Applied Optics
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Optical Technology



Geometric optics

Ray and wave tracing in uniaxial crystals perturbed by an external field

  • Marek Izdebski
  • pp. 2729-2738 [full text: PDF (640 KB)]

Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology

Error propagation in polarimetric demodulation

  • A. Asensio Ramos and M. Collados
  • pp. 2541-2549 [full text: PDF (459 KB)]

Noise reduction in digital speckle pattern interferometry using bidimensional empirical mode decomposition

  • María Belén Bernini, Alejandro Federico, and Guillermo H. Kaufmann
  • pp. 2592-2598 [full text: PDF (6010 KB)]

Materials

Analysis of PVA/AA based photopolymers at the zero spatial frequency limit using interferometric methods

  • Sergi Gallego, Andrés Márquez, David Méndez, Manuel Ortuño, Cristian Neipp, Elena Fernández, Inmaculada Pascual, and Augusto Beléndez
  • pp. 2557-2563 [full text: PDF (1101 KB)]

Optical design and fabrication

Application of an interferometric phase contrast method to fabricate arbitrary diffractive optical elements

  • Marcel Teschke, Robert Heyer, Marco Fritzsche, Sebastian Stoebenau, and Stefan Sinzinger
  • pp. 2550-2556 [full text: PDF (5970 KB)]

Optical devices

Designs of infrared nonpolarizing beam splitters with a Ag layer in a glass cube

  • Jin Hui Shi and Zheng Ping Wang
  • pp. 2619-2622 [full text: PDF (602 KB)]

Wide view supertwisted nematic liquid-crystal light shutter

  • Andrej Vrečko, Janez Pirš, Matej Bažec, and Dušan Ponikvar
  • pp. 2623-2629 [full text: PDF (972 KB)]

Physical optics

Pauli algebraic analysis of polarized light modulation

  • Tiberiu Tudor
  • pp. 2721-2728 [full text: PDF (1207 KB)]

Thin films

Robust chirped mirrors

  • Omid Nohadani, Jonathan R. Birge, Franz X. Kärtner, and Dimitris J. Bertsimas
  • pp. 2630-2636 [full text: PDF (1399 KB)]

Information Processing



Imaging systems

Coding and decoding in a point-to-point communication using the polarization of the light beam

  • Z. Kavehvash and F. Massoumian
  • pp. 2680-2686 [full text: PDF (2735 KB)]

Optical data storage

Three-dimensional optical disk data storage via the localized alteration of a format hologram

  • R. R. McLeod, A. J. Daiber, T. Honda, M. E. McDonald, T. L. Robertson, T. Slagle, S. L. Sochava, and L. Hesselink
  • pp. 2696-2707 [full text: PDF (16267 KB)]

Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics



Atmospheric and oceanic optics

Study on the precision of the multiaperture scintillation sensor turbulence profiler (MASS) employed in the site testing campaign for the Thirty Meter Telescope

  • S. G. Els, M. Schöck, J. Seguel, A. Tokovinin, V. Kornilov, R. Riddle, W. Skidmore, T. Travouillon, K. Vogiatzis, R. Blum, E. Bustos, B. Gregory, J. Vasquez, D. Walker, and P. Gillett
  • pp. 2610-2618 [full text: PDF (1713 KB)]

Biogeo-optics: particle optical properties and the partitioning of the spectral scattering coefficient of ocean waters Open Access open access

  • Robert H. Stavn and Scott J. Richter
  • pp. 2660-2679 [full text: PDF (2805 KB)]

Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology

High-accuracy absolute distance measurement using frequency comb referenced multiwavelength source

  • Yves Salvadé, Nicolas Schuhler, Samuel Lévêque, and Sébastien Le Floch
  • pp. 2715-2720 [full text: PDF (610 KB)]

Integrated optics

Design of polarization-independent optical couplers composed of three parallel slot waveguides

  • Jinbiao Xiao, Xu Liu, and Xiaohan Sun
  • pp. 2687-2695 [full text: PDF (6051 KB)]

Lasers and laser optics

Generation of doughnutlike vortex beam with tunable orbital angular momentum from lasers with controlled Hermite-Gaussian modes

  • Shu-Chun Chu, Takayuki Ohtomo, and Kenju Otsuka
  • pp. 2583-2591 [full text: PDF (5865 KB)]

Characteristics of the injection-locked master-slave lasers

  • Liping Zhang, Ruhai Dou, and Jianguo Chen
  • pp. 2648-2654 [full text: PDF (433 KB)]

Performance analysis of intracavity birefringence sensing

  • Toshihiko Yoshino
  • pp. 2655-2659 [full text: PDF (511 KB)]

Biomedical Optics



Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology

Frequency domain photothermoacoustic signal amplitude dependence on the optical properties of water: turbid polyvinyl chloride-plastisol system

  • Gloria M. Spirou, Andreas Mandelis, I. Alex Vitkin, and William M. Whelan
  • pp. 2564-2573 [full text: PDF (1168 KB)]

Medical optics and biotechnology

Measurement of diffuse photon-pairs density wave in a multiple-scattering medium

  • Li-Ping Yu, Chien Chou, Jheng-Syong Wu, and Yi-Hsin Chan
  • pp. 2708-2714 [full text: PDF (1318 KB)]

Scattering

Light propagation in tissues with forward-peaked and large-angle scattering

  • Pedro González-Rodríguez and Arnold D. Kim
  • pp. 2599-2609 [full text: PDF (1085 KB)]
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