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Applied Optics

APPLICATIONS-CENTERED RESEARCH IN OPTICS

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Applied Optics publishes articles emphasizing applications-centered research in optics, moving the potential of science and technology to the practical. Topic areas range from optical technology to information processing to lasers, photonics and environmental optics.

Editor-in-Chief: Joseph N. Mait, US Army Research Laboratory
ISSN: 1559-128X | eISSN: 2155-3165
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication; 3 issues per month
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 1.707

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From the Editor:

Please join me as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Applied Optics. Applied Optics’ Golden Anniversary will be a year of definition and rebranding. Although my emphasis on quality will remain paramount, appearances and presentation will change to reflect the start of the journal’s second half century. I would appreciate your feedback on these as they are implemented. The past 50 years for the journal have been incredibly successful. I share in your excitement as we all look forward to the future we can create for Applied Optics. Read Joseph Mait’s entire January 1 editorial.





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High-spectral-flatness mid-infrared supercontinuum generated from a Tm-doped fiber amplifier
Broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum pulses were generated directly from a short piece of active fiber in a... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.834-840 (2012)

Quantitative measurement of the orbital angular momentum density of light
In this work we derive expressions for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) density of light, for both... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.823-833 (2012)

The Diffuse Interstellar Cloud Experiment: a high-resolution far-ultraviolet spectrograph
We have designed, assembled, and launched a sounding rocket payload to perform high-resolution... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.812-822 (2012)

Tea classification and quality assessment using laser-induced fluorescence and chemometric evaluation
Laser-induced fluorescence was used to evaluate the classification and quality of Chinese oolong teas and... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.803-811 (2012)

System integration and radiation pattern measurements of a phased array antenna employing an integrated photonic beamformer for radio astronomy applications
In this paper we describe the system integration and the experimental demonstration of a photonically... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.789-802 (2012)

Bidimensional fluorescence analysis and thermal design of europium thenoyltrifluoroacetonate based thermal-to-visible converter
We perform a bidimensional analysis to evaluate the variation of the fluorescence decay of europium... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.780-788 (2012)

Narrow bandpass tunable terahertz filter based on photonic crystal cavity
We have fabricated a very narrow bandpass tunable terahertz (THz) filter based on a one-dimensional photonic... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.776-779 (2012)

Rangeability extension of fiber-optic low-coherence measurement based on cascaded multistage fiber delay line
We demonstrate a simple method to extend the measurable fiber length with a fiber-optic low-coherence... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.771-775 (2012)

Super deep 3D images from a 3D omnifocus video camera
When using stereographic image pairs to create three-dimensional (3D) images, a deep depth of field in the... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.763-770 (2012)

Current measurement by Faraday effect on GEPOPU
The design of an optical current sensor to be used in a pulsed power generator is presented. The current... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.758-762 (2012)

Improved white-light interferometry on rough surfaces by statistically independent speckle patterns
White-light interferometry (WLI) on rough surfaces is based on interference from individual speckles. The... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.751-757 (2012)

Influence of molybdenum layer on the laser plasma generated from interfacing copper layer
The results for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) measurement of thin Cu films (1 μm) on soda-lime... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 7, pp.B93-B98 (2012)

Quantitative security evaluation of optical encryption using hybrid phase- and amplitude-modulated keys
In the increasing number of system approaches published in the field of optical encryption, the security... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 6, pp.745-750 (2012)

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Correlation Optics
  • Oleg Angelsky, Greg Gbur, Peter Polyanskii, Steen Hanson, Alexander Volyar, Dmitry Zimnyakov, and Igor Mokhun
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Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
  • Jose Almirall, Andrzej Miziolek, Mohamad Sabsabi, and Jagdish Singh
  • In Progress (no new submissions accepted)

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Imaging Systems and Applications
  • Gisele Bennett, Peter Catrysse, Joyce Farrell, Boyd Fowler, and Joseph Mait
  • Published
Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging
  • Ting-Chung Poon, Changhe Zhou, Byoungho Lee, Toyohiko Yatagai, and Hongchen Zhai
  • Published
Applications of Nano-optics
  • Changhe Zhou, Yeshaiahu Fainman, and Yunlong Sheng
  • Published
Light and Color in the Open Air
  • Joseph A. Shaw, Raymond L. Lee, Jr., and Philip Laven
  • Published
Practical Data Mining and Machine Learning for Optics Applications
  • Ghaleb Abdulla, Abdul Awwal, Kirk Borne, Tin Kam Ho, and W. Thomas Vestrand
  • Published
Fiber Optics and Photonics: Emerging Applications
  • Satoshi Kawata, Sunil K. Khijwania, Bishnu Pal, and H. Y. Tam
  • Published
Optical Interference Coatings
  • Christopher Stolz, Detlev Ristau, and Markus Tilsch
  • Published
Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging
  • Partha P. Banerjee, George Barbastathis, Myung K. Kim, and Nickolai Kukhtarev
  • Published

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