Application of tunable excimer lasers to combustion diagnostics: a review

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 3971–4033 (1997)
• Erhard W. Rothe and Peter Andresen

Performance degradation of a Michelson interferometer when its misalignment angle is a rapidly varying, random time series

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4034–4042 (1997)
• Douglas L. Cohen

High-resolution absorption measurements by use of two-tone frequency-modulation spectroscopy with diode lasers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4043–4054 (1997)
• Viacheslav G. Avetisov and Peter Kauranen

Supported planar germanium waveguides for infrared evanescent-wave sensing

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4055–4061 (1997)
• Susan E. Plunkett, Steven Propst, and Mark S. Braiman

Intracavity laser absorption measurements at ultrahigh spectral resolution

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4062–4068 (1997)
• Alexander A. Kachanov, Frédéric Stoeckel, Ales Charvat, and James J. O’Brien

Light caustics of hydrodynamic solitons illuminated by a laser beam

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4069–4076 (1997)
• Germán Da Costa

Frequency stabilization of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers by use of 3 x 3 nonplanar fused-fiber couplers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4077–4080 (1997)
• Andrew Gloag, Richard J. Forster, and Nigel Langford

Improved interferometer studies of linear electro-optic effects of dye-doped polymers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4081–4089 (1997)
• Fassil Ghebremichael and Hilary S. Lackritz

Investigation of Cr:Tm:Er:YAG laser crystals in a resonator with various degrees of spectral selectivity

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4090–4093 (1997)
• Igor V. Mochalov, Gurii T. Petrovskii, Alexander V. Sandulenko, Vitalii A. Sandulenko, Miguel Cervantes, and Vladimir S. Terpugov

Optimization of the output beam homogeneity of short-pulse KrF amplifiers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4094–4098 (1997)
• Matthias Feuerhake, Peter Simon, Gábor Almási, Tamás Nagy, and Sándor Szatmári

Method for obtaining a symmetric power tuning curve for a single-mode continuous-wave CO₂ laser

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4099–4101 (1997)
• Mangal M. Nagarkar and Pradeep K. Gupta

Power collection of a laser diode elliptical beam by a decentered circular aperture

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4102–4104 (1997)
• Haiyin Sun

Double phase conjugation in copper-doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate crystals

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4105–4109 (1997)
• Liangmin Zhang, Wanlin Zhang, Xiaojun Chen, Guangyin Zhang, Shihong Pan, Jingwen Zhang, Zongshu Shao, Jianru Han, and Huanchu Chen

Optimization of optical limiting devices based on excited-state absorption

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4110–4122 (1997)
• Tiejun Xia, David J. Hagan, Arthur Dogariu, Ali A. Said, and Eric W. Van Stryland

Internal reflections of the Gaussian beams in Faraday isolators

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4123–4130 (1997)
• Jérôme Poirson, Jean-Charles Cotteverte, Albert Le Floch, and Fabien Bretenaker

Analysis of external optical feedback characteristics of asymmetric, quarter-wave-shifted, distributed-feedback semiconductor lasers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4131–4137 (1997)
• Mohammad F. Alam, Mohammad A. Karim, and Saiful Islam

Analytical characterization of grating-tuned external-cavity semiconductor lasers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4138–4141 (1997)
• Xiaohong Zhou, Jianguo Chen, and Yuchun Lu

Asymptotic behavior of the boundary value problem of four-wave mixing in photorefractive media

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4142–4148 (1997)
• Louis Sica

Stable, high-power, single-frequency generation at 532 nm from a diode-bar-pumped Nd:YAG ring laser with an intracavity LBO frequency doubler

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4149–4152 (1997)
• Kevin I. Martin, W. Andrew Clarkson, and David C. Hanna

Reabsorption trapping of luminescence in laser crystals: enhancement of energy storage and upconversion

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4153–4158 (1997)
• Mikhail A. Noginov

Sum-frequency generation of continuous-wave light at 194 nm

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4159–4162 (1997)
• Dana J. Berkeland, Flavio C. Cruz, and James C. Bergquist

Diode-pumped Nd:glass kilohertz regenerative amplifier for subpicosecond microjoule level pulses

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4163–4167 (1997)
• Alan Braun, Xinbing Liu, Gerard Mourou, Daniel Kopf, and Ursula Keller

Optical properties of deep ice at the South Pole: absorption

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4168–4180 (1997)
• Per Askebjer, Steven W. Barwick, Lars Bergström, Adam Bouchta, Staffan Carius, Eva Dalberg, Kevin Engel, Bengt Erlandsson, Ariel Goobar, Lori Gray, Allan Hallgren, Francis Halzen, Hans Heukenkamp, Per Olof Hulth, Stephan Hundertmark, John Jacobsen, Albrecht Karle, Vijaya Kandhadai, Igor Liubarsky, Doug Lowder, Tim Miller, Pat Mock, Robert M. Morse, Rodin Porrata, P. Buford Price, Austin Richards, Hector Rubinstein, Eric Schneider, Christian Spiering, Ole Streicher, Qin Sun, Thorsten Thon, Serap Tilav, Ralf Wischnewski, Christian Walck, and Gaurang B. Yodh

Optical properties of deep ice at the South Pole: scattering

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4181–4194 (1997)
• P. Buford Price and Lars Bergström

Optical properties of contrail-induced cirrus: discussion of unusual halo phenomena

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4195–4201 (1997)
• Ralf Sussmann

Scanning-laser glint measurements of sea-surface slope statistics

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4202–4213 (1997)
• Joseph A. Shaw and James H. Churnside

Photometric immersion refractometry: a method for determining the refractive index of marine microbial particles from beam attenuation

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4214–4225 (1997)
• Miroslaw Jonasz, Georges Fournier, and Dariusz Stramski

Resonance suppression in the extinction spectrum of single and aggregated hemispheres on a reflecting surface

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4226–4234 (1997)
• Ferdinando Borghese, Paolo Denti, Rosalba Saija, Enrico Fucile, and Orazio I. Sindoni

Angular structure of radiation scattered by monolayers of particles: experimental study

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4235–4240 (1997)
• Vladimir P. Dick, Valery A. Loiko, and Arkady P. Ivanov

Fiber-optic analogs of bulk-optic wave plates

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4241–4258 (1997)
• Hung-chia Huang

Effect of uniaxial deformation on the optical scattering losses of a semicrystalline fluorocopolymer

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4259–4264 (1997)
• Karsten Eichhorn, Christian Sinn, and Manfred Dettenmaier

Analytic solution for the peak reflectivity of an asymmetric mirror

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4265–4268 (1997)
• Michelle A. Parent, Suhail S. Murtaza, and Joe C. Campbell

Optically heterodyned 25-GHz true-time-delay lines on thick LD-3 polymer-based planar waveguides

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4269–4272 (1997)
• Richard L. Q. Li, Huajun Tang, Guohua Cao, and Ray T. Chen

Diode-laser-to-waveguide butt coupling: extremely short external cavity

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4273–4277 (1997)
• Yakov Sidorin and Dennis Howe

Design of a lidar receiver with fiber-optic output

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4278–4284 (1997)
• James R. Jenness, Jr., Daniel B. Lysak, Jr., and C. Russell Philbrick

Method and results for optimizing the MOPITT methane bandpass

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4285–4291 (1997)
• Mark W. Smith

Interaction between an infinite cylinder and an arbitrary-shaped beam

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4292–4304 (1997)
• Gérard Gouesbet

Improved T-matrix computations for large, nonabsorbing and weakly absorbing nonspherical particles and comparison with geometrical-optics approximation

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4305–4313 (1997)
• Dingeman J. Wielaard, Michael I. Mishchenko, Andreas Macke, and Barbara E. Carlson

Directional reflectance of vegetation measured by a calibrated digital camera

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4314–4319 (1997)
• John R. Dymond and Craig M. Trotter

Optical saturation measurements of fluorophores in solution with pulsed femtosecond excitation and two-dimensional CCD camera detection

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 18, pp. 4320–4328 (1997)
• Rick I. Ghauharali, Michiel Müller, Arjan H. Buist, Thomas S. Sosnowski, Theodore B. Norris, Jeff Squier, and G. J. Brakenhoff