100 Most Cited Articles JOSA A
To highlight some of the seminal research published in JOSA A, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the most-cited articles from JOSA A. They will be free to access throughout 2016.
*As of Summer 2015
See also JOSA | JOSA B
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Practical cone-beam algorithm
L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(6) 612-619 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 2488
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Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion
Edward H. Adelson and James R. Bergen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 284-299 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 1866
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Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations
Bruce T. Draine and Piotr J. Flatau
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(4) 1491-1499 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 1540
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Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions
Berthold K. P. Horn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 629-642 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1476
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Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells
David J. Field
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2379-2394 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1408
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Uncertainty relation for resolution in space, spatial frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters
John G. Daugman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1160-1169 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 1314
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Formulation for stable and efficient implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis of binary gratings
M. G. Moharam, Eric B. Grann, Drew A. Pommet, and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1068-1076 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 1283
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Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory
J. Durnin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 651-654 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 1167
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Stable implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis for surface-relief gratings: enhanced transmittance matrix approach
M. G. Moharam, Drew A. Pommet, Eric B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1077-1086 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 810
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Model of human visual-motion sensing
Andrew B. Watson and Albert J. Ahumada
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 322-342 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 754
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Image rotation, Wigner rotation, and the fractional Fourier transform
Adolf W. Lohmann
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(10) 2181-2186 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 739
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Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces
L. Sirovich and M. Kirby
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 519-524 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 731
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Boundary conditions for the diffusion equation in radiative transfer
Richard C. Haskell, Lars O. Svaasand, Tsong-Tseh Tsay, Ti-Chen Feng, Matthew S. McAdams, and Bruce J. Tromberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(10) 2727-2741 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 716
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Supernormal vision and high-resolution retinal imaging through adaptive optics
Junzhong Liang, David R. Williams, and Donald T. Miller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2884-2892 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 695
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Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9) 1870-1876 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 669
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Objective measurement of wave aberrations of the human eye with the use of a Hartmann–Shack wave-front sensor
Junzhong Liang, Bernhard Grimm, Stefan Goelz, and Josef F. Bille
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 1949-1957 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 650
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New formulation of the Fourier modal method for crossed surface-relief gratings
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(10) 2758-2767 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 569
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Elaborated Reichardt detectors
Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 300-321 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 559
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Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation: I
David Mendlovic and Haldun M. Ozaktas
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(9) 1875-1881 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 559
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Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms
Jitendra Malik and Pietro Perona
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(5) 923-932 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 557
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Highly improved convergence of the coupled-wave method for TM polarization
Philippe Lalanne and G. Michael Morris
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 779-784 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 550
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Retroreflectance from a dense distribution of spherical particles
Yasuo Kuga and Akira Ishimaru
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 831-835 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 533
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Drift-balanced random stimuli: a general basis for studying non-Fourier motion perception
Charles Chubb and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(11) 1986-2007 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 514
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Formulation and comparison of two recursive matrix algorithms for modeling layered diffraction gratings
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1024-1035 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 512
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Color constancy: a method for recovering surface spectral reflectance
Laurence T. Maloney and Brian A. Wandell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(1) 29-33 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 462
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Cladding-mode resonances in short- and long-period fiber grating filters
Turan Erdogan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1760-1773 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 458
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Robust two-dimensional weighted and unweighted phase unwrapping that uses fast transforms and iterative methods
Dennis C. Ghiglia and Louis A. Romero
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(1) 107-117 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 438
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Aberrations and retinal image quality of the normal human eye
Junzhong Liang and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2873-2883 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 431
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Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination
Denis G. Pelli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(9) 1508-1532 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 428
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Contrast in complex images
Eli Peli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(10) 2032-2040 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 426
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Evaluation of linear models of surface spectral reflectance with small numbers of parameters
Laurence T. Maloney
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1673-1683 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 403
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Estimating fractal dimension
James Theiler
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 1055-1073 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 401
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Using phase retrieval to measure the intensity and phase of ultrashort pulses: frequency-resolved optical gating
Rick Trebino and Daniel J. Kane
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(5) 1101-1111 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 395
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Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model
John M. Foley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1710-1719 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 395
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Interpretation of Mueller matrices based on polar decomposition
