Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3389-3389 (2005)  View: PDF

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3390-3390 (2005)  View: PDF

Holography in commercially available photoetchable glasses

Michael Kösters, Hung-Te Hsieh, Demetri Psaltis, and Karsten Buse

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3399-3402 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Percussion hole drilling of metals with a fourth-harmonic Nd:YAG laser studied by defocused laser speckle correlation

Natalia Miroshnikova, Mikael Sjödahl, Per Gren, and Istvan Sárady

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3403-3408 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Drift correction in a multichannel integrated optical Young interferometer

Aurel Ymeti, Jan Greve, Paul V. Lambeck, Robert Wijn, Rene G. Heideman, and Johannes S. Kanger

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3409-3412 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Power-recycled resonant sideband extraction interferometer with polarization detection

Peter T. Beyersdorf, Seiji Kawamura, Kentaro Somiya, Fumiko Kawazoe, and Marcel Agüeros

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3413-3424 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase noise characteristics of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser in an unbalanced fiber-optic interferometer

Zhou Meng, Yongming Hu, Shuidong Xiong, George Stewart, Gillian Whitenett, and Brian Culshaw

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3425-3428 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of metal-cladded near-field fiber probes with a dispersive body-of-revolution finite-difference time-domain method

Liu Liu and Sailing He

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3429-3437 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Variable power phase lenses

Charles E. Campbell

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3438-3441 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optic polymer waveguide grating with fast tuning capability

Yi-Ping Wang, Jian-Ping Chen, Xin-Wan Li, Jun-He Zhou, Hao Shen, Xiao-Hong Zhang, and Ai-Lun Ye

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3442-3447 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Graphic method for numerical analysis of a periodically stratified thin-film omnidirectional reflector

Shiuh Chao, Tzu-Kai Wang, and Jyh-Shin Chen

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3448-3453 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Magneto-optical tweezers built around an inverted microscope

Cyril Claudet and Jan Bednar

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3454-3457 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Dead-time distortion in fluorescence correlation measurements

Goro Nishimura and Masataka Kinjo

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3458-3467 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength-scanning surface plasmon resonance imaging

Soichi Otsuki, Kaoru Tamada, and S. Wakida

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3468-3472 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam shaping by use of hybrid acousto-optics with feedback

Yasser A. Abdelaziez, Partha P. Banerjee, and Dean R. Evans

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3473-3481 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Scene-based nonuniformity correction technique that exploits knowledge of the focal-plane array readout architecture

Balaji Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, and Robert A. Muse

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3482-3491 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple, real-time method for removing the cyclic error of a homodyne interferometer with a quadrature detector system

Taeho Keem, Satoshi Gonda, Ichiko Misumi, Qianxiang Huang, and Tomizo Kurosawa

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3492-3498 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for reconstructing atmospheric optical parameters from the data of polarization lidar sensing

Svetlana V. Samoilova, Yurii S. Balin, Margarita M. Krekova, and David M. Winker

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3499-3509 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of the air–water interface on hydrosol lidar operation

Grigorii P. Kokhanenko, Margarita M. Krekova, Ioganes E. Penner, and Vitalii S. Shamanaev

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3510-3519 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency aerosol scatterometer that uses an integrating sphere for the calibration of multiwavelength lidar data

Shunsuke Fukagawa, Hiroaki Kuze, Nofel Lagrosas, and Nobuo Takeuchi

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3520-3526 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser damage testing of small optics for the National Ignition Facility

Robert Chow, Mike Runkel, and John R. Taylor

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3527-3531 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Protective materials for subpicosecond Ti:sapphire lasers

Miklos Lenner and Christian Spielmann

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3532-3539 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Micrograting-array beam-shaping technique for asymmetrical laser beams

Guoxing Zheng, Chunlei Du, Chongxi Zhou, and Chunyan Zheng

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3540-3544 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength tuning in optically mode-locked semiconductor fiber ring lasers with linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings

Hong Cao and Lawrence R. Chen

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3545-3551 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrically controllable liquid-crystal rotatable wave plate with variable phase retardation

Katsuhiko Hirabayashi

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3552-3559 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear optical stabilization of 1064-nm laser pulses with a two-photon absorbing liquid-dye salt system

Guang S. He, Qingdong Zheng, Paras N. Prasad, Roger Helgeson, and Fred Wudl

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3560-3564 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Flame temperature and location measurements of sooting premixed Bunsen flames by rainbow schlieren deflectometry

Alfonso F. Ibarreta and Chih-Jen Sung

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3565-3575 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Interpretation of hyperspectral remote-sensing imagery by spectrum matching and look-up tables

Curtis D. Mobley, Lydia K. Sundman, Curtiss O. Davis, Jeffrey H. Bowles, Trijntje Valerie Downes, Robert A. Leathers, Marcos J. Montes, William Paul Bissett, David D. R. Kohler, Ruth Pamela Reid, Eric M. Louchard, and Arthur Gleason

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3576-3592 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Daytime operation of a pure rotational Raman lidar by use of a Fabry–Perot interferometer

Yuri Arshinov, Sergey Bobrovnikov, Ilya Serikov, Albert Ansmann, Ulla Wandinger, Dietrich Althausen, Ina Mattis, and Detlef Müller

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3593-3603 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvement of Mishchenko’s T-matrix code for absorbing particles

Alexander Moroz

Appl. Opt. 44(17), 3604-3609 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF