Top 50 Most-Cited Articles from JOSA, JOSA A, and JOSA B (as of April 4, 2007)

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1. E. H. Adelson and J.R. Bergen, "Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 284 (1985).
   Times cited:  1157
2. J. B. Keller, "Geometrical theory of diffraction," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 116 (1962).
   Times cited:  931
3. P. Kubelka, "New contributions to the optics of intensely light-scattering materials. Part 1," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38, 448 (1948).
   Times cited:  846
4. D. W. Berreman, "Optics in stratified and anisotropic media: 4x4-matrix formation," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 502 (1972).
   Times cited:  791
5. R. D. Cowan and D. C. Griffin, "Approximate relativistic corrections to atomic radial wave functions," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66, 1010 (1976).
   Times cited:  769
6. M. Takeda, H. Ina, and S. Kobayashi, "Fourier-transform method of fringe-pattern analysis for computer-based topography and interferometry," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72, 156 (1982).
   Times cited:  769
7. J. U. White, "Long optical paths of large aperture," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32, 285 (1942).
   Times cited:  707
8. R. C. Jones, "A new calculus for the treatment of optical systems I. Description and discussion of the calculus," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31, 488 (1941).
   Times cited:  644
9. D. L. Fried, "Optical resolution through a randomly inhomogeneous medium for very long and very short exposures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56, 1372 (1966).
   Times cited:  633
10. L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress, "Practical cone-beam algorithm," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1, 612 (1984).
    Times cited:  610
11. R. K. Jain and R. C. Lind, "Degenerate 4-wave mixing in semiconductor-doped glasses," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73, 647 (1983).
    Times cited:  609
12. A. B. Watson and A. J. Ahumada, "Model of human visual-motion sensing," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 322 (1985).
    Times cited:  556
13. J. Dalibard and C. Cohen Tannoudji, "Laser cooling below the Doppler limit by polarization gradients: simple theoretical models," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 2023 (1989).
    Times cited:  544
14. D. J. Field, "Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical-cells," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 2379 (1987).
    Times cited:  541
15. J. G. Daugman, "Uncertainty relation for resolution in space spatial-frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 1160 (1985).
    Times cited:  532
16. I. H. Malitson, "Interspecimen comparison of refractive index of fused silica," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55, 1205 (1965).
    Times cited:  530
17. E. N Leith and J. Upatnieks, "Reconstructed wavefronts and communication theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 1123 (1962).
    Times cited:  516
18. H. E. Bennett and J. O. Porteus, "Relation between surface roughness and specular reflectance at normal incidence," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51, 123 (1961).
    Times cited:  512
19. C. Cox and W. Munk, "Measurement of the roughness of the sea surface from photographs of the suns glitter," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44, 838 (1954).
    Times cited:  506
20. E. Yablonovitch, "Photonic band-gap structures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 283 (1993).
    Times cited:  501
21. J. Durnin, "Exact-solutions for nondiffracting beams. 1. The scalar theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 651 (1987).
    Times cited:  498
22. W. H. Richards, "Bayesian-based iterative method of image restoration," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 55 (1972).
    Times cited:  478
23. N. B. Colthup, "Spectra-structure correlations in the infra-red region," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40, 397 (1950).
    Times cited:  474
24. P. K. Tien and R. Ulrich, "Theory of prism-film coupler and thin-film light guides," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60, 1325 (1970).
    Times cited:  468
25. R. J. Noll, "Zernike polynomials and atmospheric-turbulence," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66, 207 (1976).
    Times cited:  451
26. E. N. Leith and J. Upatnieks, "Wavefront reconstruction with diffused illumination and three-dimensional objects," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54, 1295 (1964).
    Times cited:  441
27. A. Rose, "The sensitivity performance of the human eye on an absolute scale," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38, 196 (1948).
    Times cited:  436
28. J. P. H Vansanten and G. Sperling, "Elaborated Reichardt detectors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 300 (1985).
    Times cited:  430
29. B. A. Brice, M. Halwer, and R. Speiser, "Photoelectric light-scattering photometer for determining high molecular weights," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40, 768 (1950).
    Times cited:  423
30. E. H. Land and J. J. McCann, "Lightness and retinex theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61, 1 (1971).
    Times cited:  423
31. J. G. Robson, "Spatial and temporal contrast-sensitivity functions of the visual system," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56, 1141 (1966).
    Times cited:  422
32. A. W. Lohmann, "Image rotation, wigner rotation, and the fractional fourier transform," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 2181 (1993).
    Times cited:  421
33. P. F. Moulton, "Spectroscopic and laser characteristics of Ti:Al2O3," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 125 (1986).
    Times cited:  419
34. L. E. Myers, R. C. Eckardt, M. M. Fejer, R. L. Byer, W. R. Bosenberg, and J. W. Pierce, "Quasi-phase-matched optical parametric oscillators in bulk periodically poled LiNbO3," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 2102 (1995).
    Times cited:  418
35. J. D. Bierlein and H. Vanherzeele, "Potassium titanyl phosphate: properties and new applications," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 622 (1989).
    Times cited:  411
36. C. Xu, W. W. Webb, "Measurement of two-photon excitation cross sections of molecular fluorophores with data from 690 to 1050 nm," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 13, 481 (1996).
    Times cited:  406
37. D. L. MacAdam, "Visual sensitivities to color differences in daylight," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32, 247 (1942).
    Times cited:  404
38. W. N. Hansen, "Electric fields produced by propagation of plane coherence electromagnetic radiation in a stratified medium," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58, 380 (1968).
    Times cited:  397
39. K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, and J. E. Sohn, "Second-order nonlinear-optical processes in orientationally ordered materials: relationship between molecular and macroscopic properties," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 968 (1987).
    Times cited:  397
40. C. Chubb and G. Sperling, "Drift-balanced random stimuli: a general basis for studying non-fourier motion perception," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5, 1986 (1988).
    Times cited:  393
41. J. W. Hastings and G. Weber, "Total quantum flux of isotropic sources," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53, 1410 (1963).
    Times cited:  393
42. G. E. Legge and J. M. Foley, "Contrast masking in human-vision," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70, 1458 (1980).
    Times cited:  390
43. H. R. Blackwell, "Contrast thresholds of the human eye," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 36, 624 (1946).
    Times cited:  385
44. Y. Kuga and A. Ishimaru, "Reftroreflectance from a dense distribution of spherical particles," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1, 831 (1984).
    Times cited:  380
45. P. Yeh, A. Yariv, and C. S. Hong, "Electromagnetic propagation in periodic stratified media. 1. General theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 423 (1977).
    Times cited:  379
46. B. T. Draine and P. J. Flatau, "Discrete-dipole approximation for scattering calculations," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 1491 (1994).
    Times cited:  378
47. R. L. Powell and K. A. Stetson, "Interferometric vibration analysis by wavefront reconstruction," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55, 1593 (1965).
    Times cited:  375
48. S. Marcelja, "Mathematical-description of the responses of simple cortical-cells," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70, 1297 (1980).
    Times cited:  373
49. D. Grischkowsky, S. Keiding, M. van Exter, Ch. Fattinger, "Far-infrared time-domain spectroscopy with terahertz beams of dielectrics and semiconductors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 2006 (1990).
    Times cited:  370
50. R. W. Helwarth, "Generation of time-reversed wavefronts by nonlinear refraction," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 1 (1977).
    Times cited:  361

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