1. Measurement of Principal-Stress Directions from Photoelastic Experiment Using Generalized Phase-Shift Method

   • Eisaku Umezaki
   • Tohru Kawakami

   Original Article Pages: 249 - 252

2. Measurement of Stress Intensity Factors of a Mixed-Mode Interface Crack by a Speckle Photography

   • Kenji Machida

   Original Article Pages: 253 - 260

3. Composite Vibration Analysis with Modulated Electronic Speckle Shearing Interferometry

   • Jesus D. R. Valera
   • Ole J. L⊘kberg

   Original Article Pages: 261 - 264

4. Visualization of 50 MHz Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation Using Stroboscopic Phase-Shift Interferometry

   • Ken Nakano
   • Kazuhiro Hane
   • Tadashi Eguchi

   Original Article Pages: 265 - 269

5. Robustness of Objective and Subjective Speckle Patterns in the Speckle Strain Gauge

   • Mikael Sjödahl

   Original Article Pages: 270 - 276

6. Beam Recombination Characteristics in Array Laser Amplification Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugation

   • Hong Jin Kong
   • Jae Yong Lee
   • Hyogun Kim

   Original Article Pages: 277 - 283

7. Time-Division Observation of Plastic Deformation Process Using Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry

   • Suprapedi
   • Satoru Toyooka

   Original Article Pages: 284 - 287

8. Small Deformation Measurements of Diffuse Objects: Phase Stepping by Frequency Drift of a He-Ne Laser

   • Tina L. Helg
   • Tom H. Barnes
   • Tim G. Haskell

   Original Article Pages: 288 - 292

9. The Use of Carousel Interferometer in Fourier-Transform Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

   • Jyrki K. Kauppinen
   • Ilkka K. Salomaa
   • Matti R. Hollberg

   Original Article Pages: 293 - 296

10. Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy Combined with a Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscope

    • Takayuki Okamoto
    • Ichirou Yamaguchi

    Original Article Pages: 297 - 299

11. Double Stage Flat Passband Acousto-Optic Wavelength Filter

    • Hideaki Okayama
    • Yutaka Okabe
    • Takeshi Kamijoh

    PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS Pages: 300 - 302

12. Lognormal Modes of Dielectric Optical Waveguides

    • Kazuya Hayata

    PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS Pages: 303 - 304

13. Simplification of Space-Variant Parallel Logic Operations Using the Temporal Method

    • Yoshio Hayasaki
    • Masahiko Mori
    • Nobuo Nishida

    INFORMATION OPTICS Pages: 305 - 308

14. New Crystalline Lasers on the Base of Monoclinic KR(W0₄)₂:Ln₃₊ Tungstates (R=Y and Ln)

    • Alexander A. Kaminskii
    • Ludmila Li
    • Ken-ichi Ueda

    LASERS Pages: 309 - 315

15. Fabrication of Periodic Waveguides Using Organic Crystals and Fluorinated Polyimides for Quasi-Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation

    • Naoki Hashizume
    • Takao Tsuruzono
    • Ryoichi Ito

    NONLINER OPTICS Pages: 316 - 320

16. Design of an Athermalized Hybrid Single Lens in the 3-5μm Wavelength Band

    • Yasuhisa Tamagawa

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 321 - 323

17. Interferometric Sensor for Electrochemical Studies of Metallic Alloys in Aqueuos Solution

    • Khaled Habib
    • Fathi Al-Sabti

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 324 - 328

18. Estimation of Velocities and Energy Densities of GHz Domain Shear Fluxes Propagating in Sapphire by Brillouin Scattering Technique

    • Yoshiaki Tokunaga

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 329 - 333

19. Multichannel Spectral Imaging System for Measurements with the Highest Signal-to-Noise Ratio

    • Akiko Hirai
    • Machiko Hashimoto
    • Yoshiki Ichioka

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 334 - 341

20. Highly Sensitive and Widely Dynamic Fiber-Coiled Deformation Sensor Immune from External Disturbances

    • Satoshi Tanaka
    • Yoshihiro Ohtsuka

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Pages: 342 - 345

21. Propagation Dynamics of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Coupled-Cavity-Type Multilayered Structures: a Numerical Study

    • Yong Lee

    NONLINEAR OPTICS Pages: 346 - 348