Photon correlation and scattering: introduction to the feature issue

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7477–7479 (1997)
• William V. Meyer, Anthony E. Smart, Robert G. W. Brown, and Mikhail A. Anisimov

Practical considerations in photon correlation experiments

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7480–7492 (1997)
• Robert G. W. Brown and Anthony E. Smart

Compact laser light-scattering instrument for microgravity research

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7493–7500 (1997)
• Richard B. Rogers, William V. Meyer, Jixiang Zhu, Paul M. Chaikin, William B. Russel, Min Li, and Walter B. Turner

Physics of Hard Spheres Experiment: a general-purpose light-scattering instrument

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7501–7507 (1997)
• Christian T. Lant, Anthony E. Smart, David S. Cannell, William V. Meyer, and Michael P. Doherty

Dynamic light scattering with single-mode receivers: partial heterodyning regime

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7508–7517 (1997)
• Ivo Flammer and Jaro Ricka

Heterodyne quasi-elastic light-scattering instrument for biomedical diagnostics

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7518–7522 (1997)
• Andrei D. Lebedev, Maria A. Ivanova, Aleksey V. Lomakin, and Valentine A. Noskin

Practical implementation of a high-speed multichannel correlator with fiber-optic delays

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7523–7530 (1997)
• Adrian Gh. Podoleanu, Ryan K. Harding, and David A. Jackson

Theory and design of photon correlation and light-scattering experiments

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7531–7538 (1997)
• Edward Roy Pike and Ben McNally

Inversion of low-angle elastic light-scattering data with a new method devised by modification of the Chahine algorithm

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7539–7550 (1997)
• Fabio Ferri, Gabriella Righini, and Enrico Paganini

Multiple-scattering suppression by cross correlation

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7551–7558 (1997)
• William V. Meyer, David S. Cannell, Anthony E. Smart, Thomas W. Taylor, and Padetha Tin

Role of multiple scattering in cross-correlated light scattering with a single laser beam

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7559–7570 (1997)
• James A. Lock

Multiple-scattering suppression: cross correlation with tilted single-mode fibers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7571–7576 (1997)
• Ulf Nobbmann, Stacy W. Jones, and Bruce J. Ackerson

Location of the effective diffusing-photon source in a strongly scattering medium

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7577–7582 (1997)
• Andrei F. Kostko and Vladimir A. Pavlov

Surface light scattering: a methodological review

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7583–7592 (1997)
• John C. Earnshaw

Surface light scattering: integrated technology and signal processing

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7593–7600 (1997)
• Lars Lading, Carsten Dam-Hansen, and Erling Rasmussen

Fiber-optics surface-light-scattering spectrometer

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7601–7604 (1997)
• Padetha Tin, J. Adin Mann, William V. Meyer, and Thomas W. Taylor

Hybrid reflection-transmission surface light-scattering instrument with reduced sensitivity to surface sloshing

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7605–7614 (1997)
• William V. Meyer, James A. Lock, H. Michael Cheung, Thomas W. Taylor, Padetha Tin, and J. Adin Mann

Light scattering by surface waves on a vertical layer of liquid toluene

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7615–7620 (1997)
• Andreas P. Fröoba, Stefan Will, and Alfred Leipertz

Investigation of rough surfaces and transparent birefringent samples with Mueller-matrix scatterometry

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7621–7628 (1997)
• Françoise H. Delplancke

Implementation of a likelihood ratio test for laser Doppler velocimeter burst detection

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7629–7638 (1997)
• Patrick M. Howard and Robert V. Edwards

Measurement of the velocity difference by photon correlation spectroscopy: an improved scheme

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7639–7644 (1997)
• Theyencheri Narayanan, Cecil Cheung, Penger Tong, Walter I. Goldburg, and Xiao-lun Wu

Solgel transition in dye fluorescence measurements

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7645–7649 (1997)
• Bozena Ratajska-Gadomska, Wojciech Gadomski, Bo[z dot]ena Janowska-Dmoch, and Chris Sorensen

