20 May 1997, Volume 36, Issue 15, pp. 3188-3531  
56 articles

Laser applications to chemical and environmental analysis: an introduction

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3187-3187 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser photoacoustic spectrometer for remote monitoring of atmospheric pollutants

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3195-3201 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative signal analysis in pulsed resonant photoacoustics

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3202-3211 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of isotopic CO2 mixtures by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3212-3216 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-pump coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering measurements of nitrogen and oxygen in a laminar jet diffusion flame

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3217-3226 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced-fluorescence detection of nitric oxide in high-pressure flames with A–X(0, 2) excitation

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3227-3232 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependence of laser-induced fluorescence of nitric oxide in laminar premixed atmospheric-pressure flames

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3233-3243 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Background corrections for laser-induced-fluorescence measurements of nitric oxide in lean, high-pressure, premixed methane flames

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3244-3252 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Accuracy and precision of single-pulse one-dimensional vibrational coherent anti-Stokes Raman-scattering temperature measurements

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3253-3260 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Absolute concentration measurements of CH radicals in a diamond-depositing dc-arcjet reactor

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3261-3270 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Pressure dependence of laser-induced fluorescence from acetone

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3271-3277 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiphoton excitation ionization of N2 following collisional energy transfer with H2O: a potential measure of molecular mixing

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3278-3287 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode laser absorption measurements of CH3Cl and CH4 near 1.65 µm

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3288-3293 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of nitric oxide with an antimonide diode laser

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3294-3297 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of CO and CO2 absorption near 1.57 µm with an external-cavity diode laser

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3298-3300 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase separation in polyaniline with near-field scanning optical microscopy

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3301-3304 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Investigation of a phase transition in a single optically levitated microdroplet by Raman–Mie scattering

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3305-3309 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of particle-size distribution and volume fraction in concentrated suspensions with photon migration techniques

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3310-3318 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Adaptive imaging system for phase-distorted extended source and multiple-distance objects

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3319-3328 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Monochromatic all-sky scanner: a quantitative imager of faint atmospheric emissions

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3329-3334 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of the point-spread function in a layered system

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3335-3337 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorption and emission cross sections of Er3+ in Al2O3 waveguides

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3338-3341 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthetic spectra: a tool for correlation spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3342-3348 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Near- and far-field properties of annular CO2 waveguide lasers

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3349-3356 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Flash-lamp-pumped Ho:Tm:Cr:YAG and Ho:Tm:Er:YLF lasers: experimental results of a single, long pulse length comparison

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3357-3362 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Flash-lamp-pumped Ho:Tm:Cr:YAG and Ho:Tm:Er:YLF lasers: modeling of a single, long pulse length comparison

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3363-3374 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast semiconductor laser-diode-seeded Cr:LiSAF regenerative amplifier system

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3375-3380 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Thulium:ZBLAN blue fiber laser pumped by two wavelengths

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3381-3386 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical limiting, pulse reshaping, and stabilization with a nonlinear absorptive fiber system

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3387-3392 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray-tracing model for stretcher dispersion calculation

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3393-3399 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Modes of resonators with dispersive phase-conjugate mirrors

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3400-3412 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Stable propagation of non-Gaussian beams in a multiple-pass cell

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3413-3420 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of 160-fs, 248-nm pulses by two-photon fluorescence in fused-silica crystals

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3421-3424 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast optical pulse digitization with unary spectrally encoded cross-phase modulation

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3425-3429 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Broader, flatter optical spectra of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers for a wavelength-division multiplexing source

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3430-3434 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser diode to single-mode fiber ball lens coupling efficiency: full-wave calculation and measurements

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3435-3438 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Intermodal beat length measurement with Fabry–Perot optical fiber cavities

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3439-3443 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Stationary anastigmatic mounts of concave gratings

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3444-3451 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode-coupling analysis in axisymmetric birefringent waveguides

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3452-3457 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar effective multiple-scattering coefficients in cirrus clouds

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3458-3468 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-dependent attenuator for dynamic range reduction of lidar signals

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3469-3474 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Aerosol and cloud backscatter at 1.06, 1.54, and 0.53 µm by airborne hard-target-calibrated Nd:YAG/methane Raman lidar

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3475-3490 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent Doppler lidar measurements of winds in the weak signal regime

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3491-3499 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous temperature and relative nitrogen–oxygen concentration measurements in air with pure rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for temperatures to as high as 2050 K

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3500-3505 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative technique for imaging mixture fraction, temperature, and the hydroxyl radical in turbulent diffusion flames

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3506-3514 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Single Gaussian beam interaction with a Kerr microsphere: characteristics of the radiation force

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3515-3520 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering by a reentrant fractal surface

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3521-3531 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Qualitative light-scattering angular correlations of conglomerate particles

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3532-3537 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy of particulate systems: a comparative study of discrete models

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3538-3546 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Sizing opaque particles with joint transform correlation

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3547-3550 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of Raman scattering by cloud droplets in the atmosphere

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3551-3559 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Origin of Kern’s arc

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3560-3564 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Photoablation and lens damage from fractional Talbot images of Dammann gratings

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3577-3580 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF

Real-time photorefractive interferometer for dynamic phase perturbation by self-interference in LiNbO3

Appl. Opt. 36(15), 3581-3585 (1997)  View: HTML | PDF