20 March 1998, Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 1425-1701  
40 articles

Light and color in the open air: introduction to the feature issue

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1425-1426 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Can cirrus clouds produce glories?

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1427-1433 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

A general setting for halo theory

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1434-1434 (1998)  View: PDF

Halo arcs from airborne, pyramidal ice crystals falling with their c axes in vertical orientation

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1435-1440 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of Sun pillars with light pillars from nearby light sources

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1441-1449 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization structures in parhelic circles and in 120° parhelia

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1457-1464 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital imaging of clear-sky polarization

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1465-1476 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Corona-producing ice clouds: a case study of a cold mid-latitude cirrus layer

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1477-1485 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Solar corona caused by juniper pollen in Texas

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1486-1488 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-range superior mirages

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1489-1494 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulation of inferior mirages observed at the Halligen Sea

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1495-1505 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Mie theory, Airy theory, and the natural rainbow

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1506-1519 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized tertiary rainbow of slightly oblate drops: observations with laser illumination

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1520-1526 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Amplification of high-order rainbows of a cylinder with an elliptical cross section

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1527-1533 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering observations for tilted transparent fibers: evolution of Airy caustics with cylinder tilt and the caustic merging transition

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1534-1539 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Rainbow scattering by a cylinder with a nearly elliptical cross section

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1540-1550 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Laboratory experiments in atmospheric optics

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1557-1568 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Observations of glistening in the environment and its relationship to stereovision

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1569-1572 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray theory analysis of the shadow blister effect

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1573-1578 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of a butterfly scale microstructure on the iridescent color observed at different angles

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1579-1584 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Thirty years of observing and documenting sky optical phenomena

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1585-1588 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser sensing of a subsurface oceanic layer. I. Effect of the atmosphere and wind-driven sea waves

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1589-1595 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser sensing of a subsurface oceanic layer. II. Polarization characteristics of signals

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1596-1601 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode fiber delivery of Nd:YAG light for precision machining applications

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1602-1606 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced incandescence: excitation intensity

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1607-1616 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-locked light scattering: real-time Doppler velocimetry with closed-loop feedback control

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1617-1625 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Derivation of dimensional and material requirements for propagation and processing of temporal optical solitons in planar geometry channel waveguides: erratum

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1626-1626 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal coefficients of the optical path length and refractive index in YAG

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1635-1637 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of mismatched grating pairs in chirped-pulse amplification systems

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1638-1641 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Difference frequency generation of 5–18 μm in a AgGaSe2 crystal

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1642-1646 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Radio-frequency-preionized xenon z-pinch source for extreme ultraviolet lithography

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1651-1658 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Subnanosecond switching, plasma electrode Pockels cell for high-contrast imaging with partially coherent light

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1659-1665 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Bridging the quasi-static and the physical optics approximations: an elliptic disk case

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1666-1673 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-insensitive electroabsorption by use of quantum well interdiffusion

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1674-1681 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of a forward-angle-scattering transmissometer for simultaneous measurements of particle size and number density in an optically dense medium

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1682-1689 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Annular phase-matched dual-pump coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy system for the simultaneous detection of nitrogen and methane

Appl. Opt. 37(9), 1690-1701 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF