Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging: introduction to the feature issue

Michael T. Eismann, John Kerekes, Alan P. Schaum, and Robert A. Leathers

Appl. Opt. 47(28), MHI1-MHI1 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and fabrication of a low-cost, multispectral imaging system

Scott A. Mathews

Appl. Opt. 47(28), F71-F76 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of computed tomographic imaging spectrometers. I. Spatial and spectral resolution

Nathan Hagen and Eustace L. Dereniak

Appl. Opt. 47(28), F85-F95 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of a long-wave infrared hyperspectral imager using a Sagnac interferometer and an uncooled microbolometer array

Paul G. Lucey, Keith A. Horton, and Tim Williams

Appl. Opt. 47(28), F107-F113 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of a MEMS-based Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with adjustable pupil sampling for astronomical adaptive optics

Christoph Baranec and Richard Dekany

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5155-5162 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of a thermally actuated tunable grating and its application as a CO₂ laser beam profile analyzer

Mohammadreza Riahi, Hamid Latifi, and Ghazaleh Moghimislam

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5175-5181 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of the circular Dammann grating in angle measurement

Fung Jacky Wen and Po Sheun Chung

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5197-5200 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Method for path imbalance measurement of the two-arm fiber-optic interferometer

Shih-Chu Huang and Hermann Lin

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5065-5073 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Properties of strong anisotropic a-axis single-crystal fiber with an applied electric field

Jiangbo Xin, Yanwei Du, Dewei Gong, and Zhongxiang Zhou

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5087-5097 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-cost fiber Bragg grating vibroacoustic sensor for voice and heartbeat detection

Daniele Tosi, Massimo Olivero, and Guido Perrone

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5123-5129 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantitative phase and refractive index analysis of optical fibers using differential interference contrast microscopy

Betty Kouskousis, Daniel J. Kitcher, Stephen Collins, Ann Roberts, and Greg W. Baxter

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5182-5189 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of interferograms from a diffractive-lens-based common-path interferometer

Ismo Vartiainen, Pasi Vahimaa, and Markku Kuittinen

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5167-5174 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanoscale topography of dynamic surfaces with ultrafast time resolution

Anthony R. Valenzuela, Steven A. Clarke, and George Rodriguez

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5082-5086 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Characterization of nanostructured GaSb: comparison between large-area optical and local direct microscopic techniques

I. S. Nerbø, M. Kildemo, S. Le Roy, I. Simonsen, E. Søndergård, L. Holt, and J. C. Walmsley

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5130-5139 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Signal enhancement of surface plasmon-coupled directional emission by a conical mirror

Derek S. Smith, Yordan Kostov, and Govind Rao

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5229-5234 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of constrained optimization to the design of quasi-rugate optical coatings

Alexander V. Tikhonravov, Michael K. Trubetskov, and Tatiana V. Amotchkina

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5103-5109 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Determination of optical parameters of very thin (λ/50) films

Petya Gushterova, Peter Sharlandjiev, and Boian Hristov

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5117-5122 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Estimation of the thickness and the optical parameters of several stacked thin films using optimization

Ricardo Andrade, Ernesto G. Birgin, Ivan Chambouleyron, José Mario Martínez, and Sergio D. Ventura

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5208-5220 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

High-quality frame interpolation in computer generated holographic movies using coherent neural networks with a hybrid learning method

Chor Shen Tay, Ken Tanizawa, and Akira Hirose

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5221-5228 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Superresolution in dewarped anisoplanatic images

Mikhail Charnotskii

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5110-5116 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase retrieval of singular scalar light fields using a two-dimensional directional wavelet transform and a spatial carrier

Alejandro Federico and Guillermo H. Kaufmann

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5201-5207 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Piezo-locking a diode laser with saturated absorption spectroscopy

J. E. Debs, N. P. Robins, A. Lance, M. B. Kruger, and J. D. Close

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5163-5166 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode purity comparison of optical vortices generated by a segmented deformable mirror and a static multilevel phase plate

Marco Scipioni, Robert K. Tyson, and Jaime Viegas

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5098-5102 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Comment on the reported fiber attenuations in the visible regime in “Fabrication of glass photonic crystal fibers with a die-cast process”

Xian Feng, Wei H. Loh, and David J. Richardson

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5078-5080 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Reply to comment on the reported fiber attenuations in the visible regime in "Fabrication of glass photonic crystal fibers with a die-cast process"

Zhou Guiyao, Hou Zhiyun, Li Shuguang, and Hou Lantian

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5081-5081 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic crystal fiber for dispersion compensation

Xingtao Zhao, Guiyao Zhou, Shuguang Li, Zhaolun Liu, Dongbin Wei, Zhiyun Hou, and Lantian Hou

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5190-5196 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-resolved studies of photoinduced birefringence in azobenzene dye-doped polymer films

ChuanXiang Sheng, Robert A. Norwood, Jiafu Wang, Jayan Thomas, Yinglan Wu, Zhiping Zheng, N. Tabirian, Diane M. Steeves, Brian R. Kimball, and N. Peyghambarian

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5074-5077 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrowband optical filters suitable for various applications in optical communications

Ghafar Darvish, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi, Abbas Zarifkar, and Kamyar Saghafi

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5140-5146 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF

Bound on range precision for shot-noise limited ladar systems

Steven Johnson and Stephen Cain

Appl. Opt. 47(28), 5147-5154 (2008)  View: HTML | PDF