20 August 1998, Volume 37, Issue 24, pp. 5505-5781  
36 articles

Polarization lidar returns from aerosols and thin clouds: a framework for the analysis

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5505-5508 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact airborne lidar for tropospheric ozone: description and field measurements

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5509-5521 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Errors in the retrieval of thin-cloud optical parameters obtained with a two-boundary algorithm

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5522-5540 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Satellite-sensor calibration verification with the cloud-shadow method

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5541-5549 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Lidar In-space Technology Experiment measurements of sea surface directional reflectance and the link to surface wind speed

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5550-5559 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Demonstration of droplet size and vaporization rate measurements in the near field of a two-phase jet with droplet lasing spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5573-5578 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory and laboratory demonstrations on the use of a nematic liquid-crystal phase modulator for controlled turbulence generation and adaptive optics

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5579-5589 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

NO2 photometer based on solid-state light sources

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5590-5595 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power As-S glass fiber delivery instrument for pulse YAG:Er laser radiation

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5596-5599 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Interferometric optical time-domain reflectometry for distributed optical-fiber sensing

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5600-5604 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode-field diameter of single-mode optical fiber by far-field scanning

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5605-5619 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative Raman imaging investigations of mixing phenomena in high-pressure cryogenic jets

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5620-5627 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Resonance shift of obliquely illuminated dielectric cylinders: geometrical-optics estimates

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5628-5630 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Feasibility study of synthetic aperture infrared laser radar techniques for imaging of static and moving objects

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5631-5639 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Bubble chamber as a trace chemical detector

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5640-5646 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance characteristics of soot primary particle size measurements by time-resolved laser-induced incandescence

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5647-5658 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate numerical analysis of multimode-interference-based 3-dB couplers

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5672-5678 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion measurements of water with white-light interferometry

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5679-5686 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal extraction in a power-recycled Michelson interferometer with Fabry–Perot arm cavities by use of a multiple-carrier frontal modulation scheme

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5687-5693 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Energy-transfer dye laser in solgel silica

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5694-5696 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of lasing in gas-flow lasers with stable resonators

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5697-5705 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Injection-seeded, single-frequency, Q-switched erbium:glass laser for remote sensing

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5706-5709 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Saturation parameter and small-signal gain of a laser-diode-pumped Tm:YAG laser

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5710-5712 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient 946-nm laser operation of a composite Nd:YAG rod with undoped ends

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5713-5719 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon-pumped frequency-upconverted blue lasing in Coumarin dye solution

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5720-5726 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact and efficient 3.2-W diode-pumped Nd:YVO4/KTP green laser

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5727-5730 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Infrared properties of chemical-vapor deposition polycrystalline diamond windows

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5731-5736 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical studies of Nd-doped benzil, a potential luminescent and laser material

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5737-5742 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-infrared-wavelength generation in 2-μm pumped periodically poled lithium niobate

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5743-5746 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Finite-element analysis of lossy TE–TM modes in metal-clad optical waveguides

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5747-5754 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-coupled high-power external-cavity semiconductor lasers for real-time Raman sensing

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5755-5759 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging spectroscopy for two-dimensional characterization of auroral emissions

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5760-5770 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

High-sensitivity mid-infrared heterodyne spectrometer with a tunable diode laser as a local oscillator

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5771-5776 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual-purpose, compact spectrometer and fiber-coupled laser wavemeter based on a Wollaston prism

Appl. Opt. 37(24), 5777-5781 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF