20 July 2001, Volume 40, Issue 21, pp. 3417-3621  
25 articles

Fiber-based lidar for atmospheric water-vapor measurements

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3417-3427 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination by spaceborne backscatter lidar of the structural parameters of atmospheric scattering layers

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3428-3440 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive-optics compensation by distributed beacons for non-Kolmogorov turbulence

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3441-3449 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne lidar LEANDRE II for water-vapor profiling in the troposphere. I. System description

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3450-3461 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne lidar LEANDRE II for water-vapor profiling in the troposphere. II. First results

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3462-3475 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Repetitive genetic inversion of optical extinction data

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3476-3482 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct solar spectral irradiance and transmittance measurements from 350 to 2500 nm

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3483-3494 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Green’s function method for the radiative transfer problem. I. Homogeneous non-Lambertian surface

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3495-3501 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser heterodyne method for high-resolution gas-density measurements

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3502-3505 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Refractive-index changes of standard telecommunication fiber through exposure to femtosecond laser pulses at 810 cm

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3506-3508 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact optical-fiber variable attenuator arrays with polymer-network liquid crystals

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3509-3517 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral lines of the atomic-fluorine laser from 2 psi (absolute) to 5.5 atm

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3532-3538 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

High-average-power self-starting mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with a broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3539-3541 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable continuous-wave Yb:YLF laser operation with a diode-pumped chirped-pulse amplification system

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3542-3546 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Advantages of negative-branch compared with positive-branch one-dimensional unstable resonators

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3547-3551 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

High-density Er-implanted GaN optical memory devices

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3552-3558 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Possibility of hard-target lidar detection of a biogenic volatile organic compound, α-pinene gas, over forest areas

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3572-3574 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical remote sensing of chlorophyll a in case 2 waters by use of an adaptive two-band algorithm with optimal error properties

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3575-3585 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatial distribution of fluorescence intensity within large droplets and its dependence on dye concentration

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3586-3597 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of the small-angle approximation to ocean water types

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3608-3613 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Separating the fluorescence and reflectance components of coral spectra

Appl. Opt. 40(21), 3614-3621 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF