Patents Reviews: 6,157,040; 6,195,183; 6,204,923; 6,207,961; 6,219,138; 6,222,626; 6,222,956; 6,222,956

A. Brunsting

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5273-5274 (2001)  View: PDF

Blue spot on the parhelic circle

Mika Sillanpää, Jarmo Moilanen, Marko Riikonen, and Marko Pekkola

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5275-5279 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar with Iodine-Vapor Filters: Measurement of Atmospheric-State and Aerosol Profiles

John W. Hair, Loren M. Caldwell, David A. Krueger, and Chiao-Yao She

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5280-5294 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Ground-to-satellite narrow-laser-beam pointing by use of a backscattered image

Masahiro Toyoda, Kenichi Araki, and Yoshiaki Suzuki

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5295-5303 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Future performance of ground-based and airborne water-vapor differential absorption lidar. I. Overview and theory

Volker Wulfmeyer and Craig Walther

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5304-5320 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Future performance of ground-based and airborne water-vapor differential absorption lidar. II. Simulations of the precision of a near-infrared, high-power system

Volker Wulfmeyer and Craig Walther

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5321-5336 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscattered intensity from model atmospheric ice crystals in the millimeter-wave range

Rosalba Saija, Maria A. Iatì, Paolo Denti, Ferdinando Borghese, and Orazio I. Sindoni

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5337-5342 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the elliptical birefringence of single-mode optical fibers

Thierry Chartier, Ammar Hideur, Cafer Özkul, François Sanchez, and Guy M. Stéphan

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5343-5353 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Stress measurements in glass by use of double thermal gratings

Bret D. Cannon, Chester Shepard, and Mohammad Khaleel

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5354-5369 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional two-wavelength emission technique for soot diagnostics

Francesco Cignoli, Silvana De Iuliis, Vittorio Manta, and Giorgio Zizak

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5370-5378 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous two-dimensional flow velocity and gas temperature measurements by use of a combined particle image velocimetry and filtered Rayleigh scattering technique

Dieter Most and Alfred Leipertz

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5379-5387 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Oxygen–atom concentrations measured in flames: a method to improve the accuracy of laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics

Franklin H. Myhr and James F. Driscoll

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5388-5394 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved design of a polarization converter based on semiconductor optical waveguide bends

Salah S. A. Obayya, B. M. Azizur Rahman, Kennith T. V. Grattan, and Hamdi A. El-Mikati

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5395-5401 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Fizeau wedge with unequal mirrors for spectral control and coupling in a linear laser oscillator–amplifier system

Elena V. Stoykova and Marin N. Nenchev

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5402-5412 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturable absorber Cr⁴⁺:(Sr,Ca)Gd₄(SiO₄)₃O crystals as Q switches for a diode-pumped Nd³⁺:KGd(WO₄)₂ laser

Igor A. Denisov, Konstantin V. Yumashev, Richard Moncorge, and Bernard Ferrand

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5413-5416 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturation characteristics of Cr⁴⁺:YAG crystals and dye films for passive Q switches

Young-Soo Choi

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5417-5422 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Distributed laser refrigeration

Anton Rayner, Madeleine Hirsch, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5423-5429 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical manipulation of microscopic objects by means of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser array sources

Yusuke Ogura, Keiichiro Kagawa, and Jun Tanida

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5430-5435 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Redetermination of second-order susceptibility of zinc oxide single crystals

Gang Wang, George K. L. Wong, and John B. Ketterson

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5436-5438 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Difference frequency generation in AgGaS₂: Sellmeier and temperature-dispersion equations

Ulrike Willer, Torsten Blanke, and Wolfgang Schade

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5439-5445 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Unstable resonator optical parametric oscillator based on quasi-phase-matched RbTiOAsO₄

Göran Hansson, Håkan Karlsson, and Fredrik Laurell

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5446-5451 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Energetic and optical consequences in isotropic curved space and time

Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5452-5458 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Gaussian beams in hollow metal waveguides: experiment

Marius Ghita and Lee W. Casperson

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5459-5462 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne interferometer for atmospheric emission and solar absorption

David W. Keith, John A. Dykema, Haijun Hu, Larry Lapson, and James G. Anderson

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5463-5473 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional remote sensing by optical scanning holography

Bradley W. Schilling and Glen C. Templeton

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5474-5481 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of the wavelength-dependent effective refractive index of spherical plastic pigments in a liquid matrix

Kai-Erik Peiponen, Anssi J. Jääskeläinen, Erik M. Vartiainen, Jukka Räty, Unto Tapper, Olivier Richard, Esko I. Kauppinen, and Kari Lumme

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5482-5486 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering and internal fields of a microsphere that contains a saturable absorber: finite-difference time-domain simulations

Steven C. Hill, Gorden Videen, Wenbo Sun, and Qiang Fu

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5487-5494 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarized pulse waves in random discrete scatterers

Akira Ishimaru, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, and Yasuo Kuga

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5495-5502 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Relationship of light scattering at an angle in the backward direction to the backscattering coefficient

Emmanuel Boss and W. Scott Pegau

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5503-5507 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Electromagnetic scattering by an aggregate of spheres: errata

Yu-lin Xu

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5508-5508 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Uncertainty analysis of absolute concentration measurement with continuous-wave cavity ringdown spectroscopy

Jae Wan Kim, Yong Shim Yoo, Jae Yong Lee, Jae Bong Lee, and Jae Won Hahn

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5509-5516 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Raman scattering at the intracavity parametric interaction

Rena J. Kasumova

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5517-5521 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Cavity ringdown spectroscopic detection of nitric oxide with a continuous-wave quantum-cascade laser

Anatoliy A. Kosterev, Alexander L. Malinovsky, Frank K. Tittel, Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, James N. Baillargeon, Albert L. Hutchinson, and Alfred Y. Cho

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5522-5529 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Equivalent-time electro-optic sampling by use of a picosecond laser with a voltage-controlled optoelectronic pulse-delay tuning circuit

Gong-Ru Lin and Yung-Cheng Chang

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5530-5538 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of diffraction gratings by use of a tabletop soft-x-ray laser

Max Seminario, Jorge J. Rocca, Ricardo A. Depine, Benny Bach, and Bernie Bach

Appl. Opt. 40(30), 5539-5544 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF