20 April 1999, Volume 38, Issue 12, pp. 2331-2727  
50 articles

Influence of CO2-laser linewidth on the measured absorption coefficients of atmospheric water vapor and ammonia

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2337-2341 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the spatial coherence of light influenced by turbulence

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2342-2345 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: theory

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2346-2357 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: simulation

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2358-2368 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Atmospheric particulate absorption and black carbon measurement

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2369-2376 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral dependence of the scattering coefficient in case 1 and case 2 waters

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2377-2383 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar equations for turbid media with pulse stretching

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2384-2397 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Derivation of temperature and pressure from submillimetric limb observations

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2398-2409 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Rayleigh–Mie Doppler wind lidar for atmospheric measurements. I. Instrumental setup, validation, and first climatological results

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2410-2421 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Rayleigh–Mie Doppler wind lidar for atmospheric measurements. II. Mie scattering effect, theory, and calibration

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2422-2431 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of spectral irradiance standards used to calibrate shortwave radiometers and spectroradiometers

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2432-2439 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Extremely asymmetrical scattering of optical waves in nonuniform periodic Bragg arrays

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2440-2450 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Aluminum-coated hollow glass fibers for ArF-excimer laser light fabricated by metallorganic chemical-vapor deposition

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2458-2462 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-based 205-mW (27% efficiency) power-delivery system for an all-fiber network with optoelectronic sensor units

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2463-2466 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

In-Plane rotation analysis by two-wavelength electronic speckle interferometry

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2467-2470 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Vibration: history and measurement with an extrinsic Fabry–Perot sensor with solid-state laser interferometry

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2471-2477 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional imaging of soot volume fraction in laminar diffusion flames

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2478-2485 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration of a computer-controlled precision wavemeter for use with pulsed lasers

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2486-2498 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion measurements of water with white-light interferometry: errata

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2499-2499 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Switching of output coupling in a grating coupler by diffraction transition to the distributed Bragg reflector regime

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2500-2503 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal and optical properties of polymer hosts for solid-state dye lasers

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2504-2509 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced bulk damage in various types of vitreous silica at 1064, 532, 355, and 266 nm: evidence of different damage mechanisms between 266-nm and longer wavelengths

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2510-2515 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and operation of a very large ring laser gyroscope

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2516-2523 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Intracavity testing of KTiOPO4 crystals for second-harmonic generation at 532 nm

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2536-2539 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Deceleration of a calcium atomic beam with a frequency-doubled diode laser

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2540-2544 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed random access laser tuning

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2545-2553 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched 1.57-µm intracavity optical parametric oscillator

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2554-2559 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 6.6-µm optical parametric oscillation with periodically poled LiNbO3

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2560-2563 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical characteristics of stretched silver island multilayers for submicrometer-thick optical polarizing films

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2564-2569 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid-crystal luminaire consisting of an optical shutter and a metal halide lamp

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2570-2578 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Using the spectral asymmetry of TEA CO2 laser pulses to determine the Doppler-shift sign in coherent lidars with low frequency stability

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2579-2585 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser remote-sensing system analysis for search and rescue

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2586-2593 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable Fabry–Perot etalon-based long-wavelength infrared imaging spectroradiometer

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2594-2604 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Rocketborne Rayleigh lidar for in situ measurements of neutral atmospheric density

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2605-2613 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of an isosbestic point in the Raman spectrum of liquid water by use of a backscattering geometry

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2614-2615 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

External photoacoustic detection of a trace vapor inside a multimode laser

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2625-2629 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Passage of light through a dispersion medium with a high concentration of discrete inhomogeneities: experiment

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2640-2646 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Elastic laser light scattering by GaAs surfaces

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2666-2676 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Inversion of particle-size distribution from angular light-scattering data with genetic algorithms

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2677-2685 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

In situ light-scattering measurements of morphologically evolving flame-synthesized oxide nanoaggregates

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2686-2697 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical particle-sizing method that provides optical isolation of the sampling volume

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2698-2705 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Filling in of Fraunhofer and gas-absorption lines in sky spectra as caused by rotational Raman scattering

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2706-2713 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Upconversion and reduced 4F3/2 upper-state lifetime in intensely pumped Nd:YLF

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2714-2723 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF

Nondestructive inspection of Phaseolus coccineus L. soya beans by use of near-infrared lasers

Appl. Opt. 38(12), 2724-2727 (1999)  View: HTML | PDF