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The Australian Optical Society ACOLS-2003

Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers & Spectroscopy 2003 Melbourne, 1 - 4 December The Australian Optical Society (AOS) has digitised the contents/index pages of this conference*. The conference volume contains the individual papers, and is held by one or more libraries in Australia; please refer to the website: http://optics.org.au/AOS-Conference

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MONDAY 1 DECEMBER

WE Moerner Frew Lecture: Single molecules as nanophotonic probes and sources

32

R Lewis New Directions: The Australian Synchrotron 33

G Milburn New Directions: Can we build an optical quantum computer?

34

H-A Bachor New Directions: ACQAO - a bright future for quantum-atom optics

35

B Eggleton New Directions: CUDOS 36

S Kawata Plenary Lecture: Tip-enhanced near field microscopy for nano-imaging of molecules

37

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy I

B Prince, J Hughes, S Peterson, P Smith, R Pace & E Krausz

Keynote: The reaction centre of photosystem II 38

JR Challa, JJ Loparo & MC Simpson Vibrational dynamics in five-coordinate, high-spin hemes

39

A Beeby, K Findlay, PJ Low, TB Marder, P Matousek, AW Parker, SR Rutter & M Towrie

Studies of the S1 state in a prototypical molecular wire using picosecond time-resolved spectroscopies

40

TA Smith, CA Scholes & ML Gee Time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence studies of adsorption at solution/solid interfaces

41

Lasers and Laser Applications I

D Coutts Keynote: Tunable UV solid-state lasers 42

ALG Carter, B Samson, K TankaIa, DP Machewirth, V Khitrov, UH Manyam, J Abramczyk, J Farroni, D Guertin, N Jacobson, DAV Kliner & JP KopIow

Developments in high output power fibre lasers and amplifiers

43

G Frith, DG Lancaster & S Jackson Highly efficient thulium-doped double-clad fibre laser

44

P Dekker, J Dawes, P Burns & J Piper 225W green Q-switched Yb:YAB self-frequency-doubled green laser

45

TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER

P Knight OSA President Plenary Lecture: From bits to qubits: exploiting quantum physics in information technology

46


J Bilbro SPIE President Plenary Lecture: Space optics for the 21st century

47

Quantum Optics I

PK Lam, WP Bowen, T Symul, AM Lance, BC Sanders, T Tyc & TC Ralph

Keynote: Continuous variable quantum teleportation and quantum secret sharing

48

SD Bartlett, T Rudolph & RW Spekkens

Optimal measurements for relative quantum information

49

KL Pregnell & DT Pegg Projection synthesis with coherent reference states 50

D Atkins, Z Brady, K Jacobs & HM Wiseman

Robustness measures for quantum unravellings 51

AJ Daley, PO Fedichev & P Zoller Atomic qubit cooling by superfluid immersion 52

Optical Imaging and Physical Optics

R Millane Keynote: Imaging partially ordered biomolecular systems

53

CJ Bellair, CL Curl, BE Allman, A Roberts, LMD Delbridge & KA Nugent

Quantitative phase amplitude microscopy imaging of thick objects

54

AV Zvyagin, SA Alexandrov, P Meredith & TJ Mclntyre

Multi-frame digital holography for imaging of biological tissue

55

MW Feise, IV Shadrivov & YS Kivshar Wave propagation through Ieft-handed material slabs

56

S Parkin, TA Nieminen, NR Heckenberg & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Measurement of torque exerted by orbital angular momentum using an analysing hologram

57

Lasers and Laser Applications II

A Luiten Keynote: Using stable lasers and clocks to test fundamental physics: An Australian perspective

58

Y He & BJ Orr Fresh narrowband tuning strategies for pulsed optical parametric oscillators

59

DG Lancaster Laser pumped cascaded OPOs for watt level mid-IR generation

60

NR Madsen, M Duering, EG Gamaly, AV Rode, VZ Kolev, J Giesekus & B Luther-Davies

High repetition rate laser-solid interaction: cumulative ablation

61

M Ams, MJ Withford, JM Dawes & JA Piper

Fabrication of optical waveguides in bulk materials using a femtosecond laser

62

Optical Fibres and Photonics I

R Tucker Keynote: Towards an optical internet 63

P Farrell & K Hinton Synchronous versus asynchronous sampling for monitoring of optical networks

64

TT Ng, JL Blows, JT Mok, P Hu, P Hambley, JA Bolger & BJ Eggleton

Residual chromatic dispersion measurement using a parametric amplifier with gain

65

J Love, A Ankiewicz & J Katsifolis Suppression of bend loss in single-mode optical fibres

