Journal of the Optical Society of America

Wear Resistance of Magnesium Fluoride Films on Glass

L. Holland and E. W. Van Dam

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 773-777 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Modified Method of Fizeau Fringes for Thickness Measurements

H. Osterberg and D. LaMarre

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 777-778 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Note Concerning Multiple Reflections within Absorbing Thin Films

Peter H. Berning

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 779-782 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Stepped Interference Reflector for Determining the Optical Constants of Nonabsorbing Unimolecular Films. II. Experimental

R. D. Mattuck, R. D. Petti, and J. B. Bateman

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 782-789 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of Antireflection Films on Color in Optical Instruments

Allen E. Murray

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 790-796 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Reciprocity Law for X-Rays.* Part I: Validity for High-Intensity Exposures in the Negative Region

Margarete Ehrlich and William L. McLaughlin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 797-800 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Reciprocity Law for X-Rays.* Part II: Failure in the Reversal Region

Margarete Ehrlich

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 801-804 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Autocorrelation and Granularity. Part I. Theory

Hans J. Zweig

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 805-811 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Autocorrelation and Granularity. Part II. Results on Flashed Black-and-White Emulsions

Hans J. Zweig

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 812-820 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Quality Factor for Filters Whose Spectral Transmittances are Different from Color Mixture Curves, and Its Application to Color Photography

H. E. J. Neugebauer

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 821-824 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Image Formation by Reconstructed Wave Fronts. I. Physical Principles and Methods of Refinement

Paul Kirkpatrick and Hussein M. A. El-Sum

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 825-831 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Role of Chromaticity Difference in Color Graininess Judgments

Keith F. Stultz and Donald A. Koch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 832-837 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of Viewing Distance with the Howard-Dolman Apparatus

Warren H. Teichner and John L. Kobrick

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 837-840 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of Vertical Misalignment of Optical Images on Depth Judgments

George S. Harker and Arnold C. Henderson

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 841-845 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Luminance-Duration Relationship in the Electric Response of the Human Retina

Mathew Alpern and John J. Faris

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 845-850 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Visual Sensitivity to the Rate of Electrically Produced Intermittence

J. W. Gebhard, M. M. Duffy, G. H. Mowbray, and C. L. Byham

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 851-860 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Detection of Separations between Adjacent Signals on a Simulated PPI Radar Scope

Robert M. Herrick, Helmut E. Adler, John E. Coulson, and Gerald L. Howett

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 861-866 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Scanning Integrator for Producing Sinusoidal Test Objects

N. S. Kapany and J. N. Pike

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 867-874 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

New Detector Unit for Irradiance Measurements, Utilizing an Integrating Sphere and a Photomultiplier Tube*†

Peter L. Tea and H. Dean Baker

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 875-878 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct-Reading Planck Distribution Slide Rule

Robert S. Knox

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 879-881 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Radiation Temperature of a Plasma

Francis Bitter and John F. Waymouth

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 882-884 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorption Spectrum and Magnetic Properties of Ytterbium Chloride

G. H. Dieke and H. M. Crosswhite

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 885-889 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Some Effects of an Air Blast on Spark Discharges

Brian Cragg and J. K. Hurwitz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 889-895 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

New Variable Thickness Infrared Cell and the Infrared Spectra of HF, DF, H₂O, and D₂O†

Richard M. Adams and J. J. Katz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 895-898 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Zirconium Arc Source for Infrared Microspectrometer

W. H. Cloud

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 899-900 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Is Resolving Power Independent of Wavelength Possible? An Experiment with a Sonic “Macroscope”

Albert V. Baez

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 901-901 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

About the Spherical Aberration of the Eye

Alexandre Ivanoff

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 901_1-903 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Spherical Aberration of the Eye and the Choice of Axis

M. J. Koomen, R. Scolnik, and R. Tousey

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 903-904 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct Observation of Element Motion in Stellar Shadow Patterns

Philip E. Barnhart, W. M. Protheroe, and James Galli

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 904-905 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface Bloom on Evaporated Aluminum

William G. Fastie

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 905-906 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Method of Obtaining Uniform Evaporated Layers

Vincent A. Vis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 906-907 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Stereoscopic Acuity and Convergence

R. A. Weale

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 907-907 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Book Reviews

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 907_1-909 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Technical Note: Meetings on Radiation Units and Protection

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 910-910 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Technical Note: Automatic Micro-Image File

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 910_1-910 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Necrology

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 910_2-910 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Personalia

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 911-911 (1956)  View: HTML | PDF

Technical Calendar

J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(10), 911_1-911 (1956)  View: PDF