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  1. S. Nowierski, N. N. Oza, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter, "Generation and Reconstruction of Time-Bin Entangled Ququarts," Frontiers in Optics, paper FW3B.2 (2016). http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2016-FW3B.2

  2. M. A. Krainak, T. M. Rambo, G. Yang, W. Lu, and K. Numata, "Femtosecond photon-counting receiver," Proc. SPIE 9858, Advanced Photon Counting Techniques X, 98580S (May 5, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2225947

  3. S. Nowierski, N. N. Oza, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter, "Experimental Reconstruction of Time-Bin-Entangled Qutrit States using Polarization Projective Measurements," in CLEO: 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper FTu2A.5. 10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2015.FTu2A.5

  4. A. S. Kowligy, P. Manurkar, N. V. Corzo, V. G. Velev, M. Silver, R. P. Scott, S. J. B. Yoo, P. Kumar, G. S. Kanter, and Y.-P. Huang, “Quantum optical arbitrary waveform manipulation and measurement in real time,” SPIE Photonics West 2015 (Invited paper), paper 9347-31

  5. T. M. Rambo, K. McCusker, Y. -P. Huang, N. N. Oza, S. Nowierski, G. S. Kanter and P. Kumar, "Implementing a high-rate single-photon source using ultra-low-loss all-optical switching," accepted in QCMC (2014)

  6. P. Manurkar, N. V. Corzo, P. Kumar, G. S. Kanter and Y.-P. Huang, "Selective up-conversion of two orthogonal signal modes using shaped pump pulses," paper FTh1B.3, Frontiers in Optics (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2014-FTh1B.3

  7. S. Shi, A. Thomas, N. V. Corzo, P. Kumar, Y.-P. Huang and K. F. Lee, "Generation of photon pairs in green fluorescent protein," paper FW1C.3, Frontiers in Optics (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2014-FW1C.3

  8. J. Larikova, V. Velev, P. Kumar and Y.-P. Huang, "Quantum communications with overlapping time modes: Optimal receiver capable of dispersion compensation," paper FTu4A.4, Frontiers in Optics (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2014-FTu4A.4

  9. V. G. Velev, C. Langrock, P. Kumar, M. M. Fejer, Y.-P Huang, "Selective Manipulation of Overlapping Quantum Modes," IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series 2014, Vol. No., pp.138,139, 14-16 July 2014 10.1109/SUM.2014.78

  10. A. Thomas, S. Shi, N. V. Corzo, J. B. Altepeter, Y. Huang, and P. Kumar, “Biological source of correlated photon pairs.” in CLEO: 2014,  OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper JW2A-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JW2A.110

  11. V. G. Velev, P. Kumar, and Y. Huang, "Natural Phase Matching in Microdisk Cavities," in CLEO: 2014, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper JTh2A.72 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JTh2A.72

  12. V. Velev, J. Larikova, P. Kumar, and Y. Huang, "High-speed Quantum Communications in Telecom-fibers using Overlapping Temporal Modes," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper W4F.3 10.1364/OFC.2015.W4F.3

  13. A. Kowligy, P. Kumar, and Y. Huang, "Mode-selective all-optical switching via quantum frequency conversion," in The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper M6.32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CQO.2013.M6.32

  14. Timothy M. Rambo, Joseph B. Altepeter, G. Mauro D'Ariano, Prem Kumar, "Quantum Operator Permutation by Optical Means", Quantum Information and Measurement, Rochester, paper W6.30 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/QIM.2013.W6.30

  15. D. Strekalov, A. Kowligy, Y. Huang, and P. Kumar, "Observation of Quantum Zeno Blockade in χ(2) Microresonators," in CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper QTu3C.4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2013.QTu3C.4

  16. A. Thomas, Y. Huang, T. M. Rambo, S. Shi, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, “Direct measurement of third-order nonlinearity of green fluorescent protein” in CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper JW2A-01. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2013.JW2A.01

  17. K. McCusker, Y. Huang, A. Kowligy, and P. Kumar, "Experimental Demonstration of All-Optical Switching Using the Quantum Zeno Effect," in The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper Th4A.2.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/QIM.2013.Th4A.2

  18. Yu-Zhu Sun, Yu-Ping Huang, and Prem Kumar, "Fiber-Based Multichannel Correlated Photon-Pair Source with High Efficiency and Low Crosstalk", QELS, San Jose, CA, 2013. Poster JTh2A.89 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2013.JTh2A.89

  19. N. N. Oza, Y.-P. Huang, and P. Kumar, "Entanglement-preserving photonic switching: Demonstration of full cross-bar operation with 25-GHz capability", Poster presented at OFC/NFOEC 2013, Anaheim, CA, USA (March 2013), poster JTh2A.22 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/NFOEC.2013.JTh2A.22

  20. Direct Measurement of Third-Order Nonlinearity of Green Fluorescent Protein, CLEO, paper JW2A.01 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2013.JW2A.01

  21. N. N. Oza, Y.-P. Huang, and P. Kumar. "Ultrafast switching of photonic entanglement." Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358668

  22. M. Patel, J. B. Altepeter, Y.-P. Huang, N. N. Oza, and P. Kumar, "Quantum interference of independently generated telecom-band single photons", Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing. Vienna, Austria (August 2012), poster P2-75

  23. P. Kumar, Y.-P. Huang, J. B. Altepeter, M. Patel, N. N. Oza, and M. A. Hall, "Quantum information processing in the telecom waveband," in OFC/NFOEC 2012, Los Angeles, CA, USA (March 2012), paper OM3B.3 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=6476434

  24. P. A. Wasilousky, K. H. Smith, R. Glasser, G. L. Burdge, L. Burberry, B. Deibner, M. Silver, R. C. Peach, C. Visone, P. Kumar, O. -K. Lim, G. Alon, C. -H. Chen, A. R. Bhagwat, P. Manurkar, M. Vasilyev, M. Annamalai, N. Stelmakh, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, C. Santivañez, J. Chen, M. Silva, W. Kelly, J. H. Shapiro, R. Nair, B. J. Yen, F. N. C. Wong, "Quantum enhancement of a coherent ladar receiver using phase-sensitive amplification," Proc. SPIE 8163, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging IX, 816305 (7 September 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.892419

  25. O.-K. Lim, Z. Dutton, G. Alon, C.-H. Chen, M. Vasilyev and P. Kumar, "Enhanced optical resolution in target detection with phase-sensitive versus phase-insensitive pre-amplification," Proc. SPIE 8163, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging IX, 816306 (September 06, 2011); doi:10.1117/12.895210 

  26. G. Alon, O. Lim, A. Bhagwat, C. Chen, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, "Amplification of a Squeezed-Quadrature using a Cascaded Traveling-Wave Phase-Sensitive Optical Parametric Amplifier," inProceedings of the International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim 2011, (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper I790 10.1364/IQEC.2011.I790

  27. O.-K. Lim, G. Alon, C.-H. Chen, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, M. Vasilyev and P. Kumar, "Enhanced Optical Resolution with Phase‐Sensitive Preamplification in Coherent Image Detection
    ," AIP Conference Proceedings, 1363, 141-144 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3630167

  28. G. Alon, O. Lim, A. Bhagwat, C. Chen, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, "Cascaded Traveling-Wave Phase-Sensitive Optical Parametric Amplifiers," inCLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper CTuD3 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CTuD3

  29. A. Bhagwat, G. Alon, O. Lim, C. Chen, P. Kumar, M. Annamalai, and M. Vasilyev, "Generation and Verification of Traveling-wave Phase-sensitive Eigenmodes of an Optical Parametric Amplifier," inCLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper QThN4 10.1364/QELS.2011.QThN4

  30. Y. Huang, A. Kowligy, J. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, "Interaction-Free All-Optical Switching via Quantum Zeno Blockade," in Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper FThS2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2011.FThS2

  31. N. N. Oza, M. Patel, M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, "Demonstration of a telecom-band, 30-ps window, dual-In, dual-out, entangled-photon switch," in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2011), FThL7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2011.FThL7

  32. J.B. Altepeter, M. Patel, N. N. Oza, M. A. Hall, and P. Kumar. "Towards photonic quantum networks." in Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2011 IEEE, pp. 14-15. IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2011.5999939

  33. M. Patel, N. N. Oza, M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar. "A dual-in, dual-out, 30-ps window, entangled photon switch." in Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2011 IEEE, pp. 16-17. IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2011.5999940

  34. G. S. Kanter, S. X. Wang, Y.-P. Huang, and P. Kumar, ―Engineering Fiber-Nonlinearity Based Entangled Photon Sources for Quantum Key Distribution Applications,‖ submitted to the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘11), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 6–10 March 2011; paper xxxx. See OFC‘11 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2011).

  35. P. Kumar, O.-K. Lim, G. Alon, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, and M. Vasilyev, ―Enhanced Optical Resolution with Phase-Sensitive Preamplification,‖ invited paper to be presented at the 10th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, 11–15 December 2010.

  36. M. Patel, J. B. Altepeter, Y.-P. Huang, M. A. Hall, and P. Kumar, ―Fiber-based Experiments on Photon Indistinguishability,‖ to be presented at the PHOTONICS-2010, the 10th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, 11–15 December 2010.

  37. M. Annamalai, N. Stelmakh, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Eigenmodes of a Travelling-Wave Phase-Sensitive Optical Parametric Amplifier,‖ submitted to PHOTONICS-2010, the 10th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, 11–15 December 2010.

  38. M. Annamalai, N. Stelmakh, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Spatial modes of phase-sensitive image amplifier with elliptical Gaussian pump,‖ to be presented at the Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science Conference, Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, NY, 24-28 October 2010, paper LTuB5. See FiO/LS‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2010).

  39. P. Kumar, J. B. Altepeter, and M. A. Hall, ―Engineering quantum communications for the telecom band,‖ invited paper to be presented at the 3rd International Conference on Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications (UQCC‘2010), ANA InterContinental Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 18-20 October 2010.

  40. P. Kumar, J. B. Altepeter, and M. A. Hall, ―Quantum Communications: Present Status and Future Prospects,‖ invited paper presented at the 36th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC‘2010), Torino, Italy, 19–23 September 2010, paper Th.9.F.3.

  41. M. Vasilyev, N. Stelmakh, and P. Kumar, ―Non-classical states for photon-number-efficient transmission of information,‖ presented at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘10), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19–23 July 2010.

  42. O.-K. Lim, G. Alon, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Optical Resolution Enhancement with Phase-Sensitive Preamplification in Direct Image Detection,‖ presented at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘10), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19–23 July 2010.

  43. M. Medic, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Patel, and P. Kumar, ―Fiber-based telecom-band source of degenerate entangled photons,‖ presented at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘10), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19–23 July 2010.

  44. J. B. Altepeter, E. R. Jeffrey, M. Medic, and P. Kumar, ―Multiple qubit quantum state visualization,‖ presented at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘10), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19–23 July 2010.

  45. P. Kumar, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Medic, M. Patel, and N. N. Oza, ―Engineering quantum communications for the telecom band,‖ invited paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘10), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19–23 July 2010.

  46. K. Salit, M. Salit, S. Krishnamurthy, Y. Wang, P. Kumar, and S. M. Shahriar, ―High Bandwidth, Ultra-Low Power All Optical Modulation with a Nano-Fiber Embedded in Rb Vapor,‖ presented at CLEO/QELS 2010: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, 16–21 May 2010; paper CTuEE5. See CLEO/QELS‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

  47. O.-K. Lim, G. Alon, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Optical Resolution Enhancement with Phase-Sensitive Preamplification,‖ presented at CLEO/QELS 2010: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, 16–21 May 2010; paper CTuPP7. See CLEO/QELS‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

  48. M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, ―Telecom-band Single Photon Switch,‖ presented at CLEO/QELS 2010: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, 16–21 May 2010; paper QThG6. See CLEO/QELS‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

  49. N. N. Oza, J. B. Altepeter, M. Medic, E. R. Jeffrey, and P. Kumar, ―Entangled Photon Polarimetry,‖ presented at CLEO/QELS 2010: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, 16–21 May 2010; paper QFF3. See CLEO/QELS‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

  50. P. Kumar, ―Quantum Communication and Information Processing in Telecom Fibers,‖ invited paper presented at the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar on Quantum Communication based on Integrated Optics held at the Physik Zentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, 22–25 March 2010.

  51. N. N. Oza, J. B. Altepeter, M. Medic, E. R. Jeffrey, and P. Kumar, ―Entangled Photon Polarimetry,‖ presented at the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar on Quantum Communication based on Integrated Optics held at the Physik Zentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, 22–25 March 2010.

  52. M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, ―Two-Qubit State Engineering in the Telecom O-Band,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘10), San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, 21–25 March 2010; paper OWC1. See OFC‘10 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2010).

  53. M. Annamalai, N. Stelmakh, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Modes of a Travelling-Wave Phase-Sensitive Optical Parametric Amplifier,‖ poster presented at the 40th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2010), Snowbird, Utah, 3–7 January, 2010.

  54. P. Kumar, ―Ultrafast Switching of Photonic Entanglement,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop on Single and Entangled Photons: Sources, Detectors, Components, and Applications, held at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, 3–6 November 2009.

  55. P. Kumar, M. Patel, M. Medic, M. A. Hall, and J. B. Altepeter, ―Quantum Logic Gates with Fiber-Generated Entanglement in the Telecommunications Band,‖ invited paper presented at the Frontiers in Optics, the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Optical Society (FiO‘09), San Jose, CA, 11–15 October 2009; paper FWJ5. See FiO/LS‘09 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  56. K. Salit, M. Salit, S. Krishnamurthy, Y. Wang, P. Kumar, and S. M. Shahriar, ―Atto-Joules, High Bandwidth All Optical Modulation with a Nano-Fiber Embedded in Alkali Vapor,‖ presented at Laser Science XXV, the 25th Annual Meeting of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society, San Jose, CA, 11–15 October 2009; paper LSWB3. See FiO/LS‘09 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  57. P. Kumar, ―Physics-Based Physical-Layer Optical Encryption,‖ invited paper presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly the Lasers and Electro Optics Society) (LEOS‘09), Ela Quality Resort, Belek-Antalya, Turkey, 4–8 October 2009; paper ThS2.

  58. J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Medic, M. Patel, D. A. Meyer, and P. Kumar, ―Experimental Realization of a Multi-Player Quantum Game,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Advances in Optical Sciences: OSA Optics & Photonics Congress (Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics), Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Honolulu, HI, July 12-17, 2009; paper PDNTuA2. See NLO‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  59. M. Vasilyev, N. Stelmakh, and P. Kumar, ―Investigation of Phase-Sensitive Image Amplification with Elliptical Gaussian Pump,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2009), Baltimore, MD, May 31–June 5, 2009; paper JWA6. See CLEO‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  60. M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of O-Band Polarization Entanglement in SMF-28,‖ presented at the 27th International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC‘2009), Baltimore, MD, May 31–June 5, 2009; paper ITuE5. See IQEC‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  61. M. Patel, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Medic, and P. Kumar, ―Engineering a Telecom-band Controlled-NOT Gate,‖ presented at the 27th International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC‘2009), Baltimore, MD, May 31–June 5, 2009; paper IMI6. See IQEC‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  62. J. Altepeter, E. R. Jeffrey, M. Medic, and P. Kumar, ―Multiple-qubit quantum state visualization,‖ presented at the 27th International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC‘2009), Baltimore, MD, May 31–June 5, 2009; paper IWC1. See IQEC‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  63. M. Medic, J. Altepeter, M. Hall, M. Patel, and P. Kumar, ―A Fiber-Based Source of Degenerate Polarization-Entangled Photons in the Telecom Band,‖ presented at the 27th International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC‘2009), Baltimore, MD, May 31–June 5, 2009; paper ITuE7. See IQEC‘2009 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2009).

  64. S. X. Wang, G. S. Kanter, and P. Kumar, ―Multi-Channel Fiber-Based Source of Polarization Entangled Photons with Integrated Alignment Signal,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘2009), San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, March 22–26, 2009; paper PDPA3.

  65. M. Vasilyev, N. Stelmakh, and P. Kumar, ―Parametric gain for multimode light,‖ presented at the 39th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2009), Snowbird, Utah, 4–8 January, 2009.

  66. P. Kumar, ―Quantum Information Processing in Optical Fibers,‖ plenary talk presented at Photonics 2008 – the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Habitat World Convention Center, New Delhi, India, December 13-17, 2008.

  67. P. Kumar, ―Physical-Layer Encryption Technologies for Telecommunication Networks,‖ invited paper presented at the Updating Quantum Cryptography Conference (UQC‘08), Akihabara Convention Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1-2 December 2008.

  68. P. Kumar, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Medic, and M. S. Patel, ―Quantum Information Processing in Optical Fibers,‖ invited paper presented at Laser Science XXIV, the 24th Annual Meeting of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society, Rochester Convention Center, Rochester, NY, 19–23 October 2008; paper LThE1. See FiO/LS‘08 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2008).

  69. J. B. Altepeter, M. Medic, and P. Kumar, ―Tailoring quantum process tomography to linear optical gates,‖ presented at the 9th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘08), University of Calgary, Canada, 19–24August 2008.

  70. P. Kumar, J. B. Altepeter, M. Hall, M. Medic, and M. Patel, ―Fiber Based Technologies for Quantum Communications in the Telecom Band,‖ invited paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC‘08), University of Calgary, Canada, 19–24 August 2008.

  71. J. Andreasen, H. Cao, A. Taflove, P. Kumar, and C.-Q. Cao, ―Classical Model of Quantum Noise with the FDTD Method,‖ presented at the XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale-URSI), Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, 07–16 August 2008.

  72. J. B. Altepeter, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―Entangled state engineering in single-mode fibers,‖ presented at the Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence: 3rd International Conference on Quantum Information (ICQI‘2008), Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA, July 13–16, 2008; paper QMA4. See ICQI‘2008 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2008).

  73. S. X. Wang, G. S. Kanter, and P. Kumar, ―Multi-Channel Running-Code OCDMA,‖ presented at the 2008 Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications (COTA‘08) Topical Meeting, Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA, July 13–16, 2008; paper CMB5. See COTA‘2008 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2008).

  74. J. Andreasen, H. Cao, A. Taflove, P. Kumar, and C.-Q. Cao, ―FDTD Simulation of Thermal Noise and Spontaneous Emission,‖ presented at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and the 2008 USNC/URSI (U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science) National Radio Science Meeting, Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Diego, CA, 5–12 July 2008.

  75. P. Kumar, ―Noise-free signal amplification in optical fiber,‖ invited paper presented at the 17th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS‘08), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, June 30–July 4, 2008.

  76. S. X. Wang, G. S. Kanter, and P. Kumar, ―Running-Code O-CDMA Based on AOM Pulse Shapers,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2008), San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, May 4–9, 2008; paper CFF6. See CLEO‘2008 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2008).

  77. S. Feng and P. Kumar, ―Extrinsic Orbital Angular Momentum Carried by Photon-Pairs in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2008), San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, May 4–9, 2008; paper QMH3. See QELS‘2008 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2008).

  78. O.-K. Lim, V. Grigoryan, M. Shin, and P. Kumar, ―Ultra-low-noise inline fiber-optic phase-sensitive amplifier for analog optical signals,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘2008), San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, 24–28 February 2008; paper OML3.

  79. O.-K. Lim, V. Grigoryan, M. Shin, and P. Kumar, ―Near-noiseless amplification for analog optical signals,‖ presented at the 2008 LEOS Winter Topical Meeting on Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers & Related Devices, Hilton Sorrento Palace, Sorrento, Italy, 14-16 January 2008; paper MB1.2. See 2008 IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series Technical Digest, IEEE Catalog # CFP08WTMC, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1595-3, pp. 43-44.

  80. M. Medic, J. Altepeter, K. F. Lee, and P. Kumar, ―Tomographic Characterization of Fiber-Generated High Fidelity Polarization-Entangled Bell States,‖ presented at the Conference on ―Quantum Communications Realized (IT408),‖ part of the SPIE International Symposium: Optics East 2007, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA, 9–12 September 2007; paper 6780-25.

  81. P. Kumar, ―Practical Quantum Communications for Telecom Networks,‖ invited keynote speaker at the Conference on ―Quantum Communications Realized (IT408),‖ part of the SPIE International Symposium: Optics East 2007, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA, 9–12 September 2007; paper 6780-1.

  82. P. Kumar, ―Entanglement generation and propagation in optical fiber,‖ invited paper presented at the 2007 Nonlinear Photonics (NP‘07) Topical Meeting, Loews Le Concorde Hotel, Quebec City, Canada, 2–6 September 2007; paper NTuD5.

  83. S. Feng, C.-H. Chen, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Why is the orbital angular momentum conserved in spontaneous parametric down-conversion?‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE 2007 International Symposium on Optics & Photonics: Conference on Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging V (Conference OP410), San Diego, CA, August 26–30, 2007; paper 6710-11.

  84. C. Liang, M. Shin, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―All-Fiber Telecom-Band Correlated Photon-Pair Source for 10 GHz Quantum Applications,‖ presented at the Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting (NLO‘07), Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa, Kona, HI, July 30–August 3, 2007; paper MA4.

  85. P. Kumar, V. Grigoryan, and M. Vasilyev, ―Noise-Free Amplification: Towards Quantum Laser Radar,‖ invited paper presented at the 14th Coherent Laser Radar Conference, Snowmass, CO, July 9–13, 2007; plenary session on Fundamental Coherent Science and Technology.

  86. S. Feng, C.-H. Chen, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Exploring Non-Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion,‖ presented at the International Conference on Quantum Information (ICQI), Rochester, NY, June 13–15, 2007; paper IFC4.

  87. P. Kumar, ―Quantum Communications for Wavelength Multiplexed Optical Networks,‖ invited paper presented at the 9th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO9), University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, NY, June 10–13, 2007; paper CMF2.

  88. G. A. Barbosa and P. Kumar, ―Transverse Structures in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion with Orbital Angular Momentum,‖ presented at the 9th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO9), University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, NY, June 10–13, 2007; paper CSuA2.

  89. M. Shin and P. Kumar, ―1.25 Gbps Optical Data Channel Up-conversion in 20 GHz-Band via a Frequency-Doubling Optoelectronic Oscillator for Radio-Over-Fiber Systems,‖ presented at the 2007 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2007), Honolulu, HI, June 3–8, 2007; paper TU3D-05.

  90. J. Chen, J. B. Altepeter, M. Medic, K. F. Lee, B. Gokden, P. Kumar, R. H. Hadfield, and S. W. Nam, ―A Fiber-based telecom-band CNOT gate,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2007), Baltimore, MD, May 6–11, 2007; paper QPDA2. See QELS‘2007 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2007).

  91. G. Pati, S. Spillane, R. Beausoleil, K. Salit, M. Hall, P. Kumar, and S. M. Shahriar, ―Low Light Level Saturated Absorption in Tapered Fiber Embedded in Alkali Vapor,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2007), Baltimore, MD, May 6–11, 2007; paper QMC6. See QELS‘2007 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2007).

  92. M. Medic and P. Kumar, ―Effects of polarization-dependent loss and fiber birefringence on photon-pair entanglement in fiber-optic channels,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2007), Baltimore, MD, May 6–11, 2007; paper JTuA16. See QELS‘2007 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2007).

  93. S. Feng, C.-H. Chen, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Exploring non-conservation of angular momentum in spontaneous parametric down-conversion,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2007), Baltimore, MD, May 6–11, 2007; paper JTuA19. See QELS‘2007 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2007).

  94. J. Chen, K. F. Lee, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of telecom-band indistinguishable photon pairs in dispersion-shifted fiber,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2007), Baltimore, MD, May 6–11, 2007; paper QTuI4. See QELS‘2007 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2007).

  95. M. Shin and P. Kumar, ―Millimeter-Wave Generation via Frequency Quadrupling in an Optically-Injected Optoelectronic Oscillator,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC‘2007), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 25–29, 2007; paper OWN7.

  96. V. S. Grigoryan, G. S. Kanter, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum-Noise-Randomized Data Encryption: Comparative Analysis of M-ary PSK and M-ary ASK Protocols for Long-Haul Optical Communications,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC‘2007), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 25–29, 2007; paper OWT3.

  97. P. Kumar, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, and C. Liang, ―Entanglement Generation with Fiber Nonlinearity for Quantum Communications in the Telecom Band,‖ invited paper presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC‘2007), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 25–29, 2007; paper OTuJ6.

  98. P. Kumar, ―Quantum Information Processing in the Telecom Band with Fiber-Based Devices,‖ Grand Talk presented at the Workshop on Optics Applied to Quantum Information and Nanotechnology, São Miguel dos Milagres, Alagoas, Brazil, March 9–12, 2007.

  99. S. M. Spillane, G. S. Pati, M. S. Shahriar, P. Kumar, and R. G. Beausoleil, ―Ultralow-light level saturation spectroscopy and EIT using a tapered fiber in a hot vapor cell,‖ presented at Photonics West 2007, Conference on Advanced Optical and Quantum Memories and Computing IV (Conference 6482), San Jose, CA, 24–25 January 2007; paper 6482-32.

  100. P. Kumar, ―Practical Quantum Communication and Cryptography for WDM Optical Networks,‖ invited paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC06), Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan, November 28 – December 3, 2006.

  101. C. Liang, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―High Purity Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Sources,‖ presented at the 8th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC06), Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan, November 28 – December 3, 2006.

  102. X. Li, J. Chen, K. F. Lee, P. L. Voss, and P. Kumar, ―Spectrum correlation of entangled photon-pairs generated in optical fiber,‖ presented at the 8th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC06), Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan, November 28 – December 3, 2006.

  103. K. F. Lee, M. A. Hall, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of High-Quality Telecom-Band Entangled Photon Pairs with Only 2 Meters of Highly Nonlinear Fiber,‖ postdeadline paper presented at Frontiers in Optics—the 90th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 8–12, 2006; paper PDP-FC7. See FiO‘2006 Technical Digest, Post-Conference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  104. C. Liang, K. F. Lee, T. Levin, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―Ultra Stable All-Fiber Telecom-Band Entangled Photon-Pair Source for Turnkey Quantum Communication Applications,‖ presented at Frontiers in Optics—the 90th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 8–12, 2006; paper FThI3. See FiO‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  105. J. Chen, K. F. Lee, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of Cross-Polarized Degenerate Photon Pairs in Dispersion-Shifted Fiber,‖ presented at Frontiers in Optics—the 90th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 8–12, 2006; paper FTuR4. See FiO‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  106. P. L. Voss and P. Kumar, ―Raman Scattering Noise in Phase-Insensitive and Phase-Sensitive Parametric Processes in Fibers,‖ invited paper presented at Frontiers in Optics—the 90th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 8–12, 2006; paper FThI2. See FiO‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  107. K. F. Lee, J. E. Sharping, M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, M. Lipson, A. L. Gaeta, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of correlated photons in a silicon chip,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the 2006 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC‘06), Cannes, France, September 24–28, 2006; paper Th4.5.3.

  108. P. Kumar, ―Optical Parametric Process in Fibre: Fundamentals and Applications,‖ invited tutorial (60-minute talk) presented at the 2006 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC‘06), Cannes, France, September 24–28, 2006; paper We 2.2.2.

  109. M. Shin, P. S. Devgan, V. S. Grigoryan, Y. Chung, J. Kim, and P. Kumar, ―40 GHz Gaussian shaped optical pulse from self-starting optoelectronic oscillator of low phase noise based on electroabsorption modulator,‖ presented at the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC‘06), Gwangju, Korea, 3–7 September 2006; paper 6353-04.

  110. S. Feng, C.-H. Chen, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Violation of Orbital Angular Momentum Conservation in Type-I Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE 2006 Annual Meeting: Conference on Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging IV (Conference 6305), San Diego, CA, August 13–14, 2006; paper 6305-35.

  111. P. Kumar, ―Fiber-optic quantum communications,‖ inaugural talk presented at the International Symposium on Quantum Optics-2006, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, July 24–27, 2006.

  112. P. Kumar, ―Practical Quantum Communications for Telecom Networks,‖ invited paper presented at the IEEE-LEOS 2006 Summer Topical on Quantum Communications in Telecom Networks, Quebec City, Canada, July 17–19, 2006; paper WB1.2.

  113. J. Chen, K. F. Lee, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Fiber-based Degenerate Correlated-Photon Source in the Telecom Band,‖ presented at the IEEE-LEOS 2006 Summer Topical on Quantum Communications in Telecom Networks, Quebec City, Canada, July 17–19, 2006; paper TuB2.3.

  114. P. Kumar, ―Phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers,‖ invited paper presented at the Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications (OAA‘06) Conference, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 25-28, 2006; paper OWC1.

  115. G. S. Kanter and P. Kumar, ―Quantum-noise randomized data encryption for secure free-space optical communications,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE‘s 2nd Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Conference on Quantum Optics, Advance Spectroscopy, and Terahertz Technology (Conference GL110), Dayton Convention Center, Dayton, OH, June 12–16, 2006; paper GL110-02.

  116. S. Feng, C.-H. Chen, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Role of pump-beam orbital angular momentum in type-II parametric down-conversion,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2006), Long Beach, CA, May 21–26, 2006; paper QWB3. See QELS‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  117. K. F. Lee, J. Chen, C. Liang, X. Li, P. L. Voss, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of High Purity Telecom-Band Entangled Photon-Pairs in Dispersion-Shifted Fiber,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2006), Long Beach, CA, May 21–26, 2006; paper JTuA2. See QELS‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  118. R. Tang, M. Shin, P. Devgan, V. S. Grigoryan, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Toward in-line phase-sensitive fiber-parametric amplification of multichannel signals,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2006), Long Beach, CA, May 21–26, 2006; paper JThC81. See CLEO‘2006 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2006).

  119. C. Liang, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―Distribution of Fiber-Generated Polarization Entangled Photon-Pairs over 100 km of Standard Fiber in OC-192 WDM Environment,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC‘2006), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 5–10, 2006; paper PDP35.

  120. M. Shin, P. S. Devgan, V. S. Grigoryan, P. Kumar, Y.-D. Chung, and J. Kim, ―Low phase-noise 40GHz optical pulses from a self-starting electroabsorption-modulator-based optoelectronic oscillator,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC‘2006), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 5–10, 2006; paper OFB1.

  121. M. Vasilyev and P. Kumar, ―Metal nanoaperture with efficient coupling to a Gaussian mode,‖ submitted to the JSPS–UNT Joint Symposium on Nanoscale Materials for Optoelectronics and Biotechnology, sponsored by the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences and the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, February 2-3, 2006.

  122. T. Banwell, P. Toliver, J. C. Young, J. Hodge, M. Rauch, M. S. Goodman, G. Kanter, E. Corndorf, V. Grigoryan, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―High Data Rate Quantum Noise Limited Encryption over Long Distances,‖ presented at the Military Communication Conference (MILCOM‘2005), Atlantic City, NJ, October 17–20, 2005. MILCOM is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and is hosted by the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

  123. K. F. Lee, J. Chen, C. Liang, X. Li, P. L. Voss, and P. Kumar, ―High-purity telecom-band entangled photon-pairs via four-wave mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Frontiers in Optics 2005—the 89th OSA Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 16–20, 2005; paper PDP-A4. See FiO‘2005 Technical Digest, Post-Conference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  124. R. G. Beausoleil, A. Briggs, M. Jones, P. Kumar, W. J. Munro, C. M. Santori, S. M. Shahriar, S. M. Spillane, T. P. Spiller, I. A. Walmsley, ―Classical and Quantum Information Processing Using EIT,‖ invited paper presented at Frontiers in Optics 2005—the 89th OSA Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 16–20, 2005; paper LWH2. See FiO‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  125. X. Li, J. Chen, P. L. Voss, K. F. Lee, J. E. Sharping, and P. Kumar, ―Fiber based entangled photon-pair source,‖ invited paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies, Tianjin, China, September 3–6, 2005.

