Laser applications to chemical and environmental analysis: introduction to the feature issue

Andreas Brockhinke, John W. Daily, and John C. Miller

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2019-2020 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Size distributions of nanoscaled particles and gas temperatures from time-resolved laser-induced-incandescence measurements

Thilo Lehre, Beate Jungfleisch, Rainer Suntz, and Henning Bockhorn

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2021-2030 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Strategies for laser-induced fluorescence detection of nitric oxide in high-pressure flames. II. A–X(0,1) excitation

Wolfgang G. Bessler, Christof Schulz, Tonghun Lee, Jay B. Jeffries, and Ronald K. Hanson

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2031-2042 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous in situ measurement of CO, H ₂ O, and gas temperatures in a full-sized coal-fired power plant by near-infrared diode lasers

Holger Teichert, Thomas Fernholz, and Volker Ebert

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2043-2051 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced incandescence for soot diagnostics at high pressures

Max Hofmann, Wolfgang G. Bessler, Christof Schulz, and Helga Jander

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2052-2062 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Vortex-induced flame extinction in two-phase counterflow diffusion flames with CH planar laser-induced fluorescence and particle-image velocimetry

Alix Lemaire, Terrence R. Meyer, Katharina Zähringer, Juan C. Rolon, and James R. Gord

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2063-2071 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for the environmental determination of total carbon and nitrogen in soils

Madhavi Z. Martin, Stan D. Wullschleger, Charles T. Garten, and Anthony V. Palumbo

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2072-2077 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of molten aluminum alloy

Awadhesh K. Rai, Fang-Yu Yueh, and Jagdish P. Singh

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2078-2084 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical emission from laser-induced breakdown plasma of solid and liquid samples in the presence of a magnetic field

Virendra N. Rai, Awadhesh K. Rai, Fang-Yu Yueh, and Jagdish P. Singh

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2085-2093 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of laser-induced breakdown emission from liquid under double-pulse excitation

Virendra N. Rai, Fang-Yu Yueh, and Jagdish P. Singh

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2094-2101 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Rapid field screening of soils for heavy metals with spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Amy J. R. Hunter, Richard T. Wainner, Lawrence G. Piper, and Steven J. Davis

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2102-2109 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Antireflection-coated blue GaN laser diodes in an external cavity and Doppler-free indium absorption spectroscopy

Lars Hildebrandt, Richard Knispel, Sandra Stry, Joachim R. Sacher, and Frank Schael

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2110-2118 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-amplifier-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with near-infrared tunable diode lasers

Michael E. Webber, Michael Pushkarsky, and C. Kumar N. Patel

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2119-2126 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Fourier-transform laser spectroscopy

Kevin L. McNesby and Andrzej W. Miziolek

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2127-2131 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Size-correlated spectroscopy and imaging of rare-earth-doped nanocrystals

Adosh Mehta, Thomas Thundat, Michael D. Barnes, Vishal Chhabra, Ramesh Bhargava, Andrew P. Bartko, and Robert M. Dickson

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2132-2139 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Retrieval of stratospheric aerosol size and composition information from solar infrared transmission spectra

Helen M. Steele, Annmarie Eldering, Bhaswar Sen, Geoffrey C. Toon, Franklin P. Mills, and Brian H. Kahn

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2140-2154 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of high-resolution measurements for the retrieval of temperature and gas-concentration profiles from outgoing infrared spectra in the presence of cirrus clouds

Xianglei L. Huang, Yuk L. Yung, and Jack S. Margolis

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2155-2165 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a gallium-doped germanium far-infrared photoconductor direct hybrid two-dimensional array

Mikio Fujiwara, Takanori Hirao, Mitsunobu Kawada, Hiroshi Shibai, Shuji Matsuura, Hidehiro Kaneda, Mikhail Patrashin, and Takao Nakagawa

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2166-2173 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical analysis on the refractive-index distribution and bandwidth of gradient-index polymer optical fibers from a centrifugal field

Ming-Hsin Wei and Wen-Chang Chen

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2174-2180 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving the performance of fiber gratings with sinusoidal chirps

Lin Zhang and Changxi Yang

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2181-2187 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of thermal decay and prediction of operational lifetime for a type I boron-germanium codoped Fiber Bragg grating

Suchandan Pal, Jharna Mandal, Tong Sun, and Kenneth T. V. Grattan

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2188-2197 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a pumping laser system for x-ray laser research

Tetsuya Kawachi, Masataka Kado, Momoko Tanaka, Noboru Hasegawa, Keisuke Nagashima, Kouta Sukegawa, Peixiang Lu, Kenjiro Takahashi, Sinichi Namba, Masato Koike, Akira Nagashima, and Yoshiaki Kato

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2198-2205 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

2-mJ single-axial-mode gain-switched Cr:forsterite lasers

Jan C. Diettrich, Donald M. Warrington, and Iain T. McKinnie

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2206-2212 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable doped hybrid sol-gel materials for solid-state dye laser

Tran H. Nhung, Michael Canva, Truong T. A. Dao, Frédéric Chaput, Alain Brun, Nguyen D. Hung, and Jean-Pierre Boilot

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2213-2218 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Variational analysis of z scan of thick medium with an elliptic Gaussian beam

Wei-Ping Zang, Jian-Guo Tian, Zhi-Bo Liu, Wen-Yuan Zhou, Chun-Ping Zhang, and Guang-Yin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2219-2225 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of absolute minority species concentration and temperature in a flame by the photothermal deflection spectroscopy technique

Yunjing Li and Rajendra Gupta

Appl. Opt. 42(12), 2226-2235 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF