100 Most Cited Articles JOSA A
To highlight some of the seminal research published in JOSA A, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the most-cited articles from JOSA A. They will be free to access throughout 2016.
*As of Summer 2015
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1. Practical cone-beam algorithm
L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(6) 612-619 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 2488
2. Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion
Edward H. Adelson and James R. Bergen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 284-299 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 1866
3. Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations
Bruce T. Draine and Piotr J. Flatau
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(4) 1491-1499 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 1540
4. Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions
Berthold K. P. Horn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 629-642 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1476
5. Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells
David J. Field
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2379-2394 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1408
John G. Daugman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1160-1169 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 1314
M. G. Moharam, Eric B. Grann, Drew A. Pommet, and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1068-1076 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 1283
8. Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory
J. Durnin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 651-654 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1167
M. G. Moharam, Drew A. Pommet, Eric B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1077-1086 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 810
10. Model of human visual-motion sensing
Andrew B. Watson and Albert J. Ahumada
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 322-342 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 754
11. Image rotation, Wigner rotation, and the fractional Fourier transform
Adolf W. Lohmann
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(10) 2181-2186 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 739
12. Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces
L. Sirovich and M. Kirby
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 519-524 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 731
13. Boundary conditions for the diffusion equation in radiative transfer
Richard C. Haskell, Lars O. Svaasand, Tsong-Tseh Tsay, Ti-Chen Feng, Matthew S. McAdams, and Bruce J. Tromberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(10) 2727-2741 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 716
14. Supernormal vision and high-resolution retinal imaging through adaptive optics
Junzhong Liang, David R. Williams, and Donald T. Miller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2884-2892 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 695
15. Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9) 1870-1876 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 669
Junzhong Liang, Bernhard Grimm, Stefan Goelz, and Josef F. Bille
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 1949-1957 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 650
17. New formulation of the Fourier modal method for crossed surface-relief gratings
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(10) 2758-2767 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 569
18. Elaborated Reichardt detectors
Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 300-321 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 559
19. Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation: I
David Mendlovic and Haldun M. Ozaktas
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(9) 1875-1881 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 559
20. Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms
Jitendra Malik and Pietro Perona
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(5) 923-932 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 557
21. Highly improved convergence of the coupled-wave method for TM polarization
Philippe Lalanne and G. Michael Morris
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 779-784 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 550
22. Retroreflectance from a dense distribution of spherical particles
Yasuo Kuga and Akira Ishimaru
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 831-835 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 533
23. Drift-balanced random stimuli: a general basis for studying non-Fourier motion perception
Charles Chubb and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(11) 1986-2007 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 514
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1024-1035 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 512
25. Color constancy: a method for recovering surface spectral reflectance
Laurence T. Maloney and Brian A. Wandell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(1) 29-33 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 462
26. Cladding-mode resonances in short- and long-period fiber grating filters
Turan Erdogan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1760-1773 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 458
Dennis C. Ghiglia and Louis A. Romero
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(1) 107-117 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 438
28. Aberrations and retinal image quality of the normal human eye
Junzhong Liang and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2873-2883 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 431
29. Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination
Denis G. Pelli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(9) 1508-1532 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 428
31. Evaluation of linear models of surface spectral reflectance with small numbers of parameters
Laurence T. Maloney
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1673-1683 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 403
32. Estimating fractal dimension
James Theiler
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 1055-1073 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 401
Rick Trebino and Daniel J. Kane
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(5) 1101-1111 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 395
34. Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model
John M. Foley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1710-1719 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 395
35. Interpretation of Mueller matrices based on polar decomposition
Shih-Yau Lu and Russell A. Chipman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1106-1113 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 394
36. Realization of general nondiffracting beams with computer-generated holograms
Antti Vasara, Jari Turunen, and Ari T. Friberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1748-1754 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 381
37. Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of metallic surface-relief gratings
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(11) 1780-1787 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 378
38. Production and uses of diffractionless beams
R. M. Herman and T. A. Wiggins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 932-942 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 356
39. Monochromatic aberrations of the human eye in a large population
Jason Porter, Antonio Guirao, Ian G. Cox, and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1793-1803 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 354
40. Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation. II
Haldun M. Ozaktas and David Mendlovic
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2522-2531 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 348
41. Calculation of the T matrix and the scattering matrix for ensembles of spheres
Daniel W. Mackowski and Michael I. Mishchenko
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(11) 2266-2278 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 341
42. Light scattering from a sphere arbitrarily located in a Gaussian beam, using a Bromwich formulation
G. Gouesbet, B. Maheu, and G. Gréhan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(9) 1427-1443 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 338
43. Temporal covariance model of human motion perception
Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(5) 451-473 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 336
44. Discriminant analysis for recognition of human face images
Kamran Etemad and Rama Chellappa
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1724-1733 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 335
45. Geometries and materials for subwavelength surface plasmon modes
Rashid Zia, Mark D. Selker, Peter B. Catrysse, and Mark L. Brongersma
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21(12) 2442-2446 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 335
Haldun M. Ozaktas, Billur Barshan, David Mendlovic, and Levent Onural
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2) 547-559 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 334
47. Model for the extraction of image flow
David J. Heeger
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(8) 1455-1471 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 330
48. Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex
Tai Sing Lee and David Mumford
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(7) 1434-1448 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 330
49. Characteristic spectra of Munsell colors
J. P. S. Parkkinen, J. Hallikainen, and T. Jaaskelainen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(2) 318-322 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 324
50. Affine structure from motion
Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(2) 377-385 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 324
Larry N. Thibos, Xin Hong, Arthur Bradley, and Xu Cheng
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(12) 2329-2348 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 322
52. Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using orthonormal matrices
Berthold K. P. Horn, Hugh M. Hilden, and Shahriar Negahdaripour
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1127-1135 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 319
Alwin Kienle and Michael S. Patterson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(1) 246-254 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 315
54. Light scattering by randomly oriented axially symmetric particles
M. I. Mishchenko
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 871-882 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 314
55. Age and visual search: expanding the useful field of view
Karlene K. Ball, Bettina L. Beard, Daniel L. Roenker, Richard L. Miller, and David S. Griggs
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(12) 2210-2219 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 300
56. Direct phase determination in hologram interferometry with use of digitally recorded holograms
Ulf Schnars
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 2011-2015 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 298
57. Luminance and chromatic modulation sensitivity of macaque ganglion cells and human observers
Barry B. Lee, Joel Pokorny, Vivianne C. Smith, Paul R. Martin, and Arne Valbergt
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(12) 2223-2236 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 296
58. Anomalous refractive properties of photonic crystals
Boris Gralak, Stefan Enoch, and Gérard Tayeb
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17(6) 1012-1020 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 285
59. Phase retrieval from the magnitude of the Fourier transforms of nonperiodic objects
J. Miao, D. Sayre, and H. N. Chapman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(6) 1662-1669 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 285
60. Perceived velocity of moving chromatic gratings
Patrick Cavanagh, Christopher W. Tyler, and Olga Eizner Favreau
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 893-899 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 282
Joshua B. Fishkin and Enrico Gratton
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(1) 127-140 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 280
62. Digital holographic interference-phase measurement using the Fourier-transform method
Thomas Kreis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(6) 847-855 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 278
63. Statistics of cone responses to natural images: implications for visual coding
Daniel L. Ruderman, Thomas W. Cronin, and Chuan-Chin Chiao
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(8) 2036-2045 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 274
64. Experimental study of scattering from characterized random surfaces
K. A. O’Donnell and E. R. Mendez
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(7) 1194-1205 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 274
65. Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope
Stefan Hell and Ernst H. K. Stelzer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(12) 2159-2166 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 269
66. Model for photon migration in turbid biological media
R. F. Bonner, R. Nossal, S. Havlin, and G. H. Weiss
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 423-432 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 266
67. Multilayer modal method for diffraction gratings of arbitrary profile, depth, and permittivity
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2581-2591 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 265
68. Postadaptation orientation discrimination
D. Regan and K. I. Beverley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 147-155 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 263
69. High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy
Henry N. Chapman, Anton Barty, Stefano Marchesini, Aleksandr Noy, Stefan P. Hau-Riege, Congwu Cui, Malcolm R. Howells, Rachel Rosen, Haifeng He, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Tobias Beetz, Chris Jacobsen, and David Shapiro
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23(5) 1179-1200 (2006)
TOTAL CITES: 262
70. Temporal coupled-mode theory for the Fano resonance in optical resonators
Shanhui Fan, Wonjoo Suh, and J. D. Joannopoulos
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(3) 569-572 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 260
John Chilwell and Ian Hodgkinson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(7) 742-753 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 260
72. Saturated patterned excitation microscopy—a concept for optical resolution improvement
Rainer Heintzmann, Thomas M. Jovin, and Christoph Cremer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(8) 1599-1609 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 259
73. High-resolution image recovery from image-plane arrays, using convex projections
Henry Stark and Peyma Oskoui
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1715-1726 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 253
74. Addition of a channel mechanism to the ideal-observer model
Kyle J. Myers and Harrison H. Barrett
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2447-2457 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 253
P. Török, P. Varga, Z. Laczik, and G. R. Booker
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(2) 325-332 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 252
76. Contribution of the cornea and internal surfaces to the change of ocular aberrations with age
Pablo Artal, Esther Berrio, Antonio Guirao, and Patricia Piers
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(1) 137-143 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 252
77. Phase retrieval by iterated projections
Veit Elser
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(1) 40-55 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 249
78. Iterative Fourier-transform algorithm applied to computer holography
Frank Wyrowski and Olof Bryngdahl
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1058-1065 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 249
J. R. Fienup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(1) 118-123 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 244
80. Calculation of total cross sections of multiple-sphere clusters
Daniel W. Mackowski
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 2851-2861 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 243
81. X-ray imaging with submicrometer resolution employing transparent luminescent screens
Andreas Koch, Carsten Raven, Per Spanne, and Anatoly Snigirev
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(7) 1940-1951 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 240
82. Objective assessment of image quality: effects of quantum noise and object variability
Harrison H. Barrett
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(7) 1266-1278 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 240
83. Modified line-element theory for spatial-frequency and width discrimination
Hugh R. Wilson and Douglas J. Gelb
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(1) 124-131 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 239
84. Efficient nonlinear algorithm for envelope detection in white light interferometry
Kieran G. Larkin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 832-843 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 238
85. Scattering by a random set of parallel cylinders
D. Felbacq, G. Tayeb, and D. Maystre
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(9) 2526-2538 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 237
86. Model of visual contrast gain control and pattern masking
Andrew B. Watson and Joshua A. Solomon
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(9) 2379-2391 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 237
87. Anatomically accurate, finite model eye for optical modeling
Hwey-Lan Liou and Noel A. Brennan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1684-1695 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 233
88. Simultaneous color constancy
Lawrence Arend and Adam Reeves
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1743-1751 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 231
89. Joint estimation of object and aberrations by using phase diversity
Richard G. Paxman, Timothy J. Schulz, and James R. Fienup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(7) 1072-1085 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 231
90. Hyperacuity thresholds of 1 sec: theoretical predictions and empirical validation
Stanley A. Klein and Dennis M. Levi
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1170-1190 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 229
91. Diffractive optical elements: iterative calculation of quantized, blazed phase structures
Frank Wyrowski
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 961-969 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 227
92. Eye movements and optical flow
William H. Warren and Danial J. Hannon
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(1) 160-169 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 225
Jennifer C. Ricklin and Frederic M. Davidson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(9) 1794-1802 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 225
L. Novotny, D. W. Pohl, and P. Regli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1768-1779 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 219
95. Application of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light
Martin J. Bastiaans
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(8) 1227-1238 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 217
96. Nondiffracting optical fields: some remarks on their analysis and synthesis
G. Indebetouw
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(1) 150-152 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 216
97. Dynamics of the eye’s wave aberration
Heidi Hofer, Pablo Artal, Ben Singer, Juan Luis Aragón, and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(3) 497-506 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 216
98. Use of grating theories in integrated optics
Eric Silberstein, Philippe Lalanne, Jean-Paul Hugonin, and Qing Cao
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(11) 2865-2875 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 215
99. Material parameter estimation with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
Timothy D. Dorney, Richard G. Baraniuk, and Daniel M. Mittleman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(7) 1562-1571 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 214
Kieran G. Larkin, Donald J. Bone, and Michael A. Oldfield
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1862-1870 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 214