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Stabinis, Sum- frequency mixing of optical vortices in nonlinear crystals 150 (19983)7 2 Beysens, D.A., see Nikolayev, V.S. 150 (19982)6 3 Biondini, G., see Ablowitz, M.J. 150 (19983)0 5 Bittner, R., see Meerholz, K. 150 (19982)0 5 Bjork, G., see Héijer, M. 150 (19983)1 9 Blackburn, R.D., see Shakos, J.D. 150 (19982)3 0 Bonifacio, R., Classical and quantum self amplified spontaneous emission in a high gain free electron laser 150 (1998) 126 Boriskov, P.P., see Bugayev, A.A. 150 (1998) 115 Boudebs, G., M. Chis and A. Monteil, Contrast increasing by third-order nonlinear image processing: a numerical study for microscopic rectangular objects 150 (1998) 287 Bourdet, G.L. and G. Lescroart, Theoretical modelling of mode formation in Tm**:YVO, microchip lasers 150 (1998) 136 Bourdet, G.L., G. Lescroart and R. Muller, Spectral characteristics of 2 wm microchip Tm:YVO, and Tm,Ho:YLF lasers 150 (1998) 141 Boyd, J.T., see Naghski, D.H. 150 (1998) 97 Bozhevolnyi, S.I., B. Vohnsen and K. 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Rulliére, Multipulse operation regime in a self-mode-locked Cr** :forsterite femtosecond laser 150 (1998) 355 Chekalin, S.V., see Dement’ev, D.A. 150 (1998) 38 Chen, H., see Zhang, L. 150 (19982)1 3 Chen, R.-J., see Yen, T.-C. 150 (1998) 158 Chen, X., see Zhang, L. 150 (19982)1 3 Chen, Y. and J. Atai, Stability of fundamental solitons of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations 150 (1998) 381 Chilaya, G., see Macdonald, R. 150 (1998) 195 Chis, M., see Boudebs, G. 150 (1998) 287 Chumakov, S.M., see Castro-Beltran, H.M. 150 (1998) 348 Cipparrone, G., A. Mazzulla, F.P. Nicoletta, L. Lucchetti and F. Simoni, Holographic grating formation in dye doped polymer dispersed liquid crystals 150 (1998) 297 Collet, A., see Hild, N. 150 (1998) 223 Cox, A.M., see Shakos, J.D. 150 (1998) 230 Dement’ev, D.A., A.L. Ivanov, O.B. Serov, A.G. Stepanov, Yu.A. Matveets, S.V. Chekalin and A.M. 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Handerek, High resolution instrumentation system for fibre-Bragg grating aerospace sensors 150 (1998) 43 Figueira de Morisson Faria, C., see Steudel, H. 150 (1998) 363 Forbes, G.W., see Gordon, R.L. 150 (1998) 277 Frieden, B.R., An exact, linear solution to the problem of imaging through turbulence 150 (1998) 15 Gao, P., see Zhang, T. 150 (1998) 201 Gloag, A., see Phillips, I.D. 150 (1998) 101 Gong, Q., see Zhang, T. 150 (1998) 201 Gordon, R.L. and G.W. Forbes, Optimal resolution with extreme depth of focus 150 (1998) 277 Gross, B., see Manassah, J.T. 150 (1998) 189 Author index to volume 150 401 Guan, K., see Yu, J.-J. 150 (1998) 85 Guo, G.-C., see Li, C.-F. 150 (19982)1 9 Guy, M.J., J.R. Taylor and R. Kashyap, Demonstration of the possibility of > 100 Gbit/s transmission over 77 km of standard fibre using a super-step-chirped fibre grating dispersion compensator. 150 (1998) 77 Hamam, H., A two-way optical interconnection network using a single mode fiber array 150 (1998) 270 Han, J., see Zhang, L. 150 (19982)1 3 Handerek, V.A., see Ezbiri, A. 150 (1998) 43 Herrmann, J., see Miller, M. 150 (1998) 147 Hild, N., S. Khodja, C. Andraud, I. Ledoux, J. Zyss and A. Collet, Crystal growth and characterisation of new organic nonlinear optical materials: 6-cyano and 6-nitro-2,2-di- methyl-3,4-epoxychroman 150 (1998) 223 Hofstra, R.M., M.J. Zwegers, F.A. van Goor and W.J. Witteman, Variable reflectivity unstable resonators for a long pulse XeCl excimer laser 150 (1998) 163 Hoijer, M. and G. Bjérk, Modification of spontaneous emission rate in planar dielectric microcavities — seen as superradiance and subradiance 150 (1998) 319 Horne, R.L., see Ablowitz, M.J. 150 (1998) 305 Huang, X.G. and M.R. Wang, A novel quasi-phase-matching frequency doubling technique 150 (1998) 235 Hunsche, S., M. Koch, I. Brener and M.C. Nuss, THz near-field imaging 150 (1998) 22 Ivanov, A.L., see Dement’ev, D.A. 150 (1998) 38 Jaaskelainen, T., see Khomenko, A.V. 150 (19981)7 5 Jackson, H.E., see Naghski, D.H. 150 (1998) 97 Jiang, D., see Stamnes, J.J. 150 (19982)5 1 Jin, X., see Zhang, T. 150 (19982)0 1 Jonusauskas, G., see Chassagne, B. 150 (19983)5 5 Jé6zefowski, L., see Kiersnowski, K. 150 (19981)0 6 Kabashin, A.V. and P.I. Nikitin, Surface plasmon resonance interferometer for bio- and chemical-sensors 150 (1998) 5 Kalosha, V.P., see Miiller, M. 150 (19981)4 7 Kamchatnov, A.M., see Steudel, H. 150 (19983)6 3 Kamshilin, A.A., see Khomenko, A.V. 150 (19981)7 5 Kanellopoulos, S.E., see Ezbiri, A. 150 (1998) 43 Kashyap, R., see Guy, M.J. 150 (1998) 77 Khodja, S., see Hild, N. 150 (19982)2 3 Khomenko, A.V., E. Nippolainen, A.A. Kamshilin, A. Ziiiga Segundo and T. Jaaske- lainen, Leaky photorefractive surface waves in Bi,,TiO,, and Bi,,SiO,, crystals 150 (1998) 175 Kiersnowski, K., L. J6zefowski and T. Dohnalik, Evanescent light—atom interaction detected by optogalvanic effect 150 (1998) 106 King, T.A., see Shakos, J.D. 150 (1998) 230 Koch, M., see Hunsche, S. 150 (1998) 22 Kumar, A. and A. Kumar, A comparative numerical study of soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler with saturating nonlinearity 150 (1998) 91 Kumar, A., see Kumar, A. 150 (1998) 91 402 Author index to volume 150 Landahl, E., D. Baiocchi and J.R. Thompson, A simple analytic model for noise shaping by an optical fiber Raman generator 150 (19983)3 9 Ledoux, I., see Hild, N. 150 (19982)2 3 Leone, S.R., see Schade, W. 150 (1998) 27 Lescroart, G., see Bourdet, G.L. 150 (19981)3 6 Lescroart, G., see Bourdet, G.L. 150 (19981)4 1 Li, C.-F. and G.-C. 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Li, Enhanced optical limiting performance of a novel molybdenum complex of fullerene 150 (19982)0 1 Zhang, W., see Zhang, L. 150 (19982)1 3 Zheng, S., see Zhang, T. 150 (19982)0 1 Zuniga Segundo, A., see Khomenko, A.V. 150 (19981)7 5 Zwegers, M.J., see Hofstra, R.M. 150 (19981)6 3 Zyss, J., see Hild, N. 150 (19982)2 3 | May 1998 OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS ELSEVIER Optics Communications 150 (1998) 406-409 Subject index to volume 150 Propagation, diffraction and scattering K. Schmidt, T. Rother and J. Wauer, The equivalence of applying the Extended Boundary Condition and the continuity conditions for solving electromagnetic scattering problems A.V. Kabashin and P.I. Nikitin, Surface plasmon resonance interferometer for bio- and chemical-sensors N.B. Piller and O.J.F. Martin, Extension of the generalized multipole technique to anisotropic medias D. Cabaret, S. Rossano and C. Brouder, Mie scattering of a partially coherent beam J.J. Stamnes and D. Jiang, Focusing of electromagnetic waves into a uniaxial crystal V.S. Nikolayev, P. Sibille and D.A. Beysens, Coherent light transmission by a dew pattern Optical information, image formation and analysis, optical computing B.R. Frieden, An exact, linear solution to the problem of imaging through turbulence S. Hunsche, M. Koch, I. Brener and M.C. Nuss, THz near-field imaging W. Schade, D.L. Osborn, J. Preusser and S.R. Leone, Two-color cross-correlation of fs-laser pulses by two-photon induced photoconductivity for near and far field optical measurements G.S. Pati, G. Unnikrishnan and K. Singh, Multichannel image addition and subtraction using joint-transform correlator architecture D.A. Dement’ev, A.L. Ivanov, O.B. Serov, A.G. Stepanov, Yu.A. Matveets, S.V. Chekalin and A.M. Smolovich, Geometric-optical reconstruction of a wavefront experimental realization with femtosecond laser pulses A. Ezbiri, S.E. Kanellopoulos and V.A. Handerek, High resolution instrumentation system for fibre-Bragg grating aerospace sensors 43 S.I. Bozhevolnyi, B. Vohnsen and K. Pedersen, Near-field optical microscopy of nonlinear susceptibilities 49 0030-/4980 /1$198.0 0 © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII $0030-4018(98)00201-6 Subject index to volume 150 E. Takahashi, I. Matsushima, Y. Matsumoto, I. Okuda and Y. Owadano, Two-dimensional measurement of laser-induced target movement by face-on interferometry 56 A.R.D. Somervell and T.H. Barnes, Unambiguous measurement of surface profile using a Sagnac interferometer with phase feedback 61 M.R. Sajan, C.J. Tay, H.M. Shang and A. Asundi, Improved spatial phase detection for profilometry using a TDI imager P.B. Chapple and D.C. Bertilone, Stochastic simulation of infrared non-Gaussian natural terrain imagery H. Hamam, A two-way optical interconnection network using a single mode fiber array R.L. Gordon and G.W. Forbes, Optimal resolution with extreme depth of focus G. Boudebs, M. Chis and A. Monteil, Contrast increasing by third-order nonlinear image processing: a numerical study for microscopic rectangular objects G. Cipparrone, A. Mazzulla, F.P. Nicoletta, L. Lucchetti and F. Simoni, Holographic grating formation in dye doped polymer dispersed liquid crystals Optical communications M.J. Guy, J.R. Taylor and R. Kashyap, Demonstration of the possibility of > 100 Gbit/s transmission over 77 km of standard fibre using a super-step-chirped fibre grating dispersion compensator. 77 S.K. Mondal and S.N. Sarkar, Interesting effect of optical Kerr nonlinearity in expanding single-mode regime of optical fibers using dispersion-flattened profiles 81 J.-J. Yu, K. Guan, Z. Xu and B. Yang, The effects of different dispersion compensation ratios on nonlinear single channel and WDM systems 85 A. Kumar and A. Kumar, A comparative numerical study of soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler with saturating nonlinearity 9] D.H. Naghski, J.T. Boyd, H.E. Jackson and A.J. Steckl, Potential for size reduction of AlGaAs optical channel waveguide structures fabricated by focused ion beam implanta- tion and oxidation 97 I.D. Phillips, A.G loag, D.G. Moodie, N.J. Doran, I. Bennion and A.D. Ellis, Simultaneous demultiplexing and clock recovery using a single electroabsorption modulator in a novel bi-directional configuration 101 M.J. Ablowitz, G. Biondini, S. Chakravarty and R.L. Horne, On timing Jitter in wave- length-division multiplexed soliton systems Atomic, molecular and plasma physics K. Kiersnowski, L. J6zefowski and T. Dohnalik, Evanescent light—atom interaction de- tected by optogalvanic effect 408 Subject index to volume 150 Condensed matter M. Mazzoni, Emission spectra following radiation trapping switching off: coherent effects detected up to resonance and signal enhancement 111 A.A. Bugayev and P.P. Boriskov, Time-resolved two-beam coupling in silicon 115 D. Tonova, A. Paneva and B. Pantchev, Determination of refractive index profiles of gradient optical waveguides by ellipsometry 121 Quantum optics R. Bonifacio, Classical and quantum self amplified spontaneous emission in a high gain free electron laser 126 M. Loffler and H. Walther, Atomic coherence effects in the ion-trap laser 131 M. H6ijer and G. Bjérk, Modification of spontaneous emission rate in planar dielectric microcavities — seen as superradiance and subradiance 319 D. Dragoman and M. Dragoman, Optical modelling of quantum dots 331 E. Landahl, D. Baiocchi and J.R. Thompson, A simple analytic model for noise shaping by an optical fiber Raman generator 339 H.M. Castro-Beltran, J.J. Sanchez-Mondragon and S.M. Chumakov, Extra revivals in cooperative atomic inversion in a cavity 348 Lasers G.L. Bourdet and G. Lescroart, Theoretical modelling of mode formation in Tm**:YVO, microchip lasers 136 G.L. Bourdet, G. Lescroart and R. Muller, Spectral characteristics of 2 jm microchip Tm:YVQ, and Tm,Ho:YLF lasers 141 | M. Miller, V.P. Kalosha and J. Herrmann, 277-pulse laser using an intracavity quantum-well absorber 147 H. Liu and J. Sun, Maser action without inversion in interstellar space 153 T.-C. Yen, J.-W. Chang, J.-M. Lin and R.-J. Chen, High-frequency optical signal genera- tion in a semiconductor laser by incoherent optical feedback 158 R.M. Hofstra, M.J. Zwegers, F.A. van Goor and W.J. Witteman, Variable reflectivity unstable resonators for a long pulse XeCl excimer laser 163 B. Chassagne, G. Jonusauskas, J. Oberlé and C. Rulliére, Multipulse operation regime in a self-mode-locked Cr** :forsterite femtosecond laser