Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001, V 72, N 10, October.

REVIEW ARTICLE

Optical frequency synthesis based on mode-locked lasers
Steven T. Cundiff, Jun Ye, and John L. Hall 
pp. 3749-3771 

ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY 
 
New type of frequency-domain four-wave mixing spectroscopy using a 
quasicontinuous wave probe
Yukio Watanabe and Shuichi Kinoshita 
pp. 3772-3781 

Quantitative modulated excitation Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Dieter Baurecht and Urs Peter Fringeli 
pp. 3782-3792 

Wide field amplitude and phase confocal microscope with parallel phase stepping
N. B. E. Sawyer, S. P. Morgan, M. G. Somekh, C. W. See, X. F. Cao, 
B. Y. Shekunov, and E. Astrakharchik 
pp. 3793-3801 

A solid-state dedicated circular dichroism spectrophotometer: Development and application
Reiko Kuroda, Takunori Harada, and Yohji Shindo 
pp. 3802-3810 

Mode-hop-free tuning over 80 GHz of an extended cavity diode laser without antireflection coating
C. Petridis, I. D. Lindsay, D. J. M. Stothard, and M. Ebrahimzadeh 
pp. 3811-3815 

PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION, DETECTORS 

Modified distributed electron cyclotron resonance ion source for the production 
of large diameter ion beams
L. Wartski, Ph. Coste, C. Fusellier, C. Schwebel, and J. Aubert 
pp. 3816-3825 

Biased-electrode operation of electron cyclotron resonance ion sources
V. Mironov, S. Runkel, K. E. Stiebing, O. Hohn, L. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Bocking, A. Schempp, and G. Shirkov 
pp. 3826-3828 

Measurement of grid heat loading in a negative ion source for producing intense 
H- ion beams by aperture displacement focusing technique
T. Takayanagi, T. Ikehata, Y. Okumura, K. Watanabe, M. Hanada, and T. Amemiya 
pp. 3829-3833 

Hexapole magnet system for thermal energy 3He atom manipulation
A. P. Jardine, P. Fouquet, J. Ellis, and W. Allison 
pp. 3834-3841 

Construction of a low velocity metastable helium atomic beam
G. R. Woestenenk, J. W. Thomsen, M. van Rijnbach, P. van der Straten,
and A. Niehaus 
pp. 3842-3847 

Slice imaging: A new approach to ion imaging and velocity mapping
Christoph R. Gebhardt, T. Peter Rakitzis, Peter C. Samartzis, Vlassis Ladopoulos, and Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos 
pp. 3848-3853 

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS 

An improved Q-machine source with a rotating cathode system
T. Kaneko, H. Ishida, R. Hatakeyama, and N. Sato 
pp. 3854-3858 

Diamagnetic double-loop method for a highly sensitive measurement of energy 
stored in a Stellarator plasma
S. Besshou, K. Aizawa, K. Tomiyama, K. Kondo, T. Mizuuchi, K. Nagasaki,
T. Obiki, H. Okada, and F. Sano 
pp. 3859-3863 

A large volume plasma device
S. K. Mattoo, V. P. Anitha, L. M. Awasthi, and G. Ravi , (LVPD Team )
pp. 3864-3872 

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING 

Versatile gas-loading system for diamond-anvil cells
Takemura Kenichi, P. Ch. Sahu, Kunii Yoshiyasu, and Toma Yasuo 
pp. 3873-3876 

Micromachined photoplastic probe for scanning near-field optical microscopy
G. Genolet, M. Despont, P. Vettiger, U. Staufer, W. Noell, N. F. de Rooij,
T. Cueni, M.-P. Bernal, and F. Marquis-Weible 
pp. 3877-3879 

Improved atomic force microscope cantilever performance by ion beam modification
Alex R. Hodges, Konrad M. Bussmann, and Jan H. Hoh 
pp. 3880-3883 

Development of an in situ ultra-high-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope in the 
beamline of the 15 MV tandem accelerator for studies of surface modification by 
a swift heavy ion beam
A. Tripathi, J. P. Singh, R. Ahuja, R. N. Dutt, D. Kanjilal, A. Guha, A. Biswas, and A. K. Raychaudhuri 
pp. 3884-3890 

High-frequency mechanical spectroscopy with an atomic force microscope
E. Dupas, G. Gremaud, A. Kulik, and J.-L. Loubet 
pp. 3891-3897 

Pulsed mirror electron microscope: A fast near-surface imaging probe
H. Kleinschmidt and O. Bostanjoglo 
pp. 3898-3901 

Further developments in an ac-based capacitance tomography system
W. Q. Yang 
pp. 3902-3907 

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS 

A compact point focusing spatial filter for x-ray fluorescence and inelastic
x-ray scattering studies
E. A. Behne, Yejun Feng, and G. T. Seidler 
pp. 3908-3913 

Microscale technique for in situ measurement of elastic parameters of materials 
under reactive atmosphere
Arnaud Fabre, Eric Finot, Jerome Demoment, Serge Contreras, and Jean Pierre Goudonnet 
pp. 3914-3920 

Performance evaluation of the multi-stage Mott polarimeter using the Monte Carlo 
simulation
Keiji Tamura, Masaaki Yasuda, Masatoshi Kotera, and Kenji Murata 
pp. 3921-3926 

An instrument for simultaneous kinetic measurements of microscopic infrared 
dichroism and stress of inhomogeneous polymer thin films at constant elongation rate
Yasuyoshi Shigematsu, Akihiko Takada, Norio Nemoto, and Koh-Hei Nitta 
pp. 3927-3932 

New experimental equipment for grazing-exit electron-probe microanalysis
K. Tsuji, Z. Spolnik, and T. Ashino 
pp. 3933-3936 

Dynamic measurement access, a new technique for fast thermal conductivity measurement
B. M. Zawilski and Terry M. Tritt 
pp. 3937-3939 

CHEMISTRY 

Elemental analysis using hard x-ray emission from a laser-produced plasma, 
induced by a femtosecond laser pulse
N. Takeyasu, Y. Hirakawa, and T. Imasaka 
pp. 3940-3942 

A flow-through x-ray absorption spectroscopy cell for characterization of powder 
catalysts in the working state
J. F. Odzak, A. M. Argo, F. S. Lai, B. C. Gates, K. Pandya, and L. Feraria 
pp. 3943-3945 

Liquid-helium temperature long-path infrared spectroscopy of molecular clusters 
and supercooled molecules
Sigurd Bauerecker, Michael Taraschewski, Claus Weitkamp, and Heiko K. Cammenga 
pp. 3946-3955 

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE 

Double ratio fluorescence imaging for the detection of early superficial cancers
A. Bogaards, M. C. G. Aalders, A. J. L. Jongen, E. Dekker, and H. J. C. M. Sterenborg 
pp. 3956-3961 

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES 

Efficient electromigration testing with a single current source
Choong-Un Kim, N. L. Michael, Qing-Tang Jiang, and Rod Augur 
pp. 3962-3967 

Microspectroscopy and imaging using a delay line detector in time-of-flight photoemission microscopy
A. Oelsner, O. Schmidt, M. Schicketanz, M. Klais, G. Schonhense, V. Mergel,
O. Jagutzki, and H. Schmidt-Bocking 
pp. 3968-3974 

GENERAL INSTRUMENTS 

Technique for measuring the ballistic-limit velocity for small mass fragments 
impacting thin metal plates
Willis Mock, Jr. and William H. Holt 
pp. 3975-3978 

Time response of protection in event of vacuum failure based on Nude ionization gauge controller
Hui Gao, Qiuping Wang, Weibin Wang, Qinglin Wu, Wentong Chen, Liusi Sheng,
and Yunwu Zhang 
pp. 3979-3982 

Pulsed x-ray generator for commercial gas lasers
S. Bollanti, F. Bonfigli, P. Di Lazzaro, F. Flora, G. Giordano, T. Letardi,
D. Murra, G. Schina, and C. E. Zheng 
pp. 3983-3987 

In-plane thermal diffusivity evaluation by infrared thermography
F. Cernuschi, A. Russo, L. Lorenzoni, and A. Figari 
pp. 3988-3995 

Development of a thermoelectric power generation system using reciprocating flow
combustion in a porous FeSi2 element
Futoshi Katsuki, Toshiro Tomida, Hiroko Nakatani, Masahiro Katoh, and Akihiro Takata 
pp. 3996-3999 

NOTES

Uniaxial stress system for electron paramagnetic resonance studies
M. Krupski, R. Kaszynski, A. Krupska, and H. Gierszal 
pp. 4000-4001 

Validation of current density measurements with a B-dot probe
R. Piejak, V. Godyak, and B. Alexandrovich 
pp. 4002-4004 

Improvements to x-ray diffractometers: Heaters, hygrometry, and thermodifferential and spectra analyses
J. Garcia-Guinea, R. Ortiz, V. Correcher, A. La Iglesia, and J. D. Martin-Ramos 
pp. 4005-4007 

ERRATA

Erratum: "Optical coherence techniques for plasma spectrometry" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72, 888 (2001)]
J. Howard, C. Michael, F. Glass, and A. D. Cheetham 
p. 4008