1 September 1996, Volume 13, Issue 9, pp. 1772-1944  
17 articles

Visual signal detection in structured backgrounds I. Effect of number of possible spatial locations and signal contrast

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1777-1787 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

X-ray holographic microscopy by means of photoresist recording and atomic-force microscope readout

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1788-1800 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Dielectric versus topographic contrast in near-field microscopy

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1801-1808 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of Lloyd’s mirror fringes for graded-index reflectors

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1809-1815 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Validity of the Fresnel approximation in the diffraction of collimated beams

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1816-1826 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectral analysis of time-limited pulsed Gaussian wave fields

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1827-1836 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Wave fields in three dimensions: analysis and synthesis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1837-1848 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Imaging performance of off-axis planar diffractive lenses

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1849-1858 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Vector diffraction of a grating with conformal thin films

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1859-1869 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1870-1876 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced backscattering from one-dimensional deterministic surfaces

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1877-1883 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Modified two-dimensional fast Fourier transform beam propagation method for media with random variations of refractive index

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1884-1890 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of receiver optics contamination on the performance of laser velocimeter systems

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1891-1902 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast semianalytical Monte Carlo simulation for time-resolved light propagation in turbid media

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1903-1915 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Focus anisoplanatism effects on tip–tilt compensation for adaptive optics with use of a sodium laser beacon as a tracking reference

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1916-1923 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for determining the fast axis and phase retardation of a wave plate

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1924-1929 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF

Generalized transmission ellipsometry for twisted biaxial dielectric media: application to chiral liquid crystals

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(9), 1930-1940 (1996)  View: HTML | PDF