  126. C. Liang, P. L. Voss, E. Corndorf, G. S. Kanter, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, X. Li, and P. Kumar, ―Single-Photon Detector for High-Speed Quantum Communication Applications in the Fiber-optic Telecom Band,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE 2005 Annual Meeting: Conference on Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging III (Conference 5893), San Diego, CA, July 31–August 4, 2005; paper 5893-40.

  127. P. Kumar, P. L. Voss, X. Li, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, C. Liang, P. Devgan, R. Tang, and V. S. Grigoryan, ―Parametric processes in fibers for quantum and classical communications applications,‖ invited paper presented at the International Conference on Quantum Electronics 2005 and the Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2005 (IQEC/CLEO-PR‘05), Toshi Center Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, July 11-15, 2005; paper CFJ3-1-INV. See IQEC/CLEO-PR‘2005 Technical Digest (IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Piscataway, N.J. 2005), pp. 1675-1676.

  128. P. Kumar, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, X. Li, and P. L. Voss, ―Quantum Information Processing with Optical Fibers,‖ invited paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22–27, 2005; paper QTuJ1. See QELS‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  129. S. W. Dugan, X. Li, P. L. Voss, and P. Kumar, ―Frequency up-conversion at the single-photon level in a PPLN waveguide,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22–27, 2005; paper QThJ2. See QELS‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  130. X. Li, P. L. Voss, J. Chen, K. F. Lee, and P. Kumar, ―Measurement of co- and cross-polarized Raman spectra in silica fiber for small detunings,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22–27, 2005; paper CThB6. See QELS‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  131. P. Devgan, R. Tang, V. S. Grigoryan, and P. Kumar, ―Multichannel wavelength conversion of DPSK signals using four-wave mixing in highly-nonlinear fiber without cross-gain-modulation penalty,‖ invited paper presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22–27, 2005; paper CMQ3. See CLEO‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  132. K. G. Köprülü, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations in parametric down-conversion induced by the pump-beam profile,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22–27, 2005; paper QTuA4. See QELS‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  133. G. S. Kanter, E. Corndorf, V. Grigoryan, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Exploiting quantum and classical noise for securing high-speed optical communication networks,‖ invited paper presented at the Conference on Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics III, SPIE Third International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise 2005 (Conference FN05-FN102), Austin, TX, May 23–26 2005; paper FN05-5842-11.

  134. P. Kumar, K. F. Lee, J. Chen, X. Li, and P. L. Voss, ―Quantum information processing with optical fibers,‖ invited paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR‘05), Besançon, France, May 2–6, 2005; paper I-37.

  135. M. Vasilyev and P. Kumar, ―Efficient coupling between Gaussian cavity mode and metal nanoaperture,‖ presented at the OSA Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics for Information Systems, (NPIS‘05), San Diego, CA, April 13–15, 2005; paper NWB4. See NPIS‘2005 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2005).

  136. P. S. Devgan, M. Shin, V. S. Grigoryan, J. Lasri, and P. Kumar, ―SOA-based regenerative amplification of phase noise degraded DPSK signals,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘2005), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 6–11, 2005; paper PDP34.

  137. R. Tang, P. Devgan, J. Lasri, V. Grigoryan, and P. Kumar, ―Experimental investigation of a frequency-nondegenerate phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifier,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘2005), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, March 6–11, 2005; paper OWN6.

  138. M. Vasilyev, E. Vasilyeva, and P. Kumar, ―Efficient coupling between metal nanoaperture and a macroscopic cavity,‖ presented at the Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology (SPRING) Annual Scientific Meeting, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX, November 11–13.

  139. P. Kumar, X. Li, J. Chen, and P. L. Voss, ―Telecom-Band Entanglement Generation and Distribution in Standard Fibers,‖ invited paper presented at the conference on Quantum Optics and Applications in Computing and Communications, Beijing, China, November 8–12, 2004 as part of Photonics Asia.

  140. P. L. Voss, R. Tang, J. Lasri, P. Devgan, and P. Kumar, ―Noise limits in fiber optical parametric amplification and wavelength conversion,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE International Symposium on Information Technologies and Communications (ITCom 2004)––Conference on Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications IV (Conference 5595), Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 25–28, 2004; paper 5595-05.

  141. G. C. Cardoso, G. S. Pati, V. Gopal, A. Heifetz, M. S. Shahriar, and P. Kumar, ―Single-photon Raman gain for single-photon detection,‖ presented at the Frontiers in Optics––Annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Rochester, NY, October 10–14, 2004; paper LMC4.

  142. P. Kumar, E. Corndorf, C. Liang, G. S. Kanter, and V. S. Grigoryan, ―Quantum communications: A practical perspective,‖ invited paper presented at the Frontiers in Optics––Annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Rochester, NY, October 10–14, 2004; paper FMR3.

  143. P. Devgan, J. Lasri, V. S. Grigoryan, W. L. Kath and P. Kumar, ―10-GHz regeneratively mode-locked fiber optical parametric oscillator with timing jitter suppression,‖ presented at the Frontiers in Optics––Annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, Rochester, NY, October 10–14, 2004; paper FWS3.

  144. A. R. Altman, K. G. Köprülü, E. Corndorf, P. Kumar, and G. A. Barbosa, ―Entanglement induced spatial splitting of light,‖ invited paper presented at the 1st International Workshop (a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop) on Imaging at the Limits, Institut D‘ Études Scientifiques De Cargèse (IESC), Cargèse, (Corsica, France), September 6–11, 2004.

  145. V. S. Grigoryan, G. S. Kanter, E. Corndorf, and P. Kumar, ―Long-Haul 10Gb/s Encrypted Data Transmission Protected by Quantum Noise,‖ presented at the 30th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC‘04), Stockholm, Sweden, September 5–9, 2004; paper We4.P.121.

  146. P. Devgan, J. Lasri, R. Tang, V. S. Grigoryan, and P. Kumar, ―40GHz Soliton-Pulse Fiber-Optical Parametric Oscillator for Simultaneous Use in the C- and L-Bands,‖ presented at the 30th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC‘04), Stockholm, Sweden, September 5–9, 2004; paper Tu3.3.3.

  147. P. Kumar, ―Long-distance distribution of fiber-generated entanglement,‖ invited paper presented at the 2nd Feynman Festival, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, August 20–25, 2004.

  148. A. R. Altman, K. G. Köprülü, E. Corndorf, P. Kumar, and G. A. Barbosa, ―Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations induced by orbital angular momentum,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the conference on Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications (NLO‘04), Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Waikoloa, Hawaii, August 2-6, 2004; paper PD4.

  149. P. Kumar, ―Telecom-Band Entanglement Generation, Storage, and Long-Distances Distribution,‖ invited paper presented at the conference on Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications (NLO‘04), Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Waikoloa, Hawaii, August 2-6, 2004; paper FA1.

  150. J. Chen, X. Li, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum Theory for Two-Photon-State Generation by Means of Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Fiber,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE 2004 Annual Meeting: Conference on Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging II (Conference 5551), Denver, CO, August 2–6, 2004; paper 5551-21.

  151. P. Kumar, ―Practical Quantum Communication and Cryptography for WDM Optical Networks,‖ QCM Award Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM&C‘04), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., July 25–29, 2004.

  152. P. Kumar, R. Tang, and P. Voss, ―Quantum limits of optical amplification,‖ invited paper presented at the 2004 Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications conference (OAA‘2004), San Francisco, CA, June 27–30, 2004; paper OTuA4.

  153. P. Kumar, X. Li, P. Voss, J. Chen, S. Dugan, ―Fiber-optic quantum communication,‖ invited paper presented at the 1st Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Conference on Quantum Optics and Advanced Spectroscopy, Cleveland, OH, June 8–9, 2004.

  154. E. Corndorf, G. S. Kanter, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum-noise protected data encryption for WDM networks,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2004), San Francisco, CA, May 16–21, 2004; paper CPDD8.

  155. J. Lasri, P. Devgan, V. S. Grigoryan, and P. Kumar, ―Multiwavelength NRZ-to-RZ conversion with timing-jitter suppression,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2004), San Francisco, CA, May 16–21, 2004; paper CFG2. See CLEO‘2004 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2004).

  156. E. Corndorf, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Data Encryption over Inline-Amplified 100km-Long WDM Link using Coherent-State Quantum Cryptography,‖ presented at the Conference on Quantum Information and Computation (OR18) (Conference 5436)––Part of SPIE‘s International Symposium on Defense and Security, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, FL, 12–16 April 2004; paper 5436-03.

  157. P. L. Voss and P. Kumar, ―Raman-effect induced noise-figure limit for c(3) parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters,‖ presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘2004), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, February 22–27, 2004; paper TuK4.

  158. P. Voss, X. Li, R. Tang, J. Sharping, and P. Kumar, ―Raman-induced limits on applications of fiber parametric amplifiers,‖ presented at the 34th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 4–8, 2004.

  159. M. S. Arnold, J. E. Sharping, P. Kumar, S. I Stupp, and M. C. Hersam, ―Stimulated Emission of Infrared Radiation in Isolated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes,‖ presented at the 2003 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1–5, 2003; paper N16.5.

  160. E. Corndorf, C. Liang, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum-noise protected high-speed data encryption in the telecom band of standard optical fiber,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘03), Tucson, Arizona, October 26–30, 2003; paper PD1-3. See proceedings of the 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, post-conference edition.

  161. P. Kumar, J. Lasri, P. Devgan, and R. Tang, ―Fiber Nonlinearity Based Devices for Advanced Fiber-Optic Communication and Signal Processing,‖ invited paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘03), Tucson, Arizona, October 26–30, 2003; paper MK1. See proceedings of the 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Vol. 1 pp. 103-104.

  162. P. Devgan, J. Lasri, R. Tang, and P. Kumar, ―Ultra-low-jitter multiwavelength synchronized optical pulse source for C, L, and U bands,‖ presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘03), Tucson, Arizona, October 26–30, 2003; paper WA3. See proceedings of the 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Vol. 2, pp. 473–474.

  163. J. Lasri, P. Devgan, R. Tang, and P. Kumar, ―Ultra-Low Timing Jitter 40Gb/s Clock Recovery Using a Novel Electroabsorption-Modulator-Based Self-Starting Optoelectronic Oscillator,‖ presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘03), Tucson, Arizona, October 26–30, 2003; paper TuY6. See proceedings of the 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Vol. 1, pp. 390–391.

  164. X. Li, P. Voss, J. E. Sharping, J. Chen, and P. Kumar, ―Generation and distribution of quantum entanglement in the telecom band with standard optical fiber,‖ presented at the 2003 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 5–9, 2003; paper WAA4. See the Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  165. J. E. Sharping, P. Kumar, M. S. Arnold, M. C. Hersam, and S. I Stupp, ―Stimulated emission in single-walled carbon nanotubes,‖ presented at the 2003 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 5–9, 2003; paper MV10. See the Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  166. P. L. Voss, K. G. Köprülü, S.-K. Choi, S. Dugan, and P. Kumar, ―Room temperature high speed InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode single photon counters,‖ presented at the 2003 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 5–9, 2003; paper WAA1. See the Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  167. J. H. Shapiro, F. N. C. Wong, P. Kumar, and S. M. Shahriar, ―Progress toward long-distance, high-fidelity quantum communication,‖ invited paper presented at the 2003 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 5–9, 2003; paper ThKK3. See the Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  168. P. Kumar, X. Li, P. L. Voss, J. E. Sharping, and J. Chen, ―Devices for Optical Fiber Quantum Communications,‖ invited paper presented at ITCom 2003––SPIE International Symposium on Information Technologies and Communications––Conference on Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices for Lightwave Communication (Conference 5248), September 8–10, 2003, Orlando, FL; paper 5248-01.

  169. M. S. Arnold, J. E. Sharping, S. I. Stupp, P. Kumar, and M. C. Hersam, ―Stimulated Emission and Optical Gain in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes,‖ presented at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-Nano' 2003), August 12–14, 2003, San Francisco, CA; paper WG5.

  170. P. Kumar, E. Corndorf, C. Liang, G. Barbosa, and H. Yuen, ―Efficient quantum cryptography with coherent-state light in optical fibers at Gbps rates,‖ invited paper presented at the SPIE 2003 Annual Meeting: Conference on Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging (Conference 5161), August 3–8, 2003, San Diego, CA; paper 5161-45.

  171. P. Kumar, ―Fiber-Optic Quantum Communication,‖ invited paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR‘2003), Puebla, Mexico, June 9–13, 2003.

  172. P. Kumar, ―Towards noiseless amplification of optical signals,‖ invited paper presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2003), Baltimore, MD, June 1–6, 2003; paper CThD3. See CLEO‘2003 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  173. X. Li, P. Voss, J E. Sharping, and P. Kumar, ―Violation of Bell‘s inequality near 1550 nm using an all-fiber source of polarization-entangled photon pairs,‖ presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2003), Baltimore, MD, June 1–6, 2003; paper QTuB4. See QELS‘03 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  174. J. Lasri, P. Devgan, R. Tang, J. E. Sharping, and P. Kumar, ―A 10-GHz Rate Microstructure-Fiber Based Widely-Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillator in the Telecom Band,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers Science Conference (CLEO‘2003), Baltimore, MD, June 1–6, 2003; paper CWA66. See CLEO‘03 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  175. P. Kumar, ―Quantum noise in microstructure-fiber optical parametric amplifiers,‖ invited paper presented at the Conference on Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics, SPIE‘s Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise 2003 (Conference FN03-FN02), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1-4, 2003; paper 5111-23.

  176. G. A. Barbosa, E. Corndorf, C. Liang, P. Kumar, and H. P. Yuen, ―Quantum noise of light as a natural encryption mechanism,‖ presented at the Conference on Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics, SPIE‘s Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise 2003 (Conference FN03-FN02), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1-4, 2003; paper 5111-17.

  177. P. Kumar, ―AlphaEta (ah): Ultra-Secure and Ultra-Efficient Quantum Cryptographic Schemes for Optical Systems, Networks, and the Internet,‖ invited paper presented at the Army Quantum Cryptography Testbed Transitions Workshop, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, April 28, 2003.

  178. P. Voss and P. Kumar, ―Room temperature IR InGaAs/InP APD photon counters for quantum optics experiments,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop on Single Photon: Detectors, Applications, and Measurement Methods, held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, March 31 – April 1, 2003. The workshop was sponsored by NIST and ARDA.

  179. R. Tang, P. Devgan, J. E. Sharping, P. Voss, J. Lasri, and P. Kumar, ―Microstructure-fiber based optical parametric amplifier in the 1550nm telecom band,‖ presented at the 2003 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘03), Atlanta, GA, March 23–28, 2003; paper ThT2. See pp. 562–563 of the OFC’2003 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2003).

  180. P. Kumar, ―Fiber-Optic Quantum Communication and Cryptography,‖ invited paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Project QUANTIM, held at Villa Cipressi, Varenna, Italy, March 5–8, 2003.

  181. J E. Sharping, P. Devgan, R. Tang, P. Voss, J. Lasri, and P. Kumar, ―Highly Nonlinear Microstructure Fibers: Characterization and Applications,‖ poster paper presented at the PTAP Specialty Optical Fiber Workshop, held at Boston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA, February 25, 2003. The Workshop was sponsored by the Photonics Technology Access Program (PTAP), which has been established by the NSF and DARPA in conjunction with the Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA).

  182. P. Kumar, ―Efficient quantum cryptography with coherent-state light in optical fibers at Gbps rates,‖ invited paper presented at the 2nd Workshop on Quantum Cryptographic Applications held at MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, February 11–12, 2003. The Workshop was sponsored by NSA, NRO, and ARDA.

  183. P. Kumar, ―Spatially Broadband Parametric Amplification: Quantum-Noise Correlations and Noiseless Amplification of Images,‖ invited paper presented at the NASA-DoD Workshop on Quantum Imaging and Metrology held in Pasadena, CA, November 14–15, 2002. The Workshop was sponsored by NASA, ARO, NSA, ARDA, and ONR.

  184. E. Corndorf, Chuang Liang, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―Secure and efficient quantum cryptography with coherent-state light,‖ presented at the 2002 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, September 29–October 4, 2002; paper MDD4. See p. 67 of the 2002 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2002).

  185. X. Li, M. Fiorentino, P. L. Voss, J. E. Sharping, G. A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―All-fiber photon-pair source for quantum communications,‖ presented at the 2002 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, September 29–October 4, 2002; paper ThG1. See p. 123 of the 2002 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2002).

  186. X. Li, P. L. Voss, J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, and P. Kumar, ―An all-fiber source of polarization-entangled photon pairs in the 1550 nm telecom band,‖ presented as a postdeadline paper at the Conference on Nonlinear Optics (NLO‘2002) Maui, Hawaii, July 29–August 2, 2002.

  187. P. Kumar, M. Fiorentino, J. E. Sharping, and P. L. Voss, ―Fiber-optic sources for quantum communication,‖ presented at the Conference on Nonlinear Optics (NLO‘2002) Maui, Hawaii, July 29–August 2, 2002. See Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS), Vol. 79, Nonlinear Optics, OSA Technical Digest, Post-conference Edition, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2002), pp. 28–30.

  188. G. A. Barbosa, E. Corndorf, P. Kumar, H. P. Yuen, G. M. D‘Ariano, M. G. A. Paris, and P. Perinotti, ―Secure communication using coherent states,‖ presented at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM&C‘02) held at the MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA, July 22–26, 2002.

  189. P. Kumar, ―Fiber-Optic Sources of Quantum Entanglement,‖ invited paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM&C‘02) held at the MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA, July 22–26, 2002.

  190. P. Voss, R. Tang, and P. Kumar, ―Measurement of the Photon Statistics of a Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier,‖ presented at the Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Topical Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 14–17, 2002; see Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2002), paper OMD3.

  191. P. Kumar, ―Quantum cryptography in free space with coherent-state light,‖ invited paper presented at the Free-Space Laser Communication and Laser Imaging II, SPIE‘s International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology (Conference 4821), July 7–11, 2002, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, paper 4821–50.

  192. M. Fiorentino, P.L. Voss, X. Li, J. E. Sharping, G.A. Barbosa, and P. Kumar, ―All-fiber photon-pair source for quantum communications,‖ presented as a postdeadline paper at the 2002 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘02), Long Beach, CA, May 19–24, 2002; paper QPD4. See QELS‘02 Post Conference Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2002).

  193. G. A. Barbosa, E. Corndorf, and P. Kumar, ―Quantum cryptography with coherent-state light: Demonstration of a secure data encryption scheme operating at 100kb/s,‖ presented at the 2002 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘02), Long Beach, CA, May 19–24, 2002; paper QThD3. See QELS‘02 Post Conference Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2002), pp. 189–190.

  194. J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler ―A microstructure-fiber based optical parametric oscillator,‖ presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2002), Long Beach, CA, may 19–24, 2002; paper CtuB2. See CLEO‘02 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2002), pp. 141–142.

  195. M. Fiorentino, J. E. Sharping, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler ―Quantum solitons in microstructure fibers,‖ presented at the IV Conference on Quantum Interferometry, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, March 11–15, 2002.

  196. P. Voss, and P. Kumar, ―Experimental Realization of ‗Universal Homodyne Tomography‘ with a Single Local Oscillator‖ invited paper presented at the 32nd Winter Colloquium on The Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 6–10, 2002.

  197. P. Kumar, ―Fiber-optic quantum communications,‖ invited paper presented at the 32nd Winter Colloquium on The Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 6–10, 2002.

  198. J. E. Sharping, M Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler ―Experimental nonlinear optics in microstructure fiber,‖ presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘01), San Diego, CA, November 12-15, 2001, paper WV3. See pp. 572-573 of the LEOS’01 Conference Proceedings, (IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., 2001).

  199. M. Fiorentino, P. Voss, J. E. Sharping and P. Kumar, ―Fourth-order quantum interference at 1550 nm,‖ presented at the 2001 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 14-19, 2001, paper ThF2. See p. 102 of the 2001 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2001).

  200. J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler, ―Nonlinear fiber optics in microstructure fiber,‖ presented at the 2001 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 14-19, 2001, paper ThF2. See p. 102 of the 2001 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2001).

  201. P. Kumar, ―Fiber generated quantum correlations for quantum-optical communications,‖ invited paper presented at the Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 13-16, 2001, Campus of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. See Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII, Edited by N. P. Bigelow, J. H. Eberly, C. R. Stroud, and I. A. Walmsley, (Kluwer, New York, 2003), p. 185.

  202. M. Fiorentino, J. E. Sharping, P. Kumar, A. Porzio, and R. S. Windeler, ―Soliton squeezing n a microstructure fiber,‖ invited paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR‘2001), June 4-8, 2001, Boston, MA; see Conference Proceedings edited by D. Han, Y. S. Kim, B. E. A. Saleh, A. V. Sergienko, and M. C. Teich (Online Publication), http://www.wam.umd.edu/ys/boston.html.

  203. P. Kumar, ―Quantum communication with fiber-optic devices,‖ invited paper presented at the 2001 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2001), Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2001; paper QThA2. See QELS‘01 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2001) p. 171.

  204. H. Cao, Y. Ling, J. Y. Xu, C. Q. Cao, and P. Kumar, ―Generation of coherent light from a disordered medium,‖ presented at the 2001 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2001) Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2001; paper QWG6. See QELS‘01 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2001), p. 170.

  205. J. E. Sharping, A. Coker, M. Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler, ―Four-Wave Mixing in Microstructure Fiber,‖ presented to the 2001 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2001), Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2001; paper CThQ2. See CLEO ‘01 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2001), p. 508.

  206. M. Fiorentino, J. E. Sharping, P. Voss, P. Kumar, D. Levandovsky, and M. Vasilyev, ―Soliton squeezing in asymmetric and symmetric fiber Mach-Zehnder nonlinear interferometers,‖ presented to the 2001 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS‘2001), Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2001; paper QMC7. See QELS‘01 Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2001), pp. xx-xx.

  207. A. Agarwal, L. Wang, Y. Su, and P. Kumar, ―All-optical erasable storage buyer based on parametric nonlinearity in fiber,‖ presented at the 2001 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘01), Anaheim, CA, March 17-22, 2001; paper ThH5.

  208. P. Voss, Y. Su, and P. Kumar, ―Photon statistics of a single mode of spontaneous Raman scattering in a distributed Raman amplifier,‖ presented at the 2001 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘01), Anaheim, CA, March 17-22, 2001; paper WDD23.

  209. Y. Su, L. Wang, A. Agarwal, and P. Kumar, ―Simultaneous 3R regeneration and wavelength conversion using a fiber-parametric limiting amplifier,‖ presented at the 2001 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘01), Anaheim, CA, March 17-22, 2001; paper MG4.

  210. G. A. Barbosa and P. Kumar, ―Efficient Quantum Cryptography: Experiment,‖ invited paper presented at the DARPA Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) Workshop, October 23-24, 2000, Greenbelt, MD; paper 2.16.

  211. M. Fiorentino, J. E. Sharping, D. Levandovsky, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Soliton squeezing in a Mach-Zehnder fiber interferometer,‖ presented as a post-deadline paper at the 2000 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, October 22-26, Paper PD5.

  212. J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, and P. Kumar, ―Observation of twin-beams type quantum correlations in optical fiber,‖ presented at the 2000 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, October 22-26, Paper WM2. See p. 99 of the 2000 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000).

  213. T.-G. Noh, P. Voss, M. Vasilyev, P. Kumar, and G. M. D‗Ariano, ―Universal homodyne tomography: Experimental realization applied to the twin-beam quantum state,‖ presented at the 2000 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, October 22-26, Paper MH7. See p. 58 of the 2000 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000).

  214. G. S. Kanter, M. Fiorentino, D. K. Serkland, P. Kumar, K. R. Parameswaran, and M. M. Fejer, ―Quantum-noise squeezing in periodically-poled lithium-niobate waveguides: Detection by use of a spatio-temporally matched local oscillator,‖ presented at the 2000 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, October 22-26, Paper WM3. See p. 99 of the 2000 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000).

  215. P. Kumar, ―Quantum fiber-optics: Some recent experimental and theoretical developments,” invited paper presented at the Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting (NLO‘2000) held in Kauai-Lihue, HI, August 7-11, 2000; paper ThA6. See NLO‘2000 pages 319–320.

  216. P. Kumar, ―Advances in Quantum Optics with use of a Q-switched and Mode-Locked Pump Laser,‖ invited paper presented at the ―Townes Festival: Festive Workshop on Quantum Optics,‖ commemorating the achievements of Prof. Charles Townes, Nobel Laureates and inventor of the maser, held at Jackson Hole Resort, Teton Village, WY, July 30-August 4, 2000.

  217. P. Kumar, ―Homodyne tomography of the twin-beam quantum state,‖ invited paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM&C‘00) held in Capri, Italy, July 3-8, 2000.

  218. P. Kumar, ―MIT/NU Collaboration on Quantum Information Technology: Entanglement, Teleportation, and Quantum Memory,‖ invited paper presented at the kickoff meeting of the Quantum Communication and Quantum Memory (QCQM) Initiative held at CECOM, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, June 13-14, 2000.

  219. P. Kumar, ―Integrated Devices for Terabit per Second 1.3 and 1.5 Micron WDM/TDM Network Applications,‖ invited paper presented at the AFOSR Contractors and Grantees Workshop held at SRI, Menlo Park, CA, May 25-26, 2000.

  220. L. Wang, Y. Su, A. Agarwal, and P. Kumar, ―An all-optical picosecond-pulse packet buffer based on four-wave mixing loading and intracavity soliton control,‖ postdeadline paper presented at the 2000 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO‘2000) held in San Francisco, CA, May 7-12, 2000. See CLEO‘2000 Postdeadline Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000), paper CPD20.

  221. L. Wang, Y. Su, A. Agarwal, and P. Kumar, ―All-optical laser synchronization and clock recovery based on dynamic parametric gain modulation,‖ presented at the 2000 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘00), Baltimore, MD, March 5-10, 2000; paper ThP6. See OFC‘00 Technical Digest for Thursday, March 9, 2000, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000), pp. 235-237.

  222. A. Agarwal, L. Wang, Y. Su, and P. Kumar, ―All-optical storage of picosecond pulse packets using wavelength-induced XPM and parametric amplification,‖ presented at the 2000 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘00), Baltimore, MD, March 5-10, 2000; paper TuN3. See OFC‘00 Technical Digest for Tuesday, March 7, 2000, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 2000), pp. 216-218.

  223. P. Kumar, ―Quantum correlations in parametric amplification: their measurement for testing the state reduction rule of quantum mechanics,‖ invited paper presented at the Winter Institute on Foundations of Quantum Theory and Quantum Optics at the S. N. Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences, Calcutta, India, January 1-13, 2000.

  224. L. Wang, Y. Su, A. Agarwal, and P. Kumar, ―Two-Wavelength Fiber-Optic Parametric Oscillator,‖ presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘99), San Francisco, CA, November 9-11, 1999, Paper MJ5. See pp. 88-89 of the LEOS’99 Conference Proceedings, (IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., 1999).

  225. P. Voss, M. Vasilyev, D. Levandovsky, T.-G. Noh, and P. Kumar, ―Photon statistics of a single mode of amplified spontaneous emission noise in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier,‖ presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘99), San Francisco, CA, November 9-11, 1999, Paper ThJ3. See pp. 736-737 of the LEOS’99 Conference Proceedings, (IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., 1999).

  226. Y. Su, L. Wang, and P. Kumar, ―Wavelength Tunable All-Optical Clock Recover Using a Fiber Parametric Oscillator,‖ presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS‘99), San Francisco, CA, November 9-11, 1999, Paper TuZ6. See pp. 351-352 of the LEOS’99 Conference Proceedings, (IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., 1999).

  227. M. Vasilyev, S.-K. Choi, and P. Kumar, ―Optical homodyne tomography of parametric twin beams,‖ invited paper presented at the 1999 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, September 26-October 1, Paper ThD4. See pp. 132 of the 1999 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1999).

  228. P. Voss, T.-G. Noh, M. Vasilyev, D. Levandovsky, and P. Kumar, ―A Novel Application of Optical Homodyne Tomography: Measuring the Photon Statistics of Amplified Spontaneous Emission in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier,‖ presented at the 1999 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, September 26-October 1, Paper ThD3. See pp. 132 of the 1999 Annual Meeting Program Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1999).

  229. P. Kumar, S.-K. Choi, and M. Vasilyev, ―Spatially broadband parametric amplification: quantum-noise correlations and noiseless optical amplification of images,‖ invited paper presented at the 8th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS‘99), Budapest, Hungary, July 2-6, 1999. The Workshop was a part of World Conference for Science, which was the main UNESCO conference in 1999.

  230. P. Kumar, M. Vasilyev, D. Levandovsky, and S.-K. Choi, ―Quantum optics with short pulses: some recent experimental and theoretical developments,‖ invited paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR‘99), Centro Universitario di Monte Sant‘Angelo, Universita ―Frederico II,‖ Napoli, Italy, 24-29 May 1999.

  231. D. Levandovsky, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, ―Bright sub-Poissonian light from a GAWBS-compensated nonlinear-fiber Sagnac interferometer,‖ presented at the 1999 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS‘99, Baltimore, MD, May 23-28, 1999; paper QTuG14. See QELS‘99 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1999), pp. 70-71.

  232. D. K. Serkland and P. Kumar, ―Tunable Pulsed Fiber-Optic Parametric Oscillator,‖ presented at the 1999 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘99), San Diego, CA, February 21-26, 1999; paper TuB4. See OFC‘99 Technical Digest for Tuesday, February 23, 1999, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1999), pp. 13-15.

  233. P. Kumar, ―Spatially broadband parametric amplification: quantum-noise correlations and noiseless amplification of images,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop on Fundamental Issues in Image Formation, Detection, and Processing held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, February 6-7, 1999. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of New Mexico and the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center.

  234. P. Kumar, ―Parametric-Amplification based Storage Buffers and Regenerators for Tb/s Packet-Switched Networks,‖ invited paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS-98) held at IIT/Delhi, New Delhi, India, December 14-18, 1998.

  235. G. Kanter and P. Kumar, ―A push-pull nonlinear Sagnac interferometer based on internally-seeded cascaded nonlinearity,‖ presented at the 1998 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 4-9. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1998, pp. 119, Paper ThB6.

  236. M. Vasilyev, S.-K. Choi, P. Kumar, and G. M. D‘Ariano, ―Measurement of the joint photon-number distribution of a two-mode quantum state by means of optical homodyne tomography,‖ presented at the 1998 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 4-9. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol.9, No. 8, August 1998, pp. 149, Paper ThZZ3.

  237. P. Kumar, ―Squeezed-light generation by means of the traveling-wave c(2) interaction using picosecond pulses,‖ invited paper presented at the 1998 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 4-9. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1998, pp. 149, Paper ThZZ1.

  238. ―Measurement of the joint photon-number distribution of a twin-beam state,‖ (with M. Vasilyev, S.-K. Choi, and G. M. D‘Ariano) presented at the 4th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM‘98), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, August 22-27, 1998.

