20 May 1996, Volume 35, Issue 15, pp. 2514-2710  
30 articles

Fiber Raman background study and its application in setting up optical fiber Raman probes

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2527-2533 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a low-loss off-axis beam expander

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2534-2536 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time measurement of transverse-mode-mixing effects in a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2544-2547 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly efficient wideband continuum generation in a single-mode optical fiber by powerful broadband laser pumping

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2548-2553 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Cw industrial rod YAG:Nd3+ laser with an intracavity active bimorph mirror

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2554-2561 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Encapsulated rod for efficient thermal management in diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG lasers

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2562-2565 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient and stable operation of a high-brightness cw 500-W Nd:YAG rod laser

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2566-2569 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Synchronization of pulsed Ti:sapphire lasers and its application to difference frequency mixing for tunable infrared generation

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2570-2575 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Ho:CaF2 solid-state saturable-absorber Q switch for the 2-μm Tm,Cr:Y3Al5O12 laser

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2576-2579 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Megahertz-repetition-rate Nd:glass fiber laser

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2580-2582 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Visible single-shot autocorrelator in BaF2 for subpicosecond KrF laser pulses

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2583-2586 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optic modulation in an anisotropic artificial Kerr medium

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2587-2590 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic polarizer using birefringent crystal as a cladding

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2591-2594 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Split-spectrum intensity-based optical fiber sensors for measurement of microdisplacement, strain, and pressure

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2595-2601 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate method for determining the refractive-index profiles of planar waveguides in uniaxial media with the optical axis normal to the surface

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2602-2609 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of the geometric group-delay dispersion in graded-index media

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2610-2613 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

High-pulse-repetition-frequency lidar system using a single telescope for transmission and reception

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2619-2629 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar for remote measurement of ozone in the exhaust plumes of launch vehicles

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2630-2636 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple scattering from clear atmosphere obscured by transparent crystal clouds in satellite-borne lidar sensing

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2637-2641 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Derivation of the aerosol size distribution from a bistatic system of a multiwavelength laser with the singular value decomposition method

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2642-2648 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of phase anomalies of atmospheric emission spectra by the double-differencing method

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2649-2652 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature influence on light absorption by fresh water and seawater in the visible and near-infrared spectrum

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2653-2658 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of sky brightness measurements from ground for remote sensing of particulate polydispersions

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2672-2686 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirped femtosecond pulse scattering by spherical particles

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2687-2692 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiple scattering effects on the remote sensing of the speed of sound in the ocean by Brillouin scattering

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2693-2701 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Prediction of reverse radiation pressure by generalized Lorenz–Mie theory

Appl. Opt. 35(15), 2702-2710 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF