Dark current and noise analyses of quantum dot infrared photodetectors

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2767–2771 (2012)
• Hongmei Liu and Jianqi Zhang

Method to measure the second-order birefringence vector distribution along optical fibers based on high-speed polarization optical time domain reflectometry

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2548–2553 (2012)
• Chao Shang, Chongqing Wu, Zhi Wang, Yongjun Wang, Jian Wang, Zhengyong Li, and Shuangshou Yang

Discrimination between strain and temperature by cascading single-mode thin-core diameter fibers

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2733–2738 (2012)
• Jie Shi, Shilin Xiao, Miehua Bi, Lilin Yi, and Pei Yang

Multi-spatial-frequency and phase-shifting profilometry using a liquid crystal phase modulator

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2624–2632 (2012)
• Kyung-Il Joo, Chang-Sub Park, Min-Kyu Park, Kyung-Woo Park, Ji-Sub Park, Youngmin Seo, Joonku Hahn, and Hak-Rin Kim

Visualizing the complex 3D geometry of the perfusion border zone in isolated rabbit heart

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2713–2721 (2012)
• Rebecca M. Smith, Adam J. Black, Saalini S. Velamakanni, Taner Akkin, and Elena G. Tolkacheva

Analytical expressions for group-delay dispersion and third-order dispersion of a reflection grism-pair compressor

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2747–2751 (2012)
• Juan Su and Guoying Feng

Automated, portable, low-cost bright-field and fluorescence microscope with autofocus and autoscanning capabilities

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2581–2588 (2012)
• Samuel Schaefer, Stephen A. Boehm, and Kenneth J. Chau

Optical throughput of the Sagnac interferometer with a modified large optical path difference

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2693–2700 (2012)
• Chunmin Zhang, Jingjing Ai, and Peng Gao

Polarization independent blue-phase liquid crystal cylindrical lens with a resistive film

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2568–2572 (2012)
• Yan Li, Yifan Liu, Qing Li, and Shin-Tson Wu

On the sensitivity of generic porous optical sensors

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2752–2758 (2012)
• Tom G. Mackay

Surface enhanced absorption and transmission from dye coated gold nanoparticles in thin films

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2606–2615 (2012)
• Virendra N. Rai, Arvind K. Srivastava, Chandrachud Mukherjee, and Sudip K. Deb

Self-adaptive noise suppression for characterizing the dispersion of chirped fiber Bragg grating

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2651–2655 (2012)
• Qingshan Chen and Cuicui Zhu

Analysis and modeling for fiber-optic gyroscope scale factor based on environment temperature

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2541–2547 (2012)
• Chong Shen and Xiyuan Chen

Parallel phase-shifting digital holography with adaptive function using phase-mode spatial light modulator

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2633–2637 (2012)
• Miao Lin, Kouichi Nitta, Osamu Matoba, and Yasuhiro Awatsuji

Spectral optimized asymmetric segmented phase-only correlation filter

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2638–2650 (2012)
• I. Leonard, A. Alfalou, and C. Brosseau

Adaptive affinity propagation with spectral angle mapper for semi-supervised hyperspectral band selection

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2656–2663 (2012)
• Hongjun Su, Yehua Sheng, Peijun Du, and Kui Liu

Measurement of wide frequency range structural microvibrations with a pocket digital camera and sub-pixel techniques

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2664–2671 (2012)
• David Mas, Julian Espinosa, Ana B. Roig, Belen Ferrer, Jorge Perez, and Carlos Illueca

Autofocus for multispectral camera using focus symmetry

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2616–2623 (2012)
• Hui-Liang Shen, Zhi-Huan Zheng, Wei Wang, Xin Du, Si-Jie Shao, and John H. Xin

Optical imaging systems analyzed with a 2D template

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2739–2746 (2012)
• Harel Haim, Naim Konforti, and Emanuel Marom

Vicarious calibrations of HICO data acquired from the International Space Station

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2559–2567 (2012)
• Bo-Cai Gao, Rong-Rong Li, Robert L. Lucke, Curtiss O. Davis, Richard M. Bevilacqua, Daniel R. Korwan, Marcos J. Montes, Jeffrey H. Bowles, and Michael R. Corson

Optical turbulence on underwater image degradation in natural environments

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2678–2686 (2012)
• Weilin Hou, Sarah Woods, Ewa Jarosz, Wesley Goode, and Alan Weidemann

Binary beam splitter

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2672–2677 (2012)
• Nikolay Kazanskiy and Roman Skidanov

Gated viewing laser imaging with compressive sensing

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2706–2712 (2012)
• Li Li, Lei Wu, Xingbin Wang, and Ersheng Dang

Integrated fiber optic incoherent broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy detector for near-IR absorption measurements of nanoliter samples

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2532–2540 (2012)
• Anthony L. Gomez, Ronald F. Renzi, Julia A. Fruetel, and Ray P. Bambha

Characterization of a CH planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging system using a kHz-rate multimode-pumped optical parametric oscillator

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2589–2600 (2012)
• Joseph D. Miller, Sascha R. Engel, Johannes W. Tröger, Terrence R. Meyer, Thomas Seeger, and Alfred Leipertz

All-optical switch using optically controlled two mode interference coupler

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2601–2605 (2012)
• Partha Pratim Sahu

Lowest-order axial and ring mode lasing in confocal quasi-stadium laser diodes

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2515–2520 (2012)
• Takehiro Fukushima, Satoshi Sunada, Takahisa Harayama, Koichiro Sakaguchi, and Yasunori Tokuda

Modeling of end-pumped Yb:YAG thin-disk lasers with nonuniform temperature distribution

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2521–2531 (2012)
• Guangzhi Zhu, Xiao Zhu, Changhong Zhu, Jianli Shang, Hailin Wan, Fei Guo, and Lijun Qi

Tunable graphene Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with suppressed self-mode locking effect

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2554–2558 (2012)
• Da-Peng Zhou, Li Wei, and Wing-Ki Liu

Diode-pumped 2 μm vibronic (Tm³⁺, Yb³⁺):KLu(WO₄)₂ laser

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2701–2705 (2012)
• Martha Segura, Xavier Mateos, Maria Cinta Pujol, Joan Josep Carvajal, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

High power 2 MHz passively Q-switched nanosecond Nd:YVO₄/Cr⁴⁺:YAG 914 nm laser

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2728–2732 (2012)
• Xin Yu, Renpeng Yan, Xudong Li, Yufei Ma, Deying Chen, and Junhua Yu

Design of an ultracompact low-power all-optical modulator by means of dispersion engineered slow light regime in a photonic crystal Mach–Zehnder interferometer

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2687–2692 (2012)
• Sara Bakhshi, Mohammad Kazem Moravvej-Farshi, and Majid Ebnali-Heidari

Numerical simulation of millisecond laser-induced damage in silicon-based positive-intrinsic-negative photodiode

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2759–2766 (2012)
• Zewen Li, Xi Wang, Zhonghua Shen, Jian Lu, and Xiaowu Ni

Numerical simulation of a dual frequency all-optical flip-flop based on a nonlinear semiconductor distributed feedback laser structure

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 14, pp. 2722–2727 (2012)
• Hossam Zoweil