  239. ―Optimum noise filtering of quantum solitons,‖ (with D. Levandovsky and M. Vasilyev) presented at the 4th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM‘98), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, August 22-27, 1998.

  240. ―Noiseless image amplification by a phase-sensitive parametric amplifier,‖ (with S.-K. Choi and M. Vasilyev) presented at the 4th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCM‘98), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, August 22-27, 1998.

  241. ―All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification: phase-insensitive loading,‖ (with G. D. Bartolini and D. K. Serkland), presented at the Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Topical Meeting, Vail, CO, July 27-29, 1998, paper TuD11. See Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1998), pp. 159-162.

  242. ―Noiseless image amplification by a phase-sensitive parametric amplifier,‖ (with S.-K. Choi and M. Vasilyev), presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, CLEO‘98, San Francisco, CA, May 3-8, 1998; Paper CThY1. See CLEO‘98 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 6, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1998), pp. 470-471.

  243. ―Optimum Noise Filtering of Quantum Solitons,‖ with D. Levandovsky and M. Vasilyev), presented at the International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC‘98, San Francisco, CA, May 3-8, 1998; Paper QWG5. See IQEC‘98 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol.7, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1998), pp. 131-132.

  244. ―Pulsed optical parametric oscillator based on the fiber Kerr nonlinearity,‖ (with D. K. Serkland and G. D. Bartolini), presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, CLEO‘98, San Francisco, CA, May 3-8, 1998; Paper CTuJ6. See CLEO‘98 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 6, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1998), p. 109.

  245. ―All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification: demonstration of single-shot loading,‖ (with G. D. Bartolini and D. K. Serkland), presented at the 1998 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘98), San Jose, CA, February 22-27, 1998; paper WM22. See OFC‘98 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 2, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1998), pp. 201-202.

  246. ―Parametric devices for ultra-high-speed TDM systems,‖ invited paper presented at the National Laser Symposium, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, December 10-12, 1997.

  247. ―Quantum noise in parametric image amplification,‖ invited paper presented at the 1997 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 12-17. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1997, pp. 113, Paper TuGGG7.

  248. ―Linearized quantum-fluctuation theory of spectrally filtered optical solitons,‖ (with A. Mecozzi), presented at the 1997 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 12-17. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1997, pp. 142, Paper ThD2.

  249. ―Pulsed response of a fiber-optic phase-sensitive parametric amplifier,‖ (with G. Kanter and W. L. Kath), presented at the 1997 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 12-17. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1997, pp. 112, Paper TuCCC5.

  250. ―All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification,‖ (with G. D. Bartolini, D. K. Serkland, and W. L. Kath), presented at the Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Topical Meeting, Victoria, Canada, July 21-23, 1997, paper WC6. See Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1997), pp. 247-250.

  251. ―Guided-Wave Quantum Optics,‖ invited paper presented at the IInd Workshop on Quantum Optics and Quantum Computation, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, June 25-28, 1997.

  252. ―Theory of sub-Poissonian optical solitons,‖ (with A. Mecozzi), presented at the 1997 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS‘97, Baltimore, MD, May 18-23, 1997. See QELS‘97 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1997), pp. 93-94.

  253. ―Observation of Quantum Noise Correlations in Parametric Image Amplification,‖ (with S.-K. Choi and M. L. Marable), presented at the 1997 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS‘97, Baltimore, MD, May 18-23, 1997. See QELS‘97 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1997), pp. 94-95.

  254. ―Self-homodyne tomography: measurement of the photon statistics of parametric fluorescence,‖ (with M. V. Vasilyev, M. L. Marable, S.-K. Choi, and G. M. D‘Ariano), presented at the 1997 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, QELS‘97, Baltimore, MD, May 18-23, 1997. See QELS‘97 Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1997), pp. 95-96.

  255. ―A Highly-Stable 59 GHz Soliton Source at 1550 nm,‖ (with D. K. Serkland, G. D. Bartolini, W. L. Kath, D. W. Anthon, and D. L. Sipes), presented at the 1997 Spring Topical Meeting on Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics, March 17-19, 1997, Incline Village, NV. See Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics, Technical Digest, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1997), pp. 69-71.

  256. ―Rate Doubling of a Highly-Stable Soliton Source,‖ (with D. K. Serkland, G. D. Bartolini, W. L. Kath, and A. V. Sahakian), presented at the 1997 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘97), Dallas, TX, February 16-21, paper ThL5. See OFC‘97 Technical Digest, Vol. 6, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1997), pp. 292-293.

  257. ―Observation of Quantum Noise Correlations in Parametric Image Amplification,‖ (with M. L. Marable and S.-K. Choi), postdeadline paper presented at the 1996 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 20-24. Paper PD23.

  258. ―Evaluation of dynamic semiconductor nonlinearities by continuous time-resolved Z-Scan (CWZ-scan),‖ (with D. O. Caplan), presented at the 1996 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 20-24. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 7, No. 8, July 1996, pp. 176, Paper ThDD6.

  259. ―Sub-Poissonian light generation in a nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer,‖ (with D. Levandovsky and M. V. Vasilyev), presented at the 1996 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 20-24. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 7, No. 8, July 1996, pp. 148, Paper WGG8.

  260. ―Experiments on soliton pulse storage using phase-sensitive amplification,‖ (with G. D. Bartolini, D. K. Serkland, and W. L. Kath), presented at the 1996 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 20-24. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 7, No. 8, July 1996, pp. 76, Paper MP3.

  261. ―Squeezing by means of traveling-wave second-harmonic generation in a quasi-phasematched lithium niobate waveguide,‖ (with D. K. Serkland, M. A. Arbore, and M. M. Fejer), presented at the 1996 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 20-24. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 7, No. 8, July 1996, pp. 182, Paper ThNN7.

  262. ―Quantum Properties of the Traveling-Wave c(2) Process: Theory, Experiments, and Applications,‖ invited paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Quantum Communication & Measurement (QCM‘96) held at Mt. Fuji-Hakone Land, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, September 25-30, 1996.

  263. ―Amplitude squeezing of the fundamental field by means of traveling-wave second-harmonic generation in a quasi-phasematched LiNbO3 waveguide,‖ (with D. K. Serkland, M. A. Arbore, and M. M. Fejer), invited paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Quantum Communication & Measurement (QCM‘96) held at Mt. Fuji-Hakone Land, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, September 25-30, 1996.

  264. ―Technique for measuring time-dependent optical nonlinearities using continuous time-resolved Z-scan,‖ (with D. O. Caplan and G. Kanter), presented at the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, CLEO‘96, Anaheim, CA, June 2-7, 1996. See Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, 1996 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 9 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1996), pp. 14-15.

  265. ―Spatio-temporally Broadband Optical Parametric Amplifiers for Free-Space Interconnects,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop on Multiple Wavelengths in Free-Space Optical Interconnects held at the Austing House, Taos, NM, February 4-7, 1996.

  266. ―Intensity noise correlation in phase conjugation using a double Raman system,‖ (with M. S. Shahriar and P. R. Hemmer), presented at the 1995 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, September 10-15. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 1995, pp. 182, Paper FN2.

  267. ―Quantum Properties of the Traveling-Wave c(2) Process: Theory, Experiments, and Applications,‖ invited lectures presented at the Summer School on Advances in Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy of Solids, held at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, July 2-10, 1995.

  268. ―Optical phase conjugation in the double Raman system,‖ (with P. R. Hemmer, M. S. Shahriar, and M. Cronin-Golomb), presented at the VIIth Rochester conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 7-10, 1995.

  269. ―Optical phase conjugation with gain in a bulk semiconductor,‖ with D. O. Caplan), presented at OEM/CHICAGO‘95, May 18-19, symposium on Optoelectronic and Related Technologies: Nonlinear Devices & effects, sponsored by the SPIE and the Optical Society of Chicago, paper 147.

  270. ―Periodic conjugation of optical solitons,‖ (with C. G. Goedde and W. L. Kath), presented at the OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications held at Dana Point, CA, February 23-25, 1995. See the 1995 OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 6, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1995), pp. 136-138.

  271. ―Long-term storage of a soliton bit stream using phase-sensitive amplification,‖ (with A. Mecozzi, W. L. Kath, and C. G. Goedde), presented at the OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications held at Dana Point, CA, February 23-25, 1995. See the 1995 OSA Technical Digest Series, Vol. 6, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1995), pp. 97-99.

  272. ―Periodic conjugation of optical solitons,‖ (with C. G. Goedde and W. L. Kath), presented at the Conference on Ultrafast Transmission Systems in Optical Fibres held at Miramare, Trieste, Italy, February 13-17, 1995.

  273. ―Quantum-noise reduction by means of the traveling-wave c(2) process,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop EC Network: Non-Classical Light, held at Corvara, Italy, January 28–February 4, 1995.

  274. ―Squeezing via traveling-wave SHG,‖ (with R.-D. Li), presented at the Workshop EC Network: Non-Classical Light, held at Corvara, Italy, January 28-February 4, 1995.

  275. ―Parametric Devices for Soliton Applications,‖ invited paper presented at the Workshop on Solitons for Switched Optical Communications: ―The Prospect of Switched Soliton Networks,‖ held at the Henderson House, Waltham, MA, December 9, 1994. The Workshop was organized by ARPA and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Its objective was to assess the utility of solitons in optical communication and devise a strategy to move soliton research from laboratory curiosity to realistic field trials.

  276. ―Applications of parametric amplifiers in optical soliton systems,‖ (with C. G. Goedde, W. L. Kath, and A. Mecozzi), invited paper presented at the Nonlinear Optics Workshop, 1994, held at the University of Arizona, October 9-11, 1994.

  277. ―Optical phase conjugation via gain without inversion in the double L system,‖ (with P. R. Hemmer, J. Donoghue, M. S. Shahriar, and M. Cronin-Golomb), presented at the 1994 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 2-7. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 184.

  278. ―Degenerate four-wave mixing noise measurements in semiconductors,‖ (with D. Caplan), presented at the 1994 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 2-7. See Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 126.

  279. ―Sub-Poissonian light generation by parametric deamplification,‖ (with R.-D. Li, S.-K. Choi, and C. Kim), presented at the 1994 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 2-7. Supplement to Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 119.

  280. ―Generation of sub-Poissonian pulses of light,‖ (with R.-D. Li, S.-K. Choi, C. Kim, and P. Kumar) postdeadline paper presented at the 1994 International Quantum Electronics Conference, Anaheim, CA, May 8-13, 1994. See 1994 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 9, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1994), pp. QPD18-QPD23.

  281. ―Squeezing via nonlinear phase shifts from a cascaded second-order nonlinearity,‖ (with R.-D. Li) presented at the 1994 International Quantum Electronics Conference, Anaheim, CA, May 8-13, 1994. See 1994 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 9, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1994), pp. 85-86.

  282. ―1.5 μm phase-sensitive amplifier for high-speed communications,‖ (with G. Bartolini, R. D. Li, W. Riha, and K. V. Reddy), presented at the 1994 Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC‘94), held in San Jose, CA, February 20-25. See OFC‘94 Technical Digest, Vol. 4, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1994), pp. 202-203.

  283. ―Optical pulse shaping using phase-sensitive amplification,‖ (with W. L. Kath and J. E. Oleksy), presented at the 1994 Integrated Photonics Research Conference (IPR‘94), held in San Francisco, CA, February 17-19. See IPR‘94 Technical Digest, Vol. 3, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1994), pp. 319-321.

  284. ―Phase-sensitive optical amplifiers,‖ (with W. L. Kath and R.-D. Li), invited paper presented at the 1994 Integrated Photonics Research Conference (IPR‘94), held in San Francisco, CA, February 17-19. See IPR‘94 Technical Digest, Vol. 3, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1994), pp. 316-318.

  285. ―Communication with quantum-optic devices,‖ presented at SPIE‘s international symposium, OE/LASE‘94, on Technologies for Optical Fiber Communications: Optical Amplifiers for High-Speed Applications, Los Angeles, CA, 22-29 January 1994, paper 2149-07.

  286. ―Spatial effects in traveling-wave squeezed-state generation and detection,‖ (with C. Kim and R. D. Li), presented at the 1993 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 3-8. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1993 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 16, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), pp. 143.

  287. ―Dispersion compensation with phase-sensitive amplifiers,‖ (with R.-D. Li, W. L. Kath, and J. N. Kutz), to be presented at the 1993 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, to be held in Toronto, Canada, October 3-8. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1993 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 16, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), pp. 100.

  288. ―Sub-shot-noise microscopy with squeezed light,‖ (with M. I. Kolobov), presented at the 1993 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 3-8. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1993 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 16, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), pp. 142.

  289. ―Role of Matched Local Oscillators in the Detection of Quadrature-Squeezed Light Generated by Means of Traveling-wave Optical Parametric Amplification,‖ (with C. Kim and R.-D. Li), presented at the Third International Workshop on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, August 10-13, 1993.

  290. ―Dispersion compensation with phase-sensitive optical amplifiers,‖ (with Ruo-Ding Li and William L. Kath), presented at the 1993 Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Lasers, Wolfeboro, NH, August 2-6, 1993.

  291. ―Long-Distance Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Fibers using Periodically-Spaced Parametric Amplifiers,‖ (with J. N. Kutz, W. L. Kath, and R.-D. Li), presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), July 12-16, 1993, Philadelphia, PA.

  292. ―Communication with quantum-optic devices,‖ presented at the Workshop on Future Trends of Quantum Structures and Device Applications held at Northwestern University, June 7-8, 1993, Evanston, Illinois.

  293. ―Long-Distance Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Fibers using Periodically-Spaced Parametric Amplifiers,‖ (with J. N. Kutz, W. L. Kath, and R.-D. Li), presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2-7, 1993. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1993 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), pp. 289.

  294. ―Spatial Effects in Traveling-Wave Squeezed-State Generation: Detection using a Self-Generated Matched Local-Oscillator,‖ (with C. Kim and R.-D. Li), invited paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 2-7, 1993. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1993 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), pp. 214.

  295. ―Stable Long-Distance Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Fibers using Periodically-Spaced Parametric Amplifiers,‖ (with J. N. Kutz, W. L. Kath, and R.-D. Li), presented at the Integrated Photonics Research Topical Meeting (IPR‘93), Palm Springs, CA, March 22-24, 1993. See Integrated Photonics Research Technical Digest, 1993 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1993), Vol. 10, pp. 48-50.

  296. ―Equivalence of twin beams and squeezed states in a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier,‖ (with C. Kim) presented at the 1992 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, held in Albuquerque, NM, September 20-25. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1992 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 23, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1992), pp. 193.

  297. ―Diode-laser pumped Raman-shifted oscillation in cesium vapor,‖ (with M. Poelker and P. R. Hemmer) presented at the 1992 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting held in Albuquerque, NM, September 20-25. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1992 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 23, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1992), pp. 128.

  298. ―Raman gain in a L three-level system with closely spaced ground states,‖ (with M. Shahriar, P. Hemmer, J. Donoghue, and M. Cronin-Golomb) presented at the 1992 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, held in Albuquerque, NM, September 20-25. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1992 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 23, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1992), pp. 127.

  299. ―Observation of Quantum Frequency Conversion,‖ (with J. Huang) presented at the XVIII International Quantum Electronics Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 14-19, 1992. See 1992 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 9, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1992), pp. 530-531.

  300. ―Observation of Quantum Frequency Conversion,‖ (with J. Huang) postdeadline paper presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1991, held in San Jose, CA, November 3-8. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1991 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 17, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1991), paper PD-17.

  301. ―Tunable squeezed-light generation from twin beams using an optical-phase feed-forward scheme: A broadband calculation,‖ (with C. Kim) presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1991, held in San Jose, CA, November 3-8. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1991 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 17, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1991), pp. 29.

  302. ―Quantum Frequency Conversion: Experimental Evidence,‖ (with J. Huang), presented at the 1991 Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Lasers, Wolfeboro, NH, July 22-26, 1991.

  303. ―Quantum-Noise Measurement in Difference Frequency Generation,‖ (with J. Huang), postdeadline paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 12-17, 1991. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1991 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 11, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1991), pp. 311.

  304. ―Precision Measurements with Twin Beams of Light,‖ invited paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 12-17, 1991. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1991 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 11, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1991), pp. 180.

  305. ―Quantum Optics with Q-switched Sources,‖ invited paper presented at the International Conference on Quantum Optics, Hyderabad, India, Jan. 5-10, 1991.

  306. ―Photon-Noise Reduction Experiments with a Q-switched Nd:YAG Laser,‖ (with J. Huang and O. Aytür), invited paper presented at OE/BOSTON‘90, November 5-9, symposium on Laser Noise, Conference 1376, sponsored by the SPIE.

  307. ―Quantum Frequency Conversion,‖ presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1990, held in Boston, MA, November 5-9. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1990 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 15, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 265.

  308. ―Sub-Shot Noise Measurements with Pulsed Twin Beams of Light,‖ (with J. Huang and O. Aytür), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1990, held in Boston, MA, November 5-9. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1990 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 15, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 4.

  309. ―Quantum Noise Reduction with a Q-switched Laser,‖ (with O. Aytür), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1990, held in Boston, MA, November 5-9. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1990 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 15, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 4.

  310. ―Pulsed Twin Beams of Light,‖ (with O. Aytür), postdeadline paper presented at the XVII International Quantum Electronics Conference held in Anaheim, CA, May 21-25, 1990. See International Conference on Quantum Electronics, Technical Digest Series 1990, Vol. 8, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 393-394.

  311. ―Pulsed Squeezed Light with an Incoherent Pump: Theoretical Analysis,‖ (with J. Huang and O. Aytür), presented at the XVII International Quantum Electronics Conference held in Anaheim, CA, May 21-25, 1990. See International Conference on Quantum Electronics, Technical Digest Series 1990, Vol. 8, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 44.

  312. ―Atomic Decay Rates in a Dielectric Medium: a Test of the Standard QED Hamiltonian,‖ (with S.-T. Ho), presented at the XVII International Quantum Electronics Conference held in Anaheim, CA, May 21-25, 1990. See International Conference on Quantum Electronics, Technical Digest Series 1990, Vol. 8, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1990), pp. 24.

  313. ―Partially-Coherent Squeezed Light: Generation and Detection,‖ (with O. Aytür), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1989, held in Orlando, FL, October 15-20. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1989 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 18, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1989), pp. 206-207.

  314. ―Generation of Partially Coherent Squeezed Light,‖ (with O. Aytür and J. Huang), postdeadline paper presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 24-28, 1989. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1989 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1989), pp. 256-257.

  315. ―Quantum Treatment of Field Propagation in an Atomic Medium,‖ (with S.-T. Ho), presented at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 24-28, 1989. See Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 1989 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 12, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1989), pp. 212.

  316. ―Photon Counting Statistics of Multimode Squeezed Light,‖ (with J. Huang), presented at the fourth International Laser Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2-6, 1988. See Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 33, 1988, pp. 1671.

  317. ―Single-Beam Squeezing in a Doppler Broadened Medium,‖ (with S.-T. Ho, N. C. Wong, and J. H. Shapiro), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1988, held in Santa Clara, CA, October 31-November 4. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1988 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 11, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1988), pp. 84.

  318. ―Frequency Correlated Laser Beam Generation in Sodium Vapor: Sodium-Density and Pump-Intensity Dependence,‖ (with B. Matthew Poelker), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 1988, held in Santa Clara, CA, October 31-November 4. See OSA Annual Meeting, 1988 Technical Digest Series, Vol. 11, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. 1988), pp. 92.

  319. ―Measured Spatial Mode Matching Efficiencies for Heterodyned GaAlAs Semiconductor Lasers,” (with K. A. Winick), presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, 1987. See Journal of Optical Society of America A, Vol. 4, 1987, pp. P59.

  320. ―Classical and Quantum Noise Transformations Produced by Self-Phase Modulation,‖ (with R. K. John and J. H. Shapiro) presented at the XV Int‘l Quantum Electronics Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1987. See Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 4, 1987, pp. P226.

  321. ―Squeezed State Experiments in Sodium Vapor,‖ (with M. W. Maeda and J. H. Shapiro), presented at Optical Society of America Annual Meeting 1986. See Journal of Optical Society of America A, Vol. 3, 1986, pp. P37.

  322. ―Observation of Squeezed Noise Produced by Forward Four-Wave Mixing in Sodium Vapor,” (with M. W. Maeda and J. H. Shapiro), presented at the XIV Int‘l Quantum Electronics Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1986. See Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 3, No. 8, part 2, 1986, pp. P238.

  323. ―Theory of Light Detection in the Presence of Feedback,‖ (with J. H. Shapiro, M. C. Teich, B.E.A. Saleh, and G. Saplakoglu), presented at the XIV Int‘l Quantum Electronics Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1986. See Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 3, No. 8, part 2, 1986, pp. P66.

  324. ―Quantum Theory of Nondegenerate Multiwave Mixing,‖ (with S.-T. Ho and J. H. Shapiro), presented at the XIV Int‘l Quantum Electronics Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1986. See Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 3, No. 8, part 2, 1986, pp. P64.