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PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS BY JAMES LYNN SMITH

 

 

JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS:

 

"Destructive breakdown in thin films of SiO, MgF2, CaF2, CeF3, CeO2 and Teflon," J. Vac. Sci. and Technology 6, 289- (1969).

 

"Dielectric relaxation and DC current-temperature measurements in evaporated CaF2 films,"  Thin Solid Films 3, R9- (1969).

 

"Dielectric Breakdown in thin films of CaF2, MgF2, NaF, and LiF,"  J. Appl. Phys. 40, 3491- (1969).

 

"Bulk changes during catastrophic degradation of GaAs laser diodes,"  Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 1, 279- (1970).

 

"Low-temperature electroluminenscence from degenerately doped GaAs diodes,"  Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 2, 371- (1970).

 

"Mechanical analogs to the solution of the time independent Schrodinger wave equation,"  Amer. J. Phys. 38, 731- (1970).

 

"Variation of electroluminescence line halfwidth in GaAs diodes," Solid State Electronics 14, 175- (1975).

 

"Surface damage of GaAs from 0.694 and 1.06 micron laser radiation," J. Appl. Phys. 43, 3399- (1972).

 

"Damage to GaAs surfaces from ruby and Nd-glass laser illumination,"  Proceedings of Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials (1972), NBS Special Publication 372, pp. 70-74.

 

"Effects of laser flux on GaAs,"  Proceedings of Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials (1973), NBS Special Publication 387, pp. 103-106.

 

"Measurement of low-field Faraday rotation and ellipticity,"  Appl. Optics 13, 1451- (1973).

 

"Intense laser flux effects on GaAs,"  Appl. Phys. 4, 313- (1974).

 

"Optical measurement of missile wing deformations in high velocity tests," Army Science Conference Proc. 22-25 June, 1976.

 

"Four applications of the liquid crystal light valve in optical processing," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 68, 1377- (1978).

 

"RMS phase dependence of the number of random point sources on laser-illuminated surfaces," Optics Commun. 29, 135- (1979).

 

"Far-field speckle and Doppler shifts for rough, laser-illuminated surfaces,"  Appl. Opt. 18, 755- (1979).

 

"Real-time optical processing using the liquid crystal light vlave," J. Photogr. Eng. 5, 236- (1979).

 

"Examination of vanadium dioxide thin film as an erasable/reusable medium for optical recording," Proc. SPIE 420, 168- (June 1983).

 

"Hybrid optical/electronic pattern recognition with both coherent and noncoherent operations," Proc. SPIE 938, 170- (1988).

 

"Modulation transfer function for a CCD array with sample-and-hold operation on static waveforms," SMPTE Journal 104, 465-467 (1995).

 

"Breaking the Nyquist barrier: Banning the Bogus," IEEE Signal Processing Mag. 41-43 (July 1995).

 

"Data compression and perceived quality in signals," IEEE Signal Processing Mag. 58-59 (Sept. 1995).

 

"Alias and the modulation transfer function:  Standardizing definitions for focal plane arrays," Proc. SPIE 2743, 314-324 (1996).

 

"Fast slit-scan method for MTF and MRTD characterization in the HITL environment," Proc. SPIE 2743, 206-215 (1996).

 

"Techniques for temporal/spatial noise reduction of real-time, scene simulation displays used in a hardware-in-the-loop environment," Proc. SPIE 3697, 303-313 (1999).

 

"Latest interconnect and switching concept(s) for multi-delay pulse distribution to each pixel in a LADAR projector," Presentation to ECOS, a chapter of Optical Society of America, Winter (2001 ).

 

PRIVATE PAPERS:

 

Scores of proprietary company reports and white papers of limited distribution.

 

AWARDED PATENTS: (from 18 invention disclosures):

 

"Zeeman effect optical isolator," Inventors G.A. Tanton and J.Lynn Smith, US Pat. # 4,033,670 (July 5, 1977).

 

"Surface deformation image device," US Pat. # 4,494,826 (Jan 22, 1985).

 

"Doppler extended depth of field imaging system (DEDOFIS) with coherent object illumination, US Pat. # 4,277,127 (July 7, 1981).

 

"Log-log scale refractor," US Pat. # 4,339,178 (July 13, 1982).

 

"Orthographic projection image of complex terrain/targets from an automatic system using two photographs," US Pat. # 4,390,271 (June 28, 1983).

 

"Real-time transformation of incoherent light images to edge-enhanced darkfield representation for cross-correlation applications," US Pat. # 4,371,866 (Feb.1, 1983).

 

"Erasable optical read/write data storage system," US Pat. # 4,598,395 (July 1, 1986).

 

"Erasable optical ..." -continuation in part US Pat. # 4,635,245 (Jan. 6, 1987).

 

"Selective glare reduction ocular for scenery with very bright objects," US Pat. # 5,797,050 (Aug. 18, 1998).

 

"Efficient ocular with spatially modulating, reflective device at intermediate image plane," US Pat. # 6,137,636 (Oct. 24, 2000).