1 January 1950, Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 1-60  
18 articles

Editorial: The Retirement of Dean George R. Harrison as Editor

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 1-2 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Editorial: Physics Today

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 2-2 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of Particle Size on the Diffraction Image in Microscopy with Narrow-Coned, Axial Illumination

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 14-22 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Photographing Spectra in the Vacuum Ultraviolet

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 23-28 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Book Reviews

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 28-28 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Construction of a Double Beam Recording Infra-Red Spectrophotometer

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 29-35 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Amplification and Electrical Systems for a Double Beam Recording Infra-Red Spectrophotometer

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 36-41 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of the Nagel Anomaloscope and a Dichroic Filter Anomaloscope

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 41-47 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of Reflected and Transmitted Fields by Geometrical Optics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 48-52 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of Thickness of Infra-Red Absorption Cells

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 53-54 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization Studies of Light Diffusely Reflected from Ground and Etched Glass Surfaces

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 55-59 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

The Production of Diffraction Gratings

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 59-59 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

Colorimetry by Abridged Spectrophotometry

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 59_1-60 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

On the Standard Source for Low Level Photometry

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 60-60 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF

A Coherent Set of Tolerances for Geometrical Aberrations, Including Excentration Effects

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(1), 60_1-60 (1950)  View: HTML | PDF