Photon correlation and scattering: introduction to the feature issue

William V. Meyer, Anthony E. Smart, and Robert G. W. Brown

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 3965-3968 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: inception, biophysical experimentations, and prospectus

Watt W. Webb

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 3969-3983 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-elastic light scattering for intermittent dynamics

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux and Douglas J. Durian

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 3984-3994 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Mobility measurements by phase analysis

Walther W. Tscharnuter

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 3995-4003 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Homodyne optical fiber dynamic light scattering

Robert G. W. Brown

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4004-4010 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Fast multi-tau real-time software correlator for dynamic light scattering

Davide Magatti and Fabio Ferri

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4011-4021 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Proposal and testing for a fiber-optic-based measurement of flow vorticity

Shenghong Yao, Penger Tong, and Bruce J. Ackerson

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4022-4027 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Light-scattering study of petroleum asphaltene aggregation

Yevgeniy G. Burya, Igor K. Yudin, Victor A. Dechabo, Victor I. Kosov, and Mikhail A. Anisimov

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4028-4035 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Near-field intensity correlations of scattered light

Marzio Giglio, Marina Carpineti, Alberto Vailati, and Doriano Brogioli

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4036-4040 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of an exclusively binarized correlation-calculation method to wind velocity measurement by use of stellar scintillation patterns

Shin Oya, Masao Takabe, and Tadashi Aruga

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4041-4049 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory of photon-pair correlations in parametric downconversion in a microcavity

Roger Andrews, Edward Roy Pike, and Sarben Sarkar

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4050-4053 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering fluctuations of a soft spherical particle containing an inclusion

Gorden Videen, Dev R. Prabhu, Melvin Davies, Francisco González, and Fernando Moreno

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4054-4057 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Simulations and experiments on number fluctuations in photon-correlation spectroscopy at low particle concentrations

Evelien J. Nijman, Henk G. Merkus, Jan C. M. Marijnissen, and Brian Scarlett

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4058-4063 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative simulation of errors in correlation analysis

Anthony E. Smart, Robert V. Edwards, and William V. Meyer

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4064-4078 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Fitting the correlation function

Aleksey Lomakin

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4079-4086 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Revisiting the method of cumulants for the analysis of dynamic light-scattering data

Barbara J. Frisken

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4087-4091 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface fluctuation spectroscopy by surface-light-scattering spectroscopy

J. Adin Mann, Paul D. Crouser, and William V. Meyer

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4092-4112 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Advances in surface-light-scattering instrumentation and analysis: noninvasive measuring of surface tension, viscosity, and other interfacial parameters

William V. Meyer, Gerard H. Wegdam, Denis Fenistein, and J. Adin Mann

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4113-4133 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Capillary waves on an asymmetric liquid film of pentane on water

Denis Fenistein, Gerard H. Wegdam, William V. Meyer, and J. Adin Mann

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4134-4139 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Capillary-to-bulk crossover of nonequilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of a near-critical binary liquid mixture

Pietro Cicuta, Alberto Vailati, and Marzio Giglio

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4140-4145 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Colloidal hard-sphere crystallization kinetics in microgravity and normal gravity

Zhengdong Cheng, Jixiang Zhu, William B. Russel, William V. Meyer, and Paul M. Chaikin

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4146-4151 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional confocal microscopy of colloids

A. D. Dinsmore, Eric R. Weeks, Vikram Prasad, Andrew C. Levitt, and D. A. Weitz

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4152-4159 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Light scattering and crossover critical phenomena in polymer solutions

Jaby Jacob, Mikhail A. Anisimov, Jan V. Sengers, Victor Dechabo, Igor K. Yudin, and Robert W. Gammon

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4160-4169 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic light-scattering study of self-assembly of diblock copolymers in supercritical carbon dioxide

Tadanori Koga, Shuiqin Zhou, and Benjamin Chu

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4170-4178 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy for arbitrary geometries: numerical analysis by a boundary-element method

Loïc Vanel, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux, and Douglas J. Durian

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4179-4186 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Electric field autocorrelation functions for beginning multiple Rayleigh scattering

James A. Lock

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4187-4203 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal autocorrelation function for a diffusing-wave spectroscopy experiment with a point source and backscattering detection

Carlos Rega, Christopher J. Lloyd, David Attwood, David Clarke, and Pauline Geraghty

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4204-4209 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering optics of foam

Moin U. Vera, Arnaud Saint-Jalmes, and Douglas J. Durian

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4210-4214 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamic light scattering in subdiffusive regimes

Gabriel Popescu and Aristide Dogariu

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4215-4221 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Path-length-resolved dynamic light scattering: modeling the transition from single to diffusive scattering

Adam Wax, Changhuei Yang, Ramachandra R. Dasari, and Michael S. Feld

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4222-4227 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatial sampling by diffuse photons

Aubrey A. Cox and Douglas J. Durian

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4228-4235 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced backscattering from organic laser gain media bounded with rough gold films

Zu-Han Gu and Gang-Ding Peng

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4236-4242 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Microscale adaptive optics: wave-front control with a µ-mirror array and a VLSI stochastic gradient descent controller

Thomas Weyrauch, Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Thomas G. Bifano, Jay A. Hammer, Marc Cohen, and Gert Cauwenberghs

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4243-4253 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurement of stratospheric chromatic scintillation with the AMON-RA balloonborne spectrometer

Jean-Baptiste Renard, Francis Dalaudier, Alain Hauchecorne, Claude Robert, Thierry Lemaire, Michel Pirre, and Jean-Loup Bertaux

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4254-4260 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Instrument for long-path spectral extinction measurements in air: application to sizing of airborne particles

Enrico Paganini, Franco Trespidi, and Fabio Ferri

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4261-4274 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Analytical empirical expressions of the transverse coherence properties for monostatic and bistatic lidars in the presence of moderate atmospheric refractive-index turbulence

Gaspard Guérit, Philippe Drobinski, Pierre H. Flamant, and Béatrice Augère

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4275-4285 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-channel imaging Fabry–Perot interferometer for measurement of mid-latitude airglow

Kazuo Shiokawa, Takurou Kadota, Mitsumu K. Ejiri, Yuichi Otsuka, Yasuo Katoh, Mitsugi Satoh, and Tadahiko Ogawa

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4286-4296 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

System for monitoring the focal position in laser material processing

Wendelin Weingartner, Kurt Schröder, and Dieter Schuöcker

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4297-4302 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Passively Q-switched Yb:YAG laser with Cr⁴⁺:YAG as the saturable absorber

Jun Dong, Peizhen Deng, Yupu Liu, Yinghua Zhang, Jun Xu, Wei Chen, and Xinglong Xie

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4303-4307 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Bloch analysis of photonic lattices that incorporate vertical cavity surface-emitting laser arrays

Tal A. Fishman, Amos Hardy, and Eli Kapon

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4308-4315 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatial beam profiles from a laser-diode system with optical feedback: the importance of interference

D. M. Kane and V. G. Ta’eed

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4316-4321 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Cobalt-doped transparent glass ceramic as a saturable absorber Q switch for erbium:glass lasers

Alexander M. Malyarevich, Igor A. Denisov, Konstantin V. Yumashev, Olga S. Dymshits, Alexander A. Zhilin, and Uk Kang

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4322-4325 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-dependent polarization effects in Ce:LiLuF

Andrew J. S. McGonigle, Richard Moncorgé, and David W. Coutts

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4326-4333 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Intracavity pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator emitting in the eye-safe range

Razvan Dabu, Constantin Fenic, and Aurel Stratan

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4334-4340 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficient high-pulse-energy green-beam generation by intracavity frequency doubling of a quasi-continuous-wave laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser

Susumu Konno, Yoko Inoue, Tetsuo Kojima, Shuichi Fujikawa, and Koji Yasui

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4341-4343 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Remote mapping of vegetation and geological features by lidar in the 9–11-µm region

Bernard R. Foy, Brian D. McVey, Roger R. Petrin, Joe J. Tiee, and Carl W. Wilson

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4344-4352 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Airborne polarized lidar detection of scattering layers in the ocean

Alexander P. Vasilkov, Yury A. Goldin, Boris A. Gureev, Frank E. Hoge, Robert N. Swift, and C. Wayne Wright

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4353-4364 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Computation of a single-scattering matrix for nonspherical particles randomly or horizontally oriented in space

Vincent Noel, Guy Ledanois, Helene Chepfer, and Pierre H. Flamant

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4365-4375 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Calculation of the single-scattering properties of randomly oriented hexagonal ice columns: a comparison of the T-matrix and the finite-difference time-domain methods

Anthony J. Baran, Ping Yang, and Stephan Havemann

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4376-4386 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Ammonia detection by use of near-infrared diode-laser-based overtone spectroscopy

Ricardo Claps, Florian V. Englich, Darrin P. Leleux, Dirk Richter, Frank K. Tittel, and Robert F. Curl

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4387-4394 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Measurements of NH₃ and CO₂ with distributed-feedback diode lasers near 2.0 µm in bioreactor vent gases

Michael E. Webber, Ricardo Claps, Florian V. Englich, Frank K. Tittel, Jay B. Jeffries, and Ronald K. Hanson

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4395-4403 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Diode-laser absorption sensor for line-of-sight gas temperature distributions

Scott T. Sanders, Jian Wang, Jay B. Jeffries, and Ronald K. Hanson

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4404-4415 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative analysis of decay transients applied to a multimode pulsed cavity ringdown experiment

Hans Naus, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Wim Hogervorst, and Wim Ubachs

Appl. Opt. 40(24), 4416-4426 (2001)  View: HTML | PDF