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Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers & Spectroscopy 1993 Melbourne, 6 - 10 December The Australian Optical Society (AOS) has digitised the contents/index pages of this conference*. The conference volume contains the individual papers, and is held by one or more libraries in Australia; please refer to the website: http://optics.org.au/AOS-Conference

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MONDAY 6 DECEMBER

C Cohen-Tannoudji Geoffrey Frew Lecture: Manipulating atoms with photons

36

Atom Optics

DF Walls Atomic optics 37

GI Opat Recent developments in atom optics 38

BW Stenlake, ICM Littler, H-A Bachor, KGH Baldwin & DE McClelland

Evidence for diffraction of excited state atomic de Broglie waves from an evanescent light grating

39

JE Murphy, LCL Hollenberg & AE Smith

Doppleron resonance in the diffraction of atoms by an evanescent field

40

W Zhang & BC Sanders Quantum tunelling of atoms through laser beams 41

Fibre Optics and Sensors

MG Sceats Photoviscous annealing: the dynamics and stability of photorefractivity in optical fibres

42

EE Tapanes & PL Rossiter Practical application of fibre optic sensors to engineered structures for real-time, non-destructive evaluation using a composite material patch

43

AP Mazzolini, D Uttamchandi & JD Chalmers

A low-profile silicon micro resonator suitable for surface microstrain measurement

44

CH Kwak, KH Kim & E-H Lee Growth dynamics of Bragg phase gratings in photosensitive optical fibers

45

DJ Butler, KA Nugent, A Horsfall & A Roberts

Application of near-field scanning optical microscopy to optical fibres

46

New Laser Sources and Devices 1

DJW Brown & DW Coutts High beam quality, high average power pulsed laser sources

47

RC Tobin, KA Peard, K Rosza & Z Donko

Towards a continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet laser 48

KA Ahmed & HF Liu Generation of ultra-short (~310 fs) pulses from a semiconductor laser using the soliton-effect pulse compression technique

49

J Richards & A Mclnnes Miniature diode pumped zig-zag slab laser suitable for remote sensing

50

Molecular Spectroscopy 1

WD Lawrance Vibrational energy transfer in aromatics 51


MR Cameron & SH Kable Spectroscopy and dynamics of unstable species: the electronic spectroscopy of jet-cooled CF2

52

KL Poel, ZT Alwahabi & K D King Time-resolved infrared fluorescence studies of the collisional deactivation of CO2 and N2O

53

AJ Bradley, KW Butz & AEW Knight

Rotational contour spectroscopy of para-fluorotoluene 54

POSTER SESSION 1

B Lohmann & S Fritzsche Absolute Auger rates, relative intensities, and angular distribution of the KLL spectra of Auger electrons from alkali atoms

55

B Lohmann & FP Larkins Intrinsic spin polarization parameters of Auger electrons from the rare gases of isotropic Auger multiplets

56

M Soltanolkotabi Quadratic Stark constant of neutral copper spectral lines in the Coulomb approximation

57

P Storer Diamond-like and graphitic amorphous carbon: comparison by electron momentum spectroscopy

58

C Gibson, S Bell & B Lohmann Coplanar symmetric triple differential cross section measurements in argon at intermediate energies

59

AT Masters, RL Pascaul, WR MacGillivray & MC Standage

Laser assisted coincidence studies on mercury 60

BV Hall, WR MacGillivray & MC Standage

Spectroscopic investigation of the 5P1/2, 5P3/2 and 7D3/2 excited levels of atomic rubidium

61

MP Fewell The absorption of arbitrarily polarized light by atoms and molecules

62

YH Ja & X Dai An experimental study of an S-shaped two-coupler optical fibre ring resonator

63

YH Ja Optical multiple stability in a fibre double-ring resonator using degenerate two-wave mixing

64

YH Ja On the existence condition for bistability in a one coupler optical fibre ring resonator by using degenerate two-wave mixing

65

YH Ja Phase sensitivity of an optical fibre loop resonator using a collinear 3 x 3 coupler

66

ALG Carter, GR Atkins & MG Sceats

Nonlinear photodarkening in terbium(III) doped optical fibres

67

PM Farrell Amplified spontaneous emission and the modelling of erbium doped fibre amplifiers

68

W Krolikowski & U Trutschel Soliton-like optical switching in circular nonlinear fibre array

69

H Fatemi & CJR Sheppard Topographic studies of reflecting surfaces by means of a single-mode optical fibre

70

G Andersen & J Munch Holographically corrected, large optics for a space telescope and lidar receiver

71

DL Death & JE Eberhardt Long path atmospheric monitoring of hydrogen fluoride 72

MD Atkinson & TW Hamilton Atmospheric emissions monitoring using open path FTIR 73

J Torrealba, CE Fairchild, PL Dyson & RJ McLean

Diode laser heterodyne spectroscopy of six O2 A-band transitions

74

B Mann & F White Comparison of LIF and DFWM detection of nitrogen dioxide

75


WR Philp, DJ Booth & ND Perry A model for laser induced excitation of vibration in structures using intensities below the surface ablation threshold

76

M Samoc, A Samoc, M Woodruff & B Luther-Davies

Molecular basis of light-induced refractive index changes in materials for propagation of spatial dark solitons

77

ML Ginter, C Herring & JG Eden Rotationally resolved Ryberg-Rydberg transitions in the Ar2 molecule

78

RJN Durand, WK Fullagar, IR Gentle, GA Heath & JW White

Features of the NIR-visible-UV spectra of C60 anions in solution

79

E Robertson & D McNaughton Far IR spectra of asymmetric tops 80

E Robertson & D McNaughton FTIR spectra of gases in a molecular beam 81

R Tay, GF Metha & D McNaughton

The determination of the structure of diacetylene from high resolution FTIR spectroscopy

82

C Evans & D McNaughton An analysis of the infrared and far-infrared spectrum of methyl isocyanide

83

FM Rodgers, RD Brown, PD Godfrey & JG Crofts

Determination of oxygenate additives in gasoline by microwave absorption spectroscopy

84

S McGlone, PD Godfrey & RD Brown

The electric dipole moment of indole 85

S Lane, V Szalay, D McNaughton, PD Godfrey & RD Brown

Infrared spectrum of formamide 86

PD Godfrey, LD Hatherley, S Firth & RD Brown

Microwave spectrum and structure of alanine 87

L Hatherley, RD Brown & PD Godfrey

The shape of phenylethylamine by rotational spectroscopy

88

MA Mekhtiev, DM Cragg, KP Johns & PD Godfrey

Line strengths in the microwave and far infrared spectra of methanol and acetaldehyde

89

KP Johns, PD Godfrey, MA Mekhtiev & DM Cragg

The torsional dipole moment function for methanol 90

DM Cragg, KP Johns, PD Godfrey & RD Brown

Pumping the interstellar methanol masers 91

J Zeng, JS Craw, NS Hush & JR Reimers

The relationship between solvent structure and solvent effects on molecular and ionic spectra

92

TX Lu, JR Reimers, MJ Crossley & NS Hush

Spectroscopic probes of the electronic coupling in 1,4,5,8—tetraazaanthracene-bridged linear porphyrin oligomers

93

SJ Cooper Systematic errors in gain and saturation irradiance measurements

94

CC Harb, MB Gray, H-A Bachor, R Schilling, P Rottengatter, I Freitag & H Welling

Suppression of the intensity noise in a diode-pumped neodymium:YAG nonplanar ring laser

95

Y Wang & B Luther-Davies Novel frequency doubling system for high power lasers 96

AM Weigold Soft x-ray pumping of atoms to produce short wavelength laser output

97

J Richards & A Mclnnes CW pumped, high repetition rate diode pumped zig-zag slab laser

98

J Richards, A Mclnnes & A Pfeiffer Compact eye safe Raman laser development 99

A Mclnnes & J Richards Scalable, efficient, Raman conversion of SLM Nd:YAG

laser to 1.92m

100


RM Hentschel, J G Haub & BJ Orr Stimulated Raman scattering at low pressures and enhancement by OPO seeding

101

RM Hentsehel, RJ Carman & JA Piper

A rectangular bore discharge-excited Sr+ recombination laser

102

DJW Brown, DS Knowles & DW Coutts

Miniature copper vapour lasers: characterisation and frequency conversion

103

P Dekker, J M Dawes, I Mendes, D Knowles & JA Piper

Single longitudinal mode solid state lasers 104

KE Osgood & JA Piper Operating characteristics of copper HyBrID lasers 105

MY Li & NR Heckenberg Statistical aspects of NH, FIR Laser-Lorenz chaos 106

T Win, MY Li, JT Malos, NR Heckenberg & CO Weiss

Determination of Lorenz-Haken laser parameters via comparison of the transient emission of a NH3 ring laser with the Lorenz-Haken model

107

D Airey Gain measurements and transverse gain profiles in a sodium-dimer laser

108

R Dykstra & RG McDuff Self-defocussing effects of chlorophyll: a case of a thermally induced optical nonlinearity

109

B Wielinga & G Milburn Tunneling behaviour in a cavity containing a Kerr medium and a parametric pump

110

A Liebman & GJ Milburn Noise reduction in a micromaser with feedback 111

PM Jeffrey, SW James, RW Eason, PJ Chandler, L Zhang & PD Townsend

Dose dependent properties of ion-implanted waveguides in photorefractive BaTiO3

112

W Yu, W Krolikowski, B Luther-Davies, M Webster & M Austin

Guided beam amplification and phase conjugation in a planar photorefractive waveguide

113

H Giordano, B Luther-Davies, AV Rode & Y Wang

An optical parametric oscillator and a high power optical parametric amplification system

114

M Fernée & PD Drummond A microscopic theory of the dielectric 115

Q Li, BW Stenlake, ICM Littler, H-A Bachor, KGH Baldwin & DE McClelland

Doppleron resonance of atoms interacting with a strong standing laser field

116

MD Bott, KGH Baldwin & H-A Bachor

Quantum mechanical interference in nonlinear optical processes in sodium

117

WG Wang & YS Chen Loss measurements of laser resonant cavity 118

D Anderson & PA Wilksch Measuring the flatness of etalon plates 119

GG Voevodkin Wavelength division multiplexing in optical transmission, processing and optical computing

120

H Zhou, M Gu & CJR Sheppard Investigation of aberration measurement in confocal microscopy

121

XS Gan & CJR Sheppard Imaging with finite Fresnel number 122

CJR Sheppard Focussing by optical systems of high aperture 123

MA Hrynevych, DJ Butler, A Horsfall, KA Nugent & A Roberts

A scanning near-field optical microscope with optical distance control

124

A Horsfall, DJ Butler, A Roberts, KA Nugent & M Hrynevych

Theoretical and experimental studies of optical near-field probes

125

KA Nugent, SN Dixit, JK Lawson, KR Manes & HT Powell

Kinoform phase plates for focal plane irradiance profile control

126

MR Arnison, CJ Cogswell, KG Larkin & JW O’Byrne

A multiple optical mode confocal laser scanning microscope: II. Transmission image acquisition, analysis and 3-D visualisation

127


KG Larkin, CJ Cogswell, JW O’Byrne & MR Arnison

A multiple optical mode confocal laser scanning microscope: III. Theoretical aspects of transmission confocal microscopy

128

BA Nott, EW Dearden, NReckenberg, V Rudolph & YO Chong

The fluctuation spectrum in microwave signals backscattered from a fluidised bed

129

DJ Zhou, G Qiu, CH Fu, ZZ Huang & QX Li

Optical dephasing of localised exciton in a-Si1-xCx:H 130

T Boonyarith, JPD Martin & NB Manson

Superhyperfine resonances in trigonal (C3) centre of Ho3+ in CaF2

131

JPD Martin, T Boonyarith & NB Manson

Optical/rf double resonances in YLiF4:Ho3+ 132

J Lekner Optics of crystals and crystalline layers 133

AHA Clayton & KP Ghiggino Spectroscopy of novel electron transfer molecules 134

AG Peele, BE Allman, V Cucevic,A Nugent, S Wilkins & HN Chapman

Square capillary x-ray optics 135

A Yu Nikulin, TE Goureev, H Hashizume & PV Petrashen

X-ray optical method for reconstruction of two-dimensional elastic deformation fields

136

TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER

TW Hansch Plenary Lecture (Sponsored by Coherent Scientific): High resolution spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen

138

HW Kroto Plenary Lecture: Chemistry, physics and materials science studies of fullerenes

Atom and Ion Cooling

PTH Fisk, C Coles & MA Lawn Progress towards a microwave frequency standard based on trapped, laser-cooled 171Yb+ ions

140

WJ Rowlands, AI Sidorov, GI Opat, RJ McLean & P Hannaford

Laser trapping and cooling experiments on atomic caesium

141

AB Coates, P Verkerk, D Meacher, B Lounis, J-Y Courtois, G Grynberg, C Salomon & C Cohen-Victoria Tannoudji

Localised atomic motion in a 3-D optical potential 142

AI Sidorov, R Grimm, J Soding & Yu B Ovchinnikov

Sub-Doppler manifestation of the magneto-optical radiation force

143

R.D. Brown Symposium

D McNaughton High resolution spectroscopy and theoretical predictions in the analysis of molecules undergoing large amplitude motions - a holistic approach

144

JB Peel Molecular orbitals: from fantasy to fact 145

R Champion Nonrigid molecules revisited 146

DP Craig A brief call at a holy place - the Born-Oppenheimer principle

147

AEW Knight PLENARY LECTURE - R.D. BROWN SYMPOSIUM (cont): Spectroscopic applications of laser ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

148

Nonlinear and Quantum Optics 1

PD Drummond, W Man & J Breslin

Interactions of quantum solitons in fibres 149

V Tikhonenko Dark spatial soliton propagation in saturable media 150

R.D. Brown Symposium (cont)


PD Godfrey The untimely death of microwave absorption spectroscopy

151

PG Burton Commercialising technology in the Australian marketplace

152

Nonlinear and Quantum Optics 1 (cont)

WJ Sandle, B Riihricht, U Rusch, P Eschle & R Holzner

Cross-polarisation in laser propagation through sodium vapour

153

C Wei, NB Manson & JPD Martin Two- and three-level system interacting with strong electromagnetic fields: a review of our recent experimental investigations

154

NR Heckenberg, A Labate, R Meucci & FT Arecchi

Switch-on transients in the 119 m CH3OH laser 155

PB Chapple, J Staromlynska, JA Hermann & RG McDuff

Z-scan and optical limiting with thin and thick samples 156

AC Wilson, WJ Sandle, DM Warrington, RJ Ballagh & AW McCord

Controlling formation of optical spatial patterns with a magnetic field

157

Techniques in Optics and Photonics

WE James Testing aspheric surfaces: some recent work at James Optics

158

S Rees & J Staromlynska Automatic laser light detection and filtering using a liquid crystal tunable Lyot filter

159

DJ Fotheringham, B Luther-Davies, M Samok, A Samok & M Woodruff

Optical switching with dark solitons in media with thermal non-linearity

160

EG Gamaly Surface wave propagation along the boundary of a medium with an anisotropic electric properties

161

A Roberts Evanescent fields: their detection and application to atomic optics

162

HW Kroto Public Lecture: Buckminsterfullerene, the celestial sphere that fell to Earth

163

WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER

A Mooradian Plenary Lecture: Military laser research: from strategic defense to commercial reality

165

EA Hinds Self-energy in confined space: measurements of van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces in a micron-sized cavity

166


GJ Milburn & HM Wiseman All optical quantum limited feedback 167

MW Hamilton An analogy between multiphoton absorption and propagation of coherence

168

JA Hermann & PJ Wilson Optical limiting and scanning with nonlinearly refracting and absorbing materials

169

PJ Edwards Electron photon manipulation with wired optics 170


J Zeng, JS Craw, NS Hush & JR Reimers

Interpretation of 1(n,*) solvent shifts in terms of hydrogen-bond structures

171

G Fischer The grass in radiationless transitions 172

DJ Haines, TA Smith, GJ Wilson & KP Ghiggino

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy applied to energy transfer studies of macromolecular systems

173

JE Barton, J Comerford, G Heard, J Ivanic, CJ Marsden & BA Smart

Vibrational spectroscopy ab initio 174


New Laser Sources and Devices 2

B Couillaud Recent developments in ultrashort pulse technology 175

R Leonhardt & N Gottfried fs-pulses by compression of ps-pulses from an APM-Nd-YAG laser

176

J Martin, Y Zhao, S Balle, K Bergmann & MP Fewell

Visible-wavelength diode laser with weak frequency-shifted optical feedback

177

AP Willis & DM Kane Frequency modulation induced coherence collapse in FM diode lasers

178

Imaging

J Davis The Sydney University stellar interferometer - status and first results

179

T Goureev, KA Nugent & A Roberts

On the uniqueness of phase retrieval by the transport of intensity equation

180

CJ Cogswell, KG Larkin, MR Arnison & JW O’Byrne

A multiple optical mode confocal laser scanning microscope: I. System design and applications

181

DF Abbott & KA Nugent Quantitative 3D widefield microscopy: characterisation and limitations

182

POSTER SESSION 2

PL Larkins & P Hannaford Precision energies and hyperfine structures of the 5s5p 3P0,1,2 and 5s5p 3S1 levels in In II

183

DS Gough, P Hannaford & A Wannstrom

High resolution laser spectroscopy on yttrium ions in a sputtered vapour

184

DS Gough, P Hannaford, RM Lowe & A-M Martensson-Pendrill

Characterisation of the 369.4nm 62S1/2-62P1/2 laser cooling transition in Yb+

185

E Biémont & RM Lowe Radiative lifetimes and transition probabilities in Na I 186

E Biémont, P Quinet, P Palmeri & JW Brault

FTS analysis of Ar and Ne spectra in the infrared region 187

E Biémont, R Gebarowski & CJ Zeippen

Resonance transitions in neutral chlorine 188

E Biémont & CJ Zeippen Theoretical radiative lifetimes of 3p3(4S°)4s 5S° and 3S° states in S I

189

B Sauer, EA Hinds & J Wang YbF - a new way to measure the electron electric dipole moment

190

SN Stuart Failure of average Hamiltonian theory in spectroscopy 191

EE Tapanes, J Goode & PL Rossiter

Development of silica and fluoride fibre optic chemical sensors based on evanescent wave spectroscopy

192

EE Tapanes, A Hill, J Goode & PL Rossiter

Real-time, in-situ cure monitoring of epoxy resins using a fibre optic sensor based on FTIR and AOIR spectroscopy

193

EE Tapanes, N Pandelidis, J Movrin, J Williams & PL Rossiter

The use of fibre optic multimode interferometers for in-situ vibration monitoring of concrete beams

194

PA Wilksch Computer generated Fresnel holograms 195

T Burt, PA Wilksch & S Grist Determination of mechanical pulp content in paper by factor analysis of infrared spectra

196

A Thomas, P Barker, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop & RJ Stalker

Planar laser induced fluorescence studies of NO in hypersonic flow

197

P Barker, A Thomas & H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Resonant degenerate four wave mixing: a study of pressure dependence in I2

198

C Stewart, C D’Helon, EW Dearden, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop & NR Heckenberg

Optical tweezers 199


BF Oreb & R Dorsch Talbot self-imaging for projected fringe profilometry 200

KL Poel & KD King Surface deactivation of vibrationally excited small polyatomics

201

PB Chapple Beam profiling and M2 measurement using a scanning slit

202

PB Chapple, JA Hermann & J Staromlynska

The Z-scan technique for the measurement of optical nonlinearities

203

JA Hermann, A Wedd, G Sorell & J Thomas

A statistical model for laser safety analysis 204

J Staromlynska, PB Chapple & JR Davy

A platinum ethynyl compound as a promising material for optical limiting

205

J Staromlynska, MP Gillyon & S Rees

Electro-optic tuning of a dye laser using a liquid crystal Lyot filter

206

B Fechner & H Endert Excimer laser - a reliable tool for microprocessing and surface treatment in industry

207

DF Karabaic, DJ Ramsay, ACJ Glover & JA Piper

Visible micromachining using a copper vapour laser 208

SE French, DS Knowles, JM Dawes & JA Piper

Copper vapour laser pumped Cr Nd garnets 209

DG Lancaster, JM Dawes, DS Knowles & JA Piper

A mid infra-red remote sensing system 210

V Sudesh, D Knowles, JA Piper, RS Seymour & I Powell

Diode pumped mid-infrared laser materials development

211

GM Walker & RJS Morrison Thermal modelling of laser ablation: a versatile tool for solids sampling

212

V Cucevic, KA Nugent, AG Klein & A Brooks

Image analysis using a confocal laser scanning ophthalmoscope in early detection of glaucoma

213

RI Trickett, DS Knowles, JM Dawes, P Dekker & E Owen

Diode pumped Tm:YAG laser for microsurgical tissue welding

214

MD Waterworth, B Tarte, A Joblin & T van Doorn

Laser-based instrumentation for medical diagnoses at visible wavelengths

215

GJ Troup, G Agati, F Fusi & R Praseti

Explaining the quantum yield of asymmetric bilirubin 216

VP Pashinin, PP Pashinin, EJ Shklovsky, VV Tumorin, G Muller & J Helfman

New alternative for lithotripsy; long-pulse solid state laser with a fiber based resonator

217

EJ Shklovsky Development of pulsed repetition rate solid state lasers with phase-conjugating mirrors in General Physics Institute, Moscow

218

AL Jones, AJ Blake, L Torop & DG McCoy

An investigation of the photo-dissociation of molecular oxygen in the 75 to 80 nm region

219

W Qin, DG McCoy, L Torop & AJ Blake

Pre-dissociation of diatomic molecules: transition from diabatic to adiabatic case

220

P Wormell & JE Gready Electronic spectra of some pterins and deazapterins 221

P Wormell, AR Lacey, LIK Ryanrand DM Wynn-Hatton

The electronic spectrum of l,2,3-triazine 222

AC Terentis, PT Knepp & SH Kable The 308nm photolysis of acetaldehyde: LIF spectroscopy of the formyl radical photoproduct

223

GF Metha, DC McGilvery, RJS Morrison & MF O’Dwyer

Vibrational structure of electronic emission spectra when the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down

224


TE Meehan & FP Larkins Ab initio calculations on the x-ray emission spectra of N2O Rydberg states. Part I: Oxygen K spectra

225

TR Walsh & FP Larkins Calculations of x-ray emission spectra for the OCS molecule

226

J McColl & FP Larkins Calculations of resonant Auger and x-ray spectra for CH4 227

SS Banerjee, PM Dooley, BR Lewis, KGH Baldwin & ST Gibson

Laser spectroscopic measurements of isotopic effects in the longest band of O2

228

PM Dooley, BR Lewis, KGH Baldwin & ST Gibson

Narrow bandwidth VUV laser measurements of tine-structure predissociation linewidths in the Schumann-Runge bands of O2

229

L Dubicki, J Kelly, E Krausz & R Stranger

Single crystal polarized Raman spectroscopy of Cs3Mo2Cl9 and Cs3Mo2Br9

230

Ch Mehlmann, L Bewig, U Buck & M Winter

Ionization induced fragmentation of size selected neutral sodium clusters

231

DE Heard, AP Milce, RE Miller & BJ Orr

Predissociation dynamics of the C2H2-Ar van der Waals complex

232

SC Goh New fluoride glass visible laser materials 233

GC Bowkett, GW Baxter, DJ Booth, T Taira, H Teranishi & T Kobayashi

Single-longitudinal-mode CW operation of a Nd:YVO4

microchip laser at 1.34m

234

B Lee, JH Baek, M Yoon & EH Lee Optically pumped MOCVD vertical cavity surface emitting laser grown with in situ laser reflectometry

235

V Devrelis, M O’Connor, P Foster, A-M Grisogono & J Munch

Phase conjugation of solid state lasers 236

MJ Johnson, JG Haub & BJ Orr Spectral characteristics of a pulsed optical parametric oscillator: comparison of experiment and theory

237

RJ Carman & JA Piper Computer modelling of copper vapour lasers 238

DM Kane Ti:sapphire laser cavity mode and pump laser mode calculations

239

RP Mildren, DJW Brown, RJ Carman & JA Piper

Spatio-temporal behaviour of Ba ground-state density in a barium vapour laser

240

MJ Withford, DJW Brown & JA Piper

Improved beam quality in a CVL with H2/Ne admixtures 241

E Illy & DJW Brown Threshold reduction techniques for frequency conversion by stimulated Raman scattering

242

KJ Grant & RJ Rossiter Performance of a line-tunable He-Xe laser in the 2 and 4

m atmospheric windows

243

D Body & B Luther-Davies Self starting difficulties in passively modelocked waveguide lasers

244

Y Zhao, G Town & M Sceats Quasi-phase-matched SHG in optical fibres with (3) 245

L Oien, IT McKinnie, WJ Sandle & DM Warrington

Trapping and cooling of sodium: a vapour cell MOT 246

GJ Milburn, Wen-Yu Chen & KR Jones

Hyperbolic phase and squeeze parameter estimation 247

KRW Jones A study of squeezing without mechanism 248

MP Fewell, BW Shore & K Bergmann

Effects of detuning from two-photon resonance on coherent population transfer: an algebraic solution

249

SM Pickles & JD Cresser Quantum trajectory analysis of the micromaser 250

JD Cresser, CJ Gordon & JA Piper

Non-collinear Raman interactions 251


M Gu & W Tan New properties of bifurcation and chaos from a nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavity

252

RS Seymour & P Wilson Designing Solc filters for a specific response 253

S Rees & RS Seymour Further development of the LADS filter 254

PG Spizzirri, TA Smith & KP Ghiggino

Micro-domain, time-resolved confocal fluorescence imaging

255

PC Miller & M Royce Localised pixel level characterisation of a LCTV SLM 256

IS Falconer, LY Montuno, GP Timms, BW James & JJ Lowke

Spectroscopic study of metastable oxygen in point-to-plane corona discharges

257

JM Wilson, IS Falconer, BW James, N Finn & W Wright

Laser induced fluorescence measurements in hydrogen as a test of collisional radiative modelling

258

TA van der Straaten, IS Falconer & BW James

Laser and spectroscopic measurement of the electric field in the cathode region of a magnetron discharge

259

AJ Studer, IS Falconer & BW James

Spectroscopy of the cathode spots of vacuum arc 260

IB Talanina, MA Collins & VM Agranovich

Soliton-polariton interaction near an excitonic resonance

261

M Aizengendler Spectral hole burning in a neutron-irradiated sapphire 262

AD Mitchell & EM Goldys Photorefiectance investigation of buried AlGaAs/GaAs and GaAs/GaAs interfaces

263

AV Rode & HN Chapman Array’s optics: aberrations and applications 264

II Gancheryonok, AP Klischenko & IN Kozlov

Dye lasers with polarized optical pumping: new possibilties in controlling the polarization and radiation generation energy

265

THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER

E Garmire Australian Optical Society Lecture: The interplay between nonlinear optics and carrier transport

267

J Kirz Plenary Lecture: Soft x-ray optics and microscopy 268

Spectroscopic Applications

N Grevesse, A Noels & AJ Sauval Atomic, molecular and solar photospheric spectroscopy 269

JG Haub, MJ Johnson & BJ Orr Spectroscopic applications of a pulsed tunable optical parametric oscillator

270

M Ismail & PJ0 Teubner Electron photon coincidence studies in copper 271

IS Falconer, LY Montuno & BW James

Measurement of the electric field in the cathode fall region of a hollow-cathode discharge from the intensity of forbidden spectral transitions

272

X-Ray Optics and Thin Films

RF Garrett, DJ Cookson, G Foran, DC Creagh & SW Wilkins

The Australian National Beamline Facility at the Photon Factory

273

DX Balaic, Z Barnea, KA Nugent, A Richardson & SW Wilkins

X-ray optics of tapered capillaries: recent experiments 274

J Lekner Inversion problems in ellipsometry 275

CJR Sheppard & TJ Connolly Confocal imaging of thin films 276

New Faces 1

H Wiseman Turning QD into QND by feedback 277

BE Allman, A Cimmino, AG Klein, Gl Opat, H Kaiser & SA Werner

Observation of a scalar Aharanov-Bohm effect by neutron interferometry

278

PM Derlet, HS Perlman & GJ Troup

Focused laser field quantum electrodynamics 279

MJ Sellars, NB Manson, RS Meltzer & PTH Fisk

Optical holeburning in rare earth doped crystals using an ultra-high resolution dye laser

280


ICM Littler, KGH Baldwin, H-A Bachor & DE McClelland

The atom trap at the ANU: experiments with cold atoms 281

S Dyrting & GJ Milburn Scattering of a two-level atom in the limit of large detuning

282

PJ Leo, G Peach & IB Whittingham Close-coupled calculation of self-broadening of helium triplet lines

283

New Faces 2

GD Scholes & KP Ghiggino Enhancement of the efficiency of interchromophoreelectronic energy transfer via relayed interactions

284

AP Milce, H-D Barth & BJ Orr Time-resolved optical double resonance spectroscopy in

acetylene: investigation of the 2+ 33region

285

A Eschmann & CW Gardiner Stability and switching in whispering gallery mode microdisk lasers

286

RG McDuff, PB Chapple, J Staromlynska & JA Hermann

Optical limiting in thick nonlinear medium: a modal decomposition approach

287

JD Harvey, DB Hirst, SJ Carter & PD Drummond

Observation and suppression of quantum phase waves in a mode locked laser

288

DW Coutts, DJW & JA Piper Recent advances in nonlinear frequency-conversion of copper vapour lasers

289

MR Law & PJO Teubner Electron scattering from optically pumped calcium atoms

290

Laser Applications

JA Piper Biomedical laser systems developments at the CLA 291

H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, P Barker, A Thomas & M Wegener

Laser-based methods for hypervelocity flow and combustion diagnostics

292

B Chadwick, G Domazetis, G Walker & R Morrison

Photofragment fluorescence monitoring of sodium species: applications in coal combustion and gasification systems

293

RJ McLean, P Hannaford, CE Fairchild & PL Dyson

A diode laser heterodyning technique: application to oxygen

294


ML Ginter & JG Eden Electronic structures of the rare gas dimer molecules 295

A Furlan, S Leutwyler & MJ Riley Intermolecular perturbation of a Jahn-Teller system: the triptycene.Nen (n= 1-3) van der Waals complexes

296

P Wormell, AR Lacey, J Hurst, LIK Ryan & DM Wynn-Hatton

Electronic spectra of some polyazaaromatic molecules

297

JB Peel Theoretical investigations of halogenation of fullerene-70: structures and stabilities of the C70X2 isomers

298

FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER

L Mandel Plenary Lecture: Coherence and indistinguishability in quantum interference experiments

300

GE Stedman Plenary Lecture: Precision ring lasers as sensors of time reversal violation

301


RJ Ballagh & NJ Mulgan Modification of four-wave mixing by trapped radiation 302

P Hariharan & M Roy The geometric phase in optical rotation 303

K Sangster, EA Hinds, SM Barnett & E Riis

Measurement of the Aharanov-Casher phase in an atomic system

304

Holography and Interferometry


AJ Stevenson, MB Gray, CC Harb, DE McClelland & H-A Bachor

Benchtop experiments in phase modulation interferometry

305

MJ Wegener, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop & RJ Stalker

Holographic interferometry for visualisation of hypersonic flows

306

YuB Boiko, HJ Greisser & AW-H Mau

Polymer imaging by computer optics 307

B Luther-Davies Plenary Lecture: Prospects for photonic circuits written by dark spatial solitons in defocussing nonlinear materials

308

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