Laser light scattering of polymer solutions

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7650–7656 (1997)
• Benjamin Chu

Study of DNA internal dynamics by quasi-elastic light scattering

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7657–7663 (1997)
• Maria A. Ivanova, Alexander V. Arutyunyan, Aleksey V. Lomakin, and Valentine A. Noskin

Chain formation and chain dynamics in a dilute magnetorheological fluid

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7664–7671 (1997)
• Martin Hagenbüchle and Jing Liu

Quantitative light-scattering angular correlations of conglomerate particles

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7672–7677 (1997)
• Paul Pellegrino, Gorden Videen, and Ronald G. Pinnick

Tomographic reconstruction of air pollutants: evaluation of measurement geometries

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7678–7688 (1997)
• Lori A. Todd and Runa Bhattacharyya

Optimum control of the laser beam intensity profile with a deformable mirror

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7689–7695 (1997)
• Koshichi Nemoto, Takuya Nayuki, Takashi Fujii, Naohiko Goto, and Yoshi-kazu Kanai

Optimization of the power and control of the shape of amplified trains of laser pulses

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7696–7699 (1997)
• Bart M. van Oerle, Diego Bisero, Gerard J. Ernst, Jeroen W. J. Verschuur, and Wim J. Witteman

Simultaneous fabrication of optical channel waveguides and out-of-plane branching mirrors from a polymeric slab structure

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7700–7707 (1997)
• Manabu Kagami, Kazuo Hasegawa, and Hiroshi Ito

Luminescence properties of praseodymium- and erbium-doped silver bromide crystals

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7708–7711 (1997)
• David Bunimovich, Lev Nagli, and Abraham Katzir

Optical characterization of Nd ³⁺:AgBr

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7712–7717 (1997)
• David Bunimovich, Lev Nagli, and Abraham Katzir

Lasing in active, sub-mean-free path-sized systems with dense, random, weak scatterers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7718–7724 (1997)
• B. Raghavendra Prasad, Hema Ramachandran, Ajay Kumar Sood, C. K. Subramanian, and Narendra Kumar

Polarization characteristics of a Nd:YAG laser side pumped by diode laser bars

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7725–7729 (1997)
• Jian Zhang, Michael Quade, Yan Liao, Stephan Falter, Keming Du, and Peter Loosen

Solid-state laser pumping with a planar compound parabolic concentrator

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7730–7740 (1997)
• Dejan V. Pantelic, Bratimir M. Panic, and llija Ž. Belic

Dispersive mirror in AlGaAs designed by inverse spectral theory

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7741–7751 (1997)
• Steven R. A. Dods and Mutsuo Ogura

Short-pulse amplification at 745 nm in Ti:sapphire with a continuously tunable regenerative amplifier

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7752–7755 (1997)
• Thomas R. Nelson, W. Andreas Schroeder, Charles K. Rhodes, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, and James W. Longworth

Diode-laser-pumped 1.328-μm Nd:Sr₅(PO₄)₃ F laser and its intracavity frequency doubling

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7756–7759 (1997)
• Shengzhi Zhao, Qingpu Wang, Xingyu Zhang, Songtao Wang, Lu Zhao, Lianke Sun, and Shaojun Zhang

Influence of cross-linking functionality on the nonlinear optical properties of poled and cross-linked polymer films

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7760–7765 (1997)
• Jonathan D. Bewsher and Geoffrey R. Mitchell

Theoretical treatment, simulation, and experiments of doubly resonant sum-frequency mixing in an external resonator

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7766–7775 (1997)
• Yushi Kaneda and Shigeo Kubota

Generation of vacuum ultraviolet radiation for precision laser spectroscopy

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7776–7778 (1997)
• Noureddine Melikechi, Shubhagat Gangopadhyay,, and Edward E. Eyler

Optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Bessel beam

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7779–7782 (1997)
• Algis P. Piskarskas, Valerijus Smilgevic?ius, and Algirdas P. Stabinis

High-energy operation of a stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror in an l-Arginine phosphate monohydrate crystal

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7783–7787 (1997)
• Hidetsugu Yoshida, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Hisanori Fujita, Takatomo Sasaki, and Kunio Yoshida

Spatial beam cleanup of a Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.06 μm with two-wave mixing in Rh:BaTiO₃

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7788–7793 (1997)
• Arnaud Brignon, Jean-Pierre Huignard, Mark H. Garrett, and Irina Mnushkina

Optical limiting with C₆₀ and other fullerenes

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7794–7798 (1997)
• Denis Vincent and James Cruickshank

Polarization dependence of two-photon absorption in an AlGaAs waveguide autocorrelator

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7799–7801 (1997)
• M. Mehdi Karkhanehchi, John H. Marsh, and David C. Hutchings

Dynamic model of multipass ultrashort-pulse laser amplifiers and its application

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7802–7808 (1997)
• Yi-Yuh Hwang, Chau-Hwang Lee, and Jyhpyng Wang

Divergence temporal dynamics of a Q-switched laser

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7809–7817 (1997)
• Kamel Aït Ameur

Lensed-taper launching coupler for small-bore, infrared hollow fibers

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7818–7821 (1997)
• Yuji Matsuura, Hajime Hiraga, You Wang, Yuji Kato, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Shin-ichi Abe, and Shinji Onodera

Concave grating and convex mirror double dispersion spectrograph for optical network applications

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7822–7825 (1997)
• Evgeny G. Churin, Polina Bayvel, Vladimir B. Smirnitskii, Fedor N. Timofeev, and John E. Midwinter

Characterization and optimization of absorbing plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposited antireflection coatings for silicon photovoltaics

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7826–7837 (1997)
• Parag Doshi, Gerald E. Jellison, and Ajeet Rohatgi

Integrated-optical Mach-Zehnder add-drop filter fabricated by a single UV-induced grating exposure

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7838–7845 (1997)
• Turan Erdogan, Thomas A. Strasser, Michele A. Milbrodt, Edward J. Laskowski, Charles H. Henry, and Glenn E. Kohnke

Derivation of dimensional and material requirements for propagation and processing of temporal optical solitons in planar geometry channel waveguides

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7846–7852 (1997)
• Anca L. Sala, Mirko G. Mirkov, Brian G. Bagley, and Robert T. Deck

Emission characteristics of photoconductive antennas based on low-temperature-grown GaAs and semi-insulating GaAs

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7853–7859 (1997)
• Masahiko Tani, Shuji Matsuura, Kiyomi Sakai, and Shin-ichi Nakashima

Optical levitation measurements with intensity-modulated light beams

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7860–7863 (1997)
• Weiquan Cai, Fusheng Li, Shundi Sun, and Yuzhu Wang

Measurement of liquid-film thickness by laser interferometry

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7864–7869 (1997)
• Wali M. Nozhat

All-optical modulation with anomalous photovoltaic film on a Ti:LiNbO₃ waveguide modulator

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7870–7875 (1997)
• Naohiko Kato, Tomoyoshi Motohiro, Tadashi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Ito, Tatsumi Hioki, and Shoji Noda

Measurements of r₀ and θ₀ : two decades and 18 sites

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7876–7886 (1997)
• Donald L. Walters and L. William Bradford

Remote sensing of ocean color: assessment of water-leaving radiance bidirectional effects on atmospheric diffuse transmittance

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7887–7897 (1997)
• Haoyu Yang and Howard R. Gordon

Whole atmospheric-turbulence profiling with generalized scidar

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7898–7905 (1997)
• Remy Avila, Jean Vernin, and Elena Masciadri

Evaluation of coherent Doppler lidar velocity estimators in nonstationary regimes

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7906–7918 (1997)
• Brian T. Lottman and Rod G. Frehlich

Polychromatic transmissometer for in situ measurements of suspended particles and gelbstoff in water

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7919–7928 (1997)
• Hans Barth, Klaus Grisard, Kurt Holtsch, Rainer Reuter, and Uwe Stute

Monte Carlo radiative transfer in the microwave and in the visible: biasing techniques

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7929–7938 (1997)
• Laura Roberti

Development of an all-sky-scanning spectroradiometer with a visible diode array and a near-infrared acousto-optic tunable filter

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7939–7947 (1997)
• K. M. Nield, A. Bittar, and J. D. Hamlin

Retrieval of elements of the columnar aerosol scattering phase matrix from polarized sky radiance over the ocean: simulations

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7948–7959 (1997)
• Tianming Zhang and Howard R. Gordon

Picosecond laser-induced fluorescence measurement of rotational energy transfer of OH A₂Σ⁺ (v′ = 2) in atmospheric pressure flames

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7960–7969 (1997)
• Tim Nielsen, Frank Bormann, Michael Burrows, and Peter Andresen

Absorption measurements of the second overtone band of NO in ambient and combustion gases with a 1.8-μm room-temperature diode laser

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7970–7977 (1997)
• David M. Sonnenfroh and Mark G. Allen

Phase-conjugate resonant holographic interferometry applied to NH concentration measurements in a two-dimensional diffusion flame

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7978–7983 (1997)
• Alexios-Paul Tzannis, Paul Beaud, Hans-Martin Frey, Thomas Gerber, Bernhard Mischler, and Peter P. Radi

Retrieval of total ozone abundances from the ultraviolet region of spectra recorded with an ultraviolet-visible spectrometer

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7984–7991 (1997)
• Britt Ann K. Høiskar, Arne Dahlback, Cathrine W. Tellefsen, and Geir O. Braathen

Simultaneous determination of the aerosol complex index of refraction and size distribution from scattering measurements of polarized light

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 7992–8001 (1997)
• Fengsheng Zhao, Zhiben Gong, Huanling Hu, Masayuki Tanaka, and Tadahiro Hayasaka

Krypton fluoride laser pulse shortening by stimulated thermal scattering on a liquid surface

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8002–8009 (1997)
• Takashi Yagi, Kenji Matsubarra, Masafumi Yamashita, and Toshiharu Tako

Analysis of the resonant scattering of light by cylinders at oblique incidence

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8010–8019 (1997)
• Luiz Gallisa Guimarães and José Paulo Rodrigues Furtado de Mendonça

Stochastic laser-beam transfer through a binary Markovian mixture

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8020–8025 (1997)
• Marina Noskova and Anatoly Valentyuk

Experimental and theoretical results of light scattering by aggregates of spheres

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8026–8030 (1997)
• Yu-lin Xu and Bo Å. S. Gustafson

Atmospheric aerosol optical properties: a database of radiative characteristics for different components and classes

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8031–8041 (1997)
• Chiara Levoni, Marco Cervino, Rodolfo Guzzi, and Francesca Torricella

Room-temperature mid-infrared laser sensor for trace gas detection

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8042–8049 (1997)
• Thomas Töpfer, Konstantin P. Petrov, Yasuharu Mine, Dieter Jundt, Robert F. Curl, and Frank K. Tittel

Photothermal measurements with a Jamin interferometer: erratum

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8050–8050 (1997)
• Alain Cournoyer, Pierre Baulaigue, Eric Lazarides, Henri Blancher, Lionel Bertrand, and Roland Occelli

Control of the thermal lensing effect with different pump light distributions

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8051–8055 (1997)
• Jie Song, Anping Liu, Kazunori Okino, and Ken-ichi Ueda

Influence of substrate thickness on optical disk readout

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8056–8062 (1997)
• Joseph Braat

Fading statistics for intersatellite optical communication

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pp. 8063–8068 (1997)
• Robert R. Hayes