Review of Scientific Instruments, 1998, V 69, N 12.

REVIEW ARTICLE

 Introductory overview of research  instruments for recording the electrical 
activity of neurons in the  human brain
 P. C. Garell, M. A. Granner, M. D. Noh, M. A. Howard III,, I. O. Volkov, G. T. Gillies
 pp. 4027-4037


ARTICLES


OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY

  Frequency stabilization of a radio  frequency excited CO2 laser using the 
 optogalvanic effect
 Jong-Woon Choi, Young-Boong Chung, Marek Strzelec, Mirek Kopica
 pp. 4038-4040

  Highly efficient optically pumped NH3
 laser with near diffraction limited output
 J. Makowe, O. V. Boyarkin, T. R. Rizzo
 pp. 4041-4043

  Calculation of Thomson scattering of
 intense lasers from electron beams at different interaction angles
 Xiaochao Zheng, Cunjun Ruan, Rencheng Shang, Jingkang Deng
 pp. 4044-4048

  High-resolution x-ray spectrometer based
 on spherically bent crystals for investigations of femtosecond laser
 plasmas
 B. K. F. Young, A. L. Osterheld, D. F. Price, R. Shepherd, R. E.
 Stewart, A. Ya. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Yu. Skobelev,
 F. Flora, S. Bollanti, P. Di Lazzaro, T. Letardi, A. Grilli, L. Palladino et al.
 pp. 4049-4053

  Characterization of an x-ray framing  camera utilizing a charge coupled device 
 or film as recording media
 L. M. Logory, D. R. Farley, A. D. Conder, E. A. Belli, P. M. Bell, P. L. Miller
 pp. 4054-4060

  Microwave-submillimeter wave
 double-resonance spectrometer for the investigation of van der Waals complexes
 Vladimir N. Markov, Yunjie Xu, Wolfgang Jäger
 pp. 4061-4067

  Fast photomultiplier tube gating system
 for photon counting applications
 David J. Creasey, Peter A. Halford-Maw, Dwayne E. Heard, John E.
 Spence, Benjamin J. Whitaker
 pp. 4068-4073

  Influence of the acousto-optic effect on
 laser Doppler anemometry signals
 Susan H. Jack, David B. Hann, Clive A. Greated
 pp. 4074-4081

CHARGED PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION

  Summary of the performances of the
 superconducting electron cyclotron resonance ion source at 14 GHz
 P. Ludwig, F. Bourg, P. Briand, A. Girard, G. Melin, D. Guillaume, P.
 Seyfert, A. La Grassa, G. Ciavola, S. Gammino, M. Castro, F. Chines,
 S. Marletta
 pp. 4082-4085

  Electrostatic cage ``Stark barrel'' for
 rapidly switching a uniform electric field through arbitrary angles
 J. L. Horn, D. M. Homan, C. S. Hwang, W. L. Fuqua III, K. B. MacAdam
 pp. 4086-4093

  Mass spectrometric characterization of a
 high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometer
 Randy W. Purves, Roger Guevremont, Stephen Day, Charles W. Pipich,
 Matthew S. Matyjaszczyk
 pp. 4094-4105

  A phase-space-compressing, mass-selecting
 beamline for hyperthermal, focused ion beam deposition
 Kevin J. Boyd, Adam [(barred capital ell)]apicki, Masato Aizawa, Scott
 L. Anderson
 pp. 4106-4115

  Low aberration focusing system for a  proton nanoprobe
 H. Wollnik, M. I. Yavor, A. G. Kalimov
 pp. 4116-4119

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS

  Spins and parities of levels in fission  fragments
 M. A. Jones, W. Urban, W. R. Phillips
 pp. 4120-4129

  Real time measurement of plasma position in the SINP tokamak
 S. K. Saha, A. Bal, R. Kumar
 pp. 4130-4135

  Development of a high performance core
 snubber for high power neutral beam injectors
 Kazuhiro Watanabe, Makoto Mizuno, Shin Nakajima, Tsutomu Iimura, Yuzo
 Miyai
 pp. 4136-4141

  The optimum dynamics of preset count
 digital rate meter algorithms
 V. Dj. Arandjelovi[(c, acute)], A. M. Koturovi[(c, acute)]
 pp. 4142-4145

BASIC PHENOMENA

  Methodology and instrumentation for
 testing the weak equivalence principle in stratospheric free fall
 V. Iafolla, S. Nozzoli, E. C. Lorenzini, V. Milyukov
 pp. 4146-4151

  Optical pumping magnetic resonance in Cs
 atoms for use in precise low-field magnetometry
 Cheol Gi Kim, Ho Seong Lee
 pp. 4152-4155

  Variable path cryogenic acoustic  interferometer
 D. M. Kucera, J. B. Ketterson
 pp. 4156-4159

  High frequency ultrasonic transducers with
 near optimal efficiency
 M. Lippert, C. Bruneel, F. Bruneel
 pp. 4160-4165

  Coulomb blockade thermometer: Tests and  instrumentation
 J. P. Kauppinen, K. T. Loberg, A. J. Manninen, J. P. Pekola, R. A.
 Voutilainen
 pp. 4166-4175

  Reduction of vibrational noise from
 continuously filled 1 K pots
 G. Lawes, G. M. Zassenhaus, S. Koch, E. N. Smith, J. D. Reppy, J. M.
 Parpia
 pp. 4176-4178

  Ytterbium-based fluorescence decay time
 fiber optic temperature sensor systems
 T. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, K. T. V. Grattan, A. W. Palmer
 pp. 4179-4185

  Intrinsic doped fluorescence decay-time based measurements—
strain and temperature characteristics for sensor purposes
 T. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, K. T. V. Grattan, A. W. Palmer
 pp. 4186-4190

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING

  Self-optimizing and adaptive digital
 signal processor based algorithms in scanning tunneling microscopy
 J. Scheuring, W. Clauss, D. P. Kern
 pp. 4191-4194

  Low-cost design of 35 mm drum camera for
 high-resolution, high-speed image analysis
 N. J. Lawson, J.-L. Liow
 pp. 4195-4197

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS

  Apparatus for dynamical thermal
 measurements of low-thermal diffusivity particulate materials at
 subambient temperatures
 Vladimir V. Murashov, Mary Anne White
 pp. 4198-4204

  Automated optical liquid film thickness
 measurement method
 T. A. Shedd, T. A. Newell
 pp. 4205-4213

  Ultrahigh vacuum apparatus for x-ray
 powder diffraction in surface science
 K. F. Peters, Y.-W. Chung, J. B. Cohen
 pp. 4214-4217

  Direct measurement of the resistivity
 weighting function
 D. W. Koon, Winston K. Chan
 pp. 4218-4220

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE

  Time-correlated single photon counting
 imager for simultaneous magnetic resonance and near-infrared
 mammography
 Vasilis Ntziachristos, XuHui Ma, Britton Chance
 pp. 4221-4233

  Fiber-optic coupled probe for scanning
 optically active materials
 Peter K. Trost
 pp. 4234-4237

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES

  Automatic compensation technique for
 alternating current metrology based on synchronous filtering
 Luca Callegaro, Vincenzo D'Elia
 pp. 4238-4241
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  On the recovery of a spark gap in a fast
 discharge circuit
 D. J. Biswas, J. P. Nilaya, U. K. Chatterjee
 pp. 4242-4244


NOTES


  Polarization characteristics of
 longitudinally pumped pulsed dye laser
 S. K. Tiwari, S. C. Mehendale
 pp. 4245-4246

  Impedance independent optical carrier
 lifetime measurements in semiconductor lasers
 J. M. Pikal, C. S. Menoni, H. Temkin, P. Thiagarajan, G. Y. Robinson
 pp. 4247-4248

  Hermetic holder for x-ray powder
 diffraction of air-sensitive differential scanning calorimetry samples
 Dusan Lexa
 pp. 4249-4250

  ERRATA

  Erratum: ``A high-speed
 variable-temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope''
 [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69, 3251 (1998)]
 C. Y. Nakakura, V. M. Phanse, G. Zheng, G. Bannon, E. I. Altman, K. P. Lee
 p. 4251