Concept, modeling, and performance prediction of a low-cost, large deformable mirror

Rikard Heimsten, Douglas G. MacMynowski, Torben Andersen, and Mette Owner-Petersen

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 515-524 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Lyot depolarizer in terms of the theory of coherence—description for light of any spectrum

Piotr L. Makowski, Marek Z. Szymanski, and Andrzej W. Domanski

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 626-634 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Double triangular prism filter based on the optical-readout method in a microelectromechanical infrared imaging system

Ganghua Yin, Yuejin Zhao, Liquan Dong, Qian Jia, Weiwen Zhu, Lingqin Kong, Xiaohua Liu, Lin Ding, Xiaomei Yu, and Yufeng Jin

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 669-675 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Instrumentation design for bridge scour monitoring using fiber Bragg grating sensors

Wen Xiong, C. S. Cai, and Xuan Kong

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 547-557 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of sensing coil polarization properties’ effect on performance of fiber optical gyroscope

Xiaobin Xu, Xiong Pan, and Jingming Song

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 621-625 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Image degradation due to surface scatter in the presence of aberrations

Narak Choi and James E. Harvey

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 535-546 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of S-transform profilometry in eliminating nonlinearity in fringe pattern

Min Zhong, Wenjing Chen, and Mohua Jiang

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 577-587 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-consistent way to determine relative distortion of axial symmetric lens systems

Sukmock Lee, Robert Parks, and James H. Burge

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 588-593 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Image vector histogram approach to nanoparticle sizing

John G. Walker, Nam Trung Huynh, and Rui Chen

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 651-658 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Long-ranging propagation based on resonant coupling effects using a series connection of ten nanoshells in a plasmon waveguide

Yuan-Fong Chau

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 640-643 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Differences in the evolution of surface-microstructured silicon fabricated by femtosecond laser pulses with different wavelength

Yan Peng, DongSheng Zhang, HongYan Chen, Ya Wen, ShiDa Luo, Lin Chen, KeJian Chen, and YiMing Zhu

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 635-639 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of a novel and simple method of generating binary mask for microprism fabrication

Arash Sabatyan and Alireza Hemmat

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 525-530 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of an optofluidic biosensor using the slow-light effect in photonic crystal structures

F. Hosseinibalam, S. Hassanzadeh, A. Ebnali-Heidari, and C. Karnutsch

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 568-576 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous wavenumber measurement and coherence detection using temporal phase unwrapping

A. Davila, J. M. Huntley, C. Pallikarakis, P. D. Ruiz, and J. M. Coupland

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 558-567 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ray matrix analysis of the fast Fresnel transform with applications towards liquid crystal displays

Jeffrey A. Davis and Don M. Cottrell

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 644-650 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Use of wavefront encoding in optical interconnects and fiber switches for cross talk mitigation

Brian Robertson, Zichen Zhang, Maura M. Redmond, Neil Collings, Jinsong Liu, R. S. Lin, Anna M. Jeziorska-Chapman, John R. Moore, William A. Crossland, and D. P. Chu

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 659-668 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Application of the Hough transform for the automatic determination of soot aggregate morphology

Igor Grishin, Kevin Thomson, Francesca Migliorini, and James J. Sloan

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 610-620 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact and low-power optical logic NOT gate based on photonic crystal waveguides without optical amplifiers and nonlinear materials

Chih Jung Wu, Chung Ping Liu, and Zhengbiao Ouyang

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 680-685 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

High peak-power single-frequency pulses using multiple stage, large core phosphate fibers and preshaped pulses

Eliot Petersen, Wei Shi, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, and Nasser Peyghambarian

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 531-534 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance improvement in a directly 879 nm dual-end-π-polarized-pumped CW and pulsed GdVO₄/Nd:GdVO₄ laser

Yufei Ma, Xin Yu, and Xudong Li

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 600-603 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrafast laser-induced microstructure/nanostructure replication and optical properties

Paul O. Caffrey, Barada K. Nayak, and Mool C. Gupta

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 604-609 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength dispersion measurement of electro-optic coefficients in the range of 520 to 930 nm in rubidium titanyl phosphate using spectral interferometry

Olivier Gobert, Nikita Fedorov, Gabriel Mennerat, Dominique Lupinski, Delphine Guillaumet, Michel Perdrix, Antoine Bourgeade, and Michel Comte

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 594-599 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherently controlled terahertz source for a time domain spectroscopy system via injection current in bulk ZnSe

Zhihui Lü, Dongwen Zhang, Zhaoyan Zhou, Lin Sun, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

Appl. Opt. 51(5), 676-679 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF