Image-quality degradation in a turbid medium under partially coherent illumination

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 393–400 (1986)
• A. Zardecki, S. A. W. Gerstl, W. G. Tam, and J. F. Embury

Weak-scatterer generalization of the K-density function with application to laser scattering in atmospheric turbulence

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 401–409 (1986)
• Richard Barakat

Study of surface roughness of nickel electrodeposits

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 410–416 (1986)
• J. Palmari, G. Rasigni, M. Rasigni, J. P. Palmari, A. Hugot-le Goff, and A. Llebaria

Evolution of transverse-magnetic surface and leaky waves guided by an asymmetric layer configuration

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 417–425 (1986)
• F. Y. Kou and T. Tamir

Polarization holding and anisotropic Rayleigh scattering in birefringent single-mode fibers

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 426–431 (1986)
• H. Barfuss and E. Brinkmeyer

Perception of blackness

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 432–436 (1986)
• Carol M. Cicerone, Vicki J. Volbrecht, Seaneen K. Donnelly, and John S. Werner

Existence conditions for two-pupil synthesis of bipolar incoherent point-spread functions

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 437–445 (1986)
• Joseph N. Mait

Granularity-density relationship for electrophotography incorporating paper and toner granularities

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 446–451 (1986)
• Peter G. Engeldrum and Kenneth Richl, Jr.

Temporal-coherence effects of a moving phase screen illuminated by spatially coherent quasi-monochromatic light: Comment on the correlation extent of the phase function exp(iΦ)

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 452–453 (1986)
• Nobukatsu Takai

Temporal-coherence effects of a moving phase screen illuminated by spatially coherent quasi-monochromatic light: Comment on the correlation extent of the phase function exp(iø)—A Reply

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 454–454 (1986)
• H. Stark and Y. Fainman

Preface to the Feature Issue on Propagation and Scattering of Beam Fields

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 462–462 (1986)

Complex argument Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian beams

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 465–469 (1986)
• Erich Zauderer

Uniform versus Gaussian beams: a comparison of the effects of diffraction, obscuration, and aberrations

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 470–485 (1986)
• Virendra N. Mahajan

Real spectra, complex spectra, compact spectra

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 486–496 (1986)
• L. B. Felsen

Source-field representation in terms of Gaussian beams

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 497–507 (1986)
• Pier Giuseppe Mantica, Ivo Montrosset, Riccardo Tascone, and Rodolfo Zich

Gabor representation and aperture theory

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 508–522 (1986)
• P. D. Einziger, S. Raz, and M. Shapira

Diffraction transforms in homogeneous birefringent media

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 523–531 (1986)
• Moshe Nazarathy and J. W. Goodman

Wave-kinetic numerical approach to propagation of optical beams

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 532–535 (1986)
• David A. de Wolf and Jeong-Ki Pack

Gaussian-Maxwell beams

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 536–540 (1986)
• R. Simon, E. C. G. Sudarshant, and N. Mukunda

Lorentz transformation of packetlike solutions of the homogeneous-wave equation

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 541–542 (1986)
• P. A. Bélanger

Goos-Hänchen beam shift at total internal reflection with application to spatially dispersive media

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 543–549 (1986)
• Ashok Puri and Joseph L. Birman

Goos-Hänchen effect around and off the critical angle

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 550–557 (1986)
• H. M. Lai, F. C. Cheng, and W. K. Tang

Nonspecular phenomena in beam fields reflected by multilayered media

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 558–565 (1986)
• T. Tamir

Reflection and transmission of beams at a curved interface

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 566–579 (1986)
• Y. Z. Ruan and L. B. Felsen

Scattering of a Hermite-Gaussian beam mode by parallel dielectric circular cylinders

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• JOSA A, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 580–586 (1986)
• M. Yokota, T. Takenaka, and O. Fukumitsu