2, Simona Mosca2, Maurizio De Rosa2, Paolo De Natale2; 1Joint Lab of Metrology LNE-Cnam, LNE-Cnam, France; 2Instituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), CNR, Italy. We demonstrate fast idler wave mode-hop-free tuning over ~30cm-1 around 3.3micron using a cw ppMgCLN-OPO pumped near 1063nm, allowing to capture in a single pump scan at a rate up to 20nm/s the entire Q-branch of CH4 (3000-3025cm-1).

CTu3E.7 • 18:00 Polarization-Insensitive Optical Phase Con-jugation Based on Adhesive-Free-Bonded Periodically-Inverted KTiOPO4 Plates, Pu Zhao1, Zhaojun Liu1, Xiaomu Lin1, Yujie J. Ding1, Xiaodong Mu2, Huai-Chuan Lee2, Stephanie K. Meissner2, Helmuth Meissner2; 1Lehigh University, USA; 2Onyx Optics Inc., USA. Based on adhesive-free-bonded periodically-inverted KTP plates, we have generated a phase-conjugated beam that is insensitive to polarization of the input beam. Such a process can be used to correct a blurred image caused by turbulence.

CTu3F.6 • 18:00 Broadband Compact Si Wire to Slot Waveguide Couplers, Herman Man Kai Wong1, Charles Lin1, Mohamed A. Swillam1, A. S. Helmy1; 1The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. The design, realization, and characterization of a compact Si wire to slot waveguide coupler with 3-dB bandwidth of 250 nm are presented. The coupler footprint is ~ 725x500 nm and peak ef-ficiency > 50%.

CTu3G.7 • 18:00 Photonic Filtering for High-Frequency Opto-electronic Oscillator Operation, Marcus Bagnell1, Peter J. Delfyett1; 1University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA. A Fabry-Perot etalon with 1.498 GHz free spectral range is used for photonic filter-ing in an optoelectronic oscillator. Oscillations at multiples of its FSR are produced at 10.49 GHz, 36.0 GHz, and 53.9 GHz.

CTu3H.6 • 18:00 Frequency-Agile, Rapid Scanning Spectroscopy for Ultrasensitive Absorption Measurements, David Long1, Gar-Wing Truong1,2, Kevin O. Douglass1, Stephen E. Maxwell1, Roger D. van Zee1, David F. Plusquellic1, Joseph T. Hodges1; 1NIST, USA; 2School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Australia. We report a method for rapidly scanning a cw-laser through optical cavity resonances. This technique involves a microwave source and an electro-optic phase modulator, giving high sensitivity, wide tunability and fast acquisition rates.


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CTu3I • Precision Spectroscopy—Continued

CTu3J • Novel Pulse Generation and Synthesis—Continued

CTu3K • Structured Fibers and Structured Light—Continued

CTu3L • Nanophotonics in Optical Communications—Continued

CTu3I.4 • 17:15 Using a Multimode Fiber as a High-resolution, Low-loss Spectrometer, Brandon Redding1, Sebastien Popoff1, Hui Cao1; 1Applied Physics, Yale University, USA. We demonstrate that a multi-mode fiber can operate as a high-resolution spectrometer after calibrating the wavelength-dependent speckle patterns. A 20m fiber provides 8pm resolution and a 2cm fiber enables broadband operation covering the visible spectrum.

CTu3J.4 • 17:15 Linear time-lens techniques based on intensity modulation, Bo Li1,2, Ming Li1, Shuqin Lou2, Jose Azana1; 1Institut National de la Recherche Scienti-fique - Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), Canada; 2School of Electronic and In-formation Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. We propose alternative optical time-lens techniques, namely temporal zone plates, based on intensity modulation, instead of the conventional phase modulation processes. An experimental time-bandwidth product > 31 is achieved in linear optical pulse compression experiments.

CTu3K.4 • 17:30 Fiber Mode Excitation via Free-Space Beam Shaping, Yuhao Chen1, Patrick Gregg1, Siddharth Ramachandran1; 1Boston University, USA. We demonstrate a free space method to generate higher order Bessel-like (LP0m) modes in a fiber using a spatial light modulator. Our method enables precise mode control implementing the corresponding phase plate designs on the SLM.

CTu3L.2 • 17:30 Performance of Self-Seeded RSOAs in WDM-PONs, Fei Xiong1, Wen-De Zhong1; 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We present a detailed performance investigation of self-seeded RSOAs in WDM-PONs. The influences of several system parameters on the transmission perfor-mance are examined, including signal extinction ratio, stable seeding power, and features of the wavelength multiplexer.

CTu3I.5 • 17:30 High-Precision Measurement of the Ground-State Hyperfine Splitting of 113Cd+ Ions for an Atomic Clock, Jianwei Zhang1,2, Shiguang Wang1,3, Kai Miao1,2, Zhengbo Wang1,2, Hongbo Xue1,2, Yanying Feng1,2, Lijun Wang2,3; 1NIM-THU Joint Institute for Measurement Science (JMI), Ts-inghua University, China; 2Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua University, China; 3Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China. We report a high-precision measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of 113Cd+ ions. This result is vital for an atomic clock based on the cadmium ions to estimate the frequency uncertainty.

CTu3J.5 • 17:30 A Scheme Allowing Synthesis and Characteriza-tion of Ultrafast Waveforms Using Coherent Raman Sidebands, Kai Wang1, Miaochan Zhi1, Xia Hua1, Alexei Sokolov1; 1Texas A&M Uni-versity, USA. We propose a new scheme which allows synthesis and characterization of ultrafast waveforms using coherent Raman sidebands. We show that a deformable mirror may be used for fine phase adjustment.

CTu3J.6 • 17:45 Construction of a beat-wave pulse train for quasi-phase-matched high-harmonic genera-tion, Chi-Hsiang Yang1, Shih-Chi Kao1, Jyhpyng Wang2,3, Hsu-hsin Chu1; 1Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan; 2Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 3Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. A beat-wave pulse train with 66-fs pulse separation is generated from a two-color Ti:sapphire amplifier system. It can be used for quasi-phase-matched high-harmonic generation at 3-nm wavelength under 1.0×1018 cm−3 plasma density.

CTu3K.5 • 17:45 Minimising group index variations in a multi-core endoscope fibre, James C. Roper1, Stephanos Yerolatsitis1, Tim A. Birks1, Brian J. Mangan1, Christopher Dunsby2, Paul M. French2, Jonathan C. Knight1; 1Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom; 2Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. We describe a multicore endoscope fibre with minimised group index variation be-tween cores that is obtained at a V parameter of 3. Tapering the fibre input enables us to achieve single-mode propagation.

CTu3L.3 • 17:45 25 Gb/s Transmission over 1-km OM4 Mul-timode Fiber Using a Single Mode Photonic Crystal VCSEL, Meng Peun Tan1, James A. Lott2, Stewart T. Fryslie1, Nikolay N. Ledentsov3, Dieter Bimberg2, Kent D. Choquette1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; 2Institut für Festkörperphysik und Zentrum für Nanophotonik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; 3VI Sys-tems GmbH, Germany. With reduced chromatic dispersion, a single mode photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting laser operating at a low current density of 5.4 kA/cm2 enables error-free transmission over 1-km OM4 multimode fiber at 25 Gb/s.

CTu3I.6 • 17:45 Improved Absolute Frequency Measurement of the 171Yb Optical Lattice Clock towards the Redefinition of the Second, Masami Yasuda1, Hajime Inaba1, Takuya Kohno1, Takehiko Tanabe1, Yoshiaki Nakajima1, Kazumoto Hosaka1, Daisuke Akamatsu1, Atsushi Onae1, Tomonari Suzuyama1, Masaki Amemiya1, Feng Lei Hong1; 1National Metrology Institute of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. We demonstrate an improved absolute frequency measurement of the 1S0-3P0 clock transition at 578 nm in 171Yb atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. The absolute frequency is deter-mined as 518 295 836 590 863.1(2.0) Hz relative to the SI second.

CTu3J.7 • 18:00 Breaking the energy-bandwidth limit of electro-optic modulators: theory and a device proposal, Juejun Hu1, Hongtao Lin1, Okechukwu Ogbuu1, Jifeng Liu3, Lin Zhang2, Jurgen Michel2; 1Univer-sity of Delaware, USA; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 3Dartmouth College, USA. We analytically derive the energy-bandwidth limit for electro-optic modulators based on intra-cavity in-dex modulation, and propose a dual cavity modu-lator using coupling modulation to simultaneously achieve high bandwidth (80 GHz) and ultra-low energy-per-bit (0.26 aJ).

CTu3K.6 • 18:00 Micro-confinement of microwave-plasma in photonic structures, Benoît DEBORD1, Frédéric Gérôme1, Raphaël Jamier1, Luis Lemos Alves2, Olivier Leroy3, Caroline Boisse-Laporte3, Philippe Leprince3, Fetah Benabid1; 1GPPMM group, Xlim Research Institute, France; 2Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal; 3Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (LPGP), France. We review on our previ-ous experimental results on microwave micro-plasmas ignition in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers and elucidate on how such a plasma can be confined in the hollow-core without damaging the host structure.

CTu3L.4 • 18:00 Invited 119 fJ of Dissipated Energy per Bit for Error-free 40 Gbit/s Transmission Across 50 m of Multimode Optical Fiber Using Energy Efficient 850 nm VCSELs, Philip Wolf1, Philip Moser1, Gunter Larisch1, Hui Li1, James A. Lott1, Dieter Bimberg1,2; 1Institute of Solid State Physics and Center of NanoPhotonics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; 2King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Error-free transmission at 40, 36, and 30 Gbit/s across 50, 200, and 400 m, respectively of multimode fiber is achieved with energy dis-sipation of 119, 128 and 127 fJ/bit using 850 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.

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ATu3M • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers, Optical and Nuclear Diagnostics—Continued

CTu3N • Imaging & Microscopy II—Continued

CTu3O • Micro and Nano-scale Imaging Microscopy—Continued

QTu3P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Nanoplasmonics—Continued

ATu3M.3 • 17:30 Invited Plasma Refractometry Using Angular Spectral Filters on OMEGA EP, Dan Haberberger1, S. Ivancic1, M. Barczys1, R. Boni1, D. H. Froula1; 1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, USA. A fourth-harmonic (263-nm) probe beam has been com-missioned on OMEGA EP. A novel diagnostic has been developed for it to diagnose plasma-density profiles using angular spectral filters to generate a contour map of refractive angles.

CTu3N.3 • 17:15 Measuring the 3D Position and Orientation of Single Molecules Simultaneously and Ac-curately with the Double Helix Microscope, Matthew D. Lew1, Mikael P. Backlund1, Adam S. Backer1, Steffen J. Sahl1, Ginni Grover2, Anurag Agrawal2, Rafael Piestun2, William E. Moerner1; 1Stanford University, USA; 2University of Colorado, USA. Ignoring the anisotropic nature of single-fluorophore emission in super-resolution mi-croscopy can lead to large localization errors. We use the Double-Helix microscope to correct such mislocalizations while simultaneously extracting 3D position and molecular orientation.

CTu3O.4 • 17:30 Tutorial A Pragmatic Guide to Building a Multi Photon Microscope with Applications to Micro Machin-ing, Jeffrey A. Squier1; 1Colorado School of Mines, USA. Construction of a multiphoton microscope from the excitation source, scan optics, excitation optics, collection optics, and detection electronics is described. A pragmatic, do-it-yourself approach is applied, resulting in the construction of a robust inexpensive platform.

Jeff A. Squier received the B.Sc. degree in Engi-neering Physics, and the M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden,CO and the Ph.D. degree in Optics, in 1992, from the University of Rochester,Rochester, NY. He was Research Faculty at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, and in 1995, joined the University of California, San Diego. Since 2002 he has been with the De-partment of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO. He established, and co-directs the Center for Microintegrated Optics for Advanced Bioimaging and Control at CSM.

QTu3P.3 • 17:30 Invited Modeling, Fabrication, and Characterization of Disk On-pillar Structures for Optical Field Enhancement and Extreme Nanofocusing, Nickolay V. Lavrik1; 1Center for Nanophase Ma-terials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Optimization of plasmonic disc on pillar (DOP) structures guided by FDTD simulations, their deterministic fabrication and characteriza-tion by both Raman microscopy and dark-field spectroscopy are discussed. SERS enhancement factors exceeding 109 are achieved using optimized DOP structures.

CTu3N.4 • 17:30 Depth-Resolved Nanoscopic Single Particle Tracking based on Fluorescence Phase-Shifting Interferometry, Elad Arbel1, Alberto Bilenca1,2; 1Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion Univer-sity of the Negev, Israel; 2Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. We propose and analyze fluorescence phase shifting interferometry (PSI) imaging for depth resolved single particle tracking. Temporal PSI shows larger field of views than that of spatial PSI, yet it attains lower depth localization precision.

ATu3M.4 • 17:45 Achieving full 1.8 MJ, 500 TW laser performance on the National Ignition Facility, Shamasundar N. Dixit1, Jean-Michel Di Nicola1, Scott Burkhart1, Paul Wegner1, Abdul Awwal1, C. V. Bennett1, Mark Bowers1, M. R. Borden1, T. S. Budge1, J. A. Campbell1, L. Chang1, K. Christensen1, A. Conder1, J. Chou1, G. Erbert1, Eyal Feigenbaum1, John E. Heebner1, M. Henesian1, M. R. Hermann1, V. Hernandez1, K. Jancaitis1, K. Lafortune1, R. Leach1, R. Lowe-webb1, B. MacGowan1, K. McCandless1, M. Nostrand1, C. Orth1, L. Pelz1, S. Pratuch1, J. C. Palma1, M. Rever1, Richard A. Sacks1, T. Salmon1, Mike J. Shaw1, D. Smauley1, L. Smith1, S. Sommer1, B. Van Wonterghem1, P. Whitman1, K. Wilhelmsen1, J. N. Wong1, C. Widmayer1, S. Yang1; 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. We have achieved the NIF design goals for power and energy by delivering 1.86 MJ of ultra-violet energy in a wide dynamic range (>300:1), 22.5-ns shaped ignition pulse with a peak power of 520 TW.

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ATu3M.5 • 18:00 Invited Optical Probe Lasers for Characterizing High-temperature, High-density Plasmas, Siegfried Glenzer1; 1SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA. In this talk we will present first Thomson scattering results with unprecedented spectral, wavenumber and temporal resolution in shock compressed matter and will discuss future experi-ments aimed at measuring the physical properties of dense plasmas.

CTu3N.6 • 18:00 Single-cell photonic nanocavity probes, Gary Shambat1, Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli1, J. Provine1, Tomas Sarmiento1, James S. Harris1, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir1, Jelena Vuckovic1; 1Stanford University, USA. We demonstrate for the first time high Q photonic nanocavities operating inside single biological cells. We show in vitro protein detection with our tool as a route towards real-time label-free sensing in an intracellular environment

QTu3P.4 • 18:00 Invited Making Nanophotonics Devices a Reality: Nanofabrication of Advanced Nanophotonic Structures, Stefano Cabrini1; 1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. To exploit the potenti-alities of Nanophotonics, it is important to control the properties of the material at the nanometer scale, obtaining a good agreement between the experiments and the theory. Nanofabrication can open the way for new concept of devices.



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QTu3A • Hyperbolic Metamaterials II—Continued

JTu3B • Symposium on Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications: Advances in Extreme UV Science and Applications I—Continued

QTu3C • Selected Topics in Quantum Optics—Continued

CTu3D • Short-wave IR Lasers and Laser Beam Propagation—Continued

QTu3A.7 • 18:15 A Titanium Nitride based Metamaterial for Ap-plications in the Visible, Gururaj V. Naik1, Bivas Saha2, Jing Liu3, Sammy M. Saber2, Eric Stach2, Joseph Irudayaraj3, Timothy D. Sands2,1, Vladimir M. Shalaev1, Alexandra Boltasseva1,4; 1Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA; 2Materials Engineering, Purdue University, USA; 3Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, USA; 4Photonics Engineering, Techni-cal University of Denmark, Denmark. Epitaxially grown TiN/Al0.6Sc0.4N superlattice behaves as a hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) in the visible range. Since HMMs enhance photonic-density-of-states and reduce lifetime of an emitter, we observed nine times decrease in lifetime of a dye molecule placed close to this HMM.

CTu3D.8 • 18:15 Passive Q-switching of a Tm:BaY2F8 laser, Xavier Mateos1,2, Stefano Veronesi3, Haohai Yu1,4, Valentin Petrov1, Uwe Griebner1, Daniela Parisi3, Mauro Tonelli3; 1Max Born Institute, Germany; 2Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; 3Università di Pisa, Italy; 4Shandong University, China. We report on passive Q-switching of a Tm-doped BaY2F8 (Tm:BYF) laser using Cr:ZnS saturable absorber achieving single pulse energies as high as 0.72 mJ, peak power exceeding 17 kW and pulse duration of 40 ns.

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CTu3E • Advanced NLO Concepts—Continued

CTu3F • Silicon Photonics—Continued

CTu3G • Microwave Photonics II—Continued

CTu3H • Novel Trace Gas Sensing—Continued

CTu3E.8 • 18:15 Noble metal nonlinear optical mirrors with adjustable spectral and angular bandwidths for all-optical controls at visible wavelengths, James Hsu1, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez1, Alfred R. Ernst1, Bernard Kippelen1; 1ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. A nonlinear optical (NLO) mir-ror structure can amplify the strong and ultrafast NLO properties of noble metal thin-films. Spectral and angular bandwidths of the NLO mirrors are adjustable while maintaining a large nonlinear reflectance change.

CTu3F.7 • 18:15 Chirped and Apodized Silicon Gratings Ef-ficiently Coupled to Normally Incident Fiber Array, John L. Covey1, Ray T. Chen1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Texas Austin, USA. A silicon grating coupler containing non-monotonic chirp, apodization, and quasi-periodicity is fabri-cated, re-designed, and measured. Simultaneous input/output coupling from a standard fiber array at normal incidence results in a 60% coupling ef-ficiency per grating.

CTu3G.8 • 18:15 RF Photonic Filters with 20-ns Bandwidth Reconfiguration Based on Optical Frequency Combs, Rui Wu1, Daniel E. Leaird1, Andrew M. Weiner1; 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. We present bandwidth reconfigurable RF photonic filtering with 20-ns reconfiguration speed based on a frequency comb with rapidly switched optical bandwidth.

CTu3H.7 • 18:15 Rapid, wide bandwidth pulsed cavity ringdown spectroscopy, Toby K. Boyson1, Dylan R. Rittman2, Thomas G. Spence3, Maria E. Calzada3, Abhijit G. Kallapur1, Ian R. Petersen1, Paul Kirkbride4, David S. Moore2, Charles C. Harb1; 1School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW, Australia; 2Shock and Detonation Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 3Department of Math-ematical Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Loyola University New Orleans, USA; 4Forensic and Data Centres, The Australian Federal Police, Australia. We present a new variant of the Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy (CRDS) that is able to scan across more than 1400 nm of spectral band-width, acquiring and analysing more than 150,000 spectral datapoints in less than four seconds.


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CTu3I • Precision Spectroscopy—Continued

CTu3J • Novel Pulse Generation and Synthesis—Continued

CTu3K • Structured Fibers and Structured Light—Continued

CTu3L • Nanophotonics in Optical Communications—Continued

CTu3J.8 • 18:15 Sub-50fs pulse generation directly from a 750MHz repetition rate dispersion managed Yb:fiber ring laser, Chen Li1, Guizhong Wang1, Tongxiao Jiang1, Aimin Wang1, Zhigang Zhang1; 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Com-munication System and Networks School of Elec-tronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China. We demonstrate sub-50fs pulse generation directly from a 750MHz repetition rate dispersion managed Yb:fiber ring laser by preci-sion compensation of the intracavity dispersion.

CTu3K.7 • 18:15 Microwave Split-Ring Resonator for Micro-plasmas Generation in Hollow-Core Optical Waveguides, Florian Vial1, Katell Gadonna1, Benoît Debord1, Frédéric Gérôme1, Raphaël Ja-mier1, Olivier Leroy2, Philippe Leprince2, Caroline Boisse-Laporte2, Fetah Benabid1; 1GPPMM group, Xlim Research Institute, France; 2LPGP, France. We report on creation of micro-confined microwave-driven plasmas sustained in a 200µm diameter argon-filled hollow-core optical waveguide using a highly compact split-ring resonator.


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ATu3M • Symposium on The Path to Sustainable Energy: Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Energy: Technology of ICF: Drive Lasers, Optical and Nuclear Diagnostics—Continued

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CTu3O • Micro and Nano-scale Imaging Microscopy—Continued

QTu3P • Symposium on Nanophotonics at the DOE/SC Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Nanoplasmonics—Continued

CTu3N.7 • 18:15 Temporal focusing generated via a height-stag-gered microlens array can be used for wide-field optical-sectioning microscopy, Jiun-Yann Yu1, Daniel B. Holland1, Geoffrey A. Blake1, Chin-Lin Guo1; 1California Institute of Technology, USA. We theoretically investigate the temporal-focusing ef-fect generated by a microlens array with patterned height differences among the microlenses, and show how such an effect can be utilized for wide-field optical-sectioning microscopy.


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18:30–20:30JTu4A • POSTER SESSION I: Nanophotonics, Lightwave Communications and Biophotonics Poster Session

JTu4A.01 Single-notch Filter Based on a Compact Asym-metric Microfiber Coupler, Xinliang Zhang1, Lei Shi1, Ping Zhao1; 1Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China. A novel single-notch filter is experimentally demonstrated based on a compact asymmetric microfiber coupler. With an extinction ratio over 30 dB, a single narrow transmission dip in a wavelength range over 300 nm was obtained.

JTu4A.02 Watt-order direct green laser oscillation at 522nm in Pr3+-doped waterproof fluoro-aluminate-glass fiber, Jun Nakanishi1, Tsuyoshi Yamada1, Motoichiro Murakami2, Yasushi Fuji-moto2, Osamu Ishii3, Masaaki Yamazaki3; 1Nidek.co.,Ltd., Japan; 2ILE Osaka Univ, Japan; 3Sumita Optical Glass, Inc, Japan. We have demonstrated a high power green watt-order fiber-laser with a Pr3+-doped waterproof fluoro-aluminate glass fiber. The maximum output power of the 522nm laser beam was measured to be 1.53W.

JTu4A.03 Characterization of the DFB fiber laser resona-tor strength and α-parameter by response to external feedback, Geoffrey A. Cranch1, Gary A. Miller1, Joanne Harrison2, Scott Foster2; 1US Naval Research Laboratory, USA; 2Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia. A method to characterize the linewidth enhancement factor or alpha-parameter of erbium doped fiber from measurements of the sensitivity to backreflection of DFB fiber lasers with a range of known resonator strengths is presented.

JTu4A.04 400-Wavelength Raman Comb Lasing in a Ring Cavity Based on Nonlinear Polarization Rotation, Weiqing Gao1, Meisong Liao1, Din-ghuan Deng1, Tonglei Cheng1, Takenobu Suzuki1, Yasutake Ohishi1; 1Research Center for Advanced Photon Technology, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. We demonstrate Raman comb lasing in a ring cavity. The intensities of lines are equalized by the nonlinear polarization rotation mechanism. More than 400-wavelength lasing with the signal-noise ratio higher than 10 dB is obtained.

JTu4A.05 Self-starting S-band mode-locked fiber ring laser by polarization additive pulse mode-locking, Ling-Gang Yang1, Siao-Shan Jyu1, Chien-Hung Yeh2, Chi-Wai Chow1, Yinchieh Lai1; 1Photonics, Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; 2Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. We have experimentally demonstrated a self-starting mode-locked fiber laser source operating at 1503 nm with 9 nm output bandwidth. The mode-locked laser works stably with a pumping threshold of 225 mW at 980 nm.

JTu4A.06 Comparison of timing noise properties of carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphene oxide as saturable absorbers for a mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser, Qijie Wang1, Xiaohui Li1,3, Kan Wu2, Perry Ping Shum2, Yonggang Wang3, Yishan Wang3; 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Sin-gapore; 2Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technolo-gies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 3State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonic, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. We compare the timing noise properties of three most typical carbon materials, i.e., single walled carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphene oxide as saturable absorbers in a passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser as a test platform.

JTu4A.07 Random lasing from capillary fiber, Ja-Hon Lin1, Guo-Lun Hong1, Ying-Li Hsiao1, Cheng-Ling Lee2; 1National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; 2National United University, Taiwan. Multi-emission peaks with sub-nanometer spectrum bandwidth has been generated from dye doped liquid crystal infilling capillary tube with axial pumping by the frequency doubling Q-switched Nd:YAG laser to demonstrate the random lasing behavior.

JTu4A.08 Switchable Dual Wavelength Erbium-doped Fiber Laser in C- and L-band, Seungbin Ahn1, Hyun-Joo Kim1, Young-Geun Han1; 1Hanyang University, Republic of Korea. We propose a novel scheme for a switchable dual wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a polarization-dependent surface long-period grating. The lasing wavelength was switched in C- and L-band with a response time of 270 μs.

JTu4A.09 Experimental study on thermal profile of graphite filament and its effect on optical fiber fusion splicing, Donghui Zhao1, Samir Ghalmi1, Giorgio Giaretta1, Jean-Michel Pelaprat1; 1Vytran LLC, USA. By utilizing a novel high-temperature measuring method, we investigated thermal profile of graphite filament for fiber fusion splicing. The experimental results indicate its excellent unifor-mity with less than 6.42% temperature fluctuation over 1.5mm diameter area.

JTu4A.10 Generation and Amplification of Stable Nano-second Pulses in a Thulium-doped Fiber Laser, Jiang Liu1, Pu Wang1; 1Beijing University of Technology, China. We demonstrated that SESAM mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser produced stable nanosecond pulses from 2.5ns to 12.5ns at repetition rates between 1.72MHz and 258kHz. Average power of 5.6W at 1942nm was obtained by two-stage all-fiber amplifiers.

JTu4A.11 Mid-infrared Fluorotellurite Glasses and Fibers, Huan Zhan1, Aidong Zhang1, Jianli He1, Zhiguang Zhou1, Lu Li1, Aoxiang Lin1; 1Xi’an Inst of Optics and Precision Mech, China. We report on the fabrication and characterization of rare earth ions-doped water-free fluorotellurite glasses and fibers. For 2.8 mm glass fiber rods, its background loss was ~12 dB/m in the range of 2.5~4.2 µm.

JTu4A.12 Generation of Polarizing Sections in Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibers via Post-Processing, Priscila Romagnoli1, Claudecir R. Biazoli2, Marcos A. R. Franco3, Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro2, Christiano J. S. de Matos1; 1MackGrafe, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil; 2Instituto de Fisica “Gleb Wataghin”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil; 3Laboratorio de Eletromagnetismo Computacional, Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEAv), Brazil. The structure of a commercial highly birefringent PCF was locally tapered to create a polarizing section. A polarization-depended loss of at least 32.2 dB over a 1-cm length was induced in the 1550-nm region.

JTu4A.13 Coupling Light into Fiber Using Second Order Fiber Bragg Gratings, Nai-Hsiang Sun1, Chia-Ming Hu1, Jung-Sheng Chiang1, Wen-Fung Liu2, Gary A. Evans3, Jerome K. Butler3; 1Department of Electrical Engineering, I-Shou University, Taiwan; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan; 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, USA. Light is successfully coupled into the fiber by using second-order FBGs. The measured power from the two ends of the FBGs are 10.715 nW and 10.233 nW, respectively, with an input power of ~12 mW.

