Fabrication and characterization of optical-fiber nanoprobes for scanning near-field optical microscopy

N. Essaidi, Y. Chen, V. Kottler, E. Cambril, C. Mayeux, N. Ronarch, and C. Vieu

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 609-615 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Stacked-grid collimators described with dimensionless parameters

Robert L. Lucke and Stefan E. Thonnard

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 616-621 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of three-element night-vision goggle objectives

Jennifer L. Rouke, Mary Kate Crawford, David J. Fischer, Curtis J. Harkrider, Duncan T. Moore, and Todd H. Tomkinson

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 622-626 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Microlenses and microlens arrays formed on a glass plate by use of a CO₂ laser

M. Wakaki, Y. Komachi, and G. Kanai

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 627-631 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Lobster-eye x-ray optics: a rapid evaluation of the image distribution

A. G. Peele and K. A. Nugent

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 632-642 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiation-induced wave-front aberrations: a new approach

A.I. Gusarov and D. B. Doyle

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 643-648 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Refracting system for annular Gaussian-to-Bessel beam transformation

Muhammad Arif, Meer M. Hossain, Abdul Ahad S. Awwal, and Muhammad N. Islam

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 649-652 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing high-energy x rays by compound refractive lenses

A. Snigirev, V. Kohn, I. Snigireva, A. Souvorov, and B. Lengeler

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 653-662 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic pressure sensing with a fiber-optic polarimetric pressure transducer with two-wavelength passive quadrature readout

Norbert Fürstenau, Markus Schmidt, Wojtek J. Bock, and Waclaw Urbanczyk

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 663-671 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Ronchi test with a square grid

A. Cordero-Dávila, E. Luna-Aguilar, S. Vázquez-Montiel, S. Zárate-Vázquez, and M. E. Percino-Zacarias

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 672-675 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Testing of refractive silicon microlenses by use of a lateral shearing interferometer in transmission

Lars Erdmann and Richard Kowarschik

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 676-682 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral calibration requirement for Earth-looking imaging spectrometers in the solar-reflected spectrum

Robert O. Green

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 683-690 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of optical constants of solgel-derived inhomogeneous TiO₂ thin films by spectroscopic ellipsometry and transmission spectroscopy

Md. Mosaddeq-ur-Rahman, Guolin Yu, Kalaga Murali Krishna, Tetsuo Soga, Junji Watanabe, Takashi Jimbo, and Masayoshi Umeno

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 691-697 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Process-parameter-dependent optical and structural properties of ZrO₂MgO mixed-composite films evaporated from the solid solution

N. K. Sahoo and A. P. Shapiro

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 698-718 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Cr/Sc multilayers for the soft-x-ray range

Franz Schäfers, Hans-Christoph Mertins, Frank Schmolla, Ingo Packe, Nikolay N. Salashchenko, and Eugeny A. Shamov

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 719-728 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral reflectance of silicon photodiodes

Atte Haapalinna, Petri Kärhä, and Erkki Ikonen

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 729-732 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Damage-limited lifetime of 193-nm lithography tools as a function of system variables

Richard Schenker and William Oldham

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 733-738 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface relief zone plates fabricated with photographic emulsions

Enrique Navarrete-Garcia and Sergio Calixto

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 739-746 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Transformation of Gaussian to coherent uniform beams by inverse-Gaussian transmittive filters

Sie Poon Chang, Jin-Min Kuo, Yar-Ping Lee, Chen-Min Lu, and Kow-Je Ling

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 747-752 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Error-compensating phase-calculation algorithm in rapid-switching double-pulsed holographic interferometry

Brenda H. Timmerman

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 753-758 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative analysis of double-stranded DNA amplified by a polymerase chain reaction employing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

X. Dou, T. Takama, Y. Yamaguchi, K. Hirai, H. Yamamoto, S. Doi, and Y. Ozaki

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 759-763 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical model for light distribution during transscleral cyclophotocoagulation

Babak Nemati, Andrew Dunn, Ashley J. Welch, and H. Grady Rylander

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 764-771 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of tissue optical properties from diffuse reflectance profiles by multivariate calibration

Jan S. Dam, Peter E. Andersen, Torben Dalgaard, and Paul Erik Fabricius

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 772-778 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Noninvasive determination of the optical properties of two-layered turbid media

Alwin Kienle, Michael S. Patterson, Nora Dögnitz, Roland Bays, Georges Wagnières, and Hubert van den Bergh

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 779-791 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging objects hidden in scattering media with fluorescence polarization preservation of contrast agents

S. G. Demos, W. B. Wang, and R. R. Alfano

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 792-797 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropy in the absorption and scattering spectra of chicken breast tissue

Guillermo Marquez, Lihong V. Wang, Shao-Pow Lin, Jon A. Schwartz, and Sharon L. Thomsen

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 798-804 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength pair selection for bacterial endospore detection by use of terbium dipicolinate photoluminescence

David L. Rosen

Appl. Opt. 37(4), 805-807 (1998)  View: HTML | PDF