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The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) is devoted to developments in any field of classical optics, image science, and vision. JOSA A includes original peer-reviewed papers on such topics as atmospheric optics, clinical vision, coherence and statistical optics, color, image processing, machine vision, scattering, and visual optics.

Editor-in-Chief: Franco Gori, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre
ISSN: 1084-7529 | eISSN: 1520-8532
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues
2011 ISI Impact Factor: 1.562

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Double Zernike expansion of the optical aberration function from its power series expansion
Various authors have presented the aberration function of an optical system as a power series expansion with... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1213-1222 (2013)

Electromagnetic energy within single-resonance chiral metamaterial spheres
We derive an exact expression for the time-averaged electromagnetic (EM) energy inside a chiral dispersive... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1205-1212 (2013)

Design of an image restoration algorithm for the TOMBO imaging system
The TOMBO system (thin observation module by bound optics) is a multichannel subimaging system over a single... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1193-1204 (2013)

Fast and accurate circle detection using gradient-direction-based segmentation
We present what is to our knowledge the first-ever fitting-based circle detection algorithm, namely, the fast... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1184-1192 (2013)

Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction formula in k space
An angular spectrum representation in three dimensions is used to develop three-dimensional Fourier forms of... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1180-1183 (2013)

Behavior of obliquely incident vector Bessel beams at planar interfaces
We investigate the behavior of full-vector electromagnetic Bessel beams obliquely incident at an interface... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1172-1179 (2013)

Reflective ghost diffraction for objects with rough surfaces
Reflective ghost diffraction (GD) for objects with rough surfaces is investigated theoretically and... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1166-1171 (2013)

Depth inpainting by tensor voting
Depth maps captured by range scanning devices or by using optical cameras often suffer from missing regions... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1155-1165 (2013)

Small animal optical diffusion tomography with targeted fluorescence
Despite the broad impact in medicine that optics can bring, thus far practical approaches are limited to weak... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1146-1154 (2013)

Coherent effects in the scattering of light from two-dimensional rough metal surfaces
We investigate numerically multiple light-scattering phenomena for two-dimensional randomly rough metallic... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1136-1145 (2013)

Power spectrum model of visual masking: simulations and empirical data
In the study of the spatial characteristics of the visual channels, the power spectrum model of visual... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1119-1135 (2013)

Superfocusing of surface plasmon polaritons by metal-coated dielectric probe of tilted conical shape
By the volume integral equation method, the metal-coated dielectric probes of tilted conical shape were... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1113-1118 (2013)

Change in spatial coherence of light on refraction and on reflection
A theory of refraction and reflection of partially coherent electromagnetic beams has been recently... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1107-1112 (2013)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 30, Iss. 5 — May. 1, 2013  pp: 806–1038

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (3)
	Diffraction and Gratings (1)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (1)
	Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (2)
	Image Processing (2)
	Imaging Systems (6)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (2)
	Integrated Optics (1)
	Materials (1)
	Optical Devices (2)
	Physical Optics (2)
	Spectroscopy (1)
	Vision, Color, and Visual Optics (2)

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Color Vision
	Rigmor Baraas, Steven L. Buck, Barry B. Lee, Michael A. Webster, and John S. Werner Published

Adaptive Optics
	Julian Christou, Brent Ellerbroek, Thierry Fusco, and Donald Miller Published

Ideal Observers and Efficiency
	Craig Abbey, Jason Gold, Daniel Kersten, and Bosco Tjan Publilshed

Optical High-Performance Computing
	H. John Caulfield, Shlomi Dolev, and William M. J. Green Published

Interactive Science Publishing
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Image Quality
	Matthew Kupinski, Andrew Watson, Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Kyle Myers, and Miguel Eckstein Publlished

Photonic Metamaterials: from Random to Periodic
	Vladimir M. Shalaev, Azriel Genack, and Evgenii Narimanov Published

Advances in Retinal Imaging
	Joseph Carroll, Wolfgang Drexler, and Austin Roorda Published

Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics
	Philippe Lalanne, Eric Johnson, Daniel Raguin, and Robert Magnusson Published

Visual Coding
	Michael Webster and Duane Albrecht Published

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