JTu4A.14 Arbitrary Triggerable and Wavelength Tunable Ps-source in the Visible Range with High Off-band Rejection, Kristian Lauritsen1, Thomas Schoenau1, Thomas Eckhardt1, Romano Härtel1, Philipp Kubina1, Torsten Siebert1, Rainer Erd-mann1; 1PicoQuant GmbH, Germany. A tunable coherent ps-source is presented that covers the visible range from 480 nm to 700 nm and features a 57 db out-of-band rejection and user-triggerable pulses in the 1 - 40 MHz repetition rate range.

JTu4A.15 Fabrication and Photoluminescence Property of the PbS-doped Silica Optical Fiber, Jianxiang Wen1; 1Shanghai University, China. A new tech-nique of atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been the first introduced to fabricate PbS-doped silica fiber, whose optical properties are measured. The fiber exhibits photoluminescence property in the wavelength range 1100-1185 nm.

JTu4A.16 Soliton rains in normal dispersion Yb fiber laser with dual-filter, Chengying Bao1, Xiaosh-eng Xiao1, Changxi Yang1; 1Tsinghua University, China. We report an observation of soliton rains in normal dispersion Yb fiber laser. The cavity con-sisted of a narrow filter and a broad birefringent plate filter. Soliton rain was obtained in the weak mode-locking regime.

JTu4A.17 Broadband multipoint sensing with single-arm frequency-shifted interferometry, Yiwei Zhang1, Fei Ye1, Bing Qi1,2, Hoi-Kwong Lo1,2, Li Qian1; 1Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; 2Center for Quan-tum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, Canada. Using a broadband source, a slow detector, and a modulator, we propose and demonstrate a single-arm frequency-shifted interferometer capable of sensing multiple weak reflections simultaneously in parallel and in series at 0.1-m spatial resolution.

JTu4A.18 Impact by fiber dispersion, nonlinearity, and sat-urable absorption in short-cavity mode-locked fiber lasers, Yuta Hasegawa1, Shinji Yamashita1; 1Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Japan. We numer-ically investigate the temporal and spectral change of optical pulses in short cavity mode-locked fiber lasers. We found that the shorter cavity length has less impact by fiber dispersion and nonlinearity.

JTu4A.19 Dissipative Soliton Resonance in an Anomalous-Dispersion Figure-Eight Fiber Laser, Zhi-Chao Luo1, Qiu-Yi Ning1, Hai-Lan Mo1, Shi-Ke Wang1, Hu Cui1, Jin Liu2, Ai-Ping Luo1, Wen-Cheng Xu1; 1Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materi-als and Devices, South China Normal University, China; 2South China Academy of Advanced Opto-electronics, South China Normal University, China. We report on the mode-locked rectangular pulse operating in dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) region in an anomalous-dispersion figure-eight fiber laser. The results demonstrate that the formation of DSR pulse is independent of mode-locking techniques.

JTu4A.20 Generation of higher-order bound solitons in a carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser, Xin Zhao1, Qi Wang1, Zheng Gong1, Zheng Zheng1; 1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, China. Various bound states consisting of up to five solitons have been stably generated from a passively mode-locked fiber laser for the first time, using a carbon nanotube modelocker through intracavity gain/loss tuning.

JTu4A.21 Femtosecond CPA System operating at 1560 nm Seeded by a Graphene Mode-Locked Fi-ber Laser, Grzegorz J. Sobon1, Jaroslaw Sotor1, Karol Krzempek1, Grzegorz Dudzik1, Krzysztof M. Abramski1; 1Laser & Fiber Electronics Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. We demonstrate a chirped pulse amplification setup seeded by a fiber laser mode-locked by graphene saturable absorber. The system provides 1 W of output power with 800 fs pulse duration at 1560 nm wavelength.

JTu4A.22 Electrochemically exfoliated graphite nano-sheet mode-locker for sub-picosecond L-band fiber lasers, Chun-Yu Yang1, Yung-Hsiang Lin1, Chung-Lun Wu1, Gong-Ru Lin1; 1National Taiwan University, Taiwan. The electrochemically exfoli-ated graphite nano-sheets with diameter of 500 nm and area density of 8300 #/mm2 is employed to passively mode-lock the L-band fiber laser with pulsewidth of 850 fs and linewidth of 2.8 nm.

JTu4A.23 All-solid tellurite microstructured optical fiber with one layer of high-index rods, Ton-glei Cheng1, Zhongchao Duan1, Weiqing Gao1, Meisong Liao1, Dinghuan Deng1, Takenobu Su-zuki1, Yasutake Ohishi1; 1ofmlab, Japan. A simple all-solid tellurite microstructured optical fiber which has only one layer of high-index rods is proposed and fabricated. The core and cladding are made from the TZNL glass, and the high-index rods are made from the TLWMN glass.



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JTu4A.24 Chirped Volume Bragg Gratings as Broad Spectrum Focusing or Collimating Elements, Ivan B. Divliansky1, Marc SeGall1, Daniel Ott1, Leonid Glebov1; 1College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA. We demonstrate the use of chirped volume Bragg gratings (VBGs) as high efficiency flat focusing elements for wavelengths ranging from visible to near IR spectral region using a holographic recording at 325 nm.

JTu4A.25 Characterization of a Hybrid Silicon-InP Laser Tapered Mode Converter, Michael Davenport1, Martijn Heck1, John E. Bowers1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. The performance of a tapered mode converter inside a hybrid silicon laser was measured to determine loss. Several taper lengths were investigated, and the best performing device had a taper loss of 2.7dB.

JTu4A.26 Integration of Silicon Plasmonic Schottky Photodetector for on Chip Signal Tapping at Telecom Wavelengths, Boris Desiatov1, Ilya Goykhman1, Joseph Shappir1, Uriel Levy1; 1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. We experimen-tally demonstrate the use of an on-chip integrated Schottky plasmonic detector for testing, monitor-ing and tapping signals in plasmonic and photonic devices. Theoretical model and measurement of external and integrated devices will be presented.

JTu4A.27 Polymeric Micro-Lenses Aided Free Space Opti-cal Interconnects, Xiaohui Lin1, Amir Hosseini2, Xinyuan Dou1, Harish Subbaraman2, Ray T. Chen1; 1Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; 2Omega Optics, Inc., USA. The free space optical interconnects (1-4mm) are realized using surface normal proximity couplers composing of integrated reflective surface and ink-jet printed micro-lenses. High speed data transmission shows improve signal quality with micro-lenses.

JTu4A.28 Robust and Compact 45 Gb/s MMI-based SOI DPSK Demodulator for On-chip Optical IO Layer, Mohammed Shafiqul Hai1, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, McGill University, Canada. A 150 μm^2 45 Gb/s SOI-DPSK demodulator maintains good performance (ER>17 dB, BER<10^-9) over 6.5% variation in the core length of 1×2 MMI couplers for single ended photodetection and 3 dB power penalty/C variation in temperature.

JTu4A.29 Demonstration of Selective Mode Multiplex-ing/De-Multiplexing in a Multimode Silicon Waveguides via Asymmetric Y-Junctions: To-wards On-Chip MDM, Jeffrey B. Driscoll1, Richard Grote1, Brian Souhan1, Jerry I. Dadap1, Richard M. Osgood1; 1Columbia University, USA. We experimentally demonstrate selective mode multiplexing/de-multiplexing in a multimode Si waveguide via asymmetric Y-junctions, with crosstalk as low as −30 dB and < 0.5 dB insertion loss over the entire C-band.

JTu4A.30 Fast Dispersive Laser Scanner by Using Digital Micro Mirror Arrays, Salih K. Kalyoncu1, Yue-wang Huang1, Rasul Torun1, Qiancheng Zhao1, Ozdal Boyraz1,2; 1EECS, University of California Irvine, USA; 2EE, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey. We demonstrate fast dispersive laser scanning system by using MEMS digital micro-mirror arrays. Experimentally, we scanned ~20mm2 in 200us with ~175um lateral and ~216um verti-cal resolution that can be controlled by using 1024x768 mirror arrays.

JTu4A.31 One-Way 10 Gbps Data Transmission through a Silicon Optical Diode, Jian Wang1, Li Fan1, Leo T. Varghese1, Yi Xuan1, Ben Niu1, Daniel E. Leaird1, Andrew M. Weiner1, Minghao Qi1; 1Purdue Univer-sity, USA. An optical diode consisting of cascaded silicon microresonators enables non-reciprocal transmission through direction dependent reso-nance shift. One-way 10Gbps data transmission is realized through the strong dispersion and attenuation associated with a resonant structure.

JTu4A.32 Loss and Size Minimization of Surface Plasmon Polariton Nanolasers in Near Infrared, Debin Li1, Kang Ding1, Cun-Zheng Ning1; 1Arizona State University, USA. We show that interplay of differ-ent loss mechanisms leads to a minimization of overall loss in a semiconductor plasmon polariton nanolaser. A practical design is proposed with a total volume of 1.5 × 10-4 λ0^3.