66

E Jaatinen & M Kurth Phase controlled reversal of energy flow direction in photorefractive two wave mixing

67

Quantum Optics II

HJ Carmichael, A Denisov & H Nha Keynote: Time-asymmetric fluctuations of light in cavity QED

68

AP Lund & TC Ralph Generating Schrodinger cat states for LOQC 69

JL 0’Brien, GJ Pryde, AG White, TC Ralph & D Branning

An all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate 70


DW Berry, S Scheel, BC Sanders & PL Knight

Improving single photon sources via linear optics and photodetection

71

JJ Longdell, MJ Sellars, E Fraval & NB Manson

Rare earth quantum computing 72

BJ Dalton Markovian decoherence rates in large scale quantum computers

73

Optical Fibres and Photonics II

BC Sanders Keynote: Photonic crystal antennas 74

D Neshev, A Sukhorukov, H Martin, B Hanna, Z Chen, W Krolikowski & YS Kivshar

Photonics in optically-induced lattices 75

K-L G Wong, RJ Kruhlak, R Leonhardt, JD Harvey, J C Knight, WJ Wadsworth & P StJ Russell

A photonic crystal fibre optical parametric oscillator 76

H Nguyen, M Sumetsky, P Domachuk, MJ Steel, M Straub, M Gu & BJ Eggleton

Lateral thinking with photonic crystal fibres 77

M Straub, LHNguyen & M Gu Photonic crystal structures generated by two- photon photopolymerization of inorganic-organic hybrid materials

78

AH Tehranchi, N Granpayeh & E Mortazy

Modulation instability in optical fibers in the presence of higher order effects

79

WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER

W Stwalley Coherent Scientific Lecture: Making molecules at microkelvin

80

PD Drummond & K Kheruntsyan Plenary Lecture: Fermionization of an interacting 1D Bose gas

81

Optical Fibres and Photonics III

K Sasaki Keynote: Photon localization dynamics in nano-random media

82

S Cooper, M Fernée & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Fabrication of high-Q microsphere 83

D Morrish, X Gan & M Gu SingIe-beam laser trapping of active micro-spheres under two-photon excitation

84

MA van Eijkelenborg, A Argyros, G Barton, G Henry, NA Issa, MCJ Large, S Manos, W Padden & L Poladian

Applications of microstructured polymer optical fibres

85

P Domachuk, HC Nguyen & BJ Eggleton

Micro-fluidic tunable photonic bandgap device 86

Atom Optics and Bose-Einstein Condensation I

A Mellish, G Duffy, C McKenzie, R Geursen & A Wilson

Keynote: Coherent manipulation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

87

JF Corney & PD Drummond Simulating particles in a lattice: fermions and bosons in phase space

88

MJ Davis & DAW Hutchinson Pairing transition of the attractive Bose gas 89

C Gies & D Hutchinson Phase fluctuations in a two-dimensional, harmonically trapped, dilute Bose gas at finite temperatures

90

K Kheruntsyan & P Drummond Formation of Feshbach molecules from quantum Bose and Fermi gases

91

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy II


ZM Loh, RL Wilson & EJ Bieske Keynote: Negative vibrations: Spectroscopic studies of simple anion complexes and clusters

92

GF Metha, V Dryza, MA Addicoat, MA Buntine, DB Pederson, DM Rayner, B Simard & A Fielicke

Keynote: Exploring the reactivity between gas phase metal clusters and carbon monoxide: Doing laser spectroscopy with old and new tools

93

JP Ashmore, BJ Classens, RT Sang, WR MacGillivray, HCW Beijerinck, EJD Vredenbregt

Photoionization cross-section measurements of the 3D3 state of neon in a magneto-optical-trap

94

LJ Uhlmann, RG Dall, AG Truscott, KGH Baldwin & SJ Buckman

Collisional studies in trapped metastable helium 95

Quantum Optics III

HM Wiseman, JL Garretson, R Mir, J Lundeen & A Steinberg

Keynote: The uncertainty relation in which-way experiments: observing the momentum transfer using weak values

96

AC Doherty, JM Geremia, JK Stockton & H Mabuchi

Continuous observation and the Heisenberg limit in precision measurement

97

L Horvath, BC Sanders, JP Clemens & HJ Carmichael

Emission modes for superradiance and subradiance 98

DT Pope, HM Wiseman & N Langford How accurate is adaptive phase estimation? 99

IV Shadrivov, AA Sukhorukov, AA Zharov & YS Kivshar

Nonlinear waves in left-handed metamaterials 100

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy III

C Richmond & S Kable Keynote: A New theoretical approach to the direct measurement of two-photon absorption cross-sections

