About the Journal

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.

Relaxation of the Talbot condition in generalized grating imaging
We can form a grating image with two gratings having different pitches with an extended light source. It is... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 16, pp.3137-3144 (2012)

Aligning a reflection cavity by Anderson’s method
The sounding rocket principle of equivalence measurement uses a set of four laser gauges operating in... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 16, pp.3132-3136 (2012)

Accuracy enhancement of 3D profilometric human face reconstruction using undecimated wavelet analysis
Three-dimensional profilometric object reconstruction is a challenging topic; among the various methods... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 16, pp.3120-3131 (2012)

Loss and modal properties of Ag/AgI hollow glass waveguides
Hollow glass waveguides, composed of Ag/AgI coatings, have been studied at 10.6 µm. The losses for different... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 16, pp.3114-3119 (2012)

Responses of simple optical standing wave sensors
Optical standing wave sensors have been manufactured by amorphous silicon deposition. The responses of these... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 16, pp.3109-3113 (2012)

Birefringence analysis of segmented cladding fiber
We present a full-vectorial modal analysis of a segmented cladding fiber (SCF). The analysis is based on the... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3104-3108 (2012)

Fluidic sensor based on the side-opened and suspended dual-core fiber
For accelerating the response and enhancing the sensitivity simultaneously, a novel fluidic sensor based on a... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3096-3103 (2012)

Intense red upconversion emission of Yb/Tm/Ho triply-doped tellurite glasses
By conventional melting and quenching methods,... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3091-3095 (2012)

Wide angle conoscopic interference patterns in uniaxial crystals
The fringe pattern obtained when a divergent (or convergent) beam goes through a sample of birefringent... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3081-3090 (2012)

Ronchi test with equivalent wavelength
In this work we present an experimental proposal to evaluate optical surfaces with high slopes or with... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3071-3080 (2012)

Interferometric spatial coherence tomography: focusing fringe contrast to planes of interest using a quasi-monochromatic structured light source
Interferograms of plane parallel optical flats are hard to interpret when acquired with coherent illumination... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3059-3070 (2012)

Representation of freeform surfaces suitable for optimization
To represent the freeform surface shape, the axially asymmetric quadric and a new set of the orthogonal... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3054-3058 (2012)

Compact micromachined infrared bandpass filters for planetary spectroscopy
The future needs of space-based, observational planetary and astronomy missions include low mass and small... Applied Optics, Vol. 51 Issue 15, pp.3046-3053 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 51, Iss. 15 — May. 20, 2012  pp: 2772–3108

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
	Detectors (2)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (6)
	Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (1)
	Geometric Optics (1)
	Holography (1)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (2)
	Integrated Optics (1)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (4)
	Materials (4)
	Nonlinear Optics (1)
	Optical Design and Fabrication (3)
	Optical Devices (3)
	Physical Optics (2)
	Remote Sensing and Sensors (1)
	Scattering (1)
	Spectroscopy (1)
	Thin Films (2)

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Call for Papers

Imaging Systems and Applications

Peter Catrysse, Francisco Imai, John Sheridan, and Dale Linne von berg Submission Deadline: 1 October 2012

Applied Industrial Optics

Rongguang Liang, Hans-Peter Loock, and Giancarlo Pedrini Submission Deadline: 1 September 2012

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

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

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