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Magnetic field integral equation analysis of interaction between a surface plasmon polariton and a circular dielectric cavity embedded in the metalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A rigorous integral equation (IE) analysis of the interaction between a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and a circular dielectric cavity embedded in a metal half-space is presented. The device is addressed as the plasmonic counterpart of the established integrated optics filter comprising a ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 19, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Ioannis Chremmos Source Type: journals

Stochastic variations in sensory awareness are driven by noisy neuronal adaptation: evidence from serial correlations in perceptual bistabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When the sensory system is subjected to ambiguous input, perception alternates between interpretations in a seemingly random fashion. Although neuronal noise obviously plays a role, the neural mechanism for the generation of randomness at the slow time scale of the percept durations (multiple ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 18, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Raymond van Ee Source Type: journals

Imaging of two particles coupled through radiationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Imaging through a circular aperture of two particles illuminated by an incident field is discussed by calculating the field intensity distribution on an observation plane after the incident field is multiply scattered between the particles. In addition to illustrating the properties of the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Wei Guo Source Type: journals

Multilayered structures for p- and s-polarized long-range surface-plasmon-polariton propagationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A normalized admittance diagram assists in describing and designing multilayered structures to excite long-range surface-plasmon-polariton (LRSPP) waves of either the p- or the s-polarization state. These structures comprise symmetric periodic multilayers on one or both sides of a metal thin film ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Yi-Jun JenAkhlesh LakhtakiaChing-Wei YuTzu-Yi Chan Source Type: journals

Effect of input spectrum on the spectral switch characteristics in a white-light Michelson interferometerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We report here a detailed experimental study to demonstrate the effect of source spectral characteristics such as spectral bandwidth (Δλ), peak wavelength (λ_0), and shape of the spectrum on the spectral shifts and spectral switches measured due to temporal correlation in a ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Maruthi M. BrundavanamNirmal K. ViswanathanD. Narayana Rao Source Type: journals

Fractional Fourier transform of Ince-Gaussian beamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ince-Gaussian beams are introduced to describe the natural resonating modes produced by stable resonators, and they form the third completely orthogonal family of exact solutions of the paraxial wave equation. The fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) is applied to treat the propagation of ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Guoquan Zhou Source Type: journals

Effect of optical aberration on Gaussian speckle in a partially coherent imaging systemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Optical aberration effects on Gaussian speckle contrast are theoretically examined in an imaging system exhibiting partial spatial coherence. Analysis includes phase-perturbed random fields from a rough object illuminated by an extended source that generate speckle in the image plane. Results ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Dongyel Kang Tom D. Milster Source Type: journals

Fractional Fourier transform for an anomalous hollow beamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Based on the definition of fractional Fourier transform (FRT), the propagation properties of an anomalous hollow beam (AHB) through the FRT have been investigated in detail. An analytical formula is derived for the FRT of an AHB. By using the derived formula, the properties of an AHB in the FRT ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Kuilong Wang Chengliang Zhao Source Type: journals

Polyadic devil's lensesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Devil's lenses (DLs) were recently proposed as a new kind of kinoform lens in which the phase structure is characterized by the “devil's staircase” function. DLs are considered fractal lenses because they are constructed following the geometry of the triadic Cantor set and because ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Arnau CalatayudJuan A. MonsoriuOmel Mendoza-YeroWalter D. Furlan Source Type: journals

Perturbation methods in optics: application to the interferometric measurement of surfacesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Manufacturing and misalignment errors are present in every optical system. Usually these errors lead to intolerable wavefront deviations and system inaccuracies if they are not characterized and taken into consideration. In the interferometric measurement of surfaces, the characterization of the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Eugenio Garbusi Wolfgang Osten Source Type: journals

High-resolution total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy using periodically nanostructured glass slidesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We compare the performance of a total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscope under varying illumination and substrate conditions. The samples are deposited on a standard homogeneous glass slide or on a grating and illuminated by one or two interfering beams at various incident angles. A ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Anne SentenacKamal BelkebirHugues GiovanniniPatrick C. Chaumet Source Type: journals

Gaussian beam scattering from a dielectric cylinder, including the evanescent regionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The scattering of a two-dimensional Gaussian beam from a homogeneous dielectric cylinder is analyzed using a plane-wave spectrum. Special attention is given to the computation of the evanescent field of the beam and its effect in the scattering. A comparison is made between the evanescent field in ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Peter Pawliuk Matthew Yedlin Source Type: journals

Fourier modal method with spatial adaptive resolution for structures comprising homogeneous layersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A numerical improvement of the Fourier modal method with adaptive spatial resolution is obtained. It is shown that the solutions of all the eigenvalue problems corresponding to homogeneous regions can be deduced straightforwardly from the solution of one of these problems. Numerical examples ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Hakim YalaBrahim GuizalDidier Felbacq Source Type: journals

Far-field evanescent wave propagation using coupled subwavelength gratings for a MEMS sensorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A technique was developed to couple near-field evanescent waves into observable diffraction orders in the far-field region. This investigation was of two gratings that have a 1.0 μm grating period in glass and 1.1 μm in silicon and are individually subwavelength, but when coupled ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 5, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Al-Aakhir A. RogersScott SamsonSunny Kedia Source Type: journals

Multilayered structures with high subwavelength resolution based on the metal-dielectric compositesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pure noble metals are usually considered to be negative-permittivity materials for multilayered structures. Such structures can produce flat equal-frequency contours and achieve subwavelength resolution by enabling all propagating and partial evanescent components of the source radiation to be ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 5, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Xuan Li Fei Zhuang Source Type: journals

A spectral theory of color perceptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The paper adopts the philosophical stance that colors are real and can be identified with spectral models based on the photoreceptor signals. A statistical setting represents spectral profiles as probability density functions. This permits the use of analytic tools from the field of information ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 4, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: James J. Clark Sandra Skaff Source Type: journals

Two-wavelength interferometry: extended range and accurate optical path difference analytical estimatorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two-wavelength interferometry combines measurement at two wavelengths λ_1 and λ_2 in order to increase the unambigous range (UR) for the measurement of an optical path difference. With the usual algorithm, the UR is equal to the synthetic wavelength ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 4, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Kamel Houairi Frédéric Cassaing Source Type: journals

Gradient refractive index square lenses. II. ImagingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We establish theoretically the relationship between the lateral magnification m and the object distance L_0 for a gradient refractive index (GRIN) square lens and a GRIN rod lens. Through the linear fit of the object distance and the reciprocal of the magnification for different image locations, we ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 4, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Aimei LiuHao LvJufang TongXunong YiQianguang LiXinmin WangYaoming Ding Source Type: journals

Full-wave generalizations of the fundamental Gaussian beamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The basic full wave corresponding to the fundamental Gaussian beam was discovered for the outwardly propagating wave in a half-space by the introduction of a source in the complex space. There is a class of extended full waves all of which reduce to the same fundamental Gaussian beam in the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 4, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: S. R. Seshadri Source Type: journals

Hermite-cosine-Gaussian beams propagating in uniaxial crystals orthogonal to the optical axisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The propagation of polarized Hermite-cosine-Gaussian (HCosG) beams in uniaxial crystals orthogonal to the optical axis is investigated. Analytical formulas for a HCosG beam propagating in uniaxial crystals orthogonal to the optical axis are derived, and the propagation properties of the beam are ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - November 3, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Bin Tang Source Type: journals

Stochastic model for detection of signals in noiseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Fifty years ago Birdsall, Tanner, and colleagues made rapid progress in developing signal detection theory into a powerful psychophysical tool. One of their major insights was the utility of adding external noise to the signals of interest. These methods have been enhanced in recent years by the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 30, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Stanley A. Klein Dennis M. Levi Source Type: journals

Focusing of spatially inhomogeneous partially coherent, partially polarized electromagnetic fieldsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We report a general framework capable of describing the focusing of electromagnetic waves with spatially varying coherence and polarization properties in optical systems of arbitrary numerical aperture and Fresnel number. We also investigate the reduction of the dimensionality of the requisite ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 30, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Matthew R. Foreman Peter Török Source Type: journals

Non-line-of-sight multiscatter propagation modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A propagation model that describes the characteristics of multiscatter radiation in atmosphere is presented. The model is based on the Monte Carlo method; each scattering process is set as an event of probability. LOWTRAN7 is used to calculate the atmospheric coefficients, and Mie theory is used to ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 28, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Hongwei YinShengli ChangHonghui JiaJiankun YangJuncai Yang Source Type: journals

Fast color quantization using weighted sort-means clusteringEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Color quantization is an important operation with numerous applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms. However, despite its popularity as a general purpose clustering algorithm, K-means has not received much respect ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 27, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: M. Emre Celebi Source Type: journals

Analyzing diffraction gratings by a boundary integral equation Neumann-to-Dirichlet map methodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For analyzing diffraction gratings, a new method is developed based on dividing one period of the grating into homogeneous subdomains and computing the Neumann-to-Dirichlet (NtD) maps for these subdomains by boundary integral equations. For a subdomain, the NtD operator maps the normal derivative ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 27, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Yumao Wu Ya Yan Lu Source Type: journals

Effects of coherence and polarization on the coupling of stochastic electromagnetic beams into optical fibersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We study the problem of coupling an electromagnetic beam of any state of coherence and polarization into a multimode optical fiber. Using the well-known concept of the cross-spectral density matrix, we derive a general expression for the coupling efficiency of a stochastic electromagnetic beam into ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 27, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Mohamed Salem Govind P. Agrawal Source Type: journals

Definition and invariance properties of the complex degree of spatial coherenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Within the framework of the phase-space representation of random electromagnetic fields provided by electromagnetic spatial coherence wavelets, and by using the Fresnel-Arago laws for interference and polarization as an analysis tool, the meaning of the spatial coherence-polarization tensor and its ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 27, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Román CastañedaJuan CarrasquillaJorge Garcia-Sucerquia Source Type: journals

Reactive power in the full Gaussian light waveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The electric current sources that are required for the excitation of the fundamental Gaussian beam and the corresponding full Gaussian light wave are determined. The current sources are situated on the secondary source plane that forms the boundary between the two half-spaces in which the waves are ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 24, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: S. R. Seshadri Source Type: journals

Calculation of light delay for coupled microrings by FDTD technique and Padé approximationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Padé approximation with Baker's algorithm is compared with the least-squares Prony method and the generalized pencil-of-functions (GPOF) method for calculating mode frequencies and mode Q factors for coupled optical microdisks by FDTD technique. Comparisons of intensity spectra and the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 21, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Yong-Zhen Huang Yue-De Yang Source Type: journals

Predicting range performance of sampled imagers by treating aliased signal as target-dependent noise: erratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This erratum is to correct errors made in our paper [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A25, 2055 (2008)]. (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 20, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Richard H. VollmerhausenRonald G. DriggersDavid L. Wilson Source Type: journals

Free-space asymptotic far-field seriesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A systematic procedure for deriving the complete asymptotic series in inverse powers of the distance from the origin of free-space 2D and 3D, scalar and vectorial, monochromatic electromagnetic fields is derived here. Each term of the series is expressed in closed form through the use of a ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 17, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Riccardo Borghi Miguel A. Alonso Source Type: journals

Imaging with classical spherical diffraction gratings: the quadrature configurationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We review the theory of spherical diffraction gratings with regard to their imaging properties in off-plane arrangements. Our study is restricted to gratings with equally spaced grooves, and it is focused on the quadrature configuration, where the incident and diffraction planes are orthogonal to ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 17, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Xesús Prieto-BlancoCarlos Montero-OrilleHéctor González-NúñezMaría Dolores MourizElena López LagoRaúl de la Fuente Source Type: journals

Dyakonov-Tamm wave guided by a twist defect in a structurally chiral material: erratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Jun GaoAkhlesh LakhtakiaJohn A. PoloMingkai Lei Source Type: journals

An exact transverse Helmholtz equation: erratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The inclusion of all higher-order terms in the refractive index variation δn, missing in J. Opt. Soc. Am. B17, 809 (2000), allows us to recover the correct transverse Helmholtz equation. (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Bruno CrosignaniPaolo Di PortoAmnon Yariv Source Type: journals

Ideal Observers and Efficiency: Commemorating 50 Years of Tanner and Birdsall: IntroductionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jason M. Gold, Craig Abbey, Bosco S. Tjan, Daniel Kersten [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26, IO1-IO2 (2009)] (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 16, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Jason M. GoldCraig AbbeyBosco S. TjanDaniel Kersten Source Type: journals

Fast numerical simulation of diffraction from large volume hologramsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An efficient way to numerically calculate diffraction from large volume holograms is developed using the first-order Born approximation. For this, everything except the propagating part of the Green's function is neglected, and the fact that the gratings have a slowly varying envelope is used. The ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 15, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: F. Kalkum Source Type: journals

Pattern recognition in correlated and uncorrelated noiseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined how correlated, or filtered, noise affected efficiency for recognizing two types of signal patterns, Gabor patches and three-dimensional objects. In general, compared with the ideal observer, human observers were most efficient at performing tasks in low-pass noise, followed by ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 15, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Brianna Conrey Jason M. Gold Source Type: journals

Adaptive Laguerre-Gaussian variant of the Gaussian beam expansion methodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A variant of the Gaussian beam expansion method consists in expanding the Bessel function J_0 appearing in the Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral into a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions to derive an analytical expression for a Laguerre-Gaussian beam diffracted through a hard-edge aperture. However, ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 14, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Emmanuel CagniotMichael FromagerKamel Ait-Ameur Source Type: journals

Reciprocity constraints on the matrix of reflection from optically anisotropic surfacesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We derive certain constraints on the reflection matrix for reflection from a plane, nonmagnetic, optically anisotropic surface using a reciprocity theorem stated long ago by Van de Hulst [Light Scattering by Small Particles (Wiley, 1957)] in the context of scattering of polarized light. The ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 14, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Rajendra Bhandari Source Type: journals

Electromagnetic fields and modal excitations on a thin silver filmEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this paper we extend the fast-all-modes method and the numerical modified steepest-descent-path method to the optical frequency range by finding all modes and solving the total electric field in three dimensions that is due to a point source above a lossy thin metal film with a negative ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 14, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: J. Quinn BagleyBoping WuLeung Tsang Source Type: journals

Optical readout sensitivity of deformed microreflector for uncooled infrared detector: theoretical model and experimental validationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors's group proposed an optical-readout uncooled infrared detector. Primarily because of the bilayer structure of the usual such detector, deformation of the reflector is often unavoidable and seriously degrades the optical readout sensitivity. According to the theoretical analysis and ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 14, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Teng ChengQingchuan ZhangBinbin JiaoDapeng ChenXiaoping Wu Source Type: journals

Bistatic scattering from a three-dimensional object above a two-dimensional randomly rough surface modeled with the parallel FDTD approachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present an investigation of the electromagnetic scattering from a three-dimensional (3-D) object above a two-dimensional (2-D) randomly rough surface. A Message Passing Interface-based parallel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach is used, and the uniaxial perfectly matched layer (UPML) ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 14, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: L.-X. GuoJ. LiH. Zeng Source Type: journals

Visual sensitivity and cortical response to the temporal envelope of amplitude-modulated flickerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To investigate the perception of a temporal envelope of flickering light is important for understanding nonlinear temporal processing in the visual system. The influence of the frequency components of a flickering light on the perception of the envelope remains unclear, with few studies having ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 13, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Yosuke OkamotoSeiji NakagawaKenji FujiiTakashi Yano Source Type: journals

A racemic approach to left-handed mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is established theoretically that racemic substances characterized by isomers with strong optical rotatory power are capable of producing negative refraction and focusing of arbitrarily polarized waves. A slab of such racemic material, while not chiral, acts just like Veselago's hypothetical ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 13, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Cesar Monzon Source Type: journals

White-light imaging analysis of bi-grating systemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two gratings consist of an imaging system that forms a no-dispersion image of an object that is illuminated by white light. The process of double diffraction of the actual system is analyzed using the Fresnel diffraction approximation. One grating generates a number of spectral images of the ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 13, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Lingyu Wan Hongliang Li Source Type: journals

Improved model-based infrared reflectrometry for measuring deep trench structuresEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Model-based infrared reflectrometry (MBIR) has been introduced recently for characterization of high-aspect-ratio deep trench structures in microelectronics. The success of this technique relies heavily on accurate modeling of trench structures and fast extraction of trench parameters. In this ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 13, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Chuanwei ZhangShiyuan LiuTielin ShiZirong Tang Source Type: journals

Spatial frequency summation in visual noiseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Kersten [Vision Res.27, 1029 (1987)] reported that absolute efficiency for the detection of static, one-dimensional bandpass noise was high and approximately constant for stimulus bandwidths ranging from 1 to 6 octaves. This result implies that human observers integrated information efficiently ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Christopher Patrick TaylorPatrick J. BennettAllison B. Sekuler Source Type: journals

Analytical modal analysis of bent slot waveguidesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We analyze modal properties of dielectric optical bent slot waveguides by using the multilayer formulation of the well-known classical analytical model of bent waveguides based on the Bessel-Hankel functions. Unlike the previously studied approximate model based on the Airy functions, this model is ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Kirankumar R. Hiremath Source Type: journals

Selection of regularization parameter in total variation image restorationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We consider and study total variation (TV) image restoration. In the literature there are several regularization parameter selection methods for Tikhonov regularization problems (e.g., the discrepancy principle and the generalized cross-validation method). However, to our knowledge, these selection ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Haiyong LiaoFang LiMichael K. Ng Source Type: journals

New complex integration transformation and its compatibility with complex Weyl-Wigner transformation and entangled state representationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Enlightened by the special transformation in our preceding paper [J. Mod. Opt.56, 1227 (2009)], we propose a new complex integration transformation corresponding to two mutually conjugate two-mode entangled states ?η| and ?ξ| that is compatible with η−ξ phase space ... (Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A)
Source: Journal of the Optical Society of America A - October 9, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Hong-yi Fan Cui-hong Lv Source Type: journals