1 January 1981, Volume 71, Issue 1, pp. 1-138  
22 articles

Validity of the Fresnel approximation in the near field

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 7-14 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing of two-dimensional waves

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 15-31 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Adiabatic method for fibers with nonseparable index profiles

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 32-39 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupled-mode theory for a plane and a cylindrical wave in optical waveguide Bragg grating lenses

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 40-48 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Orthogonality and amplitude spectrum of radiation modes along open-boundary waveguides

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 49-54 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Eleventh spectrum of cesium: Cs xi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 55-59 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Discrete-continuum interactions in Cl i and S i

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 60-63 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Gratings: why frequency discrimination is sometimes better than detection

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 64-70 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Rod–cone interaction in the dark-adapted fovea

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 71-74 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Zernike annular polynomials for imaging systems with annular pupils

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 75-85 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Transformation of film-grain noise into signal-independent additive Gaussian noise

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 91-94 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for continuing Fourier spectra given by the fast Fourier transform

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 95-98 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of sampling-pattern dependence in time-sequential sampling of spatiotemporal signals

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 99-105 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical calculation of multiple reflections in diffuse cavities

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 106-111 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Relation between irradiance and log-amplitude variance for optical scintillation described by the K distribution

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 112-114 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Does a photodetector always measure the rate of arrival of photons?

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 115-117 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Changing the quality factor of a laser with a glass plate

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 118-120 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupling of two cylindrical guided waves in optical waveguide Bragg grating lenses

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 121-123 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Geometrical-optics solution for self-focusing in nonlinear optics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 124-126 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Book Reviews

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 127-129 (1981)  View: HTML | PDF

Technical Calendar

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(1), 130_1-130 (1981)  View: PDF