NH. Available online at www.sciencedirect.com are science @Poinzcrs sb OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS ELSEVIER Optics Communications 213 (2002) 379-383 www.elsevier.com/locate/optcom Author index to volume 213 Ahn, S.J., see Choi, H.B. 213 (2002) 63 Aiello, A., M.P. van Exter, G. Nienhuis and J.P. Woerdman, Does excess quantum noise exist in spontaneous processes? 213 (2002) 81 Aiello, A. and J.P. Woerdman, Dynamical vacuum fluctuations? 213 (2002) 89 Alda, J. and J.M. Rico-Garcia, Angular shifts of paraxial beams by refraction in a plane dielectric/dielectric interface 213 (2002) 229 Arnaud, J., see Chusseau, L. 213 (2002) 325 Barmenkov, Yu.O., see Kir’yanov, A.V. 213 (2002) 151 Basheer Ahamed, M. and P.K. Palanisamy, Nd:YAG laser pumped energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser in Rhodamine 6G and Acid blue 7 dye mixture 213 (2002) 67 Berger, V., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (20022)2 3 Biaggio, I., see Torres, J.P. 213 (20023)5 1 Blondel, M., see Pottiez, O. 213 (20021)0 3 Blotter, J., see Mishra, D. 213 (2002) 39 Bohn, M.J. and J.-C. Diels, Optimizing the frequency in dithered laser gyroscopes 213 (20023)3 1 Breuls, A.H.E., see Butov, O.V. 213 (20023)0 1 Butov, O.V., K.M. Golant, A.L. Tomashuk, M.J.N. van Stralen and A.H.E. Breuls, Refractive index dispersion of doped silica for fiber optics 213 (20023)0 1 Calligaro, M., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (20022)2 3 Chak, P., J.E. Sipe and S. Pereira, Lorentzian model for nonlinear switching in a microresonator structure 213 (20021)6 3 Chen, J.. H. Kim and Y.C. Chung, Inter-channel interference in multispan WDM transmissions around perfect dispersion-compensated region 213 (20023)6 7 Cho, J.Y. and K.S. Lee, A birefringence compensation method for mechanically induced long-period fiber gratings 213 (20022)8 1 Choi, H.B., J.M. Oh, D. Lee, S.J. Ahn, B.S. Park and S.B. Lee, Simple and efficient L- band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for WDM networks 213 (2002) 63 Choi, S., see Jeong, H. 213 (2002) 33 Chung, Y.C., see Chen, J. 213 (20023)6 7 Chusseau, L., J. Arnaud and F. Philippe, Two-level laser light statistics 213 (20023)2 5 De Rossi, A., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (20022)2 3 del Rayo, M., see Kir’yanov, A.V. 213 (20021)5 1 Delaye, P., see Paivasaari, K. 213 (20023)5 7 Dennis, M.R., Polarization singularities in paraxial vector fields: morphology and statistics 213 (2002) 201 PII: S0030-4018(02)02153-3 380 Author index to volume 213 Diels, J.-C., see Bohn, M.J. 213 (2002) 331 Doicu, A., Null-field method with circularly distributed spherical vector wave functions 213 (2002) 21 Dolenko, T.A., see Dolenko, S.A. 213 (2002) 309 Dolenko, S.A., T.A. Dolenko, V.V. Fadeev, I.V. Gerdova and M. Kompitsas, Time- resolved fluorimetry of two-fluorophore organic systems using artificial neural 213 (20023)0 9 networks 213 (20022)9 3 Droulias, S., see Manousakis, M. Ebrahimzadeh, M., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (2002) 223 Ehlotzky, F., see Panek, P. 213 (2002) 121 Fadeev, V.V., see Dolenko, S.A. 213 (2002) 309 Feng, X., T. Jin, Y.W ang, Q. Wang, X. Liu and J. Peng, A simple control algorithm for wide-band channel-power clamped EDFA 213 (2002) 285 Filippov, V.N., see Kir’yanov, A.V. 213 (2002) 151 Freund, I., Second harmonic generation of optical ellipse fields 213 (2002) 129 Fujimura, R., E. Kubota, O. Matoba, T. Shimura and K. Kuroda, Photorefractive and 213 (20023)7 3 photochromic properties of Ru doped Sro.¢; Bao.39 Nb2O¢ crystal 213 (2002) 57 Gautier, J.-D., see Scholder, F. 213 (2002) 13 Gbur, G., see Visser, T.D. 213 (20023)0 9 Gerdova, I.V., see Dolenko, S.A. 213 (20022)2 3 Gintz, G., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (2002) 57 Gisin, N., see Scholder, F. 213 (20023)0 1 Golant, K.M., see Butov, O.V. Grant, K.J., H.-F. Liu and R. Jan, Spectral technique for measuring the pulse-width jitter of a gain-switched laser 213 (2002) 183 Hizanidis, K., see Manousakis, M. 213 (2002) 293 Hong, W.-P., Modulational instability of optical waves in the high dispersive cubic— quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation 213 (2002) 173 Hong, K.-H., J.H. Sung, Y.S. Lee and C.H. Nam, Temporal characterization of chirped femtosecond laser pulses 213 (2002) 193 Jan, R., see Grant, K.J. 213 (2002) 183 Jeong, H., S. Choi and K. Oh, Continuous wave single transverse mode laser oscillation in a Nd-doped large core double clad fiber cavity with concatenated adiabatic tapers 213 (2002) 33 Jin, T., see Feng, X. 213 (2002) 285 Kaler, R.S., A.K. Sharma, H. Kumar and T.S. Kamal, Validity of third-order 213 (2002) 49 dispersion term for single-mode fiber near zero dispersion wavelength 213 (2002) 49 Kamal, T.S., see Kaler, R.S. 213 (20021)2 1 Kaminski, J.Z., see Panek, P. 213 (20023)5 7 Kamshilin, A.A., see Paivasaari, K. 213 (2002) 97 Kao, F.-J., see Torok, P. 213 (20023)6 7 Kim, H., see Chen, J. Author index to volume 213 Kir’yanov, A.V., Yu.O. Barmenkov, M. del Rayo and V.N. Filippov, Ground-state absorption saturation and thermo-lensing effect as main sources of refractive index 213 (20021)5 ] non-linear change in Cr**:YAG at CW 1.06 um excitation 213 (20023)0 9 Kompitsas, M., see Dolenko, S.A. 213 (20023)7 3 Kubota, E., see Fujimura, R. 213 (2002) 49 Kumar, H., see Kaler, R.S. 213 (20023)7 3 Kuroda, K., see Fujimura, R. 213 (20023)4 7 Lee, S.A., see Rehse, S.J. 213 (2002) 63 Lee, S.B., see Choi, H.B. 213 (20022)8 1 Lee, K.S., see Cho, J.Y. 213 (20021)9 3 Lee, Y.S., see Hong, K.-H. 213 (2002) 63 Lee, D., see Choi, H.B. 213 (20022)4 1 Leger, J.R., see Zhan, Q. Lin, G.-R., Free-running waveform characterization using a delay-time tunable laser based delay-line-free electro-optic sampling oscilloscope 213 (2002) 339 Liu, H.-F., see Grant, K.J. 213 (2002) 183 Liu, X., see Feng, X. 213 (2002) 285 Manousakis, M., S. Droulias, P. Papagiannis and K. Hizanidis, Propagation of chirped solitary pulses in optical transmission lines: perturbed variational approach 213 (2002) 293 Marienko, I.G., V.A. Pas’ko, V.V. Slyusar, M.S. Soskin and M.V. Vasnetsov, Investigation of an optical vortex beam with a leaky planar waveguide 213 (2002) 1 Matoba, O., see Fujimura, R. 213 (2002) 373 Mégret, P., see Pottiez, O. 213 (2002) 103 Mishra, D. and J. Blotter, Image dewarping and region of interest detection for 213 (2002) 39 processing of Moiré images 213 (20022)2 3 Moutzouris, K., see Venugopal Rao, S. 213 (20021)9 3 Nam, C.H., see Hong, K.-H. 213 (2002) 81 Nienhuis, G., see Aiello, A. 213 (2002) 63 Oh, J.M., see Choi, H.B. 213 (2002) 33 Oh, K., see Jeong, H. 213 (20022)2 3 Ortiz, V., see Venugopal Rao, S. Paivasaari, K., A.A. Kamshilin, P. Delaye and G. Roosen, Reduction of the space- 213 (20023)5 7 charge field in photorefractive crystals 213 (2002) 67 Palanisamy, P.K., see Basheer Ahamed, M. Panek, P., J.Z. Kaminski and F. Ehlotzky, X-ray generation by Compton scattering of 213 (20021)2 1 elliptically polarized laser light at relativistic radiation powers 213 (20022)9 3 Papagiannis, P., see Manousakis, M. 213 (2002) 63 Park, B.S., see Choi, H.B. 213 (2002) 1 Pas’ko, V.A., see Marienko, I.G. 213 (20022)8 5 Peng, J., see Feng, X. 213 (20021)6 3 Pereira, S., see Chak, P. 213 (20023)2 5 Philippe, F., see Chusseau, L. 382 Author index to volume 213 Pottiez, O., P. Mégret and M. Blondel, Environmentally induced noises in an actively mode-locked erbium fibre laser operating in the second-order rational harmonic 213 (20021)0 3 mode locking regime Protopopov, V.V. and J. Sobota, X-ray dark-field refraction-contrast imaging of micro- objects 213 (2002) 267 Pyragaite, V. and A. Stabinis, Free-space propagation of overlapping light vortex beams 213 (2002) 187 Rehse, S.J. and S.A. Lee, Generation of 125 mW frequency stabilized continuous-wave 213 (20023)4 7 tunable laser light at 295 nm by frequency doubling in a BBO crystal 213 (20022)2 9 Rico-Garcia, J.M., see Alda, J. 213 (20023)5 7 Roosen, G., see Paivasaari, K. Schelokov, I., T. Weitkamp and A. Snigirev, Reconstruction of an object phase transmission function from in-line X-ray holograms 213 (2002) 247 Scholder, F., J.-D. Gautier, M. Wegmuller and N. Gisin, Long-distance OTDR using 213 (2002) 57 photon counting and large detection gates at telecom wavelength 213 (20023)5 1 Segev, M., see Torres, J.P. 213 (2002) 49 Sharma, A.K., see Kaler, R.S. 213 (20023)7 3 Shimura, T., see Fujimura, R. 213 (20021)6 3 Sipe, J.E., see Chak, P. 213 (2002) 1 Slyusar, V.V., see Marienko, I.G. 213 (20022)4 7 Snigirev, A., see Schelokov, I. 213 (20022)6 7 Sobota, J., see Protopopov, V.V. 213 (2002) 1 Soskin, M.S., see Marienko, I.G. 213 (20021)8 7 Stabinis, A., see Pyragaite, V. Su, W.-C. and C.-C. Sun, Optical pattern interconnections using random phase 213 (20022)5 9 encoding in volume holograms Sun, C.-C., see Su, W.-C. 213 (2002) 259 Sung, J.H., see Hong, K.-H. 213 (2002) 193 Tomashuk, A.L., see Butov, O.V. 213 (2002) 301 Torner, L., see Torres, J.P. 213 (2002) 351 Torok, P. and F.-J. Kao, Point-spread function reconstruction in high aperture lenses focusing ultra-short laser pulses 213 (2002) 97 Torres, J.P., L. Torner, I. Biaggio and M. Segev, Tunable self-action of light in optical rectification 213 (2002) 351 213 (2002) 81 van Exter, M.P., see Aiello, A. 213 (20023)0 1 van Stralen, M.J.N., see Butov, O.V. 213 (2002) 1 Vasnetsov, M.V., see Marienko, I.G. Venugopal Rao, S., K. Moutzouris, M. Ebrahimzadeh, A. De Rossi, G. Gintz, M. Calligaro, V. Ortiz and V. Berger, Measurements of optical loss in GaAs/Al,O; 213 (20022)2 3 nonlinear waveguides in the infrared using femtosecond scattering technique Visser, T.D., G. Gbur and E. Wolf, Effect of the state of coherence on the three- dimensional spectral intensity distribution near focus 213 (2002) 13 Author index to volume 213 383 213 (2002) 27 Wang, L.J., Causal “‘all-pass”’ filters and Kramers—Kronig relations 213 (20022)8 5 Wang, Y., see Feng, X. 213 (20022)8 5 Wang, Q., see Feng, X. 213 (2002) 57 Wegmuller, M., see Scholder, F. 213 (20022)4 7 Weitkamp, T., see Schelokov, I. 213 (2002) 81 Woerdman, J.P., see Aiello, A. 213 (2002) 89 Woerdman, J.P., see Aiello, A. 213 (2002) 13 Wolf, E., see Visser, T.D. Zhan, Q. and J.R. Leger, Interferometric measurement of the geometric phase in space- variant polarization manipulations 213 (2002) 241 NH Available online at www.sciencedirect.com OPTICS tal SCIENCE DIRECT® as @ COMMUNICATIONS ELSEVIER Optics Communications 213 (2002) 384-386 www.elsevier.com/locate/optcom Subject index to volume 213 Propagation and scattering I.G. Marienko, V.A. Pas’ko, V.V. Slyusar, M.S. Soskin and M.V. Vasnetsov, Investigation of an optical vortex beam with a leaky planar waveguide T.D. Visser, G. Gbur and E. Wolf, Effect of the state of coherence on the three- dimensional spectral intensity distribution near focus A. Doicu, Null-field method with circularly distributed spherical vector wave functions L.J. Wang, Causal “‘all-pass”’ filters and Kramers—Kronig relations H. Jeong, S. Choi and K. Oh, Continuous wave single transverse mode laser oscillation in a Nd-doped large core double clad fiber cavity with concatenated adiabatic tapers K.J. Grant, H.-F. Liu and R. Jan, Spectral technique for measuring the pulse-width jitter of a gain-switched laser 183 V. Pyragaite and A. Stabinis, Free-space propagation of overlapping light vortex beams 187 K.-H. Hong, J.H. Sung, Y.S. Lee and C.H. Nam, Temporal characterization of chirped femtosecond laser pulses 193 M.R. Dennis, Polarization singularities in paraxial vector fields: morphology and statistics 201 S. Venugopal Rao, K. Moutzouris, M. Ebrahimzadeh, A. De Rossi, G. Gintz, M. Calligaro, V. Ortiz and V. Berger, Measurements of optical loss in GaAs/Al,O3 nonlinear waveguides in the infrared using femtosecond scattering technique 223 J. Alda and J.M. Rico-Garcia, Angular shifts of paraxial beams by refraction in a plane dielectric/dielectric interface 229 Q. Zhan and J.R. Leger, Interferometric measurement of the geometric phase in space- variant polarization manipulations 241 Optical information, image formation and analysis, optical computing D. Mishra and J. Blotter, Image dewarping and region of interest detection for processing of Moiré images 39 I. Schelokov, T. Weitkamp and A. Snigirev, Reconstruction of an object phase 247 transmission function from in-line X-ray holograms W.-C. Su and C.-C. Sun, Optical pattern interconnections using random phase encoding in volume holograms 259 PII: S0030-4018(02)02154-5 Subject index to volume 213 V.V. Protopopov and J. Sobota, X-ray dark-field refraction-contrast imaging of micro- objects 267 Optical communications R.S. Kaler, A.K. Sharma, H. Kumar and T.S. Kamal, Validity of third-order dispersion term for single-mode fiber near zero dispersion wavelength 49 F. Scholder, J.-D. Gautier, M. Wegmiller and N. Gisin, Long-distance OTDR using photon counting and large detection gates at telecom wavelength 57 H.B. Choi, J.M. Oh, D. Lee, S.J. Ahn, B.S. Park and S.B. Lee, Simple and efficient L- band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for WDM networks 63 J.Y. Cho and K.S. Lee, A birefringence compensation method for mechanically induced long-period fiber gratings 281 X. Feng, T. Jin, Y. Wang, Q. Wang, X. Liu and J. Peng, A simple control algorithm for wide-band channel-power clamped EDFA 285 M. Manousakis, S. Droulias, P. Papagiannis and K. Hizanidis, Propagation of chirped solitary pulses in optical transmission lines: perturbed variational approach 293 O.V. Butov, K.M. Golant, A.L. Tomashuk, M.J.N. van Stralen and A.H.E. Breuls, Refractive index dispersion of doped silica for fiber optics 301 Condensed matter S.A. Dolenko, T.A. Dolenko, V.V. Fadeev, I.V. Gerdova and M. Kompitsas, Time- resolved fluorimetry of two-fluorophore organic systems using artificial neural networks 309 Atomic and molecular physics M. Basheer Ahamed and P.K. Palanisamy, Nd:YAG laser pumped energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser in Rhodamine 6G and Acid blue 7 dye mixture 67 Quantum optics A. Aiello, M.P. van Exter, G. Nienhuis and J.P. Woerdman, Does excess quantum noise exist in spontaneous processes? 81 A. Aiello and J.P. Woerdman, Dynamical vacuum fluctuations? 89 L. Chusseau, J. Arnaud and F. Philippe, Two-level laser light statistics 325 Laser physics and laser sources P. Torok and F.-J. Kao Point-spread function reconstruction in high aperture lenses focusing ultra-short laser pulses 386 Subject index to volume 213 O. Pottiez, P. Mégret and M. Blondel Environmentally induced noises in an actively mode-locked erbium fibre laser operating in the second-order rational harmonic mode locking regime 103 P. Panek, J.Z. Kaminski and F. Ehlotzky X-ray generation by Compton scattering of elliptically polarized laser light at relativistic radiation powers 121 M.J. Bohn and J.-C. Diels, Optimizing the frequency in dithered laser gyroscopes 331 G.-R. Lin, Free-running waveform characterization using a delay-time tunable laser based delay-line-free electro-optic sampling oscilloscope 339 S.J. Rehse and S.A. Lee, Generation of 125 mW frequency stabilized continuous-wave tunable laser light at 295 nm by frequency doubling in a BBO crystal 347 Nonlinear optics I. Freund, Second harmonic generation of optical ellipse fields 129 A.V. Kir’yanov, Yu.O. Barmenkov, M. del Rayo and V.N. Filippov, Ground-state absorption saturation and thermo-lensing effect as main sources of refractive index non-linear change in Cr**:YAG at CW 1.06 um excitation 151 P. Chak, J.E. Sipe and S. Pereira, Lorentzian model for nonlinear switching in a microresonator structure 163 W.-P. Hong, Modulational instability of optical waves in the high dispersive cubic— quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation 173 J.P. Torres, L. Torner, I. Biaggio and M. Segev, Tunable self-action of light in optical rectification 351 K. Paivasaari, A.A. Kamshilin, P. Delaye and G. Roosen, Reduction of the space- charge field in photorefractive crystals 357 J. Chen, H. Kim and Y.C. Chung, Inter-channel interference in multispan WDM transmissions around perfect dispersion-compensated region 367 R. Fujimura, E. Kubota, O. Matoba, T. Shimura and K. Kuroda, Photorefractive and photochromic properties of Ru doped Sro.¢; Bao.39 Nb2O¢ crystal 373 Author index 379 Subject index