Ronald Driggers, Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Board
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
