Publications
Book chapters
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N. M. Litchinitser and V. M. Shalaev, Optical Metamaterials: Invisibility in Visible and Nonlinearities in Reverse, in Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Vol. 150, edited by C. Denz, S. Flach, and Yu. S. Kivshar (Springer, 2009).
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N. M. Litchinitser and V. M. Shalaev, Negative refraction, The McGraw-Hill 2008 Yearbook of Science & Technology, 230-233.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials in Optics, for Progress in Optics, edited by E. Wolf, V. 51, Chapter 1, pp 1-68 (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Optical solitons," The Handbook of Computer Networks, edited by H. Bidgoli, 861-884 (Wiley, 2007).
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N. M. Litchinitser, M. Sumetsky, and P. S. Westbrook, "Fiber grating tunable dispersion compensation," J. Opt. Fiber. Commun. Rep. 4, 41-85 (2007).
Journal Publications
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Natalia M. Litchinitser, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, Metamaterials: transforming theory into reality, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp.161-9 (2009).
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N. M. Litchinitser and V. M. Shalaev, Loss as a route to transparency, Nature Photonics, Vol. 3, February 2009, pp. 74-75.
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, I. R. Gabitov, R. Z. Sagdeev, and V. M. Shalaev, Metamaterials: electromagnetic enhancement at zero-index transition, OPTICS LETTERS, Vol. 33, No. 20, pp. 2350-52 (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser and V. M. Shalaev, Metamaterials move beyond nature's limits, Optics & Laser Europe, Issue 161, pp. 14-15 (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser and V. M. Shalaev, Photonic metamaterials, Laser Phys. Lett. 5, No. 6, 411-420 (2008).
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A. I. Maimistov, I. R. Gabitov, and N. M. Litchinitser, Solitary Waves in a Nonlinear Oppositely Directed Coupler, Optics and Spectroscopy 104, 253-257 (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, and A. I. Maimistov, Optical bistability in a nonlinear optical coupler with a negative index channel, Phys. Rev. Lett 99, 113902(4) (2007).
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, Effect of an optical negative refractive index thin film on optical bistability, Opt. Lett. 32, 151-153 (2007).
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Antiresonant microstructured Optical Fibers: Theory and Applications," invited, Izv. Russian Academy of Sciences 70, 485 (2006).
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I. Gabitov, R. Indik, N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, V. M. Shalaev, and J. E. Soneson, Double resonant optical materials with embedded metallic nanostructures, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, Special Issue on Metamaterials, 535-542 (2006).
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N. M. Litchinitser and E. Poliakov, Antiresonant guiding microstructured optical fibers for sensing applications, Applied Physics B 81, Special Issue on Photonic Crystals, 347-351 (2005).
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P. Ivanoff Reyes, N. Litchinitser, M. Sumetsky, and P. S. Westbrook, 160-Gb/s Tunable Dispersion Slope Compensator Using a Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating and a Quadratic Heater, IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett., 17, 831 (2005).
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H. G. Winful, M. Ngom, N. M. Litchinitser, Relation between quantum tunneling times for relativistic particles, Phys. Rev. A 70, 052112 (2004).
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N. M. Litchinitser, S. C. Dunn, P. E. Steinvurzel, B. J. Eggleton, T. P. White, R. C. McPhedran, and C. M. de Sterke, Application of an ARROW model for designing tunable photonic devices, Opt. Express 12, 1540-1550 (2004).
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S. A. Ponomarenko, N. M. Litchinitser, and G. P. Agrawal, Theory of incoherent optical solitons: Beyond the mean-field approximation, Phys. Rev. E 70, Rapid Commun., 015603(R)-4 (2004).
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P. I. Reyes, M. Sumetsky, N. M. Litchinitser, and P. S. Westbrook, Reduction of group delay ripple of multi-channel chirped fiber gratings using adiabatic UV correction, Opt. Express 12, 2676-2687 (2004).
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M. Sumetsky, N. M. Litchinitser, P. S.Westbrook, P. I.Reyes, B. J.Eggleton, Y. Li, R. Deshmukh, C. Soccolich, F. Rosca, J. Bennike, F. Liu, and S. Dey, High-performance 40 Gbit/s fiber Bragg grating tunable dispersion compensator fabricated using group delay ripple correction technique, Electron. Lett. 39, 1196-1198 (2003).
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M. Sumetsky, P. I. Reyes, P. S. Westbrook, N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, Y. Li, R. Deshmukh, and C. Soccolich, Group delay ripple correction in chirped fiber Bragg gratings, Opt. Lett. 28, 777-779 (2003).
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N. M. Litchinitser, S. C. Dunn, B. Usner, B. J. Eggleton, T. P. White, R. C. McPhedran, and C. M. de Sterke, Resonances in microstructured optical waveguides, Opt. Express 11, 1243 (2003).
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A. K. Abeeluck, N. M. Litchinitser, C. Headley, and B. J. Eggleton, Analysis of spectral characteristics of photonic bandgap waveguides, Opt. Express 10, 1320-1333 (2002).
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T. P. White, R.C. McPhedran, C. M. de Sterke, N. M. Litchinitser, A. K. Abeeluck, C. Headley, and B. J. Eggleton, Resonances and scattering in microstructured optical fibers, Opt. Lett. 27, 1977-1979 (2002).
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. K. Abeeluck, C. Headley, and B. J. Eggleton, Antiresonant reflecting photonic crystal optical waveguides, Opt. Lett. 27, 1592-1594 (2002).
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B. J. Eggleton, G. Lenz, N. M. Litchinitser, Optical Pulse Compression Schemes That Use Nonlinear Bragg Gratings, Fiber And Integrated Optics 19, 383-421 (2000).
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N. M. Litchinitser, C. J. McKinstrie, C. M. de Sterke, and G. P. Agrawal, Spatial-temporal instabilities in nonlinear bulk media with a Bragg grating, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 45-54 (2000).
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N. M. Litchinitser, W. Królikowski, N. N. Akhmediev, and G. P. Agrawal, Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media, Phys. Rev. E 60, 2377-2380 (1999).
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, C. M. de Sterke, A.B. Aceves, and G. P. Agrawal, Interaction of Bragg solitons in fiber gratings, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 18-23 (1999).
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N. M. Litchinitser, G. P. Agrawal, B. J. Eggleton, and G. Lenz, High-repetition-rate soliton-train generation using fiber Bragg gratings, Opt. Express 3, 411-417 (1998).
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B. J. Eggleton, G. Lenz, R. E. Slusher, and N. M. Litchinitser, Compression of optical pulses spectrally broadened by self-phase modulation with a fiber Bragg grating in transmission, Appl. Opt. 37, 7055-7061 (1998).
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, and G. P. Agrawal, Dispersion of cascaded fiber gratings in WDM lightwave systems, J. of Lightwave Technol. 16, 1523-1529 (1998).
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G. Lenz, B. J. Eggleton, and N. M. Litchinitser, Pulse compression using fiber gratings as highly dispersive nonlinear elements, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 15, 715-721 (1998).
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B. J. Eggleton, G. Lenz, N. M. Litchinitser, D. B. Patterson, and R. E. Slusher, Implications of fiber grating dispersion for WDM communication systems, IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 9, 1403-1405 (1997).
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, and D. B. Patterson, Fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in transmission: Theoretical model and design criteria for nearly ideal pulse recompression, J. of Lightwave Technol. 15, 1303-1313 (1997).
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N. M. Litchinitser and D. B. Patterson, Analysis of fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in reflective and transmissive geometries, J. of Lightwave Technol. 15, 1323-1328 (1997).
Invited Talks and Seminars
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Photonic Metamaterials," Invited Lecture, The Nonlinear Waves School, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Optics," Graduate Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser, "From positive- to negative-index materials: Transitional Phenomena," The 38th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah (2008).
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, "Ambidextrous light in a nonlinear left-handed world," SPIE Optics & Photonics Conference, Photonic Metamaterials Workshop, San Diego, California 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, "Bistability and multistability in negative index metamaterial structures," Laser Physics Workshop, Leon, Mexico 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, "Nonlinear optics in negative index materials," ICONO/LAT 2007, Minsk, Belarus, 2007.
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C.-H. Liu, G. Chang, N. Litchinister, D. Guertin, N. Jacobson, K. Tankala, A. Galvanauskas, "Chirally Coupled Core Fibers at 1550-nm and 1064-nm for Effectively Single-Mode Core Size Scaling," CLEO’07, Baltimore, May 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev,"Nonlinear transmission of layered structures containing negative index materials," 1st European Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, Seefeld, Austria, 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University of Arizona, Tucson 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Chirally Coupled Core Very Large Mode Area Fibers: Basic Concepts and Modeling," ARO Workshop on Numerical Modeling, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2006.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, Laser Physics Workshop’06, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2006.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006.
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Antiresonant guiding microstructured optical fibers: theory and applications," Plenary Talk, PECS 2005, Kaliningrad, Russia 2005.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 2005.
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N. M. Litchinitser, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2005.
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N. M. Litchinitser, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2005.
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N. M. Litchinitser, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2004.
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Nonlinear Response of an Optical Medium with Embedded Metallic Nanospheres," SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures Conference, Orlando, FL, Oct. 2-5, 2004, MS3.
