20 April 2005, Volume 44, Issue 12, pp. 2229-2455  
30 articles

From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism

open access Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2229-2229 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Announcement to the World-wide Optics Community

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2230-2230 (2005)  View: PDF

Announcement to the World-wide Optics Community

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2231-2231 (2005)  View: PDF

Subsurface damage in some single crystalline optical materials

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2241-2249 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Multiwindowed Defocused Electronic Speckle Photographic System for Tilt Measurement

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2250-2257 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Gold-coated copper cone detector as a new standard detector for F2 laser radiation at 157 nm

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2258-2265 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

In vivo Measurement of Lower Back Deformations with Fourier-Transform Profilometry

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2266-2273 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-Doppler velocity profile sensor with submicrometer spatial resolution that employs fiber optics and a diffractive lens

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2274-2280 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Videokeratoscope for accurate and detailed measurement of the cornea surface

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2281-2287 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Statistical approach for detection and localization of a fluorescing mouse tumor in Intralipid

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2300-2310 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved analysis on the viewing angle of integral imaging

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2311-2317 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Prediction of light-transmission losses in plastic optical fibers

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2318-2326 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical performance at the thermodynamic limit with tailored imaging designs

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2327-2331 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon excitation on a single subwavelength hole in a metallic sheet

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2332-2337 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Light Scattering by an Infinite Circular Cylinder Immersed in an Absorbing Medium

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2338-2342 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonpolarizing and polarizing filter design

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2343-2348 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of the size and structure of an X-pinch x-ray source from the diffraction pattern produced by microfabricated slits

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2349-2358 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fringe-density estimation by continuous wavelet transform

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2359-2365 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Image identification system based on an optical broadcast neural network processor

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2366-2376 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Form-birefringence structure fabrication in GaAs by use of SU-8 as a dry-etching mask

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2377-2381 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

High-birefringence fiber loop mirrors and their applications as sensors

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2382-2390 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Dispersion characteristics of segmented optical fibers

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2391-2395 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband, lossless, dispersion-compensating asymmetrical twin-core fiber design with flat-gain Raman amplification

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2396-2401 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Planar waveguide-based silica–polymer hybrid variable optical attenuator and its associated polymers

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2402-2408 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of compact turning mirrors in silicon-on-insulator materials

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2409-2415 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Z-Beamlet: a multikilojoule, terawatt-class laser system

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2421-2430 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Retrieval of vertical constituents and temperature profiles from passive submillimeter wave limb observations of the Martian atmosphere: a feasibility study

Appl. Opt. 44(12), 2438-2455 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF