Applied Optics
Published by The Optical Society of America
Available Issues:

Vol. 47, Iss. 34 -- December 1, 2008   LIGHT AND COLOR IN THE OPEN AIR

Vol. 47, Iss. 28 -- October 1, 2008   MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING

Vol. 47, Iss. 22 -- August 1, 2008   PHASE-SPACE REPRESENTATIONS IN OPTICS

Vol. 47, Iss. 20 -- July 10, 2008  




LIGHT AND COLOR IN THE OPEN AIR


Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics



Geometric optics and rainbows: generalization of a result by Huygens

  • John A. Adam
  • pp. H11-H13 [full text: PDF (75 KB)]

Visibility of stars, halos, and rainbows during solar eclipses

  • Gunther P. Können and Claudia Hinz
  • pp. H14-H24 [full text: PDF (5488 KB)]

Atmospheric and oceanic optics




MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING


Information Processing

Quantitative comparison of quadratic covariance-based anomalous change detectors  Open Access open access

  • James Theiler
  • pp. F12-F26 [full text: PDF (4206 KB)]



Introduction

Phase-Space Representations in Optics: introduction to the feature issue

  • Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda, Markus E. Testorf, and Jean-Pierre Guigay
  • pp. PSO1-PSO1 [full text: PDF (28 KB)]

PHASE-SPACE REPRESENTATIONS IN OPTICS


Information Processing



Efficient reconstruction of two-dimensional complex amplitudes utilizing the redundancy of the ambiguity function

  • Xiyuan Liu, Christian Hruscha, and Karl-Heinz Brenner
  • pp. E1-E7 [full text: PDF (2032 KB)]

Unifying distribution functions: some lesser known distributions

  • J. R. Moya-Cessa, H. Moya-Cessa, L. R. Berriel-Valdos, O. Aguilar-Loreto, and P. Barberis-Blostein
  • pp. E13-E18 [full text: PDF (133 KB)]

Radio-frequency spectrum analysis of a jittery train after a second-order dispersive Talbot line

  • Laura Chantada, Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa, Maria Teresa Flores-Arias, and Carlos Gómez-Reino
  • pp. E19-E26 [full text: PDF (2794 KB)]

Phase-space representation and polarization domains of random electromagnetic fields

  • Roman Castaneda, Rafael Betancur, Jorge Herrera, and Juan Carrasquilla
  • pp. E27-E38 [full text: PDF (1932 KB)]

Polynomial phase masks for extending the depth of field of a microscope

  • Nicolas Caron and Yunlong Sheng
  • pp. E39-E43 [full text: PDF (6315 KB)]

Phase-space evolution of x-ray coherence in phase-sensitive imaging

  • Xizeng Wu and Hong Liu
  • pp. E44-E52 [full text: PDF (1866 KB)]

Phase space representation of spatially partially coherent imaging

  • Roman Castaneda
  • pp. E53-E62 [full text: PDF (5400 KB)]

Opto-digital tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner distribution function of complex fields

  • Walter D. Furlan, Carlos Soriano, and Genaro Saavedra
  • pp. E63-E67 [full text: PDF (2615 KB)]

Hybrid refractive-diffractive-gradient-index superresolving focusing device

  • José Manuel Rivas-Moscoso, Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa, and Carlos Gómez-Reino
  • pp. E68-E75 [full text: PDF (1525 KB)]

Spatial coherence wavelets and phase-space representation of diffraction

  • Román Castañeda and Juan Carrasquilla
  • pp. E76-E87 [full text: PDF (12793 KB)]

Minimal optical decomposition of ray transfer matrices

  • Xiyuan Liu and Karl-Heinz Brenner
  • pp. E88-E98 [full text: PDF (205 KB)]

Conjugate phase plate use in analysis of the frequency response of imaging systems designed for extended depth of field

  • Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda, J. E. A. Landgrave, and Cristina M. Gómez-Sarabia
  • pp. E99-E105 [full text: PDF (6698 KB)]

Compact matrix formalism for phase space analysis of complex optical systems

  • Detlef-Matthias Smilgies
  • pp. E106-E115 [full text: PDF (3181 KB)]

Extending the possibilities in phase space analysis of synchrotron radiation x-ray optics

  • Claudio Ferrero, Detlef-Matthias Smilgies, Christian Riekel, Gilles Gatta, and Peter Daly
  • pp. E116-E124 [full text: PDF (2763 KB)]



Optical Technology



Fiber optics and optical communications

Specklegram in a grapefruit fiber and its response to external mechanical disturbance in a single-multiple-single mode fiber structure

  • Yuntao Wang, Haiwen Cai, Ronghui Qu, Zujie Fang, Emmanuel Marin, and Jean-Pierre Meunier
  • pp. 3543-3548 [full text: PDF (4761 KB)]

Pointwise fiber Bragg grating displacement sensor system for dynamic measurements

  • Kuo-Chih Chuang and Chien-Ching Ma
  • pp. 3561-3567 [full text: PDF (1980 KB)]

Temporal response of surface-relief fiber Bragg gratings to high temperature CO2 laser heating

  • Tyson L. Lowder, Jason A. Newman, Wesley M. Kunzler, Jonathan D. Young, Richard H. Selfridge, and Stephen M. Schultz
  • pp. 3568-3573 [full text: PDF (1409 KB)]

Optical design and fabrication

Calibration of force actuators on an adaptive secondary prototype

  • Davide Ricci, Armando Riccardi, and Daniela Zanotti
  • pp. 3631-3636 [full text: PDF (5900 KB)]

Optical devices

Information Processing



Image processing

Shape connection by pattern recognition and laser metrology

  • J. Apolinar Muñoz-Rodríguez
  • pp. 3590-3608 [full text: PDF (12045 KB)]

Machine vision

Unsupervised illuminant estimation from natural scenes: an RGB digital camera suffices

  • Juan L. Nieves, Clara Plata, Eva M. Valero, and Javier Romero
  • pp. 3574-3584 [full text: PDF (5260 KB)]

Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics



Fourier optics and signal processing

Adaptive disturbance rejection in an optical trap

  • Kurt D. Wulff, Daniel G. Cole, and Robert L. Clark
  • pp. 3585-3589 [full text: PDF (511 KB)]

Lasers and laser optics

Low-threshold cavitation in water using IR laser pulse trains

  • G. I. Zheltov, V. A. Lisinetskii, A. S. Grabtchikov, and V. A. Orlovich
  • pp. 3549-3554 [full text: PDF (1565 KB)]

Biomedical Optics



Scattering

Modeling of nonphase mechanisms in ultrasonic modulation of light propagation

  • Quan Liu, Stephen Norton, and Tuan Vo-Dinh
  • pp. 3619-3630 [full text: PDF (2595 KB)]
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