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OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 229, numbers 1—6, 2 January 2004 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 B. Zhang, X. Chu, Q. Wen and Q. Zeng, Approximate method for calculating the generalized beam propagation factor of truncated beams ). Levy, E. Marom and D. Mendlovic, Thin element approximation for the analysis of blazed gratings: simplified model and validity limits M.C. Parker and S.D. Walker, Information transfer and Landauer’s principle M. Tebaldi, L. Angel, N. Bolognini and M. Trivi, Speckle interferometric technique to assess soap films A.G. Sedukhin, Generalized periodically focused beams and multiple on-axis lens imaging A.R.D. Somervell, M.E.K. Williams and T.H. Barnes, Direct measurement of fringe amplitude and phase using a heterodyne interferometer operating in broadband light J.H. Chong, P. Shum, H. Haryono, A. Yohana, M.K. Rao, C. Lu and Y. Zhu, Measurements of refractive index sensitivity using long-period grating refractometer D.M. de Juana, V.F. Canales, P.J. Valle and M.P. Cagigal, Focusing properties of annular binary phase filters P. Targowski, M. Wojtkowski, A. Kowalczyk, T. Bajraszewski, M. Szkulmowski and I. Gorczynska, Complex spectral OCT in human eye imaging in vivo L.E. Helseth, Optical vortices in focal regions D. Ge, Y. Cai and Q. Lin, Propagation of partially polarized Gaussian Schell-model beams in dispersive and absorbing media C.A. Dartora, K.Z. Nobrega, H.E. Hernandez-Figueroa and E. Recami, Properties of localized pulses through the analysis of temporal modulation effects in Bessel beams and the convolution theorem P.P. Naulleau, J.A. Liddle, E.H. Anderson, E.M. Gullikson, P. Mirkarimi, F. Salmassi and E. Spiller, Fabrication of high-efficiency multilayer-coated gratings for the EUV regime using e-beam patterned substrates Optical information, image formation and analysis, optical computing H. Ding, Q. Li and W. Zou, Design and comparison of amplitude-type and phase-only transverse super-resolving pupil filters H. Xie, J. Chen, H. Gao, S. Xiong and Z. Xu, Removing twin images in X-ray fluorescence holography V.M. Petrov, S. Lichtenberg, J. Petter and T. Tschudi, Control of the optical transfer function by phase-shift keying of a holographic Bragg grating Optical communications H. Chen and G.W. Schinn, Hybrid broadband superfluorescent fiber source consisting of both thulium-doped fiber and erbium-doped fiber O. Pottiez, E.A. Kuzin, B. Ibarra-Escamilla and F.M. Martinez, Easily tuneable nonlinear optical loop mirror including low-birefringence, highly twisted fibre with invariant output polarisation X. Yang, C. Zhao, J. Zhou, X. Guo, J. Ng, X. Zhou and C. Lu, The characteristics of fiber slanted gratings in multimode fiber O.V. Ivanov, Near-field effects in fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings using phase masks (Continued inside) . Available online at www.sciencedirect.com i SCIENCE DIRECT® 0030-4018( 200401 )229:1-6;1-J i «tages e yea e OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 229, numbers 1-6, 2 January 2004 (Continued from page 4 of cover) B.-F. Feng and B.A. Malomed, Antisymmetric solitons and their interactions in strongly dispersion-managed fiber-optic systems G.M. Tosi-Beleffi, F. Curti, D.M. Forin and F. Matera, Polarization independent wavelength converter based on Kerr non-linearity in DS fibre .. Zheng, T. Qin and H. Zhang, Dynamic routing and wavelength assignment for two-stage multi-granularity WDM optical networks . Huang, Y. Zhou, H. Cai, R. Qu and Z. Fang, A fiber Bragg grating with triangular spectrum as wavelength readout in sensor systems J. Zhao, Xia zhang, Y. Huang and X. Ren, Experimental analysis of birefringence effects on fiber Bragg gratings induced by lateral compression Y.J. Rao, T. Zhu, Z.L. Ran, Y.P. Wang, J. Jiang and A.Z. Hu, Novel long-period fiber gratings written by high- frequency CO, laser pulses and applications in optical fiber communication Q. Wang, Y. Zhang and Y. Chai Soh, Design of spectrum equalization filter for SLED light source Y. Ye, T. Hiang Cheng and C. Lu, Routing and wavelength assignment algorithms for translucent optical networks J.-F. Huang, C.-C. Yang and S.-P. Tseng, Complementary Walsh-Hadamard coded optical CDMA coder/decoders structured over arrayed-waveguide grating routers H.H. Lee, D. Lee and H.S. Chung, A gain-clamped-semiconductor-optical-amplifier combined with a distributed Raman-fiber-amplifier: a good candidate as an inline amplifier for WDM networks Y. Ueno, Theoretically predicted performance and frequency-scaling rule of a Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder optical 3R gating Condensed matter H.A. Al-Attar and A.Dh. Telfah, Optical constants of polyaniline/poly(methylmethacrylate) blend S. Myagkota, G. Stryganyuk, A. Voloshinovskii, P. Rodnyi, M. Kirm and G. Zimmerer, Luminescence kinetics characteristics of lead-containing aggregates dispersed in Rby 9sCsposCl solid state solution A. Penzkofer, W. Holzer, H. Tillmann and H.-H. Horhold, Leaky-mode emission of luminescent thin films on transparent substrates Z. Sekkat, Isomeric orientation by two-photon excitation: a theoretical study Laser physics and laser sources J. Simons, H. Pask, P. Dekker and J. Piper, Small-scale, all-solid-state, frequency-doubled intracavity Raman laser producing 5 mW yellow-orange output at 598 nm Z.P. Cai, H.Y. Xu, G.M. Stéphan, P. Féron and M. Mortier, Red-shift in Er:ZBLALiP whispering gallery mode laset Y.-H. Lu and S. Chi, All-optical gain-clamped wideband serial EDFA with ring-shaped laser S. Haidar, Y. Sasaki, E. Niwa, K. Masumoto and H. Ito, Electro-optic tuning of a periodically poled LiNbO, optical parametric oscillator and mixing its output waves to generate mid-IR tunable from 9.4 to 10.5 um S.P. Ng, D.Y. Tang, L.J. Qin and X.L. Meng, High power passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO, lasers L.D. Negro, P. Bettotti, M. Cazzanclli, D. Pacifici and L. Pavesi, Applicability conditions and experimental analysis of the variable stripe length method for gain measurements P. Shi, D. Li, H. Zhang, Y. Wang and K. Du, An 110 W Nd:YVO,j slab laser with high beam quality output C. Grivas, T.C. May-Smith, D.P. Shepherd and R.W. Eason, Laser operation of a low loss (0.1 dB/em) Nd:Gd3;Ga;O}> thick (40 ym) planar waveguide grown by pulsed laser deposition (Continued on pr OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS Volume 229, numbers 1-6, 2 January 2004 (Continued from following page) B. Zhao. D.Y. Tang, P. Shum, W.S. Man, H.Y. Tam, Y.D. Gong and C. Lu, Passive harmonic mode locking of twin- pulse solitons in an erbium-doped fiber ring laser Nonlinear optics I. de Oliveira, J. Frejlich, L.A rizmendi and M. Carrascosa, Self-stabilized holographic recording in reduced and oxidized lithium niobate crystals A.C. Potenza. S. Minardi, J. Trull, G. Blasi, D. Salerno, A. Varanavicius, A. Piskarskas and P. Di Trapani, Three dimensional imaging of short pulses Trippenbach, M. Matuszewski, E. Infeld, C.L ong Van, R.S. Tasgal and Y.B. Band, Enhancement of third harmonic generation by wave vector mismatch to counter phase-modulation S.V. Zabotnov, A.B. Fedotov, $.0. Konorov, T.V. Veselova, I.E. Smirnova, P.K. Kashkarov and A.M. Zheltikov, Effective-medium-controlled third-harmonic generation in lamellar-nonuniform porous glass R.A. Ganeev, I.A. Kulagin, A.I. Ryasnyansky, R.I. Tugushev and T. Usmanov, Characterization of nonlinear optical parameters of KDP, LiNbO; and BBO crystals F. Ginovart. E. Le Cren and J.C. Simon, 2R regeneration study in a microcavity with a saturable absorber Y. Hadjar, N.J. Traynor and S. Gray, Enhanced double Rayleigh backscattering in second order Raman amplification and system performance implications P. Wang, Y. Lu, L. Tang, J. Zhang, H. Ming, J. Xie, F.-H. Ho, H.-H. Chang, H.-Y. Lin and D.-P. Tsai, Surface- enhanced optical nonlinearity of a gold film S.C. Tsang, K.S. Chiang and K.W. Chow, Soliton interaction in a two-core optical fiber G.I. Petrov. V.V. Yakovlev and N.I. Minkovski, Broadband nonlinear optical conversion of a high-energy diode- pumped picosecond lase1 Author index Subject index CO NTE NTS his journal is part of ContentsDirect. the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by e-mail for Elsevier books and journals. You can register for ContentsDirect é online at: http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com