20 December 2000, Volume 39, Issue 36, pp. 6713-6938  
22 articles

Unified inversion scheme that uses light scattering for morphological parameters and optical properties of aggregated aerosols

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6713-6724 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of the fluorescence quantum yield by oceanic phytoplankton in their natural habitat

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6725-6737 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Parry arc: a polarization lidar, ray-tracing, and aircraft case study

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6738-6745 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-photon counting for the 1300–1600-nm range by use of Peltier-cooled and passively quenched InGaAs avalanche photodiodes

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6746-6753 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Beam quality after propagation of Nd:YAG laser light through large-core optical fibers

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6754-6760 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Shot noise in gravitational-wave detectors with Fabry–Perot arms

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6761-6770 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative two-dimensional instantaneous Raman concentration measurements in a laminar methane jet

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6771-6780 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of an integrated optical magic T for astronomy applications

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6781-6786 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity of a three-mirror cavity to thermal and nonlinear lensing: Gaussian-beam analysis

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6787-6798 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid wavelength-division and optical time-division multiplexed multiwavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6799-6805 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-mode operation of a broad-area semiconductor laser with an anamorphic external cavity: experimental and numerical results

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6806-6813 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the influence of absorption on spatial field structures of morphology-dependent resonances in cylindrical microparticles

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6814-6817 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance and design of InGaAs/InP photodiodes for single-photon counting at 1.55 µm

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6818-6829 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiative transfer solution for rugged and heterogeneous scene observations

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6830-6846 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity analysis of differential absorption lidar measurements in the mid-infrared region

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6847-6865 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Trace-gas detection in ambient air with a thermoelectrically cooled, pulsed quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6866-6872 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Observations and calculations of light scattering from clusters of spheres

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6873-6887 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Stimulated light scattering in transparent liquid particles: effect of the Descartes ring

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6888-6896 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Mie light-scattering granulometer with adaptive numerical filtering. I. Theory

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6897-6917 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectroscopy in the gas phase with GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-cascade lasers

Appl. Opt. 39(36), 6926-6930 (2000)  View: HTML | PDF