20 May 2005, Volume 44, Issue 15, pp. 2909-3124  
33 articles

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2909-2909 (2005)  View: PDF

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2910-2910 (2005)  View: PDF

From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism

open access Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2919-2919 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthesis of a multiple-peak spatial degree of coherence for imaging through absorbing media

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2921-2927 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Solution for the nonuniformity correction of infrared focal plane arrays

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2928-2932 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Bidirectional optical coupler for plastic optical fibers

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2933-2942 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of color distortions in a transmission-type holographic screen

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2943-2948 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Thin compound-eye camera

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2949-2956 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Physically based reflectance model utilizing polarization measurement

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2957-2962 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Harmonic suppression and defect enhancement using Schlieren processing

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2963-2969 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous characterization of the quality and orientation of cylindrical lens surfaces

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2970-2977 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

White-light interferometer with dispersion: an accurate fiber-optic sensor for the measurement of distance

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2978-2983 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional imaging without scanning by multifocal multiphoton microscopy

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2984-2988 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental study of phase-step broadening by fringing fields in a three-electrode liquid-crystal cell

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2989-2995 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of thermal annealing on the optical properties and residual stress of TiO2 films produced by ion-assisted deposition

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 2996-3000 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced readout signal of superresolution near-field structure disks by control of the size and distribution of metal nanoclusters

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3001-3005 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Refractive index of thin films of SiO2, ZrO2, and HfO2 as a function of the films’ mass density

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3006-3012 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization-dependent diffraction efficiency of a photorefractive volume grating and suppression of this efficiency

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3013-3018 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Watermarks encrypted in a concealogram and deciphered by a modified joint-transform correlator

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3019-3023 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

System modeling and optimization of Fourier holographic memory

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3024-3031 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Tropospheric CO observed with the NAST-I retrieval methodology, analyses, and first results

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3032-3044 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

All-optical 2 × 2 switching with two independent Yb3+-doped nonlinear optical fibers with a long-period fiber grating pair

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3051-3057 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength dependence of irreversible photobleaching of dye-doped polymer waveguide materials

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3063-3068 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of strategies to improve the directionality of square lattice band-edge photonic crystal structures

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3069-3076 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

High-index-contrast waveguides and devices

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3077-3086 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

808-nm diode-pumped continuous-wave Tm:GdVO4 laser at room temperature

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3087-3092 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermo-optical parameters measured in ytterbium-doped potassium gadolinium tungstate

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3093-3097 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency-narrowed diode array bar

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3098-3104 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Multimirror autodyne lidar for local detection of hostile gases

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3105-3109 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of photothermal deflection signals with conjugate masks

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3110-3116 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of fluorescence reabsorption and trapping on solid-state optical cooling

Appl. Opt. 44(15), 3117-3124 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF