Surface heating by optical beams and application to mid-infrared imaging

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6578–6585 (2012)
• Alain Haché, Phuong Anh Do, and Stefano Bonora

Angular amplification by a diffraction grating for chiro-optical measurements

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6480–6483 (2012)
• Rajitha Papukutty Rajan and Ambarish Ghosh

Influence of two typical defects on the near-field optical properties of multilayer dielectric compression gratings

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6683–6690 (2012)
• Yunxia Jin, Heyuan Guan, Fanyu Kong, Jianpeng Wang, Andreas Erdmann, Shijie Liu, Yin Du, Jianda Shao, Hongbo He, and Kui Yi

Implementing a grolishing process in Zeeko IRP machines

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6637–6640 (2012)
• Guoyu Yu, David Walker, and Hongyu Li

Method of excess fractions with application to absolute distance metrology: Wavelength selection and the effects of common error sources

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6471–6479 (2012)
• Konstantinos Falaggis, David P. Towers, and Catherine E. Towers

Understanding the effects of Doppler phenomena in white light Fabry–Perot interferometers for simultaneous position and velocity measurement

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6518–6527 (2012)
• Erik A. Moro, Michael D. Todd, and Anthony D. Puckett

Three-dimensional shape measurement with binary dithered patterns

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6631–6636 (2012)
• Yajun Wang and Song Zhang

Micro-optical elements fabricated by metal-transparent-metallic-oxides grayscale photomasks

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6606–6611 (2012)
• Jianming Zhang, Chuanfei Guo, Yongsheng Wang, Junjie Miao, Ye Tian, and Qian Liu

Super-smooth surface fabrication technique and experimental research

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6612–6617 (2012)
• Linghua Zhang, Junlin Wang, and Jian Zhang

Design of optically path-length-matched, three-dimensional photonic circuits comprising uniquely routed waveguides

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6489–6497 (2012)
• Ned Charles, Nemanja Jovanovic, Simon Gross, Paul Stewart, Barnaby Norris, John O’Byrne, Jon S. Lawrence, Michael J. Withford, and Peter G. Tuthill

Influence of the tilting reflection mirror on the temperature and wind velocity retrieved by a polarizing atmospheric Michelson interferometer

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6508–6517 (2012)
• Chunmin Zhang and Ying Li

Magnetic field sensing based on capillary filled with magnetic fluids

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6528–6538 (2012)
• Hongzhu Ji, Shengli Pu, Xiang Wang, Guojun Yu, Ning Wang, and Haotian Wang

Simulation of electrowetting lens and prism arrays for wavefront compensation

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6618–6623 (2012)
• Juliet T. Gopinath, Victor M. Bright, Carol C. Cogswell, Robert D. Niederriter, Alexander Watson, Ramzi Zahreddine, and Robert H. Cormack

Surface plasmon sensing with different metals in single and double layer configurations

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6673–6682 (2012)
• Dmitry V. Nesterenko, Saif-ur-Rehman, and Zouheir Sekkat

Fiber-coupled ultraviolet planar laser-induced fluorescence for combustion diagnostics

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6691–6699 (2012)
• Frank Loccisano, Sachin Joshi, Isaiah S. Franka, Zhiyao Yin, Walter R. Lempert, and Azer P. Yalin

Analytical modeling and three-dimensional finite element simulation of line edge roughness in scatterometry

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6457–6464 (2012)
• Akiko Kato, Sven Burger, and Frank Scholze

Calculation of electromagnetic scattering by a large chiral sphere

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6661–6668 (2012)
• Zhen-Sen Wu, Qing-Chao Shang, and Zheng-Jun Li

Effect of postdeposition annealing on the structure, composition, and the mechanical and optical characteristics of niobium and tantalum oxide films

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6498–6507 (2012)
• Eda Çetinörgü-Goldenberg, Jolanta-Ewa Klemberg-Sapieha, and Ludvik Martinu

Closed-form suboptimal maximum-likelihood sequence detection for free-space optical communications

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6441–6447 (2012)
• Lu Zhang and Zhiyong Wu

Characterization of a compressively sampled photonic link

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6448–6456 (2012)
• J. M. Nichols, C. V. McLaughlin, F. Bucholtz, and J. V. Michalowicz

Wave-atoms-based multipurpose scheme via perceptual image hashing and watermarking

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6561–6570 (2012)
• Fang Liu, Qi-Kai Fu, and Lee-Ming Cheng

Contour coding based rotating adaptive model for human detection and tracking in thermal catadioptric omnidirectional vision

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6641–6652 (2012)
• Yazhe Tang and Youfu Li

Photoinduced grating formation in a polymer containing azo-carbazole dyes

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6653–6660 (2012)
• Yutaka Kawabe, Kodai Fukuzawa, Takuya Uemura, Katsufumi Matsuura, Toshio Yoshikawa, Jun-ichi Nishide, and Hiroyuki Sasabe

Improved irradiances for use in ocean heating, primary production, and photo-oxidation calculations

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6549–6560 (2012)
• Curtis D. Mobley and Emmanuel S. Boss

Proton irradiation damage mechanism of PANDA-type polarization-maintaining optical fibers

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6624–6630 (2012)
• Hongchen Zhang, Yong Liu, Wenqiang Qiao, Hai Liu, Huijie Xue, Shiyu He, and Yanhua Zhang

Traffic light to vehicle visible light communication channel characterization

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6594–6605 (2012)
• Kaiyun Cui, Gang Chen, Zhengyuan Xu, and Richard D. Roberts

Technique for in situ measurement of free spectral range and transverse mode spacing of optical cavities

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6571–6577 (2012)
• Alberto Stochino, Koji Arai, and Rana X. Adhikari

Three-wavelength parallel optical fiber dispersion measurement using dual-heterodyne mixing

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6586–6593 (2012)
• Tatsutoshi Shioda, Naoya Shimizu, and Masaichi Nakamura

All-fiber passively mode-locked thulium/holmium laser with two center wavelengths

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6465–6470 (2012)
• Rajesh Kadel and Brian R. Washburn

Method to evaluate beam quality of Gaussian beams with aberrations

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6539–6543 (2012)
• Yuntao Qiu, Lei Huang, Mali Gong, Liu Qiang, Ping Yan, and Haitao Zhang

Polarization self-selection in a coherent beam combination system with an all-optical feedback loop

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6544–6548 (2012)
• Houkang Liu, Bing He, Jun Zhou, Chi Liu, Jingxing Dong, Yunrong Wei, and Qihong Lou

High-average-power and high-beam-quality Innoslab picosecond laser amplifier

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6669–6672 (2012)
• Liu Xu, Hengli Zhang, Yefei Mao, Ying Yan, Zhongwei Fan, and Jianguo Xin

Positively and negatively large Goos–Hänchen lateral displacements from a single negative layered structure

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• Applied Optics Vol. 51, Iss. 27, pp. 6484–6488 (2012)
• Robabeh Talebzadeh and Abdolrahman Namdar