Simulation of uplooking and downlooking high-resolution radiance spectra with two different radiative transfer models

Rolando Rizzi, Marco Matricardi, and Ferenc Miskolczi

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 940-956 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of seeing and the atmospheric time constant by differential scintillations

Andrei Tokovinin

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 957-964 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Homomorphism between cloudy and clear spectral radiance in the 800–900-cm^-1 atmospheric window region

Guido Masiello, Marco Matricardi, Rolando Rizzi, and Carmine Serio

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 965-973 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Ocean-color optical property data derived from the Japanese Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner and the French Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances: a comparison study

Menghua Wang, Alice Isaacman, Bryan A. Franz, and Charles R. McClain

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 974-990 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity and information content of aerosol retrievals from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer: radiometric factors

Alexander Ignatov

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 991-1011 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of the performance of Hartmann sensors in strong scintillation

Jeffrey D. Barchers, David L. Fried, and Donald J. Link

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1012-1021 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

One-parameter two-term Henyey-Greenstein phase function for light scattering in seawater

Vladimir I. Haltrin

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1022-1028 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Apodization effects in the retrieval of volume mixing ratio profiles

Christopher D. Boone, Sean D. McLeod, and Peter F. Bernath

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1029-1034 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase function effects on oceanic light fields

Curtis D. Mobley, Lydia K. Sundman, and Emmanuel Boss

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1035-1050 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of advanced fiber Bragg gratings by use of sequential writing with a continuous-wave ultraviolet laser source

Ingemar Petermann, Bengt Sahlgren, Sten Helmfrid, Ari T. Friberg, and Pierre-Yves Fonjallaz

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1051-1056 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimal dispersion precompensation by pulse chirping

Ira Jacobs and John K. Shaw

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1057-1062 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical design and evaluation of a three-dimensional imaging and ranging system based on time-correlated single-photon counting

John Massa, Gerald Buller, Andrew Walker, George Smith, Sergio Cova, Manickam Umasuthan, and Andrew Wallace

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1063-1070 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization characteristic of a room-temperature Co:MgF₂ laser

Zengming M. Zhang, Yiben B. Cui, Fuli L. Li, Guobin B. Zhang, Qirong R. Pu, and Gaojie J. Xu

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1071-1074 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched quasi-three-level laser and its intracavity frequency doubling

Chun-Wei Wang, Yi-Lung Weng, Pi-Ling Huang, Huy-Zu Cheng, and Sheng-Lung Huang

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1075-1081 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Output power and polarization characteristics for a diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG rod laser with a diffusive optical pump cavity

Sungman Lee, Mijeong Yun, Hyun Su Kim, Byung Heon Cha, and Sungsoo Suk

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1082-1088 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and fabrication of a diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG laser with a diffusive optical cavity for 500-W output power

Sungman Lee, Sun Kook Kim, Mijeong Yun, Hyun Su Kim, Byung Heon Cha, and Hee-Jong Moon

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1089-1094 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Cost-effective low timing jitter passively Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state laser with composite pumping pulses

Jacob B. Khurgin, Feng Jin, Gregory Solyar, Chen-Chia Wang, and Sudhir Trivedi

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1095-1097 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Asynchronously modulated waves in a ring laser cavity

Frank V. Kowalski, Josh Buhl, and Ben McMahon

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1098-1102 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Viscosity dependence of optical limiting in carbon black suspensions

Florencio E. Hernández, William Shensky, Ion Cohanoschi, David J. Hagan, and Eric W. Van Stryland

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1103-1107 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Theoretical analysis of a noncollinear phase-matched optical parametric amplifier seeded by an optical parametric generation

Ruobing Zhang, Dongqing Pang, and Qingyue Wang

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1108-1112 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Reduction of the temporal fluctuation of the signal intensity in optical wave mixing with a reflection grating

Ping Xie and Teruhito Mishima

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1113-1119 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Upconversion fluorescence and optical power limiting effects based on the two- and three-photon absorption process of a new organic dye BPAS

Guangyong Zhou, Xiaomei Wang, Dong Wang, Zongshu Shao, and Minhua Jiang

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1120-1123 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable continuous-wave doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator by use of a semimonolithic KTP crystal

Haibo Wang, Yan Ma, Zehui Zhai, Jiangrui Gao, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1124-1127 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Mathematical formulations for the schlieren detection method applied to the measurement of photodeformation

Alain Cournoyer, Pierre Baulaigue, Jacques Bures, Lionel Bertrand, and Roland Occelli

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1128-1144 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-channel direct-detection Doppler lidar employing a charge-coupled device as a detector

Todd D. Irgang, Paul B. Hays, and Wilbert R. Skinner

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1145-1155 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical differentiation of the differential-absorption-lidar data distorted by noise

Vladimir A. Kovalev

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1156-1162 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode, tunable output from a midwave-infrared-seeded optical parametric oscillator system

John H. Marquardt, Ross W. Mackes, and Duane D. Smith

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1163-1168 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermoelectrically cooled quantum-cascade-laser-based sensor for the continuous monitoring of ambient atmospheric carbon monoxide

Anatoliy A. Kosterev, Frank K. Tittel, Rüdeger Köhler, Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, Alfred Y. Cho, Shawn Wehe, and Mark G. Allen

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1169-1173 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced fluorescence of formaldehyde hot bands in flames: erratum

Robert J. H. Klein-Douwel, Jorge Luque, Jay B. Jeffries, Gregory P. Smith, and David R. Crosley

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1174-1174 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Experiments on light scattering and extinction by small, micrometer-sized aggregates of spheres

Martin Schnaiter and Gerhard Wurm

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1175-1180 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Computation of a spectrum from a single-beam Fourier-transform infrared interferogram

Avishai Ben-David and Agustin Ifarraguerri

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1181-1189 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear excitation schemes for IR planar-induced fluorescence imaging of CO and CO₂

Brian J. Kirby and Ronald K. Hanson

Appl. Opt. 41(6), 1190-1201 (2002)  View: HTML | PDF