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OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 214, numbers 1-6, 15 December 2002 Abstracted/ Indexed in: Chemical Abstracts/Current Contents: Engineering, Computing and Technology/Current Contents: Physical Chemical & Earth Sciences/EI Compendex Plus/Engineering IndexlINSPEC Contents Propagation and scattering S.L. Blakeney, S.E. Day and J. Neil Stewart, Determination of unknown input polarisation using a twisted nematic liquid crystal display with fixed components A. Consortini, C. Innocenti-and G. Paoli, Estimate method for outer scale of atmospheric turbulence N. Malagnino, G. Pesce, A. Sasso and E. Arimondo, Measurements of trapping efficiency and stiffness in optical tweezers P. Suresh Kumar, S. Thomas Lee, C.P.G. Vallabhan, V.P.N. Nampoori and P. Radhakrishnan, Design and development of an LED based fiber optic evanescent wave sensor for simultaneous detection of chromium and nitrite traces in water P.P. Naulleau, W.C. Sweatt and D.A. Tichenor, Theoretical efficiency analysis of a condenser-embedded grating-based spectral purity filter for EUV lithography Y. Eremin and T. Wriedt, Large dielectric non-spherical particle in an evanescent wave field near a plane surface M. Blahut, P. Karasinski, D. Kasprzak and R. Rogozinski, Visualization method of modal interference in multimode interference structures Optical information, image formation and analysis, optical computing Y.T. Lu and S. Chi, Fabrication of light-shaping diffusion screens C.-S. Wu, C. Chen and J.-S. Fang, Linearly constraint color pattern recognition with a non-zero order joint transform correlator V. Verbrugge, L. Plouzennec and A. Le Corre, A simple smart pixel based on a double VCSEL for free space optical interconnects Y. Dodin and N.J. Fisch, Dynamic volume holography and optical information processing by Raman scattering T. Tanaka, Y. Awatsuji and T. Kubota, Distortion of reconstructed image of reflection hologram recorded with a slit R. Tudela, I. Labastida, E. Martin-Badosa, S. Vallmitjana, I. Juvells and A. Carnicer, A simple method for displaying Fresnel holograms on liquid crystal panels B. Gombk6t6, J. Kornis and Z. Fiizessy, Difference displacement measurement using digital holography Optical communications X. Zhang, Y. Xia, Y.H uang and X. Ren, A novel tunable PMD compensation using linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating P. Grosso and D. Bosc, Bragg grating photo-writing method suitable for ITU grid wavelengths A. Yang, X. Li, A. Xu and D. Wu, Combined impacts of group velocity dispersion, Kerr effect and polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers J. Canning, A. Canagasabey and N. Groothoff, UV irradiation of polymer coatings on optical fibre R.H. Chu and G.E. Town, Synthesis of birefringent equalizing filters for WDM dispersion compensation M. Hammer, Resonant coupling of dielectric optical waveguides via rectangular microcavities: the coupled guided mode perspective Assaid, I. Hardy and D. Bosc, Controlled refractive index of photosensitive polymer: towards photo-induced waveguide for near infrared wavelengths W. Tao, W. Zhengxian and H. Dexiu, Theoretical analysis of a tapered-rib semiconductor optical amplifier (Continued inside) Available online at www.sciencedirect.com SCIENCE GQpernecr 0030-4018( 20021215 )214:1-6;1 OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 214, numbers 1—6, 15 December 2002 (Continued from back cover) Atomic and molecular physics S.-B. Zheng, L.-H. Lin and Y.-K. Jiang, Proposal for direct measurement of the Wigner function of a weak cavity field around the origin using resonant atoms C. Bohley and T. Scharf, Depolarization effects of light reflected by domain-structured cholesteric liquid crystals Condensed matter P. Delaye and G. Roosen, Measuring low amplitude periodical phase shift without set-up stabilization: application to Pockels effect characterization N. Hanik, Modelling of nonlinear optical wave propagation including linear mode-coupling and birefringence J.A. Sherwin and A. Lakhtakia, Nominal model for the optical response of a chiral sculptured thin film infiltrated with an isotropic chiral fluid Quantum optics D.P. Rhodes, G.P.T. Lancaster, J. Livesey, D.M cGloin, J. Arlt and K. Dholakia, Guiding a cold atomic beam along a co-propagating and oblique hollow light guide R. Matloob and H. Safari, Quantum theory of electromagnetic field for a dielectric—dielectric interface in three dimensions Laser physics and laser sources ’. Albanis, V.A. Fedotov and N.I. Zheludev, Light-induced reflectivity switching in gallium-on-silica films in the blue green spectral region ’. Oki, S. Miyamoto, M. Tanaka, D. Zuo and M. Maeda, Long lifetime and high repetition rate operation from distributed feedback plastic waveguided dye lasers D.J. Ripin, J.T. Gopinath, H.M. Shen, A.A. Erchak, G.S. Petrich, L.A. Kolodziejski, F.X. Kartner and E.P. Ippen, Oxidized GaAs/AIAs mirror with a quantum-well saturable absorber for ultrashort-pulse Cr**:YAG laser d Mohamed, G. Andler and R. Schuch, Development of an electro-optical device for storage of high power laser pulses H. Graener, T. Patzlaff and G. Seifert, Unusual reshaping of ultrashort mid-IR pulses in atmospheric carbon dioxide A. Penzkofer, O. Lammel and T. Tsuboi, Emission spectroscopic characterisation of F; colour centres in a LiF crystal I. Moshe and S. Jackel, Correction of thermally induced birefringence in double-rod laser resonators comparison of various methods J.M. Saucedo Solorio, D.W. Sukow, D.R. Hicks and A. Gavrielides, Bifurcations in a semiconductor laser subject to delayed incoherent feedback H. Wei, H. Dexiu, S. Jungiang and L. Deming, Numerical simulation of recovery enhancement by a CW pump light in semiconductor optical amplifiers (Continued on preceding page) OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 214, numbers 1—6, 15 December 2002 (Continued from following page) Nonlinear optics K. Wada, H. Fukuta, R. Kawashima, N. Kurahashi, T. Matsuyama, H. Horinaka, M. Okuno, A. Watanabe and Y. Cho, Simple real-time fringe-resolved autocorrelator for measuring picosecond optical pulses lr. Schafer, R.O. Moore and C.K.R.T. Jones, Pulse propagation in media with deterministic and random dispersion variations Ph. Dittrich, G. Montemezzani and P. Ginter, Tunable optical filter for wavelength division multiplexing using dynamic interband photorefractive gratings T. Hong, M.W. Jack, M. Yamashita and T. Mukai, Enhanced Kerr nonlinearity for self-action via atomic coherence in a four-level atomic system V.E. Peet and R.V. Tsubin, Gas-phase generation of resonance-enhanced third harmonic with crossed laser beams Author index to volume 214 Subject index to volume 214 CO NTE NTS This journal is part of ContentsDirect, the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by e-mail for Elsevier Science books and journals. You can register for ContentsDirect online at: http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com one :