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Pulse Generation Articles
Modern optical signal processing experiments demonstrating intensity and pulse-width modulation using an acousto-optic modulator by Ting-Chung Poon, Mark D. McNeill, and Daniel J. Moore. DOI: 10.1119/1.18683
Physics of attosecond pulses produced via high harmonic generation by Katalin Varjú, Per Johnsson, Johan Mauritsson, Anne L’Huillier, and Rodrigo López-Martens. DOI: 10.1119/1.3086028
Making optical vortices with computer-generated holograms by Alicia V. Carpentier, Humberto Michinel, José R. Salgueiro, and David Olivieri. DOI: 10.1119/1.2955792
A graphical description of optical parametric generation of squeezed states of light by Jöran Bauchrowitz, Tobias Westphal, and Roman Schnabel. DOI: 10.1119/1.4819195
Multiple-prism arrays in laser optics by F. J. Duarte. DOI: 10.1119/1.19384
Resource Letter NO-1: Nonlinear Optics by Elsa Garmire. DOI: 10.1119/1.3534835
Collimated blue light generation in rubidium vapor by Marcus B. Kienlen, Noah T. Holte, Hunter A. Dassonville, Andrew M. C. Dawes, Kurt D. Iversen, Ryan M. McLaughlin, and Shannon K. Mayer. DOI: 10.1119/1.4795311
Absorption of a pulse by an optically dense medium: An argument for field quantization by P. R. Berman, and J.-L. Le Gouët. DOI: 10.1119/1.3549235
Generation of Bessel beams using a 4-f spatial filtering system by Jeremy M. D. Kowalczyk, Stefanie N. Smith, and Eric B. Szarmes. DOI: 10.1119/1.3033743
On the connection between image formation formulas in geometrical optics and beam transformation formulas in wave optics by Jean-François Bisson. DOI: 10.1119/1.4819168
A low-cost mirror mount control system for optics setups by Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, and Markus Gühr. DOI: 10.1119/1.4895343
On the fundamentals of optical scanning holography by Ting-Chung Poon. DOI: /10.1119/1.2904472
Experimental method to characterize the retardance function of optical variable retarders by Juan M. López-Téllez, Neil C. Bruce, Jesús Delgado-Aguillón, Jesús Garduño-Mejía, and Maximino Avendaño-Alejo. DOI: 10.1119/1.4896078
Diffraction effects in mechanically chopped laser pulses by Samridhi Gambhir, and Mandip Singh. DOI: 10.1119/1.5029821
Optical tweezers for undergraduates: Theoretical analysis and experiments by M. S. Rocha. DOI: 10.1119/1.3138698
Development of a variable spectral-width, wavelength-tunable light source using a superluminescent diode with optical feedback by Fang-Wen Sheu, and Pei-Ling Luo. DOI: 10.1119/1.2907774
Optical Doppler shift measurement using a rotating mirror by Luis Bernal, and Luis Bilbao. DOI: 10.1119/1.2404958
Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields by Angela Dudley, Nombuso Majola, Naven Chetty, and Andrew Forbes. DOI: 10.1119/1.4935354
Optical super-resolution with aperture-function engineering by E. Ramsay, K. A. Serrels, A. J. Waddie, M. R. Taghizadeh, and D. T. Reid. DOI: 10.1119/1.2957887
A low-cost spatial light modulator for use in undergraduate and graduate optics labs by Derek Huang, Henry Timmers, Adam Roberts, Niranjan Shivaram, and Arvinder S. Sandhu. DOI: 10.1119/1.3666834
Optical Tweezers Articles
Resource Letter: LBOT-1: Laser- based optical tweezers by Matthew J. Lang, and Steven M. Block. DOI: 10.1119/1.1532323
Beth’s experiment using optical tweezers by D. N. Moothoo, J. Arlt, R. S. Conroy, F. Akerboom, A. Voit, and K. Dholakia. DOI: 10.1119/1.1309520
Optical tweezers for undergraduates: Theoretical analysis and experiments by M. S. Rocha. DOI: 10.1119/1.3138698
Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory by John Bechhoefer, and Scott Wilson. DOI: 10.1119/1.1445403
Inexpensive optical tweezers for undergraduate laboratories by Stephen P. Smith, Sameer R. Bhalotra, Anne L. Brody, Benjamin L. Brown, Edward K. Boyda, and Mara Prentiss. DOI: 10.1119/1.19187
In situ laser power measurement at the focus of microscope objectives used in optical tweezers by N. B. Viana, M. S. Rocha, and O. N. Mesquita. DOI: 10.1119/1.1819930
The Smallest Tweezers in the World by Alexandre Lewalle. DOI: 10.1119/1.2999061
Exploring Rotations Due to Radiation Pressure: 2-D to 3-D Transition Is Interesting! by Michael A. Waxman. DOI: 10.1119/1.3274356
Mechanics and statistics of the worm-like chain by Andrew Marantan, and L. Mahadevan. DOI: 10.1119/1.5003376
Demonstration experiments on nondiffracting beams generated by thermal light by Lorenzo Basano, and Pasquale Ottonello. DOI: 10.1119/1.1873912
The generation of nondiffracting beams using inexpensive computer-generated holograms by Carlos López-Mariscal, and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega. DOI: 10.1119/1.2359001
An optical levitation system for a physics teaching laboratory by Oscar Isaksson, Magnus Karlsteen, Mats Rostedt, and Dag Hanstorp. DOI: 10.1119/1.5007738
Optical trapping for undergraduates by D. C. Appleyard, K. Y. Vandermeulen, H. Lee, and M. J. Lang. DOI: /10.1119/1.2366734
Generation of Bessel beams using a 4-f spatial filtering system by Jeremy M. D. Kowalczyk, Stefanie N. Smith, and Eric B. Szarmes. DOI: /10.1119/1.3033743
A low-cost spatial light modulator for use in undergraduate and graduate optics labs by Derek Huang, Henry Timmers, Adam Roberts, Niranjan Shivaram, and Arvinder S. Sandhu. DOI: 10.1119/1.3666834
Phase singularities in beams by G. F. Brand. DOI: 10.1119/1.19191
Brownian Ratchets: From Statistical Physics to Bio and Nano-Motors by Harvey S. Leff. DOI: 10.1119/1.4974092
Simulation of a Brownian particle in an optical trap by Giorgio Volpe, and Giovanni Volpe. DOI: 10.1119/1.4772632
Laser tweezers by Kirk T. McDonald. DOI: 10.1119/1.19473
Sequential folding of a rigid wire into three-dimensional structures by Sarah L. Keller. DOI: 10.1119/1.1624117
Orthonormal basis for nonparaxial focused fields in two dimensions, and its application to modeling scattering and optical manipulation of objects by Krista Lombardo, and Miguel A. Alonso. DOI: 10.1119/1.3650694
Remotely controlled laboratories: Aims, examples, and experience by Sebastian Gröber, Martin Vetter, Bodo Eckert, and Hans-Jörg Jodl. DOI: 10.1119/1.2885058
Laser trapping of microscopic particles for undergraduate experiments by Robert Pastel, Allan Struthers, Ryan Ringle, Jeremy Rogers, Charles Rohde, and Peter Geiser. DOI: 10.1119/1.1286048
Interference with polarized light beams: Generation of spatially varying polarization by B. M. Rodríguez-Lara, and I. Ricardez-Vargas. DOI: 10.1119/1.3224761
Measuring Boltzmann's constant through holographic video microscopy of a single colloidal sphere by Bhaskar Jyoti Krishnatreya, Arielle Colen-Landy, Paige Hasebe, Breanna A. Bell, Jasmine R. Jones, Anderson Sunda-Meya, and David G. Grier. DOI: 10.1119/1.4827275
Resource Letter PBM-1: Physics of biomolecular machines by Debashish Chowdhury. DOI: 10.1119/1.3129092
Making optical vortices with computer-generated holograms by Alicia V. Carpentier, Humberto Michinel, José R. Salgueiro, and David Olivieri. DOI: 10.1119/1.2955792
Measuring the refractive index of thin transparent films using an extended cavity diode laser by Christopher Luetjen, Jonathan Hallsted, and Michaela Kleinert. DOI: 10.1119/1.4821551
Design and construction of cost- effective tapered amplifier systems for laser cooling and trapping experiments by Jayampathi C. B. Kangara, Andrew J. Hachtel, Matthew C. Gillette, Jason T. Barkeloo, Ethan R. Clements, Samir Bali, Brett E. Unks, Nicholas A. Proite, Deniz D. Yavuz, Paul J. Martin, Jeremy J. Thorn, and Daniel A. Steck. DOI: 10.1119/1.4867376
Gaussian beams in the optics course by Enrique J. Galvez. DOI: 10.1119/1.2178849
A demonstration of rotating sound waves in free space and the transfer of their angular momentum to matter by Arturo O. Santillán, and Karen Volke-Sepúlveda. DOI: American Journal of Physics 77, 209 (2009); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3056580
Visualizing individual microtubules by bright field microscopy by Braulio Gutiérrez-Medina, and Steven M. Block. DOI: American Journal of Physics 78, 1152 (2010); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3453264
Editor’s choice by Robert H. Romer. DOI: 10.1119/1.1367409
Mechanical force in laser cooling and trapping by Yukiko Shimizu, and Hiroyuki Sasada. DOI: 10.1119/1.19006
Resource Letter PFBi-1: Physical frontiers in biology by Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek. DOI: 10.1119/1.2174054
Quantum thermodynamics and work fluctuations with applications to magnetic resonance by Wellington L. Ribeiro, Gabriel T. Landi, and Fernando L. Semião. DOI: 10.1119/1.4964111
Resource Letter EM-1: Electromagnetic Momentum by David J. Griffiths. DOI: 10.1119/1.3641979
Resource Letter: BEC-1: Bose– Einstein condensates in trapped dilute gases by David S. Hall. DOI: 10.1119/1.1569936
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