Use of an intensity threshold to improve the visibility of ghost images produced by incoherent light

Lorenzo Basano and Pasquale Ottonello

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6291-6296 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Comments on "Absolute linearity measurements on a PbS detector in the infrared"

Zhuomin M. Zhang

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6483-6484 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Reply to comments on "Absolute linearity measurements on a PbS detector in the infrared"

Evangelos Theocharous

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6495-6497 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Thick, three-dimensional nanoporous density-graded materials formed by optical exposures of photopolymers with controlled levels of absorption

Yun-Suk Nam, Seokwoo Jeon, Daniel Jay-Lee Shir, Alex Hamza, and John A. Rogers

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6350-6354 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Control of resonance separation over a wide spectral range in multiwavelength resonant grating filters

Andrew Greenwell, Sakoolkan Boonruang, and M. G. Moharam

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6355-6361 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Proposal for optical fiber designs with ultrahigh effective area and small bending loss applicable to long haul communications

Morteza Savadi Oskouei, Somayeh Makouei, Ali Rostami, and Z. D. Koozeh Kanani

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6330-6339 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurements of birefringent media properties using optical vortex birefringence compensator

Monika Borwińska, Agnieszka Popiołek-Masajada, and Piotr Kurzynowski

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6419-6426 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase unwrapping method for three-dimensional stress analysis by scattered-light photoelasticity with unpolarized light. 2. Experiment

Toshiki Kihara

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6469-6475 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical axis perturbation in folded planar ring resonators

Jie Yuan, Xingwu Long, Bin Zhang, Fei Wang, and Hongchang Zhao

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6314-6322 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of parallel-plate and in-plane poled polymer films for terahertz sensing

Colin V. McLaughlin, Xuemei Zheng, and L. Michael Hayden

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6283-6290 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Induced-dipole-electric-field contribution of atomic chains and atomic planes to the refractive index and birefringence of nanoscale crystalline dielectrics

Thomas K. Gaylord and Yin-Jung Chang

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6476-6482 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of multiaperture masks for subnanometer correction of ultraprecision optical components

John W. Arkwright

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6375-6380 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

No wavefront sensor adaptive optics system for compensation of primary aberrations by software analysis of a point source image. 2. Tests

Giampiero Naletto, Fabio Frassetto, Nicola Codogno, Enrico Grisan, Stefano Bonora, Vania Da Deppo, and Alfredo Ruggeri

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6427-6433 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

No wavefront sensor adaptive optics system for compensation of primary aberrations by software analysis of a point source image. 1. Methods

Enrico Grisan, Fabio Frassetto, Vania Da Deppo, Giampiero Naletto, and Alfredo Ruggeri

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6434-6441 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase shift and penetration depth of metal mirrors in a microcavity structure

Fengying Ma and Xingyuan Liu

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6247-6250 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Achromatic polarization rotator

Nikolai I. Petrov

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6340-6343 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of a plastic optical fiber-based displacement sensor

Felipe Jiménez, Jon Arrue, Gotzon Aldabaldetreku, Gaizka Durana, Joseba Zubia, Olaf Ziemann, and Christian-Alexander Bunge

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6256-6262 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Developments on standoff detection of explosive materials by differential reflectometry

Claus Schöllhorn, Anna M. Fuller, Julien Gratier, and Rolf E. Hummel

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6232-6236 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Focal shift in focused radially polarized ultrashort pulsed laser beams

Guohua Wu, Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou, Jingxing Dong, and Yungrong Wei

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6251-6255 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Holographically formed polymer dispersed liquid crystal films for transmission mode spectrometer applications

Anna E. Fox, Kashma Rai, and Adam K. Fontecchio

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6277-6282 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Cascaded interferometric imaging spectrometer

Bruce Swinyard and Marc Ferlet

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6381-6390 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging reflectometry in situ

Michal Urbánek, Jiří Spousta, Tomáš Běhounek, and Tomáš Šikola

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6309-6313 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

High-accuracy differential image motion monitor measurements for the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing program

Lianqi Wang, Matthias Schöck, Gary Chanan, Warren Skidmore, Robert Blum, Edison Bustos, Sebastian Els, Reed Riddle, Juan Seguel, Tony Travouillon, Joselino Vasquez, David Walker, and Paul Gillett

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6460-6468 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal-to-noise-ratio analysis for nonlinear N-ary phase filters

Paul C. Miller

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6405-6418 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Parallel self-mixing imaging system based on an array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

John R. Tucker, Johnathon L. Baque, Yah Leng Lim, Andrei V. Zvyagin, and Aleksandar D. Rakić

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6237-6246 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative analysis of bayberry juice acidity based on visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

Yongni Shao, Yong He, and Jingyuan Mao

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6391-6396 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Particle backscatter, extinction, and lidar ratio profiling with Raman lidar in south and north China

Matthias Tesche, Albert Ansmann, Detlef Müller, Dietrich Althausen, Ronny Engelmann, Min Hu, and Yuanghang Zhang

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6302-6308 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Resolution investigation of a ratiometric wavelength measurement system

Qian Wang, Ginu Rajan, Pengfei Wang, and Gerald Farrell

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6362-6367 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable blue laser compensates for thermal expansion of the medium in holographic data storage

Tomiji Tanaka, Kageyasu Sako, Ryo Kasegawa, Mitsuru Toishi, and Kenjiro Watanabe

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6263-6272 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Semiconductor quantum-well saturable absorbers for efficient passive Q switching of a diode-pumped 946 nm Nd:YAG laser

Y. P. Huang, H. C. Liang, J. Y. Huang, K. W. Su, A. Li, Y. F. Chen, and K. F. Huang

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6273-6276 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power, low-divergence, linear array of quasi-diffraction-limited beams supplied by tapered diodes

Gilbert L. Bourdet, Imen Hassiaoui, Roy McBride, J. F. Monjardin, Howard Baker, Nicolas Michel, and Michel Krakowski

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6297-6301 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental investigation of the performance of an annular aperture and a circular aperture on the same very-small-aperture laser facet

Hongfeng Gai, Jia Wang, Qian Tian, Wei Xia, and Xiangang Xu

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6449-6453 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional model for three-dimensional index-guided multimode plasmonic waveguides and the design of ultrasmall multimode interference splitters

Zhanghua Han and Sailing He

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6223-6227 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity detection of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and its precursor acetone

Ilya Dunayevskiy, Alexei Tsekoun, Manu Prasanna, Rowel Go, and C. Kumar N. Patel

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6397-6404 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Hard target UV lidar measurements of isoprene mixing ratios and emission rates from eucalyptus trees

David Edward Roberts, Anton Du Plessis, and Saturnin Ombinda-Lemboumba

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6344-6349 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of gaseous plumes in IR hyperspectral images using hierarchical clustering

Eitan Hirsch and Eyal Agassi

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6368-6374 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Channel modeling of light signals propagating through a battlefield environment: analysis of channel spatial, angular, and temporal dispersion

Binbin Wu, Brian Marchant, and Mohsen Kavehrad

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6442-6448 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Bidirectional scattering distribution functions of maple and cottonwood leaves

Michael A. Greiner, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6485-6494 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

In situ infrared aerosol spectroscopy for a variety of nerve agent simulants using flow-through photoacoustics

Kristan P. Gurton, Melvin Felton, Rachid Dahmani, and David Ligon

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6323-6329 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy picosecond near-vacuum ultraviolet pulses generated by sum-frequency mixing of an amplified Ti:sapphire laser

Jiangfeng Zhu, Weijun Ling, Zhaohua Wang, Peng Wang, Jinghua Sun, Zhiyi Wei, Dacheng Zhang, Xinwen Ma, and Wenlong Zhan

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6228-6231 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF

Focal shift in focused truncated pulsed-laser beam

Ying Zhong

Appl. Opt. 46(25), 6454-6459 (2007)  View: HTML | PDF