Selected Publications by Topic

• Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  
  
• Nonlinear Optics with Chiral Molecules
  
  
• Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics / Short-Pulse Generation

Semiconductor Quantum Dots

• A. C. Bartnik, F. W. Wise, A. Kigel and E. Lifshitz, "Electronic structure of PbSe/PbS core-shell quantum dots," Phys. Rev. B 75, 245424 (2007) .
  
  
• J. M. Harbold, H. Du, T. D. Krauss, K.-S. Cho, C. B. Murray, and F. W. Wise, "Time-resolved intraband relaxation of strongly-confined electrons and holes in colloidal PbSe nanocrystals," Phys. Rev. B 72, 195312 (2005).
  
  
• Daniel R. Larson, Warren R. Zipfel, Rebecca M. Williams, Stephen W. Clark, Marcel P. Bruchez, Frank W. Wise, Watt W. Webb, "Water-Soluble Quantum Dots for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging in Vivo,"Science 300, 1434 (2003).
  
  
• H. Du, C. Chen, R. Krishnan, T. D. Krauss, J. M. Harbold, F. W. Wise, M. G. Thomas, and J. Silcox, "Optical Properties of Colloidal PbSe Nanocrystals," Nano. Lett. 2, 1321 (2002).
  
  
• E. P. Pokatilov, S. N. Klimin, V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese, and F. W. Wise, "Multiphonon Raman scattering in semiconductor nanocrystals: Importance of non-adiabatic transitions," Phys. Rev. B 65, 075316 (2002). (also selected for the February 11, 2002 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
  
  
• F. W. Wise, "Lead-salt quantum dots: the limit of strong quantum confinement," Acc. Chem. Res., 33, 773 (2000).
  
  
• A. Olkhovets, R.-C. Hsu, A. Lipovskii, and F. W. Wise, "Size-dependent temperature variation of the energy gap in a semiconductor quantum dot," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3539 (1998).
  
  
• A. Lipovskii, E. Kolobkova, V. Petrikov, I. Kang, A. Olkhovets, T. Krauss, M. Thomas, J. Silcox, F. Wise, Q. Shen, and S. Kycia "Synthesis and characterization of PbSe quantum dots in phosphate glass," Appl. Phys. Lett. 23, 3407 (1997).
  
  
• T. D. Krauss and F. W. Wise, "Coherent acoustic phonons in a semiconductor quantum dot," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 5102 (1997).
  
  
• I. Kang and F. W. Wise, "Electronic structure and optical properties of PbS and PbSe quantum dots," J. Opt. Soc. B 14, 1632 (1997).
  
  
• T. D. Krauss, F. W. Wise, and D. B. Tanner, "Observation of coupled vibrational modes of a semiconductor nanocrystal," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1376 (1996).
  

Nonlinear Optics with Chiral Molecules

• P. Fischer, A. D. Buckingham, K. Beckwitt, D. S. Wiersma, and F. W. Wise, "New Electro-Optic Effect: Sum-Frequency Generation from Optically Active Liquids in the Presence of a dc Electric Field ," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173901 (2003).
  
  
• P. Fischer, F. W. Wise, and A. C. Albrecht, "Chiral and achiral contributions to sum-frequency generation from optically active solutions of binaphthol," J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8232 (2003).
  
  
• P. Fischer, K. Beckwitt, F.W. Wise and A.C. Albrecht, "The chiral specificity of sum-frequency generation in solutions," Chem. Phys. Lett. 352, 463 (2002).
  

 

Nonlinear Optics / Short-Pulse Generation and Propagation

• A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, "Properties of normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber lasers" Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 25, 140 (2008).
  
  
• A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ"; Opt. Letters, 32, 2408 (2007).
  
  
• A. Chong, L. Kuznetsova, and F. W. Wise, Theoretical optimization of nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifiers " Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 24, 1815 (2007).
  
  
• J. Buckley, A. Chong, S. Zhou, W. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, Stabilization of high-energy femtosecond ytterbium fiber lasers by use of a frequency filter," Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 24, 1803 (2007).
  
  
• A. Chong, J. Buckley, W. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, "All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser," Opt. Express, 14, 10095 (2006).
  
  
• L. Kuznetsova, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, Interplay of nonlinearity and gain shaping in femtosecond fiber amplifiers," Optics Letters, 31, 2640 (2006).
  
  
• J. Moses and F. W. Wise, "Soliton compression in quadratic media: high-energy few-cycle pulses with a frequency-doubling crystal," Optics Letters, in press , (2006).
  
  
• J. Moses and F. W. Wise, "Control of self-steepening of ultrashort pulses in quadratic media," submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett, (2006).
  
  
• H. Lim, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, "Environmentally-stable femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with birefringent photonic bandgap fiber," Opt. Express 13, 3460 (2005).
  
  
• Shian Zhou, Lyuba Kuznetsova, Andy Chong, and Frank W. Wise, "Compensation of nonlinear phase shifts with third-order dispersion in chirped-pulse fiber amplifiers," Opt. Express 13, 4869 (2005).
  
  
• H. Lim, Y. Jiang, Y. Wang, Y.-C. Huang, Z. Chen, and F. W. Wise, "Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography with a fiber laser source at 1 micron," Opt. Lett. 30, 1171 (2005).
  
  
• J. Buckley, F. W. Wise, F. O. Ilday, and T. Sosnowski, "Femtosecond fiber lasers with pulse energies above 10 nJ," Opt. Lett. 30, 1888 (2005).
  
  
• H. Lim, J. Buckley, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, Fibre-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 um,"Electronics Letters 40, 1523 (2004).
  
  
• H. Lim and F. W. Wise, "Control of dispersion in a femtosecond ytterbium laser with hollow-core bandgap fiber," Opt. Express 12, 2231 (2004).
  
  
• K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, W. Grundkötter, W. Sohler, and F. W. Wise, "Frequency shifting of 50 pJ pulses with cascaded quadratic processes in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B (submitted for publication).
  
  
• K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, "Frequency-shifting with local nonlinearity management in non-uniformly poled quadratic nonlinear materials," Opt. Lett. 29 763 (2004).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, Y.-F. Chen, H. Lim, F. W. Wise, "Controllable Raman-like nonlinearities from nonstationary, cascaded quadratic processes," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 376 (2004).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, L. Kuznetsova, and F. W. Wise, "Generation of 36-fs pulses from a ytterbium fiber laser", Opt. Exp. 11, 3550 (2003).
  
  
• K. Beckwitt, Y.-F. Chen, F. W. Wise, and B. A. Malomed, "Temporal solitons in quadratic nonlinear media with opposite group-velocity dispersions at the fundamental and second harmonics," Phys. Rev. E 68, 057601 (2003).
  
  
• I. N. Towers, B. A. Malomed, and F. W. Wise, "Light bullets in quadratic media with normal dispersion at the second harmonic," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 123902 (2003).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise "Generation of 50-fs, 5-nJ pulses at 1.03 micron from a wave-breaking-free fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 1365 (2003).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. Buckley, and F. W. Wise "Practical, all-fiber source of high-power, 120-fs pulses at 1 micron," Opt. Lett. 28, 1362 (2003).
  
  
• H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise "Generation of 2 nJ pulses from a femtosecond Yb fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 660 (2003).
  
  
• H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise "Femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with photonic crystal fiber for dispersion control," Opt. Exp. 10, 1502 (2002). (also selected for the February, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science)
  
  
• F. W. Wise, L. Qian, and X. Liu, "Applications of Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities to Femtosecond Pulse Generation," Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 11, 317 (2002).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and T. Sosnowski, "High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror," Opt. Lett. 27, 1531 (2002).
  
  
• J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and Z. Chen,"Long-wavelength continuum generation about the second dispersion zero of a tapered fiber," Opt. Lett. 27, 1558 (2002).
  
  
• J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and B. G. Aitken, "Highly nonlinear Ge-As-Se and Ge-As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 14, 802 (2002).
  
  
• F. W. Wise and P. Di Trapani, "The Hunt for Light Bullets," Optics and Photonics News, February (2002).
  
  
• A. L. Gaeta and F. W. Wise, 'Comment on "Self-Compression of High-Intensity Femtosecond Optical Pulses and Spatiotemporal Soliton Generation",' Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 229401 (2001).
  
  
• J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. S. Sanghera, V. Q. Nguyen, L. B. Shaw, and I. D. Aggarwal, "Highly nonlinear As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching," Opt. Lett. 27, 119 (2002).
  
  
• F. Ö. Ilday and F. W. Wise, "Nonlinearity management: a route to high-energy soliton fiber lasers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 470 (2002).
  
  
• S. W. Clark, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, "Fiber delivery of femtosecond pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 26, 1320 (2001).
  
  
• K. Beckwitt, F. W. Wise, L. Qian, L. A. Walker II, and E. Canto-Said, "Compensation for self-focusing by use of cascade quadratic nonlinearity," Opt. Lett. 26, 1696 (2001).
  
  
• S. Smolorz and F. W. Wise, "Femtosecond two-beam coupling energy transfer from Raman and electronic nonlinearities," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 1636 (2000).
  
  
• X. Liu, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, "Femtosecond nonlinear polarization evolution based on cascade quadratic nonlinearities," Opt. Lett. 25, 1394 (2000).
  
  
• X. Liu, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, "Noncollinear generation of optical spatiotemporal solitons and application to ultrafast digital logic," Phys. Rev. E 61, R4722 (2000).
  
  
• X. Liu, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, "Transverse instability of optical spatio-temporal solitons in quadratic media," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1871 (2000).
  
  
• X. Liu, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, "Two-dimensional optical spatiotemporal solitons in quadratic media," Phys. Rev. E 62, 1328 (2000).
  
  
• X. Liu, L. Qian, and F. W. Wise, "High-energy pulse compression using negative phase shifts produced by the cascade c(2):c(2) nonlinearity," Opt. Lett. 24, 1777 (1999).
  
  
• S. Smolorz, F. W. Wise, and N. F. Borrelli, "Measurement of the nonlinear optical response of optical fiber materials using spectrally-resolved two-beam coupling," Opt. Lett. 24, 1103 (1999).
  
  
• X. Liu, L. Qian, and F. W. Wise, "Generation of optical spatiotemporal solitons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4631 (1999).
  
  
• L. J. Qian, X. Liu, and F. W. Wise, "Femtosecond Kerr-lens modelocking with negative nonlinear phase shifts," Opt. Lett. 24, 166 (1999).
  
  
• S. Smolorz and F. W. Wise, "Time-resolved nonlinear refraction in femtosecond laser gain media," Opt. Lett. 23, 1381 (1998).
  
  
• X. Liu, L. Qian, and F. W. Wise, "Femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser diode-pumped using a double-clad fiber," Opt. Lett. 23, 129 (1998).
  
  
• I. Kang, T. Krauss, and F. W. Wise, "Sensitive measurement of nonlinear refraction and two-photon absorption by spectrally-resolved two-beam coupling,"Opt. Lett. 22, 1077 (1997).
  
  
• I. Kang, S. Smolorz, T. D. Krauss, F. W. Wise, B. G. Aitken, and N. F. Borrelli, "Time-domain observation of nuclear contributions to the optical nonlinearities of glasses,"Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 54, 12641 (1996).
  
  
• V. P. Yanovsky and F. W. Wise, "Nonlinear propagation of high-power, sub-100-fs pulses near the zero-dispersion wavelength of an optical fiber," Opt. Lett. 19, 1547 (1994).
  
  
• V. Yanovsky, Y. Pang, and F. Wise, "Generation of 25-fs pulses from a self-modelocked Cr:forsterite laser with optimized group-delay dispersion," Opt. Lett. 18, 1541 (1993).
  
  
• B. Proctor and F. W. Wise, "Generation of 13-femtosecond pulses from a modelocked Ti:Al2O3 laser with reduced third-order dispersion," Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 470 (1993).
  

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