20 June 2005, Volume 44, Issue 18, pp. 3621-3855  
29 articles

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3621-3621 (2005)  View: PDF

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3622-3622 (2005)  View: PDF

From the Board of Editors: on Plagiarism

open access Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3635-3635 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser applications to chemical and environmental analysis: introduction

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3637-3637 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved algorithm for simulations of divergent-light halos

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3638-3645 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Extracting mode components in laser intensity distribution by independent component analysis

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3646-3653 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal evolution of the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy spectrum of aluminum metal in different bath gases

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3654-3660 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced carbon plasma emission spectroscopic measurements on solid targets and in gas-phase optical breakdown

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3661-3667 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Glass-batch composition monitoring by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3668-3674 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide-bandwidth mode-hop-free tuning of extended-cavity GaN diode lasers

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3675-3685 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Diatomic Hönl–London factor computer program

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3686-3695 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fiber-optic sensor for handgrip-strength monitoring: conception and design

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3696-3704 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Superresolution with nonorthogonal polarization coding

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3705-3715 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Brewster angle with a negative-index material

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3716-3724 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Distinction of cervical cancer biopsies by use of infrared microspectroscopy and probabilistic neural networks

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3725-3734 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Computations of the acoustically induced phase shifts of optical paths in acoustophotonic imaging with photorefractive-based detection

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3735-3746 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Micro gradient-index conical lenses: simulation and fabrication methods

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3747-3751 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Control of spatial polarization by use of a liquid crystal with an optically treated alignment layer and its application to beam apodization

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3752-3758 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Light propagation through a monolayer of discrete scatterers: analysis of coherent transmission and reflection coefficients

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3759-3768 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Multilayer optical thin films for use at terahertz frequencies: method of fabrication

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3769-3773 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Fourier analysis of harmonic frequency transmission dielectric structures

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3774-3783 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Face recognition by using feature-specific imaging

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3784-3794 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Empirical relationships between extinction coefficient and visibility in fog

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3795-3804 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of shipboard aerosol optical thickness measurements from multiple sunphotometers aboard the R/V Ronald H. Brown during the Aerosol Characterization Experiment—Asia

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3805-3820 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Intensity-referenced and temperature-independent curvature-sensing concept based on chirped fiber Bragg gratings

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3821-3826 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Improvement in visibility of an in-focus reconstructed image in digital holography by reduction of the influence of out-of-focus objects

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3827-3832 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear optoacoustic underwater communication

Appl. Opt. 44(18), 3833-3845 (2005)  View: HTML | PDF