The Most Cited Articles in Optics Letters
To highlight some of the seminal research published in Optics Letters, below are the most-cited articles in the history of the journal. They are free to access throughout 2017. (Citation counts are from Clarivate Analytics as of January 4, 2017.)
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Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles
A. Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, J. E. Bjorkholm, and Steven Chu
Opt. Lett. 11(5) 288-290 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 3345
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All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding
J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks, P. St. J. Russell, and D. M. Atkin
Opt. Lett. 21(19) 1547-1549 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 1831
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Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber
T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 22(13) 961-963 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 1830
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Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy
Stefan W. Hell and Jan Wichmann
Opt. Lett. 19(11) 780-782 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 1715
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Visible continuum generation in air–silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm
Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, and Andrew J. Stentz
Opt. Lett. 25(1) 25-27 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 1607
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Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser
K. M. Davis, K. Miura, N. Sugimoto, and K. Hirao
Opt. Lett. 21(21) 1729-1731 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 1559
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Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding
Philippe Refregier and Bahram Javidi
Opt. Lett. 20(7) 767-769 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 1190
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High-sensitivity, single-beam n2 measurements
M. Sheik-bahae, A. A. Said, and E. W. Van Stryland
Opt. Lett. 14(17) 955-957 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 1162
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Formation of Bragg gratings in optical fibers by a transverse holographic method
G. Meltz, W. W. Morey, and W. H. Glenn
Opt. Lett. 14(15) 823-825 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 1139
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Phase-shifting digital holography
Ichirou Yamaguchi and Tong Zhang
Opt. Lett. 22(16) 1268-1270 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 1067
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Negative index of refraction in optical metamaterials
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Andrey K. Sarychev, Vladimir P. Drachev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Opt. Lett. 30(24) 3356-3358 (2005)
TOTAL CITES: 1067
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Coupled-resonator optical waveguide:?a proposal and analysis
Amnon Yariv, Yong Xu, Reginald K. Lee, and Axel Scherer
Opt. Lett. 24(11) 711-713 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 1045
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60-fsec pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser
D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett
Opt. Lett. 16(1) 42-44 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 965
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Three-dimensional microfabrication with two-photon-absorbed photopolymerization
Shoji Maruo, Osamu Nakamura, and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 22(2) 132-134 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 935
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Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air
A. Braun, G. Korn, X. Liu, D. Du, J. Squier, and G. Mourou
Opt. Lett. 20(1) 73-75 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 910
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Guiding and confining light in void nanostructure
Vilson R. Almeida, Qianfan Xu, Carlos A. Barrios, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 29(11) 1209-1211 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 909
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Imaging with terahertz waves
B. B. Hu and M. C. Nuss
Opt. Lett. 20(16) 1716-1718 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 817
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Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency
H. Schmidt and A. Imamoglu
Opt. Lett. 21(23) 1936-1938 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 807
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Improved signal-to-noise ratio in spectral-domain compared with time-domain optical coherence tomography
Johannes F. de Boer, Barry Cense, B. Hyle Park, Mark C. Pierce, Guillermo J. Tearney, and Brett E. Bouma
Opt. Lett. 28(21) 2067-2069 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 788
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Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides
D. N. Christodoulides and R. I. Joseph
Opt. Lett. 13(9) 794-796 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 787
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Electromagnetic energy transport via linear chains of silver nanoparticles
M. Quinten, A. Leitner, J. R. Krenn, and F. R. Aussenegg
Opt. Lett. 23(17) 1331-1333 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 754
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Three-dimensional optical storage inside transparent materials
E. N. Glezer, M. Milosavljevic, L. Huang, R. J. Finlay, T.-H. Her, J. P. Callan, and E. Mazur
Opt. Lett. 21(24) 2023-2025 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 737
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Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs
M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, O. Svelto, R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, Ch. Spielmann, S. Sartania, and F. Krausz
Opt. Lett. 22(8) 522-524 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 733
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Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift
J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 662-664 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 715
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Discovery of the soliton self-frequency shift
F. M. Mitschke and L. F. Mollenauer
