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A highly regarded, premium quality must read for everyone in the optics field that offers applications-centered research in optics, photonics, imaging, and sensing. Topics germane to the journal include optical technology, lasers, photonics, environmental optics, and information processing.

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
2011 ISI Impact Factor: 1.748

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Theoretical and experimental investigation of infrared properties of tapered silver/silver halide-coated hollow waveguides
Silver/silver halide-coated hollow-glass waveguides (HGWs) are capable of low-loss, broadband transmission at... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3703-3712 (2013)

Coupling of surface plasmon with InGaAs/GaAs quantum well emission by gold nanodisk arrays
Enhancement of photoluminescence (PL) intensity from InGaAs/GaAs quantum well (QW) is achieved experimentally... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3698-3702 (2013)

Design analysis of a fiber-bundle-based mobile free-space optical link with wavelength diversity
This paper reports on a simulation-based investigation of a wavelength diverse free-space optical link with... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3689-3697 (2013)

Hybrid optical system for three-dimensional shape acquisition
Hybrid concepts are often used to improve existing methods in many fields. We developed a hybrid optical... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3680-3688 (2013)

Design and performance of an absolute gas refractometer based on a synthetic pseudo-wavelength method
We present a refractometer that is capable of measuring the refractive index of gases with an unambiguous... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3671-3679 (2013)

Coherence scanning interferometry: linear theory of surface measurement
The characterization of imaging methods as three-dimensional (3D) linear filtering operations provides a... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3662-3670 (2013)

Refractive index measurement by fiber point diffraction longitudinal shearing interferometry
A refractive index measurement method by measuring the longitudinal displacement of a point light source... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3655-3661 (2013)

Reduction of the diffraction in strongly resonant thin-film Fabry–Perot filters between single-mode fibers
Simulations show that the cumbersome diffraction losses occurring in narrow bandpass thin-film... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 16, pp.3645-3654 (2013)

In Praise of Reviewers
Applied Optics Editor-in-Chief, Joseph N. Mait, comments on the value of peer review in improving the work... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 15, pp.ED5-ED6 (2013)

Generalized diffractive optical elements with asymmetric harmonic response and phase control
We report a method to generate phase-only diffractive beam splitters allowing asymmetry of the target... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 15, pp.3637-3644 (2013)

Peano-like paths for subaperture polishing of optical aspherical surfaces
Polishing can be more uniform if the polishing path provides uniform coverage of the surface. It is known... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 15, pp.3624-3636 (2013)

Submicrometer grating light bar for a color-separation backlight
A light bar patterned using a submicrometer grating was designed to replace conventional dye color filters... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 15, pp.3617-3623 (2013)

Cascaded diffractive optical elements for improved multiplane image reconstruction
Computer-generated phase-only diffractive optical elements in a cascaded setup are designed by one... Applied Optics, Vol. 52 Issue 15, pp.3608-3616 (2013)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 52, Iss. 15 — May. 20, 2013  pp: 3444–3644

	Detectors (1)
	Diffraction and Gratings (1)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (1)
	Holography (1)
	Image Processing (2)
	Imaging Systems (1)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (4)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (4)
	Machine Vision (1)
	Optical Design and Fabrication (2)
	Optical Devices (1)
	Optics at Surfaces (1)
	Remote Sensing and Sensors (1)
	Thin Films (1)
	X-ray Optics (1)

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Call for Papers

Optical Interference Coatings

Markus Tilsch, Detlev Ristau, Li Li, and Angela Piegari Submission Deadline: 1 September 2013

In Progress

Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials for Novel Photonic Applications

Partha Banerjee, Dean Evans, Wei Lee, Victor Reshetnyak, and Nelson Tansu In Progress (no new submissions accepted)

Published

Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
	Michael Gehm, David Gerwe, and Andrew Harvey Published

Imaging Systems and Applications
	Peter Catrysse, Francisco Imai, John Sheridan, and Dale Linne von berg Published

Applied Industrial Optics
	Rongguang Liang, Hans-Peter Loock, and Giancarlo Pedrini Published

Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging
	Yoshio Hayasaki, Myung K. Kim, Pascal Picart, and Joseph Rosen Published

Correlation Optics
	Oleg Angelsky, Greg Gbur, Peter Polyanskii, Steen Hanson, Alexander Volyar, Dmitry Zimnyakov, and Igor Mokhun Published

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
	Jose Almirall, Andrzej Miziolek, Mohamad Sabsabi, and Jagdish Singh Published

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

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