Diffraction calculations in the near field and the validity of the Fresnel approximation

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1809–1814 (1989)
• A. M. Steane and H. N. Rutt

Features in the optical transforms of serrated apertures and disks

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1815–1826 (1989)
• Madeleine M. Beal and Nicholas George

Scintillations due to multiscale phase screens

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1827–1834 (1989)
• Shimshon Frankenthal and Alan M. Whitman

Speckle dependence on object statistics and on the point-spread function

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1835–1845 (1989)
• Frédéric Safa and Pierre Chavel

Interference structure of the Mie extinction cross section

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1846–1851 (1989)
• Petr Chýlek and Jiyu Zhan

Approximate solutions of the vector radiative transfer equation for linearly polarized light in discrete random media

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1852–1858 (1989)
• Shigeo Ito and Tomohiro Oguchi

Scalar Green’s-function derivation of the thermal blooming compensation instability equations

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1859–1862 (1989)
• J. R. Morris

Some fundamental limitations of achromatic holographic systems

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1863–1868 (1989)
• Dale A. Buralli and John R. Rogers

Rigorous formulation of scattering and guidance by dielectric grating waveguides: general case of oblique incidence

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1869–1883 (1989)
• S. T. Peng

Propagation characteristics of optical waveguiding structures by direct solution of the Helmholtz equation for total fields

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1884–1894 (1989)
• Swagata Banerjee and Anurag Sharma

Anisotropic optical loss and birefringence of anodized alumina film

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1895–1900 (1989)
• Mitsunori Saito and Mitsunobu Miyagi

Restoration of piecewise-constant images by mean-field annealing

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1901–1912 (1989)
• Harish P. Hiriyannaiah, Griff L. Bilbro, Wesley E. Snyder, and Reinhold C. Mann

Performance analysis of adaptive-optics systems using laser guide stars and slope sensors

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1913–1923 (1989)
• Byron M. Welsh and Chester S. Gardner

Observability of atmospheric glories and supernumerary rainbows

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1924–1930 (1989)
• James A. Lock

Joint probability-density function of irradiance scintillations in the turbulent atmosphere

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1931–1940 (1989)
• James H. Churnside

Incorporation of directional effects of the retina into computations of optical transfer functions of human eyes

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1941–1944 (1989)
• Pablo Artal

Motion nulls for white versus isochromatic gratings in infants and adults

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1945–1954 (1989)
• Davida Y. Teller and Delwin T. Lindsey

Nontrivial grating that possesses only specular characteristics: normal incidence: comment

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1955–1957 (1989)
• R. Petit and M. Cadilhac

Nontrivial grating that possesses only specular characteristics: normal incidence: reply to comment

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1958–1958 (1989)
• A. Lakhtakia, V. V. Varadan, and V. K. Varadan

Convenient operator formalism for Fourier optics and inhomogeneous and nonlinear wave propagation: errata

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• JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 12, pp. 1959–1959 (1989)
• A. Korpel, H. H. Lin, and D. J. Mehrl