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B. J. Howell

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2452-2626 (1986)  View: PDF

From the Editor

John N. Howard

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2454-2562 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Modified signed-digit addition and subtraction using optical symbolic substitution

Richard P. Bocker, Barry L. Drake, Mark E. Lasher, and Thomas B. Henderson

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2456-2457 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Molecular transmittance band model for oxygen in the visible

Joseph H. Pierluissi and Chang-Ming Tsai

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2458-2460 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Stratospheric NO₂ retrieval from solar absorption spectra in the ν₃ and ν₁ + ν₃ infrared bands

M. T. Coffey, William G. Mankin, and A. Goldman

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2460-2462 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Extinction boundary value algorithms for lidar inversion

James D. Klett

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2462-2464 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Internal and near-surface scattered field of a spherical particle at resonant conditions: comments

Ramesh Bhandari

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2464-2466 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Assessment of solar irradiance spectra

Daniel Spitzer and Marcel R. Wernand

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2466-2467 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Tapered single-mode fibers: external refractive-index dependence

Suzanne Lacroix, Richard J. Black, Christian Veilleux, and Jean Lapierre

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2468-2469 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

On-fiber electrooptic modulator/switch

M. A. El-Sherif, P. M. Shankar, P. R. Herczfeld, L. Bobb, and H. Krumboltz

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2469-2470 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Acoustooptic deflectors at Brewster incidence

G. Thomin, C. Bruneel, M. G. Gazalet, E. Bridoux, and J. P. Picault

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2470-2472 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Technique for imaging single UV laser pulses

Katherine X. Liu, Mary Neudorffer, and Elsa Garmire

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2472-2473 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing and magnification in Gaussian beams

R. M. Herman and T. A. Wiggins

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2473-2474 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermally induced wave-front distortions in laser windows

Charles E. Greninger

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2474-2475 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Talbot interferometry for measuring the small tilt angle variation of an object surface

Yoshiaki Nakano and Kazumi Murata

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2475-2477 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Shearing interferometry using holo-lenses

Chandra Shakher, P. B. Godbole, and B. N. Gupta

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2477-2479 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Traveling-wave 1.3-μm interferometer modulator with high bandwidth, low drive power, and low loss

David W. Dolfi

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2479-2480 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric characterization of chirped ultrafast pulses

Jamal T. Manassah

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2480-2482 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Simple picosecond excimer laser system

Kawakatsu Yamada, Kenzo Miyazaki, Toshifumi Hasama, and Takuzo Sato

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2482-2484 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Alternate interpretation for minimum variance synthetic discriminant functions

B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar and Abhijit Mahalanobis

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2484-2485 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Bias in a solar constant determination by the Langley method due to structured atmospheric aerosol

R. M. Schotland and T. K. Lea

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2486-2491 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne CO₂ DIAL measurement of atmospheric tracer gas concentration distributions

Edward E. Uthe

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2492-2498 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscatter and extinction measurements in cloud and drizzle at CO₂ laser wavelengths

S. G. Jennings

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2499-2505 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Carbon dioxide laser backscatter signatures from laboratory-generated dust

Diane Powell Walter, David E. Cooper, Jan E. van der Laan, and Edward R. Murray

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2506-2513 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical scattering by metallic and carbon aerosols of high aspect ratio

Magdy F. Iskander, Steven C. Olson, Robert E. Benner, and Dawn Yoshida

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2514-2520 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetic scattering from two dielectric spheres: further comparisons between theory and experiment

Kirk A. Fuller, George W. Kattawar, and Ru T. Wang

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2521-2529 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Extinction cross sections and albedos for particles with very rough surfaces

Ezekiel Bahar, Swapan Chakrabarti, and Mary Ann Fitzwater

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2530-2536 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of small color differences on the contrast threshold: its application to atmospheric visibility

Juan Gorraiz, Helmuth Horvath, and Gerhard Raimann

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2537-2545 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Doppler lidar atmospheric wind sensors: a comparative performance evaluation for global measurement applications from earth orbit

Robert T. Menzies

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2546-2553 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne infrared observations and analyses of a large forest fire

John R. Stearns, Mark S. Zahniser, Charles E. Kolb, and Brian P. Sandford

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2554-2562 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of thermal imagery for atmospheric effects using aircraft measurement and atmospheric modeling techniques

Arthur E. Byrnes and John R. Schott

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2563-2570 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Active–passive correlation spectroscopy: a new technique for identifying ocean color algorithm spectral regions

Frank E. Hoge and Robert N. Swift

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2571-2583 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Oxygen- and air-broadened linewidths of CO₂

Eric Arié, Nelly Lacome, Philippe Arcas, and Armand Levy

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2584-2591 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers with nonconstant losses: a multiwavelength model

W. Paul Urquhart and Peter J. R. Laybourn

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2592-2599 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupling characteristics of lens systems for laser diode modules using single-mode fiber

Kenji Kawano

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2600-2605 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Eigenstate of polarization in a fiber ring resonator and its effect in an optical passive ring-resonator gyro

Katsumi watsuki, Kazuo Hotate, and Minoru Higashiguchi

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2606-2612 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of the fourth-order index coefficient of GRIN-rod lenses

Toyokazu Sakamoto

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2613-2619 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupling loss analysis on a multimode fiber directional coupler using GRIN-rod lenses

Toyokazu Sakamoto

Appl. Opt. 25(15), 2620-2625 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF