20 May 1990, Volume 29, Issue 15, pp. 2201-2332  
23 articles

NSF funds new engineering research centers

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2211-2212 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Dielectric-coated metallic hollow waveguide for 3-μm Er:YAG, 5-μm CO, and 10.6-μm CO2 laser light transmission

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2213-2214 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral bending losses of incoherent IR light in circular waveguides

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2214-2216 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Coupled-mode equations for nonlinear directional couplers

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2216-2217 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient Raman energy extraction in HD

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2217-2218 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal effects on the Brillouin frequency shift in jacketed optical silica fibers

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2219-2222 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral and dynamic characteristics for excited and coupled modes in an externally perturbed birefringent single-mode fiber

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2223-2230 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Stress-induced refractive index inhomogeneity in fluoride glass fibers: origin of wavelength independent scattering loss

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2231-2233 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Generating radially polarized beams interferometrically

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2234-2239 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Carbon dioxide waveguide lasers with folds and tilted mirrors

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2240-2245 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Picosecond laser system continuously tunable in the 0.6–4-μm range

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2246-2258 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental studies of transient, thermal depolarization in a Nd:glass laser rod

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2259-2265 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Particle sizing in fluoride glasses and fibers by scattering measurements

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2266-2275 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering by laser levitated particles

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2276-2281 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrooptic modulation methods for high sensitivity tunable diode laser spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2282-2288 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Longterm changes of silicon photodiodes and their use for photometric standardization

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2289-2294 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Pressure dependence of the laser-induced breakdown thresholds of gases and droplets

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2303-2306 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser annealing of Corning 7059 glass waveguides

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2307-2310 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Gimbal for aligning laser and lenslet arrays for coherent operation in an external cavity

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2311-2314 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotationally symmetric construction optics for a waveguide focusing grating

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2315-2319 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Thickness matching in planar multilayer waveguides

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2320-2324 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF

Single pulse vibrational Raman scattering by a broadband KrF excimer laser in a hydrogen–air flame

Appl. Opt. 29(15), 2325-2332 (1990)  View: HTML | PDF