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Publications of William H. Southwell
- W. H. Southwell and J.D. Patterson, “Green’s Function Decoupling Methods,” Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 12, 903 (1967).
- W. H. Southwell, “Using Pendulums to Measure the Universal Gravitational Constant,” Amer. J. Physics 35, 1160-1161 (1967).
- J. D. Patterson and W. H. Southwell, “Green’s Function Theory of Ferromagnetism,” Amer. J. Physics 36, 343-350 (1968).
- W. H. Southwell, D. L. Decker, and H. B. Van fleet, “Mossbauer Effect Measurements in Iron at High Pressures, ” Phys. Rev. 171, 354-360 (1968).
- W.H. Southwell, “Fitting Experimental Data,” J. Computational Physics 4, 465-474 (1969).
- W.H. Southwell, “Sine-Wave Optical Paths in Gradient-Index Media,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 61, 1715 (1971).
- W. H. Southwell, “Coherent Interference Pattern from a Cylindrical Glass Tube,” Amer. J. Physics 41, 284-286 (1973).
- W. H. Southwell, “Fitting data to nonlinear functions with uncertainties in all measurement variables,” Computer J. 19, 69-73 (1976).
- W. H. Southwell, “Wave-front analyzer using a maximum likelihood algorithm,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 67, 396-399 (1977).
- W. H. Southwell, “Inhomogeneous optical waveguide lens analysis,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 67, 1004-1009 (1977).
- W. H. Southwell, “index profiles for generalized Luneburg lenses and their use in planar optical waveguides.” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 67, 1010-1014 (1977).
- W. H. Southwell, “Geodesic optical waveguide lens analysis,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 67, 1293-1299 (1977).
- W. H. Southwell, “Asymptotic solution of the Huygens-Fresnel integral in circular coordinates,” Optics Lett. 3, 100-102 (1978).
- W. H. Southwell, “Beam expander telescope design utilizing fast spherical primaries,” Applied Optics 18, 1240-1243 (1979).
- W. H. Southwell, “Geodesic profiles for equivalent Luneburg lenses,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 69, 792-793 (1979).
- W. H. Southwell, “Mode discrimination of unstable resonators with spatial filters and by phase modification,” Optics Lett. 4, 193-195 (1979).
- W. H. Southwell, “Multilayer high reflective coating designs achieving broadband 90¡ phase change,” SPIE 190, LASL Optics Conf. 81-88 (1979).
- W. H. Southwell, “Multilayer coatings producing 90¼ phase change,” Applied Optics (Rapid Communications) 18, 1875 (1979).
- G. A. Tyler and W. H. Southwell, “Synthesis of the vector resonator modes from scalar results,” Optics Lett. 5, 42-44 (1980).
- J. K. Guha, P. W. Scott, and W. H. Southwell, “Effect of infrared coating nonuniformity on optical systems,” Applied Optics 19, 1320-1322 (1980).
- W. H. Southwell, “Wave-front estimation from wave-front slope measurements,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 70, 998-1006 (1980).
- W. H. Southwell, “Multilayer coating design achieving a broadband 90¼ phase shift,” Applied Optics 19, 2688-2692 (1980).
- W. H. Southwell, “Validity of the Fresnel approximation in the near field,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 71, 7-14 (1981).
- W. H. Southwell, “Azimuthally polarized lasers and phase shift coatings,” Proc, Int. Conf. on Lasers ’80, C. B. Collins, Editor, 602-609 (1980).
- P. W. Scott and W. H. Southwell, “Reflective optics for irradiance redistribution of laser beams: design,” Applied Optics 20, 1606-609 (1981).
- W. H. Southwell, “Thin Film Transmissive Phase Retarders,” Proc. Int. Conf. on Lasers ’81, C. B. Collin, Editor, 578-585 (1981).
- W. H. Southwell, “Virtual-source theory of unstable resonator modes,” Optics Letters 6, 487-489 (1981).
- W. H. Southwell, “Planar optical waveguide lens design,” Applied Optics 21, 1985-1988 (1982).
- W. H. Southwell, “Ray tracing in gradient-index media,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. 72, 908-911 (1982).
- W. H. Southwell, “What’s wrong with cross coupling in modal wave-front estimation?,” Proc. SPIE, V. 365, r. J. Becherer and B. A. Horwitz Editors, p. 97-104 (1982).
- V. E. Wood, J. R. Busch, D. T. Moore, C. B. Woolely and W. H. Southwell, “Rectangular Luneburg-type lenses for integrated optics,” Optics Letters 8, 226-228 (1983).
- W. H. Southwell, “Gradient-index antireflection coatings,” Optics Letters 8, 584-586 (1983).
- W. H. Southwell, “Use of gradient-index for spectral filter,” Proc. SPIE 464, 110-114 (1984).