101

MB Gray & G de Vine Tilt locking laser stabilisation to an atomic resonance 102

JP Sprengers, W Ubachs, KGH Baldwin, BR Lewis & ST Gibson

Dissociative lifetime measurements of the excited 1u states of molecular nitrogen using XUV laser spectroscopy

103

LV Dao, CN Lincoln, MTT Do, X Wen, RM Lowe P Hannaford, M Aizengendler & A Stanco

MuIti-channel detection of spectrally resolved 2-colour 3-pulse femtosecond photon echoes

104

BL Chadwick, DG Body, P Yaroshchyk & RJS Morrison

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for the accurate elemental analysis of solid and liquid samples

105

Lasers and Laser Applications III

H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, A Bishop, G Knoner, T Nieminen, S Parkin & N Heckenberg

Keynote: Optical tweezers and angular momentum of light: New tools for physics and biology

106

G Knoner, J Campbell, N Heckenberg and H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Single beam optical trap for adhesion force measurements on biological cells

107

JM Fishburn, MJ Withford, DW Coutts & JA Piper

Self consistent characterisation of nanosecond ablation of aluminium

108

B Luther-Davies, VZ Kolev, MJ Lederer, NR Madsen, AV Rode, J Giesekus, K-M Du & M Duering

Table-top 50 W laser system for ultra-fast laser ablation

109

RP Mildren, M Convery, D Little, HM Pask, T Mckay & JA Piper

Efficient 5 kHz, yellow and red laser output from a 532nm-pumped, KGd(WO4)2 Raman oscillator

110

THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER

J Dalibard Plenary Lecture: Manipulation of atomic condensates: quantum coherence at work

111


A Roberts Plenary Lecture: Measuring light: A toolbox for advancing optics

112

Atom Optics and BEC II

EA Ostrovskaya, T J Alexander & YS Kivshar

Matter-wave gap vortices in optical lattices 113

NP Robins, JJ Hope, SA Haine, CM Savage, CS Fletcher, AK Morrison & JD Close

Dynamical effects of backcoupling on an atom laser 114

JJ Hope & J Close Limit to non-destructive optical detection of atoms 115

W Rooijakkers Propagation of matter waves in ferromagnetic ring cavities

116

S Whitlock, BJ Dalton, F Scharnberg, T Kieu, P Hannaford, & A Sidorov

Splitting and recombining matter waves in surface-based microtraps

117

Tien D Kieu Quantum heat engines, the second law, and BECs 118

Optical Fibres and Photonics IV

AA Sukhorukov & YS Kivshar Spatial gap solitons 119

TJ Alexander, DN Neshev, EA Ostrovskaya, H Martin, Z Chen & YS Kivshar

Discrete vortex solitons in optically-induced photonic lattices

120

B Kwok, J Dawes & MJ Withford Long period fibre gratings tor laser surgery 121

S Trpkovski, SA Wade, GW Baxter & SF Collins

Utilisation of a FBG and fluorescence from Er:Yb doped fibre for simultaneous point measurement of temperature and strain

122

DP Fussell, RC McPhedran & CM de Sterke

Three-dimensional local density of states (3D- LDOS) in two-dimensional photonic crystals (2D-PCs)

123

AA Asatryan, LC Botten, NA Nicorovici, RC McPhedran, CM de Sterke & TN Langtry

Conductance of photons in ordered and disordered photonic crystals

124

POSTER SESSION 1: MONDAY 1 DECEMBER

S Boyd, KP Ghiggino, WD McFadyen Photoactivated ligand release 126

MD de Jonge, CT Chantler, Z Barnea, CQ Tran, BB Dhal & DJ Cookson

X-ray extended range technique for precision measurement of the x-ray mass attenuation coefficient and lm(f) for molybdenum using synchrotron radiation

127

JL Hughes, B Prince, H Riesen, S Peterson, P Smith, R Pace & E Krausz

The homogeneous linewidth of persistent spectral holes in the reaction centre of active photosystem II

128

H Kitson & W Rowlands Photoassociation spectroscopy of ultracold Rb atoms 129

S Mathai, TA Smith & KP Ghiggino Direct NIR detection of singlet oxygen phosphorescence in different environments

130

S Mohan, B Karthikeyan & K Sathasivam

Spectroscopic and glass transition investigations on Nd3+ doped Naf-Na2O-B2O3 glasses

131

N Nancarrow, P Wilksch & D McCulloch

Investigation of the relationship between colour and structure of TiN thin films

132

EJJ Samuel, S Mohan & K Sathasivam FT-IR and FT-Raman spectroscopic studies on 2-acetylpyridine and 4-acetylpyridine

133

D Sunartio, K Ghiggino, S Huntington, F Wallis & T Davey

Monitoring emulsion polymerisation using Raman spectroscopy

134

CQ Tran, CT Chantler & Z Barnea X-ray mass attenuation coefficient of silicon: Theory versus X-ray extended range technique and other experiments

135


WM bin Mat Yunus, CK Sheng & WMZW Yunus

Study of photobleaching processes in methylene blue doped in matrix PMMA, PVA and gelatin using photoacoustic technique

136

l Colton, M Kemmann, W von Klitzing, JTM Walraven & RE Scholten

Propagation-based phase imaging of Bose-Einstein condensates

137

AJ Daley, P Rabi, PO Fedichev, JI Cirac, & P Zoller

Atomic crystals in optical lattices 138

MJ Davis & PB Blakie Simulations of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature

139

GDuffy, T Muller, M Sadgrove, S Parkins & A Willson

Observation of resonances in the early-time diffusion of the kicked rotor with a Bose-Einstein condensate

140

SA Heine, AJ Ferris & JJ Hope Control of an atom laser using feedback 141

CJ Hawthorn, BJ Claessens, VP Mogendorff, EGM van Kempen, HCW Beijerinck & EJD Vredenbregt

Progress toward evaporative cooling of metastable neon

142

LP Maguire, TR Mackin, KP Weber & RE Scholten

Focusing an atom beam using a complex light field 143

AK Morrison, NP Robins, CS Fletcher, SA l-laine, JJ Hope, JD Close

“Push button” BEC with optimised magnetic trap 144

AJ Palmer, K Matherson, M Baker, T Peek & RT Sang

Magnetiolensing of a metastable neon atomic beam 145

LD Turner, W Rooijakers & RE Scholten

Fresnel diffraction-contrast imaging of cold atoms 146

TG Vaughan & PD Drummond Fundamental line-width limits of an atom laser 147

CT Chantler, Z Barnea, CQ Tran & DJ Cookson

Precise measurement of the lattice spacing of LaB6 standard by powder diffraction and the X-ray extended range technique using synchrotron radiation

148

S Dawkins & A Luiten Sub-kHz laser stabilisation to a room temperature sapphire resonator

149

M Maric & A Luiten Atomic vapour laser frequency stabilization 150

K Bae, MW Hamilton, Y Mao, RA Vincent and T Williams & R Atkinson

A low-cost water vapour differential absorption lidar 151

MW Hamilton, SC Russell & JF Rivory A sensitivity analysis of methane differential absorption Lidar

152

JH Chow, D Rabeling, MB Gray, DE McClelland & G de Vine

Decoupling of error signals using a spot size and Guoy phase invariant telescope in automatic alignment

153

N Dogru & MS Ozyazici intensity noise in actively mode-locked external cavity semiconductor lasers

154

SP Bennetts, DG Lancaster & J Munch

Diffractive optic design for beam combination of fibre laser arrays

155

D Hosken D Mudge P Veitch, J Munch & K Takeno

A 10W CW Nd:YAG laser for gravitational wave interferometry

156

B Jeffries & D Coutts A diode-bar-pumped Yb:S-FAP laser 157

AJ Lee, MJ Withford & JM Dawes Fabrication of photonic crystal structures using a two-step mould process

158

E Mortazy, F Shahshahani, V Ahmadi, AH Tehranchi & MK Morawej-Farshi

The effect of spatial hole burning on relative intensity noise in DFB laser diodes

159


BJ Prince, MJ Prince, NT Kaltcheva, TA Zembrowski, AW Schwabacher & P Geissinger

New technologies for the application of optical fibre sensor arrays

160

P Reece, W Zheng, B Sun & M Gal Porous silicon based photonic structures laser mirror applications

161

BS Sheard, MB Gray, DE McClelland & DA Shaddock

Self-phase-locked frequency stabilization for LISA 162

PG Spizzirri, K Kerr, KA Nugent & M K Livett

Development and applications of the MARC laser tweezing Raman micro-spectrometer

163

MJ Ventura, M Straub, M Gu, K Takada, H-B Sun, & S Kawata

Fabrication of photonic crystal prism based on woodpile structure

164

Guangyong Zhou, MJ Ventura, M Straub & M Gu

In-plane and out-of-plane bandgap properties of two-dimensional void channel polymer photonic crystals

165

E Ampem-Lassen, JL Peng, P Pace, F Sidiroglou, A Roberts, ST Huntington & KA Nugent

Axial refractive index profiling of optical fibre slices using quantitative phase microscopy

166

A Ankiewicz & J Love Three-wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing based on adiabatic mode evolution

167

LC Botten, TP White, AA Asatryan, TN Langtry, RC McPhedran & CM de Sterke

Modelling of extended photonic crystal devices 168

S Chen, CM de Sterke, RC McPhedran & LC Botten

Taper design in photonic crystal waveguides 169

IA Goncharenko, SF Helfert & R Pregla

Mode field distribution and radiation loss in curved holey fibers

170

D Gramotnev, DFP Pile & KC Vernon A new type of one-dimensional plasmon for sub-wavelength waveguides

171

J Huber, LC Botten & CM de Sterke Depositing light in a photonic crystal defect 172

DJ Kitcher, SF Collins & GW Baxter Extinction Ratio limitation due to polarisation rotation in Mach-Zehnder optical switches

173

DJ Kitcher, NM Dragomir, SF Collins & GW Baxter

Mode coupling in fiber Bragg gratings 174

WB Lyons, C Fitzpatrick, C Flanagan & E Lewis

Artificial neural network pattern recognition techniques applied to a novel multipoint luminescent coated ultra violet fibre sensor

175

DR Mason, SJ Goodman, DK Gramotnev & TA Nieminen

Frequency response of grazing-angle scattering in a slab holographic grating. Grating eigenmodes

176

A Matthews X-H Wang & Y Kivshar Photonic bandgap engineering for low refractive index materials

177

JT Mok, JA Bolger, P Hu, JL Blows & BJ Eggleton

Adjustable repetition-rate multiplication through temporal self-imaging using a tunable dispersion compensator

178

AH Norton & CM de Sterke Aperiodic poling 179

P Pace, K Lyytikainen, ST Huntington, A Roberts & JD Love

Characterisation of germanium-doped core fibres 180

DFP Pile & DK Gramotnev A new type of one-dimensional plasmon for sub-wavelength waveguides

181

JR Salgueiro, As Carlsson, E Ostrovskaya & Y Kivshar

Second harmonic generation in vortex waveguides 182


YH Shen, S Pal, J Mandal, T Sun, KTV Grattan, B Dussardier, G Monnom, SA Wade, GW Baxter & SF Collins

Characteristics of some Er3+-doped fibres for Bragg grating applications

183

MJ Steel Reflection symmetry in microstructured optical fibers

184

DY Stepanov, LG Edvell & MG Sceats ln situ characterisation of the fibre Bragg grating profile in the fabrication process

185

PR Stoddart, D Vukovic, PJ Cadusch, JB Pearce & DJ Booth

Optical fibre distributed temperature sensing 186

S TomIjenovic-Hanic & A Ankiewicz Multiple defects in photonic band gap structures 187

SA Wade, M Tan, R Jones, I Smyanovskl & B Hinton

Fibre Bragg grating sensors: Application to fatigue testing and composite materials

188

BD Amatari, KA Nugent & AG Peele Phase-contrast imaging with a micro-focus source 189

A Brooks, P Veitch & J Munch Wavefront distortion in advanced gravitational wave interferometers

190

BB Dhal, KA Nugent & AG Peele X-ray phase tomography 191

SJ Goodman, DR Mason, DK Gramotnev & TA Nieminen

New eigenmodes of a slab holographic grating 192

J Hart, P Conroy, L Pfitzner & D Jones Concentric integral field spectrographs for large telescopes

193

S Miller, A Elliott, J Gouthro & & P Wilsch

Daguerreotype holography 194

M Saffman, G McCarthy & W Krolikowski

Two dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media

195

LR Watkins A wavelength-swept interferometric ellipsometer 196

AM Akulshin, Al Sidorov, RJ McLean & P Hannaford

Giant Kerr nonlinearity due to ground-state Zeeman coherence

197

H-A Bachor, W Bowen, C Fabre, N Grosse, M Hsu, PK Lam, A Maitre & N Treps

Building a quantum laser pointer 198

JWM Chon, R Calati & M Gu Three-photon excited fluorescence of CdS semiconductor nanocrystals

199

G de Vine, Y Chen, MB Gray, S Whitcombe & DE McClelland

Classical frequency response of a speed meter gravitational wave detector configuration

200

E Fraval, M Sellars & J Longdell Method of extending hyperfine coherence times and quantum error correction in Pr4+:Y2SiO5

201

J Harrison, M Sellars, N Manson & D Pulford

Spin polarisation of the nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond

202

AP Hines, GJ Milburn & RH McKenzie Quantum entanglement and fixed point bifurcations 203

H Jeong, W Son, MS Kim & C Brukner Quantum nonlocality test for continuous-variable states based on dichotomic observables

204

AM Lance, T Symul, WP Bowen, BC Sanders & P K Lam

Experimental demonstration of (2,3) threshold quantum state sharing

205

P Rohde & T Ralph Non-idealised models in linear optical quantum computation

206

C McKenzie Storing qubits using electromagnetically induced transparency

207

JL O’Brlen, GJ Pryde, AG White, TC Ralph & SD Bartlett

Measuring the polarisation of a single photon without destroying it

208

DRN Pulford, EH Huntington , MJ Sellars & AL Alexander

Design of heralded photon source for quantum computation

209


W Simpson & M Hoogerland Quasi-electrostatic trap for ultracold neutral atoms 210

LK Thomsen & HM Wiseman Non Markovian in-loop squeezing 211

X Wang & BC Sanders Relations between bosonic quadrature squeezing and atomic spin squeezing

212

J Warner, S Cooper, NR Heckenberg & H Rubinsztein-DunIop

Fluorescence spectroscopy of single PbS nanocrystals

213

POSTER SESSION 2: WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER

M Chen & K Ghiggino Photon harvesting macromolecules 216

P Geissinger, JC Woehl & BP Prince Determination of internal electric fields at protein active sites by Stark-shifted persistent spectral hole burning

217

JA Hutchison, KP Ghiggino, PJ Sintic, MJ Crossley & T Nagamura

Electron and energy transfer in metallated porphyrin oligomers

218

D Lance & A Luiten Blue diode laser spectroscopy of calcium and rubidium

219

BA McKinnon A semi-classical model of spectrally resolved femtosecond four-wave mixing

220

S Mohan & P Mani FT-Raman and FT-IR spectra and analysis of trans - decahydronaphthalene

221

M Oybek, J Shohlda & T Rustam Acoustospectroscopic investigations of cyclogecsan with variation of angle of lightscattering

222

CA Scholes, M L Gee & TA Smith Evanescent wave induced fluorescence studies of conformational changes of bovine serum albumin upon adsorption to silica

223

R Tashpulatov, Y Turakulov & S Hudoikulova

Brillouin scattering, high-frequency sound propagation, and relaxation processes in aqueous solution of non-electrolyte

224

N van Leeuwen & AC Wilson Cavity-enhanced spectroscopic measurement of ultra-weak transitions in molecular oxygen

225

M Baker, AJ Palmer & RT Sang Atom lithography with metastable rare gas atoms 226

B Dabrowska & M Gajda Harmonically trapped gas under critical rotation 227

RG Dall, KGH Baldwin, AG Truscott & SJ Buckman

Optical generation and guiding of a cold CW He* beam: an atom faucet and pipe

228

MR Dowling, MJ Davis & PD Drummond

The Metropolis algorithm for real time quantum dynamics

229

DS Gough, JA Wang, RJ McLean, Al Sidorov & P Hannaford

Magnetic microstructures for manipulating slowly moving atoms

230

TM Hanna, J Nes, RG Dall, JA Swansson, KGH Baldwin & AG Truscott

Loading of a metastable helium magneto-optical trap 231

PJY Louis, EA Ostrovskaya & YS Kivshar

Matter-wave solitons in optical superlattices 232

SA Morgan & DAW Hutchinson Quantitative test of thermal field theory for Bose-Einstein condensates

233

TG Mullins, AJ Hilliard, MP Sandgrove, AS Parkins, MD Hoogerland & R Leonhardt

Quantum behaviour in a quasiperiodically kicked rotor

234

M Ogren & PD Drummond Modeling dynamical properties of a 1-D BEC 235

W Rooijakkers, S Wu, P Striehl, M Vengalattore & M Prentiss

Observation of caustics ln the trajectories of cold atoms

236


CJ Vale, B Upcroft, J Fortagh, MJ Davis, T Campey, G Kociuba, CA Holmes, GJ Milburn, N Heckenberg & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Towards BEC on an atom chip 237

P Fisk, B Warrington M Wouters, M Lawn & J Longdell

A microwave frequency standard in the 10-15 accuracy range based on laser-cooled 171Yb+

238

JA Ross, NR Heckenberg, AV Zvyagin, JA Upcroft & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

A system to measure the spectral dependence of biological photosensitivity

239

AM Akulshin Mode-hop free diode laser with all-optical frequency stabilization

240

MG Brik & SS Kotel’nikov High-lying energy levels structure of trivalent rare-earth ions

241

LV Dao, X Wen, P Hannaford, TB Sim & S Yuan

Laser surface treatment for improving the optical properties of lnGaN/GaN quantum wells

242

FV Englich, Y He & BJ Orr A high-power, single-longitudinal-mode continuous-wave Nd:YAG ring laser

243

MD Harvey & AG White Folarisation: A new tool for analysing paraxial beams 244

RA Jarvis, AV Rode & B Luther-Davies Laser ablated and written As2S3 chalcogenide glass waveguides

245

B Johnston & MJ Withford Novel techniques for fabricating periodically poled lithium niobate

246

AM McKay & J Dawes Complementary solid-state laser approaches for photonic-based microwave generation

247

H Ogilvy, MJ Withford, P Dekker & JA Piper

15W cw red laser at 671nm based on frequency doubled Nd:YVO4

248

M Razaghi, V Ahmadi & A Zarifkar Numerical method for dynamic gain analysis in semiconductor laser amplifier

249

D Salehinia, M Zand, K Khorasani & B Kia

Influence of thermal insulator distribution in the output power of a designed small bore CVL

250

K Smit, A Lee & M Stringer Laser match head ignition of pyrotechnics 251

CJ Talbot, MEJ Friese, D Wang, I Brereton, N Heckenberg, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Production of hyperpolarised helium by optical pumping using laser diode arrays

252

RT White, Y He, BJ Orr, M Kono & KGH Baldwin

Chirp control in a pulsed, tunable PPKTP OPO/OPA system for high-resolution laser spectroscopy

253

N Zoanetti, T McKay & S Bennetts Pulsed EDFA for remote sensing applications 254

PM Anbarasarl, E Jamesm, J Samuel & S Mohan

Novel study on coupling property of distributed-index microlenses

255

L Bassett & J Haywood Fibre couplers & birefringence 256

S Campbell, R McPhedran, M de Sterke & L Botten

Multipole method for microstructured optical fibres with non-circular inclusions

257

AD Edwards, SA Wade, SF Collins, GW Baxter, C Davis & S Galea

Strain and temperature response of Bragg gratings written in highly-birefringent optical fibre

258

SJ Goodman & DK Gramotnev Parabolic equation of diffraction for extraordinary waves in arbitrarily orientated anisotropic media

259

A Hassani, MS Zabihi, N Granpayeh & FE Seraji

VAD bubble collapsing modeling in linear heating regime

260

C-C Jeng, M-F Shih, K Motzek & Y Kivshar

Partially incoherent optical vortices in self-focusing nonlinear media

261


B Jia, X Gan, LH Nguyen & M Gu Fabrication of high aspect ratio two- dimensional photonic crystal structures using femtosecond laser shot induced photopolymerization in SU-8 resin

262

LH Nguyen, M Straub & M Gu Characterization of formulations of acrylate-based photopolymers for microfabrication and photonic applications

263

B Kouskousis, NM Dragomir, CM Rollinson, SA Wade, GW Baxter, A Roberts & SF Collins

A comparison between the modelled intensity distribution and the imaged refractive index modulation for a type-I fibre Bragg grating produced using the phase mask technique

264

BG Koziol, SF Collins, SA Wade & GW Baxter

Fluorescence lifetime dependence of temperature and strain in praseodymium-doped optical fibre

265

E Magi & B Eggleton Investigation on tapered photonic crystal fibre 266

DR Mason, DK Gramotnev & TA Nieminen

Generation of guided modes in a slab holographic grating at large Bragg detunings

267

D McPhail, M Straub & M Gu Photonic bandgaps in liquid crystal doped polymer woodpile structures

268

A Nand, DJ Kitcher, SA Wade, SF Collins & G W Baxter

Chirped fibre Bragg gratings for sensing applications 269

M O’Farrell, E Lewis, C Flanagan, WB Lyons & N Jackman

The evaluation of food quality in a large-scale industrial oven utilising a reflection based optical fibre system and neural networks

270

L Palmer and SD Dods Design optimisation of concatenated-section PMD emulators

271

CM Rollinson, SA Wade, NM Dragomir, GW Baxter, SF Collins & A Roberts

Evolution of reflectance peaks at wavelengths other than the expected harmonics of a fibre Bragg grating

272

MH Sheikhi, SA Emamgoreishi, A Zarifkar & MK Morravej-Farshi

Numerical analysis of intra-step-barrier quantum well electroabsorption modulator

273

F Sidiroglou, ST Huntington, T Nguyen, A Roberts & G Baxter

Micro-fluorescence characterisation of erbium doped fibres

274

DA Simpson, TB Nguyen, GW Baxter, SF Collins, B Dussardier, G Monnom, B Faure, P Peterka & W Blanc

Pump power and host composition effects on the 3H4 and 3F4 energy levels in thulium doped silica fibres

275

DA Simpson, TB Nguyen, GW Baxter, SF Collins, B Dussardier, G Monnom, B Faure, P Peterka & W Blanc

Annealing effects on the 3H4 energy level in thulium doped silica

276

P Steinvurzel, TP White, MJ Steel & BJ Eggleton

Bandgap guidance in liquid-filled MOFs 277

PR Stoddart, D Boutard, CM Owen, J Patterson & A Mazzolini

Respiration monitoring with a fibre optic sensor 278

S Trpkovski, J Macdonald, SA Wade, GW Baxter & SF Collins

Fibre optic strain and temperature sensors for very high temperatures using Er3+:Sn co-doped fibre

279

CK Aruldoss, A Roberts, CQ Tran & KA Nugent

Diffraction of classical partially coherent wave fields 280

TJ Davis, S Mayo G Rosolen & A Roberts

Plasmonic effects in subwavelength optical structures created using electron beam

281

L Fu, X Gan & M Gu Second harmonic generation microscopy based on a singlemode fibre coupler

282

X Gan, X Deng & M Gu Coherent phase functions for photon migration in turbid media

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D Ganic, X Gan & M Gu Near-field scattering by a microscopic particle probe: imaging model

284

V Grishina & AN Luiten Power build up by passive resonator for second harmonic generation

285

M-S Jo, T-H Jung & M-S Oh Performance optimization of phase-shifting interferometry by using data average on roughness measurement

286

CQ Tran, AG Peele, D Paterson, A Roberts, I McNulty & KA Nugent

Correlations in a synchrotron beam measured using phase-space tomography

287

A Alexander, M Sellers & N Manson Investigation of qubit isolation in a rare-earth quantum computer

288

WP Bowen, R Schnabel, N Treps, H-A Bachor, TC Ralph & PK Lam

Quantum polarisation states in the continuous variable regime

289

PT Cochrane & TC Ralph Optimal cloning for finite distributions of coherent states

290

M Fernée, J Warner, A Watt, S Cooper, N Heckenberg & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Optical spectroscopy of surface-passivated PbS quantum dots

291

J Gambetta, T Askerud & HM Wiseman

Jump-like non-Markovian stochastic Schrodinger equations

292

A Hayes Z-measurement error correction in linear optics quantum computing

293

MTL Hsu, WP Bowen, N Treps & PK Lam

Continuous wave position-momentum entanglement and spatial homodyning

294

W Krolikowski, O Bang, N Nikolov, D Neshev, JJ Rasmussen, PL Christiansen, J Wyller & D Edmundson

Nonlocal solitons 295

NK Langford, RB Dalton, MD Harvey, JL O’Brien, GJ Pryde & AG White

Quantum state tomography of spatial-mode qubits 296

NB Manson & RL McMurtrie Near resonant multiwave mixing in two level atoms at microwave frequencies

297

H Nha & HJ Carmichael Testing nonlocality for continuous variables by conditional homodyne detection

298

GJ Pryde, JL O’Brien, A Gilchrist, DFV James, NK Langford, TC Ralph & AG White

Physical quantum process tomography of a CNOT gate

299

IV Shadrivov & AA Sukhorukov Guided modes in left-handed waveguides 300

PG Spizzirri, N Stavrias, A Cimmino, DN Jamieson & S Prawer

Electronic Raman scattering for the optical detection of donor states in silicon

301

BC Travaglione, LM Ioannou & DC Cheung

Detecting entanglement with partial information 302

X-H Wang Quantum optics in photonic crystals 303 *AOS provides this document as a service to the community, but accepts no responsibility for any errors it might contain

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