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 659-661 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 714
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Reconstruction of an object from the modulus of its Fourier transform
J. R. Fienup
Opt. Lett. 3(1) 27-29 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 703
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Sub-Poissonian photon statistics in resonance fluorescence
L. Mandel
Opt. Lett. 4(7) 205-207 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 699
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Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction of ultrashort optical pulses
C. Iaconis and I. A. Walmsley
Opt. Lett. 23(10) 792-794 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 699
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Optical fiber long-period grating sensors
Vikram Bhatia and Ashish M. Vengsarkar
Opt. Lett. 21(9) 692-694 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 688
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In vivo ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography
W. Drexler, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, C. Pitris, S. A. Boppart, X. D. Li, E. P. Ippen, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 24(17) 1221-1223 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 671
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Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation
R. L. Fork, C. H. Brito Cruz, P. C. Becker, and C. V. Shank
Opt. Lett. 12(7) 483-485 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 662
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Generation of optical phase singularities by computer-generated holograms
N. R. Heckenberg, R. McDuff, C. P. Smith, and A. G. White
Opt. Lett. 17(3) 221-223 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 648
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Self-pumped, continuous-wave phase conjugator using internal reflection
Jack Feinberg
Opt. Lett. 7(10) 486-488 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 638
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Micromachining bulk glass by use of femtosecond laser pulses with nanojoule energy
Chris B. Schaffer, André Brodeur, José F. García, and Eric Mazur
Opt. Lett. 26(2) 93-95 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 628
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Two-dimensional birefringence imaging in biological tissue by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography
Johannes F. de Boer, Thomas E. Milner, Martin J. C. van Gemert, and J. Stuart Nelson
Opt. Lett. 22(12) 934-936 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 617
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Two-photon absorption and broadband optical limiting with bis-donor stilbenes
J. E. Ehrlich, X. L. Wu, I.-Y. S. Lee, Z.-Y. Hu, H. Röckel, S. R. Marder, and J. W. Perry
Opt. Lett. 22(24) 1843-1845 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 611
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Negative dispersion using pairs of prisms
R. L. Fork, O. E. Martinez, and J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 9(5) 150-152 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 610
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Nonlinear-optical loop mirror
N. J. Doran and David Wood
Opt. Lett. 13(1) 56-58 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 610
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Random walk of coherently amplified solitons in optical fiber transmission
J. P. Gordon and H. A. Haus
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 665-667 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 606
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Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography using continuum generation in an air–silica microstructure optical fiber
I. Hartl, X. D. Li, C. Chudoba, R. K. Ghanta, T. H. Ko, J. G. Fujimoto, J. K. Ranka, and R. S. Windeler
Opt. Lett. 26(9) 608-610 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 593
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Coherent trapping of atomic populations
H. R. Gray, R. M. Whitley, and C. R. Stroud
Opt. Lett. 3(6) 218-220 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 592
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Ultimate Q of optical microsphere resonators
M. L. Gorodetsky, A. A. Savchenkov, and V. S. Ilchenko
Opt. Lett. 21(7) 453-455 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 591
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Frequency-modulation spectroscopy: a new method for measuring weak absorptions and dispersions
Gary C. Bjorklund
Opt. Lett. 5(1) 15-17 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 583
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Digital holography for quantitative phase-contrast imaging
Etienne Cuche, Frédéric Bevilacqua, and Christian Depeursinge
Opt. Lett. 24(5) 291-293 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 578
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Simple technique for measurements of pulsed Gaussian-beam spot sizes
J. M. Liu
Opt. Lett. 7(5) 196-198 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 577
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Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy
Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre J. Magistretti, Etienne Cuche, Yves Emery, Tristan Colomb, and Christian Depeursinge
Opt. Lett. 30(5) 468-470 (2005)
TOTAL CITES: 572
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Highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers
A. Ortigosa-Blanch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, J. Arriaga, B. J. Mangan, T. A. Birks, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 25(18) 1325-1327 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 567
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Guiding of a one-dimensional optical beam with nanometer diameter
Junichi Takahara, Suguru Yamagishi, Hiroaki Taki, Akihiro Morimoto, and Tetsuro Kobayashi
Opt. Lett. 22(7) 475-477 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 562
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Accelerating finite energy Airy beams
Georgios A. Siviloglou and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Opt. Lett. 32(8) 979-981 (2007)
TOTAL CITES: 558
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Supercontinuum generation in tapered fibers
T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 25(19) 1415-1417 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 555
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77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser
K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson
Opt. Lett. 18(13) 1080-1082 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 549
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Large second-order nonlinearity in poled fused silica
R. A. Myers, N. Mukherjee, and S. R. J. Brueck
Opt. Lett. 16(22) 1732-1734 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 547
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Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
N. B. Simpson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
Opt. Lett. 22(1) 52-54 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 539
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Low-threshold lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals
V. I. Kopp, B. Fan, H. K. M. Vithana, and A. Z. Genack
Opt. Lett. 23(21) 1707-1709 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 526
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Negative-index metamaterial at 780 nm wavelength
G. Dolling, M. Wegener, C. M. Soukoulis, and S. Linden
Opt. Lett. 32(1) 53-55 (2007)
TOTAL CITES: 526
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Phase-matched excitation of whispering-gallery-mode resonances by a fiber taper
J. C. Knight, G. Cheung, F. Jacques, and T. A. Birks
Opt. Lett. 22(15) 1129-1131 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 524
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Optical encryption by double-random phase encoding in the fractional Fourier domain
G. Unnikrishnan, J. Joseph, and K. Singh
Opt. Lett. 25(12) 887-889 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 521
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Collapse of optical pulses
Yaron Silberberg
Opt. Lett. 15(22) 1282-1284 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 515
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Three-dimensional optical data storage in refractive media by two-photon point excitation
James H. Strickler and Watt W. Webb
Opt. Lett. 16(22) 1780-1782 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 509
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Nanotaper for compact mode conversion
Vilson R. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 28(15) 1302-1304 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 498
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Dye laser pumped by Nd:YAG laser pulses frequency doubled in a glass optical fiber
U. Österberg and W. Margulis
Opt. Lett. 11(8) 516-518 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 492
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Multiplexed fiber Bragg grating strain-sensor system with a fiber Fabry–Perot wavelength filter
A. D. Kersey, T. A. Berkoff, and W. W. Morey
Opt. Lett. 18(16) 1370-1372 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 480
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In vivo retinal imaging by optical coherence tomography
E. A. Swanson, J. A. Izatt, C. P. Lin, J. G. Fujimoto, J. S. Schuman, M. R. Hee, D. Huang, and C. A. Puliafito
Opt. Lett. 18(21) 1864-1866 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 475
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Intense terahertz pulses by four-wave rectification in air
D. J. Cook and R. M. Hochstrasser
Opt. Lett. 25(16) 1210-1212 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 467
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Method of obtaining optical sectioning by using structured light in a conventional microscope
M. A. A. Neil, R. Juškaitis, and T. Wilson
Opt. Lett. 22(24) 1905-1907 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 465
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Temperature-dependent Sellmeier equation for the index of refraction, ne, in congruent lithium niobate
Dieter H. Jundt
Opt. Lett. 22(20) 1553-1555 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 462
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Self-focusing and self-defocusing by cascaded second-order effects in KTP
R. DeSalvo, D. J. Hagan, M. Sheik-Bahae, G. Stegeman, E. W. Van Stryland, and H. Vanherzeele
Opt. Lett. 17(1) 28-30 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 462
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Surface-mediated enhancement of optical phase conjugation in metal colloids
D. Ricard, Ph. Roussignol, and Chr. Flytzanis
Opt. Lett. 10(10) 511-513 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 459
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Degenerate four-wave mixing in absorbing media
R. L. Abrams and R. C. Lind
Opt. Lett. 2(4) 94-96 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 458
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Phase noise in photonic communications systems using linear amplifiers
J. P. Gordon and L. F. Mollenauer
Opt. Lett. 15(23) 1351-1353 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 455
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Noise in homodyne and heterodyne detection
Horace P. Yuen and Vincent W. S. Chan
Opt. Lett. 8(3) 177-179 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 447
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Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature
Jifeng Liu, Xiaochen Sun, Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera, Lionel C. Kimerling, and Jurgen Michel
Opt. Lett. 35(5) 679-681 (2010)
TOTAL CITES: 443
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Shift of whispering-gallery modes in microspheres by protein adsorption
S. Arnold, M. Khoshsima, I. Teraoka, S. Holler, and F. Vollmer
Opt. Lett. 28(4) 272-274 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 438
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Solid-state low-loss intracavity saturable absorber for Nd:YLF lasers: an antiresonant semiconductor Fabry–Perot saturable absorber
U. Keller, D. A. B. Miller, G. D. Boyd, T. H. Chiu, J. F. Ferguson, and M. T. Asom
Opt. Lett. 17(7) 505-507 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 436
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Angle-multiplexed storage of 5000 holograms in lithium niobate
Fai H. Mok
Opt. Lett. 18(11) 915-917 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 433
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In vivo bidirectional color Doppler flow imaging of picoliter blood volumes using optical coherence tomography
Joseph A. Izatt, Manish D. Kulkarni, Siavash Yazdanfar, Jennifer K. Barton, and Ashley J. Welch
Opt. Lett. 22(18) 1439-1441 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 423
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Interaction forces among solitons in optical fibers
