The beginnings of Applied Optics

John N. Howard

Appl. Opt. 51(7), ED3-ED4 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

North American Symposium on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NASLIBS): introduction to feature issue

Jagdish P. Singh, Jose Almirall, Mohamad Sabsabi, and Andrzej W. Miziolek

Appl. Opt. 51(7), LIBS1-LIBS1 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of time-resolved superposed atomic hydrogen Balmer lines and molecular diatomic carbon spectra

Christian G. Parigger, Alexander Woods, and James O. Hornkohl

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B1-B6 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiband sensor using thick holographic gratings for sulfur detection by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Daniel Gagnon, Simon Lessard, Marc Verhaegen, Patrick Mutchmore, Paul Bouchard, François R. Doucet, and Mohamad Sabsabi

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B7-B12 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced plasma chemistry of the explosive RDX with various metallic nanoparticles

Jennifer L. Gottfried

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B13-B21 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative carbon measurement in anthracite using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with binder

Tingbi Yuan, Zhe Wang, Lizhi Li, Zongyu Hou, Zheng Li, and Weidou Ni

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B22-B29 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward the optimization of double-pulse LIBS underwater: effects of experimental parameters on the reproducibility and dynamics of laser-induced cavitation bubble

Gabriele Cristoforetti, Marco Tiberi, Andrea Simonelli, Paolo Marsili, and Francesco Giammanco

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B30-B41 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of voltage and capacitance in nanosecond pulse discharge enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Weidong Zhou, Kexue Li, Huiguo Qian, Zhijun Ren, and Youli Yu

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B42-B48 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust validation of pattern classification methods for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Jeremiah Remus and Kehinde S. Dunsin

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B49-B56 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for the differentiation of pathogens and viruses on substrates

Rosalie A. Multari, David A. Cremers, and Melissa L. Bostian

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B57-B64 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Advanced signal processing analysis of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for the discrimination of obsidian sources

Jeremiah J. Remus, Russell S. Harmon, Richard R. Hark, Gregory Haverstock, Dirk Baron, Ian K. Potter, Samantha K. Bristol, and Lucille J. East

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B65-B73 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Examining natural rock varnish and weathering rinds with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for application to ChemCam on Mars

Nina L. Lanza, Samuel M. Clegg, Roger C. Wiens, Rhonda E. McInroy, Horton E. Newsom, and Matthew D. Deans

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B74-B82 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Classification of explosive residues on organic substrates using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Frank C. De Lucia and Jennifer L. Gottfried

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B83-B92 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of molybdenum layer on the laser plasma generated from interfacing copper layer

Chan K. Kim, Dong S. Kim, Seok H. Lee, Hee-S. Shim, and Sungho Jeong

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B93-B98 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Pathogen identification with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: the effect of bacterial and biofluid specimen contamination

Qassem I. Mohaidat, Khadija Sheikh, Sunil Palchaudhuri, and Steven J. Rehse

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B99-B107 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Construction of a predictive model for concentration of nickel and vanadium in vacuum residues of crude oils using artificial neural networks and LIBS

José L. Tarazona, Jáder Guerrero, Rafael Cabanzo, and E. Mejía-Ospino

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B108-B114 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the absorption layer of CIGS solar cell by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Seok H. Lee, Hee S. Shim, Chan K. Kim, Jong H. Yoo, Richard E. Russo, and Sungho Jeong

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B115-B120 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparative study of Nd:YAG laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and transversely excited atmospheric CO₂ laser-induced gas plasma spectroscopy on chromated copper arsenate preservative-treated wood

Ali Khumaeni, Zener Sukra Lie, Hideaki Niki, Yong Inn Lee, Kazuyoshi Kurihara, Motoomi Wakasugi, Touru Takahashi, and Kiichiro Kagawa

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B121-B129 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of two partial least squares-discriminant analysis algorithms for identifying geological samples with the ChemCam laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument

Ann M. Ollila, Jeremie Lasue, Horton E. Newsom, Rosalie A. Multari, Roger C. Wiens, and Samuel M. Clegg

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B130-B142 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of elemental impurities in plastic calibration standards using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Krishna K. Ayyalasomayajula, Dustin L. McIntyre, Jinesh Jain, Jagdish P. Singh, and Fang Yu-Yueh

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B143-B148 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for total carbon quantification in soil samples

Krishna K. Ayyalasomayajula, Fang Yu-Yueh, Jagdish P. Singh, Dustin L. McIntyre, and Jinesh Jain

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B149-B154 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated interpretation of LIBS spectra using a fuzzy logic inference engine

Jeremy J. Hatch, Timothy R. McJunkin, Cynthia Hanson, and Jill R. Scott

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B155-B164 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Practical high-resolution detection method for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Andrew J. Effenberger and Jill R. Scott

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B165-B170 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Helium detection in gas mixtures by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Kemal E. Eseller, Fang-Yu Yueh, Jagdish P. Singh, and Noureddine Melikechi

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B171-B175 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy and multivariate analysis applied to the measurement of total carbon in soil

Morgan S. Schmidt, Kellen J. Sorauf, Keith E. Miller, David Sonnenfroh, Richard Wainner, and Amy J. R. Bauer

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B176-B182 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of microwave plasma induced by lasers and sparks

Yuji Ikeda and Ryoji Tsuruoka

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B183-B191 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Stoichiometric investigations of laser-ablated brass plasma

D. N. Patel, P. K. Pandey, and R. K. Thareja

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B192-B200 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fraunhofer-type absorption lines in double-pulse laser-induced plasma

Lev Nagli, Michael Gaft, and Igor Gornushkin

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B201-B212 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Correlation of limestone beds using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and chemometric analysis

Nancy J. McMillan, Carlos Montoya, and Warren H. Chesner

Appl. Opt. 51(7), B213-B222 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

The Diffuse Interstellar Cloud Experiment: a high-resolution far-ultraviolet spectrograph

Eric Schindhelm, Matthew Beasley, Eric B. Burgh, and James C. Green

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 812-822 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of high-order optical vortices using directly machined spiral phase mirrors

Geoff Campbell, Boris Hage, Ben Buchler, and Ping Koy Lam

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 873-876 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Binary blazed grating based on autostereoscopic display mechanism

Chien-Yue Chen, Qing-Long Deng, Donyau Chiang, and Yao-Ru Chang

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 877-882 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative measurement of the orbital angular momentum density of light

Angela Dudley, Igor A. Litvin, and Andrew Forbes

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 823-833 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Bidimensional fluorescence analysis and thermal design of europium thenoyltrifluoroacetonate based thermal-to-visible converter

M. Alfaro, G. Paez, and M. Strojnik

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 780-788 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of the squared binary, sinusoidal pulse width modulation, and optimal pulse width modulation methods for three-dimensional shape measurement with projector defocusing

Yajun Wang and Song Zhang

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 861-872 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement device for noise factor of microchannel plate

Liu Lei, Huang Zhijian, Pan Tao, and Qian Yunsheng

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 883-887 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical pressure sensor based on the combined system of a variable liquid lens and a point diffraction interferometer

Anmi García, Manuel Gómez, and Eva Acosta

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 905-911 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid optimization of cost-based tolerancing

Akira Yabe

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 855-860 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and experimental verification of terahertz wideband filter based on double-layered metal hole arrays

Lei Rao, Dongxiao Yang, Le Zhang, Tao Li, and Song Xia

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 912-916 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiangle dynamic light scattering analysis using angular intensity weighting determined by iterative recursion

Xiaoyan Liu, Jin Shen, John C. Thomas, Shaojian Shi, Xianming Sun, and Wei Liu

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 846-854 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Origin of particles during reactive sputtering of oxides using planar and cylindrical magnetrons

Daniel Rademacher, Benjamin Fritz, and Michael Vergöhl

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 927-935 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Circular Dammann grating under high numerical aperture focusing

Junjie Yu, Changhe Zhou, Wei Jia, Anduo Hu, Shaoqing Wang, and Jianyong Ma

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 994-999 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

System integration and radiation pattern measurements of a phased array antenna employing an integrated photonic beamformer for radio astronomy applications

Maurizio Burla, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, Leimeng Zhuang, David Marpaung, Muhammad Rezaul Khan, Peter Maat, Klaas Dijkstra, Arne Leinse, Marcel Hoekman, and René Heideman

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 789-802 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple-image encryption by compressive holography

Hong Di, Kangfeng Zheng, Xin Zhang, Edmund Y. Lam, Taegeun Kim, You Seok Kim, Ting-Chung Poon, and Changhe Zhou

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 1000-1009 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Stereo vision calibration based on GMDH neural network

Bingwen Chen, Wenwei Wang, and Qianqing Qin

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 841-845 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Robust camera pose estimation from unknown or known line correspondences

Xiaohu Zhang, Zheng Zhang, You Li, Xianwei Zhu, Qifeng Yu, and Jianliang Ou

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 936-948 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Multilevel, hybrid regularization method for reconstruction of fluorescent molecular tomography

Huangjian Yi, Duofang Chen, Xiaochao Qu, Kuan Peng, Xueli Chen, Yuanyuan Zhou, Jie Tian, and Jimin Liang

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 975-986 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and implementation of the one-step MSD adder of optical computer

Kai Song and Liping Yan

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 917-926 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of mesospheric airglow structures using two-station ground-based image measurements

Vern P. Hart, Timothy E. Doyle, Michael J. Taylor, Brent L. Carruth, Pierre-Dominique Pautet, and Yucheng Zhao

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 963-974 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Schottky barrier characteristics and internal gain mechanism of TiO₂ UV detectors

Haifeng Zhang, Min Zhang, Caihui Feng, Weiyou Chen, Caixia Liu, Jingran Zhou, and Shengping Ruan

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 894-897 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High-spectral-flatness mid-infrared supercontinuum generated from a Tm-doped fiber amplifier

Jihong Geng, Qing Wang, and Shibin Jiang

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 834-840 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-based device for the detection of low-intensity fluctuations of ultrashort pulses

Charles Henri Hage, Bertrand Kibler, and Christophe Finot

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 949-953 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast M² measurement for fiber beams based on modal analysis

Daniel Flamm, Christian Schulze, Robert Brüning, Oliver A. Schmidt, Thomas Kaiser, Siegmund Schröter, and Michael Duparré

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 987-993 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Locking phenomenon of polarization flipping in He–Ne laser with a phase anisotropy feedback cavity

Wenxue Chen, Shulian Zhang, and Xingwu Long

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 888-893 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Formation of transverse mode in axially symmetric lasers

V. G. Niziev and D. Toebaert

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 954-962 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-independent optical circulator for high accuracy Faraday depolarization lidar

Tatsuo Shiina, Kazuo Noguchi, and Tetsuo Fukuchi

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 898-904 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Tea classification and quality assessment using laser-induced fluorescence and chemometric evaluation

Liang Mei, Patrik Lundin, Mikkel Brydegaard, Shuying Gong, Desong Tang, Gabriel Somesfalean, Sailing He, and Sune Svanberg

Appl. Opt. 51(7), 803-811 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF