1 April 1986, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 380-588  
27 articles

Image-quality degradation in a turbid medium under partially coherent illumination

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 393-400 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of surface roughness of nickel electrodeposits

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 410-416 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Evolution of transverse-magnetic surface and leaky waves guided by an asymmetric layer configuration

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 417-425 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization holding and anisotropic Rayleigh scattering in birefringent single-mode fibers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 426-431 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Perception of blackness

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 432-436 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Existence conditions for two-pupil synthesis of bipolar incoherent point-spread functions

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 437-445 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Granularity–density relationship for electrophotography incorporating paper and toner granularities

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 446-451 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Announcements

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 455-455 (1986)  View: PDF

Preface to the Feature Issue on Propagation and Scattering of Beam Fields

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 462-463 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Complex argument Hermite–Gaussian and Laguerre–Gaussian beams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 465-469 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Uniform versus Gaussian beams: a comparison of the effects of diffraction, obscuration, and aberrations

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 470-485 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Real spectra, complex spectra, compact spectra

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 486-496 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Source-field representation in terms of Gaussian beams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 497-507 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Gabor representation and aperture theory

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 508-522 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction transforms in homogeneous birefringent media

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 523-531 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Wave-kinetic numerical approach to propagation of optical beams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 532-535 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Gaussian–Maxwell beams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 536-540 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Lorentz transformation of packetlike solutions of the homogeneous-wave equation

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 541-542 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Goos–Hänchen beam shift at total internal reflection with application to spatially dispersive media

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 543-549 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Goos–Hänchen effect around and off the critical angle

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 550-557 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonspecular phenomena in beam fields reflected by multilayered media

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 558-565 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Reflection and transmission of beams at a curved interface

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 566-579 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering of a Hermite–Gaussian beam mode by parallel dielectric circular cylinders

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 580-586 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF

Biographies

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3(4), 587-588 (1986)  View: HTML | PDF