1 February 2003, Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 615-754  
19 articles

Infrared detection scheme with the photon avalanche effect

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 615-620 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Analog tunable gratings driven by thin-film piezoelectric microelectromechanical actuators

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 621-626 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlled modification and direct characterization of multimode-fiber refractive-index profiles

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 627-633 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Chromatic dispersion and losses of microstructured optical fibers

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 634-639 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

High-speed path-length scanning with a multiple-pass cavity delay line

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 640-648 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Intercalibration of SUMER and CDS on SOHO. III. SUMER and CDS-GIS

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 657-666 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Red-green-blue interferometer for the metrology of discontinuous structures

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 667-673 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical and structural properties of Ag-Si3N4 nanocermets prepared by means of ion-beam sputtering in alternate and codeposition modes

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 674-681 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral interferometric microscope with tandem liquid-crystal Fabry-Perot interferometers for extension of the dynamic range in three-dimensional step-height measurement

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 682-690 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison of test images obtained from various configurations of scanning near-field optical microscopes

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 691-700 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthetic aperture interferometry: in-process measurement of aspheric optics

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 701-707 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Cryogenic optical testing of sandwich-type silicon carbide mirrors

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 708-714 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrashort laser pulse beam shaping

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 715-718 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Characteristics of the thick, compound refractive lens

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 719-723 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Thermal forming of glass microsheets for x-ray telescope mirror segments

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 724-735 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

SSR (spatially resolved refractometer): a null-seeking aberrometer

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 736-744 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of glucose in whole blood samples by mid-infrared spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 745-749 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical imaging based on time-resolved stokes vectors in filamentous tissues

Appl. Opt. 42(4), 750-754 (2003)  View: HTML | PDF