100 Most Cited Articles JOSA
To highlight some of the seminal research published in JOSA, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the most-cited articles from JOSA.
*As of Summer 2015
See also JOSA A | JOSA B
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Fourier-transform method of fringe-pattern analysis for computer-based topography and interferometry
Mitsuo Takeda, Hideki Ina, and Seiji Kobayashi
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(1) 156-160 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 2114
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Geometrical Theory of Diffraction*
Joseph B. Keller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(2) 116-130 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 1408
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Bayesian-Based Iterative Method of Image Restoration*
William Hadley Richardson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(1) 55-59 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 1356
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New Contributions to the Optics of Intensely Light-Scattering Materials. Part I
Paul Kubelka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(5) 448-457 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 1304
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Optics in Stratified and Anisotropic Media: 4×4-Matrix Formulation
Dwight W. Berreman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(4) 502-510 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 1274
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Zernike polynomials and atmospheric turbulence*
Robert J. Noll
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(3) 207-211 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 1197
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A New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical SystemsI. Description and Discussion of the Calculus
R. Clark Jones
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31(7) 488-493 (1941)
TOTAL CITES: 1061
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Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of planar-grating diffraction
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(7) 811-818 (1981)
TOTAL CITES: 1058
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Lightness and Retinex Theory
Edwin H. Land and John J. McCann
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(1) 1-11 (1971)
TOTAL CITES: 1056
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Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter
Charles Cox and Walter Munk
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(11) 838-850 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 1018
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Interspecimen Comparison of the Refractive Index of Fused Silica*,†
I. H. Malitson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(10) 1205-1209 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 998
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Optical Resolution Through a Randomly Inhomogeneous Medium for Very Long and Very Short Exposures
D. L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(10) 1372-1379 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 950
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Long Optical Paths of Large Aperture
John U. White
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32(5) 285-288 (1942)
TOTAL CITES: 919
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Approximate relativistic corrections to atomic radial wave functions*
Robert D. Cowan and Donald C. Griffin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(10) 1010-1014 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 912
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Image analysis via the general theory of moments*
Michael Reed Teague
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(8) 920-930 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 904
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Electromagnetic propagation in periodic stratified media. I. General theory*
Pochi Yeh, Amnon Yariv, and Chi-Shain Hong
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(4) 423-438 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 810
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Reconstructed Wavefronts and Communication Theory*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(10) 1123-1130 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 799
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Some fundamental properties of speckle*
J. W. Goodman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(11) 1145-1150 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 718
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Relation Between Surface Roughness and Specular Reflectance at Normal Incidence
H. E. Bennett and J. O. Porteus
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(2) 123-129 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 696
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Formation of Optical Images by X-Rays
Paul Kirkpatrick and A. V. Baez
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(9) 766-774 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 694
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Degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor-doped glasses
R. K. Jain and R. C. Lind
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73(5) 647-653 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 689
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Contrast masking in human vision
Gordon E. Legge and John M. Foley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(12) 1458-1471 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 685
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Diffraction analysis of dielectric surface-relief gratings
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(10) 1385-1392 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 654
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Lens-System Diffraction Integral Written in Terms of Matrix Optics*
Stuart A. Collins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(9) 1168-1177 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 644
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Theory for Off-Specular Reflection From Roughened Surfaces*
K. E. Torrance and E. M. Sparrow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(9) 1105-1114 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 637
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Theory of Prism–Film Coupler and Thin-Film Light Guides
P. K. Tien and R. Ulrich
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(10) 1325-1337 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 600
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Mathematical description of the responses of simple cortical cells*
S. Marĉelja
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(11) 1297-1300 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 600
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The Sensitivity Performance of the Human Eye on an Absolute Scale*
Albert Rose
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(2) 196-208 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 588
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Wavefront Reconstruction with Diffused Illumination and Three-Dimensional Objects*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(11) 1295-1301 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 574
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Visual Sensitivities to Color Differences in Daylight*
David L. MacAdam
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32(5) 247-274 (1942)
TOTAL CITES: 569
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Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminance
Donald I. A. MacLeod and Robert M. Boynton
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(8) 1183-1186 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 531
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Electric Fields Produced by the Propagation of Plane Coherent Electromagnetic Radiation in a Stratified Medium
Wilford N. Hansen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(3) 380-390 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 530
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Spatial and Temporal Contrast-Sensitivity Functions of the Visual System
J. G. Robson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(8) 1141-1142 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 528
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Spectra-Structure Correlations in the Infra-Red Region
N. B. Colthup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(6) 397-400 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 524
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Contrast Thresholds of the Human Eye
H. Richard Blackwell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 36(11) 624-643 (1946)
TOTAL CITES: 488
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Deterministic phase retrieval: a Green’s function solution
Michael Reed Teague
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73(11) 1434-1441 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 488
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Theory of Bragg fiber*
Pochi Yeh, Amnon Yariv, and Emanuel Marom
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(9) 1196-1201 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 480
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The Axicon: A New Type of Optical Element
John H. McLeod
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(8) 592-597 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 477
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Statistics of a Geometric Representation of Wavefront Distortion
D. L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(11) 1427-1435 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 450
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Interferometric Vibration Analysis by Wavefront Reconstruction
Robert L. Powell and Karl A. Stetson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(12) 1593-1598 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 450
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The Theory of Anomalous Diffraction Gratings and of Quasi-Stationary Waves on Metallic Surfaces (Sommerfeld’s Waves)
U. Fano
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31(3) 213-222 (1941)
TOTAL CITES: 446
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Restoring with Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Entropy*
B. Roy Frieden
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(4) 511-518 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 441
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Final Report of the O.S.A. Subcommittee on the Spacing of the Munsell Colors*
Sidney M. Newhall, Dorothy Nickerson, and Deane B. Judd
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 33(7) 385-418 (1943)
TOTAL CITES: 428
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Statistical ray optics
Eli Yablonovitch
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(7) 899-907 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 425
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Photoelectric Light-Scattering Photometer for Determining High Molecular Weights*
B. A. Brice, M. Halwer, and R. Speiser
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(11) 768-778 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 424
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Total Quantum Flux of Isotropic Sources*
J. Woodland Hastings and Gregorio Weber
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(12) 1410-1415 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 421
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The time-dependent physical spectrum of light*
J. H. Eberly and K. Wódkiewicz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(9) 1252-1261 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 411
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Generation of time-reversed wave fronts by nonlinear refraction*
R. W. Hellwarth
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(1) 1-3 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 403
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Motion and vision. II. Stabilized spatio-temporal threshold surface
D. H. Kelly
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(10) 1340-1349 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 403
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A New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical Systems. VII. Properties of the N-Matrices
R. Clark Jones
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(8) 671-685 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 402
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Wave-front estimation from wave-front slope measurements
W.H. Southwell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(8) 998-1006 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 401
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Spectral Distribution of Typical Daylight as a Function of Correlated Color Temperature
Deane B. Judd, David L. MacAdam, Günter Wyszecki, H. W. Budde, H. R. Condit, S. T. Henderson, and J. L. Simonds
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(8) 1031-1040 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 397
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Optical and Photoelectric Analog of the Eye
Otto H. Schade
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(9) 721-739 (1956)
TOTAL CITES: 396
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Analysis of Response Patterns of LGN Cells*
Russell L. De Valois, Israel Abramov, and Gerald H. Jacobs
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(7) 966-977 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 394
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Cylindrical Dielectric Waveguide Modes*
E. Snitzer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(5) 491-498 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 391
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Magnification and Third-Order Aberrations in Holography*
Reinhard W. Meier
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(8) 987-992 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 388
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Theoretical Calculation of Atomic Spectra Using Digital Computers*
Robert D. Cowan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(6) 808-818 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 388
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Effects of Components of Displacement-Step Stimuli Upon Latency for Saccadic Eye Movement
M. G. Saslow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(8) 1024-1029 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 387
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Spatial Modulation Transfer in the Human Eye
Floris L. Van Nes and Maarten A. Bouman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(3) 401-406 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 386
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Optical constants from the far infrared to the x-ray region: Mg, Al, Cu, Ag, Au, Bi, C, and Al2O3
H.-J. Hagemann, W. Gudat, and C. Kunz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 65(6) 742-744 (1975)
TOTAL CITES: 382
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The Dispersion of Standard Air*
Bengt Edlén
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(5) 339-344 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 382
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Electromagnetic propagation in birefringent layered media
Pochi Yeh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(5) 742-756 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 381
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Visual Responses to Time-Dependent Stimuli.* I. Amplitude Sensitivity Measurements†
D. H. Kelly
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(4) 422-429 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 377
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Spatial-Frequency Channels in Human Vision*
Murray B. Sachs, Jacob Nachmias, and John G. Robson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(9) 1176-1186 (1971)
TOTAL CITES: 376
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Piezo-Optical Birefringence Modulators: New Use for a Long-Known Effect
James C. Kemp
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 59(8) 950-954 (1969)
TOTAL CITES: 368
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The Disappearance of Steadily Fixated Visual Test Objects*
Lorrin A. Riggs, Floyd Ratliff, Janet C. Cornsweet, and Tom N. Cornsweet
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(6) 495-501 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 368
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The 1s-3p Kβ-like x-ray spectrum of highly ionized iron
M. Klapisch, J. L. Schwob, B. S. Fraenkel, and J. Oreg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(2) 148-155 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 362
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The Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue and Dichotomous Tests for Color Vision*
Dean Farnsworth
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 33(10) 568-578 (1943)
TOTAL CITES: 359
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Transmission Filters for the Ultraviolet*
M. Kasha
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(11) 929-934 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 354
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Wavefront Reconstruction with Continuous-Tone Objects*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(12) 1377-1381 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 352
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The Optical Constants of Silver, Gold, Copper, and Aluminum. I. The Absorption Coefficient k
L. G. Schulz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(5) 357-362 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 349
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Theory of Fresnel Images. I. Plane Periodic Objects in Monochromatic Light*
John T. Winthrop and C. R. Worthington
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(4) 373-381 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 344
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Coupled-Mode Theory for Optical Fibers
Allan W. Snyder
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(11) 1267-1277 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 341
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New theory of partial coherence in the space–frequency domain. Part I: spectra and cross spectra of steady-state sources
Emil Wolf
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(3) 343-351 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 341
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Curvature loss formula for optical fibers
Dietrich Marcuse
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(3) 216-220 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 338
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Modulation Transfer Function Associated with Image Transmission through Turbulent Media
R. E. Hufnagel and N. R. Stanley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(1) 52-61 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 337
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Electron Binding Energies in Free Atoms*
Wolfgang Lotz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(2) 206-210 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 335
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Optical properties of water in the near infrared*
Kent F. Palmer and Dudley Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64(8) 1107-1110 (1974)
TOTAL CITES: 332
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Multicoated gratings: a differential formalism applicable in the entire optical region
J. Chandezon, M. T. Dupuis, G. Cornet, and D. Maystre
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(7) 839-846 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 332
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Research into the Dynamic Nature of the Human Fovea→Cortex Systems with Intermittent and Modulated Light. I. Attenuation Characteristics with White and Colored Light
H. de Lange Dzn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48(11) 777-784 (1958)
TOTAL CITES: 329
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Luminance and opponent-color contributions to visual detection and adaptation and to temporal and spatial integration
P. E. King-Smith and D. Carden
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(7) 709-717 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 325
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The Near Infrared Absorption Spectrum of Liquid Water
Joseph A. Curcio and Charles C. Petty
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 41(5) 302-304 (1951)
TOTAL CITES: 325
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Absorption Coefficients of Water Vapor in the Vacuum Ultraviolet
K. Watanabe and Murray Zelikoff
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(9) 753-755 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 318
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Visual Resolution and Contour Interaction*
Merton C. Flom, Frank W. Weymouth, and Daniel Kahneman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(9) 1026-1032 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 315
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The Structure of Evaporated Metal Films and Their Optical Properties
R. S. Sennett and G. D. Scott
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(4) 203-211 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 315
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Absorption Coefficient of Ozone in the Ultraviolet and Visible Regions
Edward C. Y. Inn and Yoshio Tanaka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(10) 870-873 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 314
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Least-square fitting a wave-front distortion estimate to an array of phase-difference measurements
David L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(3) 370-375 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 312
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Tandem-Scanning Reflected-Light Microscope*
Mojmír Petráň, Milan Hadravský, M. David Egger, and Robert Galambos
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(5) 661-664 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 308
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Metacontrast
Mathew Alpern
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(8) 648-657 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 306
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Wigner distribution function and its application to first-order optics
M. J. Bastiaans
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(12) 1710-1716 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 305
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The Luminosity of Spectrometers with Prisms, Gratings, or Fabry-Perot Etalons
Pierre Jacquinot
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(10) 761-765 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 299
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Energy Level and Line Tables for One-Electron Atomic Spectra*
J. D. Garcia and J. E. Mack
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(6) 654-685 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 298
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Infrared Spectra of Monolayers on Metal Mirrors
S. A. Francis and A. H. Ellison
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 49(2) 131-138 (1959)
TOTAL CITES: 297
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Optical Constants of Silver, Gold, Copper, and Aluminum. II. The Index of Refraction n
L. G. Schulz and F. R. Tangherlini
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(5) 362-368 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 295
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Retinal Noise and Absolute Threshold
H. B. Barlow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(8) 634-639 (1956)
TOTAL CITES: 293
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New Contributions to the Optics of Intensely Light-Scattering Materials. Part II: Nonhomogeneous Layers*
Paul Kubelka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(4) 330-335 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 292
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Asymmetric self-defocusing of an optical beam from the photorefractive effect
Jack Feinberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(1) 46-51 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 289
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Spatial-Frequency Masking in Vision: Critical Bands and Spread of Masking*
Charles F. Stromeyer and Bela Julesz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(10) 1221-1232 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 288
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Tables of the Refractive Index for Standard Air and the Rayleigh Scattering Coefficient for the Spectral Region between 0.2 and 20.0 μ and Their Application to Atmospheric Optics
Rudolf Penndorf
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 47(2) 176-182 (1957)
TOTAL CITES: 286
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Determination of the Properties of Films on Silicon by the Method of Ellipsometry
R. J. Archer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(9) 970-977 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 285