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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, image processing, scattering and coherence theory, machine vision, statistical optics, color, clinical vision, 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
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 1.936

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Penetration effect in gyrotropic slab: theory and applications
Scattering properties of a homogeneous anisotropic slab are investigated at fixed crystal anisotropy axis... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.877-882 (2012)

Scattering of a light wave by a thin fiber on or near a prism: experiment and analytical theory
We have performed an experiment of the scattering of the near field on a prism created by a laser wave,... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.869-876 (2012)

Reflection and refraction of an Airy beam at a dielectric interface
Reflection and refraction of a finite-power Airy beam at the interface between two dielectric media are... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.861-868 (2012)

Photon-counting three-dimensional integral imaging with compression of elemental images
In this paper, we present lossless compression of elemental images in photon-counting integral imaging. In... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.854-860 (2012)

Spatially induced spatiotemporally nonspreading Airy–Bessel wave packets
By studying the effect of spatially induced group velocity dispersion (SIGVD) during the propagation of... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.848-853 (2012)

Variables separation of the spectral BRDF for better understanding color variation in special effect pigment coatings
A type of representation of the spectral bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is proposed... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pp.842-847 (2012)

Analytical expressions for the log-amplitude correlation function of a plane wave through anisotropic atmospheric refractive turbulence
The effect of anisotropic Kolmogorov turbulence on the log-amplitude correlation function for plane-wave... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.832-841 (2012)

Modal formulation for diffraction by absorbing photonic crystal slabs
A finite element-based modal formulation of diffraction of a plane wave by an absorbing photonic crystal slab... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.817-831 (2012)

Highly compact imaging using Bessel beams generated by ultraminiaturized multi-micro-axicon systems
Employing Bessel beams in imaging takes advantage of their self-reconstructing properties to achieve small... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.808-816 (2012)

Real-time defect detection of steel wire rods using wavelet filters optimized by univariate dynamic encoding algorithm for searches
We propose a new defect detection algorithm for scale-covered steel wire rods. The algorithm incorporates an... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.797-807 (2012)

Faraday-active Fabry–Perot resonator: transmission, reflection, and emissivity
The propagation of light within a semiconductor Faraday-active Fabry–Perot resonator is investigated... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.790-796 (2012)

Computational ghost imaging for remote sensing
Computational ghost imaging is a structured-illumination active imager coupled with a single-pixel detector... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.782-789 (2012)

Solid-immersion imaging interferometric nanoscopy to the limits of available frequency space
Imaging interferometric nanoscopy (IIN) is a synthetic aperture approach offering the potential of optical... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp.772-781 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 29, Iss. 5 — May. 1, 2012  pp: 649–841

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (3)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
	Color Vision (1)
	Diffraction and Gratings (4)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (1)
	Imaging Systems (2)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (2)
	Lasers and Laser Optics (1)
	Machine Vision (1)
	Medical Optics and Biotechnology (1)
	Microscopy (1)
	Optical Devices (1)
	Physical Optics (1)

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Color Vision
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Adaptive Optics
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Ideal Observers and Efficiency
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Optical High-Performance Computing
	H. John Caulfield, Shlomi Dolev, and William M. J. Green Published

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Photonic Metamaterials: from Random to Periodic
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Advances in Retinal Imaging
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Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics
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Visual Coding
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