Special Issue: "Celebrating Volume 100 of Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics"/50 Years of Lasers
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Editorial
Editorial
F. Träger
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Mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy with 2.4 μm Cr2+:ZnSe femtosecond lasers
B. Bernhardt, E. Sorokin, P. Jacquet, R. Thon and T. Becker, et al.
9-13
Open AccessThe quantum vacuum at the foundations of classical electrodynamics
G. Leuchs, A. S. Villar and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
15-28
Open AccessUltrafast solid-state laser oscillators: a success story for the last 20 years with no end in sight
U. Keller
29-41
High-order harmonic generation by an ultrafast infrared pulse
Efficient generation of a coherent “water window” X-ray
E. J. Takahashi, T. Kanai and K. Midorikawa
43-60
Inertial and gravitational mass in quantum mechanics
E. Kajari, N. L. Harshman, E. M. Rasel, S. Stenholm and G. Süßmann, et al.
61-76
Traveling-wave Thomson scattering and optical undulators for high-yield EUV and X-ray sources
A. D. Debus, M. Bussmann, M. Siebold, A. Jochmann and U. Schramm, et al.
77-84
Saturation of the filament density of ultrashort intense laser pulses in air
S. Henin, Y. Petit, J. Kasparian, J.-P. Wolf and A. Jochmann, et al.
85-91
Nonadiabatic nondegenerate excitation by optical near-field and its application to optical pulse-shape measurement
H. Fujiwara, T. Kawazoe and M. Ohtsu
93-100
Toward superlensing with metal–dielectric composites and multilayers
R. B. Nielsen, M. D. Thoreson, W. Chen, A. Kristensen and J. M. Hvam, et al.
101-108
Coupling of counterpropagating light waves in low-symmetry photorefractive crystals
A. Shumelyuk, A. Volkov, S. Odoulov, G. Cook and D. R. Evans
109-115
Light absorption in undoped congruent and magnesium-doped lithium niobate crystals in the visible wavelength range
J. R. Schwesyg, M. C. C. Kajiyama, M. Falk, D. H. Jundt and K. Buse, et al.
117-123
A slow gravity compensated atom laser
G. Kleine Büning, J. Will, W. Ertmer, C. Klempt and J. Arlt
125-130
NO trace gas sensor based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy and external cavity quantum cascade laser
V. Spagnolo, A. A. Kosterev, L. Dong, R. Lewicki and F. K. Tittel
131-135
Nd:YAG waveguide laser with 1.3 W output power, fabricated by direct femtosecond laser writing
T. Calmano, J. Siebenmorgen, O. Hellmig, K. Petermann and G. Huber
137-150
Open AccessCommissioning and early experiments of the PHELIX facility
V. Bagnoud, B. Aurand, A. Blazevic, S. Borneis and C. Bruske, et al.
151-158
Volumetric spectral analysis of materials using terahertz-tomography techniques
A. Brahm, M. Kunz, S. Riehemann, G. Notni and A. Tünnermann
159-168
FDTD modeling of realistic semicontinuous metal films
U. K. Chettiar, P. Nyga, M. D. Thoreson, A. V. Kildishev and V. P. Drachev, et al.
169-172
External-resonance-enhanced transmission of light through sub-wavelength holes
F. Kalkum, M. Peter, G. Barbastathis and K. Buse
173-180
QEPAS detector for rapid spectral measurements
A. A. Kosterev, P. R. Buerki, L. Dong, M. Reed and T. Day, et al.
181-187
Structural dependency of optical excitation transfer via optical near-field interactions between semiconductor quantum dots
W. Nomura, T. Yatsui, T. Kawazoe, M. Naruse and M. Ohtsu
189-194
Near-infrared resonant photoacoustic gas measurement using simultaneous dual-frequency excitation
J. M. Rey, C. Romer, M. Gianella and M. W. Sigrist
195-206
Controlling near-field optical intensities in metal nanoparticle systems by polarization pulse shaping
G. Piredda, C. Gollub, R. de Vivie-Riedle and A. Hartschuh
207-214
Open AccessUltra-broadband near-infrared pulse generation by noncollinear OPA with angular dispersion compensation
T.-J. Wang, Z. Major, I. Ahmad, S. A. Trushin and F. Krausz, et al.
215-218
Engineering photonic density of states using metamaterials
Z. Jacob, J.-Y. Kim, G. V. Naik, A. Boltasseva and E. E. Narimanov, et al.
219-223
Phase-stable Ti:sapphire oscillator quasi-synchronously pumped by a thin-disk laser
T. Binhammer, S. Rausch, M. Jackstadt, G. Palmer and U. Morgner
225-230
Damping of the localized surface plasmon polariton resonance of gold nanoparticles
F. Hubenthal, C. Hendrich and F. Träger