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N. M. Litchinitser, S. C. Dunn, P. E. Steinvurzel, B. J. Eggleton, T. P. White, R. C. McPhedran, and C. M. de Sterke, "Microstructured fibers with high index inclusions," Laser Physics Workshop’04, Trieste, Italy, July 2004.
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M. Sumetsky, N. M. Litchinitser, P. S. Westbrook, P. J. Lemaire, Y.Li, C. Soccolich, and B. J. Eggleton, "Manufacture of high-performance fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation," OFC 2004.
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N. M. Litchinitser, "Photonic crystals: from Bragg gratings to microstructured fibers," Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2003.
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N. M. Litchinitser, S. C. Dunn, B. J. Eggleton, T. P. White, R. C. McPhedran, and C. M. de Sterke "Microstructured optical waveguides: so complex yet so simple," IEEE Topical Meeting on "Holey fibers and photonic crystals", Vancouver, Canada July 13-16th, 2003.
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N. M. Litchinitser, M. Sumetsky, Y. Li, P. S. Westbrook, and B. J. Eggleton, "Tunable dispersion compensation devices: Group delay ripple and system performance," OFC 2003, Atlanta, GA, Paper TuD2.
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G. Lenz, B. J. Eggleton, and N. M. Litchinitser, "Novel pulse compression schemes based on nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings," Bragg gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Waveguides Topical Meeting, Florida, September 23-25, 1999.
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N. M. Litchinitser, Princeton University, 1999.
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B. J. Eggleton, R. E. Slusher, N. M. Litchinitser, G. P. Agrawal, and C. M. de Sterke, "Experimental observation of interaction of Bragg solitons," IQEC’98 Technical Digest, paper QTuJ5.
Contributed Conference Papers
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, I. R. Gabitov, V. M. Shalaev, From positive- to negative-index materials: Transitional Phenomena, CLEO/QELS 2008.
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, I. R. Gabitov, "Optical bistability in a nonlinear optical coupler with a negative index channel," Photonic Metamaterials: From Random to Periodic (META) 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, and I. R. Gabitov, "Transmission and reflection in negative index metamaterial waveguiding structures," Photonic Metamaterials: From Random to Periodic, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 2007.
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C.-H. Liu, G. Chang, N. Litchinitser, A. Galvanauskas, D. Guertin, N. Jacobson, K. Tankala, "Effectively single-mode chirally-coupled core fiber," Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Vancouver, Canada 2007.
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N. M. Litchinitser, I. R. Gabitov, A. I. Maimistov, and V. M. Shalaev, "Nonlinear transmission in layered structures containing thin film of negative index material," IMA Workshop on Negative Index Materials, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2-4, 2006.
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I. R. Gabitov, N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov, "Reflection and transmission at a nonlinear interface with thin transition layer of negative index material," The Nanophotonics (NANO) Topical Meeting, Uncasville, Connecticut, April 26-28, 2006, NFB3.
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I. R. Gabitov, N. M. Litchinitser, A. I. Maimistov," Nonlinear surface waves in negative refractive index thin films," CLEO/QELS, Long Beach, California, May 21-26, 2006, JThC18.
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N. M. Litchinitser, E. Poliakov "Refractometric sensor based on antiresonant-guiding microstructured optical fibers," Frontiers in Optics, Tucson, AZ Oct. 16-20, 2005, FWO6.
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N. M. Litchinitser, J. R. Valenzuela, H. G. Winful, "Delay time and the Hartman effect in double-barrier tunneling," Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY Oct. 10-14, 2004, FTuJ2.
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J. Soneson, I. R. Gabitov, R. Indik, N. M. Litchinitser, A. Maimistov, V. M. Shalaev, "Solitary wave solutions of the Maxwell-Duffing equation: light interaction with plasmonic oscillations in metallic nanoparticles," SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent structures, Orlando, FL, Oct. 2-5, 2004, MS3.
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I. R. Gabitov, K. Turitsyn, R. Indik, N. M. Litchinitser, A. Maimistov, V. M. Shalaev, J. Soneson, "Electrodynamics of ultra-short optical pulses in an active medium containing metallic nanoparticles," SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent structures, Orlando, FL, Oct. 2-5, 2004.
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J. Soneson, I. R. Gabitov, R. Indik, V. M. Shalaev, N. M. Litchinitser, A. Maimistov, "Self induced transparency in media with embedded metallic nanoparticles", SIAM Conference, Portland, OR, July 12, 2004.
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I. R. Gabitov, R. Indik, V. M. Shalaev, N. M. Litchinitser, A. Maimistov, J. Soneson, K. Turitsyn, "Electrodynamics of active media with embedded metallic nanoparticles", SIAM Conference, Portland, OR, July 12, 2004.
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P. I. Reyes, N. Litchinitser, R. Deshmukh, D. Kudelko, M. Sumetsky, and P. S. Westbrook, "Tunable dispersion slope compensator using a chirped fiber Bragg grating and a nonlinear temperature profile," OFC 2004.
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M. Sumetsky, P. Westbrook, P. Reyes, N. Litchinitser, B. Eggleton, Y. Li, R. Deshmukh, C. Soccolich, F. Rosca, J. Bennike, F. Liu, S. Dey, "Reduction of chirped fiber grating group delay ripple penalty through UV post processing," OFC 2003, Atlanta, GA, Postdeadline Paper PD28.
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N. M. Litchinitser, S. C. Dunn, B. Usner, B. J. Eggleton, T.P. White, R.C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, "Resonances and modal cutoff in microstructured optical waveguides," OFC 2003, Atlanta GA, Paper ThI4.
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Y. Li, B. Zhu, C. Soccolich, L. Nelson, N. Litchinitser, G. Hancsin, "Multi-channel high-performance tunable dispersion compensator for 40Gb/s transmission systems," OFC 2003, Atlanta, GA, Paper TuL4.
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T. P. White, R. C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, N. M. Litchinitser, A. K. Abeeluck, C. Headley, B.J. Eggleton, "Resonances and scattering in microstructured optical fibers," OSA Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 2002, Paper ThII7.
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N. M. Litchinitser, A. K. Abeeluck, C. Headley and B. J. Eggleton, "Simple model for photonic bandgap microstructured optical fibers," QELS 2002, Paper JThA2.
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A. K. Abeeluck, N. M. Litchinitser, C. Headley and B. J. Eggleton,"Modeling of transmission spectra in photonic bandgap waveguides", QELS 2002, Paper JThA5.
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T. Her, J. C. Bouteiller, C. Jorgensen, K. Feder, P. Steinvurzel, D. Patel, N. Litchinitser, P. Westbrook, L. Nelson, C. Headley, B. Eggleton, "Enhanced 40-Gbit/s receiver sensitivity with all-fiber optical 2R regenerator," CLEO 2002, Paper CThO42.
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D. G. Duff, F. Heismann, N. Litchinitser, M. F. Arend, E. Golovchenko, M. Nissov, "Impact of spectral hole burning on long haul WDM transmission system performance", in Optical Amplifiers and Their Application, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2001), pp. OMD2.
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E. A. Putrina, N. M. Litchinitser, C. J. McKinstrie, and G. P. Agrawal, "Modulational instability in bulk periodic structures: Numerical results," CLEO/QELS’00, May 7-12, 2000.
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N. M. Litchinitser, C. M de Sterke, T. I. Lakoba, and G. P. Agrawal, "Spatial-temporal instability in volume nonlinear periodic structures," OSA Annual Meeting’99, September 26-30, 1999, WLL99.
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G. Lenz, B. J. Eggleton, N. M. Litchinitser, M. E. Lines, R. E. Slusher, J. S. Sanghera, and I. D. Aggarwal, "Soliton pulse compression in chalcogenide fiber Bragg gratings," Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications’99, Dijon, France, September 1-3, 1999.
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N. M. Litchinitser, W. Królikowski, N. N. Akhmediev, and G. P. Agrawal, "Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media," QELS’99, Baltimore, May 23-28, 1999, QTuI4.
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T. Erdogan, D. Stegall, A. Heaney, N. Litchinitser, "Direct single-mode fiber to free space coupling assisted by a cladding mode," OFC'99, San Diego, CA, paper FK4.
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, C. M. de Sterke, A. B. Aceves, and G. P. Agrawal, "Propagation, interaction, and collisions of Bragg solitons," OSA Annual Meeting’98, Baltimore, MD, paper ThNN1
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, G. Lenz, and G. P. Agrawal, "Dispersion in cascaded-grating-based add/drop filters," CLEO’98 Technical Digest, paper CThO15.
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G. Lenz, B. J. Eggleton, and N. M. Litchinitser, "Optical pulse compression using self-phase modulation in a Bragg grating," CLEO’98 Technical Digest, paper CTuM50.
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N. M. Litchinitser, B. J. Eggleton, C. M. de Sterke, and G. P. Agrawal, "Interaction of Bragg solitons in fiber gratings: Numerical results", Workshop on Novel Solitons and Nonlinear Periodic Structures, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 1998.
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N. M. Litchinitser and D. B. Patterson, "Transmission-based fiber Bragg grating dispersion compensators: analysis and design optimization," OSA Annual Meeting’96, Rochester, NY, October 1996.
