1 November 2010, Volume 27, Issue 11, pp. 2165-2450; Feat. pp: B1–B118  
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Lasers: The Next Fifty Years

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), LF1-LF1 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic crystal lasers—ultimate nanolasers and broad-area coherent lasers [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B1-B8 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Attosecond photon sources: the first decade and beyond [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B9-B17 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavefront engineering for mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade lasers [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B18-B35 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Status and prospects for metallic and plasmonic nano-lasers [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B36-B44 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Future of group-III nitride semiconductor green laser diodes [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B45-B49 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

The evolving optical frequency comb [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B51-B62 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B63-B92 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Solid-state lasers: status and future [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B93-B105 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

X-ray free-electron lasers—present and future capabilities [Invited]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), B106-B118 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of grating performance for quantum well photodetectors

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2428-2432 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode narrow-bandwidth temporally shaped nanosecond-pulse ytterbium-doped fiber MOPA for a large-scale laser facility front-end

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2231-2236 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Reducing the driving voltage of a phase modulator with cascaded four-wave-mixing processes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2360-2364 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of phase-sensitive imaging techniques for studying terahertz waves in structured LiNbO3

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2350-2359 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

HCMT models of optical microring-resonator circuits

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2237-2246 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical wavelength converter based on a heterogeneously integrated GaP on a silicon-on-insulator waveguide

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2273-2278 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Modal dynamics above the threshold of higher-order transverse modes in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with isotropic optical feedback

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2304-2312 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Lumped versus distributed description of mode-locked fiber lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2313-2321 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Energetic Bessel–Gauss pulses from diode-pumped solid-state lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2342-2349 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Intrinsic gain switching in optically injected quantum dot laser lasing simultaneously from the ground and excited state

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2416-2423 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmon enhanced direct and inverse Faraday effects in non-magnetic nanocomposites

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2165-2173 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically-pumped mid-IR phosphor using Tm3+-sensitized Pr3+-doped KPb2Cl5

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2384-2392 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Annular light beams induced by coupling a dissipative spatial soliton on the top of a sharp external potential

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2174-2179 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory of dispersive wave frequency shift via trapping by a soliton in an axially nonuniform optical fiber

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2195-2202 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Non-degenerate near-resonant two-wave mixing in diode pumped Nd3+ and Yb3+ doped crystals in the presence of athermal refractive index grating

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2203-2210 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-color solitons in chirped photonic lattices

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2224-2230 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon absorption cross section measurements of various two-photon initiators for ultrashort laser radiation applying the Z-scan technique

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2290-2297 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Extreme deceleration of the soliton self-frequency shift by the third-order dispersion in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2328-2335 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Dissipative soliton resonance as a guideline for high-energy pulse laser oscillators

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2336-2341 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Two frequency oscillation of a photorefractive oscillator as a perturbation of the mirrorless oscillation

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2378-2383 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Power-dependent nematicon steering via walk-off

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2398-2404 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Second-harmonic generation from a periodic array of noncentrosymmetric nanoholes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2405-2409 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Spotlight on Optics

Phase-matching with a twist: Second-harmonic generation in birefringent periodically poled fibers

open access J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2410-2415 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-conjugation of the isolated optical vortex using flat surfaces

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2424-2427 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of the nonlinear refractive index in multiphoton absorbers by Z-scan measurements

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2438-2442 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency polarization beam splitter based on a self-collimating photonic crystal

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2247-2254 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

On surface plasmon-polariton waves guided by the interface of a metal and a rugate filter with a sinusoidal refractive-index profile

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2218-2223 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of terahertz surface waves of a metallic nanowire

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2298-2303 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface phonon polaritons on SiC substrate for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2393-2397 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmission enhancement of slow light by a subwavelength plasmon-dielectric system

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2433-2437 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of gain recovery rate and cross-gain modulation bandwidth using a two-electrode quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2211-2217 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Total internal reflection of a pulsed light beam with consideration of Goos–Hänchen effect

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2190-2194 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear-optical implementations of the iSWAP and controlled NOT gates based on conventional detectors

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2369-2377 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantum phase transition of nonlinear light in the finite size Dicke Hamiltonian

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2443-2450 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiative lifetime measurements of odd-parity moderately excited levels belonging to J=0, 1, 2, 3 series in Sm I

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2255-2261 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative analysis of different upconversion-mechanism contributions for population of certain level in Er3+-doped YAG

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2365-2368 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Cascaded higher-order soliton for non-adiabatic pulse compression

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2180-2189 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact high-power multiwavelength photonic-crystal-fiber-based laser source of femtosecond pulses in the infrared–visible–ultraviolet range

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2284-2289 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Extreme pulse-front tilt from an etalon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(11), 2322-2327 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF