20 June 2002, Volume 41, Issue 18, pp. 3497-3762  
32 articles

Multipass reconfiguration of the HELEN Nd:glass laser at the Atomic Weapons Establishment

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3497-3505 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro-electro-mechanical system-based digitally controlled optical beam profiler

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3506-3510 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of self-pulsing behavior in erbium-doped fiber lasers with a semiconductor optical amplifier

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3511-3516 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Bandpass-resampling effects for the retrieval of surface emissivity

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3523-3529 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiometric calibration of an airborne CO2 pulsed Doppler lidar with a natural Earth surface

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3530-3537 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Concentration measurement of gas embedded in scattering media by employing absorption and time-resolved laser spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3538-3544 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Mie scattering by a spherical particle in an absorbing medium

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3545-3546 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Strategies for laser-induced fluorescence detection of nitric oxide in high-pressure flames. I. A–Xexcitation

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3547-3557 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffractive optical isolator made of high-efficiency dielectric gratings only

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3558-3566 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Cavity-ring-down principle for fiber-optic resonators: experimental realization of bending loss and evanescent-field sensing

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3567-3575 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Threshold of stimulated Brillouin scattering by use of a solar pumped laser

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3576-3581 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute solar transmittance interferometer for ground-based measurements

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3582-3589 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Superimposed noninterfering probes to extend the capabilities of phase Doppler anemometry

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3590-3600 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermo-optic design for microwave and millimeter-wave electromagnetic power microsensors

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3601-3612 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy in coiled hollow optical waveguides

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3613-3621 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared diffused planar waveguides made of silver halide chloro-bromide

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3622-3627 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of processes leading to damage growth in optical materials for large-aperture lasers

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3628-3633 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser operation with two orthogonally polarized transverse modes

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3634-3637 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Bistatic receiver model for airborne lidar returns incident on an imaging array from underwater objects

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3638-3649 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of the droplet effective size and optical depth of cloudy media from polarimetric measurements: theory

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3650-3658 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Sum-frequency-generation system for differential absorption lidar measurement of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3659-3664 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Microwindow selection for high-spectral-resolution sounders

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3665-3673 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of the performance of a shearing interferometer in strong scintillation in the absence of additive measurement noise

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3674-3684 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Inversion with regularization for the retrieval of tropospheric aerosol parameters from multiwavelength lidar sounding

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3685-3699 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Heating of three-layer solid aerosol particles by laser radiation

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3700-3705 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-altitude infrared propagation in a coastal zone: refraction and scattering

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3706-3724 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Cloud Physics Lidar: instrument description and initial measurement results

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3725-3734 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation and characterization of ultrafast white-light continuum in condensed media

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3735-3742 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical Kerr switching technique for the production of a picosecond, multiwavelength CO2 laser pulse

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3743-3747 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric correlation of infrared femtosecond pulses with two-photon conductivity in a silicon CCD

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3748-3752 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Gas temperature measurements in weakly ionized glow discharges with filtered Rayleigh scattering

Appl. Opt. 41(18), 3753-3762 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF