Ideal Observers and Efficiency: Commemorating 50 Years of Tanner and Birdsall: Introduction

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. IO1–IO2 (2009)
• Jason M. Gold, Craig Abbey, Bosco S. Tjan, and Daniel Kersten

Stochastic model for detection of signals in noise

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B110–B126 (2009)
• Stanley A. Klein and Dennis M. Levi

Frequency tuning of perceptual templates changes with noise magnitude

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B72–B83 (2009)
• Craig K. Abbey and Miguel P. Eckstein

Characterizing perceptual performance at multiple discrimination precisions in external noise

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B43–B58 (2009)
• Seong-Taek Jeon, Zhong-Lin Lu, and Barbara Anne Dosher

Spatial frequency summation in visual noise

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B84–B93 (2009)
• Christopher Patrick Taylor, Patrick J. Bennett, and Allison B. Sekuler

Efficient estimation of ideal-observer performance in classification tasks involving high-dimensional complex backgrounds

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B59–B71 (2009)
• Subok Park and Eric Clarkson

Pattern recognition in correlated and uncorrelated noise

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B94–B109 (2009)
• Brianna Conrey and Jason M. Gold

Effects of salience and reward information during saccadic decisions under risk

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B1–B13 (2009)
• Martin Stritzke, Julia Trommershäuser, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Approaching ideal observer efficiency in using color to retrieve information from natural scenes

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B14–B24 (2009)
• David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch, Kinjiro Amano, and Sérgio M. C. Nascimento

The relationship between optimal and biologically plausible decoding of stimulus velocity in the retina

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. B25–B42 (2009)
• Edmund C. Lalor, Yashar Ahmadian, and Liam Paninski

On a class of electromagnetic diffraction-free beams

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2275–2281 (2009)
• Riccardo Borghi, Franco Gori, and Sergey A. Ponomarenko

Effects of coherence and polarization on the coupling of stochastic electromagnetic beams into optical fibers

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2452–2458 (2009)
• Mohamed Salem and Govind P. Agrawal

Definition and invariance properties of the complex degree of spatial coherence

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2459–2465 (2009)
• Román Castañeda, Juan Carrasquilla, and Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia

Focusing of spatially inhomogeneous partially coherent, partially polarized electromagnetic fields

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2470–2479 (2009)
• Matthew R. Foreman and Peter Török

White-light imaging analysis of bi-grating systems

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2336–2339 (2009)
• Lingyu Wan and Hongliang Li

Adaptive Laguerre-Gaussian variant of the Gaussian beam expansion method

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2373–2382 (2009)
• Emmanuel Cagniot, Michael Fromager, and Kamel Ait-Ameur

Imaging with classical spherical diffraction gratings: the quadrature configuration

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2400–2409 (2009)
• Xesús Prieto-Blanco, Carlos Montero-Orille, Héctor González-Núñez, María Dolores Mouriz, Elena López Lago, and Raúl de la Fuente

Analyzing diffraction gratings by a boundary integral equation Neumann-to-Dirichlet map method

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2444–2451 (2009)
• Yumao Wu and Ya Yan Lu

New complex integration transformation and its compatibility with complex Weyl-Wigner transformation and entangled state representation

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2306–2310 (2009)
• Hong-yi Fan and Cui-hong Lv

Reactive power in the full Gaussian light wave

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2427–2433 (2009)
• S. R. Seshadri

Wavefronts and caustic of a spherical wave reflected by an arbitrary smooth surface

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2295–2305 (2009)
• Edwin Román-Hernández, José Guadalupe Santiago-Santiago, Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza, and Ramón Silva-Ortigoza

Selection of regularization parameter in total variation image restoration

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2311–2320 (2009)
• Haiyong Liao, Fang Li, and Michael K. Ng

Fast color quantization using weighted sort-means clustering

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2434–2443 (2009)
• M. Emre Celebi

Improved model-based infrared reflectrometry for measuring deep trench structures

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2327–2335 (2009)
• Chuanwei Zhang, Shiyuan Liu, Tielin Shi, and Zirong Tang

Analytical modal analysis of bent slot waveguides

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2321–2326 (2009)
• Kirankumar R. Hiremath

Calculation of light delay for coupled microrings by FDTD technique and Padé approximation

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2419–2426 (2009)
• Yong-Zhen Huang and Yue-De Yang

A racemic approach to left-handed media

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2340–2345 (2009)
• Cesar Monzon

Fast numerical simulation of diffraction from large volume holograms

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2393–2397 (2009)
• F. Kalkum

Optical readout sensitivity of deformed microreflector for uncooled infrared detector: theoretical model and experimental validation

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2353–2361 (2009)
• Teng Cheng, Qingchuan Zhang, Binbin Jiao, Dapeng Chen, and Xiaoping Wu

Electromagnetic fields and modal excitations on a thin silver film

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2362–2367 (2009)
• J. Quinn Bagley, Boping Wu, and Leung Tsang

Reciprocity constraints on the matrix of reflection from optically anisotropic surfaces

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2368–2372 (2009)
• Rajendra Bhandari

Beat wave interferometry for measuring relative motion

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2292–2294 (2009)
• C. I. Christov

Free-space asymptotic far-field series

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2410–2417 (2009)
• Riccardo Borghi and Miguel A. Alonso

Three-dimensional scattering by an infinite homogeneous anisotropic elliptic cylinder in terms of Mathieu functions

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2282–2291 (2009)
• Shi-Chun Mao, Zhen-Sen Wu, and Hai-Ying Li

Bistatic scattering from a three-dimensional object above a two-dimensional randomly rough surface modeled with the parallel FDTD approach

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2383–2392 (2009)
• L.-X. Guo, J. Li, and H. Zeng

Non-line-of-sight multiscatter propagation model

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2466–2469 (2009)
• Hongwei Yin, Shengli Chang, Honghui Jia, Jiankun Yang, and Juncai Yang

Visual sensitivity and cortical response to the temporal envelope of amplitude-modulated flicker

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2346–2352 (2009)
• Yosuke Okamoto, Seiji Nakagawa, Kenji Fujii, and Takashi Yano

An exact transverse Helmholtz equation: erratum

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2398–2398 (2009)
• Bruno Crosignani, Paolo Di Porto, and Amnon Yariv

Dyakonov-Tamm wave guided by a twist defect in a structurally chiral material: erratum

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2399–2399 (2009)
• Jun Gao, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, John A. Polo, Jr., and Mingkai Lei

Predicting range performance of sampled imagers by treating aliased signal as target-dependent noise: erratum

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• JOSA A Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pp. 2418–2418 (2009)
• Richard H. Vollmerhausen, Ronald G. Driggers, and David L. Wilson