Sandia National Laboratories Focus Issue: introduction

Robert Boye

Appl. Opt. 53(24), SL1-SL1 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient multiframe super-resolution for imagery with lateral shifts

Drew P. Kouri and Eric A. Shields

Appl. Opt. 53(24), F1-F9 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray tracing in a finite-element domain using nodal basis functions

Karl N. Schrader, Samuel R. Subia, John W. Myre, and Kenneth L. Summers

Appl. Opt. 53(24), F10-F20 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Optically recording velocity interferometer system configurations and impact of target surface reflectance properties [Invited]

Marcia Cooper

Appl. Opt. 53(24), F21-F30 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectroradiometric monitoring for open outdoor culturing of algae and cyanobacteria

Thomas A. Reichardt, Aaron M. Collins, Robert C. McBride, Craig A. Behnke, and Jerilyn A. Timlin

Appl. Opt. 53(24), F31-F45 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Atmospheric temperature measurements at altitudes of 5–30  km with a double-grating-based pure rotational Raman lidar

Jingyu Jia and Fan Yi

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5330-5343 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Far-infrared spectroscopy of the troposphere: calibration with a cold background

Harri Latvakoski, Martin G. Mlynczak, Richard P. Cageao, David G. Johnson, and David P. Kratz

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5425-5433 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring very low optical powers with a common camera

Silviu T. Popescu, Petronela S. Gheorghe, and Adrian Petris

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5460-5464 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization and analysis of finite-beam Bragg diffraction in a periodically poled lithium niobate electro-optic grating

J. W. Chang, H. F. Yau, H. P. Chung, W. K. Chang, and Y. H. Chen

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5312-5321 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive fiber optics collimator based on flexible hinges

Dong Zhi, Yanxing Ma, Pengfei Ma, Lei Si, Xiaolin Wang, and Pu Zhou

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5434-5438 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Stray current sensor with cylindrical twisted fiber

Shaoyi Xu, Wei Li, Yuqiao Wang, and Fangfang Xing

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5486-5492 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Switchable and spacing-tunable dual-wavelength thulium-doped silica fiber laser based on a nonlinear amplifier loop mirror

Shuo Liu, Fengping Yan, Ting Feng, Beilei Wu, Ze Dong, and Gee-Kung Chang

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5522-5526 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of injection molding process windows for optical lenses using response surface methodology

Kuo-Ming Tsai and He-Yi Wang

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5264-5274 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Traceable interferometry using binary reconfigurable holograms

M. T. Cashmore, S. R. G. Hall, and G. D. Love

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5353-5358 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral interference in multiplexed volume Bragg gratings: theoretical calculations and experimental verification

G. B. Ingersoll and J. R. Leger

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5477-5485 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional trace measurements for fast-moving objects using binary-encoded fringe projection techniques

Wei-Hung Su, Cho-Yo Kuo, and Fu-Jen Kao

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5283-5289 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Swarm-based algorithm for phase unwrapping

Lucas da Silva Maciel and Armando G. Albertazzi

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5502-5509 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthetic aperture ladar imaging demonstrations and information at very low return levels

Zeb W. Barber and Jason R. Dahl

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5531-5537 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental demonstration of 4D imaging in two-phase flows based on computed tomography at 5  kHz

Yue Wu, Qingchun Lei, and Lin Ma

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5547-5553 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Full-Stokes Fourier-transform imaging spectropolarimeter using a time-division polarization modulator

Xin Meng, Jianxin Li, Huaqing Song, and Rihong Zhu

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5275-5282 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Improving accuracy in period measurement of gratings with multiple diffraction orders

Hiroyuki Ichikawa and Tomohiro Toda

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5290-5293 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase discontinuity predictions using a machine-learning trained kernel

Firas Sawaf and Roger M. Groves

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5439-5447 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Balanced plane-mirror heterodyne interferometer with subnanometer periodic nonlinearity

Peng-cheng Hu, Peng Chen, Xue-mei Ding, and Jiu-bin Tan

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5448-5452 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Tri-window common-path interferometer for quantifying phase objects

Ming Diao, Bengong Hao, Mingguang Shan, Ying Wang, Zhong Zhi, and Yabin Zhang

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5453-5459 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

On-line surface inspection using cylindrical lens–based spectral domain low-coherence interferometry

Dawei Tang, Feng Gao, and X. Jiang

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5510-5516 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of principal refractive indices of birefringent wafer by analysis of Fabry–Perot interference fringes

Hee Joo Choi and Myoungsik Cha

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5527-5530 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Reverse optimization reconstruction of aspheric figure error in a non-null interferometer

Dong Liu, Tu Shi, Lei Zhang, Yongying Yang, Shiyao Chong, and Yibing Shen

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5538-5546 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluence ablation threshold dependence on tin impurities in commercial soda-lime glass

Daniel Nieto, Justo Arines, and María Teresa Flores-Arias

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5416-5420 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Refocusing a scanned laser projector for small and bright images: simultaneously controlling the profile of the laser beam and the boundary of the image

Samantha Horvath, John Galeotti, Mel Siegel, and George Stetten

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5421-5424 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

2.4  W highly efficient simultaneous dual-wavelength laser operation of monoclinic Yb³⁺:Ca₄LaO(BO₃)₃ crystals

Yuexia Ji, Jiafeng Cao, Jinlong Xu, Zhenyu You, and Chaoyang Tu

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5517-5521 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficiency single-mode-multimode-single-mode fiber laser with diffraction-limited beam output

Jiaqi Zhou, Bing He, Yan Feng, and Xijia Gu

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5554-5558 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Parametric formulation of the dielectric function of palladium and palladium hydride thin films

William E. Vargas, Daniel E. Azofeifa, Neville Clark, Hugo Solis, Felipe Montealegre, and Michael Cambronero

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5294-5306 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Red/blue spectral shifts of laser-induced fluorescence emission due to different nanoparticle suspensions in various dye solutions

A. Bavali, P. Parvin, S. Z. Mortazavi, M. Mohammadian, and M. R. Mousavi Pour

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5398-5409 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-channel spectral-domain optical-coherence tomography system based on 3 × 3 fiber coupler for extended imaging range

Cuixia Dai, Shanhui Fan, Xinyu Chai, Yan Li, Qiushi Ren, Peng Xi, and Chuanqing Zhou

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5375-5379 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical bistability and multistability via magnetic field intensities in a solid

Hamid Reza Hamedi

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5391-5397 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Microscopic lithography with pixelate diffraction of a digital micro-mirror device for micro-lens fabrication

Xiang-Yu Ding, Yu-Xuan Ren, Lei Gong, Zhao-Xiang Fang, and Rong-De Lu

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5307-5311 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Mueller-matrix polarimeter using analysis of the nonlinear voltage–retardance relationship for liquid-crystal variable retarders

J. M. López-Téllez and N. C. Bruce

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5359-5366 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable wavelength terahertz polarization converter based on quartz waveplates

A. K. Kaveev, G. I. Kropotov, D. I. Tsypishka, I. A. Tzibizov, I. A. Vinerov, and E. G. Kaveeva

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5410-5415 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

LED high-beam headlamp based on free-form microlenses

Peng Ge, Yang Li, Zanji Chen, and Hong Wang

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5570-5575 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Percolation threshold determination of sputtered silver films using Stokes parameters and in situ conductance measurements

Soroush Hafezian, Bill Baloukas, and Ludvik Martinu

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5367-5374 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral Neugebauer-based color halftone prediction model accounting for paper fluorescence

Roger David Hersch

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5380-5390 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Encoding high-order cylindrically polarized light beams

Ignacio Moreno, Jeffrey A. Davis, Don M. Cottrell, and Ramiro Donoso

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5493-5501 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray tracing algorithm for accurate solar irradiance prediction in urban areas

Enrico M. Vitucci, Federico Falaschi, and Vittorio Degli-Esposti

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5465-5476 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Impacts of dichroic prism coatings on radiometry of the airborne imaging spectrometer APEX

A. Hueni, D. Schlaepfer, M. Jehle, and M. Schaepman

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5344-5352 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved Savitzky–Golay-method-based fluorescence subtraction algorithm for rapid recovery of Raman spectra

Kun Chen, Hongyuan Zhang, Haoyun Wei, and Yan Li

Appl. Opt. 53(24), 5559-5569 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF