Applied Optics Commemorative Reviews

In 2012, Applied Optics celebrated its 50th anniversary and commemorated the Journal's important contributions to the optics and photonics community. To help launch the next 50 years, we have invited some of the Journal's luminaries to write a review article on the topic of their choice. While some authors wrote technical reviews, others provided personal reflections and predictions for the field's future.

For your convenience, the reviews have been organized into 3 categories: interference, interferometry, and phase; imaging, optical processing, and telecommunications; and polarization and scattering.


Applied Optics Golden Anniversary Commemorative Reviews: introduction
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. CR1-CR3 (2013)
  • Joseph N. Mait, Eugenio Mendez, Nasser Peyghambarian, and T.-C. Poon

Interference, interferometry, and phase

Computerized interferometric surface measurements [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 1-8 (2013)
  • James C. Wyant
50 years of optics research [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 9-19 (2013)
  • Johannes Schwider
Fourier fringe analysis and its application to metrology of extreme physical phenomena: a review [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 20-29 (2013)
  • Mitsuo Takeda
From speckle pattern photography to digital holographic interferometry [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 30-44 (2013)
  • Hans J. Tiziani and Giancarlo Pedrini
Phase retrieval algorithms: a personal tour [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 45-56 (2013)
  • James R. Fienup
Reflections on a career in Optics at San Diego State University [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 57-60 (2013)
  • Jeffrey A. Davis
Pattern-integrated interference [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 61-72 (2013)
  • Thomas K. Gaylord, Matthieu C. R. Leibovici, and Guy M. Burrow
Optical interference coatings for optics and photonics [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 1, pp. 73-81 (2013)
  • Cheng-Chung Lee

Imaging, optical processing, and telecommunications

Cylindrical lenses—focusing and imaging: a review [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 538-545 (2013)
  • Colin J. R. Sheppard
Toward a super imaging system [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 561-566 (2013)
  • David Mendlovic
Half a century of optics in computing—a personal perspective [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 600-612 (2013)
  • Joseph Shamir
Coherent and incoherent synthetic-aperture imaging ladars and laboratory-space experimental demonstrations [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 579-599 (2013)
  • Liren Liu
Seeing through turbidity with harmonic holography [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 567-578 (2013)
  • Ye Pu and Demetri Psaltis
Advances in three-dimensional integral imaging: sensing, display, and applications [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 546-560 (2013)
  • Xiao Xiao, Bahram Javidi, Manuel Martinez-Corral, and Adrian Stern
Silicon nanophotonic devices for chip-scale optical communication applications [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 613-624 (2013)
  • Y. Fainman, M. P. Nezhad, D. T. H. Tan, K. Ikeda, O. Bondarenko, and A. Grieco

Polarization and scattering

Studies on some of the inherent optical properties of natural waters [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 5, pp. 930-939 (2013)
  • Edward S. Fry
List of problems for future research in generalized Lorenz-Mie theories and related topics, review and prospectus [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 5, pp. 897-916 (2013)
  • Gérard Gouesbet and James A. Lock
Genesis and evolution of polarization of light in the ocean [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 5, pp. 940-948 (2013)
  • George W. Kattawar
Review of ultrafast fluorescence polarization spectroscopy [Invited]
  • Applied Optics Vol. 52, Iss. 5, pp. 917-929 (2013)
  • Yang Pu, Wubao Wang, Richard B. Dorshow, Bidyut B. Das, and Robert R. Alfano