100 Most Cited Articles JOSA A

To highlight some of the seminal research published in JOSA A, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the most-cited articles from JOSA A. They will be free to access throughout 2016.

*As of Summer 2015

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  1. Practical cone-beam algorithm

    L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(6) 612-619 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 2488

  2. Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion

    Edward H. Adelson and James R. Bergen

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 284-299 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 1866

  3. Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations

    Bruce T. Draine and Piotr J. Flatau

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(4) 1491-1499 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 1540

  4. Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions

    Berthold K. P. Horn

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 629-642 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 1476

  5. Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells

    David J. Field

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2379-2394 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 1408

  6. Uncertainty relation for resolution in space, spatial frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters

    John G. Daugman

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1160-1169 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 1314

  7. Formulation for stable and efficient implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis of binary gratings

    M. G. Moharam, Eric B. Grann, Drew A. Pommet, and T. K. Gaylord

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1068-1076 (1995)

    TOTAL CITES: 1283

  8. Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory

    J. Durnin

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(4) 651-654 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 1167

  9. Stable implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis for surface-relief gratings: enhanced transmittance matrix approach

    M. G. Moharam, Drew A. Pommet, Eric B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(5) 1077-1086 (1995)

    TOTAL CITES: 810

  10. Model of human visual-motion sensing

    Andrew B. Watson and Albert J. Ahumada

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 322-342 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 754

  11. Image rotation, Wigner rotation, and the fractional Fourier transform

    Adolf W. Lohmann

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(10) 2181-2186 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 739

  12. Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces

    L. Sirovich and M. Kirby

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 519-524 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 731

  13. Boundary conditions for the diffusion equation in radiative transfer

    Richard C. Haskell, Lars O. Svaasand, Tsong-Tseh Tsay, Ti-Chen Feng, Matthew S. McAdams, and Bruce J. Tromberg

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(10) 2727-2741 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 716

  14. Supernormal vision and high-resolution retinal imaging through adaptive optics

    Junzhong Liang, David R. Williams, and Donald T. Miller

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2884-2892 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 695

  15. Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures

    Lifeng Li

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9) 1870-1876 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 669

  16. Objective measurement of wave aberrations of the human eye with the use of a Hartmann–Shack wave-front sensor

    Junzhong Liang, Bernhard Grimm, Stefan Goelz, and Josef F. Bille

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 1949-1957 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 650

  17. New formulation of the Fourier modal method for crossed surface-relief gratings

    Lifeng Li

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(10) 2758-2767 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 569

  18. Elaborated Reichardt detectors

    Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 300-321 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 559

  19. Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation: I

    David Mendlovic and Haldun M. Ozaktas

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(9) 1875-1881 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 559

  20. Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms

    Jitendra Malik and Pietro Perona

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(5) 923-932 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 557

  21. Highly improved convergence of the coupled-wave method for TM polarization

    Philippe Lalanne and G. Michael Morris

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 779-784 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 550

  22. Retroreflectance from a dense distribution of spherical particles

    Yasuo Kuga and Akira Ishimaru

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 831-835 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 533

  23. Drift-balanced random stimuli: a general basis for studying non-Fourier motion perception

    Charles Chubb and George Sperling

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(11) 1986-2007 (1988)

    TOTAL CITES: 514

  24. Formulation and comparison of two recursive matrix algorithms for modeling layered diffraction gratings

    Lifeng Li

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1024-1035 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 512

  25. Color constancy: a method for recovering surface spectral reflectance

    Laurence T. Maloney and Brian A. Wandell

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(1) 29-33 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 462

  26. Cladding-mode resonances in short- and long-period fiber grating filters

    Turan Erdogan

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1760-1773 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 458

  27. Robust two-dimensional weighted and unweighted phase unwrapping that uses fast transforms and iterative methods

    Dennis C. Ghiglia and Louis A. Romero

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(1) 107-117 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 438

  28. Aberrations and retinal image quality of the normal human eye

    Junzhong Liang and David R. Williams

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(11) 2873-2883 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 431

  29. Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination

    Denis G. Pelli

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(9) 1508-1532 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 428

  30. Contrast in complex images

    Eli Peli

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(10) 2032-2040 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 426

