20 June 1997, Volume 36, Issue 18, pp. 3971-4328  
40 articles

Application of tunable excimer lasers to combustion diagnostics: a review

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 3971-4033 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

High-resolution absorption measurements by use of two-tone frequency-modulation spectroscopy with diode lasers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4043-4054 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Supported planar germanium waveguides for infrared evanescent-wave sensing

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4055-4061 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Intracavity laser absorption measurements at ultrahigh spectral resolution

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4062-4068 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Light caustics of hydrodynamic solitons illuminated by a laser beam

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4069-4076 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency stabilization of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers by use of 3 × 3 nonplanar fused-fiber couplers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4077-4080 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved interferometer studies of linear electro-optic effects of dye-doped polymers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4081-4089 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of Cr:Tm:Er:YAG laser crystals in a resonator with various degrees of spectral selectivity

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4090-4093 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of the output beam homogeneity of short-pulse KrF amplifiers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4094-4098 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for obtaining a symmetric power tuning curve for a single-mode continuous-wave CO2 laser

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4099-4101 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Power collection of a laser diode elliptical beam by a decentered circular aperture

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4102-4104 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Double phase conjugation in copper-doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate crystals

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4105-4109 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of optical limiting devices based on excited-state absorption

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4110-4122 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Internal reflections of the Gaussian beams in Faraday isolators

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4123-4130 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of external optical feedback characteristics of asymmetric, quarter-wave-shifted, distributed-feedback semiconductor lasers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4131-4137 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical characterization of grating-tuned external-cavity semiconductor lasers

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4138-4141 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable, high-power, single-frequency generation at 532 nm from a diode-bar-pumped Nd:YAG ring laser with an intracavity LBO frequency doubler

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4149-4152 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Sum-frequency generation of continuous-wave light at 194 nm

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4159-4162 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-pumped Nd:glass kilohertz regenerative amplifier for subpicosecond microjoule level pulses

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4163-4167 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of deep ice at the South Pole: absorption

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4168-4180 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of deep ice at the South Pole: scattering

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4181-4194 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of contrail-induced cirrus: discussion of unusual halo phenomena

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4195-4201 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Scanning-laser glint measurements of sea-surface slope statistics

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4202-4213 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Photometric immersion refractometry: a method for determining the refractive index of marine microbial particles from beam attenuation

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4214-4225 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonance suppression in the extinction spectrum of single and aggregated hemispheres on a reflecting surface

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4226-4234 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Angular structure of radiation scattered by monolayers of particles: experimental study

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4235-4240 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic analogs of bulk-optic wave plates

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4241-4258 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of uniaxial deformation on the optical scattering losses of a semicrystalline fluorocopolymer

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4259-4264 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytic solution for the peak reflectivity of an asymmetric mirror

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4265-4268 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically heterodyned 25-GHz true-time-delay lines on thick LD-3 polymer-based planar waveguides

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4269-4272 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-laser-to-waveguide butt coupling: extremely short external cavity

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4273-4277 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a lidar receiver with fiber-optic output

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4278-4284 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Method and results for optimizing the MOPITT methane bandpass

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4285-4291 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Interaction between an infinite cylinder and an arbitrary-shaped beam

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4292-4304 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved T-matrix computations for large, nonabsorbing and weakly absorbing nonspherical particles and comparison with geometrical-optics approximation

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4305-4313 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Directional reflectance of vegetation measured by a calibrated digital camera

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4314-4319 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical saturation measurements of fluorophores in solution with pulsed femtosecond excitation and two-dimensional CCD camera detection

Appl. Opt. 36(18), 4320-4328 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF