20 October 1995, Volume 34, Issue 30, pp. 6801-7155  
42 articles

Coherent beam combining: optical loss effects on power scaling

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6801-6805 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Jones matrices of a quarter-wave plate for Gaussian beams

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6806-6818 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Decentered Gaussian beams

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6819-6825 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Gaussian beam transfer through hard-aperture optics

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6826-6828 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of ruby passive Q switching with a Dy2+:CaF2 solid-state saturable absorber

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6829-6833 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable, intense picosecond pulse generation using intracavity GaAs

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6834-6836 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of crossed beams on Stokes gain and interaction length in stimulated Raman gain spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6837-6841 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of small-bore hollow glass waveguides

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6842-6847 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of fibers with high rare-earth concentrations for Faraday isolator applications

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6848-6854 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Sapphire fibers: optical attenuation and splicing techniques

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6855-6858 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Passive temperature-compensating package for optical fiber gratings

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6859-6861 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Precise recursive formula for calculating spot size in optical waveguides and accurate evaluation of splice loss

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6862-6873 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabry–Perot method for the characterization of integrated optical directional couplers

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6874-6884 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of UV-bleached channel-waveguide performance in nonlinear optical polymer films

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6885-6891 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical bistability in doped-polymer film waveguides

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6892-6897 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Overlapping-image multimode interference couplers with a reduced number of self-images for uniform and nonuniform power splitting

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6898-6910 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Precise control of the center wavelength of a wavelength-selective single-mode-fiber–thin-film directional coupler

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6911-6914 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurements of stratospheric aerosols with a combined elastic–Raman-backscatter lidar

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6915-6924 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar measurements taken with a large-aperture liquid mirror. 1. Rayleigh-scatter system

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6925-6936 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Nd:YAG backscatter lidar at Ahmedabad (23° N, 72.5° E) for tropical middle atmospheric studies

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6937-6940 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthetic-aperture-radar imaging with a solid-state laser

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6941-6949 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of a potassium lidar system for upper-atmospheric wind–temperature measurements

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6950-6958 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiply scattered aerosol lidar returns: inversion method and comparison with in situ measurements

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6959-6975 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Satellite remote sensing of tropospheric CO and CH4: forward model studies of the MOPITT instrument

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 6976-6988 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength-modulation detection of acetylene with a near-infrared external-cavity diode laser

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7002-7005 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Selection of sounding channels for the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7006-7018 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of lidar backscatter profiles in optically thin clouds

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7019-7031 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Inherent optical properties of the ocean: retrieval of the absorption coefficient of chromophoric dissolved organic matter from airborne laser spectral fluorescence measurements

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7032-7038 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of a planar turbulent jet

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7039-7053 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Effective beam parameters and the turbulent beam waist for convergent Gaussian beams

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7059-7065 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Scintillation of initially convergent Gaussian beams in the vicinity of the geometric focus

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7066-7073 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of laser-induced-fluorescence carbon monoxide measurements in turbulent nonpremixed flames

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7074-7082 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional imaging of soot volume fraction by the use of laser-induced incandescence

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7083-7091 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Scheimpflug stereocamera for particle image velocimetry in liquid flows

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7092-7099 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Penetration depth for diffusing-wave spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7100-7105 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffusion of collimated, narrow beam waves in discrete random media

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7106-7112 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered sphere located in an arbitrary beam

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7113-7124 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Moments of multiple scattering

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7125-7136 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation through optically thick media

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7137-7148 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF

Aerosol-fluorescence spectrum analyzer: real-time measurement of emission spectra of airborne biological particles

Appl. Opt. 34(30), 7149-7155 (1995)  View: HTML | PDF