  31. Evaluation of linear models of surface spectral reflectance with small numbers of parameters

    Laurence T. Maloney

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1673-1683 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 403

  32. Estimating fractal dimension

    James Theiler

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 1055-1073 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 401

  33. Using phase retrieval to measure the intensity and phase of ultrashort pulses: frequency-resolved optical gating

    Rick Trebino and Daniel J. Kane

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(5) 1101-1111 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 395

  34. Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model

    John M. Foley

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1710-1719 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 395

  35. Interpretation of Mueller matrices based on polar decomposition

    Shih-Yau Lu and Russell A. Chipman

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(5) 1106-1113 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 394

  36. Realization of general nondiffracting beams with computer-generated holograms

    Antti Vasara, Jari Turunen, and Ari T. Friberg

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1748-1754 (1989)

    TOTAL CITES: 381

  37. Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of metallic surface-relief gratings

    M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(11) 1780-1787 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 378

  38. Production and uses of diffractionless beams

    R. M. Herman and T. A. Wiggins

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 932-942 (1991)

    TOTAL CITES: 356

  39. Monochromatic aberrations of the human eye in a large population

    Jason Porter, Antonio Guirao, Ian G. Cox, and David R. Williams

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1793-1803 (2001)

    TOTAL CITES: 354

  40. Fractional Fourier transforms and their optical implementation. II

    Haldun M. Ozaktas and David Mendlovic

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2522-2531 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 348

  41. Calculation of the T matrix and the scattering matrix for ensembles of spheres

    Daniel W. Mackowski and Michael I. Mishchenko

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(11) 2266-2278 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 341

  42. Light scattering from a sphere arbitrarily located in a Gaussian beam, using a Bromwich formulation

    G. Gouesbet, B. Maheu, and G. Gréhan

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(9) 1427-1443 (1988)

    TOTAL CITES: 338

  43. Temporal covariance model of human motion perception

    Jan P. H. van Santen and George Sperling

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(5) 451-473 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 336

  44. Discriminant analysis for recognition of human face images

    Kamran Etemad and Rama Chellappa

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1724-1733 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 335

  45. Geometries and materials for subwavelength surface plasmon modes

    Rashid Zia, Mark D. Selker, Peter B. Catrysse, and Mark L. Brongersma

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21(12) 2442-2446 (2004)

    TOTAL CITES: 335

  46. Convolution, filtering, and multiplexing in fractional Fourier domains and their relation to chirp and wavelet transforms

    Haldun M. Ozaktas, Billur Barshan, David Mendlovic, and Levent Onural

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2) 547-559 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 334

  47. Model for the extraction of image flow

    David J. Heeger

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(8) 1455-1471 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 330

  48. Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex

    Tai Sing Lee and David Mumford

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(7) 1434-1448 (2003)

    TOTAL CITES: 330

  49. Characteristic spectra of Munsell colors

    J. P. S. Parkkinen, J. Hallikainen, and T. Jaaskelainen

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(2) 318-322 (1989)

    TOTAL CITES: 324

  50. Affine structure from motion

    Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(2) 377-385 (1991)

    TOTAL CITES: 324

  51. Statistical variation of aberration structure and image quality in a normal population of healthy eyes

    Larry N. Thibos, Xin Hong, Arthur Bradley, and Xu Cheng

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(12) 2329-2348 (2002)

    TOTAL CITES: 322

  52. Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using orthonormal matrices

    Berthold K. P. Horn, Hugh M. Hilden, and Shahriar Negahdaripour

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1127-1135 (1988)

    TOTAL CITES: 319

  53. Improved solutions of the steady-state and the time-resolved diffusion equations for reflectance from a semi-infinite turbid medium

    Alwin Kienle and Michael S. Patterson

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(1) 246-254 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 315

  54. Light scattering by randomly oriented axially symmetric particles

    M. I. Mishchenko

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(6) 871-882 (1991)

    TOTAL CITES: 314

  55. Age and visual search: expanding the useful field of view

    Karlene K. Ball, Bettina L. Beard, Daniel L. Roenker, Richard L. Miller, and David S. Griggs

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(12) 2210-2219 (1988)

    TOTAL CITES: 300

  56. Direct phase determination in hologram interferometry with use of digitally recorded holograms

    Ulf Schnars

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(7) 2011-2015 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 298

  57. Luminance and chromatic modulation sensitivity of macaque ganglion cells and human observers

    Barry B. Lee, Joel Pokorny, Vivianne C. Smith, Paul R. Martin, and Arne Valbergt

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(12) 2223-2236 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 296

  58. Anomalous refractive properties of photonic crystals

    Boris Gralak, Stefan Enoch, and Gérard Tayeb

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17(6) 1012-1020 (2000)

    TOTAL CITES: 285

  59. Phase retrieval from the magnitude of the Fourier transforms of nonperiodic objects

    J. Miao, D. Sayre, and H. N. Chapman

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(6) 1662-1669 (1998)

    TOTAL CITES: 285

  60. Perceived velocity of moving chromatic gratings

    Patrick Cavanagh, Christopher W. Tyler, and Olga Eizner Favreau

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(8) 893-899 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 282

  61. Propagation of photon-density waves in strongly scattering media containing an absorbing semi-infinite plane bounded by a straight edge

    Joshua B. Fishkin and Enrico Gratton

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(1) 127-140 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 280

  62. Digital holographic interference-phase measurement using the Fourier-transform method

    Thomas Kreis

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(6) 847-855 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 278

  63. Statistics of cone responses to natural images: implications for visual coding

    Daniel L. Ruderman, Thomas W. Cronin, and Chuan-Chin Chiao

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(8) 2036-2045 (1998)

    TOTAL CITES: 274

  64. Experimental study of scattering from characterized random surfaces

    K. A. O’Donnell and E. R. Mendez

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(7) 1194-1205 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 274

  65. Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope

    Stefan Hell and Ernst H. K. Stelzer

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(12) 2159-2166 (1992)

    TOTAL CITES: 269

  66. Model for photon migration in turbid biological media

    R. F. Bonner, R. Nossal, S. Havlin, and G. H. Weiss

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(3) 423-432 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 266

  67. Multilayer modal method for diffraction gratings of arbitrary profile, depth, and permittivity

    Lifeng Li

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10(12) 2581-2591 (1993)

    TOTAL CITES: 265

  68. Postadaptation orientation discrimination

    D. Regan and K. I. Beverley

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(2) 147-155 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 263

  69. High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy

    Henry N. Chapman, Anton Barty, Stefano Marchesini, Aleksandr Noy, Stefan P. Hau-Riege, Congwu Cui, Malcolm R. Howells, Rachel Rosen, Haifeng He, John C. H. Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Tobias Beetz, Chris Jacobsen, and David Shapiro

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23(5) 1179-1200 (2006)

    TOTAL CITES: 262

  70. Temporal coupled-mode theory for the Fano resonance in optical resonators

    Shanhui Fan, Wonjoo Suh, and J. D. Joannopoulos

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(3) 569-572 (2003)

    TOTAL CITES: 260

  71. Thin-films field-transfer matrix theory of planar multilayer waveguides and reflection from prism-loaded waveguides

    John Chilwell and Ian Hodgkinson

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(7) 742-753 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 260

  72. Saturated patterned excitation microscopy—a concept for optical resolution improvement

    Rainer Heintzmann, Thomas M. Jovin, and Christoph Cremer

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(8) 1599-1609 (2002)

    TOTAL CITES: 259

  73. High-resolution image recovery from image-plane arrays, using convex projections

    Henry Stark and Peyma Oskoui

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(11) 1715-1726 (1989)

    TOTAL CITES: 253

  74. Addition of a channel mechanism to the ideal-observer model

    Kyle J. Myers and Harrison H. Barrett

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(12) 2447-2457 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 253

  75. Electromagnetic diffraction of light focused through a planar interface between materials of mismatched refractive indices: an integral representation

    P. Török, P. Varga, Z. Laczik, and G. R. Booker

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(2) 325-332 (1995)

    TOTAL CITES: 252

  76. Contribution of the cornea and internal surfaces to the change of ocular aberrations with age

    Pablo Artal, Esther Berrio, Antonio Guirao, and Patricia Piers

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(1) 137-143 (2002)

    TOTAL CITES: 252

  77. Phase retrieval by iterated projections

    Veit Elser

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(1) 40-55 (2003)

    TOTAL CITES: 249

  78. Iterative Fourier-transform algorithm applied to computer holography

    Frank Wyrowski and Olof Bryngdahl

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(7) 1058-1065 (1988)

    TOTAL CITES: 249

  79. Reconstruction of a complex-valued object from the modulus of its Fourier transform using a support constraint

    J. R. Fienup

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4(1) 118-123 (1987)

    TOTAL CITES: 244

  80. Calculation of total cross sections of multiple-sphere clusters

    Daniel W. Mackowski

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 2851-2861 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 243

  81. X-ray imaging with submicrometer resolution employing transparent luminescent screens

    Andreas Koch, Carsten Raven, Per Spanne, and Anatoly Snigirev

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15(7) 1940-1951 (1998)

    TOTAL CITES: 240

  82. Objective assessment of image quality: effects of quantum noise and object variability

    Harrison H. Barrett

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(7) 1266-1278 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 240

  83. Modified line-element theory for spatial-frequency and width discrimination

    Hugh R. Wilson and Douglas J. Gelb

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(1) 124-131 (1984)

    TOTAL CITES: 239

  84. Efficient nonlinear algorithm for envelope detection in white light interferometry

    Kieran G. Larkin

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 832-843 (1996)

    TOTAL CITES: 238

  85. Scattering by a random set of parallel cylinders

    D. Felbacq, G. Tayeb, and D. Maystre

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(9) 2526-2538 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 237

  86. Model of visual contrast gain control and pattern masking

    Andrew B. Watson and Joshua A. Solomon

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(9) 2379-2391 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 237

  87. Anatomically accurate, finite model eye for optical modeling

    Hwey-Lan Liou and Noel A. Brennan

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(8) 1684-1695 (1997)

    TOTAL CITES: 233

  88. Simultaneous color constancy

    Lawrence Arend and Adam Reeves

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(10) 1743-1751 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 231

  89. Joint estimation of object and aberrations by using phase diversity

    Richard G. Paxman, Timothy J. Schulz, and James R. Fienup

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9(7) 1072-1085 (1992)

    TOTAL CITES: 231

  90. Hyperacuity thresholds of 1 sec: theoretical predictions and empirical validation

    Stanley A. Klein and Dennis M. Levi

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(7) 1170-1190 (1985)

    TOTAL CITES: 229

  91. Diffractive optical elements: iterative calculation of quantized, blazed phase structures

    Frank Wyrowski

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 961-969 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 227

  92. Eye movements and optical flow

    William H. Warren and Danial J. Hannon

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(1) 160-169 (1990)

    TOTAL CITES: 225

  93. Atmospheric turbulence effects on a partially coherent Gaussian beam: implications for free-space laser communication

    Jennifer C. Ricklin and Frederic M. Davidson

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(9) 1794-1802 (2002)

    TOTAL CITES: 225

  94. Light propagation through nanometer-sized structures: the two-dimensional-aperture scanning near-field optical microscope

    L. Novotny, D. W. Pohl, and P. Regli

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(6) 1768-1779 (1994)

    TOTAL CITES: 219

  95. Application of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light

    Martin J. Bastiaans

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(8) 1227-1238 (1986)

    TOTAL CITES: 217

  96. Nondiffracting optical fields: some remarks on their analysis and synthesis

    G. Indebetouw

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6(1) 150-152 (1989)

    TOTAL CITES: 216

  97. Dynamics of the eye’s wave aberration

    Heidi Hofer, Pablo Artal, Ben Singer, Juan Luis Aragón, and David R. Williams

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(3) 497-506 (2001)

    TOTAL CITES: 216

  98. Use of grating theories in integrated optics

    Eric Silberstein, Philippe Lalanne, Jean-Paul Hugonin, and Qing Cao

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(11) 2865-2875 (2001)

    TOTAL CITES: 215

  99. Material parameter estimation with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

    Timothy D. Dorney, Richard G. Baraniuk, and Daniel M. Mittleman

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(7) 1562-1571 (2001)

    TOTAL CITES: 214

  100. Natural demodulation of two-dimensional fringe patterns. I. General background of the spiral phase quadrature transform

    Kieran G. Larkin, Donald J. Bone, and Michael A. Oldfield

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18(8) 1862-1870 (2001)

    TOTAL CITES: 214