From the Editor

John N. Howard

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3359-3525 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Atmospheric aerosol effect on Dobson total ozone measurements: a simple approach

Reid E. Basher and R. W. L. Thomas

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3361-3362 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote measurement of tropospheric ozone

Jack L. Bufton, Richard W. Stewart, and Chi Weng

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3363-3364 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical description of a Fabry-Perot spectrometer. 3:Off-axis behavior and interference filters: erratum

G. Hernandez

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3364-3365 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence due to magnetic–dipole transitions in LiYF₄:Pr³⁺

F. J. Bartoli, R. E. Allen, and L. Esterowitz

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3365-3367 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluation of the Shamir-Gräff method for measuring optical constants of thin films

R. A. Soli and H. H. Soonpaa

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3367-3368 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared multilayer interference filter manufacture: supposed longwave limit

J. S. Seeley, R. Hunneman, and A. Whatley

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3368-3370 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared multilayer partial mirror effective from 1.3 μm to 16 μm

J. S. Seeley, R. Hunneman, and A. Whatley

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3370-3371 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of waveguide mode asymmetry on the laser diode-to-diffused waveguide coupling efficiency

D. G. Hall

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3372-3374 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Books

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3374-3374 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Atmospheric spectroscopy: an introduction

G. Hernandez and W. G. Mankin

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3375-3375 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermospheric dynamics investigations with very high resolution spectrometers

G. Hernandez and R. G. Roble

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3376-3385 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Night sky spectral emission measurements (λ0.9–2.3 μm) using a field-widened interferometer–spectrometer

Allan J. Steed and Doran J. Baker

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3386-3389 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Airglow events visible to the naked eye

Alan W. Peterson

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3390-3393 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Aurorally enhanced infrared emissions

Ronald J. Huppi and A. T. Stair

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3394-3399 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Laboratory and atmospheric measurements of HNO₃ to determine the amount of this constituent in the earth’s atmosphere

O. Lado-Bordowsky and G. Amat

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3400-3403 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote measurement of gaseous pollutant concentrations using a mobile Fourier transform interferometer system

William F. Herget and James D. Brasher

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3404-3420 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Tropospheric UV flux calculations and photolysis rates for use with zonally and diurnally averaged models

Gregory L. Matloff and Richard W. Stewart

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3421-3425 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Fourier transform method for calculating the transmittance of inhomogeneous atmospheres

William G. Mankin

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3426-3433 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared absorption bands of α- and β-pinenes in the 8–14-μm atmospheric window region

H. William Wilson

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3434-3437 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved sensitivity of tunable-diode-laser open-path trace gas monitoring systems

R. S. Eng, A. W. Mantz, and T. R. Todd

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3438-3442 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvements in birefringent filters. 5: Field of view effects

A. M. Title and W. J. Rosenberg

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3443-3456 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Meteorological influence on aerosol extinction in the 0.2–40-μm wavelength range

Bertil Nilsson

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3457-3473 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Water vapor differential absorption lidar development and evaluation

E. V. Browell, T. D. Wilkerson, and T. J. Mcilrath

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3474-3483 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscattering of a picosecond pulse from densely distributed scatterers

Koichi Shimizu, Akira Ishimaru, Larry Reynolds, and Adam P. Bruckner

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3484-3488 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Mie theory calculations: new progress, with emphasis on particle sizing

Gerard Grehan and Gerard Gouesbet

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3489-3493 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Polydisperse-particle-size-distribution function determined from intensity profile of angularly scattered light

Terry W. Alger

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3494-3501 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of transmission gratings for use in cosmic x-ray and XUV astronomy

H. Bräuninger, H. Kraus, H. Dangschat, K. P. Beuermann, P. Predehl, and J. Trümper

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3502-3505 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of diffusion pump oil contamination on diffraction grating efficiency in the VUV spectral region

W. R. Hunter and D. W. Angel

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3506-3509 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of P-I-N laser detectors: their dependence on wavelength and temperature

Y. K. Su, C. Y. Chang, T. S. Wu, B. D. Liu, and Y. K. Fang

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3510-3512 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Gas discharge response to light: dependence of linearity on space charge for optogalvanic and excited-state photoionization signals

N. S. Kopeika, T. Karcher, and C. S. Ih

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3513-3516 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Calorimetric absorption coefficient measurements using pulsed CO₂ lasers

L. C. Nistor, S. V. Nistor, V. Teodorescu, Eva Cojocaru, and I. N. Mihǎilescu

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3517-3521 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-dimensional velocity distribution measuring system using multiple laser beam line detectors and high order correlation analysis

Osami Sasaki and Takuso Sato

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3522-3525 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-temperature narrowbandpass mesh interference filters

G. D. Holah, N. D. Morrison, and J. G. Goebel

Appl. Opt. 18(20), 3526-3532 (1979)  View: HTML | PDF

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B. J. Howell

Appl. Opt. 18(20), A224-3521 (1979)  View: PDF