Accuracy and resolution of a dynamic-speckle profilometer

Dmitry V. Semenov, Ervin Nippolainen, and Alexei A. Kamshilin

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 411-418 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Recognition of living fingers with a sensor based on scattered-light detection

Katsuki Tai, Masashi Kurita, and Ichiro Fujieda

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 419-424 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction of detector nonlinearity for the balloonborne Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding

Anne Kleinert

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 425-431 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Describing isotropic and anisotropic out-of-plane deformations in thin cubic materials by use of Zernike polynomials

Chih-Hao Chang, Mireille Akilian, and Mark L. Schattenburg

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 432-437 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

One more possible mechanism of Weigert's effect in azo-dye-colored materials

Zurab V. Wardosanidze

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 438-444 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Proteins and dipicolinic acid released during heat shock activation of Bacillus subtilis spores probed by optical spectroscopy

Alexandra Alimova, A. Katz, Paul Gottlieb, and R. R. Alfano

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 445-450 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Digital holographic microscopy with dual-wavelength phase unwrapping

Daniel Parshall and Myung K. Kim

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 451-459 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Orientation-independent differential interference contrast microscopy

Michael Shribak and Shinya Inoué

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 460-469 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Dark-field imaging with cylindrical-vector beams

David P. Biss, Kathleen S. Youngworth, and Thomas G. Brown

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 470-479 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals with two-beam holographic lithography

Ying Liu, Shou Liu, and Xiangsu Zhang

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 480-483 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Linear astigmatism of confocal off-axis reflective imaging systems and its elimination

Seunghyuk Chang, Jung Hoon Lee, Suk Pil Kim, Hun Kim, Won Joo Kim, Ihun Song, and Youngsoo Park

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 484-488 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Correction method for absorption-dependent signal enhancement by a liquid-core optical fiber

Dahu Qi and Andrew J. Berger

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 489-494 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Dichroic rugate filters

Federico Aguayo-Ríos, Francisco Villa-Villa, and Jorge A. Gaspar-Armenta

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 495-500 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Synthetic-aperture chirp confocal imaging

Wei-Chen Chien, D. S. Dilworth, Elson Liu, and E. N. Leith

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 501-510 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power and high-accuracy integrating sphere radiometer: design, characterization, and calibration

Ana Carrasco-Sanz, Sonia Martín-López, Pedro Corredera, Miguel González-Herráez, and María Luisa Hernanz

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 511-518 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Origin of spectral modal noise in fiber-coupled spectrographs

Chia-Hung Chen, Robert O. Reynolds, and Alan Kost

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 519-527 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of a parallel demodulation system used for extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer and fiber Bragg grating sensors

Junfeng Jiang, Tiegen Liu, Yimo Zhang, Lina Liu, Ying Zha, Fan Zhang, Yunxin Wang, and Pin Long

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 528-535 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Holmium lasers passively Q-switched with PbS quantum-dot-doped glasses

Maxim S. Gaponenko, Alexander M. Malyarevich, Konstantin V. Yumashev, Helga Raaben, Alexander A. Zhilin, and Andrey A. Lipovskii

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 536-539 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Duty cycle dependence of a periodically poled LiNbO₃-based electro-optic Solc filter

Eyal Rabia and Ady Arie

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 540-545 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Matrix form for the instrument line shape of Fourier-transform spectrometers yielding a fast integration algorithm to theoretical spectra

Raphaël Desbiens, Pierre Tremblay, Jérôme Genest, and Jean-Pierre Bouchard

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 546-557 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Tunable ultrafast infrared/visible laser to probe vibrational dynamics

Tissa C. Gunaratne, Matthew Milliken, J. Reddy Challa, and M. Cather Simpson

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 558-564 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Degenerated optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification with cesium lithium borate

Baozhen Zhao, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, Yongliang Jiang, Cheng Wang, Haihe Lu, Juan Du, Zhizhan Xu, and Dezhong Shen

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 565-568 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Monte Carlo study of the screening effect of carriers on terahertz radiation from InAs with high excitation intensity

Dong-Feng Liu and Yi-Zhi Tan

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 569-572 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF

Focusing multiple high-order harmonics in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft-x-ray regions by a platinum-coated ellipsoidal mirror

Hiroki Mashiko, Akira Suda, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Appl. Opt. 45(3), 573-577 (2006)  View: HTML | PDF