1 February 1994, Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 452-945  
52 articles

Letter From the Board of Editors

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 465-465 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Shape-from-shading on a cloudy day

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 467-478 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Point-spread function for light scattered in the human ocular fundus

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 479-486 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Lower-field myopia and astigmatism in amphibians and chickens

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 487-495 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Motion-contrast sensitivity: visibility of motion gradients of various spatial frequencies

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 496-505 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Direction identification thresholds for second-order motion in central and peripheral vision

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 506-514 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Discriminating smooth from sampled motion: chromatic and luminance stimuli

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 515-530 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Color appearance: effects of illuminant changes under different surface collections

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 531-542 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of contrary chromatic change

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 543-546 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Convolution, filtering, and multiplexing in fractional Fourier domains and their relation to chirp and wavelet transforms

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 547-559 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Accuracy in analog optical processors: statistical analysis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 560-571 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct method for superresolution

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 572-579 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Cone-beam reconstruction by the use of Radon transform intermediate functions

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 580-585 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation of effects of phase and amplitude coatings on the lens aperture with polarization masks

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 586-592 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional transfer functions for high-aperture systems

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 593-598 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetic description of image formation in confocal fluorescence microscopy

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 599-608 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Extension of the macroscopic model for reflection near-field microscopy: regularization and image formation

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 609-617 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray vector fields

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 618-622 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction of a Gaussian beam from a periodic planar screen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 630-636 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalization of the boundary diffraction method for volume gratings

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 649-656 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Zero-crossing rate of differentiated speckle intensity

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 671-673 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Localization of light by randomly rough surfaces: concept of localiton

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 680-690 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Monte Carlo simulations of large-scale composite random rough-surface scattering based on the banded-matrix iterative approach

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 691-696 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurements of light scattering by a series of conducting surfaces with one-dimensional roughness

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 697-710 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscattering enhancement of a two-dimensional random rough surface (three-dimensional scattering) based on Monte Carlo simulations

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 711-715 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering from a randomly oriented anisotropic layer on a rough surface

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 716-722 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Statistical formulation for an inhomogeneous random water surface: a basis for optical remote sensing of oceans

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 723-730 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Light propagation and color variations in liquid-crystal displays

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 731-739 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Anomalous transmission at oblique incidence in absorbing cholesteric liquid crystals

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 740-744 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Magnetic effects on the reflection of electromagnetic waves at isotropic–uniaxial interfaces

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 745-753 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical investigation of transmission through a Faraday-active Fabry–Perot étalon

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 754-758 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

General relation between surface impedance and surface curvature

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 759-765 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Homogeneous and inhomogeneous Jones matrices

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 766-773 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of artificial guide stars generated in the mesospheric sodium layer with a sum-frequency laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 806-812 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Design, layout, and early results of a feasibility experiment for sodium-layer laser-guide-star adaptive optics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 813-824 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Sodium-layer laser-guide-star experimental results

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 825-831 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient excitation of a mesospheric sodium laser guide star by intermediate-duration pulses

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 832-845 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Progress in diffraction-limited imaging at the Multiple Mirror Telescope with adaptive optics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 846-857 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Shearing interferometry for laser-guide-star atmospheric correction at large D/r0

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 858-873 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

An exact analytic solution to segmented-mirror adaptive-optics control

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 874-879 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of innovative adaptive-optics servos that use membrane-based spatial light modulators

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 880-894 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Bimorph adaptive mirrors and curvature sensing

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 895-902 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Potential capabilities of adaptive-optical systems in the atmosphere

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 903-907 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Functional reconstruction of blooming Strehl ratios

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 908-913 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Systematic design and analysis of laser-guide-star adaptive-optics systems for large telescopes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 914-924 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive optics for diffraction-limited infrared imaging with 8-m telescopes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2), 925-945 (1994)  View: HTML | PDF