1. Announcement

   Announcement Pages: 409 - 409

2. Fourier-plane encryption technique based on removing the effect of phase terms in a joint transform correlator

   • Se-Joon Park
   • Jong-Yun Kim
   • Soo-Joong Kim

   Letter Pages: 413 - 415

3. Diffractive phase element for shrinking focal spot diameter: Design, fabrication, and application to laser beam lithography

   • Yusuke Ogura
   • Jun Tanida
   • Katsunori Matsuoka

   Letter Pages: 416 - 421

4. Phase properties of superposed squeezed states

   • Suc-Kyoung Hong
   • Chung-In Um
   • Kyu-Hwang Yeon

   Regular papers Pages: 422 - 430

5. Performance of an image-encrypted joint transform correlator for pattern recognition

   • Chau-Jern Cheng

   Regular papers Pages: 431 - 435

6. A circle similarity algorithm for an automatic circular decomposition of blood cell images

   • Leticia V. Guimaräes
   • Altamiro A. Suzim
   • Junji Maeda

   Regular papers Pages: 436 - 443

7. High-fidelity image reproduction using angular distribution of reflected spectral intensity

   • Masaru Tsuchida
   • Yuri Murakami
   • Nagaaki Ohyama

   Regular papers Pages: 444 - 450

8. Wavelength tuning characteristics of a fabry-perot semiconductor laser with an external short cavity

   • Masakatsu Okada
   • Bijan Ghafary
   • Hiroo Ukita

   Regular papers Pages: 451 - 458

9. An optical fiber sensor based on cladding photoluminescence for high power microwave plasma ultraviolet lamps used in water treatment

   • C. Fitzpatrick
   • E. Lewis
   • J. Lucas

   Regular papers Pages: 459 - 462

10. Pickup lens inspection on the 5th order aberration using shearing interference by grating with curve fitting algorithm

    • Kazumasa Takada
    • Masahiro Nakajo

    Regular papers Pages: 463 - 468

11. Zero path-length difference interferometry using filter response of unbalanced interferometer to an amplified spontaneous emission beat noise spectrum

    • Gyeong-il Kweon
    • Jung-ho Choi
    • Daeyeon Kim

    Regular papers Pages: 469 - 475

12. Measurement of water cloud particle size with a dual-polarization pulsed bistatic lidar

    • Nobuo Sugimoto
    • Ichiro Matsui
    • Atsushi Shimizu

    Regular papers Pages: 476 - 479

13. Color appearance seen through a colored filter of various sizes

    • Mitsuo Ikeda
    • Azusa Kusumi
    • Hiroyuki Shinoda

    Regular papers Pages: 480 - 486

14. Testing CIELAB-based color-difference formulae using large color differences

    • Haisong Xu
    • Hirohisa Yaguchi
    • Satoshi Shioiri

    Regular paper Pages: 487 - 494

15. Babinet’s principle in scalar theory of diffraction

    • J. R. Jiménez
    • E. Hita

    Short note Pages: 495 - 497

16. Optical-frequency dependent modal birefringence and polarization mode dispersion of birefringent single-mode optical fibers over a broadband optical wavelength range

    • Yoshihiro Ohtsuka

    Short note Pages: 498 - 499

17. Erratum

    • B. B. Chhetri
    • J. Motojima
    • T. Shimomura

    Erratum Pages: 502 - 502