Shih-Yau Lu and Russell A. Chipman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1106-1113 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 394
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Realization of general nondiffracting beams with computer-generated holograms
Antti Vasara, Jari Turunen, and Ari T. Friberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1748-1754 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 381
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Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of metallic surface-relief gratings
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(11) 1780-1787 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 378
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Production and uses of diffractionless beams
R. M. Herman and T. A. Wiggins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 932-942 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 356
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Monochromatic aberrations of the human eye in a large population
Jason Porter, Antonio Guirao, Ian G. Cox, and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1793-1803 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 354
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Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation. II
Haldun M. Ozaktas and David Mendlovic
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2522-2531 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 348
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Calculation of the T matrix and the scattering matrix for ensembles of spheres
Daniel W. Mackowski and Michael I. Mishchenko
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(11) 2266-2278 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 341
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Light scattering from a sphere arbitrarily located in a Gaussian beam, using a Bromwich formulation
G. Gouesbet, B. Maheu, and G. Gréhan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(9) 1427-1443 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 338
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Temporal covariance model of human motion perception
Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(5) 451-473 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 336
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Discriminant analysis for recognition of human face images
Kamran Etemad and Rama Chellappa
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1724-1733 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 335
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Geometries and materials for subwavelength surface plasmon modes
Rashid Zia, Mark D. Selker, Peter B. Catrysse, and Mark L. Brongersma
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21(12) 2442-2446 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 335
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Convolution, filtering, and multiplexing in fractional Fourier domains and their relation to chirp and wavelet transforms
Haldun M. Ozaktas, Billur Barshan, David Mendlovic, and Levent Onural
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2) 547-559 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 334
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Model for the extraction of image flow
David J. Heeger
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(8) 1455-1471 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 330
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Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex
Tai Sing Lee and David Mumford
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(7) 1434-1448 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 330
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Characteristic spectra of Munsell colors
J. P. S. Parkkinen, J. Hallikainen, and T. Jaaskelainen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(2) 318-322 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 324
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Affine structure from motion
Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(2) 377-385 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 324
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Statistical variation of aberration structure and image quality in a normal population of healthy eyes
Larry N. Thibos, Xin Hong, Arthur Bradley, and Xu Cheng
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(12) 2329-2348 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 322
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Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using orthonormal matrices
Berthold K. P. Horn, Hugh M. Hilden, and Shahriar Negahdaripour
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1127-1135 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 319
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Improved solutions of the steady-state and the time-resolved diffusion equations for reflectance from a semi-infinite turbid medium
Alwin Kienle and Michael S. Patterson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(1) 246-254 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 315
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Light scattering by randomly oriented axially symmetric particles
M. I. Mishchenko
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 871-882 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 314
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Age and visual search: expanding the useful field of view
Karlene K. Ball, Bettina L. Beard, Daniel L. Roenker, Richard L. Miller, and David S. Griggs
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(12) 2210-2219 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 300
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Direct phase determination in hologram interferometry with use of digitally recorded holograms
Ulf Schnars
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 2011-2015 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 298
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Luminance and chromatic modulation sensitivity of macaque ganglion cells and human observers
Barry B. Lee, Joel Pokorny, Vivianne C. Smith, Paul R. Martin, and Arne Valbergt
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(12) 2223-2236 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 296
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Anomalous refractive properties of photonic crystals
Boris Gralak, Stefan Enoch, and Gérard Tayeb
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17(6) 1012-1020 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 285
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Phase retrieval from the magnitude of the Fourier transforms of nonperiodic objects
J. Miao, D. Sayre, and H. N. Chapman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(6) 1662-1669 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 285
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Perceived velocity of moving chromatic gratings
Patrick Cavanagh, Christopher W. Tyler, and Olga Eizner Favreau
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 893-899 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 282
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Propagation of photon-density waves in strongly scattering media containing an absorbing semi-infinite plane bounded by a straight edge
Joshua B. Fishkin and Enrico Gratton
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(1) 127-140 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 280
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Digital holographic interference-phase measurement using the Fourier-transform method
Thomas Kreis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(6) 847-855 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 278
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Statistics of cone responses to natural images: implications for visual coding
Daniel L. Ruderman, Thomas W. Cronin, and Chuan-Chin Chiao
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(8) 2036-2045 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 274
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Experimental study of scattering from characterized random surfaces
K. A. O’Donnell and E. R. Mendez
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(7) 1194-1205 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 274
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Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope
Stefan Hell and Ernst H. K. Stelzer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(12) 2159-2166 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 269
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Model for photon migration in turbid biological media
R. F. Bonner, R. Nossal, S. Havlin, and G. H. Weiss
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 423-432 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 266
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Multilayer modal method for diffraction gratings of arbitrary profile, depth, and permittivity
Lifeng Li
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2581-2591 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 265
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Postadaptation orientation discrimination
