Evaluation of a reflectance model used in the SeaWiFS ocean color algorithm: implications for chlorophyll concentration retrievals

Banghua Yan, Knut Stamnes, Mitsuhiro Toratani, Wei Li, and Jakob J. Stamnes

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6243-6259 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Inversion of oceanic constituents in case I and II waters with genetic programming algorithms

Malik Chami and Denis Robilliard

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6260-6275 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytic beam spread function for ocean optics applications

Richard Sanchez and Norman J. McCormick

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6276-6288 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Bidirectional reflectance of oceanic waters: accounting for Raman emission and varying particle scattering phase function

André Morel, David Antoine, and Bernard Gentili

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6289-6306 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple-scattering lidar retrieval method: tests on Monte Carlo simulations and comparisons with in situ measurements

Luc R. Bissonnette, Gilles Roy, Laurent Poutier, Stewart G. Cober, and George A. Isaac

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6307-6324 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation characteristics of a diffracted M² beam

Sho Amano and Takayasu Mochizuki

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6325-6331 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and performance considerations of cat’s-eye retroreflectors for use in open-path Fourier-transform-infrared spectrometry

Robert L. Richardson and Peter R. Griffiths

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6332-6340 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration and uncertainty estimation of erythemal radiometers in the Argentine Ultraviolet Monitoring Network

Alexander Cede, Eduardo Luccini, Liliana Nuñez, Rubén D. Piacentini, and Mario Blumthaler

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6341-6350 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-period gratings in planar optical waveguides

Vipul Rastogi and Kin Seng Chiang

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6351-6355 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Continuous-wave diode-pumped solid-state laser with an intracavity fiber Bragg grating

Sylvie Yiou, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, Francois Balembois, and Patrick Georges

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6356-6359 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser pulse-stretching with multiple optical ring cavities

Jun Kojima and Quang-Viet Nguyen

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6360-6370 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Studies on the two-photon pumped upconverted fluorescence and superradiance of a new organic dye material in solutions

Guangyong Zhou, Dong Wang, Shengjun Yang, Xinguang Xu, Yan Ren, Zongshu Shao, Minhua Jiang, Yupeng Tian, Fuying Hao, Shengli Li, and Pengfei Shi

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6371-6374 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct generation of bessel beams

Peter Muys and Eefje Vandamme

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6375-6379 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast tuning of external-cavity diode lasers

Peter Mahnke, Hans H. Klingenberg, and Werner Zirnig

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6380-6384 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermo-optical model of repetitively pumped solid-state lasers

Matthew P. Murdough, Brian M. Flusche, Randall J. Knize, and Boris V. Zhdanov

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6385-6393 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable green laser source based on frequency mixing of pump and laser radiation from a Nd:YVO₄ crystal operating at 1342 nm with an intracavity KTP crystal

Daniel Jaque, Juan Jose Romero, Yidong Huang, and Zun Du Luo

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6394-6398 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Binary coherent beam combination with mirror pairs

Gerald T. Moore

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6399-6409 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Recurring beams in hollow metal waveguides: paraxial approximation

Lee W. Casperson

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6410-6415 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-IR tunable laser with an integrated LiTaO₃ electro-optic deflector

Joanna L. Casson, Li Wang, Nathaniel J. C. Libatique, Ravinder K. Jain, David A. Scrymgeour, Venkatraman Gopalan, Kevin T. Gahagan, Robert K. Sander, and Jeanne M. Robinson

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6416-6419 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced migration of oil particles suspended in a water matrix

Germán Da Costa, Juan Enrique Parra, and Felix Mosqueda

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6420-6430 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Balloonborne calibrated spectroradiometer for atmospheric nadir sounding

Yao Té, Pascal Jeseck, Claude Camy-Peyret, Sébastien Payan, Gaetan Perron, and Ginette Aubertin

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6431-6441 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the performance of a coherent pulsed fiber lidar for aerosol backscatter applications

Guy N. Pearson, P. John Roberts, Justin R. Eacock, and Michael Harris

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6442-6450 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Relative-humidity profiling in the troposphere with a Raman lidar

Ina Mattis, Albert Ansmann, Dietrich Althausen, Volker Jaenisch, Ulla Wandinger, Detlef Müller, Yuri F. Arshinov, Sergej M. Bobrovnikov, and Ilya B. Serikov

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6451-6462 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of chlorophyll concentration in lakes and inland seas with a field spectroradiometer above the water surface

Kazuo Oki and Yoshifumi Yasuoka

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6463-6469 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar ratio and depolarization ratio for cirrus clouds

Wei-Nai Chen, Chih-Wei Chiang, and Jan-Bai Nee

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6470-6476 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Variability of the downwelling diffuse attenuation coefficient with consideration of inelastic scattering

Xiaobing Zheng, Tommy Dickey, and Grace Chang

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6477-6488 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of aerosol scattering phase function formulation on point-spread-function calculations

Patrick Chervet, Claire Lavigne, Antoine Roblin, and Piero Bruscaglioni

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6489-6498 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Oxygen 630.0- and 557.7-nm line source for thermospheric dynamics studies

Manfred A. Biondi

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6499-6506 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Grating-assisted coupling of terahertz waves into a dielectric waveguide studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Jean-François Roux, Fabien Aquistapace, Frédéric Garet, Lionel Duvillaret, and Jean-Louis Coutaz

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6507-6513 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of chirped mirrors

Vladislav Yakovlev and Gabriel Tempea

Appl. Opt. 41(30), 6514-6520 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF