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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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Super-resolved spatial light interference microscopy
We report a scheme to achieve resolution beyond the diffraction limit in spatial light interference... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.344-351 (2012)

Experimental results for improving the matrix condition using a hybrid optical system
We present preliminary experimental results for implementing the “blurred trajectories” method on three... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.331-343 (2012)

Information loss and reconstruction in diffuse fluorescence tomography
This paper is a theoretical exploration of spatial resolution in diffuse fluorescence tomography. It is... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.321-330 (2012)

Worldwide prevalence of red-green color deficiency
Literature that describes the prevalence of inherited red-green color deficiency in different populations is... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.313-320 (2012)

Photoluminescence from a homogeneous volume source within an optical multilayer: analytical formulas
A theoretical model for light emission from a homogeneous volume source, such as an optically active layer,... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.303-312 (2012)

Optical aperture synthesis imaging with fractional Fourier-domain filtering
The fractional Fourier transform, which is a generalization of the classical Fourier transform, is introduced... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.295-302 (2012)

Two-dimensional relativistic longitudinal Green’s function in the presence of a moving planar dielectric–magnetic discontinuity
The current contribution is concerned with obtaining the relativistic two-dimensional (three-dimensional in... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.285-294 (2012)

Polarization changes at Lyot depolarizer output for different types of input beams
Lyot depolarizers are optical devices made of birefringent materials used for producing unpolarized beams... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.278-284 (2012)

Monte Carlo simulation of the field back-scattered from rough surfaces
A novel approach for the simulation of the field back-scattered from a rough surface is presented. It takes... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.270-277 (2012)

Highly efficient broadband conversion of light polarization by composite retarders
Driving on an analogy with the technique of composite pulses in quantum physics, we propose highly efficient... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.265-269 (2012)

Comparison of two scanning instruments to measure peripheral refraction in the human eye
To better understand how peripheral refraction affects development of myopia in humans, specialized... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.258-264 (2012)

Study on the propagation parameters of Bessel–Gaussian beams carrying optical vortices through atmospheric turbulence
Based on the integral representation of Bessel function and the extended Huygens–Fresnel principle, an... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.251-257 (2012)

Reconstruction in interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy: comparison with optical coherence tomography and digital holographic microscopy
It is shown that the spatial frequencies recorded in interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy do not... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 3, pp.244-250 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 29, Iss. 2 — Feb. 1, 2012  pp: 164–184

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (2)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (1)
	Geometric Optics (1)

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Visual Coding
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