JTu4A.33 Low-loss graphene plasmonic waveguide based on a high-index dielectric wedge for tight opti-cal confinement, Yu Sun1, Yusheng Bian1, Xin Zhao1, Zheng Zheng1, Jianwei Liu1, Jiansheng Liu1; 1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, China. A plasmonic waveguide consisting of a graphene monolayer placed above a high-index dielectric wedge is shown to support strongly confined plasmonic modes with low loss, which outperforms the conventional graphene ribbon waveguides.

JTu4A.34 Neuron-Like Functionality of a Silicon Optical Transistor, Leo T. Varghese1, Li Fan1, Jian Wang1, Yi Xuan1, Andrew M. Weiner1, Minghao Qi1; 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, USA. We demonstrate an all-silicon optical transistor that realizes NAND and NOR logic without the need to physically alter the device. The device is cascadable and may provide an efficient solid-state implementation of artificial neural networks.

JTu4A.35 Silicon optical switch based on a tapered W1 photonic crystal waveguide with thermo-optic effect, Qiang Zhao1, Kaiyu Cui1, Zhilei Huang1, Xue Feng1, Dengke Zhang1, Yidong Huang1; 1Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China. Thermo-optic switch based on W1 photonic crystal wave-guide is demonstrated, high extinction ratio of 23.5 dB has been experimentally achieved under a switching power as low as 8.9 mW while the device is only 16.8-µm-long.

JTu4A.36 Self-induced spin polarization in active photonic devices without extrinsic magnetism, Shu-Wei Chang1,2, Yuqian Ye3; 1Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 2Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; 3Department of Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, China. We theoretically incorporate chirality into laser cavities and utilize it to dem-onstrate circularly-polarized resonant modes. In absence of extrinsic magnetism, these modes may induce a net spin polarization via selection rules when lasing.

JTu4A.37 Thermo-optomechanical oscillator for sensing applications, Yang Deng1, Fenfei Liu1, Zayd Lese-man2, Mani Hossein-Zadeh1; 1Center for High Tech-nology Materials, University of New Mexico, USA; 2Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA. We demonstrate a thermo-optomechanical oscillator based on high-Q optical resonance and study its application in sensing. The unique bifrequency oscillation that carries the signature of local thermo-optic and global thermo-mechanical effects is analyzed and characterized

JTu4A.38 Compact Antenna for Unidirectionally Cou-pling Surface Plasmons with Ultra-broadband and Wide-angle Efficiency, Kun Li1, Fan Lu1, Zhonghua Wang1, Anshi Xu1; 1Peking University, China. A novel ultra-broadband and wide-angle plasmonic antenna composed of two cascaded sub-gratings is proposed, with ultra-broad spectral full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of 400 nm and wide angular FWHM of 25 degree, nearly 4 times greater than that of the periodic reference gratings.

JTu4A.39 Tight-binding calculation of radiation loss in photonic crystal CROW, Jing Ma1, Luis Martínez1, Shanhui Fan2, Michelle Povinelli1; 1Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA; 2Department of Electri-cal Engineering, Stanford University, USA. We uti-lize the tight binding approximation within a light cone picture to relate the quality factor of CROWs with that of isolated cavity and to design CROWs with low intrinsic loss across the entire band.

JTu4A.40 Tunable Reflective-Type Microring Resonator Optical Delay Lines with Large bandwidth and Low Power Dissipation, Jingya Xie1, Linjie Zhou1, Xiaomeng Sun1, zhi zou1, Liangjun Lu1, Haike Zhu1, Xinwan Li1, Jianping Chen1; 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. We present a reflective-type delay line using side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of resonators (SCISSOR) ter-minated with a Sagnac loop reflector. With 13 microrings, group delay of ~150 ps is achieved with 170 GHz bandwidth.

JTu4A.41 Design Method for Critically Coupling into a Weakly Absorbing 1D Photonic Crystal Cav-ity, Richard R. Grote1, Xiang Meng1, Jeffrey B. Driscoll1, Nicolae Panoiu2, Richard M. Osgood1; 1Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 2Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineer-ing, University College London, United Kingdom. A design method for critically-coupling into a weakly absorbing Si waveguide photonic crystal cavity is presented. Using this method, an ultra-compact Si+ implanted waveguide photodiode is designed with a factor of 240 increase in absorption.

JTu4A.42 Enhanced Q with Internally Coupled Microring Resonators, Luis Alberto Mijam Barea1, Felipe Vallini1, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre1, Gustavo S. Wie-derhecker1, Newton Cesario Frateschi1; 1Depart-ment of Applied Physics, University of Campinas, Brazil. We demonstrate fourfold quality factor (Q) enhancement with microring resonators internally coupled to larger microring resonator. Q ~ 37,000 is obtained for a 5 μm radius microring in a 40 μm x 40 μm footprint device.

JTu4A.43 Silicon feedback-microring electro-optical switches with integrated surface-state-absorp-tion linear photocurrent monitors, Shaoqi Feng1, Andrew W. Poon1; 1Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. We demon-strate simultaneous switching and monitoring in silicon feedback-microring electro-optical switch-es with integrated surface-state-absorption linear photocurrent monitors. Our in-microresonator p-i-n photodetector reveals a responsivity of 1.2 mA/W at 1530 nm upon -1V bias.

JTu4A.44 Octagonal toroid microcavity for mechanically robust coupling with optical fiber, Ryo Suzuki1, Takumi Kato1, Takasumi Tanabe1; 1Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan. Critical coupling and mechanically robust cou-pling between a whispering-gallery mode and a tapered fiber is simultaneously demonstrated by using an octagonal toroid microcavity with a theoretical Q of 8.8×106 and an experimental value of 2.2×104.

JTu4A.45 Silicon-Microring-Based Modulation of 120 Gbps DPSK Signal, Yunchu Li1, Daniel P. Dapkus1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA. A coupling-switching-based mi-croring modulator capable of 120 Gb/s NRZ-DPSK signal generation with 4 V voltage is proposed, in which the tolerance to active element propagation loss is released from <9 to >30 dB/cm.

JTu4A.46 Engineering the spectral properties of photonic molecules, Bo Peng1, Fuchuan Lei1,2, Sahin K. Ozdemir1, Guilu Long2, Lan Yang1; 1Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA; 2National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China. We present spectra evolution of photonic molecules upon individual or collective coupling of supermodes in one resonator with single mode in the other one by tuning the coupling strength and spectral overlap of the modes.

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JTu4A.47 Thermal Stress in Silica Disk Resonators, Tong Chen1, Hansuek Lee1, Kerry J. Vahala1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, USA. We investigate how thermal stress impacts silica disk resonators by comparing measurements with a finite element and an analytical model. Thicker oxide layers and proper control of undercut enable ultrahigh optical performance and mechanical stability.

JTu4A.48 Chaos-assisted whispering-gallery-mode ex-citation using a sub-wavelength optical fiber, Xue-Feng Jiang1, Yun-Feng Xiao1, Qihuang Gong1; 1Department of Physics, Peking University, China. We report experimentally the chaos-assisted excitation of high-Q whispering-gallery modes in a deformed microcavity by a sub-wavelength fiber taper. This chaos-mediated coupling combines the advantages of fiber taper and free-space coupling.

JTu4A.49 Counter-Propagating Whispering-Gallery-Modes of InGaAs/GaAs Microtubes, Qiuhang Zhong1, Zhaobing Tian1, M. Hadi Tavakoli Dastjerdi1, Zetian Mi1, David V. Plant1; 1Depart-ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada. We demonstrate, for the first time, the counter-propagating whispering-gallery-modes of InGaAs/GaAs microtubes. We study the thermo-optic effect in these microtubes and realize optical-optical modulation in both propagating and counter-propagating modes.

JTu4A.50 Design of Adiabatic Connections for Ultra-Low-Loss Waveguides, Tong Chen1, Hansuek Lee1, Kerry J. Vahala1; 1California Institute of Technology, USA. We propose a variational approach to design adiabatic waveguide connections with minimal intermodal coupling. A design of the “S-bend” of whispering-gallery spiral waveguides is demon-strated with approximately 0.05dB insertion loss.

JTu4A.51 Compact Tunable Directional Couplers in SOI, Piero Orlandi1,3, Francesco Morichetti2, Michael John Strain3, Marc Sorel3, Andrea Melloni2, Paolo Bassi1; 1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Energia Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy; 2Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 3School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. A compact tunable directional coupler is realized on a silicon photonic platform. The power splitting ratio can be widely tuned through a transverse temperature gradient induced by an asymmetrically placed integrated heater.

JTu4A.52 Double-layer silicon waveguides in standard silicon for 3D photonics, Chia-Ming Chang1, Olav Solgaard1; 1Stanford University, USA. We demonstrate a 3D photonic technology for fabrication of double-layer silicon waveguides in standard silicon. This technology eliminates the need for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and can be further expanded to multiple-layer photonics for different applications.

JTu4A.53 Tailoring of Low Chromatic Dispersion over a Broadband in Silicon Waveguides using a Double-Slot Design, Changjing Bao1, Yan Yan1, Lin Zhang2, Yang Yue1, Alan E. Willner1; 1De-partment of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA; 2Department of Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. We propose horizontal double-slot silicon waveguide to tailor the dispersion and achieve flattened and low dispersion with a bandwidth of 878 nm from -17 to 23 ps/km/nm. Supercontinuum in all-normal dispersion with 3 dB bandwidth of 188 nm is generated in double-slot waveguide.

JTu4A.54 Characterization of the Fundamental Polariza-tion Modes of a Silicon Waveguide in the Far Field, Jian Wang1, Justin C. Wirth1, Yi Xuan1, Daniel E. Leaird1, Andrew M. Weiner1, Minghao Qi1; 1Purdue University, USA. The polarization compositions of fundamental quasi-TE and quasi-TM modes of a strip silicon waveguide are characterized with free-space polarizers, and their polarization extinction ratios depend on the sizes of various apertures in the experimental setups.

JTu4A.55 Engineering 3D Metal Nanoantenna for Fluo-rescence Enhancement, Xiang Meng1, Richard R. Grote1, Richard M. Osgood1; 1Columbia University, USA. We examine the fluorescence enhancements from various 3D metallic nanoantenna/molecules structures with different antenna shapes, metal types and spacer-molecule lengths. The results allow us to engineer optimal metallic structures for the fluorescence enhancement.

JTu4A.56 Observation of non-specular effects for Gauss-ian-Schell model light beams, Michele Merano1, Gabriele Umbriaco1, Giampaolo Mistura1; 1Uni-versità degli Studi di Padova, Italy. We investigate experimentally the role of spatial coherence on optical beam shifts. This topic has been the subject of recent theoretical debate. Our data unambigu-ously resolve the theoretical debate in favour of one specific theory.

JTu4A.57 Local Characterization of Photonic Structures by Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy and Spectral Interferometry, Johanna Trägårdh1, Henkjan Gersen1; 1HH Wills physics laboratory, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. We combine a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) with crossed beam spectral interferometry, to enable a full local optical characterization of photonic structures.

JTu4A.58 Synthesis of aluminum nanoparticles for UV plasmonics, Julien Proust1, Silvère Schuermans1, Jérôme Martin1, Davy Gerard1, Thomas Maurer1, Jérôme Plain1; 1Université de Technologie de Troyes, France. We report on the synthesis and charac-terization of Aluminum-based Nano-Particles (AL-NPs). AL-NPs exhibit a very good homogene-ity and reproducibility. Extinction spectroscopy measurements show that Al-NPs present sharp localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in the UV region.

JTu4A.59 Ultra-Compact Plasmonic Microresonator with Efficient Thermo-Optic Tuning, High Quality Factor and Small Mode Volume, Chao Xiang1,2, Jian Wang2, Chun-Kit Chan1; 1Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 2Wuhan National Labora-tory for Optoelectronics, College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering,Huazhong University of Science & technology, China. We propose an ultra-compact plasmonic microresonator with high thermo-optic tuning efficiency (~4 nm/100 K), high quality factor (~350), and small mode volume (~0.01 μm3). This microresonator has potential in on-chip components, thermal sensing, and micro/nano-lasing.

JTu4A.60 Three-dimensional nanoplasmonic surfaces with strong out-of-plane electric field enhance-ment, Kivanç Güngör1, Emre Ünal1, Hilmi Volkan Demir1,2; 1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Physics, and UNAM - Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Turkey; 2Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Conventional 2D plasmonic structures, with surface coverage ~50%, provide field enhancement in the plane. The proposed 3D nanoplasmonic surfaces, with unity coverage, achieve 7.2-fold stronger out-of-plane enhance-ment compared to the 2D counterparts.

JTu4A.61 Methodology of Surface Wave Holography for Wavefront Shaping of Light, Yu-Hui Chen1, Lin Gan1, Jiafang Li1, Zhi-Yuan Li1; 1CAS Institute of Physics, China. We discuss a novel methodology called surface wave holography, which allows for direct determination of the morphology of plasmonic nanostructrues perforated on a metal thin film for wavefront control and shaping of light without the need of complicated inverse-problem solutions.

JTu4A.62 Complex Polarizability of an Isolated Subwave-length Plasmonic Hole in a Thin Metal Film, Jun Xu1, Nicholas Xuanlai Fang1; 1Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. In this work, we experimentally measure the near field intensity distribution of light squeezed through a subwavelength plasmonic hole in a thin metal film and retrieve both transmission coefficient and phase shift information.

JTu4A.63 Strong suppression of angle and period depen-dency of surface-plasmon-polaritons in gold nanodisks by combining a nanorod substrate, Szu-Chi Yang1, Pei-Kuen Wei2, Ting-Wei Liao3, Meng-Lin Tsai4, Pierre-Adrien Mante1, Yu-Ru Huang1, I-Ju Chen1, Hui-Yuan Chen1, Chi-Kuang Sun1,5; 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; 2Institute of Physics and Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 3Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan; 5Molecular Imaging Center and Graduate Institute of Biomedi-cal Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. We report that the angular and periodic dependence of the surface-plasmon-polaritons in gold nanodisks can be suppressed by nanorod substrates, which decreases the dipolar coupling and enhance their localization.

JTu4A.64 Super absorption in ultra-thin photovoltaic films based on strong interference effects, Kai Liu1, Haomin Song1, Dengxin Ji1, Bin Zhou1, Xie Zeng1, Qiaoqiang Gan1, Alexander Cartwright1; 1EE, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. We computationally and experimentally dem-onstrate a super absorption in a flat ultra-thin organic photovoltaic layer on metal substrates based on interference effects of strongly absorptive ultra-thin films.

JTu4A.65 Properties of InAs Quantum Dots in Nanoim-print Lithography Patterned GaAs Pits, Juha Tommila1, Andreas Schramm1, Teemu V. Hak-karainen1, Esa Heinonen2, Mihail Dumitrescu1, Mircea Guina1; 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; 2Center of Microscopy and Nanotechnology, University of Oulu, Finland. We report on the structural and optical properties of InAs quantum dots fabricated into nanoimprint lithography patterned GaAs pits. The size-dependent properties of single site-controlled quantum dots and their integration into optical microcavities are presented.

JTu4A.66 Surface-Phonon Polariton Mediated Radia-tive Transfer Between Two Dielectric Spheres, Karthik Sasihithlu1, Arvind Naryanaswamy1; 1Columbia University, USA. Surface phonon po-lariton mediated radiative transfer between two spheres of equal radii R and minimum gap d has been shown to scale as R/d as d/R → 0. A modified form of the proximity approximation to predict near-field radiative transfer between two spheres has also been discussed.

JTu4A.67 Plasmon-Enhanced Photoluminescence from Metal Nanostructures, Tigran V. Shahbazyan1; 1Physics, Jackson State University, USA. A micro-scopic theory of plasmon-enhanced metal pho-toluminescence is developed. New mechanism of luminescence suppression in small nanostructures is identified: excitation of Auger plasmons by core holes. Our numerical calculations are in excellent agreement with experiment.



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JTu4A.68 Multimode Spectroscopy with Plasmonic Sen-sors, Farshid Bahrami1, Mathieu Maisonneuve2, Michel Meunier2, J. Stewart Aitchison1, Mo Mojahedi1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of To-ronto, Canada; 2Physics, Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Two platforms for decoupling surface and bulk effects in plasmonic-based biosensors are proposed. The experimental and theoretical results show that the proposed platforms outperform the single interface surface plasmon polariton-based sensors and biosensors.

JTu4A.69 Optical absorption enhancement in partially aperiodic silicon nanohole structures for pho-tovoltaics, Chenxi Lin1, Luis Javier Martinez1, Michelle Povinelli1; 1University of Southern California, USA. We report the fabrication and absorption measurement of silicon membranes patterned with partially aperiodic nanohole structures. Measurement results agree well with simulations and show enhanced absorption in partially aperiodic structures compared to simple periodic arrays.

JTu4A.70 Coupled-Plasmon Induced Transparency in Planar Stacked Metal/Insulator Films, Herbert Grotewohl1, Miriam Deutsch1; 1Department of Physics, University of Oregon, USA. We present a theoretical study of coherently coupled, stacked planar metal/insulator films. Our analysis shows that resonant coupling of plasmon and waveguide modes results in strongly dispersive, non-mono-tonic reflectance, suitable for enhanced plasmonic sensing applications.

JTu4A.71 Widely wavelength tunable thermo-optic bandpass filters based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons, JONGWON LEE1, Mikhail A. Belkin1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. We report thermally-tunable optical bandpass filters based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons. Over 220 nm of bandpass tuning is achieved around 1,550 nm by varying the device temperature from 19 to 27 degrees Celsius.

JTu4A.72 Zero-index Metamaterial for Directive Emis-sion, Yuanmu Yang1, Parikshit Moitra1, Zachary Anderson2, Jason G. Valentine3; 1Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, Vanderbilt University, USA; 2School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, USA; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA. We present an experi-mental demonstration of an optical metamaterial with a nearly isotropic low-index response, lead-ing to angular selectivity of transmission and enhanced directive emission from quantum dots placed within the metamaterial.

JTu4A.73 Omnidirectional Light-Focusing Metalens, Yu-anmu Yang1, Jason G. Valentine2; 1Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, Vanderbilt University, USA; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA. We propose an optical lens that focuses light from all angles of incidence to a singular point based on a lossy anisotropic ε-near-zero metamaterial. Full-wave numerical simulations are carried out with realistic mate-rial properties.

JTu4A.74 Surface Plasmonic Optical Tweezers Based on Standard Single-Mode Fiber, Lei Zhu1, Michael Vasilyev1; 1Department of Electrical Engineer-ing, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. We demonstrate optical trapping by a plasmonic lens fabricated on the tip of a single-mode fiber. Three-dimensional sub-wavelength confinement of one-micrometer-size glass beads is achieved.

JTu4A.75 Twisting Electromagnetic Fields with Singular Transformation Optics, Yongliang Zhang1, Zhen-Sheng Zhao1, Xuan-Ming Duan1; 1Technical Insti-tute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, China. We proposed a geometric extension of transformation optics based on anholonomic coordinate transformation. Torsion arose from change of topology can manipulate the twisting degree of freedom.

JTu4A.76 Electric control of reflection in metamaterial - twisted nematics liquid crystal cell structure, Yeon Ui Lee1, J. Kim1, J. Woo1, E. Choi1, E. Kim1, J. Wu1; 1Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea. In this study, we experimentally demonstrate electrically tunable metamaterial with twisted nematics liquid crystal (TN-LC) operating in near-IR spectral range.

JTu4A.77 Magneto-optical effects in clusters of su-perparamagnetic iron oxide and plasmonic gold nanoparticles, Ward Brullot1, Stefaan Vandendriessche1, Thierry Verbiest1; 1Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Clusters of iron oxide and gold nanoparticles dispersed in a polymer show Langevin behavior in magnetization-induced second harmonic generation measure-ments. Contrary to Faraday rotation, the Faraday ellipticity spectrum shows a feature near the plasmon wavelength.

JTu4A.78 Three-dimensional Indefinite Metamaterial Nanocavities with Anomalous Scaling Law, Jun Suk Rho1,2, Xiaodong Yang1,2, Jie Yao1, Xiaobo Yin1,2, Xiang Zhang1,2; 1NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California Berkeley, USA; 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. We demonstrate truly deep sub-wavelength nanoscale metamaterial optical nanocavities with anomalous scaling laws, by incorporating indefinite metama-terials with hyperbolic dispersion. Cavities with sizes down to ~ λ/20 and high effective refractive index of 17.4 are realized.

JTu4A.79 Demonstration of Dielectric Optical Magnetic Mirrors Using Phase-locked Infrared Time-domain Spectroscopy, Sheng Liu1,2, Young Chul Jun1,2, Thomas S. Mahony1,2, James Ginn3, Daniel A. Bender1, Joel R. Wendt1, Jon F. Ihlefeld1, Paul G. Clem1, Jeremy B. Wright1, Michael B. Sinclair1, Igal Brener1,2; 1Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 2Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 3Plasmonics Inc, USA. We directly demonstrate a dielectric optical mag-netic mirror using phase-locked Mid-infrared time-domain spectroscopy. This magnetic mirror is formed by micron-sized cubes of tellurium fabricated on a dielectric substrate.

JTu4A.80 Truncated Lévy sum approach to intensity statistics in random lasers, Ravitej Uppu1, Sushil A. Mujumdar1; 1Tata Institute of Fundamental Re-search, India. We present a novel approach towards understanding intensity statistics in random lasers by modeling emission dynamics in terms of truncated Lévy sums. Calculated statistics in our model are in excellent agreement with experimental results.

JTu4A.81 Influence of the Metamaterial Geometry on Ultra-Strong Light-Matter Interaction, Alexan-der Benz1,2, Salvatore Campione3, Ines Montano2, Sheng Liu1,2, John Klem2, Michael B. Sinclair2, Filippo Capolino3, Igal Brener1,2; 1Center for Inte-grated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 2Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 3Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA. We present a comprehensive study on the influence of the metamaterial geometry on ultra-strong coupling to intersubband transitions. The spatial overlap of a metamaterial cavity mode and quantum-well region shows the strongest effect.

JTu4A.82 Defect and surface states in complex mesh lat-tices, Mohammad-Ali Miri1, Alois Regensburger2, Martin Wimmer2, Ulf Peschel2, Demetrios N. Christodoulides1; 1CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA; 2Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. We study defect and surface states in PT-symmetric optical mesh lattices. Such localized states can emerge in both the real and complex domain and can exhibit peculiar properties that are otherwise unattainable in Hermitian systems.

JTu4A.83 Dispersion control of near-infrared surface plasmon polariton using hyperbolic metama-terials, Iltai Kim1,2, Salvatore Campione3, Stephen W. Howell1, Ganapathi S. Subramania1, Robert K. Grubbs1, Igal Brener1,2, Hou-Tong Chen4, Shanhui Fan5, Michael B. Sinclair1, Ting S. Luk1,2; 1Sandia National Laboratory, USA; 2The Center for Integrat-ed Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; 3Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, USA; 4The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 5Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, USA. We demonstrate disper-sion control of near-infrared surface plasmon polariton by tuning the filling fraction of a multi-layer metallo-dielectric hyperbolic metamaterial. We show that effective medium approximation accurately provides the dispersion behavior for a structure with only 2.5 periods

JTu4A.84 Observations of collimating bound surface states in slow-light photonic crystal superlat-tices, PIN-CHUN HSIEH1, Chung-Jen Chung2, James McMillan1, Ming Lu3, Nicolae Panoiu4, Chee Wei Wong1; 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; 2Center for Micor/Nano Science and Technology, Na-tional Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; 3Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA; 4Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom. We present measurements and modeling of collimating surface states in slow-light photonic crystal superlattices consisting of alternating dispersive and homogeneous media. Superlattice periodicity allows evanescent-wave resonant coupling to surface photon bound states, supporting collimation.

JTu4A.85 Amorphous photonic structures with observed band gaps in the near infrared, Serdar Kocaman1, James McMillan1, PIN-CHUN HSIEH1, Mikael C. Rechtsman2, Chee Wei Wong1; 1Columbia Univer-sity, USA; 2Technion, Israel. We examine numeri-cally and experimentally photonic band-gaps in liquid-like two dimensional photonic materials. Subwavelength dielectric rods are randomly placed with Monte Carlo simulations, fabricated on silicon-on-insulator chips, and measured in near infrared wavelengths

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JTu4A.87 Ultra-sharp Resonances Based on Conductive Coupling of Split Ring Resonators, Ibraheem Al-Naib1, Carsten Rockstuhl2, Falk Lederer2, Demetri-os N. Christodoulides3, Tsuneyuki Ozaki1, Roberto Morandotti1; 1INRS-EMT, Canada; 2Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany; 3The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA. We demonstrate two conductively coupled split ring resonators that together exhibit a new resonance. The resonance quality factor is enhanced by more than one order of magnitude when compared to that of individual split rings.

JTu4A.88 Long-Distance Ultraviolet Scattering Channel Measurements: Analog vs. Digital Approaches, Gang Chen1, Robert Drost2, Brian Sadler2, Linchao Liao1; 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA; 2Army Research Laboratory, USA. We compare an analog and a digital method for characterizing the long-distance non-line-of-sight ultraviolet scattering channel. Experimental results and theoretical-model predictions are presented that provide demonstration and validation.


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JTu4A.89 Tunable Filter for Orbital-Angular-Momentum Multiplexed Optical Channels, Hao Huang1, Yongxiong Ren1, Guodong Xie1, Yan Yan1, Yang Yue1, Nisar Ahmed1, Martin Lavery2, Miles Padgett2, Sam Dolinar3, Alan E. Willner1; 1Univer-sity of Southern California, USA; 2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3Jet Propulsion Lab, USA. A tunable orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode filter is proposed. Filtering/blocking selected channels from 4 spatially multiplexed OAM channels is demonstrated. An OSNR penalty of <2 dB is observed when using the filter for 100 Gb/s QPSK data channels.

JTu4A.90 Measurement of the Third Order Intercept Point for a Photodiode Using Two Maximum-biased MZM, Shangyuan Li1, Xiaoping Zheng1, Hanyi Zhang1, Bingkun Zhou1; 1Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. We proposed a simple method to measure the third-order intercept point for a photodiode using two-tone and two maximum-biased MZM. The measured IP3 of 16.04dBm agreed with that measured using tra-ditional three-tone setup.

JTu4A.91 Performance of Multipulse PPM Techniques in Free-Space Optics with Gamma-Gamma Channels, Haitham S. Khallaf1, Ahmed E. Morra1, Hossam M. Shalaby1, Zen Kawasaki1; 1Electronics and Communications Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt. We derive both exact and approximate expressions for the symbol-error rate of free-space optics systems adopting multipulse PPM technique in gamma-gamma channels. Our expressions are then verified using traditional lognormal and exponential channel expressions.

JTu4A.92 10-Gbps WDM-PON with RSOA-based Color-less ONUs and MZI-based optical Equalizers, TING SU1; 1State Key Laboratory of IPOC, BUPT, China. Proposed in this paper is a 10-Gbps uplink transmission over 25-km fiber in WDM-PON, in which band-limited RSOAs are applied to colorless ONUs and cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers are used as three-tap optical equalizers in OLT.

JTu4A.93 Experimental Investigation on Identification of Physical Defect of WDM Optical-Fiber Links Based on Chaos Theory, Qingqing Fan1, Hongxi Yin1, Wei Chang1, Qingchun Zhao1, Nan Zhao1; 1Dalian University of Technology, China. An ex-periment of two channels WDM with 5 Gb/s has been performed. Chaotic characteristics of the propagated signals with different GVD and non-linear impairments in this optical-fiber link have been analyzed through these experimental data.

JTu4A.94 AM to FM conversion via combine optical and electrical tuning, Chao Tian1, Rainer Martini1; 1Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. We present a novel scheme to convert AM signal from 1.3 µm FP laser into pure FM signal of a 1.5 µm DFB laser using optical induced bistability.

JTu4A.95 Non-Decision Aided LMS Algorithm for Joint Blind Equalization and Carrier Phase Estima-tion in Optical Coherent Receiver, Md Mosaddek Hossain Adib1, Md Ibrahim Khalil1, Arshad M. Chowdhury1,2, Gee-Kung Chang2; 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, North South University, Bangladesh; 2School of Electrical and computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. We propose a new NDA-LMS algorithm for joint equalization and carrier re-covery. Our analysis result shows that NDA-LMS algorithm without any carrier phase estimation circuit can jointly achieve bit error rate (BER) of 10^-3 with less than 2.8dB OSNR penalty for ΔνT is 10^-4 with 150Km impairment.

JTu4A.96 Proposal for the Tunable All Optical Storage of QAM Data Packets, Stefan Preussler1, Thomas Schneider1; 1Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Germany. The requirements for higher data rates in optical systems lead to the use of more efficient modulation formats. A proposal for the tunable storage of these signals based on the quasi-light storage is presented.

JTu4A.97 Modulation diversity transmitter for broadband chromatic dispersion compensation and spur-free dynamic range improvement in analog photonic links, ying H. guo1, Lianshan Yan1, Zhiyu Chen1, Wei Pan1, Bin Luo1, Xihua Zou1, Tao Zhou2; 1School of Information Science & Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; 2State Key Lab of Electronic Information Control, Southwest China Research Institute of Electronic Equipment, China. A modulation-diversity transmitter is ex-perimentally demonstrated to compensate power fading of RF signal with a bandwidth up to 15-GHz over 40-km SMF transmission. An enhancement of 16.5 dBHz2/3 in SFDR is obtained.

JTu4A.98 Enhancing Optical Multi-Pulse Pulse Position Modulation Using Hybrid BPSK-Modified MPPM, hossam selmy1, Hossam Shalaby1, Zen Kawazaki2,1; 1Electronics and Communication Engineering, Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology (EJUST), Egypt; 2ECE, Osaka University, Japan. A hybrid binary phase shift keying-modified multi-pulse pulse-position modulation scheme is proposed as a new modu-lation technique to improve the performance of conventional optical multi-pulse pulse-position modulation (MPPM) scheme in optical fiber communication systems.

JTu4A.99 Accurate transmission of time and frequency signals over optical fibers based on WDM and two way optical compensation techniques, Fei Yang1, Dan Xu1, Qin Liu1, Nan Cheng1, Youzhen Gui1, Haiwen Cai1; 1SIOM, China. Accurate time and frequency transfer simultaneously over 80 km optical fiber based on WDM and two way optical compensation techniques is reported. Its feasibility and good performance are verified experimentally.

JTu4A.100 Coherent OIDMA technique for next generation long reach PONs, eslam elfiky1, Ahmed Morsy1, Ziad El-Sahn1, Hossam Shalaby2; 1Electrical Engi-neering, faculty of engineering, Egypt; 2Electronics and Communications Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt. We present a coherent optical interleave-division multiple-access (OIDMA) PON uplink scenario. Results demonstrate that coherent OIDMA can be deployed in long reach PONs with large number of users at a reasonably low lanuch power.

JTu4A.101 Rapidly adapting mechanoreceptor-inspired transducer with all-optofluidic realization of self-digitization and pulse code modulation, Jungwook Paek1, Jiwon Lee1, Jaeyoun Kim1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, USA. We present a new mass-flow transducer generating pulse format outputs that are all-optofluidically encoded with information on the strength and origin of the stimulation, inspired by rapidly adapting mechanoreceptor.

JTu4A.102 Low Level Detection of Organic Compounds Based on Autofluorescence in Optofluidic Liq-uid Jet Waveguide, Gianluca Persichetti1, Genni Testa1, Romeo Bernini1; 1CNR-IREA, Italy. An optofluidic liquid jet waveguide used for natural fluorescence spectroscopy is reported. Experimen-tal measurements have been performed on water solutions containing organic compounds showing low detection limit.

JTu4A.103 Slow Light Waveguide and Enhanced Area Microcavity Engineering for High Sensitivity Photonic Crystal Sensors, Liang Zhu1, Swapnajit Chakravarty2, Cheng-Chih Hsieh1, Wei-Cheng Lai1, Ray T. Chen1; 1UT Austin, USA; 2Omega Optics Inc., USA. We experimentally demonstrate that in photonic crystal sensors with side-coupled cavity-waveguide, group velocity of propagating mode in the coupled waveguide at the resonant mode frequency enhances sensitivity in addition to microcavity mode engineering.

JTu4A.104 Detection of mode splitting with microcavity Raman laser, Beibei Li1, Xue-Feng Jiang1, Qihuang Gong1, Yun-Feng Xiao1; 1Peking University, China. We report for the first time an alternative way to detect the mode splitting in a silica microcavity through measuring the heterodyne beat note signal of a Raman laser mode.

JTu4A.105 Polarization-modulated, Giant Goos-Hanchen Shift Sensing for Common Mode Drift Suppres-sion, Yuhang Wan1, Zheng Zheng1, Shuna Li1, Shaolin Dong1, Jiansheng Liu1; 1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, China. By leveraging the polarization-dependence of the Bloch-surface-wave-induced giant Goos-Hanchen shift, a novel polarization-modulation-based GH sensing scheme is demonstrated, which can suppress the common mode drift in the setup to ensure better system stability.

JTu4A.106 Stability of Dual-Beam Fiber-Optical Traps for Low Refractive Index Contrast Particles, Jay E. Sharping1, Tessa M. Pinon2, Linda S. Hirst1; 1School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, USA; 2School of Engineering, University of California Merced, USA. We experimentally and numerically characterize stable and unstable mi-cron-particle trapping in a dual-beam fiber-optical trap. We find that reducing the fiber separation leads to increasing restoring forces when the ratio of refractive indices approaches 1.005.

JTu4A.107 Chemical Probes for Two-Photon Bioimaging Based on Surfactant Nanomicelles and Ormosil PEBBLEs, Aamir A. Khan1, Eric R. DeLeon2, Tah-sin Ahmed1, Susan K. Fullerton-Shirey1, Kenneth R. Olson3, Scott S. Howard1; 1Electrical Engineer-ing, University of Notre Dame, USA; 2Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, USA; 3School of Medicine, Indiana University South Bend, USA. We present work looking at the two-photon optical characterization of water soluble chemical probes based on surfactant nanomicelles encapsulation and ormosil PEBBLEs as well as in-vitro two-photon imaging of oxygen and hydrogen sulfide.

JTu4A.108 Bessel Beam as Optical Injector of Particles for X-ray Morphology, Niko Eckerskorn1, Richard A. Kirian2, Wieslaw Krolikowski1, Jochen Küpper2,3, Daniel P. DePonte2, Henry N. Chapman2,4, Andrei V. Rode1; 1Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Australia; 2Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Germany; 3Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany; 4The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, Germany. We apply a high aspect-ratio first order Bessel beam, formed by imaging a vortex beam through an axicon, to guide biological macromolecules and viruses to the focus of fem-tosecond x-ray free-electron-laser for coherent diffractive imaging.



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JTu4A.109 Dispersion-tuned wavelength-swept fiber laser using a reflective SOA and a grating pair for OCT application, Yuya Takubo1, Shinji Ya-mashita1; 1The University of Tokyo, Japan. We have demonstrated a fast and widely wavelength-swept fiber laser based on dispersion tuning method for swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) system. We successfully obtained OCT images at the sweep rate of up to 25kHz.

JTu4A.110 Automated, Portable, Low-Cost Optical Micro-scope, Kenneth Chau1, Samuel Schaefer1; 1School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada. We build a portable, low-cost microscope capable of bright-field and fluorescence imaging with micron-scale resolution in reflection or transmission mode. Software control of image capture and actuation enables automated focusing and large-area sample visualization.

JTu4A.111 Selective Detection of Gaseous Ammonia with Specifically Functionalized Silicon Pho-tonic Microring Resonator: Towards a Low Cost and Portable Breath Monitoring, Nebiyu A. Yebo1, Sreeprasanth P. Sree4, Elisabeth Levrau3, Christophe Detavernier3, Zeger Hens2, Johan Martens4, Roel Baets1; 1INTEC-Photonics, Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium; 2Physics and chemistry of nanostructures, Ghent University, Belgium; 3Dept. of Solid State Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium; 4Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven, Belgium. We demonstrate a selective ammonia sensor based on a silicon photonic microring resonator functionalized with nanopo-rous silicate films. The potential of this sensor as a low cost, portable and real-time medical breath monitoring device is discussed.

JTu4A.112 Plasmon enhanced nanoscale trapping in a two dimensional optical lattice, Chen Kuan Yu1; 1Elec-trical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. We report the trapping behavior of a two dimension nanoscale optical lattice, enhanced by plasmon resonance. Such an optical lattice can be used to preconenctrate nano objects for lab on a chip applications.

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