J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 8(11) 596-598 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 422
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Optical vortex trapping of particles
K. T. Gahagan and G. A. Swartzlander
Opt. Lett. 21(11) 827-829 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 419
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Subfemtosecond pulses
P. B. Corkum, N. H. Burnett, and M. Y. Ivanov
Opt. Lett. 19(22) 1870-1872 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 416
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Experimental demonstration of guiding and confining light in nanometer-size low-refractive-index material
Qianfan Xu, Vilson R. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 29(14) 1626-1628 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 416
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Phase-resolved optical coherence tomography and optical Doppler tomography for imaging blood flow in human skin with fast scanning speed and high velocity sensitivity
Yonghua Zhao, Zhongping Chen, Christopher Saxer, Shaohua Xiang, Johannes F. de Boer, and J. Stuart Nelson
Opt. Lett. 25(2) 114-116 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 411
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Near-field scanning optical microscope with a metallic probe tip
Yasushi Inouye and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 19(3) 159-161 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 410
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Monolithic, unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser
Thomas J. Kane and Robert L. Byer
Opt. Lett. 10(2) 65-67 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 407
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Sub-20-fs pulses tunable across the visible from a blue-pumped single-pass noncollinear parametric converter
T. Wilhelm, J. Piel, and E. Riedle
Opt. Lett. 22(19) 1494-1496 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 405
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Optical trapping of metallic Rayleigh particles
Karel Svoboda and Steven M. Block
Opt. Lett. 19(13) 930-932 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 401
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Petawatt laser pulses
M. D. Perry, D. Pennington, B. C. Stuart, G. Tietbohl, J. A. Britten, C. Brown, S. Herman, B. Golick, M. Kartz, J. Miller, H. T. Powell, M. Vergino, and V. Yanovsky
Opt. Lett. 24(3) 160-162 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 395
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Chirped multilayer coatings for broadband dispersion control in femtosecond lasers
Robert Szipöcs, Kárpát Ferencz, Christian Spielmann, and Ferenc Krausz
Opt. Lett. 19(3) 201-203 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 394
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General procedure for the analysis of Er3+ cross sections
W. J. Miniscalco and R. S. Quimby
Opt. Lett. 16(4) 258-260 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 393
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Infrared photosensitivity in silica glasses exposed to femtosecond laser pulses
D. Homoelle, S. Wielandy, Alexander L. Gaeta, N. F. Borrelli, and Charlene Smith
Opt. Lett. 24(18) 1311-1313 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 391
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Dynamic spatial replenishment of femtosecond pulses propagating in air
M. Mlejnek, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney
Opt. Lett. 23(5) 382-384 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 390
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Fabrication of ultralow-loss Si/SiO2 waveguides by roughness reduction
Kevin K. Lee, Desmond R. Lim, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jangho Shin, and Franco Cerrina
Opt. Lett. 26(23) 1888-1890 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 390
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Scanning coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscope
M. D. Duncan, J. Reintjes, and T. J. Manuccia
Opt. Lett. 7(8) 350-352 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 388
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Femtosecond laser-assisted three-dimensional microfabrication in silica
Andrius Marcinkevičius, Saulius Juodkazis, Mitsuru Watanabe, Masafumi Miwa, Shigeki Matsuo, Hiroaki Misawa, and Junji Nishii
Opt. Lett. 26(5) 277-279 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 385
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Single-mode operation of a coiled multimode fiber amplifier
Jeffrey P. Koplow, Dahv A. V. Kliner, and Lew Goldberg
Opt. Lett. 25(7) 442-444 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 384
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Optical coherence tomography using a frequency-tunable optical source
S. R. Chinn, E. A. Swanson, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 22(5) 340-342 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 384
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Two-photon absorption and optical-limiting properties of novel organic compounds
Guang S. He, Gen C. Xu, Paras N. Prasad, Bruce A. Reinhardt, Jay C. Bhatt, and Ann G. Dillard
Opt. Lett. 20(5) 435-437 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 382
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Conical emission from self-guided femtosecond pulses in air
E. T. J. Nibbering, P. F. Curley, G. Grillon, B. S. Prade, M. A. Franco, F. Salin, and A. Mysyrowicz
Opt. Lett. 21(1) 62-64 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 381
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Optical coherence microscopy in scattering media
Joseph A. Izatt, Michael R. Hee, Gabrielle M. Owen, Eric A. Swanson, and James G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 19(8) 590-592 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 379
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Optical coherence-domain reflectometry: a new optical evaluation technique
Robert C. Youngquist, Sally Carr, and D. E. N. Davies
Opt. Lett. 12(3) 158-160 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 378
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Experimental three-dimensional fluorescence reconstruction of diffuse media by use of a normalized Born approximation
Vasilis Ntziachristos and Ralph Weissleder
Opt. Lett. 26(12) 893-895 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 377
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Double random-phase encoding in the Fresnel domain
Guohai Situ and Jingjuan Zhang
Opt. Lett. 29(14) 1584-1586 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 377