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B. J. Howell, I. J. Abramovitz, S. F. Jacobs, A. Mann, J. J. J. Staunton, A. Brunsting, P. M. Kuhn, H. Miranda, D. L. Sullivan, J. A. Decker, W. H. Lee, G. L. Mitchell, S. K. Tchejeyan, D. C. Gilkeson, D. C. Leiner, L. S. Sadovnik, D. E. Williamson, R. L. Hilliard, and E. Loewen

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6047-6048 (1995)  View: PDF

Optical diffraction by the microstructure of the wing of a moth

D. J. Brink, J. E. Smit, M. E. Lee, and A. Möller

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6049-6057 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Binary adaptive optics: atmospheric wave-front correction with a half-wave phase shifter

Gordon D. Love, Nigel Andrews, Philip Birch, David Buscher, Peter Doel, Colin Dunlop, John Major, Richard Myers, Alan Purvis, Ray Sharples, Andrew Vick, Andrew Zadrozny, Sergio R. Restaino, and Andreas Glindemann

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6058-6066 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Microwave spectroscopy of the Mars atmosphere

D. O. Muhleman and R. T. Clancy

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6067-6080 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Carousel interferometer

J. K. Kauppinen, I. K. Salomaa, and J. O. Partanen

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6081-6085 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Amplified double-coupler double-ring optical resonators with negative optical gain

Le Nguyen Binh, Shu Fun Luk, and Nam Quoc Ngo

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6086-6094 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate frequency control of an internal-mirror He–Ne laser by means of a radiation-heating system

Jun Ishikawa

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6095-6098 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of output power in hollow-waveguide lasers

Paweł Szczepański and Piotr Witoński

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6099-6107 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Fixed-wavelength operation of a copper-laser-pumped dye laser injection seeded by low-power He–Ne lasers

M. D. Ainsworth, A. C. J. Glover, and J. A. Piper

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6108-6113 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable room-temperature LiF:F₂⁺* tunable color-center laser for the 830–1060-nm spectral range pumped by second-harmonic radiation from a neodymium laser

V. V. Ter-Mikirtychev

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6114-6117 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam quality of InGaAs ridge lasers at high output power

Guido Hunziker and Christoph Harder

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6118-6122 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray matrix for Gaussian beam propagation in a nonlinear medium: experimental results

Shojiro Nemoto

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6123-6129 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Expression of third-order effective nonlinear susceptibility for third-harmonic generation in crystals

Xue-lin Yang and Sheng-wu Xie

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6130-6135 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical characteristics of stimulated Raman scattering in a multimode fiber obtained with an optical time-domain reflectometer

Jiro Morita and Takeaki Yoshimura

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6136-6143 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Image quality in time-resolved transillumination of highly scattering media

D. G. Papaioannou, G. W. ’t Hooft, J. J. M. Baselmans, and M. J. C. van Gemert

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6144-6157 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytic modeling of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers on the basis of intensity-dependent overlapping factors

S. Jarabo and M. A. Rebolledo

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6158-6163 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical vernier filter with fiber grating Fabry–Perot resonators

Y. H. Ja

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6164-6167 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate coupling coefficients for fiber couplers with weakly fused cross sections

Hung-chun Chang, Ting-Huei Lin, and Tzong-Lin Wu

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6168-6171 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Equivalent-optical-waveguide model for the analysis of optical waveguides by means of an asymptotic effective-index method

J. Rodríguez, S. Fernández, S. L. Palacios, R. D. Crespo, J. M. Fernández, A. Guinea, J. M. Virgós, and J. Olivares

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6172-6179 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

70-nm-bandwidth achromatic waveguide coupler

Sergio B. Mendes, Lifeng Li, James J. Burke, John E. Lee, and S. Scott Saavedra

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6180-6186 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

CO₂ laser-based differential absorption lidar system for range-resolved and long-range detection of chemical vapor plumes

Clinton B. Carlisle, Jan E. van der Laan, Lewis W. Carr, Philippe Adam, and Jean-Pierre Chiaroni

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6187-6200 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical systems design for a stratospheric lidar system

I. Stuart McDermid, T. Daniel Walsh, Apostolos Deslis, and Mary L. White

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6201-6210 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Plant canopy gap-size analysis theory for improving optical measurements of leaf-area index

Jing M. Chen and Josef Cihlar

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6211-6222 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote measurements of vertical profiles of atmospheric constituents with a UV–visible ranging spectrometer

K. Strong and R. L. Jones

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6223-6235 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical characteristics of a wind-roughened water surface: a two-dimensional theory

Kyu Yoshimori, Kazuyoshi Itoh, and Yoshiki Ichioka

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6236-6247 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiative transfer two-stream shape factors for ocean optics

N. J. McCormick and P. W. Francisco

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6248-6255 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Size–shape determination of nonspherical particles in suspension by means of full and depolarized static light scattering

Arturo Quirantes Sierra and Angel V. Delgado Mora

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6256-6262 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Presence of terrestrial atmospheric gas absorption bands in standard extraterrestrial solar irradiance curves in the near-infrared spectral region

Bo-Cai Gao and Robert O. Green

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6263-6268 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Atmospheric transmittance of an absorbing gas. 4. OPTRAN: a computationally fast and accurate transmittance model for absorbing gases with fixed and with variable mixing ratios at variable viewing angles

L. M. McMillin, L. J. Crone, M. D. Goldberg, and T. J. Kleespies

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6269-6274 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Selection of absorption lines for I₂–planar laser-induced fluorescence measurement of temperature in a compressible flow

Tomohide Ni-imi, Tetsuo Fujimoto, and Toshihiko Ishida

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6275-6281 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Orthographic double-beam holographic interferometry for limited-view optical tomography

Shaohua Chen, Suyi Huang, and Dufang Shi

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6282-6286 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Planar laser-induced-fluorescence imaging measurements of OH and hydrocarbon fuel fragments in high-pressure spray-flame combustion

M. G. Allen, K. R. McManus, D. M. Sonnenfroh, and P. H. Paul

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6287-6300 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of scattering properties of individual particles with a scanning flow cytometer

A. V. Chernyshev, V. I. Prots, A. A. Doroshkin, and V. P. Maltsev

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6301-6305 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Relationship between asymmetry parameter and hemispheric backscatter ratio: implications for climate forcing by aerosols

Stephen F. Marshall, David S. Covert, and Robert J. Charlson

Appl. Opt. 34(27), 6306-6311 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF