JOSA A's 30 Most Cited Articles (As of 5 February 2014)

Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) has published some of the most eminent optics and photonics research in the field.

To highlight the key research from the journal, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the 30 most cited articles from JOSA A, which are listed below. They will be free to access throughout 2014.

Source: Thomson Reuters. Citing Years: 1984-2012

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Practical cone-beam algorithme

L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1, 612-619 (1984)

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Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion

Edward H. Adelson and James R. Bergen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 284-299 (1985)

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Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions

Berthold K. P. Horn

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 629-642 (1987)

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Discrete-dipole approximation for scattering calculations

Bruce T. Draine and Piotr J. Flatau

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 1491-1499 (1994)

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Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination

Denis G. Pelli

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 1508-1531 (1985)

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Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory

J. Durnin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 651-654 (1987)

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Formulation for stable and efficient implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis of binary gratings

M. G. Moharam, Eric B. Grann, Drew A. Pommet, and T. K. Gaylord

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 1068-1076 (1995)

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Model of human visual-motion sensing

Andrew B. Watson and Albert J. Ahumada, Jr.

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 322-341 (1985)

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Image rotation, Wigner rotation, and the fractional Fourier transform

Adolf W. Lohmann

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 2181-2186 (1993)

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Stable implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis for surface-relief gratings: enhanced transmittance matrix approach

M. G. Moharam, Drew A. Pommet, Eric B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12 1077-1086 (1995)

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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, 2727-2741 (1994)

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Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces

L. Sirovich and M. Kirby

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 519-524 (1987)

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Objective measurement of wave aberrations of the human eye with the use of a Hartmann-Shack wave-front sensor

Junzhong Liang, Bernhard Grimm, Stefan Goelz, and Josef F. Bille

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 1949-1957 (1994)

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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, 2884-2892 (1997)

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Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures

Lifeng Li

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1870-1876 (1996)

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Elaborated Reichardt detectors

Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 300-320 (1985)

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Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation: I

David Mendlovic and Haldun M. Ozaktas

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 1875-1881 (1993)

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Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms

Jitendra Malik and Pietro Perona

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7, 923-932 (1990)

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Retroreflectance from a dense distribution of spherical particles

Yasuo Kuga and Akira Ishimaru

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1, 831-835 (1984)

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Drift-balanced random stimuli: a general basis for studying non-Fourier motion perception

Charles Chubb and George Sperling

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5, 1986-2007 (1988)

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Highly improved convergence of the coupled-wave method for TM polarization

Philippe Lalanne and G. Michael Morris

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 779-784 (1996)

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Color constancy: a method for recovering surface spectral reflectance

Laurence T. Maloney and Brian A. Wandell

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3, 29-33 (1986)

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Cladding-mode resonances in short- and long-period fiber grating filters

Turan Erdogan

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 1760-1773 (1997)

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Aberrations and retinal image quality of the normal human eye

Junzhong Liang and David R. Williams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 2873-2883 (1997)

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Robust two-dimensional weighted and unweighted phase unwrapping that uses fast transforms and iterative methods

Dennis C. Ghiglia and Louis A. Romero

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 107-117 (1994)