20 August 2003, Volume 42, Issue 24, pp. 4793-4974  
24 articles

Variability of light absorption by aquatic particles in the near-infrared spectral region

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4802-4810 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical simulations of multiconjugate adaptive optics wave-front reconstruction on giant telescopes

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4811-4818 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric analysis of reorientational nonlinear phenomena at 10.6 µm in a nematic liquid crystal

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4827-4834 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for measuring small optical absorption coefficients with use of a Shack-Hartmann wave-front detector

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4835-4840 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact spot-size converters with fiber-matched antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4841-4846 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Multifunctional gratings for surface-emitting lasers: design and implementation

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4847-4854 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

General properties of N × M self-images in a strongly confined rectangular waveguide

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4855-4859 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Nd:YLF laser at 1.3 µm for calcium atom optical clocks and precision spectroscopy of hydrogenic systems

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4867-4870 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Linewidth reduction by 6 orders of magnitude of a broad-area 729-nm diode laser

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4871-4876 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient laser operation of an Yb:S-FAP crystal at 985 nm

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4883-4886 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote photoacoustic detection of liquid contamination of a surface

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4901-4908 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-signal method for accurate measurements of depolarization ratio with lidar

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4909-4913 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Automated statistical approach to Langley evaluation for a solar radiometer

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4914-4921 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Strategies for laser-induced fluorescence detection of nitric oxide in high-pressure flames. III. Comparison of A–X excitation schemes

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4922-4936 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Bridging technique for calculating the extinction efficiency of arbitrary shaped particles

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4937-4945 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical wireless communication through fog in the presence of pointing errors

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4946-4954 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Transmitted and reflected scattering matrices from an English oak leaf

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4955-4962 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorption line shift with temperature and pressure: impact on laser-diode-based H2O sensing at 1.393 µm

Appl. Opt. 42(24), 4968-4974 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF