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May (2013)

A quantum logic gate between a solid-state quantum bit and a photon Nat. Photon. 7, 373–377 (2013).

Air-to-ground quantum communication Nat. Photon. 7, 382–386 (2013).

Direct and full-scale experimental verifications towards ground–satellite quantum key distribution Nat. Photon. 7, 387–393 (2013).

Nanocavities at the surface of three-dimensional photonic crystals Opt. Ex. 21, 10590-10596 (2013).

Widely tunable single photon source with high purity at telecom wavelength Opt. Ex. 21, 10659-10666 (2013).

Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs in a Bragg reflection waveguide Opt. Ex. 21, 10841-10849 (2013).

Nonlinear amplification of side-modes in frequency combs Opt. Ex. 21, 11670-11687 (2013).

Ultra-low crosstalk, CMOS compatible waveguide crossings for densely integrated photonic interconnection networks Opt. Ex. 21, 12002-12013 (2013).

Quantum-enhanced micromechanical displacement sensitivity Opt. Lett. 38, 1413-1415 (2013).

Microchip solid-state cylindrical vector lasers with orthogonally polarized dual laser-diode end pumping Opt. Lett. 38, 1434-1436 (2013).

Low-threshold whispering-gallery-mode microlasers fabricated in a Nd:glass substrate by three-dimensional femtosecond laser micromachining Opt. Lett. 38, 1458-1460 (2013).

Self-curable solid-state elastic dye lasers capable of mechanical stress probing Opt. Lett. 38, 1627-1629 (2013).

Lasing in hybrid metal-Bragg nanocavities Opt. Lett. 38, 1694-1696 (2013).



April (2013)

Efficient broadband Raman pulses for large-area atom interferometry J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 922-927 (2013).

Transmission of tunable diode laser emission, through rubidium vapor, as a function of laser intensity J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 945-949 (2013).

Quantum teleportation using a light-emitting diode Nat. Photon. 7, 311–315 (2013).

Full characterization of polarization states of light via direct measurement Nat. Photon. 7, 316-321 (2013).

Tunable lenses using transparent dielectric elastomer actuators Opt. Ex. 21, 8669-8676 (2013).

2.1-watts intracavity-frequency-doubled all-solid-state light source at 671 nm for laser cooling of lithium Opt. Ex. 21, 9091-9102 (2013).

Full color natural light holographic camera Opt. Ex. 21, 9636-9642 (2013).

Generation of high-fidelity few-cycle pulses at 2.1 µm via cross-polarized wave generation Opt. Ex. 21, 9711-9721 (2013).

99 W mid-IR operation of a ZGP OPO at 25% duty cycle Opt. Ex. 21, 10062-10069 (2013).

Optical modulation of quantum cascade laser with optimized excitation wavelength Opt. Lett. 38, 1200-1202 (2013).

Purity of partial polarization in the frequency and time domains Opt. Lett. 38, 1221-1223 (2013).



March (2013)

Diffractive patterns superimposed over propagating N-slit interferograms J. Mod. Opt. 60, 136-140 (2013).

Anderson localization of light Nat. Photon. 7, 197-204 (2013).

Quantum-state transfer from an ion to a photon Nat. Photon. 7, 219-222 (2013).

Wide-field optical detection of nanoparticles using on-chip microscopy and self-assembled nanolenses Nat. Photon. 7, 240-247 (2013).

Imaging live humans through smoke and flames using far-infrared digital holography Opt. Ex. 21, 5379-5390 (2013).

170 W, single-frequency, single-mode, linearly-polarized, Yb-doped all-fiber amplifier Opt. Ex. 21, 5456-5462 (2013).

The Fiber Fuse - from a curious effect to a critical issue: A 25th year retrospective Opt. Ex. 21, 6422-6441 (2013).

Highly efficient heralding of entangled single photons Opt. Ex. 21, 6707-6717 (2013).

Generalized Jones matrices for anisotropic media Opt. Ex. 21, 6895-6900 (2013).

Super-thin Mikaelian’s lens of small index as a beam compressor with an extremely high compression ratio Opt. Ex. 21, 7328-7336 (2013).

Heralded single-photon source in a III–V photonic crystal Opt. Lett. 38, 649-651 (2013).

Adiabatic thermo-optic Mach–Zehnder switch Opt. Lett. 38, 733-735 (2013).

Generation of diffraction-free plasmonic beams with one-dimensional Bessel profiles Opt. Lett. 38, 905-907 (2013).

High-efficiency frequency conversion in the single-photon regime Opt. Lett. 38, 947-949 (2013).

High efficiency amplified spontaneous emission from a fluorescent anticancer drug–dye complex Org. Electron. 14 (2013).



February (2013)

Marker-free phase nanoscopy Nat. Photon. 7, 113-117 (2013).

Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’ Nat. Photon. 7, 123-127 (2013).

Limits on classical communication from quantum entropy power inequalities Nat. Photon. 7, 142–146 (2013).

Experimental demonstration of a receiver beating the standard quantum limit for multiple nonorthogonal state discrimination Nat. Photon. 7, 147-142 (2013).

Countermeasure against tailored bright illumination attack for DPS-QKD Opt. Ex. 21, 2667-2673 (2013).

Enhancing entangled-state phase estimation by combining classical and quantum protocols Opt. Ex. 21, 2816-2822 (2013).

A Bragg beam splitter for hard x-ray free-electron lasers Opt. Ex. 21, 2823-2831 (2013).

A 340-nm-band ultraviolet laser diode composed of GaN well layers Opt. Ex. 21, 3133-3137 (2013).

From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism Opt. Lett. 38, ED1 (2013).

Graphene mode-locked femtosecond Cr:ZnSe laser at 2500 nm Opt. Lett. 38, 341-343 (2013).

Two-dimensional single-shot measurement of angular dispersion for compressor alignment Opt. Lett. 38, 410-412 (2013).

Red and orange Pr3+:LiYF4 planar waveguide laser Opt. Lett. 38, 455-457 (2013).

January (2013)

Photoluminescence from quasi-type-II spherical CdSe-CdS core-shell quantum dots Appl. Opt. 52, 105-109 (2013).

Diffractive patterns superimposed over propagating N-slit interferograms J. Mod. Opt. 60 (2013).

Spatial and spectral coherent control with frequency combs Nat. Photon. 7, 38-42 (2013).

Focusing of X-ray free-electron laser pulses with reflective optics Nat. Photon. 7, 43-47 (2013).

Direct determination of the transition to localization of light in three dimensions Nat. Photon. 7, 48-52 (2013).

Direct optical measurements of the evolving spatio-temporal charge density in ultrashort electron pulses Opt. Ex. 21, 21-29 (2013).

An autocorrelator based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer Opt. Ex. 21, 70-78 (2013).

High performance terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity difference frequency generation Opt. Ex. 21, 968-976 (2013).

Microelectromechanically-driven miniature adaptive Alvarez lens Opt. Ex. 21, 1226-1233 (2013).

Watt-level ultrahigh-optical signal-to-noise ratio single-longitudinal-mode tunable Brillouin fiber laser Opt. Lett. 38, 19-21 (2013).

Generation of high-purity entangled photon pair in a short highly nonlinear fiber Opt. Lett. 38, 73-75 (2013).


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