- H. Sankur and W. H. Southwell, “Broadband gradient-index antireflection coating for ZnSe,” Applied Optics 23, 2770-2773 (1984).
- D. A. Nahrstedt and W. H. Southwell, “Maximum likelihood phase retrieval algorithm: applications,” Applied Optics 23, 4328-4331 (1984).
- W. H. Southwell, “Design of High Power Laser Coatings for Grazing Incidence Mirrors,” Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1984, NBS Special Publication 727, 322-329 (1986).
- W. H. Southwell, “Coating design using very thin high and low-index layers,” Applied Optics 24, 457-460 (1985).
- W. H. Southwell, “Coherence loss due to thin film interface roughness,” Proc. Of SPIE 652, 300-306 (1986).
- W. H. Southwell, “Unstable-resonator-mode derivation using virtual source theory,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. A 3, 1885-1891 (1986).
- W. H. Wouthwell, W. J. Gunning, and R. L. Hall, “Narrow-bandpass filter using partitioned cavities,” Proc. SPIE 678, 177-184 (1986).
- R. L. Hall, W. H. Southwell and W. J. Gunning, “Ellipsometry as a real-time deposition monitor,” Proc. SPIE 818 (1987).
- J. K. Moyle, W. J. Gunning III, and W. H. Southwell, “Microstructure modeling: scattering and form birefringence in dielectric thin films,” Proc SPIE 821, 157-166 (1987).
- W. H. Southwell, “Rugate index profile; which suppresses all harmonic stopbands,” Optical Interference Coatings, 1988 Technical Digest Series 6, 142-145, (1988).
- R. L. Hall, W. H. Southwell, and W. J. Gunning, “The Fabrication of Rugate Filters Using the Digital Technique,” Optical Interference Coatings, 1988 Technical Digest Series 6, 154-157. (1988).
- W. H. Southwell, “Spectral response calculations of rugate filters using coupled-wave theory,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. A 5, 1558-1564 (1988).
- W. H. Southwell and W. J. Gunning, “High-speed ellipsometer for thin-film deposition monitoring,” SPIE 1019, 84-89 (1988).
- W. J. Gunning, R. L. Hall, F. J. Woodberry, W. H. Southwell, and N. S. Gluck, “Codeposition of continuous composition rugate filters,” Applied Optics 28, 2945-2948 (1989).
- W. H. Southwell and R. L. Hall, “Rugate filter sidelobe suppression using quintic and rugated quintic matching layers,” Applied Optics 28, 2949-2951 (1989).
- W. H. Southwell, “Using apodizations functions to reduce sidelobes in rugate filters,” Applied Optics 28, 5091-5094 (1989).
- W. H. Southwell, “Pyramid-array surface-relief structures producing antireflection index matching on optical surfaces,” J. Optical Soc. Amer. A 8, 549-553 (1991).
- H. Sankur, W. H. Southwell, and R. L. Hall, “In-Situ Optical Monitoring of OMVPE Deposition of AlGaAs by Laser Reflectance,” J. Electronic Materials 20, 1099-1104 (1991).
- W. H. Southwell, “Ray tracing kinoform lens surfaces,” Applied Optics 31, 2244-2247 (1992).
- M. E. Motamedi,W. H. Southwell, and W. J. Gunning, “Antireflection surfaces in silicon using binary optics technology,” Applied Optics 31, 4371-4376 (1992).
- W. H. Southwell, “Focal-plane pixel-energy redistribution and concentration by use of microlens arrays, ” Applied Optics, 33, 3460-3464 (1994).
- W. H. Southwell, “Extended-bandwidth reflector designs by using wavelets,” Applied Optics 36, 314-318 (1997).
- W. H. Southwell, “Sealing rules for quintic refractive index matching semi-infinite band antireflection coatings,” Proc. SPIE 3133, 65-70 (1997).
- W. H. Southwell, “Omnidirectional mirror design with quarter-wave dielectrics stacks,” Applied Optics 38, 5464-5467 (1999).
- W. H. Southwell, “Principle for the rugate polarizer,” Proc. OIC Meeting, Banff, Canada ( 2001).
- W. H. Southwell, “Comparison of needle-function predictions to exact calculations,” Proc. OIC Meeting, Banff, Canada (2001).
- W. H. Southwell, “Computer-assisted manual coating design approach,” in Advances in Thin film Coatings for Optical Applications, edited by Jennifer D. T. Kruschwitz, James B. Oliver, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5527 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2004) 1-11.
- W. H. Southwell, “Rugate filter with specified bandwidth: a new rule of thumb,” in Optical Interference Coatings on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2007), TuD3.
- W. H. Southwell, “Speed of Light and Angle of Propagation in an Absorbing Medium,” in Optical Interference Coatings on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2010), TuA8.
- W. H. Southwell, “Optical monitor with computed compensation,” in Optical Interference Coatings on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2010), TuC2.