D. Regan and K. I. Beverley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 147-155 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 263
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High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy
Henry N. Chapman, Anton Barty, Stefano Marchesini, Aleksandr Noy, Stefan P. Hau-Riege, Congwu Cui, Malcolm R. Howells, Rachel Rosen, Haifeng He, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Tobias Beetz, Chris Jacobsen, and David Shapiro
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23(5) 1179-1200 (2006)
TOTAL CITES: 262
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Temporal coupled-mode theory for the Fano resonance in optical resonators
Shanhui Fan, Wonjoo Suh, and J. D. Joannopoulos
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(3) 569-572 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 260
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Thin-films field-transfer matrix theory of planar multilayer waveguides and reflection from prism-loaded waveguides
John Chilwell and Ian Hodgkinson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(7) 742-753 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 260
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Saturated patterned excitation microscopy—a concept for optical resolution improvement
Rainer Heintzmann, Thomas M. Jovin, and Christoph Cremer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(8) 1599-1609 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 259
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High-resolution image recovery from image-plane arrays, using convex projections
Henry Stark and Peyma Oskoui
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1715-1726 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 253
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Addition of a channel mechanism to the ideal-observer model
Kyle J. Myers and Harrison H. Barrett
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2447-2457 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 253
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Electromagnetic diffraction of light focused through a planar interface between materials of mismatched refractive indices: an integral representation
P. Török, P. Varga, Z. Laczik, and G. R. Booker
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(2) 325-332 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 252
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Contribution of the cornea and internal surfaces to the change of ocular aberrations with age
Pablo Artal, Esther Berrio, Antonio Guirao, and Patricia Piers
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(1) 137-143 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 252
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Phase retrieval by iterated projections
Veit Elser
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(1) 40-55 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 249
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Iterative Fourier-transform algorithm applied to computer holography
Frank Wyrowski and Olof Bryngdahl
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1058-1065 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 249
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Reconstruction of a complex-valued object from the modulus of its Fourier transform using a support constraint
J. R. Fienup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(1) 118-123 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 244
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Calculation of total cross sections of multiple-sphere clusters
Daniel W. Mackowski
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 2851-2861 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 243
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X-ray imaging with submicrometer resolution employing transparent luminescent screens
Andreas Koch, Carsten Raven, Per Spanne, and Anatoly Snigirev
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(7) 1940-1951 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 240
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Objective assessment of image quality: effects of quantum noise and object variability
Harrison H. Barrett
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(7) 1266-1278 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 240
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Modified line-element theory for spatial-frequency and width discrimination
Hugh R. Wilson and Douglas J. Gelb
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(1) 124-131 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 239
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Efficient nonlinear algorithm for envelope detection in white light interferometry
Kieran G. Larkin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 832-843 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 238
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Scattering by a random set of parallel cylinders
D. Felbacq, G. Tayeb, and D. Maystre
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(9) 2526-2538 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 237
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Model of visual contrast gain control and pattern masking
Andrew B. Watson and Joshua A. Solomon
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(9) 2379-2391 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 237
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Anatomically accurate, finite model eye for optical modeling
Hwey-Lan Liou and Noel A. Brennan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1684-1695 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 233
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Simultaneous color constancy
Lawrence Arend and Adam Reeves
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1743-1751 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 231
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Joint estimation of object and aberrations by using phase diversity
Richard G. Paxman, Timothy J. Schulz, and James R. Fienup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(7) 1072-1085 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 231
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Hyperacuity thresholds of 1 sec: theoretical predictions and empirical validation
Stanley A. Klein and Dennis M. Levi
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1170-1190 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 229
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Diffractive optical elements: iterative calculation of quantized, blazed phase structures
Frank Wyrowski
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 961-969 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 227
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Eye movements and optical flow
William H. Warren and Danial J. Hannon
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(1) 160-169 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 225
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Atmospheric turbulence effects on a partially coherent Gaussian beam: implications for free-space laser communication
Jennifer C. Ricklin and Frederic M. Davidson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(9) 1794-1802 (2002)
TOTAL CITES: 225
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Light propagation through nanometer-sized structures: the two-dimensional-aperture scanning near-field optical microscope
L. Novotny, D. W. Pohl, and P. Regli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1768-1779 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 219
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Application of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light
Martin J. Bastiaans
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(8) 1227-1238 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 217
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Nondiffracting optical fields: some remarks on their analysis and synthesis
G. Indebetouw
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(1) 150-152 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 216
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Dynamics of the eye’s wave aberration
Heidi Hofer, Pablo Artal, Ben Singer, Juan Luis Aragón, and David R. Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(3) 497-506 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 216
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Use of grating theories in integrated optics
Eric Silberstein, Philippe Lalanne, Jean-Paul Hugonin, and Qing Cao
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(11) 2865-2875 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 215
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Material parameter estimation with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
Timothy D. Dorney, Richard G. Baraniuk, and Daniel M. Mittleman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(7) 1562-1571 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 214
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Natural demodulation of two-dimensional fringe patterns. I. General background of the spiral phase quadrature transform
Kieran G. Larkin, Donald J. Bone, and Michael A. Oldfield
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1862-1870 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 214