1 November 2000, Volume 39, Issue 31, pp. 5651-5910  
34 articles

Optical tests of a 3.7-m-diameter liquid mirror: behavior under external perturbations

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5651-5662 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Spherical-grating monochromator with a variable-line-spaced grating for synchrotron radiation

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5671-5678 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical assessment of nonimaging concentrators

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5679-5684 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical alignment-induced errors in holographic particle image velocimetry

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5685-5693 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide-angle beam propagation method for liquid-crystal device calculations

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5707-5714 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Extended Hartmann test based on the pseudoguiding property of a Hartmann mask completed by a phase chessboard

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5715-5720 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Profilometry of toroidal surfaces with an improved Ronchi test

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5721-5731 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-amplitude-noise laser for AURIGA detector optical readout

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5732-5738 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral power and irradiance responsivity calibration of InSb working-standard radiometers

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5739-5744 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a differential, optical, reflective displacement sensor by use of a multilayered waveguide

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5745-5749 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the modal birefringence of single-mode K+ ion-exchanged planar waveguides with polarimetric interferometry

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5750-5754 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Realization of a Bragg reflection filter wavemeter

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5755-5761 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis and design of compact, static Fourier-transform spectrometers

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5762-5767 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-shifting point-diffraction interferometry at 193 nm

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5768-5772 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency light coupling in a submicrometric silicon-on-insulator waveguide

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5773-5777 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Transient absorption in excimer-exposed silica

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5778-5784 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties (bidirectional reflectance distribution function) of shot fabric

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5785-5795 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion of the temperature dependence of the retardance in SiO2 and MgF2

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5796-5800 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotating shutters: a mechanical way of flattening Gaussian beam profiles in time average

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5806-5810 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of speckle size of light scattered from cylindrical rough surfaces

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5811-5819 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of reflectometers for surface anisotropy

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5820-5826 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Reciprocity theorem for the calculation of average scattering properties of agglomerated particles

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5827-5833 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal emission from dielectric beam splitters in Michelson interferometers: a schematic analysis

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5834-5842 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced acousto-optic diffraction efficiency in a symmetric SrTiO3/BaTiO3/SrTiO3 thin-film heterostructure

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5847-5853 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Roughness and light scattering of ion-beam-sputtered fluoride coatings for 193 nm

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5854-5864 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-resolved ten-channel monochromatic imaging of inertial confinement fusion plasmas

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5865-5871 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Image reconstruction for photoacoustic scanning of tissue structures

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5872-5883 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Calibration-free method to determine the size and hemoglobin concentration of individual red blood cells from light scattering

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5884-5889 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling of the rough-interface effect on a converging light beam propagating in a skin tissue phantom

Appl. Opt. 39(31), 5890-5897 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF