Applied Optics

Unpolarized emissivity of thin oil films over anisotropic Gaussian seas in infrared window regions

Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier, and Irina Sergievskaya

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2116-2131 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Contribution of surface state characterization to studies of works of art

Mady Elias, Caroline Magnain, and Jean Marc Frigerio

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2151-2160 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for the determination of photomultiplier collection efficiency, F

A. G. Wright

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2059-2065 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Double-grating polarizer for terahertz radiation with high extinction ratio

Lin Sun, Zhi-Hui Lv, Wei Wu, Wei-Tao Liu, and Jian-Min Yuan

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2066-2071 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Modified coupled-mode model for thermally chirped polymer Bragg gratings

Ilai Sher, Bongtae Han, and Avram Bar-Cohen

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2079-2084 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-field diffraction of gratings with surface defects

Luis Miguel Sanchez-Brea and Francisco Jose Torcal-Milla

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2190-2197 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotationally insensitive circular-core two-mode fiber-optic strain sensor

Sachin N. Dekate and Barry Grossman

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2183-2189 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Musical instrument recordings made with a fiber Fabry-Perot cavity: photonic guitar pickup

Nicholas Ballard, Daniel Paz-Soldan, Peter Kung, and Hans-Peter Loock

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2198-2203 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (9)]

Measurement of photon indistinguishability to a quantifiable uncertainty using a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer

Peter J. Thomas, Jessica Y. Cheung, Christopher J. Chunnilall, and Malcolm H. Dunn

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2173-2182 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a compact polarizing beam splitter based on a photonic crystal ring resonator with a triangular lattice

Tianbao Yu, Jiehui Huang, Nianhua Liu, Jianyi Yang, Qinghua Liao, and Xiaoqing Jiang

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2168-2172 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Zernike basis optimization for solar adaptive optics by using information theory

Marco Stangalini, Dario Del Moro, Francesco Berrilli, and Oskar von der Lühe

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2090-2094 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase errors due to speckles in laser fringe projection

Sara Rosendahl, Emil Hällstig, Per Gren, and Mikael Sjödahl

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2047-2053 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Cryptosystem for plaintext messages utilizing optical properties of gratings

Yu-Bin Chen and Jia-Shiang Chen

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2041-2046 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

X-ray diffraction effect from surface acoustic waves traveling on a deposited multilayer

Jun Dong, Jianxia Qi, and Runcai Miao

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2054-2058 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Unsupervised-clustering-driven noise-residue filter for phase images

Jun Jiang, Jun Cheng, and Bruno Luong

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2143-2150 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of the general image-quality equation to aberrated imagery

Samuel T. Thurman and James R. Fienup

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2132-2142 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Engineered beam shaping effect in anisotropic photonic crystals

Oana Rasoga and Daniela Dragoman

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2161-2167 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser smoothing of binary gratings and multilevel etched structures in fused silica

Krystian L. Wlodarczyk, Enrique Mendez, Howard J. Baker, Roy McBride, and Denis R. Hall

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 1997-2005 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Filamentation-free self-written waveguides in a photopolymerizable medium initiated by multimode optical fibers

Saber Kamoun, Abdelmonem Jemal, Mohamed Gargouri, Alberto Barsella, Loïc Mager, Hicham Ibn El Arach, Kokou Dodzi Dorkenoo, and Alain Fort

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2095-2098 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Surface waves in two-photon photorefractive media

Xiangkui Ren, Tianhao Zhang, Huihui Ma, Weiwei Shao, Jingjun Xu, and Jianguo Tian

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2215-2219 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical waveguides in Nd:GGG crystals produced by H⁺ or C³⁺ ion implantation

Ying-Ying Ren, Feng Chen, Qing-Ming Lu, and Hong-Ji Ma

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2085-2089 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optic characteristics of a transparent nanophotonic device based on carbon nanotubes and liquid crystals

Ranjith Rajasekharan, Qing Dai, and Timothy D. Wilkinson

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2099-2104 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Standoff detection of explosive substances at distances of up to 150 m

Anadi Mukherjee, Steven Von der Porten, and C. Kumar N. Patel

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2072-2078 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of laser photofragmentation-resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization to ion mobility spectrometry

Jeffrey M. Headrick, Thomas A. Reichardt, Thomas B. Settersten, Ray P. Bambha, and Dahv A. V. Kliner

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2204-2214 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

High-spatiotemporal-quality petawatt-class laser system

Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Mori Michiaki, Yoshiki Nakai, Takuya Shimomura, Hajime Sasao, Momoko Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ochi, Manabu Tanoue, Hajime Okada, Shuji Kondo, Shuhei Kanazawa, Akito Sagisaka, Izuru Daito, Daisuke Wakai, Fumitaka Sasao, Masayuki Suzuki, Hideyuki Kotakai, Kiminori Kondo, Akira Sugiyama, Sergei Bulanov, Paul R. Bolton, Hiroyuki Daido, Shunichi Kawanishi, John L. Collier, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Chris J. Hooker, Klaus Ertel, Toyoaki Kimura, and Toshiki Tajima

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2105-2115 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Tongue fissure extraction and classification using hyperspectral imaging technology

Qingli Li, Yiting Wang, Hongying Liu, Zhen Sun, and Zhi Liu

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2006-2013 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Color of cyanobacteria: some methodological aspects

Beatriz Prieto, Patricia Sanmartín, Noelia Aira, and Benita Silva

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2022-2029 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatially deconvolved optical coherence tomography

Peter D. Woolliams, Robert A. Ferguson, Christian Hart, Alex Grimwood, and Peter H. Tomlins

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2014-2021 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Image-based calibration of a deformable mirror in wide-field microscopy

Diwakar Turaga and Timothy E. Holy

Appl. Opt. 49(11), 2030-2040 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]