Hard brittle materials (eg glasses and ceramics) increasingly appeal to general interests
because of their excellent physical, mechanical and chemical properties such as super
hardness and strength at extreme temperature and chemical stability. The precision …

This paper describes the use of an integrated optical Bragg-reflector as a chemo-optical
sensor. It is shown that these types of Bragg-reflectors for a wavelength of 630 nm can be
realized with a bandwidth smaller than 0.2 nm in a optical channel waveguide …

We consider the two orthogonally polarized wave propagations in the nonlinear modal
birefringent fibre governed by the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger type equations. In this
letter, we construct the Bäcklund transformation for the coupled NLS equations and coupled …

… Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid publications, European Optical Society, 2008,
3, pp.08037. hal-00560947 Page 2. JOURNAL OF T O R … RAP ID PUB LIC AT IO NS Journal of
the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications 3, 08037 (2008) www.jeos.org …

Optical trapping has enabled a multitude of applications focusing, in particular, on non-
invasive studies of cellular material. The full potential of optical trapping has, however, not
yet been exploited due to restricted access to the trapped samples, caused by high …

We report the implementation of an optical fibre delay line demonstrating the capability of
stretched silica fibre to induce a large and variable group delay. A metric delay line with a
total stroke of 2.04 m has been tested in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the spectral …

… 1943-0620/11/040272-09/$15.00 © 2011 Optical Society of America … This article has been accepted
for inclusion in a future issue of this journal. Content is final as presented. Page 6. Tzanakaki
et al. VOL … 277 Fig. 3. Metrics capturing the European optical backbone dimensions …

Temperature calibrated piezoelectric resonances of internal acoustic vibration modes of a
nonlinear-optical crystal during its heating by high-power laser radiation are used for
noncontact highly accurate measurements of both the non-uniform temperature distribution …

The authors present an exact expression for the joint count probability in an eight-port
homodyne detector used in a recent proposal for a phase measurement by Noh et al.(1992).
For a strong local oscillator they relate this joint count probability to the Q-function of the …

This paper reviews some of the authors' recent research aimed at obtaining an
understanding of the physical processes that determine the linear and nonlinear optical
properties of nanocomposite materials. One result of this research is the prediction and …