1 January 1984, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 1-184  
38 articles

From the Editor

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 6-6 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal analysis of short laser pulses using degenerate four-wave mixing

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 8-9 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropic 2-D scattering. 3: The effects of incident laser wavelength

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 9-11 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed retardation modulation ellipsometer: erratum

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 11-11 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Millimeter wave gas/aerosol spectrophone and application to diesel smoke

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 13-15 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Frequency domain measurements of lag on charge injection devices

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 15-17 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Materials processing by high-repetition-rate pulsed excimer and carbon dioxide lasers

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 18-25 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Carbon isotopes laser separation by multiple-photon dissociation

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 26-29 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature distributions produced by scanning Gaussian laser beams

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 30-35 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient cavity-dumped HgBr laser

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 36-39 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturable absorbers for multiband operation of a high-gain short-pulse CO2-laser chain

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 40-47 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation of Airy-Hermite-Gaussian waveguide modes in free space

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 48-52 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser resonators of a mirror and corner cube reflector: analysis by the imaging method

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 53-56 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Directional laser velocimetry without frequency biasing: part 2

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 57-60 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser Doppler velocimetry by modulating a CO2 laser with backscattered light

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 61-66 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser Doppler velocimeter for velocity and length measurements of moving surfaces

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 67-73 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Chirped picosecond pulses: evaluation of the time-dependent wavelength for semiconductor film lasers

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 74-82 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of cw optically pumped 12-μm NH3 lasers using a tunable diode laser

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 87-93 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized Epstein model of stripe-geometry injection lasers

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 94-99 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Intracavity absorption in a double-cavity dye laser

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 100-103 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectrometer for temporal measurement of each output line of multiline HF lasers

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 104-107 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam deflecting optical switch using volumetric thermal gratings

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 113-117 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Light intensity modulation based on guided-to-radiation mode coupling in heterostructure waveguides

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 118-123 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Magnetooptic rib waveguides in YIG: an experiment

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 124-126 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of two approaches to the waveguide scattering problem: TM polarization

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 127-133 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced fluorescence of green plants. 1: A technique for the remote detection of plant stress and species differentiation

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 134-138 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced fluorescence of green plants. 2: LIF caused by nutrient deficiencies in corn

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 139-142 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Earth-to-space laser beam transmission for spacecraft attitude measurement

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 143-147 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Aerosol heating and vaporization by pulsed light beams

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 148-155 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Propagation effects on pulsed light beams in absorbing media

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 156-160 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

High quality antireflection coatings on laser facets by sputtered silicon nitride

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 161-164 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of optical parameters and electric field distribution in multilayers

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 165-171 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable electrooptic rf filter

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 172-175 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF

X-ray transmission photocathode sensitivities at λ = 0.266 μm

Appl. Opt. 23(1), 176-179 (1984)  View: HTML | PDF